Don't Go
Bestselling author Lisa Scottoline has thrilled millions with her emotionally-charged novels that feature strong women exploring the boundaries of family, justice, and love. In Don’t Go, she breaks new ground and delivers the story of a soldier who discovers what it means to be a man, a father, and ultimately, a hero. When Dr. Mike […]
You're So Invited : Panic Less, Play More, and Get Your Party On
From her rural Missouri beginnings decorating tables with cherry-tree branches to her current and much-anticipated dinners and parties that always include a "cherry on the top" surprise for her guests, Cheryl Najafi teaches others to break the rules of "proper" entertaining.
Paradise City
Publishers Weekly Mayor’s solid 23rd Joe Gunther novel (after 2011’s Tag Man) focuses on a tri-cornered interstate case involving multiple thefts. One night on Boston’s exclusive Beacon Hill, three burglars break into the house of 89-year-old Wilhelmina “Billie†Hawthorn, who makes the fatal mistake of catching them in the act. Det. Jimmy McAuliffe gets the […]
The Forgetting Tree
“A devastatingly awesome novel. It's one of those books that I didn't want to put down.†—Nancy Pearl, NPR
Where We Belong : a Novel
Library Journal Mid-thirties Marian Caldwell has a happy relationship and a terrific career as a television producer in New York. Then the past literally comes knocking as Marian finds 18-year-old Kirby Rose on her doorstep. The author of five blockbusters (e.g., Something Borrowed), Giffin should revitalize this standard pop plot—or so the 1000-plus Goodreads folks […]
Framed in Death
True Sisters
Library Journal Dallas, who did such a lovely job with last year's The Bride's House, offers a tale of historical fiction inspired by Brigham Young's efforts to recruit Mormon converts by giving them handcarts they were then to wheel across the desert to Salt Lake City. For one of the last groups of converts leaving […]
Letter From a Stranger
Publishers Weekly Bradford’s latest (after Playing the Game) is a multigenerational tale set in Connecticut’s exclusive Litchfield Hills, exotic Istanbul, uptown New York, and WWII Germany. Filmmaker Justine Nolan, 32, cuts a sympathetic figure despite being tall, blonde, and successful, because all she’s ever wanted is to enjoy the loving family she was deprived of […]
What Doesn't Kill You
Publishers Weekly Catherine Ling, an enormously talented CIA agent introduced in the Eve Duncan novel Chasing the Night (2010), takes center stage in bestseller Johansen’s grandiose yet agreeable thriller. As a teenage orphan fending for herself in Hong Kong’s underworld, Catherine was rescued from murderous thugs by Hu Chang, an enigmatic and reclusive apothecary, with […]
The Sins of the Father
Library Journal In the second installment (after Only Time Will Tell) of Archer's five-volume saga, Harry Clifton, a Bristol dockworker's son, and Giles Barrington, the assumed heir to the Barrington estate, seek to enlist in World War II despite various obstacles. Harry joins the Merchant Navy and, after a German U-boat sinks his ship, is […]