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Curious about what books will be released in the months ahead so you can pre-order or reserve them? Then click on the months below.

Please note we have not included every book that is coming out, but rather some that caught our eye --- and that we thought should catch yours as well.

July 2024

Hardcover

Dog Day Afternoon: An Andy Carpenter Mystery by David Rosenfelt - Fiction, Mystery

Minotaur Books | 9781250324474 | Published July 2, 2024

Retired lawyer Andy Carpenter has run the Tara Foundation --- the dog rescue organization named after his beloved golden retriever --- for years. It's always been his calling, even as Andy's pulled into representing clients in court. His investigator, Marcus Clark, has been at Andy's side for a long time. Even though they've known each other for years, Marcus keeps his personal life a mystery. So it’s a shock when Marcus arrives at the Tara Foundation with two strangers in tow. Turns out Marcus takes disadvantaged young men under his wing, gets them jobs, a place to live and a chance at a different life. And they want a dog. Andy’s specialty. One of the young men, Nick Williams, instantly falls in love with one of the dogs, Daisy. When there’s a mass shooting at Nick’s work, leaving six dead, all signs point to Nick. Marcus, who's never asked Andy for anything, asks Andy for help. Despite Nick's troubled background, Andy trusts his friend and takes the case.

Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna - Fiction

Mariner Books | 9780063319974 | Published July 2, 2024

Summer in London stops for no one. It’s June 2019, and everyone has converged to revel in the collective joys of being alive. Everyone but Maggie. She’s 30, pregnant and broke. Faced with moving back to the town she fought to escape, she’s wondering if having a baby with boyfriend Ed will be the last spontaneous act of her life. Ed, meanwhile, is trying to run from his past with Maggie’s best friend Phil and harboring secret dreams of his own. Phil hates his office job and is living for the weekend, while falling for his housemate, Keith. Then there’s Rosaleen, Phil’s mother, who’s tired of feeling like a side character in her own life. She’s just been diagnosed with cancer and is travelling to London to tell Phil, if she can ever get hold of him. As Saturday night approaches, all their lives are set to change forever. Temperatures are soaring and the weekend is about to begin...

Flashpoint: An FBI Thriller by Catherine Coulter - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

William Morrow | 9780063283091 | Published July 2, 2024

A year has passed since Elizabeth Palmer was nearly killed with hundreds more in the attempted bombing of St. Paul’s in London. For Elizabeth, life is finally back to normal, until suddenly her world changes in a flash. With three new attempts on her life, and her connection to the terrorist attack, MI-5 gets involved to find out who is trying to kill her and why. Autumn Backman begrudgingly accepts a job to shepherd Tash Navarro, a shy, bullied little boy. She learns Tash is gifted psychically, like her, and Tash’s father is suspected of embezzling from his own firm. Tash is scared and convinced his father needs help, so Autumn reaches out to Dillon Savich. Desperate for answers, Elizabeth flies to Washington, D.C., and is assigned Special Agent Rome Foxe for protection. With deadly assailants in pursuit, Elizabeth and Rome soon find themselves neck deep in danger and in a race for survival.

Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Forge Books | 9781250904294 | Published July 2, 2024

Òdòdó’s hometown of Timbuktu has been conquered by the warrior king of Yorùbáland, and living conditions for the women in her blacksmith guild, who were already shunned as social pariahs, grow even worse. Then Òdòdó is abducted. She is whisked across the Sahara to the capital city of Ṣàngótẹ̀, where she is shocked to discover that her kidnapper is none other than the vagrant who had visited her guild just days prior. But now that he is swathed in riches rather than rags, Òdòdó realizes he is not a vagrant at all; he is the warrior king, and he has chosen her to be his wife. In a sudden change of fortune, Òdòdó soars to the very heights of society. But after a lifetime of subjugation, she finds the power that saturates this world of battle and political savvy too enticing to resist.

Midnight Rooms by Donyae Coles - Fiction, Gothic, Historical Thriller, Thriller

Amistad | 9780063228092 | Published July 2, 2024

England, 1840. Scruffy in appearance yet claiming to be the scion of a fabulously wealthy family, Elias Blakersby declares a deep desire to make Orabella Mumthrope his wife. Her uncle has many debts, and Orabella agrees. The new bride is whisked away to Korringhill Manor, the Blakersby family estate, where she is shocked to find decay. But her kind new husband’s loving touch, promises of a happy life together and his assurances she’ll never want for anything soothe her concerns. Yet there is a darkness deep within this house that soon begins to engulf her, too. Becoming dizzy and drowsy after dinner, she falls into a fitful sleep filled with macabre dreams, and is awakened by blood-curdling screams in the night. Confused and terrified, she begins to question where her dreams end and reality begins. The longer Orabella stays here, the more she loses parts of herself...how long until she no longer exists?

