Atomic Love by Jennie Fields (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
When FBI Special Agent Charlie Szydlo asks physicist Rosalind Porter to spy on her former lover, Thomas Weaver, she’s torn. It’s been five years since their relationship ended and five years since they built a devastating nuclear bomb during World War II. If Thomas really is passing secrets to Russia, like Charlie says he is, it could be catastrophic. As she draws closer to Charlie by working to possibly destroy Thomas, Roz has to decide between the man she once loved and the man who could finally help heal her broken heart. (Available now.)
Somewhere in the Dark by R. J. Jacobs (Crooked Lane Books)
In this new thriller from local author R. J. Jacobs, Jessie Duval’s life is finally starting to come together. But when she gets hired to do a catering job, Jessie ends up running into the last person she wants to see: singer Shelly James. After a summer following Shelly’s tour around the country, Jessie developed a stalker reputation and was arrested. She’d been able to turn her life around though. So, when Shelly turns up dead, Jessie knows everyone will think she’s the murderer. She also knows she’s the only one who can find the real killer and clear her name once and for all. (Available now.)
The Night Portrait by Laura Morelli (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Spanning 500 years, Morelli’s latest historical novel jumps between Milan in the late 1400s and Munich during World War II. After being hired by the Duke of Milan to paint Cecilia, the Duke’s young mistress, Leonardo da Vinci creates one of his most famous paintings, Lady with an Ermine. Five centuries later, Ethel, a German art restorer, risks her life to pair up with an American soldier to save the painting from a Nazi. (Available September 8.)