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Wildflower Graves

Wildflower Graves
  • Author(s): Rita Herron
  • Location(s): Georgia, Appalachian Mountains
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Ellie Reeves heads into the wilds of the Appalachian Mountains when she wants to get lost––to forget the whispers chasing her and the past that keeps her up at night. She’s sick of having to prove herself to...

Telling Sonny

Telling Sonny
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Gauffreau
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1925-1945

An atmospheric historical novel set in small-town Vermont, where 19-year-old Faby lives with her close-knit French family, Maman Aurore, Papa, Mémère, and sister Josephine. The story traces an eventful year in Faby’s young life when she meets and marries...

Zahara and the Lost Books of Light

Zahara and the Lost Books of Light
  • Author(s): Joyce Yarrow
  • Location(s): Spain, Seattle
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Historical
  • Era(s): Medieval and Modern

When Seattle journalist Alienor Crespo travels to Granada to apply for citizenship as a descendant of Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, she uncovers her own family story, along with a hidden treasure trove of medieval Hebrew and Arabic...

Go As A River

Go As A River
  • Author(s): Shelley Read
  • Location(s): Colorado, Gunnison County, Paonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s-70s

I’ve come to understand how the exceptional lurks beneath the ordinary like the deep and mysterious world beneath the sea. On a cool autumn morning, Victoria Nash heads into her village pulling a rickety wagon filled with late-season peaches....

Summertime

Summertime
  • Author(s): Vanessa Lafaye
  • Location(s): Florida Keys
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Florida, 1935. Heron Key is a small town where the relationships are as tangled as the mangrove roots in the swamp. Everyone is preparing for the 4th of July barbecue, unaware that their world is about to change for...

Betrayal

Betrayal
  • Author(s): David Gilman
  • Location(s): Washington DC, Honduras
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dan Raglan, former Foreign Legion fighter, alias The Englishman, returns. The new high-octane international thriller from David Gilman. Someone’s trying to start a war. And Raglan’s just walked into the kill zone. It has been many years since Dan...

Deep Dirty Truth

Deep Dirty Truth
  • Author(s): Steph Broadribb
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A price on her head. A secret worth dying for. Just 48 hours to expose the truth… Single-mother bounty hunter Lori Anderson has finally got her family back together, but her new-found happiness is shattered when she’s snatched by...

Off the Grid

Off the Grid
  • Author(s): C J Box
  • Location(s): Wyoming
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s no hiding off the grid. Joe Pickett’s old friend Nate Romanowski is off the grid, lying low while the FBI search for him. But they’re not the only ones looking. Nate finds himself confronted by agents who need...

The Long Count

The Long Count
  • Author(s): J M Gulvin
  • Location(s): Alabama, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Later 1970s

In The Long Count, the first book of JM Gulvin’s masterful new crime series, we meet Ranger John Quarrie as he is called to the scene of an apparent suicide by a fellow war veteran. Although the local police want...

The Second Marriage

The Second Marriage
  • Author(s): Gill Paul
  • Location(s): Europe, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s-1970s

JACKIE When her first marriage ends in tragedy, Jackie Kennedy fears she’ll never love again. But all that changes when she encounters… ARI Successful and charming, Ari Onassis is a man who promises her the world. Yet soon after...

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