Laydown Lowdown

It's hard to believe that is the first Tuesday in August!  Just where is the summer going?  It is flying by way to fast for my liking.  If you haven't had a chance to hit the beach yet or are settling in for a staycation, you may want to check out some of today's new reads.

Best-Selling author Karen Robards is sure to to turn up the heat and keep your pulse pounding with her latest romantic suspense novel, "The Last Victim."  Other new releases in Romance include "Cherished," by Maya Banks, "Sweet Talk," by Julie Garwood, "Time Untime," by Sherilyn Kenyon and "Dream Lake," by Lisa Kleypas.

Or perhaps you'd like to chill out with a cool mystery such as "A Foreign Country," by Charles Cumming, "Bad Little Falls," by Paul Doiron, or "Line of Fire," by Stephen White.

Rita Mae Brown strays from her cozy mystery roots with a new Sneaky Pie Brown collaboration, "Sneaky Pie for President."  Mystery readers know that Rita writes an entire series of mysteries with and about her super sleuth cat Sneaky Pie.  This time around though Sneaky Pie has his eyes set on the Oval Office and the only mystery appears to be how a cat got on the ballot.

Shifting over to Sci-Fi/Fantasy, you may want to escape with "Star Wars X-Wing #10: Mercy Kill," by Aaron Allston, "King of Thorns," by Mark Lawrence, or Neal Stephenson's latest, "Some
 Remarks."

And time is winding down to catch up on your YA before school starts.  Perhaps, "Carter's Unfocused One Track Mind," by Brent Crawford may be up your alley?  Other YA new releases today include "Girl of Nightmares," by Kendra Blake, "Rift," by Andrea Cremor, and "Throne of Glass," by Sara J. Maas.

And that is your Laydown Lowdown for the first week of August.  What are you guys reading these days?   Remember to support your local bookstores whenever possible.  Happy Reading!

Laydown Lowdown

We've been getting a lot of summer storms lately which is a perfect excuse to curl up with a good book.  Perhaps one of today's new releases will make your list.

If summer sleuthing is up your alley you'll be excited by the new mysteries today such as Tana French's latest, "Broken Harbor," the fourth in the "Dublin Murder Squad" series.  James Patterson's frequent co-author, Peter de Jong has a solo book out today, "Buried on Avenue B."  Other new mysteries include "Judgement Call," by J.A. Jance, "Black List," by Brad Thor, and "Let the Devil Sleep," by John Verdon.

Or, if summer lovin' is your thing, you'll want to check out "Sleepwalker," (now in paperback) by Karen Robards, or "The Golden Leopard," by Lynn Kerstan.

Others may wish to spend their summer in sci-fi with new releases like "Thirteen," the latest "Women of the Underworld," novel by Kelley Armstrong or "Darksiders: The Abomination Vault," by Ari Marnell.

If you're on a summer break, the latest YA novels may be for you.  Kiersten White releases the third novel in her "Paranormalcy" series, "Endlessly," today.  "Cold Fury," by T.M. Goeglein, "I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Legacies," by Pittacus Lore, and "Something Strange and Deadly," by Susan Dennard are also available today.

Other new releases in fiction include "Where We Belong," the latest novel by best-selling author Emily Giffin, the paperback release of 11/22/63 by Stephen King and "A Simple Thing," by Kathleen McCleary.  Danielle Steel also has a new, non-romance, novel out today, "Friends Forever."

Will any of these new releases make your reading list?  I'm pretty excited about the new Emily Giffin but for  now, I need to get back to my book-club book.  Remember to support your local bookstores whenever possible.  Happy Reading!