In Shadows in Our Bones by Tamara Merrill, Georgia O’Brien is a thirty-four-year-old professor who is very outspoken when it comes to issues of racial prejudice. When her mother is diagnosed with cancer, she begins a journey that will trace her lineage that she had...

Perhaps Harriet Blimm would never have found herself in her current plight had her mother made even the slightest effort to be there for her. Having put up with an abusive drunkard who was looking after her, Harriet pushes him down a staircase and murders...