"Beach Road" (Little, Brown), James Patterson and Peter de Jonge's thriller about a struggling

"Beach Road" (Little, Brown), James Patterson and Peter de Jonge's thriller about a struggling lawyer in the affluent Hamptons on New York's Long Island whose ship seems to come in when he is hired by a star athlete suspected of a triple murder.
On an island off the South Carolina coast, the owner of a mysteries bookshop investigates when her husband, a murder suspect, disappears in Carolyn Hart's "Dead Days of Summer" (William Morrow), set during the dog days of August.
August on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., finds a 92-year-old woman searching for proof that a land developer's fall from a cliff was no accident in Cynthia Riggs' "Indian Pipes" (Thomas Dunne).
A few miles to the southeast, on Nantucket Island, a college student on a summertime visit to her fianc & eacute;'s family makes a side trip -- against her father's wishes -- to see her godmother in "The Love Season" (St. Martin's Press) by Elin Hilderbrand.
During "That Summer in Paris" (Nan A. Talese-Doubleday) by Abha Dawesar, a reclusive Indian writer impulsively travels to Paris to meet a young novelist and admirer he learned about online.
In Meg Cabot's "Queen of Babble" (William Morrow), a young woman upset with her boyfriend decides to spend her summer as a bartender in the south of France, even though she speaks little French and knows even less about mixing drinks.