Calling fans of mysteries, thrillers, and true crime! June will see a plethora of new book releases in these categories and the library has them all. Stop by and pick up a book or two mentioned below. These will give a little variety to your summer reading list.

 

Last Call at the Nightingale by Katharine Schellman is a mystery set in 1924 New York. We follow the main character, Vivian Kelly, who is a seamstress that spends her evenings at a speakeasy, The Nightingale. Her fun nightly excursions come to an end when she finds a body and the club is shut down.

 

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels, and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe is a true crime nonfiction book. This book doesn’t focus on only one story but entails a collection of 12 of Keefe’s most celebrated true crime articles from The New Yorker. This is a book you don’t want to miss as it has all the most thrilling and suspenseful themes to entice all the true crime buffs.

 

The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths is the 14^th installment of Griffith’s Ruth Galloway series. If you’re interested in following the stories of a forensic archaeologist, you should pick up this series. The Crossing Places is the first book in this highly popular series.

 

The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager is a chilling suspense novel that follows Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress, as she tries to escape some bad press. She retreats to her family’s secluded lake house in Vermont. She goes on to make friends with the neighbor couple and soon discovers their marriage isn’t at all what it seems…

 

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill is a murder mystery set in a library. Four strangers are told to stay put while a woman’s scream is investigated by security. These four people start striking up friendships and having conversations, but soon it’s realized that one of them is a murderer. But which one?

 

We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys by Erin Kimmerle, forensic anthropologist, investigates the true story of the Arthur G. Dozier Boys School in Florida. The school was founded in the 1900s and existed for over a century before it got shut down for reports of abuse and “mysterious deaths.” Kimmerle uses forensic and DNA testing to further solve these mysteries and finally put this infamous case to rest.