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2020 Virtual Vacation Reads: Books Set in Getaway Locations

Do the current stay-at-home measures have you craving a summer getaway? Bookreporter has a way for you to virtually travel with our list of books set in vacation locales. Escape to idyllic spots like Cape Cod, Nantucket, Montauk, Charleston and Pasadena --- along with many others --- in our inaugural Virtual Vacation Reads feature. Pick your book(s) to embark on the summer vacation you've been dreaming of. You’ll only have to figure out how to send postcards!

Week of April 26, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of April 26th include THE SENTINEL, the 25th entry in the Jack Reacher series and the first collaboration between Lee Child and his brother, Andrew Child, whose protagonist ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee --- but there’s nothing pleasant about the place; THE LAW OF INNOCENCE, a heart-stopping thriller from Michael Connelly, in which Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller must defend himself against murder charges; HELLO, SUMMER, the latest book from the Queen of the Beach Reads, Mary Kay Andrews, which revolves around small town scandals and big-time secrets; FRIENDS AND STRANGERS by J. Courtney Sullivan, an insightful and hilarious novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life; and THE CHIFFON TRENCHES, a deeply revealing memoir by legendary style icon André Leon Talley that captures the fashion world from the inside out, in its most glamorous and most cutthroat moments.