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New and noteworthy
USA TODAY’s Jocelyn McClurg scopes out the hottest books on sale each week.
1 Killer Look
by Linda Fairstein ( Dutton, fiction, on sale Tuesday) The WHAT IT’S ABOUT: latest mystery featuring prosecutor Alexandra Cooper is set in the world of New York fashion, as a famed designer is found dead from an apparent suicide. This THE BUZZ: is the 18th book in a series.
2Truly Madly Guilty
by Liane Moriarty ( Flatiron, fiction, on sale Tuesday) Aussie WHAT IT’S ABOUT: frenemies Clementine and Erika must cope after a summer barbecue goes terribly wrong. THE BUZZ: Moriarty’s Big Little Lies is in the works as an HBO series with Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman.
3 Heroes of the Frontier
by Dave Eggers ( Knopf, fiction, on sale Tuesday) A mother and WHAT IT’S ABOUT: her two young children go on a journey through the Alaska wilderness in what’s described as a “darkly comic” novel. “Uproarious THE BUZZ: … ( a) delirious American road- trip saga,” says Booklist.
4 Dark Matter
by Blake Crouch ( Crown, fiction, on sale Tuesday) WHAT IT’S ABOUT: In this “speculative” thriller, a brilliant physicist is knocked unconscious by a man with a gun, only to wake to a life he does not recognize. It’s an Indie THE BUZZ: Next pick of independent booksellers, and one of Amazon’s “Best Books of July.”
5 And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind: A Natural History of Moving Air
by Bill Streever ( Little, Brown, non- fiction, on sale Tuesday) The author of WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Cold and Heat goes on a sailing adventure to investigate how wind shapes our coastlines and economies. “Animated by deadpan THE BUZZ: humor and enthusiasm for all things meteorological,” says Publishers Weekly.