A young American-born girl is taken to her mother's home country of India to "visit" for the summer. Sensing estrangement between her parents, she is skeptical that it is merely a trip to the homeland. What she finds over that summer launches her into a...

Faith Fairchild is a caterer but like a modern day Miss Marple, she has a knack for solving mysteries. Husband Tom is a pastor who himself is troubled by a large amount of money missing from the a church fund. An elderly friend tells her...

Never having read Susan Meissner, I started with a blank slate of opinion and ended up loving the book! "The Girl in the Glass" is a story with multiple subplots which intrigue the reader from the first page to the last. Meg has been waiting...

"The Dark Is in the Light" is the life story of Maurice Mayberry. He grows up in an abusive household with a drug addict for a father who continually abuses him verbally and physically. Together with his sister Janet, he has to watch helplessly as...

The Secret in the Compost Bin by Margaret Pearce must be one of the loveliest children's books I've read in a while. It is the story of a boy who would like nothing more than either having friends over to his place or a pet....

Roger and Suzanne Bowman go to Uruguay to celebrate their friend’s promotion to police captain. The day does not end smoothly when the couple finds the dead body of an old acquaintance in their motel room. Their main suspects are from the police force. Roger...

When Irene, a young girl in her early teens, moves across the world to Normandy, the rugged beauty of the land captivates her. She loves everything about it, including a handsome local named Ishmael. However, a local toy maker has a dark and mysterious past,...

The Very Fairy Princess is the latest in the Princess series by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton. It is beautifully illustrated by Christine Davenier and the colorful pictures help to facilitate the understanding of the story for younger children. Geraldine believes herself to be...

The nautical theme of In the Trails of the Aboriginals of Australia makes it an interesting voyage for young readers. The story is about Vasco, an underprivileged South Indian boy, who gets sponsored to study in a exclusive school in Australia. The story is the...

In The Story in the Stars: Gateway to Gannah, Volume One by author Yvonne Anderson, we find our heroine, Dassa, teaming up with the inscrutable Dr. Pik in the hopes of finding a cure for the Karkar plague before it decimates the population of Gannah....

The Girl in the Glyphs by David C. Edmonds is the story of a Smithsonian specialist in ancient writing who is trying to find a glyph cave in Nicaragua. Jennifer McMullen-Cruz is a Smithsonian specialist who wants to find a glyph cave and she will...

The subtitle of The Light in the Storm by Nikki Lynn Ragsdale poses a fundamental question and also summarizes what this brilliant memoir is all about: where was the ferry Stena Normandica the night the Penlee lifeboat went down? And how do we weather the...

The Frog in the Pond by Rebecca Crosdale is a charming storybook for children where they get to meet a frog who has journeyed to his favorite place, the pond. It’s his best place to be. Resting on a lily pad, he hears the sound...

The Hut in the Woods by VLZ is a spine-chilling thriller. Carly Ruth Laden is young, beautiful, and she has everything – a doting family, a wonderful protective brother, and a husband that other women would kill for. But there’s something wrong – Carly believes...

Anna Belfrage’s In the Shadow of the Storm is the first installment in her new The King’s Greatest Enemy series. The setting is 13th century England. The novel follows the adventures, joys, and heartbreak of Kit … a beautiful young woman who is forced...

The Girl in the Forest by Bridgid Dean is a paranormal novella that begs the question of what else is out there. Jolie quits her job after a horrible customer complains about the milk in her latte. Little does she know this drastic decision will...

The Flower in the City is an interactive children’s novel that serves as both coloring book and storybook. Author Donyell Arkeva Tillis has put together a unique combination of storytelling and drawing that should be perfect for imaginative children! The story opens with an old...

The Naked Nymph In The Dark Flickers by Ray Dyson is a thriller sleuth novel set in the mid-1930s. Ex-cop Neil Brand has finally found a niche in sunny California's York Studios in Hollywood. Newly married and with a comfortable job in security at the...

When Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Shawn Shaw visits his favorite haunt, looking for sustenance and creative inspiration, the owner shoves the day’s headline at him. “French Professors Raise Gifted Children in Dungeon.” Enough to elicit conversation between the two friends, but not enough to animate...

Twelve years have gone by since eleven-year-old Samantha Devoe vanished into the evening dusk. When one of her personal items is discovered, her cold case is reopened, bringing startling clues to light in the shocking suspense novel, The Girl In The Darkness by John Triptych....