Jo Carter is middle-aged and resigned to a life of mediocrity in public relations for a small New York City museum, after a once promising career as a journalist. That all changes after an unusual letter arrives that turns everything upside down for her. Back in high school, her best friend Sam Kennedy had abruptly…
Wanda M. Morris emerged as a powerhouse suspense novelist with last year’s All Her Little Secrets. That book won both the 2022 Lefty Award for Best Debut Mystery Novel, the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Best First Novel, and was nominated for several other accolades. It’s also under option as a limited series…
Not every story that opens with a sense of “Once upon a time” has a happy ending. Many Grimm fairy tales are indeed grim and make readers uncomfortable, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Jackal is set in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a booming steel town in the 1800s. Seventy miles to the east of Pittsburgh,…
After the death of her long-term partner, Penny is all alone in the world. She continues living in the apartment they once shared, her world shrinking smaller and smaller with the perhaps inevitable loss of her mobility as she ages. When she has a fall one day, her landlord Mike sets into motion a plan…
Frankie Gray is determined to make this summer a perfect one to reconnect not only with her teenage daughter Izzy but also with her own mother and grandmother on small Orcades Island in the Puget Sound. Ingrid, the family matriarch, has a coveted spot in the Pacifica Gardens nursing home there, while Frankie’s mom Diana…
Sam Williams has built a nice, quiet life for herself as an elementary school art teacher in rural LaCrosse, Washington. After her parents died when she was a little girl, she was taken in by a strict aunt who taught her how to run a farm and be self-sufficient. While Sam eventually went off to…
Wow, I had a really hard time reading this book. Not because it’s bad, which it most certainly isn’t. It’s just such a harrowing, vivid depiction of every parent’s nightmare, I had to put the book down time and again just to catch my breath before pressing on with the propulsive narrative. Said narrative comes…
Meet Billie Webster, Mary Alice Tuttle, Helen Randolph, and Natalie Schuyler—fierce women who comprise a unique female squad of assassins in Deana Raybourn’s new thriller Killers of a Certain Age. The “Museum”—the foursome’s shadowy non-governmental employer—deploys assassins to kill those who need terminating. What started with Nazis is now focused on arms dealers and money…
Put your hands together, chère, for the first book in a new series, set in the Big Easy. Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 10:15 P.M. The story opens with a bang. Rocky Hebert suspects his old acquaintance, a doctor, is in trouble, and he’s right. Rocky smelled death before “he withdrew a disposable glove…
The Hyde scholarship is many things—competitive, comprehensive, and a golden ticket for the student who wins it. The scholarship is awarded to only one student every year. It covers all tuition and guarantees a job after graduation. To attain the award, a select group of students is brought to Hyde House, the family home of…
