Seven-Year Witch by Angela M. Sanders is the second Witch Way Librarian Mystery, where Josie Way is settling in as Wilfred, Oregon’s, new librarian and has just discovered she’s a witch—but will her fledgling powers be enough to save her from a spell of murder? Josie Way is settling into life as librarian to the…
Back in university, Georgie, Bronwyn, and Lissa were inseparable, dominating their college swim team and forming a lasting bond with fellow swimmers Duncan, Adam, and Graeme. Lissa and Graeme would subsequently marry, but his sudden death several years later seemed to send her into a tailspin. She rebounded almost too quickly into the arms of…
How We Fall Apart by Katie Zhao is a YA debut that’s an edge-of-your-seat drama set in the pressure-cooker world of academics and image at Sinclair Prep, where a group of students is forced to confront their secrets when their ex-best friend turns up dead. Jamie Ruan was the fiercely ambitious, pretty, and popular queen…
Mexico City in the 1970s was a hotbed of political intrigue, as rival factions struggled for control of the nation. Elvis is a young man recruited to The Hawks, one of the right-wing paramilitary groups sent to infiltrate student organizations suspected of communist leanings. He’s good at his job, though has a strong distaste for…
CHAPTER 1 Warren Kitzmiller looked around the large, almost empty morgue, tugging at the sleeve of his starched white lab coat and painfully aware he should be presenting a more detached demeanor. He was standing alone beside a flayed, cold, gray corpse, spread out in a grotesque parody of a post-Thanksgiving feast. It was supine…
Murder Most Fowl is the twenty-ninth Meg Langslow mystery and Donna Andrews’s winning formula keeps readers enthralled. It’s summertime and the living is anything but easy for Meg Langslow and her husband Michael, who is directing The Scottish Play (Macbeth, for the uninitiated, which is not to be named because “it’s considered bad luck to…
Aubrey LaRoux has mixed feelings about returning to Waverly Preparatory School. As a Black scholarship student, she’d been relentlessly bullied by rich, popular Marjorie Reynolds, and had fallen under suspicion when Marjorie abruptly disappeared. As Marjorie’s body was never found, the school maintains to the present day that Marjorie simply ran away. At worst, she…
Hiding Place by Mehan Holloway is the second book in a trilogy featuring Hector Lewis, a man obsessed with uncovering the truth of what happened to his wife and daughter 15 years ago. In a short span of time, author Meghan Holloway has proven to be a versatile and vibrant storyteller. Her debut novel, Once…
Saturday, 10:00 a.m., seventeen hours after drop-off Whitney had been up for hours, and still hadn’t heard from Amelia. Last night was restful. Quiet. Peaceful. All the things Whitney had wanted it to be. Much needed. But this morning she was suffering from a serious case of mom guilt. She missed her daughter. Was anxious…
FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera is back. Since the events of The Cipher, Nina has become a member of an elite FBI team, part of the Behavioral Analysis Unit, based at FBI headquarters. The team is helmed by Supervisory Special Agent Gerard Buxton. The other members are Special Agent Dr. Jeffrey Wade, Nina’s mentor, and…
