24 Books Coming in June

The First Gentleman

by Bill Clinton and James Patterson

For their third thriller together, Clinton and Patterson dream up a political nightmare: The president’s husband is on trial for murder as she is up for re-election. Two journalists dig into the first gentleman’s past, which includes an N.F.L. stint. “We’re admittedly pretty tough on our fictional presidents,” Clinton has said of himself and his writing partner — putting it mildly.

Little, Brown, June 2

Flashlight

by Susan Choi

One night, a man and his 10-year-old daughter take a walk on a beach; the next day, the girl is found nearly dead, and her father has disappeared. Choi’s latest novel tells the sweeping story of this fractured family: Serk, the father, an ethnic Korean man born in Japan who emigrates to the United States in the 1960s; his former wife, Anne, an American dealing with the fallout of mistakes in her youth; and their daughter, Louisa, whose childhood is defined by crisis and pain.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, June 3