This Bright River by Patrick Somerville
The story line appears straightforward: wayward Ben Hanson returns to his Wisconsin hometown to fix up and sell the house that once belonged to his deceased Uncle Denny. But Ben is a conflicted young...
View ArticleCase Histories by Kate Atkinson
Reading Atkinson’s Case Histories is like watching a master weaver perform magic, the kind of artistry that creates a stunning piece of work from disparate pieces. Just as the fabric artist pulls...
View ArticleTheft by BK Loren
With their mother dying a slow death from Parkinsons’s and their salesman father on the road trying to earn enough money to keep the family solvent, young Willa Robbins and her idolized older brother...
View ArticleThe Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
An 11-year-old boy boards a ship in Ceylon and sails off to England to re-unite with a mother he barely remembers, setting the stage for an adventure on the high seas which in the hands of a master...
View ArticleThe Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaabebol and Agnete Friis
What better for a summer read than a Nordic noir thriller. Helping out a friend, Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse and compulsive do-gooder, retrieves a battered suitcase from a train station locker and...
View ArticleRed Bones by Ann Cleeves
Scotland’s Shetland Islands are home to a hearty, taciturn people generally known for raising horses and catching fish. But in the world as seen by Ann Cleeves, the islanders are also known for envy...
View ArticleCover of Snow by Jenny Milchman
The title of this mystery makes you want to curl up in front of a roaring fire but the suspenseful story will as easily keep you rooted to your beach chair under summer’s noon day sun. The premise is...
View ArticleSwann’s Lake of Despair by Charles Salzberg
Henry Swann is back. Both smart and smart talking, he embodies the voice and spirit of the classic hardboiled detective, a bit down on his luck but ethical to a fault. In the third book of the Henry...
View ArticleDescent by Tim Johnston
Descent captures and builds on the terror of a modern-day kidnapping and the horror every parent fears. Caitlin, the victim, has just graduated high school. A star athlete, she disappears on an early...
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