Fiction in June 2003…

Old standbys like Brown, Patterson, and Scottoline. But this month look for exciting new authors. Crave thrillers? Try Bahal and Bell. Want a literary read? Turn to Byers, Parkhurst, and Wood. Novelists Allende and Weldon also have something to say in nonfiction.

BAHAL, Aniruddha.
Bunker 13.
Farrar. Jun. 2003. 352p. ISBN 0-374-11730-6. $24.
An opportunistic Indian journalist confronts the temptations of drugs and gun-running in exotic Kashmir: no wonder this is Farrar's lead spring title.

BELL, Ted.
Hawke.
Atria: S. & S. Jun. 2003. 320p. ISBN 0-7434-6669-1. $25.
Audio: abridged. S. & S. Audio. ISBN 0-7435-2994-4. $26.
CD: abridged. S. & S. Audio. ISBN 0-7435-2995-2. $30.
Is Lord Hawke truly the new James Bond? Read this debut from former Young & Rubicam executive Bell and find out.

BERG, Elizabeth.
Say When.
Atria: S. & S. Jun. 2003. 272p. ISBN 0-7434-1136-6. $24.95.
lrg. prnt. ISBN 0-7434-5132-5. $24.
E-Book: S. & S. ISBN 0-7432-2182-5.
A broken marriage-and an eight-city author tour.

BROWN, Dale.
Air Battle Force.
Morrow. Jun. 2003. 352p. ISBN 0-06-009409-5. $25.95.
lrg. prnt. ISBN 0-06-054551-8. $25.95.
Audio: abridged. HarperAudio. ISBN 0-06-052021-3. $25.95.
Audio: unabridged. HarperAudio. ISBN 0-06-052247-X. $39.95.
CD: abridged. HarperAudio. ISBN 0-06-052246-1. $29.95.
Au courant: a new U.S. air combat unit vs. the Taliban. A one-day laydown on May 13.

BYERS, Michael.
Long for This World.
Houghton. Jun. 2003. 384p. ISBN 0-395-89171-X. $24.
Following a prize-winning debut collection, Byers crafts a first novel featuring a medical researcher whose astounding discovery may change his life.

CLARKE, Austin.
The Polished Hoe.
Amistad: HarperCollins. Jun. 2003. 480p. ISBN 0-06-055565-3. $24.95.
In this Giller Prize winner, a murder confession reveals social tensions in postcolonial West Indies.

DELINSKY, Barbara.
Flirting with Pete.
Scribner. Jun. 2003. 368p. ISBN 0-7432-4642-X. $26.
Audio: abridged. S. & S. Audio. ISBN 0-7435-2989-8. $26.
CD: abridged. S. & S. Audio. ISBN 0-7435-2990-1. $30.
Casey's remote psychologist father has willed her his Beacon Hill house-and with it a case study that will change her life.

GARLOCK, Dorothy.
Mother Road.
Warner. Jun. 2003. 416p. ISBN 0-446-53062-X. $22.95.
A romance writer with crossover appeal, Garlock introduces the first book in a new series that cruises down Route 66.

GUTMAN, Amy.
The Anniversary.
Little, Brown. Jun. 2003. 320p. ISBN 0-316-38120-9. $21.95.
Five years after his execution, mass murderer Steven Gage seems to rise from the grave. A follow-up to Equivocal Death, a People Page Turner of the Week.

HOSPITAL, Janette Turner.
Due Preparations for the Plague.
Norton. Jun. 2003. 320p. ISBN 0-393-05764-X. $24.95.
Years ago, Lowell's mother was gunned down on a hijacked flight, and now a stranger who was on that flight as a child wants to chat. Big foreign sales and an eight-city author tour, too.

KEYES, Marian.
Sushi for Beginners.
Morrow. Jun. 2003. 352p. ISBN 0-06-052050-7. $24.95.
Audio: unabridged. HarperAudio. ISBN 0-06-055780-X. $39.95.
Classic Keyes: three women chase happiness as staffers on a fashion magazine.

PARKHURST, Carolyn.
The Dogs of Babel.
Little, Brown. Jul. 2003. 208p. ISBN 0-316-16868-8. $21.95.
Audio: abridged. Time Warner Audio. ISBN 1-58621-510-8. $25.95.
After the fall that killed his wife stops looking like an accident, linguist Paul Iverson hopes to train his dog, Lorelei, to communicate so that he can uncover the truth. This debut has generated lots of talk.

PATTERSON, James.
The Lake House.
Little, Brown. Jun. 2003. 400p. ISBN 0-316-60328-7. $26.95.
Back from When the Wind Blows, six children who survived brutal government experiments want to return to the 'lake house' belonging to their rescuers.

RAY, Jeanne.
Eat Cake.
Shaye Areheart Bks: Crown. Jun. 2003. 240p. ISBN 0-609-61004-X. $21.
Her husband is jobless, her mother has moved in, her daughter isn't talking, and her estranged father just showed up at the door. So what does Ruth do? She bakes cakes. If your patrons liked Julie and Romeo, let them read this.

ROWLING, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Scholastic. Jun. 2003. NAp. ISBN 0-439-35806-X. $NA.
Just in case you missed it in all the media, the fifth installment of the Harry Potter series is flying your way on June 21. It's one-third longer than Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and Dumbledore promises to tell all.

SCOTTOLINE, Lisa.
Dead Ringer.
HarperCollins. Jun. 2003. 320p. ISBN 0-06-051493-0. $25.95.
lrg. prnt. ISBN 0-06-054544-5. $25.95.
Audio: abridged. HarperAudio. ISBN 0-06-054847-9. $25.95.
Audio: unabridged. HarperAudio. ISBN 0-06-055422-3. $39.95.
CD: abridged. HarperAudio. ISBN 0-06-054848-7. $29.95.
One's a lawyer, the other's an ex-convict, and, of course, they're twin sisters.

WHITE. Kate.
A Body To Die For.
Warner. Jun. 2003. 336p. ISBN 0-446-53148-0. $23.95.
Audio: abridged. Time Warner Audio. ISBN 1-58621-505-1. $25.98.
CD: abridged. Time Warner Audio. ISBN 1-58621-526-4. $31.98.
That Cosmo girl-actually, she's editor-in-chief-follows up If Looks Could Kill with another Bailey Weggins mystery, this one set at a spa.

WIGGINS, Marianne.
Evidence of Things Unseen.
S. & S. Jun. 2003. 352p. ISBN 0-684-86969-1. $25.
Ray and Opal begin their fiery affair the day the bomb is dropped on Hiroshima, and their child, Lightfoot, lives through an affair-and fallout-of his own.

WILSON, Jonathan.
A Palestine Affair.
Pantheon. Jun. 2003. 288p. ISBN 0-375-42209-9. $23.
A murder in 1920s Palestine gives a British painter and his wife very different perspectives on the region. Written by the chair of English at Tufts, who has lived in Jerusalem, this novel boasts hoards of in-house fans.

WOOD, James.
The Book Against God.
Farrar. Jun. 2003. 224p. ISBN 0-374-11538-9. $23.
Famed British literary critic Wood, late of the Guardian, crafts a first novel whose protagonist is secretly writing a major screed called The Book Against God but can't quite bring himself to confront his preacher father.