“We’re headed into the final bow of summer and that means there is still plenty of time for you to head to the beach and relax with a brand new book. Here’s a handy guide to some of the most anticipated new releases on Amazon for the next month!”
The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter and Keeping Lucy by T. Greenwood were both included in Amazon Adviser’s August 2019 list of most anticipated Amazon books! Follow the link above to see the full list.
“An up-and-coming artist finds herself entangled in a tragic tale at an upstate New York artists’ retreat, where she discovers that her artistic idol committed suicide. Barbara Bourland’s sophomore release is a brilliant, fast-moving mystery-satire of the contemporary art world. Fake Like Me checks all the boxes: smart, fun, sexy, witty, with unforgettable characters, all while providing social commentary on navigating the arts—how difficult it is to walk the line between being authentic and being a commodity.”
Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland has been voted by Baltimore Magazine as its best book of 2019 in their Arts & Culture category! Follow the link above to view the entire list!
Cleaning the Gold, a short story written by Karin Slaughter and Lee Child, landed in the top 20 on Spiegel’s hardcover fiction bestseller list in Germany! Follow the link above for the full article (written in German)!
“The attention-grabbing title isn't the only winning thing about R.L. Maizes' debut collection. The declaration serves as a wry punchline in the book's outstanding opening story, which is about a boy who decides to out himself publicly at his bar mitzvah rather than read his assigned anti-homosexual Torah portion from Leviticus. ‘Why didn't you talk to us first?’ his well-meaning but work-distracted parents ask after the disastrous service at his Long Island temple, a video of which goes viral. ‘We would have understood. We love Anderson Cooper.’”
We Love Anderson Cooper by R.L. Maizes received a rave review in NPR! Follow the link above to read the full review.
“The latest entry in the Will Trent series (and the first since The Kept Woman, 2016) is cause for celebration by fans of Slaughter, in particular, and of crime fiction in general. A month after Michelle Spivey, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control, is kidnapped, explosions are set off at Emory University. Arriving at the scene, Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) agent Will Trent and Sara Linton, GBI medical examiner and Will’s lover, are stopped at an odd accident scene, where attackers assault Will and abduct Sara. Bereft at his failure to stop the attack and still in severe pain, Will perseveres to do whatever it takes to save Sara. But he’s up against the Invisible Patriot Army (IPA), a paramilitary white nationalist group led by a pedophile known as Dash, who plans to send a message to the nation that will cause countless casualties. As the narrative moves between law-enforcement officers and the secluded IPA camp, and time becomes critical, the depth of the relationship between Will and Sara is also vividly portrayed. With familiar characters, further developed here, and a plot as timely as it is riveting, Slaughter’s latest will enthrall her ever-growing legion of fans.”
The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter received a starred review in Booklist! Follow the link above for more.
“With America a mere string of mountaintop islands after massive flooding, Myra survives with her younger daughter by fishing and barter, then dodges pirates as she sets out to find her older daughter, taken by her husband to the cold North. ‘This postapocalyptic novel reads like a fast-paced screenplay: intense, visceral, and relentless.’ (Forthcoming LJ review)”
After the Flood by Kassandra Montag, forthcoming from William Morrow this September, was included in Library Journal’s Summer/Fall Bests list focusing on debut novels in 2019! Follow the link above to see the full list.
“In the four years we’d had her, I never doubted the devotion of my cat, Arie. She had always lain on my chest, kneading my flesh as I petted her. I reveled in the deeply affectionate sound of her idling motor. I’m not a person who has an easy time relaxing, but her weight against my body, her audible contentment, was like a tranquilizer. Though my husband, Steve, and I had adopted Arie together, she had bonded with me, or at least that’s what I told myself, and I relished being the one chosen.”
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“At the start of Lillie’s impressive debut, seven months’ pregnant Devon Burges is rushed to a Providence, R.I. hospital with a ripped placenta, the survival of herself and her baby in doubt. Just before undergoing a C-section, Devon hears on the radio that her friend Belina Cabrala was found murdered in Swan Point Cemetery. Two months later, after leaving the hospital with her baby, Devon turns single-mindedly to finding Belina’s killer, especially after learning that a friend of Devon’s, Alec Mather, is the prime suspect. Jack, Devon’s husband, begs her not to pursue the matter. He’s concerned because while Devon was working as a prosecutor of sex crimes and domestic violence in Washington, D.C., she was nearly disbarred, having become so involved with her cases that she began hearing voices and blacking out. Jack and Devon moved to Providence precisely to escape that pressure. Some incident from Devon’s past may be triggering the stress Devon feels as she delves into the murder. Along the way to the shocking ending, Devon learns that Alec committed illegal acts and associated with disreputable people. This superb psychological thriller is hard to put down.”
Little Voices by Vanessa Lillie received a starred review in Publishers Weekly! Follow the link above for more.
The Divided Earth by Faith Erin Hicks, the third and final installment of her wildly successful The Nameless City series, has received the Eisner Award for Best Publication for Kids. The winners were announced at this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego. Follow the link above to view the complete list of winners!
Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis, forthcoming from Knopf September 3 of this year, has been included in The Millions’ Most-Anticipated List for the Second Half of 2019! Follow the link above to view the entire list.
“A fast-paced thriller in the Will Trent series has Will and Sara trying to prevent a deadly epidemic. The book tells the story of what is happening to three different people during the same short time periods, as they are unaware of the actions of the others. For readers who enjoy Tana French and John Sanford.”
The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter, forthcoming from William Morrow August 20, has been chosen as an August 2019 LibraryReads pick! Follow the link above to see the full list.
“Greenwood (Rust & Stardust) delivers an unabashed heart-tugger. The year is 1969 when housewife Ginny Richardson, of Dover, Mass., gives birth to a baby girl named Lucy, who has Down syndrome. Her lawyer husband, Abbott Jr. , and his overbearing lawyer father, Abbott Sr., convince her to have the newborn institutionalized. But two years later, after the institute is exposed on TV as a hellhole of neglect and mistreatment, a guilt-ridden Ginny spirits Lucy out of the place and hits the road with her daughter, unaware that she gave up parental rights and could be wanted for kidnapping. Accompanied by her six-year-old son, Peyton, and best friend, Marsha, Ginny drives to Florida to hide out with Marsha’s sister, a mermaid performer at Weeki Wachee Springs. On the way, Ginny tries to make up for lost time with Lucy. But she knows a reckoning with Abbott Jr., Abbott Sr., and the law is inevitable. The author makes Ginny’s transformation from timid housewife to empowered guardian an affecting one. And in Ginny’s road trip from Massachusetts to Florida by way of Atlantic City and the Blue Ridge Mountains, Greenwood explores a country caught between traditional values and the societal changes of the 1960s and ’70s. This is a moving depiction of the primal power of a mother’s love.”
Keeping Lucy by T. Greenwood received a fantastic review in Publishers Weekly! Follow the link above for more.
The Wedding Gift by Marlen Suyapa Bodden was featured on ABC’s The View as one of co-host Sunny Hostin’s favorite books for summer 2019. Follow the link above to watch the video!
“A Jewish woman married to Wyatt Earp? A Jewish woman cleaning up after a murder committed by her brother, a criminal with ties to the Jewish mafia? These are the kinds of stories that novelist Thelma Adams loves to tell.”
Thelma Adams, author of Bittersweet Brooklyn and The Last Woman Standing, was interviewed by Lilith, a magazine that “charts Jewish women’s lives with exuberance, rigor, affection, subversion and style.” Follow the link above to read the full interview!
“A Miami native has her haunting and gripping debut novel set to release Oct. 1st that will be followed by a second book in the series in the fall of 2020…Lillie’s debut novel, Little Voices, is a psychological suspense set in Rhode Island. Unpredictable and addictive, the book grabs you from the first chapter and takes you on a twisting, turning journey with a surprise ending that will leave you stunned and wanting more.”
The Miami News-Record wrote a wonderful article about Vanessa Lillie and her forthcoming book from Thomas & Mercer, Little Voices. Follow the link above to read the full article!
“In Vanessa Lillie’s thriller, Little Voices, which Thomas & Mercer will publish this fall, a woman who nearly dies during childbirth from a detached placenta is unable to breastfeed her premature baby and has to pump milk constantly through the night. She begins hearing a menacing voice that makes her feel possessed: ‘She’ll never sit up or pull up or crawl or walk,’ it says. ‘You were never meant to be a mother.’”
Little Voices by Vanessa Lillie was featured in this New York Times article discussing the prevalent themes of fear and anxiety within literary fiction about modern motherhood. Follow the link above to read the full article!
Barbara Bourland discusses Michael Shnayerson’s Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art in conjunction with her new book Fake Like Me. Follow the link above to read the article!
“In bestseller Slaughter’s harrowing seventh novel featuring Sara Linton and her boyfriend, Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent (after 2016’s The Kept Woman), Sara and Will are visiting her family in the Atlanta suburbs when explosions rock nearby Emory University. As the couple heads toward campus, they encounter a multiple-car accident. Sara stops to offer medical assistance and discovers that one vehicle contains several armed men—two with gunshot wounds—and a traumatized woman she recognizes as missing CDC epidemiologist Michelle Spivey. After a brutal fight that injures Will, the men take Sara and flee. Will is certain that Sara’s kidnappers bombed Emory, and intelligence suggests the men are part of a paramilitary group that’s planning something catastrophic. With the clock ticking, Will and his partner, Faith Mitchell, scramble to follow bread crumbs left by a terrified but determined Sara. Vivid characters and rapidly escalating stakes complement the riveting, adrenaline-fueled plot. Along the way, Slaughter examines such topics as misogyny, white nationalism, and the politicization of law enforcement. Thriller fans will devour this visceral, gratifying entry.”
The Last Widow received a fantastic review in Publishers Weekly. Follow the link above for more!