Here's a partial representative listing of upcoming book releases in June, arranged alphabetically by author, which this month includes new titles by C. J. Box, John Connolly, Clive Cussler, Jeffery Deaver, Janet Evanovich, Chris Grabenstein, and Declan Hughes, among many other wonderful and deserving offerings. You can also check out the links at the bottom for more, as they're too numerous to list here.
Sandra Balzo: Brewed, Crude and Tattooed (June 1, 2009). Maggy Thorsen, co-owner of the Brookhills coffee-house Uncommon Grounds, is trapped in a shopping mall by a snow storm which cuts the electricity and phone lines. She finds the body of Way Benson, a local developer and owner of the mall. Maggy's discovery unearths other refugees of the storm and it seems that more than one of these people has a motive for killing the arrogant Way. Then there is another murder.
C. J. Box: Below Zero (June 16, 2009). Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett's teenage daughter receives a text message with a staggering implication: that April, the foster daughter thought dead is still alive. If it really is April who’s texting, she’s in danger, and for Pickett, the only thing worse than losing her the first time would be losing her again.
John Connolly: The Lovers: A Thriller (June 2, 2009). Charlie Parker is a lost soul. Deprived of his private investigator's license and under scrutiny by the police, Parker takes a job in a Portland bar. But he uses his enforced retirement to begin a different kind of investigation: an examination of his own past and an inquiry into the death of his father, who took his own life after apparently shooting dead two unarmed teenagers. It's a search that will eventually lead Parker to question all that he believed about his beloved parents, and about himself.
Catherine Coulter: KnockOut (June 16, 2009). Two cases keep FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock busy trying to protect their family from a brutal psychopathic teenage criminal and a psychotic paranormal family trying to bring a sweet child into their fold so they can manipulate her psychic power for nefarious purposes.
Clive Cussler: Medusa (June 2, 2009). Kurt Austin must stop a deadly virus from decimating the world in the latest NUMA Files novel. Research using a newly discovered jellyfish shows promising results, but before the tests even start, scientists studying these Blue Medusas start dying.
Jeffery Deaver: Roadside Crosses (June 9, 2009). California Bureau of Investigation agent Kathryn Dance has to track down a killer who begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways -- not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill. And to kill in particularly horrific and efficient ways: using the personal details about the victims that they've carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking websites.
Janet Evanovich: Finger Lickin' Fifteen (June 23, 2009). In the latest Stephanie Plum novel, celebrity chef Stanley Chipotle comes to Trenton to participate in a barbecue cook-off and loses his head -- literally. Bail bonds office worker Lula, a witness to the crime, recruits bounty hunter Stephanie Plum to help her find the killers and collect the reward money.
Margaret Fenton: Little Lamb Lost (June 1, 2009). Social worker Clare Conover honestly believed she could make a difference in the world until she gets the phone call she's dreaded her entire career. One of her young clients, Michael, has been found dead and his mother, Ashley, has been arrested for his murder. Claire vows to find the truth about what really happened to Michael and what Claire finds is no shortage of suspects.
Tom Gabbay: The Tehran Conviction (June 9, 2009). The third novel in the Jack Teller series jumps back and forth in time. In 1953, Teller assists the CIA in Iran as part of Operation Ajax, designed to stage an overthrow of the government. In 1979, Teller learns that someone he hasn’t seen since his days in Tehran has been imprisoned. Feeling a sense of responsibility, he heads back to Iran to rescue a man he once considered a friend.
Chris Grabenstein: Mind Scrambler (June 23, 2009). In the latest John Ceepak mystery, ultra-straight-arrow cop Ceepak and his laid-back partner, Danny Boyle, are on leave in Atlantic City. Soon after a former girlfriend of Boyle's, the nanny for a smarmy stage magician's children, approaches Boyle for advice, she winds up dead in a bizarre s&m ritual before she can explain the problem. The local police deputize the two Sea Haven, N.J., cops as more corpses pile up.
