7/2
WHISPER NETWORK
Fiction
By Chandler Baker
Flatiron Books, $26.99
Four women at the same company have qualms when a new CEO from within their ranks is announced. All have history with the man in question and they decide that this time they are not going to be silent.
7/9
FOR THE GOOD OF THE GAME:
THE INSIDE STORY OF THE
SURPRISING AND DRAMATIC
TRANSFORMATION OF MAJOR
LEAGUE BASEBALL
Nonfiction
By Bud Selig with Phil Rogers
William Morrow, $28.99
The longtime commissioner of Major League Baseball looks back over his time with the game and opines about the changes he’s seen take place (some of which he had a hand in).
7/16
THE NICKEL BOYS
Fiction
By Colson Whitehead
Doubleday, $24.95
Colson Whitehead’s follow-up to his novel “The Underground Railroad” focuses on another tale of the black experience, as two young boys are sent to a hellish reform school in the Jim Crow-era South.
7/23
LADY IN THE LAKE
Fiction
By Laura Lippman
William Morrow, $26.99
A middle-aged housewife turns to crime reporting and investigates the murder of a forgotten young woman. Laura Lippman’s new novel is a psychological thriller set in 1960s Baltimore.
7/30
SOMEONE WE KNOW
Fiction
By Shari Lapena
Pamela Dorman Books, $27
In a quiet New York suburb, somebody is breaking into houses and stealing their personal information from laptops and computers. With paranoia already high, the discovery of a murder victim sends things into overdrive.
