Jane Simon Ammeson

“Fascinating and well-written, Eden Undone expertly weaves together this complex tale of a doomed utopian vision. It’s compelling and unsettling and hard to put down.”

A serious cookbook with luscious photos and easy-to-follow receipts (more about that later), Stephen and Evie McGee Colbert still manage to have fun, their individual repartee introducing each dish

“an education, a history lesson, a whodunit, and a wonderful introduction to the world of art—and crime.”

“such a propulsive page turner it’s almost impossible to put down as the tension builds . . .”

“For heaven’s sake, what kind of a nitwit parks in a marked space that doesn’t belong to them?” Charlotte fumes as she spies a car in Patricia Walker’s private parking slot.

“‘You’ll never own any White Orchard designs, you murderer!’ Her voice cut through the room and there was dead silence. Everyone was staring at them.

“a taut, compelling thriller with well-rounded, complex, and believable characters who must grapple with an uncomfortable decision . . .”

“How far would you go for a friend in need if it meant your life and liberty might come crashing down upon you?”

“what could be better than a cursed island, some supernatural happenings, and the righting of centuries of social wrongs?”

Not long before Ellery and Luke Wainwright were to embark upon a dream 20th wedding anniversary trip to Broken Point, an exorbitantly expensive and extremely remote luxury resort in Big Sur, Califo

“not only an epic novel, it’s an epic read.”

Nina Travers is a chameleon—a woman who constantly changes who she is to fit in with her surroundings. She’s mastered the art of sounding rich by being able to drop a few key phrases.

“Moxie Castlin was easy to underestimate, but only on first impression.

“Well-written with enough twists and turns to keep a reader turning the pages, Perrin weaves a taut and unusual tale.”

Over 90 years ago, Ginette Mathiot, a French food writer and cookbook author who was awarded the National Order of the Legion of Honor, France’s highest award of merit, for her efforts in promoting

“I liked my husband well enough . . . but I like him even better dead,” says Duchess Valencia Dedham.

“And I didn’t ask any questions,” the narrator of Nicola Solvinic’s debut mystery-thriller The Hunter’s Daughter, says in her first-person account of what it’s like having been raised by a

“For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.”

—Rudyard Kipling, from the poem “The Female of the Species.”

“most importantly, Twitty reminds us that you don’t have to be Black or Jewish to love koshersoul.”

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

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

“This is Ashley Elston’s debut adult novel and it’s a real page turner, so good you hate to turn the last page.”

Jane Dunn says she’s loved baking ever since she was young, watching in awe everything her grandmother did in the kitchen.

“this book works on many levels—as an entry into different cultures and kitchens and as a way to bring those foods into our home, making them our own.”

“Smirnoff, who lives in Sweden, has done an excellent job, one that should reassure Larsson’s fans that the series is in good hands.”

“This is a pleasure of a cookbook full of great recipes . . .”

“opens the door to what American cookery is—the coming together of cultures, identities, flavors, and tastes that celebrate what is probably one of the most diverse cuisine

A beautiful woman with a sordid past, Arabella Yarrington began her ascent into the highest levels of society from the depths of a ramshackle cabin in Alabama where she lived with her widowed mothe

Field’s Crossing in Northern Indiana is farm country, and in the winter, with the snow drifting across the open flat lands, a body lies hidden under a 15-foot pile of ice and snow.

“This lush book is beautiful to look at but also very easy to use.”

“For home chefs, this book can be enjoyed just for the recipes or, even for those who make reservations for dinner, as a travel guide and an entry into the food customs, in

Lisa Kingsley quotes the French gastronome Jean Antheime Brillat-Savarin who famously wrote “Just tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are,” in the introduction to her new book that cul

For those who love to dig deep into Tudor history, scandal, and intrigue, the Dudleys make a fascinating study of a family whose interactions from the first Tudor, Henry VII to the last, Elizabeth

A perfect ten, Bea is a woman who knows her own worth and is willing to employ her beauty to achieve her ultimate goal—marrying not just a rich man, but a mega-millionaire.

“for the adventuresome home chef, Allahyari offers a world of flavors.”

With the grit and determination to overcome very similar hardscrabble backgrounds, Truman Capote and Ann Woodward both rose to pinnacles in New York’s glittering mid-century high society.

Far from the marshland where her family grew up and that claimed her father’s life, Loni Mae Murrow has found a quiet niche where she creates intricate life-like drawings of birds for the Smithsoni

Returning to the flavors of his very earliest years, chef Peter Serpico was born in Seoul, Korea, and adopted when he was two.

A gifted linguistics professor who is fascinated by such extinct languages as Old Norse and Old Danish, Val Chesterfield is so frightened of the world that she has immured herself at the university