Summer Reads 2015

Beach Books that Sizzle

Written by SurfWriter Girls Sunny Magdaug and Patti Kishel

What can be better than lying on the beach with a cool drink and a hot beach book? It's the perfect escape.

If you're looking for adventure, action or romance, SurfWriter Girls Sunny Magdaug and Patti Kishel have loaded our beach bag with just the books for you. In keeping with the nine parts of speech - from nouns to verbs - these nine books show the power of words when writers put them together in stories to excite and thrill.

Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, is the most talked about book in the publishing industry now. Based on the recently discovered "lost" manuscript by the renowned author of To Kill a Mockingbird, this book picks up that story 20 years later. With a July 14 publishing date and 2 million copies print run, it's already sizzling.

Finders Keepers, by horror-master Stephen King, is definitely one to read on a bright, summer day when there are lots of people around. A sequel to Mr. Mercedes, it's about a boy who finds notebooks and money stolen from a famous author at the same time that the thieves are getting out of prison.

Killing Monica, by Candace Bushnell of Sex and the City fame, offers more of the same in this story about a writer who is overshadowed by her fictional character.

Truth or Die, by thriller writer James Patterson and Howard Roughan, keeps the action going when an attorney discovers a secret that terrorists will kill to get their hands on. With 24 #1 Bestsellers already, this is likely to make it #25 for Patterson.

The Girl on the Train, by first-time novelist Paula Hawkins, is picking up lots of movie buzz about who will play the title role in this murder mystery that starts with something glimpsed from a train window. Currently #1 on the Bestseller list, SurfWriter Girl Patti couldn't put it down.   

  

 X, by alphabet-series mystery writer Sue Grafton, has P.I. Kinsey Milhorne chasing a serial killer. From her first novel, A is for Alibi, to her latest Grafton has a way with letters that keeps readers turning the pages.

Orient, by Christopher Bollen, builds suspense and a body count in a sleepy Long Island beach town that isn't quite what it seems. It's definitely not a beach you'd want to go to, but one that draws readers in.

Beach Town, by Mary Kay Andrews, is set in a beach town, too - the one in movie scout Greer Hennessy's sights as the perfect location for her latest movie. The Florida town offers more than she expects, including a mix of romance and environmentalism.     

  

Kona Heat, by Gregory and Patricia Kishel (SurfWriter Girl Patti), is a romantic/thriller set on Hawaii's Big Island. Winner of Reader View's Best Regional Fiction award, the novel pits science and superstition in a dangerous battle over a geothermal plant, leading to a fiery climax in the heart of the Kilauea Volcano.

 So, what's in your beach bag or backpack?

  

SurfWriter Girls

                                                    

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