New Book Releases: July 6, 2021

Each week, I’ll catalog the biggest and most exciting adult and YA fiction — and the occasional nonfiction — coming out that Tuesday.

ISLAND QUEEN, Vanessa Riley. The epic story of a woman who buys her freedom and goes on to build an entrepreneurial empire in 18th-century Caribbean. Bookshop.

AN AMBUSH OF WIDOWS, Jeff Abbott. Two seemingly unconnected businessmen are murdered, leaving their widows to find out what happened. Bookshop.

EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM WILL SOMEDAY BE DEAD, Emily Austin. A young woman obsessed with death accidentally gets a job as a receptionist at a church, and strikes up a correspondence with a friend of the woman who was the church’s receptionist before she died. “This strangely delightful debut novel, with its charming, anxious, bumbling hero, crackles with warmth,” writes Shelf Awareness. Bookshop.

FALLING, T.J. Newman. When a pilot’s flight is hijacked, the pilot discovers his family has been kidnapped and if they’re to be saved, he has to follow the hijacker’s orders to crash the plane and kill everyone on board. “An extraordinary…