He went on to direct “Star Trek” movies and campaign against nuclear arms but Meyer made his first splash back in the ‘70s as the author of “The Seven-Per-Cent Solution,” a witty mystery that resurrected Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, and dove him into a kidnapping case that involved his own cocaine addiction and a meeting with Sigmund Freud. “The Real Thing” refers to art masterworks that may not be authentic, but don’t worry. There are a bunch of murders, too. Out Aug. 26.
A Truce That Is Not Peace (Bloomsbury)
A Truce That Is Not Peace, Miriam Toews
All of Toews’ eight novels contain autobiographical elements. She is best known for “Women Talking,” which became an Academy Award-winning movie and which draws on her youth in a restrictive religious community, but Toews also has written about her sister’s death by suicide and her troubled father. Many of those elements come together in “Truce,” a memoir in which the Canadian grapples with why she keeps returning to her sister’s story, how reliable her memory is and whether she should be writing about this stuff in the first place. All of Toews’ books are outstanding but if you have not read her, this could be a great place to start. Out Aug. 26.
What Hunger (Simon & Schuster)
What Hunger, Catherine Dang
The Minneapolis native’s novel is a coming-of-age book that might also be a coming-of-cannibal book. Vietnamese American Ronny is already freaked out about her older brother leaving home and having to start high school. But things really get hinky when a boy attacks her, unleashing violent feelings and behaviors she didn’t know were a part of her. Out Aug. 12.