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Coffee Killed My Mother

Coffee Killed My Mother
  • Author(s): Donna Koros Stramella
  • Location(s): New Jersey, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

Coffee Killed My Mother tells the story of Anna Lee, an anxious 17-year-old whose life is stuck, largely because of her strained relationship with her mother Jacqueline, a quirky recovering alcoholic who is now addicted to coffee. The two...

Deep Down Dead

Deep Down Dead
  • Author(s): Steph Broadribb
  • Location(s): California, Florida, Georgia, West Virginia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lori Anderson is as tough as they come, managing to keep her career as a fearless Florida bounty hunter separate from her role as single mother to nine-year-old Dakota, who suffers from leukaemia. But when the hospital bills start...

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
  • Author(s): John Berendt
  • Location(s): Savannah
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller

Part travelogue, part true-crime thriller – with copious supernatural elements also thrown into the mix – the book defies simple description. Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands’ suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo...

The Burning Girls

The Burning Girls
  • Author(s): Rita Herron
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The girl was beautiful, even in death. Her skin was translucent beneath the sliver of moonlight peeking through the bare branches of the surrounding pines, and her chestnut hair had tumbled around her pale shoulders. Around her, smoke twisted...

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...

An American Marriage

An American Marriage
  • Author(s): Tayari Jones
  • Location(s): Atlanta
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The author of Silver Sparrow returns with a stunning novel about race, loyalty, and love that endures. Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and...

Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind
  • Author(s): Margaret Mitchell
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Civil War, Margaret Mitchell’s magnificent historical epic is an unforgettable tale of love and loss, of a nation mortally divided and a people forever changed. Above all, it is the story...

Little Sacrifices

Little Sacrifices
  • Author(s): Jamie Scott
  • Location(s): Savannah
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1940s,

When Duncan and Sarah Powell move with their daughter, May, to Savannah Georgia in 1947, they hope against hope that they’ll be welcomed. But they’re Yankees and worse, they’re civil rights advocates almost a decade too early. At first...

The House on Sunset Lake

The House on Sunset Lake
  • Author(s): Tasmina Perry
  • Location(s): Savannah
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Casa D’Or, the mysterious plantation house on Sunset Lake, has been in the Wyatt family for over fifty years. Jennifer Wyatt returns there from university full of hope, as summer by the lake stretches ahead of her. Yet by...

The Savannah Project

The Savannah Project
  • Author(s): Chuck Barrett
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland, Savannah
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

“An intense, heart-pounding St. Patrick’s Day thriller!” An NTSB investigator is called to Savannah to investigate what appears to be a routine aircraft accident during the St. Patrick’s Day celebration. Ensuing suspicions of sabotage launch a deadly chain of...

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