Pink Slime written by Fernanda Trías, translated by Heather Cleary - Fiction, Horror, Literary Fiction

Scribner | 9781668049778 | Published July 2, 2024

In a city ravaged by a mysterious plague, a woman tries to understand why her world is falling apart. An algae bloom has poisoned the previously pristine air that blows in from the sea. Inland, a secretive corporation churns out the only food anyone can afford --- a revolting pink paste, made of an unknown substance. In the short, desperate breaks between deadly windstorms, our narrator stubbornly tends to her few remaining relationships: with her difficult but vulnerable mother; with the ex-husband for whom she still harbors feelings; with the boy she nannies, whose parents sent him away even as terrible threats loomed. Yet as conditions outside deteriorate further, her commitment to remaining in place only grows --- even if staying means being left behind.

Storm Child by Michael Robotham - Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

Scribner | 9781668030998 | Published July 2, 2024

The mystery of Evie Cormac’s background has followed her into adulthood. As a child, she was discovered hiding in a secret room where a man had been tortured to death. Many of her captors and abusers escaped justice, unseen but not forgotten. Now, on a hot summer’s day, the past drags Evie back as she watches the bodies of 17 migrants wash up on a Lincolnshire beach. There is only one survivor, a teenage boy, who tells police their small boat was deliberately rammed and sunk. Psychologist Cyrus Haven is recruited by the police to investigate the murders --- but recognizes immediately that Evie has some link to the tragedy. By solving this crime, he could finally unlock the secrets of her past. But what dark forces will he set loose? And who will pay the price?

The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Knopf | 9780593319154 | Published July 2, 2024

On a secluded bluff overlooking the ocean sits a Victorian house, a home that contains a century’s worth of secrets. By the time Jane Flanagan discovers the house as a teenager, it has long been abandoned. The house becomes a hideaway for Jane, a place to escape her volatile mother. Twenty years later, now a Harvard archivist, she returns home to Maine following a terrible mistake that threatens both her career and her marriage. Jane is horrified to find the Victorian house is now barely recognizable. The new owner, Genevieve, is convinced that the house is haunted --- perhaps the product of something troubling Genevieve herself has done. She hires Jane to research the history of the place and the women who lived there. The story Jane uncovers --- of lovers lost at sea, romantic longing, shattering loss, artistic awakening, historical artifacts stolen and sold and the long shadow of colonialism --- is even older than Maine itself.

The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction

Gallery Books | 9781668036587 | Published July 2, 2024

In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Luckily, on the first day of school, Ellie meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, they play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa’s warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions for becoming “lion women.” But their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls’ high school in Iran, Ellie’s memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later, however, her sudden reappearance in Ellie’s privileged world alters the course of both of their lives.

The Moonlight Market by Joanne Harris - Fantasy, Fiction, Romance

Pegasus Books | 9781639366637 | Published July 2, 2024

Deep in the heart of London, a young photographer named Tom Argent walks the streets and captures whatever catches his eye: an old man drinking coffee; a cloud of moths taking flight across the sky. He’s orphaned, lonely and lost in his work. He certainly has no intention of falling in love. And yet, love finds him in the shape of beautiful Vanessa, who lives a dangerous double life in the heart of the city. Tom’s pursuit of Vanessa leads him to discover an alternate world, hiding in plain sight among the streets and rooftops of London. A world unseen by common folk and inhabited by strange and colorful beings, in which two warring factions --- one nocturnal, one in the light --- wage war for the sake of a long-lost love, which can only end with one side’s total annihilation.

The Villain Edit by Laurie Devore - Comedy, Fiction, Romance, Women's Fiction

Avon | 9780063337602 | Published July 2, 2024

Romance novelist Jacqueline Matthis’s big career has gone bust and she’s ditched the bright lights of New York City for her more affordable South Carolina hometown. Desperate, Jac dreams up a comeback plan --- she is going to be a contestant on "the 1," the most obsessively watched reality dating show in the world. On set, Jac is shocked to discover who’s actually pulling the strings. How was she to know that Henry Foster, her last one-night stand before the show, was actually a longtime producer on "the 1?" Henry is just as horrified...but they can’t seem to keep their hands off each other. As Jac plays the game and the show unfurls, she discovers that she’s getting the villain edit. What happens if her affair with Henry comes to light? What if, in trying to save her career, Jac has ruined her life?

