The facade of the Peter White Public Library in Marquette is seen. (Journal file photo)

MARQUETTE — Beach read season is in full swing. What makes a good beach read for you? A steamy romance? A thriller? Perhaps it’s a short story or a novel with short chapters for small attention span requirements.Here are some new titles that fall into those categories. Don’t forget to shake the sand out.

• “The Lake Escape” by Jamie Day – Three lifelong friends reunite with their families at Lake Timmeny, a place shadowed by the unsolved disappearances of two young women. During this summer’s gathering, another woman mysteriously vanishes after a heated argument, reigniting the lake’s eerie legend that “the lake takes them.” As the search intensifies, buried secrets, betrayals, and a twisted web of deception spanning generations unravel.

• “With a Vengeance” by Riley Sager – In 1954, Anna Matheson boards her late father’s luxury train with the six people she blames for her family’s ruin following a 1942 tragedy involving her brother’s death, her father’s disgrace, and her mother’s suicide. Her plan is to force confessions for their roles before handing them to the FBI, but her scheme unravels when one passenger is found murdered and a second killer emerges on board. Trapped on the speeding train without stops, Anna must both track down the real murderer and protect those she once intended to destroy.

• “The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits” by Jennifer Weiner – In the early 2000s, sisters Zoe and Cassie Grossberg rise as the pop duo “The Griffin Sisters,” with Zoe fronting the spotlight despite Cassie’s superior talent, until a tragedy abruptly ends their career. Twenty years later, Zoe is a suburban mom wary of fame while Cassie lives in reclusive isolation, until Zoe’s daughter enters a singing-competition show and seeks out Cassie to uncover the truth behind the band’s downfall.

• “Three Days in June” by Anne Tyler – Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job–or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter is getting married, and she’s not included entirely. Then, Gail’s ex-husband arrives unannounced on her doorstep. When her daughter shares a secret she just learned about her husband to be, it will not only throw the wedding into question but also stir up Gail’s issues with her former husband.

• “All That Life Can Afford” by Emily Everett – Anna first fell in love with the London of a Jane Austen novel. When she finally arrives, the real London is a grubby flat and the paycheck-to-paycheck grind. The dream life is still out of reach until she meets the Wilders, who fly her to Saint-Tropez to tutor their daughter. She soon finds herself in a world of leisure and excess. It’s like she’s stepped into the pages of her beloved novels, but can she afford to play the main character?

• “Rush Week” by Michelle Brandon – Five years after they thought they’d said goodbye forever, a group of sorority sisters find themselves back at the University of Alabama for Rush Week. Some return to rekindle friendships, and others to keep secrets from being exhumed. Unbeknownst to them at the time, an infamous book of confessions was placed into a time capsule–now it’s been stolen, and the thief is threatening to expose them all on Bid Day.

• “Parents Weekend” by Alex Finlay – In the glow of their children’s exciting first year of college at a small private school, five families plan on a night of opening festivities of Parents Weekend. As the parents stay out way past their bedtimes, their children never arrive for dinner. At first, everyone thinks that they’re just being college students, irresponsibly forgetting about the gathering or skipping out to go to a party. But as the hours click by and another night falls with not so much as a text from the students, panic ensues.

• “The Compound by Aisling Rawle” – Lily wakes up on a remote compound with nineteen other contestants on a popular reality TV show. To win, she must outlast her housemates while competing in challenges for luxury rewards and communal necessities. The cameras are catching all her angles, good and bad, but she has no desire to leave: When the producers raise the stakes, the line between playing the game and surviving it begins to blur.

• “These Summer Storms” by Sarah MacLean – Alice isn’t like her siblings. She left her childhood home, building her a life beyond the family’s name, influence and billions. Now back on the family’s private island, she plans to keep her head down, pay the last of her respects to her father, and leave the minute the funeral is over. Unfortunately, her father had other plans.