The Reader’s Corner

Summer’s officially here and the new books are heating up! This week’s releases include (click on an image to learn more about a title or to request a book):

This is a good week for suspense/mystery lovers with 4 bestselling series releasing installments:
Deliver Us from Evil by David Baldacci - In this sequel to The Whole Truth, familiar protagonist Shaw crosses paths with Regina “Reggie” Campion, a beautiful and deadly woman who may be Baldacci’s new leading character. Both are on the trail [...]

This week brings us many promising debuts that have me almost as excited as the sunny spring weather!
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes. Marlantes’s epic debut is a dense, vivid narrative spanning many months in the lives of American troops in Vietnam as they trudge across enemy lines. Young marine lieutenant [...]

Among this week’s releases are:
Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain
This is the third blistering serial-killer thriller in Cain’s “Gretchen Lowell” series. A college student is found dead, floating in a rowing boat on a lake, a gaping wound in his abdomen. The autopsy reveals that his spleen was removed while he was still alive. The [...]

This week I’d like to focus the spotlight on mysteries. I generally like to read mystery books in the fall or winter when it’s cold outside and it gets dark early…I can curl up with some hot tea or cocoa by the fire and savor the suspense. Other people I know prefer to read their [...]

As the weather cools down (hopefully), the Fall releases are just heating up. This week we see the following books:
206 Bones by Kathy Reichs. I honestly have never read one of her books, but she’s been on my list to try for a while now. I absolutely love the TV show Bones that is based [...]

I am always looking for new (to me) authors. While on vacation, I found one! Lisa Gardner has written many suspense thrillers. Her new book, The Neighbor, has made me a fan.
Everything seems perfect in Sandra Jones’s world. She has a wonderful four-year-old daughter, a terrific job as a teacher, and [...]

I recently finished The Affinity Bridge by George Mann. This is a detective/mystery novel in the vein of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but also involving H.G. Wells-inspired futuristic, yet steam-powered, machines. In Victorian England, a company which makes airships (dirigibles) also makes automatons (robots). When one of the ships, piloted by an automaton, crashes, [...]

Two big names in mystery will be releasing books tomorrow. Janet Evanovich’s newest Stephanie Plum book, Finger Lickin’ Fifteen, and Mary Daheim’s newest in her Emma Lord mysteries, the Alpine Uproar, are sitting here ready to go.
Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann will also hit shelves tomorrow. The book begins on August 7, [...]