Jaws by Peter Benchley
When three people are killed by a great white shark in three different incidents, the police chief of a Long Island resort town is forced to take action.
The Second Sleep: A Novel by Robert Harris
A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artifacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death?
The Shark Club by Ann Kidd Taylor
Nearly two decades after surviving a shark attack in the Gulf of Mexico, a world-traveling marine biologist and respected "shark whisperer" harbors private insecurities that compel her to return to her Florida coast home to explore old and new relationships.
Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence by Mike Capuzzo
Details the first documented cases in American history of sharks attacking swimmers, which occured along the Atlantic coast of New Jersey in 1916.
The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks by Susan Casey
A journalist describes how her fascination with great white sharks led her to Southeast Farallon Island, a remote island off the California coast, and to a group of biologists who study these fearsome, frequently misunderstood predators of the sea.
Enjoy your holiday with a good book. For more Fourth of July titles (we can always interlibrary loan them) and other holiday mysteries check out the excellent Mystery Fanfare 
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