It’s one setback after another as Miranda Trent struggles to get the moonshine distillery her deceased uncle left to her up and running before the deadline she needs to meet in order to fully inherit his estate. Between fixing up her outbuildings and overseeing the nature hikes and art classes that are her professional bread…
I continue to admire Julie Anne Lindsey’s utter mastery of the craft of storytelling here with this third installment of her Cider Shop mystery series. Absorbing and believable, these mysteries depict an imperfect but relatable heroine who loves her West Virginia home of Blossom Valley so much that she’ll do almost anything to protect it…
The Other Passenger by Louise Candlish is an unputdownable, twisting thriller that explores privilege, societal pressures, and crime when a commuter becomes a suspect in his friend’s mysterious disappearance. Underneath the skin of this propulsive thriller involving the sudden disappearance of a charismatic young man is a thoughtful, socially conscious examination of contemporary mores and…
For Your Own Good by USA Today bestselling author Samantha Downing is a sneaky thriller set at a prestigious private school, complete with interfering parents, overeager students, and one teacher who just wants to teach them all a lesson. Samantha Downing turns her keen eye for murder and mayhem—ribboned through with the social commentary that makes…
Fairy garden store owner Courtney Kelly has a secret: she can actually see fairies and is in the process of helping her own, Fiona, earn wings by doing just and righteous things. So when Fiona urges Courtney to hose down a pair of arguing ladies in the courtyard outside of her store, Courtney knows it’s…
The Heathens by Ace Atkins is the 11th Quinn Colson novel, as the sheriff and his former deputy Lillie Virgil find themselves on opposite sides of a case for the first time after a woman is found dead and three delinquent teens go on the run. Sheriff Quinn Colson thinks he’s finally found some peace…
Lee Barrett has just been promoted from field reporter to program director at WICH-TV, and she has to admit that she doesn’t really miss her old position. Chasing stories was fun but stressful—and occasionally dangerous. Being a director with her own office allows her to be both safer and more creative, even if she does…
Ten-year-old Dean Teranova does not want to be in New York City in the summer of 1957. His father, a third-rate conman, has burned all their bridges in Florida though, so now their family is back in a city where juvenile delinquency is becoming more and more of a problem. Dean discovers this firsthand when…
The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry is a mind-bending speculative psychological suspense thriller about a serial killer pursuing his victim across time and space and the woman who is determined to stop him, even if it upends her own reality. Felicity Staples is a journalist who mostly likes her New York City…
Falling by T. J. Newman is a fast-paced thriller aboard a commercial airplane where the pilot and his crew must quickly devise a plan to avoid disaster when he is blackmailed to crash the plane in exchange for the safety of his kidnapped family. Captain Bill Hoffman is an upstanding family guy, but he can’t…
