New books, July

Recent additions: The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker by Michael Gallagher chronicles the recent rediscovery of the presumed-extinct “Lord God” bird; Locked Rooms by Laurie King, another Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes mystery, this time set in San Francisco; Fire Sale by Sara Paretsky, a V. I. Warshawski novel, reviews say this one’s a really good one; 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith, stories by the man who wrote The Number One Ladies’ Detective Agency; Appaloosa by Robert B. Parker, a western by the Spenser author; Company Man, a thriller by Joseph Finder; 11 on Top by Janet Evanovich; and Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House by John F. Harris.