Thursday, April 13, 2017

Reading Ahead: May 2017, part 3

Mysteries abound in the books coming out next month. Missing people, long-held secrets and murders most foul...



Heat Storm, by Richard Castle. Nikki Heat and Derrick Storm, New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle's most enduring and beloved characters, team up for the first time to save Nikki's mother, Cynthia, who has been in hiding (and presumed dead) for 17 years. Standing in their way is a nefarious group of Chinese businessmen known as the Shanghai Seven, who have the resources-and ruthlessness-to stop them.

You Will Pay, by Lisa Jackson. It starts as a prank—a way to blow off steam after a long summer at Camp Horseshoe. Among the teen counselors, tensions and hormones are running high. No wonder the others agree when Jo-Beth Chancellor suggests they scare Monica O’Neal a little . . . or a lot. Monica has it coming, and no one will really get hurt. What could go wrong? Everything. Now twenty years later, seven former counselors reunite. Each of them knows something that happened that night, something they swore not to tell. But now they are receiving threatening texts: YOU WILL PAY. And then the murders begin...

Full Wolf Moon, by Lincoln Child. Legends, no matter how outlandish, are often grounded in reality. This has been the guiding principle behind the exhilarating career of Jeremy Logan, the "enigmologist"—an investigator who specializes in analyzing phenomena that have no obvious explanation—previously seen in The Forgotten Room, The Third Gate, and Deep Storm. Logan has often found himself in situations where keeping an open mind could mean the difference between life and death, and that has never been more true than now. Here, he travels to a writers retreat in the Adirondacks but finds himself drawn into a local murder investigation, a murder which no human or animal could have perpetrated...

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