SUMMER BOOKS PREVIEW

7THE LATE SHOW by Michael Connelly

Little, Brown, fiction, on sale July 18 WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Young LAPD Detective Renée Ballard — a new Connelly character — is banished to the night shift after filing a harassment complaint against a supervisor, but that doesn’t stop her from pursuing two cases involving female victims during the day.

Connelly’s Harry Bosch WHY IT’S HOT: novels are the inspiration for the Amazon series Bosch, and his The Wrong

Side of Goodbye hit No. 1 on USA TODAY’s list.

8 SOUR HEART: STORIES by Jenny Zhang

Lenny, fiction, on sale Aug. 1 WHAT IT’S ABOUT: This debut collection of short stories about young women in New York City has a definite Brooklyn hipster vibe. WHY IT’S HOT: Sour Heart is the first book from Random House’s Lenny imprint, run by Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner of Girls fame.

9MRS. FLETCHER by Tom Perrotta

Scribner, fiction, on sale Aug. 1

WHAT IT’S ABOUT: A placid divorcée becomes obsessed with an X- rated website, while her jock son struggles with the gender wars waging at his college.

WHY IT’S HOT: Perrotta’s often- satirical suburban tales include Election, Little Children and The Leftovers, the basis for the HBO series.

10 Y IS FOR YESTERDAY by Sue Grafton

Marian Wood Books/ Putnam, fiction, on sale Aug. 22 WHAT IT’S ABOUT: P. I. Kinsey Millhone is drawn into a disturbing case involving murder and a sexual assault at an elite private school. WHY IT’S HOT: Grafton fans are counting down the days, and the alphabet, as her beloved series nears “Z.”