21 Books You Must Read Before Summer Ends
Whether you're on vacation or need a vacation from your vacation, you'll be swept away by these extraordinary new releases, ranging from hilarious to harrowing, girly to gritty, highbrow to high octane.
By Natalie Beach
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Dry Bones in the Valley
By Tom Bouman
288 pages;
W. W. Norton & Company
This Pennsylvania-set noir belongs to a fiddle-playing, funny-guy cop who just caught his first murder case. But in the grisly literary tradition of Leonard and Lehane, it's a little more complicated than just one corpse in the woods. Soon Officer Farrell is trapped in a morass of fracking and family feuding. Will all this darkness cost him his soul?
— Natalie Beach
Published 06/19/2014
