Ellen Keith
Sonoma Rose
Sonoma Rose is nineteenth in Chiaverini’s Elm Creek Quilts series but can be read and enjoyed (as I did) as…
A Life of Bright Ideas
Editors' choice
In friendships, there’s usually a leader and a follower. Such is the friendship of Winnalee Malone and Button Peters. Winnalee…
The Confession
Inspector Ian Rutledge, veteran of the Great War and Scotland Yard inspector, returns in his 13th outing, faced with an…
A Good American
Editors' choice
George, an Englishman now living in Columbia, Missouri, has written an absolutely beautiful book about one immigrant family’s experience in…
The Day Before Happiness
De Luca’s tale of an orphan boy in Naples after World War II is short but powerful. Our unnamed narrator…
City of Rocks: A Western Story
City of Rocks is built around a clever conceit: the interviews of Joseph Roper as part of the American Legends…
The Garden Intrigue
Historian Eloise Kelly is back, still working with a treasure trove of primary sources for her dissertation on English spies…
The Adjustment
The term “anti-hero” fits Wayne Ogden to a T, although it’s not a term you would think to apply to…
The Lost Book of Mala R.
MacDowell’s novel tells the story of three California women in the present, each affected in different ways by the journal…
Naughty in Nice
Lady Georgiana Rannoch, 34th in line to British throne, returns in her fifth mystery. Eschewing the frigid temperatures of London,…
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