Twenty-two years ago Marguerite Fulmer vanished. She was thirty years old, beautiful, talented and people liked her. Her younger sister, Georgene was nothing like her, and she knew it. Once the police started investigating Marguerite's disappearance, Georgene decided they were incompetent. The story is Read more...
All Rosie wanted was answers to why she and her mother fled Russia ten years ago after a family tragedy. Her mother died leaving behind her fairy tale stories and a collection of porcelain dolls, but no obvious explanations. When an opportunity presents itself, Rosie returns to Read more...
Based on actual stories, ONCE WE WERE HOME by Jennifer Rosner brings to light the stories of three Jewish children and one young adult who were all victims of the Holocaust. One young boy was placed in a monastery Read more...
Under no circumstances could the three triplet sisters ever be called the nice girls next door. Actually, if someone lived next door to them, the best course of action would be to run. Sissy's sisters are serial killers. As for Sissy--she is the fixer Read more...
Under extraordinary circumstances, two young children, Antonia and her brother Paul, were found in a bombed-out Sarajevo apartment by two American brothers. Their mother had been killed and the whereabouts of their father was unknown. The men decided to adopt the children and bring them to America.  Read more...
Dr. Hannah Bryers, a professor of forensic anthropology is very good at what she does. She is in her element when examining human remains. However, her social skills are a bit lacking. Actually, they are almost non-existent. World-renowned and famous for solving cases Read more...
When five-year-old Maggie MacKay told her mother that a man she didn't know was murdered on a remote island she had never been to, her mother believed her and tried to capitalize on the story. It didn't work. Their trip to the island Read more...
In THE WOMAN WITH A CURE by Lynn Cullen, readers meet Dorothy Horstmann, the daughter of immigrants who became a physician and wanted nothing more than to find a cure for polio. Hers was not a household name, unlike Read more...
The discovery of a letter that was placed in the wrong mailbox years ago intertwines the lives of three women. The contents of the letter reveal a long-held secret and a confession. In 2017, Angela Creighton, who found the letter, makes the decision to find the intended recipient Read more...
Twelve-year-old Noelle Grace Huber was brutally murdered in Pennsylvania in 1948. On a quiet beach in Florida in 2020, two boys find a hand. Readers may wonder what one has to do with the other. As it turns out, there is a powerful and Read more...
Ali Hassan, an Egyptian immigrant, has kept his story about his life in Egypt in the 1950s a secret for decades. In 2014, his American-born grandson Alex shocks the family by deciding not to attend college. Instead, he travels to the Middle East to do what Read more...
Regan Merritt, a former US Marshall, has already lost so much. After the murder of her ten-year-old son, her marriage crumbled. She left her job and moved to Arizona to be with family, but it was the murder of her former boss, Tommy, after he Read more...
It was just an act of kindness when mystery writer and owner of the Mystery Bookstore, Samantha Washington, agrees to host the Mystery Mavens Book Club. She soon learns that their leader is the notorious reviewer Delia Marshall. Publicly known for her power to either make or ruin Read more...
Orphaned Kitty Pattison was lovingly raised by her aunt and uncle. Now as a young adult, she wants to do her part to help in the war effort. She signs on with Red Cross as a volunteer and she will receive nurses training. Having led a sheltered life Read more...
Gillian led an exciting life as a publicist in New York City. She had her own business and was very good at what she did. Suddenly, she lost it all and now all she had was an offer to serve as a "dorm mother" at her former Read more...
It was the summer of 1964 when three young men were murdered. Their crime? They had come to Mississippi to help Black citizens get the right to vote. This was a troubled time in a troubled place and this was where Violet and Marigold Richards lived Read more...
Orphaned by the age of thirteen, there was no way Alix St. Pierre could have known what her future held in store for her. And, what a future it was. During WWII, her position in the OSS changed her life. Working with Italian partisans and a Read more...
Lizzie and Sofie met in Huntsville in 1950. They were both there because of their husbands' work. Sofie's husband was brought to America from Berlin after WW II ended because he was a rocket scientist. Very few knew the truth about his and Sofie's Read more...
When readers first meet Marya, a Russian in 1956, she is a prisoner in a Siberian gulag thanks in part to her sister Vera. Marya's crime? This depends on whose story you believe. Was she a spy or simply guilty of loving a British officer and wanting freedom Read more...
One day Penny was living in the apartment she had occupied for decades. This was her home and she was comfortable. She knew she was aging and she faced this the best she could. She felt she was managing until it was decided she wasn't.  Read more...