Book 5 in this highly anticipated fantasy series which began in the year 2059: “a security force called Scion has taken control of major world cities. Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld of Scion London and is used for her incredible gift of dreamwalking-a rare form of clairvoyancy - as she can break into others’ minds finding information.”
“Hang on St. Christopher” by Adrian McKinty (March 4)
Book 8 in a series that features a Catholic cop in Northern Ireland during the period known as The Troubles. Sean Duffy is working a part-time desk job, planning to retire soon. He should not be investigating any more murders. But stuff happens. I read an advance copy of this one and I think it might be the best book yet.
“The Reluctant Sheriff” by Chris Offutt (March 25)
Book 4 in this crime series set in the hills of Kentucky. Mick Hardin came home on leave in the first book and ended up helping his sister solve a murder case. She’s the local sheriff. Now he can’t seem to leave Kentucky. When his sister gets shot he has to do something he dreads, filling in for her as the interim sheriff.
I Would Die For You” by Sandie Jones (March 25)
The author was once a tabloid journalist in the U.K. Now she writes novels that could be ripped out of the tabloids. In this one a young woman goes missing-this event transports us to flashbacks of the escapades of one of biggest fictional British bands of the 1980s, Secret Oktober.
“Warhol’s Muses: the Artists, Misfits, and Superstars Destroyed by the Factory Fame Machine” by Laurence Leamer (May 6)
Andy Warhol was an artist, filmmaker. and celebrity. If this biography is to be believed, he was also a wrecker of lives. He attracted beautiful women who then appeared in his films. Warhol observed “someone would accuse me of being evil, of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them.”
“State Champ” by Hilary Plum (May 13)
From the press release: “A high-school state champion runner turned college dropout, Angela is working as a receptionist at an abortion clinic when a ‘heartbeat law’ criminalizes most abortions statewide. In the ensuing upheaval, her boss is arrested for providing illegal procedures and the clinic is shut down. Angela has never been either an activist or a model employee. But she gets why her boss didn’t follow the rules. She decides to go on a hunger strike in the boarded-up clinic, to protest her boss’s arrest and everything that’s been lost. She’ll draw on her skill set, the masochistic discipline of a runner, a history of self-destructive behavior, and a willingness to sleep on exam-room tables (whose hygienic paper she uses as her diary).”
Vick Mickunas of Yellow Springs interviews authors every Saturday at 7 a.m. and on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. on WYSO-FM (91.3). For more information, visit www.wyso.org/programs/book-nook. Contact him at vick@vickmickunas.com.