Declan Hughes: All the Dead Voices (June 30, 2009). Ed Loy has been hired by the daughter of a murder victim in a cold case file to investigate the suspects ignored by the first investigation: a rich property developer, an ex-IRA man and Loy's own nemesis, George Halligan. But Loy has to watch his back: in the murky world into which he has fallen, he can't tell which threats come from the IRA and which from the police.
Jim Kelly: Death Wore White (June 9, 2009). Rookie detective Peter Shaw, along with his chain-smoking veteran partner, the grizzled detective sergeant George Valentine, is confronted with a baffling crime that stretches him to the breaking point.
Tim Maleeny: Jump (June 5, 2009). When Ed Lowry, San Francisco’s most despised landlord, falls to his death from the roof of one of his buildings, it is not at all hard to find suspects. The police, however, want to call it a suicide because the mayor and the press are complaining about the dismal closure rate for murder cases. Retired cop Sam McGowan, still mourning the loss of his wife to cancer, knows that it was murder. As a tenant on the top floor of the building, he also knows that he is a suspect.
Phillip Margolin: Fugitive (June 2, 2009). Oregon attorney Amanda Jaffe takes on the case of a lifetime when she is tapped to defend Charlie Marsh, aka Guru Gabriel Sun.
Randall Peffe: Bangkok Dragons, Cape Cod Tears (June 16, 2009). Lawyer Michael Decastro jets off to Bangkok when he receives an e-mail from his missing client and love interest, Tuki, the mysterious transvestite and former singer in Provincetown, Massachusetts, who fled the country just as Michael was about to get her cleared of murder and soon finds himself in a desperate race across Southeast Asia.
Maggie Sefton: Dropped Dead Stitch, A Knitting Mystery (June 2, 2009). Colorado CPA Kelly Flynn learns her friend Jennifer has been raped. It turns out that the rapist, Cal Everett, owns the ranch where a group of assault survivors, including Jennifer, have gathered for a weekend retreat. Not surprisingly, Cal ends the weekend dead. So are the logical suspects responsible?
Joanna Campbell Slan: Cut, Crop & Die: A Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-N-Craft Mystery (June 1, 2009). Tainted icing triggers a rare allergy, and a hobbyist croaks at a scrapbooking crop sponsored by Time in a Bottle, the store where Kiki Lowenstein works. When it comes out that someone swiped the victim's emergency medication, the scrappers realize they have a murder on their hands, and the entire community jumps to point the finger at Kiki and her coworkers. Suddenly, the one anchor in Kiki's stormy life is on the verge of sinking beneath a ruined reputation.
Michael Stanley: The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu (June 2, 2009). When two guests turn up dead at tourist camp, Assistant Superintendent Kubu crosses Botswana to investigate. The case seems likely to link back to the Zimbabwe civil war, as fingerprint records show the dead man on the casualty lists of a 1980 farm raid.
Victoria Thompson: Murder on Waverly Place (June 2, 2009). Late-nineteenth-century New York midwife Sarah Brandt is not completely surprised when her very proper mother asks her to attend a séance. She knows that Mrs. Decker still carries great guilt over the death of her older daughter, Maggie. So Sarah accompanies her and the spiritualist does seem to contact Maggie—convincing Mrs. Decker to attend another séance. Only this time, one of the attendees doesn’t succeed in speaking to the dead—she joins them.
Brad Thor: The Apostle (June 30, 2009). Navy SEAL turned covert Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath must find the daughter of a politically connected family who has been kidnapped in the terrorist hinterlands of Afghanistan.
Lisa Unger: Die for You (June 2, 2009). Isabel Raine thought she had everything. A successful career, a supportive family, and a happy marriage to the man she loved. Then one ordinary morning, her husband, Marcus, picked up his briefcase, kissed her goodbye, and simply vanished.
For more of the new hardcover, trade paperback, and paperback releases (as well as reissues), check out the following sites from The Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, Books N Bytes, San Diego's Mystery Books, Powells Books, the Bloodstained Bookshelf, and Fantastic Fiction.
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