Jules Capelthorne returns to her seaside hometown to save her great-aunt’s beloved, century-old bookshop from closure. Only to find a shiny new rival has opened directly across the street, run by Roman Montbeau, the insufferable son of a family that’s feuded with hers for years. With the shop’s future on the line, Jules must navigate…
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The Hounding
A small village is shaken when strange occurrences begin to stir, particularly around a group of girls and an old, tightly woven community. Told through the alternating perspectives of the townspeople, the girls, and a grandfather named Joseph, the story weaves together suspicion, fear, and whispers that quickly grow into something far more dangerous. As…
A Stolen Child
In A Stolen Child, detective Maggie D’arcy returns to Ireland and joins the GardaÃ, diving into a chilling case involving a murdered nanny and a missing toddler from a wealthy family. As Maggie follows the tangled threads of privilege, secrecy, and trauma, the case leads her through layers of deception and a community full of…
Once There Were Wolves
In Once There Were Wolves, Charlotte McConaghy delivers a hauntingly beautiful tale centered around Inti Flynn, a biologist leading a project to reintroduce wolves into the Scottish Highlands. As she works to restore the balance of nature, tensions flare among the local townspeople who view the wolves as a threat. But Inti’s connection to the…
We Live Here Now
After surviving a near-fatal accident, Emily and her husband Freddie move from bustling London to the quiet, picturesque Larkin Lodge on Dartmoor. The grand house should be a place of healing, but for Emily, it quickly becomes a source of anxiety. Strange occurrences plague her whenever she’s alone—books falling, fires going out, a constant sense…
The Busybody Book Club
In The Busybody Book Club, five wildly different members of a dysfunctional village book club are thrown together to solve a real-life mystery when one of their own vanishes—and a dead body is found at his house. Nova Davies, new to town and trying to save the struggling community center, inadvertently finds herself at the…
The Amalfi Curse
We just booked our trip to Italy for a wedding and so of course I had to read an Italy story this weekend. Set against the dazzling coastline of Positano, The Amalfi Cure follows Haven Ambrose, a daring nautical archaeologist searching for a hidden cache of gemstones her late father once glimpsed beneath the sea….
Rock Paper Scissors
Everything seems to be going wrong with Mr. and Mrs. Wright. Attempting to save their marriage they’re headed to Scotland for a weekend away. When a snow store leaves them cutoff from the rest of the world, the lies they’ve been telling each other are about to come uncovered. I spent the first few chapters…
Daisy Darker
By the time she was 13, Daisy Darker’s heart has stopped multiple times. With an incurable heart disease, her life has been anything but normal. As Nana’s favorite granddaughter, and who she based her award-winning children’s books on, Daisy is the only who routinely visits. With Nana’s 80th birthday coming up though, the family will…
The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year
Both Maggie Chase and Ethan Wyatt have been invited to spend Christmas with an unknown reclusive fan in the English countryside. Neither knows what to expect, & Maggie definitely didn’t expect to have to spend Christmas with her worst enemy. Even finding out said reclusive fan, is world renown and her favorite author Eleanor Ashley,…