Fiction

“Do the addition here, and what you’ve got is bad fixers against good fixers. Which side will cheat more? What kind of win follows?”

Jenny Quinn and her husband Bernard have settled into retirement in the peaceful small English village of Kittlesham, where Jenny immerses herself in her love of baking and the comfort of old famil

"A magical treasure of a book . . ."

“Wherever he takes you—to the steamy summers of the Deep South, to dingy bars and squalid dwellings, or to fragrant cherry orchards by a lake near Bigfork—Burke makes everything come to lif

“I tell other people's stories for a living.

“A dark read, Twenty-Seven Minutes succeeds in its dreariness in a satisfying way.”

Anyone seeking respite from serious matters, or excitements of their own, would do well to grab a copy of British writer CJ Wray’s novel, The Excitements. 

Always fascinated by photos, Lucy is eager to see her colleague’s snapshots from her honeymoon in the Maldives.

“the plot of Blizzard is compulsive enough to carry it through to the end. The age-old question of what happens next compels the turning of the page.”

Theodora “Teddy” Angstrom, a high school teacher dealing with the mysterious vanishing of her sister, Angie, ten years ago, is dealt another blow when her father drives his car off of a bridge on t

“Maybe Antarctica could teach us all not to surrender to despair, to keep investing in a world of and beyond ourselves.”