Of all the Elly Griffiths novels I’ve read and enjoyed, her Harbinder Kaur books are by far my favorite so far. Bleeding Heart Yard is the third in this not-a-series, as Harbinder is promoted to Detective Inspector and transferred to London from her relatively sleepy beachside home. It’s a sea change for her, with everyone…
Ever since she was a little girl, Lynds Murray has wanted to open a Caribbean-style bakery in her Brooklyn neighborhood. After a post-graduate degree and time in the marketing trenches, she’s finally saved up enough money to open the store of her dreams. With the help of her parents, her brother Dex, and her formidable…
Seventeen year-old Hunter Gifford wakes up after Homecoming Night to find himself in the hospital, with no memory of how he got there or why. He’s suffering from a concussion, and the hospital’s security footage shows him wandering up to the building’s doors bloody and alone. But Hunter should have been with his girlfriend Chloe…
Librarian and secret provider of contraband books Trudell Beckett – Tru to her friends – is having second thoughts about giving a speech to the Arete Society, Cypress, South Carolina’s most exclusive book club. For a start, her boss Lida Farnsworth is a member, and has no idea of Tru’s clandestine operation, running a lending…
Morgan Faraday came to New York City from her small Pennsylvania town looking for glamor and, perhaps more importantly, a chance to make a name for herself in the art world. A talented fabric artist, she finds it difficult to land a job that will actually support her in her chosen field once she graduates…
Elizabeth Bates, nee Miles, is looking forward to a day at the races with her beloved lawyer husband Gideon and her just as cherished mother-in-law. Sebastian Nolan, a client of Gideon’s, is running a horse in the Belmont Stakes, and is hoping to use the opportunity to introduce his own daughter Irene to some ladies…
I was genuinely surprised when I went to the Kensington Cozy Club Mini-Con a few months ago and realized that I had never heard of Libby Klein or her Poppy McAllister series before then. Luckily for me, Ms. Klein had a hilarious slideshow presentation at the con that convinced me to grab at least the…
This intriguing reinterpretation of the Italian stay that birthed Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein does some truly audacious things with storytelling, as it transports that famed historical episode of 1816 to the 1970s, and further brackets it within the pages of a modern-day domestic thriller. Here in the 21st century, Emily Sheridan is reeling from the seeming…
Juni Jessup has given up her entire adult life in Oregon in order to move back to Cedar River, Texas and reopen her family’s record shop with her older sisters, Tansy and Maggie. Sip & Spin Records adds a cafe to the once-shuttered family business, and looks surprisingly well-poised to make a killing even on…
The last thing that former Chicago children’s librarian turned Florida panhandle saloon owner Chloe Jackson was expecting this summer was for her co-workers to sign her up for the annual Florida Panhandle Barback Games held in their very own beachside town of Emerald Cove. It doesn’t help that her main competition appears to be an…
