Anyone can read what's on the bestseller's list. But what about those breakout novels that no one saw coming? What about about the sleeper hits, or the genre novels, or the in-house favorites that your local librarian is raving about? These? These are some of those. Curious why they're on my radar and should be on yours? Read on!
All Your Perfects, by Colleen Hoover. Hoover is the bestselling author of It Ends With Us, and her new novel is the story of a troubled marriage...and the one long-forgotten promise that might be able to save it. Quinn and Graham are perfectly in love, but that is threatened by their most imperfect marriage. The memories and mistakes and secrets that have accumulated over the years are slowly tearing them apart. Is it possible to repair that which seems irreparable between two flawed people? If you like losing yourself in a character-driven story, this really should be on your list this summer. It is already on mine!
The Disappearing, by Lori Roy. Roy, who won an Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 2012 for Bent Road (the library's copy is being replaced!) returns to readers here with the tale of a small Southern town where the girls disappear and the boys run away. Lane Fielding fled her tiny Florida hometown after high school, setting out for NYC and vowing never to return home. Twenty years later, she's newly divorced with two teenage daughters and she's living with her parents, tending bar in the local dive. Home is just as unwelcoming as when she left, however, and when her older daughter suddenly vanishes, Lane's uneasy truce with the town is shattered. Has a long-dormant serial killer resurfaced to terrorize the town once more? Lane must dig deep within the past--her own as well as those of the town and her family--to find the answer and to save her daughter. If your ideal summer read is a page-turner guaranteed to send chills down your spine, you'd be wise to place your hold now.
All These Beautiful Strangers, by Elizabeth Klehfoth. Lies, deception and a secret society drive this addictive new psychological thriller. One summer day, Grace Fairchild, young wife of a local real estate mogul, vanishes from the family's vacation house, leaving behind her seven year old daughter Charlie...and a slew of unanswered questions. Ten years later, Charlie is still struggling in the shadow of her mother's disappearance and is trying to leave her past behind. She throws herself into her schoolwork, but finds herself tapped by the "As", the school's secret society. As a result, she's embroiled in a semester-long high-stakes scavenger hunt to prove she's worthy of membership, but a dark past and a dark present converge in such a way that Charlie may not survive to graduate. Juicy and clever, this may be one of the summer's biggest reads.
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