Laura Griffin is an expert guide to the uncomfortable tension between doing one’s job and having a personal life. In the island community of Lost Beach, Texas, navigating tricky conflicts of interest comes with the territory. It’s another gritty and imaginative romantic thriller in the Griffin canon. Midnight Dunes is the third in Laura Griffin’s…
Crispin Windle is the newest resident of Pussywillows, a romantic riverside cottage. Will Pussywillows work its magic on widower Windle? It’s early May and spring is in full bloom. The residents of Finch have an inviolable ritual that dictates how they extend a hand of friendship. They give newcomers three days of grace to settle…
A Margin for Murder is catnip for lovers of historical libraries and rare books as well as small town aficionadas, admirers of miniature doggies, folks who swoon at burgeoning relationships, and those who rejoice in female friendships and solidarity. Let us not forget the importance of garden clubs. The eighth book in Lauren Elliott’s Beyond…
What happens to Aiden Marlowe and his seven-year-old twins Maggie and Bo is almost unimaginable. On the same day that they bury Holly, his wife, and their mother, Aiden wins the Maryland Powerball, using the same numbers he’s turned to for fifteen years. Thirty million dollars before taxes. He’s a superstitious man from Ireland, a…
London, 1912. Three Debts Paid weaves together the lives of three young professionals: Daniel Pitt, a barrister at the firm of fford Croft and Gibson, Inspector Ian Frobisher, a member of the police, and Miriam fford Croft, one of the first female pathologists in England. Daniel and Ian “had been to the same prep school…
Kate hasn’t seen her mother for eighteen years, not since the mysterious and tragic disappearance of her younger sister Lacie. Susan, her mother’s caretaker, phones Kate to tell her that Grace is dead. It seems that Kate’s long self-imposed exile from Villa Magda, the gorgeous, sprawling oceanside estate in Maine where she spent every summer…
New York City, 1900. Ella and Gil are a mismatched couple—not quite equivalent to The Prince and the Showgirl—but a pair with not a lot in common. Widower Gil Saint Auburn is a British duke and Ella Shane is an American mezzo-soprano with an avid following. She’s also part-owner of a theater company. A Fatal…
All aboard! It’s 1926. American widow Jane Wunderly and her companion, the charming and mysterious Mr. Redvers, are in Southampton, England. From the first class deck of an imposing transatlantic liner, they wave goodbye to Jane’s Aunt Millie and Millie’s “trim fiancé, Lord Hughes, and their daughter Lillian.” Jane and Redvers spent the last few…
Early one morning a female jogger runs for her life. She’s terrified because the person coming after her is relentless. She tries to hide in the underbrush but “he’s almost upon her and she can’t take it.” She screams, bolts up out of her hiding place, and staggers forward like a wounded deer. Suddenly she’s…
Frances and Agnes are atop the Empire State Building 21 December 1932. It’s the night of the winter solstice. They are on a mission, one they’re not sure they can execute. They plan to push a corrupt monster over the edge, a man who deserves killing because of what he has done to them. The…
