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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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…
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…
Helpless
Jessica Knoll’s latest follows Faye Heron and Henry Spalding, former college lovers who haven’t seen each other in twelve years. Faye is now half of a Hollywood power couple. Henry is a married father running the family business. When a beloved college professor dies and brings them both back to campus for the funeral, old…
The Burning Side
Sarah Damoff’s The Burning Side is a beautifully layered family drama about marriage, memory, and what survives after disaster. After a house fire forces April and Leo and their young children to move in with April’s family, old wounds and buried secrets rise to the surface, testing not only their marriage but their understanding of…
Who Knew the Ridpath Girl
Gracen Ridpath hosts a popular YouTube channel for stay-at-home dads, but off camera he’s still haunted by the death of his eleven-year-old sister Douggy years ago in the small town of Meander. When he mentions her death on his channel for the first time and shares a theory he’s kept quiet for years, that Douggy…
The Library After Dark
Aria Stokes, a New York bookseller, is invited on an exclusive after-hours tour of the infamous Daedalus Library; a place known for its eerie, immersive rooms and whispered hauntings. But the night takes a deadly turn when the group becomes trapped inside and discovers there’s a murderer among them. As secrets unravel and danger closes…
The Odds of You
Sage Collins traded her data analyst career to chase her dream of becoming an author, but after a whirlwind debut and a brutal case of second-book syndrome, she’s not sure she’ll ever write again. When a chance encounter on a flight to Comic Con accidentally links her to Theo Sharpe, a breakout British actor on…