Jessica Strawser

8 Novels Starring Skilled Protagonists

This month in BookTrib, we celebrate women’s fiction titles that showcase stories driven by the main character’s talents and unique skills: someone able to ride rodeos and manage a big ranch, another who can photograph the surreal lights and sceneries of Iceland while learning the art of glass-blowing, an animal…

Women's Fiction Writers AssociationFebruary 22, 2023

Thrillers

Tall Poppy Review: Perfect Drama For Moriarty Fans

Not That I Could Tell (St. Martin's Press) by Jessica Strawser examines life under the suburbia microscope. When a group of friends gather around a fire pit in one of their backyards, wine in hand, the conversation turns both dramatic and personal. A few days later, one of the women is…

Kate MorettiAugust 16, 2018

Thrillers

Jon Land’s Year-End Picks: 6 Best Thrillers of the Season

Tis' the season... for a good thriller! From some of the best known thriller writers come some great suggestions you don't want to miss, like unforgettable novels by James Rollins and Lisa Gardner. No matter what adventure you're looking for them to take you on, here are some suggestions for…

Jon LandDecember 20, 2017

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Jessica Strawser’s Latest Meditates on Compassion and Dignity at Life’s Inevitable End

Engaging and meticulously plotted, Jessica Strawser’s The Next Thing You Know (St. Martin’s Press) is a character study, a call for compassion and empathy, and a hopeful read. Nova Hudson is an end-of-life doula with Parting Your Way, a two-person end-of-life doula service in Cincinnati, OH, with Kelly Monroe, its…

Tif MarceloMarch 24, 2022

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: The Tearjerker “You Were Always Mine”

Equal parts tear-jerker and page-turner, Nicole Baart's You Were Always Mine (Atria Books) entwines the heartbreak of a mother's struggle with the urgency of a mystery that won't let her (or you) go. At the start of You Were Always Mine, we meet mother and teacher Jessica Chamberlain on the brink of…

Jessica StrawserOctober 25, 2018

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: A Meet-Cute Turned Deadly

A thought-provoking, beautifully written portrait of marriage and motherhood is entwined with a propulsive, page-turning psychological mystery in Jessica Strawser’s Almost Missed You (St. Martin's Press). The novel starts with a clever and twisty set up – the romantic back story of how Violet and Finn meet cute, lose track…

Kelly SimmonsJuly 4, 2019

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: “Forget You Know Me” New Suspense

It’s no secret that Domestic Suspense is a juggernaut of a genre right now—and Jessica Strawser’s Forget You Know Me (St. Martin's Press) exemplifies why this genre is so appealing. The story takes relatable characters living common lives and pulls one thread on the fabric of their lives to set…

Aimie K. RunyanFebruary 7, 2019

Fiction Listicles Listicles - Featured

Overcome Adversity in 8 Irresistibly Triumphant Tales

There’s something irresistible about a fish-out-of-water story — where characters find themselves wildly out of their element. After all, we instantly know it will all come down to a high-stakes choice: Cling to their old ways, gasping and flapping on the shore, or learn to adapt and walk tall. We…

Jessica StrawserSeptember 29, 2022

Fiction Miscellany Podcasts

Tall Poppy Review: Exploring an Extraordinary and Unexpected Bond

Caroline has it all: a loving husband, three gorgeous children, a happy extended family and a career she’s passionate about; so when she takes a mail-in DNA test on a lark, she expects the results to be nothing more than an interesting topic of conversation at a dinner party. She…

Nicole BaartMarch 25, 2021

Fiction Listicles

Forthcoming 2021 Women’s Fiction to Watch For

I'm looking forward to 2021 for more reasons than I can name — but great new reads are certainly at the top of the list! Of course, I'm also counting down the days until my own forthcoming release, Under The Southern Sky, hits shelves on April 20. In the meantime,…

Kristy HarveyJanuary 21, 2021

Fiction Listicles

7 Books With Knock-Your-Socks-Off Surprise Endings

Who of us doesn't love a story with a “Wow-I-didn't-see-that-coming” ending? (Where The Crawdads Sing, anyone?) I remember when I saw Sixth Sense in theaters oh-so-long ago, I was so gobsmacked by the shocker of an ending that I couldn't wait for the movie to come out on DVD so…

Susan MeissnerSeptember 10, 2020

Fiction Listicles

8 Books to Make You Glad You Stayed Home This Summer

You remember vacations, right? When you got to leave your home, on your own or with your darling family, and pack into a car or plane, and head for a bustling vacation destination, with gloriously crowded beaches and bustling restaurants and expeditions and adventures. Okay, so, next year, we hope. …

Hank Phillippi RyanSeptember 3, 2020

Fiction Listicles

Let’s Twist Again: Eight Books That Will Surprise You

It’s lucky that Twitter wasn’t invented when The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was published. Can you imagine? Within 15 minutes, somebody would’ve posted: Oh Em Gee, can you believe that ending? And then everybody would’ve read Agatha Christie’s classic in a different way. It’s always been a debate for me whether books…

Hank Phillippi RyanOctober 24, 2019

Fiction Listicles Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

Jon Land’s Thrill List This March Features Harlan Coben, Lisa Scottoline and Brad Meltzer

Harlan Coben continues his fabulous flirtation with postmodern horror in The Match (Grand Central), a Frankenstein-esque tale that picks up where The Boy from the Woods left off. Wilde, who literally grew up in the wild as a boy, has abandoned his attempt to live in society, realizing the forest…

Jon LandMarch 28, 2022

Fiction Listicles Listicles - Featured

10 Stories of Hope and Enduring Families

This month on BookTrib, we are celebrating Women’s Fiction titles that showcase "Hope and Enduring Families." The stories of all the things that life throws at us and at those we love, the illnesses, misunderstandings, the hurt and anger, the grief, the things that outnumber and overwhelm us, that turn…

Women's Fiction Writers AssociationJanuary 26, 2022

Fiction Listicles Listicles - Featured Miscellany Nonfiction

Chosen or Discovered: 6 Books About Finding New Family

“You don’t choose your family,” Desmond Tutu famously said. “They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” But sometimes, there turns out to be more to our families than we know: Connections are hidden, bonds are broken, secrets slip from one generation to the next. In…

Jessica StrawserFebruary 24, 2022

8 Novels Starring Skilled Protagonists

Tall Poppy Review: Perfect Drama For Moriarty Fans

Jon Land’s Year-End Picks: 6 Best Thrillers of the Season

Jessica Strawser’s Latest Meditates on Compassion and Dignity at Life’s Inevitable End

Tall Poppy Review: The Tearjerker “You Were Always Mine”

Tall Poppy Review: A Meet-Cute Turned Deadly

Tall Poppy Review: “Forget You Know Me” New Suspense

Overcome Adversity in 8 Irresistibly Triumphant Tales

Tall Poppy Review: Exploring an Extraordinary and Unexpected Bond

Forthcoming 2021 Women’s Fiction to Watch For

7 Books With Knock-Your-Socks-Off Surprise Endings

8 Books to Make You Glad You Stayed Home This Summer

Let’s Twist Again: Eight Books That Will Surprise You

Jon Land’s Thrill List This March Features Harlan Coben, Lisa Scottoline and Brad Meltzer

10 Stories of Hope and Enduring Families

Chosen or Discovered: 6 Books About Finding New Family

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