It's the first Thursday in July, which means debut releases. Please take a look and let’s celebrate their success!
M.P. Cooley - Ice Shear (William Morrow/HarperCollins) July 2014
As a cop on the
night shift in Hopewell Falls, New York, June Lyons drives drunks home and
picks up the donuts. A former FBI agent, she ditched the Bureau when her
husband died, and now she and her young daughter are back in upstate New York,
living with her father, the town’s retired chief of police.
When June
discovers a young woman’s body impaled on an ice shear in the frozen Mohawk
River, news of the murder spreads fast; the dead girl was the daughter of a
powerful local Congresswoman, and her troubled youth kept the gossips busy.
Though June was born and raised in Hopewell Falls, the local police see her as
an interloper—resentment that explodes in anger when the FBI arrive and
deputize her to work on the murder investigation. But June may not find allies
among the Feds. The agent heading the case is someone from her past—someone she
isn’t sure she can trust.
As June digs
deeper, an already fraught case turns red-hot when it leads to a notorious
biker gang and a meth lab hidden in plain sight—and an unmistakable sign that
the river murder won’t be the last.
Lori Rader
Day -The Black Hour
(Seventh Street Books) July 8, 2014
For Chicago
sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic--until a
student she'd never met shot her.
He also shot himself.
Now he's dead and she's back on campus, trying to keep up with her class
schedule, a growing problem with painkillers, and a question she can't let go:
Why?
All she wants
is for life to get back to normal, but normal is looking hard to come by. She's
thirty-eight and hobbles with a cane. Her first student interaction ends in
tears (hers). Her fellow faculty members seem uncomfortable with her, and her
ex--whom she may or may not still love--has moved on.
Enter
Nathaniel Barber, a graduate student obsessed with Chicago's violent history.
Nath is a serious scholar, but also a serious mess about his first heartbreak,
his mother's death, and his father's disapproval. Assigned as Amelia's
teaching assistant, Nath also takes on the investigative legwork that Amelia
can't do. And meanwhile, he's hoping she'll approve his dissertation topic, the
reason he came to grad school in the first place: the student attack on Amelia
Emmet.
Together and at
cross-purposes, Amelia and Nathaniel stumble toward a truth that will explain
the attack and take them both through the darkest hours of their lives.
Teri Anne Stanley - Deadly Chemistry (Entangled Ignite)
June, 23, 2014
Some chemical reactions generate too much
heat…
Former
undercover cop Mike Gibson has been lying low, working as a maintenance man to
put his troubled younger brother through college. But when a beautiful
scientist enlists Mike’s help to repair the damage done to her lab by a group
of vandals, Mike finds that his, and his brother's pasts, are about to be
brought to light.
Laura Kane was
happy having a secret crush on the hot maintenance man at Tucker University,
but when the drug she was studying is stolen, Laura has a chance to get to know
Mike in person. The problem is, he seems to know more about what's going on
than any maintenance man should. But then the drug turns up in the wrong hands,
and Mike and Laura have to decide if their own chemistry will help, or hinder,
the race to save innocent lives.
Thomas Sweterlitsch - Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Putnam Adult)
July 10, 2014
"Simultaneously
trippy and hardboiled, Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a rich, absorbing, relentlessly
inventive mindfuck, a smart, dark noir...Sweterlitsch's debut is a wild mashup
of Raymond Chandler, Philip K. Dick and William S. Burroughs, and, like their
work, utterly visionary." --Stewart O'Nan, author of "The Odds"
A decade has
passed since the city of Pittsburgh was reduced to ash.
While the rest
of the world has moved on, losing itself in the noise of a media-glutted
future, survivor John Dominic Blaxton remains obsessed with the past.
Grieving for his wife and unborn child who perished in the blast, Dominic
relives his lost life by immersing in the Archive--a fully interactive digital
reconstruction of Pittsburgh, accessible to anyone who wants to visit the
places they remember and the people they loved.
Dominic
investigates deaths recorded in the Archive to help close cases long since
grown cold, but when he discovers glitches in the code surrounding a crime
scene--the body of a beautiful woman abandoned in a muddy park that he's
convinced someone tried to delete from the Archive--his cycle of grief is
shattered.
With nothing
left to lose, Dominic tracks the murder through a web of deceit that takes him
from the darkest corners of the Archive to the ruins of the city itself,
leading him into the heart of a nightmare more horrific than anything he could
have imagined.
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