From Claire Fuller — the author of Our Endless Numbered Days and Swimming Lessons — Bitter Orange is a seductive psychological portrait, a keyhole into the dangers of longing and how far a woman might go to escape her past. Bitter Orange, Claire Fuller’s third novel, is a literary mystery that fans of Sarah Waters,… Read more
Bimini Twist by Linda Greenlaw is the fourth book in the Jane Bunker Mystery series, another thrilling, small-town mystery set in Down East Maine. Linda Greenlaw’s Bimini Twist is a perfect summer read. If you like the water, boats, and Maine—or have always wanted to visit—Greenlaw’s Jane Bunker series is an exciting way to… Read more
Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo is the first book in the Kate Burkholder mystery series set in the small fictional town of Painters Mill, Ohio, in the heart of Amish country. “Time flies” and “So many books, so little time” are two clichés that banged up against my reading life… Read more
Set in the long, hot Hungarian summer of 2015―and revealing the hidden, criminal world beneath Budapest’s glittering facade―District VIII is the first novel in the new Detective Balthazar Kovacs mystery series from Adam LeBor. Talk about a book ripped from the headlines. Adam LeBor’s District VIII opens with a Prologue. It’s… Read more
Tornado Weather by Deborah E. Kennedy is an affecting portrait of a complex and flawed cast of characters striving to find fulfillment in their lives—and Kennedy brilliantly shows that there is nothing average about an average life. Tornado Weather is a difficult book to classify. Sure, there is a crime or… Read more
Inspired by true events, Dark Chapter by Winnie M. Li is both a literary masterpiece and a riveting novel of suspense about of the dark chapters and chance encounters that can irrevocably determine the shape of our lives. It’s a good thing Dark Chapter is nominated for an Edgar Award… Read more
The Paris Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal is the seventh Maggie Hope Mystery, where American-born spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope secretly navigates Nazi-occupied France to find two brave women during the darkest days of World War II. The Paris Spy is the first Maggie Hope Mystery I’ve read, and when friends… Read more
Tangerine by Christine Mangan is a sharp dagger of a book—a debut so tightly wound, so replete with exotic imagery and charm, so full of precise details and extraordinary craftsmanship, it will leave you absolutely breathless (available March 27, 2018). The manuscript that eventually became Tangerine was plucked from a… Read more
When a murder echoing a 15-year-old cold case rocks the Southern town of Savannah, crime reporter Harper McClain risks everything to find the identity of this calculated killer in Christi Daugherty's new novel The Echo Killing. I was immediately pulled into this novel and read it in just a few… Read more
Force of Nature by Jane Harper is the second book in the Aaron Falk series, where five women go on a hike and only four return, begging the question: how well do you really know the people you work with? Last year, I approached Jane Harper’s international bestseller, The Dry,… Read more
