Evelyn has had enough. She’s decided to leave her husband, Jack. He micromanages everything she does, including how she packs her suitcase—and why is she packing a suitcase? She can’t quite remember. Still, she’s had enough of his affairs (with her ex-roommate, an art student, and a mother from the park). She’s tired of being …
Aurelia Lyndham is on the cusp of major changes in her life. She’s the owner of On the Square Books, and she’s in the process of editing her latest novel and planning her wedding to Oliver Pearce, a book editor. Despite her happiness, she’s afraid to reveal to her betrothed that, each night, she interacts …
Dr. Harold “Harry” Goodman is part of a team tasked with an investigation of the famous Shroud of Turin. The Shroud is said to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, but can such claims hold up under scientific scrutiny? Goodman and a group of scientists head to Italy to find out; Decker Hawthorne, a …
Hall reflects upon his 27 years as a teacher, most of which were spent with fifth graders in Cheboygan, Michigan. The book has 27 chapters, or “lessons,” one for every year of the author’s teaching career. They all follow a similar format, beginning with an anecdote about a classroom project, field trip, or problem. Hall …
Recent Irvine, California, high school graduate Edelweiss “Edie” Birch seeks her inheritance: the Hart Creek, Maine, home of her estranged late maternal grandmother, Ludmilla Vovk. The pointy red-and-white structure out in the woods is a character unto itself, not least because it can grow chicken legs and move around like Baba Yaga’s house. Pale, red-haired …
In I Who Have Never Known Men, which was republished in a revised translation in 2022, Harpman’s eerie prescience was on full display in a tale about 39 women and a girl held for decades in a bunker for reasons never made clear to them. The book, which was first published in 1995 in the …
It all begins when Virginia Kent, the newest server at Shepherd’s Pies on Florida’s Laguna Key, asks Preston Shepherd if he’ll pretend to be her boyfriend in order to keep her mother, Deandra, who’s found her there, from dragging her home to her family of wealthy, soulless lawyers. Shepherd, who’s not much for the ladies, …
Billionaire Orson Darcy’s fatal plunge from the eighth floor of his Fifth Avenue apartment building would have seemed suspicious even if it weren’t for the sign his killer left behind: “DDD&R, I AM COMING FOR YOU.” The “YOU” presumably includes Darcy’s partners, Peyton Danforth, Richmond Dingell III, and Butch Rapp, and Det. Bridget Washington, the …
Cumming’s Box 88 series is notable for its focus on both the professional and personal life of its protagonist, agent Lachlan Kite, and for its strong impression of authenticity. The author dives deep into the complexities of the spy game, relating it to the current international geopolitical situation. This fourth outing, which is no exception, …
After a long and lively career, O’Conner, once known as the Warlord of Willow Ridge, has settled into a relaxed lifestyle with longtime girlfriend Gwen Gardner, who owns Fix & Go, a chain of body shops. Phillips’ second O’Conner caper is long on banter, backstories, and outrageously named larger-than-life characters. The opening chapter features wide-eyed …
