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Week of May 21, 2012

Patti Callahan Henry’s COMING UP FOR AIR is about Ellie, who is dealing with the sudden loss of her formidable mother, Lillian. Ellie discovers the late woman’s diary, which opens up a whole side to her mother she never knew. She decides to return to the summer house in coastal Alabama where Lillian spent the summer of 1961, in the hopes of learning more about her mother and, perhaps, find some closure for herself.

Week of May 14, 2012

In Janet Evanovich’s EXPLOSIVE EIGHTEEN: A STEPHANIE PLUM NOVEL, Stephanie is on the way back from a trip to Hawaii, her dream vacation-turned-nightmare, when she is roped into a complex case when her seatmate on the flight is found dead in a garbage can after the L.A. layover --- and she alone may hold critical evidence.

From Lisa Unger, the author of BEAUTIFUL LIES and FRAGILE, comes DARKNESS, MY OLD FRIEND, a thriller about broken trust that explores our faith in those we rely on --- and how that faith can sustain or shatter us.

Week of May 7, 2012

Mary Kay Andrews’ new book SUMMER RENTAL focuses on Ellis, Julia and Dorie, who have been best friends since grade school, and now find themselves in their mid-30s and at the crossroads of life and love. A month renting an old beach house in North Carolina's Outer Banks is just what each of them needs. But will this month in a summer rental steer them on the path to happiness and forgiveness?

Week of April 30, 2012

In Linda Fairstein’s SILENT MERCY, Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper is called to a church in Harlem in the middle of the night. A woman’s decapitated body has been left burning on the steps. Three days later, a second is found in Little Italy. As Alex mines Manhattan’s houses of worship in search of a connection, she uncovers a terrible truth that puts her in the path of danger.

Week of April 23, 2012

ESCAPE by Barbara Delinsky introduces readers to a lawyer who is so fed up with her job and marriage that she runs away. Is there any hope of getting her previous life back on track? Or must she abandon the whole thing?

In Robert Dugoni's MURDER ONE, Barclay Reid is struggling to cope with the death of her teenage daughter from a drug overdose. When she’s accused of murdering a drug trafficker she blamed for the overdose, attorney David Sloane is her chosen defender in his first criminal case.

Week of April 16, 2012

THE SNOWMAN by Jo Nesbø finds antihero police investigator Harry Hole suspecting a link between a menacing letter and the disappearance of a boy's mother --- and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall.

In Anne Perry's TREASON AT LISSON GROVE, Charlotte and Thomas Pitt are called out of London, to Ireland and France respectively, each chasing the person or group behind a sinister plot aimed directly at taking down the British government and Queen Victoria herself.

Week of April 9, 2012

In ONE WAS A SOLDIER, Julia Spencer-Fleming's latest Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery, five veterans try to make sense of their experiences in Iraq. What they will find is murder, conspiracy, and the unbreakable ties that bind them to one another and their small Adirondack town.

SAY HER NAME is a novel that recounts the story of Francisco Goldman's passionate, if improbable, love affair with a woman two decades his junior and of the nearly insurmountable grief that stalked him after its tragic conclusion.

Week of April 2, 2012

THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS by Vanessa Diffenbaugh beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past.

Acting on behalf of a dead girl found in the suite of nasty Hollywood actor Jumbo Nelson, Spenser finds himself on the wrong side of some very powerful and unpleasant players in Robert B. Parker's SIXKILL.

Week of March 26, 2012

Daisy Goodwin's THE AMERICAN HEIRESS tells the story of the beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts'. When she travels abroad with her mother at the turn of the 20th century to seek a titled husband, Cora suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham and married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England.

In Alice LaPlante's TURN OF MIND, a former surgeon suffering from dementia becomes the primary suspect in the murder of her best friend and neighbor.

Week of March 19, 2012

Tiffany glass --- those gorgeously colored turn-of-the-century lamps and other collectibles --- was, it turns out, often designed and produced by a band of unsung female artisans. Their leader, Clara Driscoll, emerges from obscurity in CLARA AND MR. TIFFANY, another art-themed historical novel from the author of GIRL IN HYACINTH BLUE and THE PASSION OF ARTEMISIA.

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