Category: Families
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THINGS WE DO IN THE DARK by JENNIFER HILLIER
Paris Peralta comes to on the bathroom floor covered in blood and holding a straight razor. Oh, yes, and her thirty-year older husband is dead in the tub. Then the police arrive and she is arrested. Paris knows she didn’t kill her husband, but who did? She isn’t afraid of going to jail, she’s afraid…
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RIZZOLI & ISLES: LISTEN TO ME by TESS GERRITSEN
Rizzoli and Isles #13 Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles are investigating the gruesome murder of a nurse, whilst also protecting a young student from a stalker. But immersed in their day jobs, will they lose sight of something sinister happening much closer to home? Jane and Maura are back solving crimes. And…
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MUDDLED THROUGH by BARBARA ROSS
A Maine Clambake Mystery #10 Mud season takes on a whole new meaning in the coastal town of Busman’s Harbor, Maine, when local business owners sling dirt at one another in a heated feud over a proposed pedestrian mall. Vandalism is one thing, but murder means Julia Snowden of the Snowden Family Clambake steps in…
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Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
A dazzling novel about a young black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system–the debut of a blazingly original voice that “bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole” (Tommy Orange, best-selling author of There There) When I saw that the author wrote this…
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HELLO JUNE! Spillin’ Tea!
Here it is June already. It hasn’t been the greatest few weeks, has it? Children are being murdered in their classrooms, here in a hospital, and craziness is rampant. I rarely turn on the news anymore. It’s soon primary time so all of the politicians in Oklahoma are bragging about being endorsed by the other…
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THE ISLAND by ADRIAN McKINTY
From the Best Selling Author of The Chain comes a new and explosive new thriller. The Island grabs your attention on page one and doesn’t let up at all. Heather Baxter is still getting used to being married. A girl from a small island, she moved to Seattle and became a massage therapist. This is…
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JUST LIKE MOTHER by ANNE HELTZEL
Well, this one started with a bang! Two children, little girls, cousins, walk into the woods and one turns into something insane. The last time Maeve saw her cousin Andrea was when she fled the weird cult they were being raised in. The police moved in pretty quick and arrested all of the ‘mothers’. And…
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Starry-Eyed Love by Helena Hunting
Spark House #2 It’s great to be back at Spark House again. London Spark has finally broken up with her boyfriend. And now fun London has come out to play with her sisters, Avery and Harley. Celebrating out on the town. When a handsome stranger walks up to the table with eyes only for London,…
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Death by Tart Attack by TAMAR MYERS
Magdalena Yoder is accused of murdering her ex-husband in this delightfully quirky cozy mystery set among Pennsylvania’s Amish-Mennonite community. On page one and I’m already laughing. Magdalena Yoder is not only the mayor of her town, she is it’s the richest resident. And she is funny! Oh does she make you laugh. When her kind…
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Our Little World by Karen Winn
Coming of age in the ’80s. So much angst. So many secrets and misunderstandings that go with having a sibling in your school who you think is so much more than you are. It’s a dangerous thing and can end in lifelong emotional trauma. Bee and her sister Audrina are 12 and 11. A new…
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