Fiction
June Bug by Chris Fabry — June Bug lives an itinerant, RV life with her father, and never questions why until the day she sees her face on a missing child poster at Wal-Mart. Then suddenly she questions everything.
Rich Boy by Sharon Pomerantz — In 1965, Robert Visniak sets off to leave his working-class Jewish upbringing behind, and he succeeds, with the help of connections from his wealthy college roommate. But the past is never really past, and when he runs into a girl from his old neighborhood, it all comes back to meet him.
In Harm’s Way by Ridley Pearson — The latest thriller (or noir-mystery, in Library Journal’s opinion) featuring Idaho sheriff Walt Fleming.
Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich — Stephanie Plum is back, and this time the trouble is her own family — specifically, her cousin Vinnie, whose bail bonds outfit she works for, has run up six-figure gambling debts and is now being held ransome. The usual supporting cast of whackos is on board.
Damaged: A Maggie O’Dell Novel by Alex Kava — A Coast Guard diver finds a metal container off the coast of Florida. Inside it are dead body parts. FBI agent Maggie O’Dell and Homeland Security deputy director Charlie Wurth are on the case, which is complicated by natural disasters and shady characters.
Star Island by Carl Hiaasen — “Singer” Cherry Pye has little in the way of actual talent, but thanks goodness she’s got an “undercover stunt double” to keep her in the public eye when she’s too wasted — or in rehab — to be out and about. But then a crazed photographer kidnaps the stunt double, and the usual Hiaasen hijinks ensue.
People of the Longhouse by Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear — A saga of the Iriquois, circa 1400 BC, dealing, believe it or not, with many of the same challenges we face today.
The Garden of Betrayal by Lee Vance
Little Green by Loretta Stinson — It’s 1976, and sixteen year old Janie has been drifting for a couple of years now. When she drifts into an Oregon bar, they give her a job as a topless dancer, and when she drifts into a relationship with a drug dealer, he becomes abusive. Stinson’s debut novel tells the story of how Janie finally drifts into a new life, one with a lot more solidity, and staying power.
Cure by Robin Cook — Medical examiners Laura Montgomery and Jack Stapleton — and their son — are back, this time on the trail of a crime involving stem cells.
Scarlet Nights by Jude Devereaux — Sara Shaw is all ready to get married to her fiance, Greg Anders. Then three weeks before the wedding, he disappears — and another man shows up, a handsome cop who explains that Greg has a criminal past.
A Parallel Life by Ruth Hamilton — Twenty-one-year-old Harriet “Harrie” Compton-Milne tries to take care of her absent-minded scientist father, her plastic surgery addict mother, and her brother with severe OCD, all while longing to start her own life as a jeweler.
Overexposed by Susan Shapiro — Rachel has worked hard to escape her suburban Chicago past and become an artsy New Yorker. Her best friend Elizabeth, meanwhile, suddenly sheds her artsy New York upbringing to marry Rachel’s brother and become the perfect homemaker Rachel was always supposed to be. Find out how Rachel and Elizabeth make peace with their families and with each other in this comedy.
Tough Customer by Sandra Brown — 30 years ago, Caroline King and PI Dodge Hanley had a daughter whom Hanley has never seen since. Now Caroline has contacted him for help, because a crazed stalker is after their daughter.
The Postcard Killers by James Patterson and Liza Marklund — NYPD Detective Jacob Kanon goes to tour Europe — to see the sites his daughter’s killer — now also responsible for many other deaths — murdered his victims.
Three Stations: An Arkady Renko Novel by Martin Cruz Smith
The Last Lie by Stephen White — Boulder psychologist Alan Gregory must piece together the odd dealings at his new neighbor’s house. He got off to a bad enough start after the neighbor claimed he was trespassing while walking his dogs. Now there’s an accusation of a rape that allegedly took place at a party there, and the victim is being counseled by a psychologist Alan supervises.
Crossfire by Dick Francis and Felix Francis — Captain Tom Forsyth is home from Afghanistan, minus a foot, which was lost to an IED. Back home, he gets drawn into trying to figure out who is blackmailing his mother, a horse trainer.
The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth — Former CIA director Paul Devereaux is the Cobra, and the president of the United States has just given him a blank check — told him to go after the South American drug cartels by any means necessary, no questions asked. Find out just what he does in this latest thriller from Forsyth.
The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay by Beverly Jensen — Hardscrabble Bay is on the coast of New Brunswick, and the lives of sisters Idella and Avis Hillock, starting in 1916 when their mother dies giving birth to their youngest sister and ending with their own old age in 1986, live up to the name of their home.
Strangers at the Feast by Jennifer Vanderbes — What happens when three generations of a dysfunctional upper-middle-class family gathered for Thanksgiving and a poor kid out to seek justice collide is the subject of Vanderbes’s second novel.
Bliss, Remembered by Frank Deford — Sydney Stringfellow Branch was a young American swimmer who made her way to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, where she fell in love with a German man. The onset of World War II made their relationship impossible, and Sydney came home and married an American who went off to fight in the Pacific. . . and then her German showed up at her doorstep. She recounts the choices she made in in this novel-as-memoir by NPR sports commentator (and novelist) Frank Deford.
Commuters: A Novel by Emily Gray Tedrowe — What happens when two seniors decide to get married, and their children all go into a tizzy? Read Tedrowe’s entertaining first novel to find out!
Burn: An Anna Pigeon Novel by Nevada Barr — Anna Pigeon is usually to be found solving mysteries deep in the wilderness of America’s national parks. Her latest escapade, however, takes her to the Jazz National Heritage Park in post-Katrina New Orleans, which turns out to be its own kind of wilderness.
I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman — “I’d know you anywhere.” Those are the words of a letter from a man on death row to 38-year-old Eliza Benedict, whom he kidnapped and held hostage twenty-three years ago. The letter shatters Eliza’s present-day calm, and the novel moves back and forth between how she copes in the present and that terrifying summer when she was 15.
Hangman by Faye Kellerman — The latest Decker & Lazarus mystery.
Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs — The latest adventures of Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist.
Bad Boy by Peter Robinson — DCI Alan Banks’s daughter Tracy becomes enamored enough of Jaff McCready that she agrees to flee the country with him and a stolen weapon. What starts out as a lark soon becomes a hostage situation, though, and Banks, returning from holiday, must figure out how to rescue Tracy.
Body Work by Sara Paretsky — Chicago’s favorite PI V.I. Warshawski is back, this time investigating the murder of a woman known as The Body Artist, who performed at an avant-garde club downtown, allegedly shot by an Iraq War veteran.
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen — Walter and Patty Berglund are a suburban St. Paul couple startled out of their quiet existence by the twists and turns of the 21st century, the escapades of their now-grown child, and the results of their own choices.
Nonfiction
The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago by Douglas Perry — The musical Chicago has been a hit on stage and screen, but did you know it was inspired by a true story? Perry tells it here.
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne
Ancient Visions: Petroglyphs and Pictographs of the Wind River and Bighorn Country, Wyoming and Montana by Julie E. Francis and Lawrence L. Loendorf
The Cheapskate Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americans Living Happily Below Their Means by Jeff Yeager — America’s greatest cheapskate is back with more money-saving tips.
Hollywood: A Third Memoir by Larry McMurtry — The latest installment in the life of the author of Lonesome Dove.
The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America by Stefanie Syman — From Emerson to exercise!
Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship by Gail Caldwell — Caldwell’s short memoir of her friendship with the writer Caroline Knapp (author of Drinking: A Love Story), who died of lung cancer in 2002, is about women’s friendships, writing, rowing, dogs, and much much more.
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