Where The Kouprey Walk by Som Phin follows Dara Nhem, a Cambodian American whose father, Boran, has spent decades searching for his older brother Saran, who vanished during the refugee crisis following Khmer Rouge rule. Now, someone has posted a photo of a man in...

It is the summer of 1940. The SS President Jackson has arrived in Shanghai, and aboard is Paul Obermann, a man fleeing law enforcement after an insurance-fraud scheme in San Francisco. It is bad enough that he is flat broke, as his partners made off...

Lucy Mercer, a farm girl from Sweetwater, Tennessee, is the protagonist in The Lie Collector by Ann Howard Creel. After her fiancé is hired to work at Oak Ridge, he goes missing after a short time. Lucy becomes a sleuth searching for answers to the...

Linda Dooks’ Land of Opportunity, Book Three begins in New York in 1914, when war in Europe sends desperate mothers and their children through Ellis Island. Rose Blackwood has spent years helping newcomers establish themselves in America, but the numbers now overwhelm the charitable houses...

In Broken: A Lester Caine Mystery by Fred Berri, investigators Lester Caine, Gloria Saville, and Ronald Walker tackle a horrific case that irreversibly shakes a small Florida town. The year is 1949, and the discovery of fourteen-year-old Rosie Salvo discarded in a Lantana dump lot...

Jeff Janoda’s Season of Life follows Basil Biggs, a free Black farmer whose Pennsylvania land becomes part of the Gettysburg battlefield in 1863. After Confederate troops retreat, Basil returns home to find his farm devastated. Union intelligence officer John Babcock recruits him to follow the...

Nathaniel Theos’s Bloodline of the Grail is set in 1307, and King Philip IV of France has ordered the arrest of the Knights Templar, a Christian military order. Templar knight Sir Matthieu de Montrose has been entrusted by the Order’s leader, Jacques de Molay, with...

It’s 1489, and Spain and Italy have lost eight merchant ships. While Italian merchant captain Niccolo Corsini first suspects the French, then Moorish pirates, he soon discovers that he’s very wrong. The real mastermind behind these thefts defies belief; the clue is in the book’s...

In Çağlar Bingöl’s Longing, we follow an Indigenous woman named Hehewuti and her grandson, Huka, through a series of very dramatic historical events. The backdrop is a cold, dangerous frontier where military raids fracture families. After her first home is destroyed by soldiers, young Hehewuti...

In Tides, Lies, and Alibis by Taffy Beach, take a trip back to the '90s and visit a small town in Florida. Kate MacGregor is an artist, and while her name gives her a reputation as the last heir of a Florida dynasty, it certainly...