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A Murder He Didn’t Commit – A Conspiracy He Couldn’t Imagine

I’m trying to piece together what my father was doing before he died – who he was seeing, what he was working on. I need to know who killed him. I have to prove it wasn’t me or Sami. In Megan Davis’s The Messenger, a young Parisian named Alex Giraud…

Neil NyrenJuly 28, 2023

Fiction Thrillers

A Woman’s Dark Past Catches Up With Her in Twisted Romance Thriller

Reading Laura Lippman is as addictively satisfying as crunching on potato chips from a freshly opened bag but without the salt or calories. She celebrated her 25th anniversary as a fiction writer in 2022 and each new publication should be heralded with fanfare. Her work is contemporary noir, bittersweet as…

Linda HitchcockJuly 24, 2023

Fiction Young Adult

Ghosts, Botany and Portrait Painting Combine in Immersive Gothic Fantasy

Verity can see ghosts. She just doesn’t realize it yet. When she receives a request to paint a portrait of the Duchess of Bloem’s son, the decades-old secret is revealed to her. She must make a choice to stay where she is safe and observed, or flee and chase her…

Aurora DominguezJuly 25, 2023

Fiction

Short Stories Reckon With the Confederacy’s Dark Legacy

Ann Beattie is a genius at creating characters that are three-dimensional and relatable, and she sets them down in surprisingly familiar situations like planting tulips or a family squabble. Readers can easily immerse themselves in Beattie’s worlds. So when she comes out with a new collection of short stories, that’s…

Sherri DaleyJuly 18, 2023

Fiction Thrillers

Cinephiles Meet Sorcerers in Horror Set in 90s Mexico

Horror fans have cause for celebration; Silvia Moreno-Garcia's latest endeavor, Silver Nitrate (Del Rey), offers plenty of supernatural fun. Echoing classic B films, in just a little over 300 pages Garcia has skillfully imagined a world of real movie magic. Once upon a time, B horror films were produced with…

C RunyonJuly 18, 2023

Fiction Thrillers

Attorney Falls Victim to the Client She Is Defending in Eerily Realistic Thriller

Her, Too (Harper) is the story of one woman’s relentless and dangerous quest for revenge. Success may get her disbarred or killed but Kelly McCann won’t falter. Former Philadelphia trial attorney and author Bonnie Kistler has written a wrenchingly realistic novel that may be emotionally jarring for some readers. This…

Linda HitchcockJuly 12, 2023

Fiction

Elin Hilderbrand Returns to Nantucket for a Weekend Like No Other

How would you rate the story of your life? What grade would you give those you’ve met, loved, and lost? In her latest novel, The Five-Star Weekend (Back Bay Books), author Elin Hilderbrand explores how our friendships shape the lives we live, the people we become and the effect they…

Krista BegganJune 26, 2023

Nonfiction

No Ordinary Girl: the Story of Young Jacqueline Kennedy

Jacqueline Kennedy was so poised, stylish, and cultured that one might imagine she sprang into existence, fully formed, in July of 1929. In fact, baby Jacqueline arrived just a few months before the famous Wall Street Crash, but diminished family wealth was not the only reason that her first 24…

Claudia KeenanJune 21, 2023

Fiction Romance

Sexy Firefighters, Steamed Buns and Witty Misadventures in Heartfelt RomCom

Everyone knows someone who always has bad luck following them at every turn. It’s like watching Lindsey Lohan constantly trip and spill and get rained on in the movie Just My Luck. Kimmie Park is that unlucky soul in Crazy Bao You by Lyn Liao. While Kimmie’s happy making tote…

Y. M. NelsonJune 26, 2023

Fiction Thrillers

S.A. Cosby’s Southern Gothic Serial Killer Novel is a Love Letter to His Hometown

“It’s surreal in many ways,” says Shawn “S.A.” Cosby. “A few years ago, literally, nobody knew my name.” If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, perhaps you missed Cosby’s meteoric rise to the top of bestsellerdom and his raw, rural, and racially rooted depictions of…

Rick PullenJune 20, 2023

Fiction

Murder Becomes Art in Finely Crafted Mystery

Helen A. Harrison’s latest work is more than a finely crafted murder mystery; it’s also a bizarre lesson in art history, as are her three previous novels. Her characters are famous painters, writers, sculptors, collage artists, collectors, dealers and gallerists — but her stories are imaginary. She bends facts into…

Sherri DaleyJune 23, 2023

Children's Books

The Ultimate Guide to Gender Identity for the Kids of Today

One of the hallmarks of the past decade has been acceptance. As a result, more and more young people have begun to voice trans and nonbinary gender identities, and naturally they and their parents are looking for accessible, nonjudgmental references to spark discussion and figure out what vocabulary works for…

BookTribJune 22, 2023

Thrillers Young Adult

Counselor At Immersive Horror Camp Finds Herself Playing the “Final Girl” … for Real

A girl with the perfect summer job at a camp obsessed with horror films finds herself at risk of becoming the real “final girl” in this young adult slasher novel. Kalynn Baron is a YA author known for capturing characters living in fantasy worlds or being confronted with unique experiences.…

Aurora DominguezJune 21, 2023

Thrillers Young Adult

“The Handmaid’s Tale” Meets “Never Let Me Go” in YA Set in Restrictive Dystopia

The Chaperone is a brilliantly conceived, provocative and finely crafted YA novel written by M Hendrix (Sourcebooks Fire). It just might be one of the year’s best books written in this genre and one quite likely to be banned in Florida. She has envisioned a frightening dystopian world set in…

Linda HitchcockJune 15, 2023

Fiction Romance Young Adult

Fake Dating Leads to Real Feelings in Heart-Melting YA Romance

I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to be in the popular clique in high school. I’ve seen them in various movies (possibly written by decidedly unpopular nerds or geeks like me) as mean, extremely confident and very heterogeneous. Those mean girls (and boys) are nothing like the…

Y. M. NelsonJune 13, 2023

Nonfiction

Comprehensive Biography of a Brave Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz

Jonathan Freedland, longtime journalist for The Guardian, nonfiction writer and novelist, has finally given Holocaust survivor and hero Rudolf Vrba a more balanced portrait than his 1963 memoir I Cannot Forgive and with it well deserved recognition for later generations of readers and scholars. The Escape Artist, subtitled The Man…

Linda HitchcockJune 14, 2023

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