Hitting The Shelves-June 2023

A Sneak Peek At A Few Books Releasing In June 2023

THE PUZZLE MASTER – DANIELLE TRUSSONI

The world is a puzzle and Mike, an ingenious puzzle creator, understands its patterns better than anyone else. Once a promising football star, a traumatic brain injury caused a rare savant syndrome, and it left him with a mental superpower. He can solve puzzles in ways ordinary people can’t even begin to wrap their heads around. When this isolated man meets Jess, a woman imprisoned for murder, everything begins to change for him. The perplexing puzzle she has drawn quickly morphs into an obsession that becomes a quest, taking Mike through a series of interlocking enigmas across history. Think I’m going to need to clear my calendar for this one!

More Like This…The Eight by Katherine Neville, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, The Cloisters by Katy Hays

THE EDGE OF SLEEP – JAKE EMANUEL

What if the whole world fell asleep…and didn’t wake up again? Dave, a night watchman in a small town, knows all about sleep troubles. He has long battled nightmares and sometimes they have leaked into his waking life. Now he lives alone and self-medicates to neutralize the potential disastrous effects. The morning after the July 4th celebration, there are bodies all over town, lying right where their owners left them as they slept. Dave and a few others who remained awake struggle to unravel the mystery before sleep overtakes them too!

More Like This…Insomnia by Stephen King, The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin, Sleep by Nino Ricci

ON EARTH AS IT IS ON TELEVISION – EMILY KANE

The arrival of spaceships can bring up a lot of big questions. What does this mean? Why have they come here? Who knew about this? Where are they going? Blaine has always been content to go along with whatever his supermom wife and television addicted children wanted. But when his kids blithely ponder skinning people to see if they’re aliens just as is wife decides now is the perfect time for a road trip to Disney World, the cracks begin to show. I have no idea where this premise is going to take me, but I am on board…

More Like This…Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Space Opera by Catherynne Valente, The Obsoletes by Simeon Mills

Also Releasing…

After That Night by Karin Slaughter

My Murder by Katie Williams

The First Bright Thing by J.R. Dawson