Summer always feels like Christmas for readers, there's such an embarrassment of riches! I hope you've saved a little room on your reading list, because the party is only just beginning!
Us Against You, by Frederik Backman. From the bestselling author of reader favorites like A Man Called Ove and Beartown, this follow-up to Beartown is about hockey...and everything else. Here, the residents of Backman's secluded Swedish village resume their lives where the previous novel left off, amidst the turmoil of the news that their much beloved local hockey league is meant to be disbanded. In the ensuing season, tensions run high, both among Beartown's residents and also between Beartown and their hockey arch-rivals in the neighboring town of Hed. Backman's story-telling is magic, and Beartown peopled with characters that leap off the page. If you're looking to sink into a great story, you can't do better.
Three Days Missing, by Kimberly Belle. Belle, author of The Last Breath (2014) and The Marriage Lie (2016), grips readers with a new tale of suspense. Kat Jenkins's son Ethan is kidnapped from an overnight school trip. But it's the mayor's wife, and mother to Ethan's almost look-alike classmate Sammy, who receives a call with a ransom demand. But Sammy is safe, but does he hold clues to Ethan's whereabouts? As the search for Ethan intensifies, the two families are drawn far closer than either is comfortable with, and secrets will out, as they always do. Suspense readers, add this one to your list.
The Secrets Between Us, by Thrity Umrigar. Umrigar revisits the beloved protagonist, Bhima, from her best-selling 2007 novel The Space Between Us. Bhima has long served the upper-middle-class Dubashes, but after she speaks up about a crime committed against her own family, she is promptly fired. Soon, though, she begins selling fruits and vegetables with an older woman named Parvati, and she discovers a deep and abiding friendship with her new companion, as well as the secrets of the Mumbai slums that link them irrevocably. Fans of the first novel will not want to miss out.
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