I think most everyone would agree that being an adult is hard. Being a parent - no longer responsible just for yourself but also for the care and well-being of a whole other human being - well, that just adds a new level of stress to adulting. But to be the parent of a sick…
Avery Chambers, ex-therapist gone rogue, uses her own ten step program for her clients. “Golden” wife Marissa wants Avery to help keep her marriage alive as she tells her “Golden” husband Robert about an affair. When these three characters come together the mystery and suspense begin in The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, a riveting novel of deception…
A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln, June 16, 1858 Karen Joy Fowler's first novel in nine years, Booth, is one of the buzziest books of spring, and it deserves all the praise it is getting. We all know that John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. But I knew little about Booth's family…
Alma Katsu writes critically acclaimed and deeply creepy horror, so the news that she was switching to espionage for her latest title came as a surprise – until I discovered that Katsu spent thirty five years in the intelligence community. Her inside knowledge of the CIA and other “alphabet agencies” gives every page of Red…
This outstanding cozy locked-room mystery features Tempest Raj, who was born into an Indian magical dynasty dating back generations. Tempest is a highly successful stage magician with a Las Vegas show – until a tragic accident forces her to return to her Bay Area hometown with her career in shambles. She is considering going to…
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question might just be the perfect book. Well… okay, maybe not perfect. Having just absorbed this book’s lessons on ethics and morality, it would be incorrect for me to oversell you. Perfection is surprisingly hard to achieve! So let me dial it back a notch…
Do you live to read novels but find it difficult to finish non-fiction books even when the topic is interesting? Give historical fiction a try. Learn about the past while doing something you love. The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain places the reader in North Carolina after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and before…
Debut novelist Charmaine Wilkerson's impressive Black Cake is a sweeping, multigenerational saga filled with secrets, misunderstandings, and eventually healing and reconciliation. At the heart of the story is matriarch Eleanor Bennett and her family's signature recipe for Black Cake. The concoction, which has been passed down for generations, takes months to complete because the baker soaks the fruit in…
While it is a truth universally acknowledged that I am a scaredy cat, I occasionally read books MOST people would call horror, and others (me) would call Exceedingly Creepy, just for a change of pace. It's February, after all, and if ever there was a time to mix things up, it's now, when the fresh…
It's 2017, and fierce, independent Olga Acevedo is running a successful wedding planning business for the New York elite while her charming brother Prieto, a U.S. Congressman, fights for liberal causes and tries to stay true to their Puerto Rican roots. The siblings are close to their extended family since their father died of AIDS…
