Keith Landry’s The Garden Detectives is set at Riverview condominium, where the annual rush for garden plots coincides with the arrival of Cletus Hughes, whose confident manner quickly secures him a place among the residents. Bridge nights, committee meetings, and seasonal gatherings knit the community...

The Badass Widows by Valerie Saul is an excellent book. The widows are not your typical mature women. One fixes boat engines. Another is a tech guru. The main character, Beth, is a retired FBI agent, which puts her in a formidable league of her...

The Basement Angel by LeeAnn McChristian tells the story of an aging carpenter living alone in North Texas after losing his wife and young daughter in a drunk driving accident fourteen years earlier. Bitter, isolated, and struggling to survive during the economic downturn of 2008,...

The Tuscarawas County Baking Contest is coming up. Miss Fannie is set to enter with her special biscuits. She’s come close to winning in previous attempts. In Wanda E. Brunstetter and Martha Bolton’s The Rise and Fall of Miss Fannie’s Biscuits, will Miss Fannie stand...

The Ghost Case Posse by Joe Greco is a courtroom drama that plays out in the daily lives of each of the participants. Jedediah (Jed) Bouvier is an idealistic lawyer who has followed the path of Public Defender in Murrieta County, California, to uphold the...

In The Lines Between, Danielle M. Wong tells a suspenseful Hollywood story through Stevie Young, a personal assistant scraping by, and Lana Lim, a movie star, revealing the tricky, sometimes dark world behind fame. Stevie, weighed down by debt and desperation, lands a job with...

Murder in Deacon’s Corner is the sixth book in the Take it to the Limit series by Linda Opdyke, a nail-biting murder mystery that keeps you guessing. Ethan and Mickey Jenks are private investigators in Nashville. When they discover a body in an abandoned building,...

In The Daphne Project by Jacqui Lents, Daphne Patterson, a thirty-something librarian, faces her lowest point. She is betrayed by the man she thought would be forever; she is unemployed, and she is living with her overbearing mother. She needs a new start. But how...

The Sins of a Mermaid by Ettore Piroso unfolds in Amorosa, a small coastal town in California. Two strangers—Munir Abi Khalil and Summer Olsen—cross paths at the most vulnerable points of their lives. Munir is a marine researcher on a crucial mission. He is on...

The Spider and the Web by S. Sebastian is a slow-burning psychological thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat. Rachel has suffered enough in her life, but will things be any better when she swaps the dangers of London for the...