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Damn, I tell you, it’s miserable to be able to choose only five from the multitude of great mysteries and thrillers published in May and June.
In the batch below, you can travel from Europe to Africa to the Middle East to Russia and the United States — without leaving your hammock. I hope you can read them – and five (or 10 or 20) more.
Nigerian woman by Vanessa Walters
Walters made his debut among charming people in Lagos, Nigeria. There “Nigerwoman” (a foreign-born woman married to a Nigerian man), Nicole Oruwari’s life seems to be as well taken care of as her hair and skin — until She’s been kidnapped, and her aunt Claudine has to come from England to find out why. Nicole and Claudine both have secrets that are sure to be swept away like the tide, but only Claudine can decide whether to keep hers or not. The snap-crackle-pop dialogue is an interesting one, as is Claudine herself, a dignified woman who never encounters both a modernized world and a country that confuses her. when his family prevents him from doing the right thing.
Hope You Satisfied by Tania Malik
Malik (whose) Three bargains there is a star weekly publisher review) tells the story of 1990’s guest workers in Dubai from the perspective of Riya, a young woman from India whose position as a Discover Arabia Tours guide helps her family back home emerge. . Saddam Hussein just invaded Kuwait, and no one knows what will happen next, but even if disaster strikes, Riya and her friends still have work to do and time to fill — and no chance to gain citizenship in a city awash with money. A sketchy import-export tycoon offers Riya a chance to make money, but that opportunity is fraught with risks. As she ponders the choice between glasses of tequila with her fellow young professionals, Riya begins to understand that the gap between them and the affluent travelers they serve will never truly close. again.
Hidden Photos by Jason Rekulak
Mallory’s chances for a new and settled life after rehab take a turn for the worse when her 5-year-old son, Teddy, begins drawing grisly scenes of violence that seem to focus on her New Jersey home. his family. Rekulak who won an Edgar for impossible fortress, a supernatural work by Stephen King and Lauren Beukes, brings readers closer to Mallory’s quest through Teddy’s drawings. If this is just a ghost story, that’s enough, especially with the incorporation of Teddy’s imaginary friend Anya, but Rekulak has enough ability to push it a little deeper and get the reader thinking about the story. class distinctions and how they affect those we trust about things we don’t understand.
puzzle master by Danielle Trussoni
Trussoni’s last novel, Ancestor, Totally unexpected, a gothic horror story set in the most remote mountains of Italy. And her new novel, puzzle master, which begins in New York’s Hudson Valley (but ventures far), also comes as a complete surprise, almost three books in one — but three books combine so seamlessly that readers won’t even notice the author’s skillful hands in turning what seemed like a book about codes into a book about hunting priceless artifacts into a book about monsters. I’ll stop there so as not to risk spoilers. Mike Brink’s decoding and puzzle expertise in post-traumatic brain injury-savant syndrome makes him a good choice to help a young woman named Jess who is in prison for the murder of her boyfriend. she. He connects a drawing of Jess with an ancient mystery, and then all bets are canceled, and your summer beach read is a padlock.
dissident by Paul Goldberg
The Jewish denier Viktor Moroz and his wife Oksana would have lived happily in Israel if the Soviet Union in 1976 allowed them to leave. Moroz gets a chance to get an exit visa after he is seen leaving the scene of the murders of a gay man and a CIA agent; The KGB told him if he went to trial for the crime, he would be deported because US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was about to visit Moscow. Goldberg’s views on the pragmatic politics of his boyhood have plenty of humor just right to take the reader through lengthy discourses on almost anything to do with his characters and the environment. their; that’s the kind of book you’ll want to enjoy, and then end too soon. It is not necessary to be set in a backward world in the near future, because late 20th-century Russia was indeed a backward world with spies, samizdat publishers, secret police and citizens. So the world is so tired that they can wait in line for a case of vodka.
Bethanne Patrick is a freelance writer and critic who tweeted @TheBookMaven and host the Missing Pages podcast.
