Ada is 46 and depressed when she starts sneaking into the caves and exploring Ruby Falls, a natural wonder turned tourist attraction named after her friend, who is the wife of the man who discovered it. But it's the Great Depression, and the attraction, like everything, is struggling to stay afloat. When a stunt with …
Translated from French by Hildegard Serle. Mona is ten when she first goes blind for one hour. As doctors try to find out the cause of her malady, her beloved grandfather is tasked with taking her to therapy appointments. Instead, fearing that she may lose her sight, he takes her to see one famous artwork …
A heavily pregnant Sargent Hill and DCI Lloyd (her partner on and off the job), are helping out at the local amateur dramatic society right before Christmas when the DCI gets a call that the local GPs wife has been found murdered in her home. The GP happens to be part of the play, and …
Continue reading Scene Of Crime: A Christmas Murder Mystery by Jill McGown
A man's body is found behind a corner store, his heart cut out and the smell of perfume in the air, leading locals to think the killer is a woman, or maybe, if the rumors of hoofprints at the scene are true, something supernatural. Meanwhile, seven year old Layla is growing up, longing for a …
Belle da Costa Greene was a remarkable woman. Born in 1879, she was a cultured and beautiful woman who discretely had lovers, and was highly respected in her field. She was the personal librarian of JP Morgan, director of one of the most prestigious US libraries, and was the highest paid woman of her era. …
Will has left his life of crime behind and started over. But his past isn't willing to let him go. When his daughter returns to the house covered in blood and with a strange package drawing him back into the underworld of forged rare books, he knows his nemesis Henry Slader has returned. This time …
Gaddy is an interpol agent on the tail of a mysterious man, The Finder, a person who seems to have unlimited resources and an almost miraculous skill for finding lost and valuable things, like Faberge eggs or the glasses Buddy Holly was wearing in the plane crash that killed him. Thrown into the mix is …
The American Library in Paris has always been a sanctuary for Odile Souchet, so when she grows up, she applies for a job there. But it's 1939, and things are about to change for everyone in France and all over the world. Odile and her co-workers try to keep the library open as the Germans …
Continue reading The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
Kate Youngblood outwardly has it all. She's a well respected professor, wrote a critically acclaimed first novel, and has a good home and friends. But underneath, she's reaching her late thirties and feels lost. Her husband has left her for a younger woman, she fears her first book might be the best writing she'll ever …
This book is kind of unusual. Purporting to be the culmination of the research of the author into one of his own ancestors, it's a collection of documents relating to a brutal murder that takes place in the Scottish Highlands during the 1800's. It's a time when crofters worked rented land owned by the laird, …
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