Page-Turners To Fill Those Lazy Summer Days

never seem to get old. At any rate, there are two new novels from some famous names.

In "One of These Malibu Nights" (St. Martin's Press, $24.95), author Elizabeth Adler (who has 21 novels, including "Meet Me in Venice" and "Sailing to Capri") offers a tale of murder and movie stars featuring a ruggedly handsome private investigator (naturally) named Mac. Mac is drawn into a case involving billionaires and movie stars. And in "Last Kiss," by Luanne Rice (Bantam, $25), the small community of Hubbard's Point, Conn., deals with the mysterious murder of one of its residents, a college student. Meanwhile, as the boy's girlfriend is searching for the killer (or killers), a man from the boy's mom's past returns. Complications, romantic and otherwise, are sure to ensue.

And if your taste runs to horror, there's a good one there, too. British writer Ramsey Campbell, who the Washington Post Book World called "one of the premiere horror writers of the English-speaking world," is back with "The Grin of the Dark" (Tor, $25.95). The story follows Simon Lester, a film critic who becomes a gas station attendant when his magazine goes out of business. But when he begins researching a book on a crazy silent film star, his life goes from boring to terrifying.