A Death in Cornwall by Daniel Silva - Fiction, Mystery, Suspense

Harper | 9780063384200 | Published July 9, 2024

When an old friend from the Devon and Cornwall Police seeks art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon's help with a baffling murder investigation, he finds himself pursuing a new adversary. The victim is Charlotte Blake, a celebrated professor of art history from Oxford. Her murder appears to be the work of a serial killer who has been terrorizing the Cornish countryside, but there are a number of telltale inconsistencies. Gabriel soon discovers that Professor Blake was searching for a looted Picasso worth more than $100 million, and he takes up the chase for the painting as only he can. The result is a stylish and wildly entertaining mystery that moves at lightning speed from the cliffs of Cornwall to the enchanted island of Corsica and, finally, to a breathtaking climax on the very doorstep of 10 Downing Street.

Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle - Fiction, Horror

Tor Nightfire | 9781250874658 | Published July 9, 2024

Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell. But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running streaming series know just the thing to kick his career to the next level: kill off the gay characters, "for the algorithm," in the upcoming season finale. Misha refuses, but he soon realizes that he’s just put a target on his back. And what’s worse, monsters from his horror movie days are stalking him and his friends through the hills above Los Angeles. Haunted by his past, Misha must risk his entire future --- before the horrors from the silver screen find a way to bury him for good.

Humor Me by Cat Shook - Fiction, Humor

Celadon Books | 9781250904713 | Published July 9, 2024

Presley Fry is not amused. She’s been an assistant at the Late Night Show for way too long, she’s adopted a “business casual” approach to dating to save herself from the embarrassment of seeking genuine connection, and she’s content to let her gregarious roommate, Isabelle, orchestrate her entire social life. Not completely disillusioned, Presley is enamored with the world of stand-up comedy. Presley is still reeling from her mother's death, which still knocks the wind out of her every time she reaches for the phone. Enter Susan Clark, her late mother's childhood best friend. Susan is married to the head of the network where Presley works, and is determined to take Presley under her wing. She’s equally determined to connect Presley with her son, the bright and affable Lawrence, who couldn’t be further from Presley’s type.

Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder by Kerryn Mayne - Fiction, Women's Fiction

St. Martin's Press | 9781250340108 | Published July 9, 2024

Lenny Marks bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day, buys the same groceries for the same meals every week, and owns 36 copies of The Hobbit (currently arranged by height). The closest thing she has to a friendship is playing Scrabble against an imaginary Monica Gellar while watching "Friends" reruns. And Lenny Marks is very, very good at not remembering what happened the day her mother and stepfather disappeared when she was still a child. The day a voice in the back of her mind started whispering, You did this. Until a letter from the parole board arrives in the mail --- and when her desperate attempts to ignore it fail, Lenny starts to unravel. As long-buried memories come to the surface, Lenny’s careful routines fall apart. For the first time, she finds herself forced to connect with the community around her, and unexpected new relationships begin to bloom.

Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fiction

Random House | 9780593133491 | Published July 9, 2024

In 1980, Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized and held for ransom. He is returned to his home less than a week later, and the family moves on with their lives, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety. But now, nearly 40 years later, it’s clear that perhaps nobody ever got over anything, after all. As they hover at the delicate precipice of a different kind of survival, they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, and they must face desperate questions about how much their wealth has played a part in both their lives’ successes and failures. Long Island Compromise spans the entirety of one family’s history, confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.

Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi - Fantasy, Fiction

Knopf | 9780593535059 | Published July 9, 2024

In Navola, a bustling city-state, business is power, and power is everything. For generations, the di Regulai family --- merchant bankers with a vast empire --- has nurtured tendrils that stretch to the farthest reaches of the known world. Soon, Davico di Regulai will be expected to take the reins of power from his father and demonstrate his mastery of the games of Navolese diplomacy: knowing who to trust and who to doubt, and how to read what lies hidden behind a smile. As tensions rise and the events unfold, Davico will be tested to his limits. His fate depends on the eldritch dragon relic and on what lies buried in the heart of his adopted sister, Celia di Balcosi, whose own family was destroyed by Nalova’s twisted politics. With echoes of Renaissance Italy, The Godfather and Game of Thrones, Navola is a stunning feat of world-building and a mesmerizing depiction of drive and will.

State of Paradise by Laura van den Berg - Fiction, Literary Fiction

Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 9780374612207 | Published July 9, 2024

Along with her husband, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author returns to her mother's house in the Florida town where she grew up. Her mercurial sister, who lives next door, spends a growing amount of time using MIND’S EYE, a virtual reality device provided to citizens of the town by ELECTRA, a tech company in South Florida, during the doldrums of a recent pandemic. But it’s not just the ominous cats, her mother’s burgeoning cult, or the fact that her belly button has become an increasingly deep cavern --- something is off in the town. During a violent rainstorm, the writer’s sister goes missing for several days. When she returns, speaking of another dimension, the writer is forced to investigate not only what happened to her sister and other missing people but also the uncanny connections between ELECTRA, the famous author, and reality itself.

