From Courtney Summers, the New York Times bestselling author of the 2019 Edgar Award Winner and breakout hit, Sadie, comes a sensational follow-up—another pulls-no-punches thriller about an aspiring young journalist determined to save her sister from a cult. When Bea Denham is 19 years old, her parents die in a car crash that nearly takes…
Marley McKinney is looking forward to a winter getaway with Brett, her husband of three months, even if it’s only for a few days away in the next county over from her beloved seaside town of Wildwood Cove, Washington. Holly Lodge, the mountainside retreat they’ve booked themselves into, is everything she imagined and more: a…
Irish Parade Murder by Leslie Meier is the 27th Lucy Stone Mystery, where a new hotshot reporter in town is accused of murder, and Lucy must dust off her investigating skills once again to clear her new coworker’s name and get to the bottom of the deadly conspiracy. I have a bit of a confession…
I had a lot of feelings about Melanie Finn’s The Hare, which grew and morphed along with the heroine, Rosie Munroe, as the book progressed. Rosie is an orphan, raised in the lodging house her strict, emotionally-distant grandmother runs in Lowell, Massachusetts. Desperate to leave 1980s small-town life behind, she defies her grandmother to win…
When Daisy Swanson, tea garden proprietor, is asked to cater an appreciation tea for the teachers at the local high school, she doesn’t expect to be plunged into a morass of in-fighting, all seemingly revolving around the polarizing figure of Althea Higgins. Althea had been Daisy’s English teacher back in high school, and while Daisy…
Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner is a propulsive standalone thriller featuring an ordinary woman who will stop at nothing to find the missing people that the rest of the world has forgotten. Lisa Gardner’s first standalone novel in 20 years pulls no punches as she spins an excellent tale of a middle-aged white woman…
Robert B. Parker’s Someone to Watch Over Me by Ace Atkins is the latest thriller featuring the legendary Boston PI, where Spenser and his young protégé, Mattie Sullivan, take on billionaire money manager running a network of underaged girls for his rich and powerful clients. As a child of the ‘80s, my main exposure to…
The 16th installment of the Mystery with Recipes series finds the intrepid Simmons sisters wondering why a regular customer has forgotten to pick up her long-standing monthly order. Margo Hemsley is the kind of person who isn’t just punctual, she’s habitually early. Every month for the past five years, she’s ordered the same few items…
Librarian Josie Way moved to small-town Oregon to lay low. Instead, thanks to newfound magic abilities—and a killer on the loose—she’s leapt out of the frying pan and into a cauldron of trouble… Josie Way thought she had found her dream job working for the Library of Congress until an overheard conversation at work plunges…
The Butterfly House by Katrine Engberg is the second book in the Korner and Werner series, set in Denmark, where Detectives Jeppe Kørner and Anette Werner race to solve a series of sordid murders linked to some of the most vulnerable patients in a Danish hospital. Killers lurk within Denmark’s health system in this second…
