It’s been almost a year since former Marine Peter Ash’s misadventure in Iceland landed him on the FBI’s Most Wanted (see: The Wild One). Since then, he’s been keeping his head down and living simply in Milwaukee with his ladylove June Cassidy and just down the street from his old friend Lewis, supporting the former…
The fourth book in Victoria Thompson’s excellent Counterfeit Lady series is an utter page-turner! There isn’t a single wasted moment in this terrific, twisting tale as our intrepid heroine Elizabeth Miles seeks to not only preserve herself and her fiance Gideon Bates from a threat from their past, but also to prevent a con from…
The Push by Ashley Audrain is a debut novel and a tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for but everything she feared. College sweethearts Blythe and Fox Connor have a charmed life and romance. With…
Wrong Alibi has a Perils of Pauline or Toad’s Wild Ride feel to it. Step up, step up: find out how Evie transforms herself from Too Stupid to Live to Too Smart to Lose. Everything is larger than life, starting with the location, Alaska. The villains are scarier, the heroism over the top, and the…
Emma Reed and her beloved Corgi move from London to Cornwall with the dream of opening a tea shop—but first, they’ll have to collar a criminal in the first book in a cozy new series. After two decades working in The City, Emma Reed has decided to quit high finance and move to the small…
Olive Bright, Pigeoneer by Stephanie Graves is the first in a new, charming historical mystery series set in a charming British village during World War II, where a spirited young pigeon fancier finds herself at the heart of a baffling murder. Olive Bright is worried—and for good reason. Her best friend, George, has been called…
Chapter 1 As we hitch our horses to a lodgepole pine, shouts and laughter float over on the night breeze. Teen agers partying in the forest. At their age, I’d longed to be invited to a party like the one we hear. I didn’t yearn for the beer kegs or the drug buffet or the…
Chapter 1 Wait, you’re just going to leave us here? Alone?” Ellery Hathaway had faced down serial killers and lived to tell about it, but she felt a cold trickle of fear as she glanced at the lone child playing nearby on the grass. “I believe your ex-wife specifically forbade this proposition. In writing.…
1968 was a tumultuous year for America, and especially so for Joan Harken, aspiring reporter. Living in the city of Minneapolis, she believed herself to be the epitome of the liberated young woman, after a peripatetic youth with her fiercely loving if secretive and now-deceased mother. She certainly didn’t expect to fall in love with…
How are things going for Shana Merchant since she solved a “closed-door” mystery at an imposing mansion on one of the Thousand Islands (Death in the Family)? Not so great. She still hasn’t been cleared to return to work. In the aftermath of an unauthorized shooting in the waning hours of her last case, she…
