PI Annie Gore is back and this time she’s heading into the hollers of Eastern Kentucky to investigate the death of one of Appalachia’s last snake-handling preachers. His estranged daughter Katie May thinks someone rushed the funeral and the whole thing feels wrong. Annie takes the case because she sees herself in Katie, a woman…
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The Break-Up Retreat
Journalist Isobel goes undercover at a remote wellness clinic deep in the Swedish woods where women go to heal from devastating breakups. The catch? Some of the patients are never heard from again. Armed with a fake story and a hidden phone, she’s there to expose the clinic’s founder and get answers for the families…
I’m Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home
After spending decades in prison for serial murder, Carol is thrilled to trade her tiny cell for a spot in Sheldon Oaks, a luxury retirement home where she plans to make friends, take up baking, and leave the killing behind. That plan falls apart fast when a fellow resident, a former police commissioner, drops dead…
The Women in White
In 1964, four remarkable young women at a prestigious university became the subjects of parapsychology experiments by a visionary scientist. On the cusp of a historic breakthrough, the women mysteriously vanished and the program was erased from history. Decades later, newly divorced Riley Bell accepts a caretaker job for an elderly widow named Betty, stepping…
Handle with Care
Handle with Care by Marybeth Whalen follows three women who walk into a small-town post office on an ordinary spring afternoon, only to find themselves held hostage when a domestic dispute spirals out of control. A husband pulls a gun and barricades himself inside with his wife and three strangers: a young woman searching for…
Remarkably Bright Creatures
After her husband’s death, Tova Sullivan takes up the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and keeping busy the way she always has, especially in the thirty-plus years since her eighteen-year-old son Erik vanished on a boat in Puget Sound. But when she forms an unlikely friendship with Marcellus, a curmudgeonly giant…
The Daisy Chain Flower Shop
Daisy’s flower shop has been branded cursed after the weddings she’s done flowers for keep ending in divorce, and Dream Harbor newcomer Elliot wants nothing to do with more bad luck. But when he reluctantly walks through her door, these two guarded hearts might just find that love shows up when you least expect it….
Buyer Beware
From the internationally bestselling author of 56 Days, Buyer Beware is a thriller about two women whose fractured lives collide around a house with dangerous secrets. When Ellie moves to 1 Delaney Row hoping for a fresh start, she quickly discovers her new home is already hiding someone else’s buried past and the people protecting…
What Boys Learn
When two teenage girls are found dead in a wealthy Chicago suburb over one terrible weekend, school counselor Abby Rosso begins to suspect that her own son Benjamin was secretly involved in their lives and possibly their deaths. Abby doesn’t want to believe her son could hurt anyone, but she’s seen the warning signs before:…
The Best Little Motel in Texas
Cordelia West has spent years building a quiet, respectable life in Dallas and putting as much distance as possible between herself and her chaotic hometown of Sarsaparilla Falls. Then she gets a phone call: a great-aunt she never knew existed has died and left her the Chickadee Motel. The catch? It can’t be sold until…