Fiction
The Summer Kitchen by Karen Weinreb — When Nora’s husband is convicted of a white-collar crime, her world turns upside down over night. Read The Summer Kitchen to find out how she puts together a new life for herself, starting her own business and becoming a friend, rather than just an employer, to her daughter’s nanny.
Rhino Ranch by Larry McMurtry — Billed as the conclusion of the Thalia, Texas series (which began in 1966 with The Last Picture Show, so who knows), McMurtry’s latest finds Duane Moore in his late 60s and watching the latest change to come to his town: the Rhino Ranch, developed by a wealthy woman obsessed with saving a near-extinct breed of African rhinoceros.
The Lost Throne by Chris Kuzneski — A religious thriller, complete with the usual very bad guys, rule breaking good guys, lost artifacts, and women and men in dangerous places, but for a change, this one is set in Greece.
The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand — Four Nantucket couples have been friends for years, but when one of the couples dies mysteriously while sailing on their anniversary, the friends learn there is much they don’t know about each other.
The Siege by Stephen White — Students are being held hostage in a building at Yale by unknown perpetrators, and detective Sam Purdy and his colleagues must figure out why before any more students are killed. Reviews say this is White’s best thriller yet.
The Last Ember by Daniel Levin — This month’s other religious thriller takes place in the more familiar settings of Rome and Jerusalem and features Jonathan Marcus, a lawyer who used to be an archeologist. A missing menorah reunites him both with his old profession and his old girlfriend.
The Hidden Man by David Ellis — Childhood best friends are reunited in this first of a new series featuring Midwestern lawyer Jason Kolarich, who is still mourning — and blaming himself — for the deaths of his wife and child in a car accident when he gets hired by an anonymous client to defend his friend Sammy, who is accused of murdering the man suspected of kidnapping his baby sister when all of them were young.
Rules of Vengeance by Christopher Reich — A lot of people have problems with their spouses, but few of them have to deal with a secret-agent wife who sets off a bomb and then leaves the scene. That’s just the position Dr. Jonathan Ransom finds himself in at the beginning of this sequel to Rules of Deception.
Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner — Addie and Valerie were best friends for awhile in childhood until a terrible betrayal drove them apart as teens. Nearly two decades later, Val shows up on Addie’s doorstep one night with blood on her hands — quite literally. Weiner says this novel was inspired by the idea of what might have happened to Thelma and Louise if they hadn’t died at the end of the movie.
That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo — While at a wedding on Cape Cod, Jack and Joy Griffin decide to try to rekindle their own marriage by staying at the bed and breakfast where they honeymooned. The novel follows them until a year later, when they attend their daughter’s wedding, older and maybe wiser. Read the book to find out!
206 Bones by Kathy Reichs — The latest thriller starring forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperence Brennan finds her being held in an underground tomb with no idea how she got there.
The Bridegroom by Linda Lael Miller — The latest entry in Miller’s Stone Creek Western romance series.
Smash Cut by Sandra Brown — Named for the quick scene shifts common the murder movies this novel’s psychopath likes to recreate, Brown’s latest is tense thriller that follows a lawyer and a gallery owner as they try to catch the man who seems to have killed his own uncle.
The Devil’s Punchbowl by Greg Iles — Penn Cage has worked as a prosecutor and a novelist, but his current job — mayor of his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi — may be his hardest yet, especially when his oldest friend turns up dead the day after telling Cage about a slew of crimes at a local casino.
Burn by Linda Howard — Jenner Redwine finds out the hard way — losing her father, her husband, her friends, and eventually even her freedom — that winning the lottery is not all it’s cracked up to be in this latest romantic suspense from best-seller Howard.
Blindman’s Bluff by Faye Kellerman — The latest Decker and Lazarus novel.
The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners by Luanne Rice — Pell, from The Geometry of Sisters, journeys to Capri to try to get her estranged mother to take responsibility for her daughters.
Perfect Life by Jessica Shattuck — What happens when your sperm donor — who also happens to be an old college friend — shows up unannounced at the baptism of your son, whom he’d sworn he wanted nothing to do with? The reverberations of that act among a group of old Harvard classmates are the sujbect of Shattuck’s second novel.
A Plague of Secrets by John Lescroat — The thirteenth Dismas Hardy novel finds the San Francisco defense attorney trying to find and convict the real killer of a coffee shop mogul.
Black Hills by Nora Roberts — Publishers Weekly says of Roberts’s latest that “this premier storyteller proves an ordinary love story can still win your heart, and even an inevitable confrontation may scare you silly.” Find out how in this tale of childhood sweethearts reunited while on the chase for a killer in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Dark Paradise by Lono Waiwaiole — A colorful cast of characters squabble over control of the drug trade on Hawaii’s big island.
Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain — The continuing saga of detective Archie Sheridan and his twisted relationship with serial killer Gretchen Lowell. He has promised not to kill himself if she promises not to kill anyone else, but then another dead body turns up. . . .
Last Known Address by Theresa Schwegel — Chicago detective Sloane Pearson pursues a serial rapist by following in his victim’s footsteps, only to find herself ending up at a fancy new housing development.
Fear the Worst by Linwood Barclay — Tim Blake is a Connecticut car salesman whose life was going along fine until his wife left him for the owner of a rival dealership and his teenage daughter disappeared from her summer hotel job.
The Silent Spring by Margaret Coel — Coel’s latest Wind River mystery finds Father John and Vicky Holden trying to solve the murder of a man who was trying to discover the fate of his great grandfather, who disappeared a hundred years ago.
Rain Gods by James Lee Burke — Hackberry Holland is the sheriff of a small town in Texas which suddenly becomes the scene of national attention when nine Thai women living on the border are killed, and everyone from the FBI to ICE to the locals is suddenly riveted by the case.
Fire and Ice by J.A. Jance — Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady and Seattle homicide detective J.P. Beaumont cross paths once again when cases they are investigating turn out to be related. Publishers Weekly says this meeting is of a much higher caliber than their last encounter in Partner in Crime.
The Nothing Job by Nick Oldham — DCI Henry Christie deals with a complex case in Lancashire full of police cover ups and other intrigue.
Nonfiction
The Impostor’s Daughter: A True Memoir by Laurie Sandell
You Can Adopt: The Adoptive Families Guide by Susan Caughman and Isolde Motley
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark R. Levin
Back in the Day: 101 Things Everyone Used to Know How to Do by Michael Powell
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