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Week of June 16, 2014

Releases for the week of June 16th include Janet Evanovich's TAKEDOWN TWENTY, a Stephanie Plum novel that finds the New Jersey bounty hunter determined to catch a notorious mob boss before he has a chance to take her out; BONES OF THE LOST, Kathy Reichs's 16th book featuring forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan, whose examination of a young girl killed in a hit and run in North Carolina triggers an investigation into international human trafficking; and THE LOWLAND by Jhumpa Lahiri, the story of two very different brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn apart by revolution, and a love that endures long past death.

Kathy Reichs, author of Bones of the Lost: A Temperance Brennan Novel

While investigating a mysterious hit-and-run that claimed the life of a teenage girl, Temperance Brennan must also examine a bundle of Peruvian dog mummies confiscated by U.S. Customs. A Desert Storm veteran named Dominick Rockett stands accused of smuggling the objects into the country. Could there be some connection between the trafficking of antiquities and the trafficking of humans?