Fortune Favors the Dead opens with a real corker: “The first time I met Lillian Pentecost, I nearly caved her skull in with a piece of lead pipe.” And, BAM!—we already know we’re in for a thrilling ride. It’s 1940’s New York, and our heroes are an unconventional pair. For starters, they’re not heroes—they’re heroines.…
They Never Learn by Layne Fargo is a feminist serial killer story and dynamic psychological thriller about two women who give bad men exactly what they deserve. Dr. Scarlett Clark isn’t a typical English professor. When she’s not writing lesson plans or working on fellowship applications, she’s an avid hunter who spends hours stalking her…
A Resolution at Midnight by Shelley Noble is the third book in the Lady Dunbridge Mystery series, set in Gilded Age New York City, where the Countess of Dunbridge must navigate a dangerous mystery with the help of her friends and the mysterious Mr. X. Philomena Amesbury, the Countess of Dunbridge, is enjoying her first holiday…
Cassandra Taylor, like many middle-aged women, has plenty of practice putting her own dreams and career on the backburner in order to focus on her family. She has a lovely home in Hillston, New Jersey. Three wonderful daughters. And fills her free hours with a part-time docent position at a museum. It’s not the life…
A Pretty Deceit by Anna Lee Huber is the fourth book in the Verity Kent Mystery series, set in the aftermath of the Great War, where the line between friend and foe may be hard to discern, even for indomitable former Secret Service agent Verity Kent. The first anniversary of the Armistice is fast approaching.…
Socialite-turned-amateur detective Amory Ames is about to turn into something else: a mother. Nearing the end of her pregnancy, Amory has left the glitz and glamour of 1930’s London for the peace and quiet of Thornecrest, her husband Milo’s country house in Kent. There, her days are filled with planning the Springtide Festival, the annual…
When I was a teenager, Mommy and Drea and I would picnic on the roof every Fourth of July. Brooklyn sprawling around us as fireworks burst in the distance. When I’d clambered up there as an adult, alone, I’d been struck by how claustrophobic the view looked, with new buildings filling the neighborhoods around where…
Evie Mead has had a rough week. Her beloved husband Robert has died suddenly. His lawyer informs her that his fortune has disappeared via bad investments. And she discovers that all that may be left is a hotel on the remote Tregarrick Rock, off the English coast. All Evie wants to do is hide away…
The Two Mrs. Carlyles by Suzanne Rindell is a suspenseful and page-turning descent into obsession, love, and murder in the wake of San Francisco’s most deadly earthquake. Violet is a woman with many secrets. After St. Hilda’s Home for Girls burned to the ground, she was left to make her way in turn-of-the-century San Francisco…
Retired cop and unofficial P.I. Rushmore McKenzie finds himself tangling with ghosts when his first love, Shelby Dunston, attends a psychic medium’s public reading and hears the woman announce his name in connection with a missing fortune. “Hannah,” she said, “why did the dead man chant McKenzie’s name?” “I really can’t say. Most people…
