Summer has begun! Which new books will be the hottest? We can guess, based on publishers’ expectations. Here are the new novels (no reprints here) coming out in June, with at least a 450,000 copy print run.
FICTION
Stephanie Plum, her grandmother, and her other companions struggle to outmaneuver a killer who is targeting Vinnie, a case that is further complicated by Lula’s involvement in a fraudulent investment scheme.
In a thriller already in development as a major television series, former CIA agent Jack Morgan inherits his father’s elite LA detective agency and along with it such cases as an NFL gambling scandal, 18 unsolved schoolgirl slayings and the murder of his best-friend’s wife.
In a sequel to the best-selling thriller The Lion’s Game, Libyan terrorist Asad Khalil, known as “The Lion,” returns to the U.S. to take care of unfinished business, and the only man who can stop him is John Corey, a special agent for the NYPD’s Anti-Terrorist Task Force.
Shipwrecked and wounded, an ex-officer of the Crown, on a mission to bring down a traitor known only as the Black Cobra, is rescued by a brazen beauty who is as daring as he.
After a terrorist attack shakes the country to its core, public relations executive Noah Gardner and mailroom worker Molly Ross must expose a conspiracy by the powers that be to radically transform America.
Investigating a disputed ruling that a brilliant pre-World War I battleship gun designer committed suicide, chief investigator Isaac Bell discovers that an elusive spy with ties to a top-secret project has been staging the killings of America’s leading technological minds.
Hired by a Yale professor to investigate the suspicious unavailability of a critical chemotherapy drug, Erin Pulaski discovers that its manufacturer is imposing a shortage to enable billions in windfall profits, a finding that is complicated by the brutal murder of a top employee.
As Victor Leben, formerly Frankenstein, begins his work to create a race of superhumans, five people, including Victor’s original creation, Deucalion, gather in a small Montana town to face dangers they have never known before in order to oppose Victor.
Years after gaining unexpected custody of her sister’s three small children, a woman experiences emotional division when the grown children choose very different paths in life, in a tale set in Manhattan, Paris, and Tehran.
Recruited as a field operative for a new Department of Defense spy agency that reports only to a secret panel of military insiders, former Navy SEAL Scot Harvath investigates the bombing death of a group of American students in Rome, an act with possible ties to a past colleague.
When yet another one of the Seven Deadly Sins is released from Hell by black magic, demon hunter Moira O’Donnel tracks Lust to Los Angeles where she becomes trapped in a supernatural war waged by her diabolical mother, the powerful witch Fiona.
After Bourne is ambushed and nearly killed while in Indonesia, he fakes his death to take on a new identity and mission- to find out who is trying to assassinate him. In the process, Bourne begins to question who he really is and what he would become if he no longer carried the Bourne identity.









