As a former Ohio resident, I find Lisa Black's Trail of Blood intriguing. In the 1930s, a madman nicknamed the Torso Killer terrorized Cleveland. Now, forensic scientist MacLean recognizes the pattern with a body, and launches an investigation.
In Rhys Bowen's latest Royal Spyness book, Royal Blood, Lady Georgiana represents the royal family at a wedding in Transylvania, and has to try to save the festivities when she finds the bride with blood running down her chin, and a wedding guest poisoned.
Margaret Coel's Wind River Reservation series is one of my favorites. In The Spider's Web, attorney Vicki Holden believes a woman is innocent of killing her boyfriend, an Arapaho, and sets out to prove it, finding herself on the opposite side of the investigation from Father O'Malley.
I gave up on Janet Evanovich, and haven't read Sizzlin' Sixteen. But, she has a new Diesel novel due out in September, Wicked Appetite. Diesel partners with a pastry chef in historic Salem as he looks for a collection of priceless relics representing the Seven Deadly Sins.
Ken Follett kicks off his new Century Trilogy with the first book, Fall of Giants. The book follows the fates of five families, American, German, Russian, English and Welsh as they move through the early twentieth century, through World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's rights.
Vermilion Drift is William Kent Krueger's latest Cork O'Connor mystery. Cork is
hired to head security at the Vermilion One Mine, but, on his first day on the job, he finds a secret room with six murder victims inside, who appear to have been there for decades.Jeffry Lindsay brings back Dexter in Dexter is Delicious. The serial killer who only kills bad people investigates the disappearance of a teenage girl who's been keeping company with a group of Goths who call themselves vampires. His investigation reveals something worse.
So, are you ready for the first Christmas book of the year? Debbie Macomber's Call Me Mrs. Miracle allows Mrs. Miracle to play matchmaker while she's working in the toy department of a family-run store in New York City. She meets a woman who she thinks would be a perfect match for the store owner's son.
This time, James Patterson teams up with Hoard Roughan for Don't Blink. Reporter Nick Daniels didn't realize he had accidentally captured a key piece of evidence when a mob lawyer was killed while dining at Lombardo's Steak House. He probably shouldn't have started his own investigation.
I've been waiting for Louise Penny's Bury Your Dead. It might be Winter Carnival time in Quebec City, but it's no vacation for Chief Inspector Gamache. He's recovering from an investigation gone wrong in Three Pines. But, before there's trouble between the English and the French, he has to offer his help when a historian's search for the remains of the founder of Quebec ends in murder.Chet (the dog) and his owner, Bernie, end up dealing with people involved in the illegal international trade of exotic animals when the take on the case of a missing circus elephant and its trainer. It's Spencer Quinn's To Fetch a Thief.
Lydia Chin has been kidnapped in S.J. Rozan's On the Line, and it's up to her occasional partner Bill Smith to follow a wild goose chase while he uncovers the kidnapper's identity.
Nicholas Sparks brings us Safe Haven. One of Audrey's cherished memories is of the summer she and a best friend spent in Italy. Renee fell in love with a local boy, but ended the affair to go home, marry and have a family. Now, Audrey's dying, and Renee finds a surprise when she goes to see her friend.
In Stuart Woods' Santa Fe Edge, attorney Ed Eagle has a client connected to his past, one that could put Ed in danger.
And, I'll end the September hot titles with two debut novels that have potential. Toby Ball's The Vaults uncovers a radical program called The Navajo Project. Three men join together to expose this radical program for punishing murderers, but a group of wealthy businessmen and a corrupt mayor don't want the secret uncovered.The Damage Done is Hilary Davidson's debut novel. Lily fled to Spain to escape her drug-addicted younger sister, Claudia, but returned to New York when Claudia is found dead in her bathtub. But, Lily discovers the woman in the morgue isn't Claudia, and her sister has disappeared.
Did you find any books that excite you? Am I missing a title you're waiting for in September? Let me know!
