THE COMFORT OF GHOSTS, by Jacqueline Winspear, is the eighteenth and final book in the famous and much-loved Maisie Dobbs series. The story opens in 1945 in Britain where Read more...
Marley Henderson and Thea Wright were best friends from the time they were toddlers. Their mothers were best friends and they even lived next door to each other. Sounds idyllic, doesn't it? It wasn't. Both mothers struggled with addictions. Even so, Marley Read more...
To look at Elizebeth Smith Friedman one would never guess that she and her husband William had developed cryptanalysis. During WWI they had cracked codes and trained others to do the same. Now, in 1925 Elizebeth had a different assignment. Prohibition had created a new industry Read more...
If one were to meet sixty-eight-year-old Daniel now and didn't know his history, one would be surprised to learn that he was once famous and even notorious. Celia, his neighbor, is an actress with deep psychological issues. Even so, she is devoted to her young Read more...
Perhaps it was fate or destiny that brought Frankie O'Neill and Anne Ryan to Beauty Bay, a community of summer homes set in the foothills of Mt. Adams. Whatever the reason, they were there for different reasons. Frankie, an ornithologist, felt she had no other place Read more...
There aren't many houses big enough for two opposites to live in. This seemed to be true of Isabel's home in the Dutch countryside. THE SAFEKEEP, by Yael van der Wouden, opens in 1961. The house was purchased by Isabel's uncle during the war Read more...
In 2005 the legendary movie actress Lena Browning was in her late eighties and had been given a diagnosis of cancer. Even so, she was still stunning and mentally sharp. She was also a woman who had kept the secrets of her life to herself. But Read more...
It was an odd proposal, but Julia White, a Brooklynite, didn't have much else going on. Her book only sold a few hundred copies and her bartending job doesn't pay much. So, when world-famous photographer Johnathan Aster offers her a paying job, of sorts, she Read more...
Thirty yearsago, a prominent young couple and their infant daughter disappeared. Just before the vanishing, a man associated with the family dies under mysterious circumstances. During the investigation of both cases, the Chief of Police Read more...
It was a generous gift, to say the least. Traveling in style on the Orient Express! Who wouldn't be thrilled? Author Ginevra Ex is a bit of a mystery, but she is well known for how she develops the characters for her best-selling Read more...
Something happened thirty years ago at Highfield Manor, Dublin's exclusive private school, that impacted the lives of several of the students, but none more than that of Louise Manson. Lou, as she was called, was not a child of privilege as many as her schoolmates were, but Read more...
Lilah Mehl, an Amish widow, daughter's wish for a gazebo to be built in her mother's yard in time for her upcoming wedding was a surprise. Another surprise was when Noah Lanz, the good-looking, widowed carpenter showed up to build it. Even though Lilah's Read more...
Lyla and Nico have been together for over two years, but Lyla is beginning to have doubts about their relationship. Her career seems to be stalled and since she is supporting them this is another point of contention. Nico receives an opportunity to be on a new reality Read more...
TOMORROW IS FOR THE BRAVE by Kelly Bowen is a work of WW II historical fiction whose protagonist Violet St. Croix is inspired by Susan Travers who was the only female member of the French Foreign Legion. In 1939 Violet, a child of privilege, lived in France with Read more...
It's true that twenty years ago she left. Amy Brewer had been with five "friends" at a party when she became fed up with the way she was being treated, so she left. Shortly afterward, all five friends were dead. Now, twenty years later the case Read more...
They were three young girls who certainly didn't deserve what happened to them. At a young age, they met when they had been placed into foster care with a foster mother who seemed to be too good to be true. Very quickly it was Read more...
In 1941 Yefim Shulman, a seventeen-year-old Ukrainian Jew, was in the army. He was more than willing to fight for the Soviet Union in order to stop Read more...
ONE BY ONE, by Freida McFadden, is the story of a trip that went wrong. Very wrong. Told primarily in the voice of Claire Matchett, she makes it clear that she hates her husband and that the feeling is probably mutual. She Read more...
Rachel Glick has not had an easy life. First, her father died, and then her brother as the result of a fire. She has been supporting her bedridden mother by selling her quilting since she was fourteen. As a child, she and Read more...