Cecelia Holland
The Key on the Quilt
“If it wasn’t for the occasional night when he tried to kill her,” this novel begins, “Owen wouldn’t be a…
The Reckoning
The second book of The Taker Trilogy, this novel promises to be a supernatural thriller, the kind of story in…
Rain Falls Like Mercy
Rain Falls Like Mercy, the third book in Jack Todd’s western trilogy after Sun Going Down and Come Again No…
Agent 6
This sprawling novel begins with Moscow in 1950 with the chilling observation, “The safest way to write a diary was…
The Lost Saints of Tennessee
In the changing South of a generation ago, Ezekiel Cooper struggles to find a true path through the dense jungle…
A Good Man
Editors' choice
In the 1870s, the resistance of the Plains Indians to the inexorable advance of the United States was coming to…
The Little Russian
Only the courage and endurance of the Jews of Russia match the suffering of the Jews of Russia. Susan Sherman’s…
Motor City Shakedown
In 1911 the city of Detroit, heart of the nascent automobile industry, is plunged into a violent gang war, as…
The Swansong of Wilbur McCrum
Picaresque novels about the Old West abound, and with good reason: the outlandish adventures and unlikely escapades of the genre…
Jane Austen Made Me Do It
Jane Austen continues her afterlife as the Scylla and Charybdis of women’s fiction, luring innocent writers ever closer until she…
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