Tell It to Me Singing by Tita Ramírez - Fiction, Literary Fiction

S&S/Marysue Rucci Books | 9781982157319 | Published July 9, 2024

Monica Campo is pregnant with her first child when, moments before being wheeled into emergency heart surgery, her mother confesses a long-held secret: Monica’s father is not the man who raised her. But when her mother wakes up and begins having delusional episodes, Monica doesn’t know what to believe --- whether the confession was real or just a channeling of the telenovela her mother watches nightly. Monica’s search for the truth leads her to a new understanding of the past: the early '80s when her parents arrived from Cuba on the famous Mariel boatlift, and the tumultuous '70s, a decade after Castro’s takeover, when some people were still secretly fighting his regime --- people like her mother and the man she claims is Monica’s real father. 

The Briar Club by Kate Quinn - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Thriller

William Morrow | 9780063244740 | Published July 9, 2024

Washington, D.C., 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss with gaping inner wounds, policeman’s daughter and gangster-involved Nora, frustrated baseball star Beatrice and poisonous, gung-ho Arlene, who has thrown herself into McCarthy’s Red Scare. Grace’s weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a healing balm on all their lives, but she hides a terrible secret of her own. When a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the Briar Club women must decide once and for all: who is the true enemy in their midst?

The Burning by Linda Castillo - Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller

Minotaur Books | 9781250781116 | Published July 9, 2024

Newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is awakened by an urgent midnight call summoning her to a suspicious fire in the woods. When she arrives at the scene, she discovers a charred body. According to the coroner, the deceased, an Amish man named Milan Swanz, was chained to a stake and burned alive. Kate knows all too well that the Amish prefer to handle their problems without interference from the outside world, and no one will speak about the murdered man. From what she’s able to piece together, Swanz led a deeply troubled life and had recently been excommunicated. But if that’s the case, why are the Amish so reluctant to talk about him? When her own brother is implicated in the case, Kate finds herself not only at odds with the Amish, the world of which she was once a part, but also the English community and her counterparts in law enforcement.

The Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee - Fantasy, Fiction, Magical Realism

Hanover Square Press | 9781335081179 | Published July 9, 2024

In a mysterious town hidden in our collective subconscious, there's a department store that sells dreams. Day and night, visitors both human and animal shuffle in to purchase their latest adventure. Each floor specializes in a specific type of dream: childhood memories, food dreams, ice skating, dreams of stardom. Flying dreams are almost always sold out. Some seek dreams of loved ones who have died. For Penny, an enthusiastic new hire, working at Dallergut is the opportunity of a lifetime. As she uncovers the workings of this whimsical world, she bonds with a cast of unforgettable characters, including flamboyant and wise owner Dallergut, famous dream designer Babynap Rockabye, nightmare producer Maxim and the many customers who dream to heal, dream to grow and dream to flourish.

The Family Experiment by John Marrs - Dystopian, Dystopian Fiction, Fiction, Thriller

Hanover Square Press | 9781335000361 | Published July 9, 2024

The world's population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, the breaking point has arrived. A growing number of people can no longer afford to start families, let alone raise them. But for those desperate to experience parenthood, there is an alternative. For a monthly subscription fee, clients can create a virtual child from scratch who they can access via the metaverse and a VR headset. To launch this new initiative, the company behind Virtual Children has created a reality TV show called "The Substitute." It will follow 10 couples as they raise a virtual child from birth to the age of 18 but in a condensed nine-month time period. The prize: the right to keep their virtual child, or risk it all for the chance of a real baby...

The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Doubleday | 9780385550598 | Published July 9, 2024

October 1891. The city of Butte, Montana is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and ballad-maker of the town, but also a doper, a drinker and a fearsome degenerate. Just as he feels his life is heading nowhere fast, Polly Gillespie arrives in town as the new bride of the extremely devout mine captain Long Anthony Harrington. A thunderbolt love affair takes spark between Tom and Polly, and they strike out west on a stolen horse. But a posse of deranged Cornish gunmen are soon in hot pursuit and closing in fast. With everything to lose and the safety and anonymity of San Francisco still a distant speck on their horizon, the choices they make will haunt them for the rest of their lives.

The Sky on Fire by Jenn Lyons - Fantasy, Fiction

Tor Books | 9781250342003 | Published July 9, 2024

Anahrod lives only for survival, forging her own way through the harsh jungles of the Deep with her titan drake by her side. Even when an adventuring party saves her from capture by a local warlord, she is eager to return to her solitary life. But this is no ordinary rescue. It’s Anahrod’s past catching up with her. These cunning misfits --- and their frustratingly appealing dragonrider ringleader --- intend to spirit her away to the dragon-ruled sky cities, where they need her help to steal from a dragon’s hoard. There’s only one problem: the hoard in question belongs to the current regent, Neveranimas --- and she wants Anahrod dead.