A Wave of Summer Adventures!
Written by SurfWriter Girls Sunny Magdaug and Patti Kishel
Summertime is adventure time! SurfWriter Girls Sunny Magdaug and Patti Kishel have a wave of summer adventures waiting for you in these Best Beach Books – epic surfing, mysteries, thrillers, romance, and more.
Art of the Waves, by Clark Little, takes you inside the barrels of epic waves around the world, immersing you in the raw, pounding beauty of the ocean captured by Little’s camera. With an uncanny ability to get the perfect shot that defines a wave, Little shares his techniques and the stories behind the shots. Packed with breathtaking photos, the book includes a foreword by 11-time World Surfing Champion Kelly Slater.
I Have Some
Questions for You, by Rebecca Makkai, shows that frightening things can happen when the
past intrudes on the present in this riveting mystery set in a New Hampshire
boarding school. When film professor/podcaster Bodie Kane returns to her alma
mater to teach a course it triggers memories about the murder of her former roommate
and questions about who really did it.
Killers of a Certain
Age, by Deanna Raybourn, is a dark comedy/thriller about an elite group of
retirement-age female assassins, who aren’t ready to die gracefully when their
employer marks them for elimination. Forced to kill or be killed, these four
ingenious ladies know how to get away with murder…and prove that age has its
advantages.
Mastering the Art of French Murder, by Colleen Cambridge, is a delectable souffle of a murder mystery set in post-WWII Paris with chef-in-training Julia Child and her friend Tabitha Knight at the center of it – and Child’s kitchen knife in the body of the victim! Can they convince the police they are innocent and stop the murderer before he strikes again? Cambridge conveys the sights, sounds and flavors of Paris with panache.
The Neighbour’s Cat, by J.S. Ellis, introduces
Theodore, a black Tuxedo cat, who informs us: “My roommate is a serial killer.”
Dean has killed four women already and has a fifth victim, Jane, in his sights.
Theodore is desperate to warn her. But how? As Theodore puts every ounce of his
feline abilities to use, it will keep you turning the pages of this purrfect
mystery to the very end.
Relentless, by Mark Greaney, puts
CIA operative Court Gentry, a covert agent called the Gray Man (because no one
ever sees him), in a non-stop thriller that zig zags from Washington, D.C. to
Venezuela to Berlin. With agents going missing and a planned terrorist attack
in Europe imminent, Gentry and his lover, former Russian spy Zoya Zakharova, find
themselves in the crosshairs of an international conspiracy.
The Rising Tide, by Ann Cleeves,
has Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope battling the clock and the tides to stop
a murderer before he strikes again after a TV personality is found hanging from
the rafters at an island retreat during a class reunion. Closer to sixty than
she likes to admit, Vera will need all her years of experience to piece together
the motive for this murder and the others that come following after.
The Royal Runaway, by Lindsay Emory, is a princess romance story with a twist – the princess gets stood-up at the altar! With no groom or happily ever after in sight, Princess Theodora of Drieden makes some radical changes, discovering new insights about herself, secrets about her family, the risks and rewards of duty…and maybe even love in this delightful rom/com.
Troubles in Paradise, by Elin
Hilderbrand, is filled with more surprises than Irene Steele could have ever expected
when she arrives on the sunny Caribbean Island of St. John – a visit from the
FBI, her husband’s double life, a helicopter crash that may not be an accident,
and other secrets. So much for lounging in a hammock. And, with a storm heading
to the island, what else can happen?
Where are the Children Now?, by Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke, is the sequel to MHC’s 1975 blockbuster debut mystery Where are the Children? Hailed as The Queen of Suspense, Clark, the legendary author of 56 bestsellers, spins a riveting final tale of mystery and deception in this just-released, posthumously published novel, bringing her career full circle.
With so many stories
waiting for you, now’s the time to kick back with a cool drink in a shady spot
and set sail on a new summer adventure!
Sunny Magdaug and Patti
Kishel hold the exclusive rights to this copyrighted material. Publications
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