If I had to recommend only one book this year, it would hands down be Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips. This beautiful and atmospheric novel set on Kamchatka, a peninsula in the east of Russia, opens with the abduction of…
More Than by Diane Barnes is the story of single-mom Peggy Moriarty’s second act. When her husband died 14 years ago, Peggy didn’t allow herself to grieve. Instead, she funneled all her energy into caring for her twins, Grace and…
Matt Coleman’s, sharply crafted new detective novel, A Rocky Divorce, is my kind of mystery—funny with a dose of darkness and a killer plot that makes you smile even as you race to turn the pages. Life changes for Raquel…
In Marley, Jon Clinch brings back to life the famous ghost, Jacob Marley, who appears before Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve. Wrapped in chains, he warns Scrooge of the dangers of not changing his cold-hearted ways. But why? How did Scrooge become…
Little Voices, Vanessa Lillie’s debut thriller, is the story of a woman searching for her friend’s murderer not long after experiencing a horrific birth. When her close friend Belina is found brutally murdered and the main suspect is another friend…
Erin Morgenstern’s latest, The Starless Sea, is breathtaking. The novel unfolds through a mythical, labyrinthian-like plot/world in which Zachary Ezra Rawlins begins as a lost millennial graduate student and ends as a modern-day Theseus. His journey takes him into an…