Summer Sleuthing

Find your favorite lawn chair or string up your hammock, make some fresh lemonade or lemon iced tea, and settle down to some summer sleuthing.

• Summertime News by Dick Belsky - The Central Park killing of Katie Thomas enrages local residents until a suspect is arrested, and TV news reporter Jenny McKay uncovers a disturbing truth that reveals that the victim had not really been Katie Thomas.
• A Tangled June by Neil Albert - Dave Garrett's sleuthing skills are put to the ultimate test when he becomes involved in investigating his own mysterious background
• The Father's Day Murder by Lee Harris - Every year, the Morris Avenue Boys--chums since childhood--gather for a Father's Day reunion dinner. Now late in middle age, these men can bask in the rewards of honest success. So which of them seizes the opportunity that fateful evening to pull out an ice pick and stab to death the group's most celebrated member, novelist Arthur Wein? As investigator (and former nun) Christine Bennett peels back the layers of the past, forty years' worth of secrets emerge from the shadows--and the web of lies, theft, adultery, and blackmail woven by the once-innocent Bronx playmates rivals even the darkest plot of the dead man's novels. But in real life, this flesh-and-blood villain may never be caught.
• In the Dead of the Summer by Gillian Roberts - While teaching summer school at exclusive Philly Prep, English teacher Amanda Pepper feels a sense of foreboding. First, a reading of Romeo and Juliet activates some very strange chemistry. Then the computer science teacher begins receiving anonymous go-back-to-Africa phone calls. A young Vietnamese boy dies in a drive-by shooting. And late one night, outside a Chinatown massage parlor, student April Tuong is kidnapped. Random violence? Perhaps. But Amanda refuses to let gentle April vanish without at least asking a few questions, starting in her own classroom. Yet the truth, when she finds it, is appalling, deadly, and much too close to home.
• A Star-Spangled Murder by Valerie Wolzien - Susan Henshaw and her family have been coming to their summerhouse in Maine for years, but when neighbor Humphrey Taylor is found bludgeoned to death in her living room, Susan's relaxing holiday goes out with the tide as she searches to find the killer before he or she strikes again. But the killer may just find her first.
• A Summer for Dying by Jamie Katz - For Boston lawyer Dan Kardon, life is looking good. He's found a great woman in Jenny Crane, his colleague and lover, and his fledgling solo practice it taking off. When Jenny suggest he represent her old college friend, saavy entepreneur Jerome Mann, it seems like an obvious win. Jerome and his cousin, Daryl, a rising pro basketball star, have millions to pour into a brilliant real estate venture and Kardon wants in on their game. Kardon soon discovers, though, that a slew of malevolent opponents will do anything to block the Manns--even murder. When Jerome suddenly turns up dead with Daryl the leading suspect, Kardon had to go one-on-one with a killer who had no intention of playing fair. With the clock winding down and his own life now in jeopardy, the maverick investigator must go full press to beat this deadly rival before he loses his own life, too.
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