Ages 18+
Pashmina is an author who left her family long ago in order to make a fresh start for herself. Amelia, Pashmina’s young editor is ecstatic to be working for her on her successful mystery series. She and her boyfriend Tim become a big part of Pashmina’s life, and soon all three of their lives become intertwined and secrets are revealed that they never thought would surface.
Ages 18+
Sisters Shelby, Yeardley and Lily Lane are beginning to feel that their every day lives are mundane, so when they get invited to their aunt Nola’s cottage by the lake for a birthday celebration, they jump at the chance to get away. It has been a long while since they’ve traveled there, and to them it feels like a homecoming. They are looking forward to reconnecting with family and each other.
Ages 18+
It’s Los Angeles in the 1940s and black war veteran Easy Rawlins has just been fired from his defense plant job. He is drinking his problems away at his friend’s bar when a white man walks in. The man offers Easy money if he can find Daphne Monet, a woman who is known to hang around jazz clubs. To Easy, it seems simple enough, but is there a catch? Find out in this first book of Mosley’s series featuring Easy Rawlins.
Ages 18+
Stephanie Plum works as a bounty hunter for her cousin Vinny’s bond enforcement agency. The latest skip is Larry Virgil, who was arrested for stealing an 18-wheeler full of bourbon. Stephanie and her honorary partner Lula catch Virgil in the act once again, but he gets away, leaving behind a freezer truck complete with Bogart’s ice cream and a dead body, which is frozen solid and topped with chocolate and pecans. Stephanie’s friend and occasional lover Ranger calls on her to go undercover to investigate the Bogart Factory. She takes on the assignment while also juggling her on-again, off-again boyfriend as well as keeping tabs on her pip of a grandma who has a new beau. The twenty-third Stephanie Plum novel is not to be missed!
Ages 18+
In the ninth installment of the Women’s Murder Club series, Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin work tirelessly together on the latest crimes they’re faced with solving: a young mother and her baby who were gunned down in a shopping mall parking lot and actor Marcus Dowling’s wife who ends up dead after she comes face to face with a burglar who robs her of millions of dollars in jewels. The people of San Francisco are thrown into a panic at the news of these two horrific crimes, but rest assured that Boxer and Conklin can get their jobs done.
Ages 18+
Letty Dobesh has just gotten out of prison and is already back to her old tricks. Then, while in the middle of a burglary at a luxury hotel, she overhears someone hiring a hit man to kill his wife. Not wanting to call the police, she steps in and gets herself dangerously involved with the man on her own. This book was made into an original TV series on TNT.
Thanks to Netgalley.com for a review copy of this book.
Ages 18+
The last book in the Promise Falls Trilogy, The Twenty-Three was suspenseful from beginning to end. On May 23rd, catastrophe strikes as hundreds of people head to the hospital in the Promise Falls community because of flu-like symptoms. However, no one can figure out why everyone is so sick. Detective Barry Duckworth has a mission of his own: to figure out who murdered a local college student. It seems disaster has struck everywhere in the small town. Can things be resolved before it’s too late?
Thanks to Netgalley.com for a review copy of this book.
Ages 14+
This sweet love story didn’t start out as a love story at all. Julia starts to blog about her annoying neighbor Cain, giving him the nickname Ebenezer so as to hide his real identity. She is on a mission to “kill him with kindness” after he steals her newspaper. She expects to change his outlook on Christmas, but what she doesn’t expect is to fall in love with him. What will happen if and when he finds out that he’s her little project? And worse, what will happen if he finds out about the blog?
Thanks to Netgalley.com for a review copy of this book.
Ages 18+
Russel Green has everything he ever wanted: a ravishing wife, an adorable six-year-old daughter, and an advertising career he loves. The reality that he knows is ripped from under him in a matter of months, however, and he is left jobless, separated from his wife, and taking care of his daughter all alone. Will be able to adapt accordingly or crack under pressure?
Ages 18+
The second book in the Winter trilogy, Winter Stroll continues the story of Kelley Quinn who owns the Winter Street Inn on Nantucket. Readers learn about his relationship with his first wife, Margaret, and the birth of a grandchild. Everything seems to be going smoothly until Kelley encounters his second wife, Mitzi, and she turns his life upside down.
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