New Book Releases: June 22, 2021

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

WHAT’S DONE IN DARKNESS, Laura McHugh. Five years after she was kidnapped and held in the dark for a week, a young woman returns home to the religious community she left behind, hoping to understand why more women are going missing. Unsettling and transfixing; I loved this book. “McHugh writes here, as in earlier novels, with compassion and a strong moral compass. Her characters, even when they behave monstrously, do not fall into hero/villain binaries, which makes the betrayal Sarabeth uncovers all the more damning,” writes the New York Times. Bookshop.

THE SUMMER OF NO ATTACHMENTS, Lori Foster. The employees of a veterinarian’s office become entangled with the lives of a single father and his ten-year-old son. “A satisfying page-turner, complete with adorable animals and an idyllic summer setting,” says Publisher’s Weekly. Bookshop.

GOD SPARE THE GIRLS, Kelsey McKinney. The daughters of a famous evangelical pastor discover that their respected father…