Best Beach Reads of 2014

This summer is already shaping up to be a great one for book lovers - six of your favorite bestselling authors are back with new books that are sure to be smash hits. Curl up with one these in a beach chair and you'll be on your way to an awesome summer!

Bestselling author James Patterson is back with his newest novel Invisible, in which FBI researcher Emmy Dockery must convince her colleagues that a flood of unsolved crimes are all being committed by the same person.


In Elin Hilderbrand's newest summer read, The Matchmaker, Dabney has an unbroken record of 42 matches made. But when an old flame returns, Dabney must reveal her own dark secrets.

It's another Stephanie Plum novel - need I say more? Fans of Janet Evanovich's wisecracking bounty hunter can expect her newest entry in the series on June 17 - Top Secret Twenty-One.

Stephen King makes his first foray into hard-boiled detective stories with Mr. Mercedes, about a serial killer who runs over innocents with a stolen Mercedes and a retired cop who is determined to take him down before he kills again.

Everyone's favorite professional wizard is back in Skin Game by Jim Butcher. Harry Dresden's services have been traded to a group of supernatural villains, so he must help them break into a vault. Their target? The Holy Grail.

Fresh from her smash success last year with The Cuckoo's Calling, J. K. Rowling's newest effort is The Silkworm (again writing under pseudonym Robert Galbraith), in which private detective Cormoran Strike returns to catch another killer.

Shannon Wood, Adult Services Librarian