From the Booking Desk:

More books perfect for those summer vacations. Buy them all, because you will be reading them so fast. And be sure to suggest them to your family, friends, and neighbors. More people read during the summer, so let’s get them hooked for some great books while we can.

Kristen Lepionka – The Stories You Tell (Minotaur, Hardcover, $26.99, 07/09/2019)

BOLO Books Comments:

Kristen Lepionka and her masterful creation, Roxane Weary, continue to alter the trajectory of PI fiction. Anyone who says there is nothing fresh happening in that field hasn’t taken the time to give Lepionka a try. Both The Last Place You Look and What You Want to See impressed, but The Stories You Tell might just be the best book in the series yet. Certainly, readers are gaining new insight into the complexity of Roxane herself and by the end of this novel more than a few will be feeling a physical *need* for book four soon rather than later.

Jacket Copy (Publisher’s Description):

A late-night phone call is never good news, especially when you’re Roxane Weary. This one is from her brother Andrew, whose evening was interrupted by an urgent visit from Addison, a hip young DJ and one-time fling, who turns up at his apartment scared and begging to use his phone. She leaves as quickly as she appeared, but now Andrew is worried―especially when Addison never makes it home and her friends and family demand to know where she is. As the police begin to suspect that something may have happened to her, and that Andrew is involved, Roxane tracks Addison’s digital footprint as she goes deeper and deeper into the events preceding her disappearance. Meanwhile, a cop is found dead on the opposite side of town, leading to a swirl of questions surrounding a dance club whose staff―which includes Addison―has suddenly gone AWOL. As Roxane struggles to distinguish the truth from the stories people tell about themselves online, it’s clear that the mystery of Addison’s whereabouts is just the beginning.

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Adrian McKinty – The Chain (Mulholland, Hardcover, $28.00, 07/09/2019)

BOLO Books Comments:

I am pretty sure that the BOLO Books review of The Chain conveyed how much I loved this novel. This is the book everyone will be talking about this summer, so you might as well start reading it immediately.

Jacket Copy (Publisher’s Description):

YOUR PHONE RINGS.

A STRANGER HAS KIDNAPPED YOUR CHILD.

TO FREE THEM YOU MUST ABDUCT SOMEONE ELSE’S CHILD.

YOUR CHILD WILL BE RELEASED WHEN YOUR VICTIM’S PARENTS KIDNAP ANOTHER CHILD.

IF ANY OF THESE THINGS DON’T HAPPEN:
YOUR CHILD WILL BE KILLED.

YOU ARE NOW PART OF THE CHAIN

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Cate Holahan – One Little Secret (Crooked Lane Books, Hardcover, $26.99, 07/09/2019)

BOLO Books Comments:

I reviewed Cate Holahan’s debut, Dark Turns, and have enjoyed all of her books since. Here she turns her pen to a closed circle of suspects with, despite the title, more than enough secrets to keep readers turning the pages. The summer resort setting, the quick pace, and the easy writing style make this a perfect beach read.

Jacket Copy (Publisher’s Description):

Everyone has a secret. For some, it’s worth dying to protect. For others, it’s worth killing.

The glass beach house was supposed to be the getaway that Susan needed. Eager to help her transplanted family set down roots in their new town―and desperate for some kid-free conversation―she invites her new neighbors to join in on a week-long sublet with her and her workaholic husband.

Over the course of the first evening, liquor loosens inhibitions and lips. The three couples begin picking up on the others’ marital tensions and work frustrations, as well as revealing their own. But someone says too much. And the next morning one of the women is discovered dead on the private beach.

Town detective Gabby Watkins must figure out who permanently silenced the deceased. As she investigates, she learns that everyone in the glass house was hiding something that could tie them to the murder, and that the biggest secrets of all are often in plain sight for anyone willing to look.

A taut, locked room mystery with an unforgettable cast of characters, One Little Secret promises to keep readers’ eyes glued to the pages and debating the blinders that we all put on in the service of politeness.

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Guillaume Musso – The Reunion (Little, Brown, Hardcover, $28.00, 07/09/2019)

BOLO Books Comments:

I didn’t read an early copy of this novel, but I am including it here because the plot sounds very intriguing and it’s another book that sounds like a wonderful vacation read. This author is very popular in France, so it also gives US readers a chance to try a novel in translation.

Jacket Copy (Publisher’s Description):

Twenty-five years ago, on a campus paralyzed by a snowstorm, beautiful 19-year-old Vinca Rockwell ran away with her philosophy teacher after they began a secret affair. For Vinca, “love is everything or nothing.”

She is never seen again.

The once inseparable Manon, Thomas and Maxime — Vinca’s best friends — have not spoken since graduation. Twenty-five years earlier, under terrible circumstances, the three of them committed a murder and buried the body in the gymnasium wall, the same wall that is about to be demolished to make way for an ultramodern new building.

Now, the three friends are about to meet again at their reunion. Will decades of lies unravel to reveal what really happened on that deadly winter night?