Campari Crimson (Franki Amato Mysteries #4)
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Mystery, Humour
- Era(s): Contemporary
Halloween is looming large in New Orleans, and Private Investigator Franki Amato’s in a gloomy mood. Her boyfriend Bradley has to leave on an extended business trip, and her slacker brother is coming to town with her matchmaker nonna...
- Location(s): Dublin
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
Chilling thriller for fans of Patricia Gibney and Angela Marsons. Online you never really know who you’re talking to. You can never know their true identity or their intentions. Until it’s too late… Recently moved to Dublin and struggling...
- Location(s): Florida
- Genre(s): Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
Refuge officer Nelson and his mysterious old friend who lives on a houseboat confront unknown assailants in the wild gulf coast of North Florida. These two unlikely partners have to navigate tight knit rural communities, not knowing who to...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Two women share a Mississippi household for fifteen years, rolling out piecrusts and making conversation. Cornelia is rich, white, and pampered, the mistress of the house, who oversees a seemingly perfect world of smooth surfaces and stubborn silence. Tweet,...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW1
Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiaverini’s lively and illuminating novel about the “munitionettes” who built bombs in Britain’s arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war...
- Location(s): Richmond (VA)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 18th century
The daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family from Richmond, Virginia, Caroline Fletcher is raised in a culture that believes slavery is God-ordained and biblically acceptable. But upon awakening to the cruelty and injustice it encompasses, Caroline’s eyes are opened...
- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th century
A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evoking black life in the South. The sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life that make up Cane are rich in...
- Location(s): Louisiana
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1800s-1900s
Set among the plantations in deepest Louisiana, Cane River follows the lives of five generations of women from the time of slavery in the early 1800s into the early years of the 20th century. From down-trodden, philosophical Suzette, who...