These summer page-turners are hot off the bookshelves

It's that time of year when readers are deluged with new books. Try these titles:

“The Signal” by Ron Carlson (Viking, $25.95, 192 pages): Mack, a failed rancher who's been known to break the law a time or two, and his wife, Vonnie, take their 10th camping trip together in the Wyoming mountains. It's to say goodbye to their failed marriage. But Mack has another motive for the trek — one more job, a big one. This literary thriller that's getting great reviews.

“The Thing Around Your Neck” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf, $24.95, 240 pages): The master storyteller weaves a dozen insightful tales set in war-ravaged Nigeria and America, where violence continues to escalate.

“We Came in Peace for All Mankind” by Tahir Rahman (Silicon Disc, LLC, $28, 293 pages): When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin visited the moon in 1969, among the items they left behind was a silicon disc with encrypted messages from Earth's leaders. Rahman tells the behind-the-scenes story and reproduces the leaders' messages. With rare photos.

“Fifty Grand” by Adrian McKinty (Henry Holt, $25, 320 pages): McKinty belongs to a crop of Irish crime novelists that includes John Connolly, Declan Burke and Ken Bruen. He takes a break from his Forsythe series to introduce Detective Mercado, a cop from Cuba who goes undercover as a maid to track down her father's killer.

“All the Dead Voices” by Declan Hughes (William Morrow, $25.99, 320 pages): Speaking of Irish writers, Hughes continues his series starring Ed Loy, the rough-and-tumble L.A. private eye who returned to Ireland for his mom's funeral and never left. He's got his hands full with a new investigation and some new enemies. This is good stuff.

“The Wedding Girl” by Madeleine Wickham (Thomas Dunne, $24.95, 336 pages): Wickham is best known by the pseudonym “Sophie Kinsella,” creator of the “Shopaholic” series, but has several titles under her real name. In this funny chick-lit tale, complications arise when the bride-to-be tries to hide her past.