Editorial Content for Only Way Out
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Stuart Shiffman
As an avid reader, my tastes generally focus on history and biography, as well as fiction that includes legal-themed novels, sports and historical epics. But there are times when I like to take a break from heavy reading and enjoy a less demanding experience. So occasionally I venture into a black comedy thriller with a cast of hustlers, schemers and other characters who can only exist on the pages of a crime noir novel. Read More
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Failed lawyer Robert Green has such a good plan: Crack 300 safe-deposit boxes and sail off to South America with his brilliant, morally flexible sister, Penny. If it weren’t for the damned freezing rain. In the dying resort town of Granite Shores, cop Jack Biddle is self-appointed king --- mostly of bad decisions --- and he is looking for a way out. Then he spots a van spinning off a mountain road into the valley below. In the wreckage, Jack finds a very dead Robert, millions in heisted loot…and opportunity. All Jack has to do is clean up the mess, make Robert’s body disappear, make off with the fortune, and not get caught. One hitch is Penny. Another is Mitch Diamond, a wild card ex-con who knows more about the missing fortune than he lets on. Jack, Penny and Mitch each have an endgame. But there’s only one way out, and they’re crashing headlong toward it.
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Failed lawyer Robert Green has such a good plan: Crack 300 safe-deposit boxes and sail off to South America with his brilliant, morally flexible sister, Penny. If it weren’t for the damned freezing rain. In the dying resort town of Granite Shores, cop Jack Biddle is self-appointed king --- mostly of bad decisions --- and he is looking for a way out. Then he spots a van spinning off a mountain road into the valley below. In the wreckage, Jack finds a very dead Robert, millions in heisted loot…and opportunity. All Jack has to do is clean up the mess, make Robert’s body disappear, make off with the fortune, and not get caught. One hitch is Penny. Another is Mitch Diamond, a wild card ex-con who knows more about the missing fortune than he lets on. Jack, Penny and Mitch each have an endgame. But there’s only one way out, and they’re crashing headlong toward it.
About the Book
A luckless thief’s wrong turn becomes a crooked cop’s fortune in a wild ride of a thriller by a New York Times bestselling author.
Failed lawyer Robert Green has such a good plan: Crack 300 safe-deposit boxes and sail off to South America with his brilliant, morally flexible sister, Penny. If it weren’t for the damned freezing rain.
In the dying resort town of Granite Shores, cop Jack Biddle is self-appointed king --- mostly of bad decisions. Between his family’s crumbling legacy, a wife who just joined the city council, and life-threatening gambling debts, Jack is looking for a way out. Then he spots a van spinning off a mountain road into the valley below. In the wreckage, Jack finds a very dead Robert, millions in heisted loot…and opportunity.
All Jack has to do is clean up the mess, make Robert’s body disappear, make off with the fortune, and not get caught. One hitch is Penny. Another is Mitch Diamond, a wild card ex-con who knows more about the missing fortune than he lets on. Jack, Penny and Mitch each have an endgame. But there’s only one way out, and they’re crashing headlong toward it.
Audiobook available, read by Johnny Heller
Editorial Content for The Sunshine Man
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Ray Palen
Emma Stonex follows up her Sunday Times bestseller, THE LAMPLIGHTERS, with a top-notch literary thriller featuring complex, believable characters. Read More
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Birdie Keller wakes one freezing January morning to the news she’s been waiting 18 years to hear. Jimmy Maguire, the man who killed her sister, has been freed from jail. She leaves for London with a pistol and a plan: to find this man and make him pay. But every story has two sides. Jimmy can sense he’s being hunted. He knew Birdie a long time ago, in a life she’d sooner forget, and he isn’t the only one with something to hide. As the two circle each other in a heart-stopping game of cat and mouse, they plunge into a murky world of family secrets, betrayals and unsolved mysteries.
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Birdie Keller wakes one freezing January morning to the news she’s been waiting 18 years to hear. Jimmy Maguire, the man who killed her sister, has been freed from jail. She leaves for London with a pistol and a plan: to find this man and make him pay. But every story has two sides. Jimmy can sense he’s being hunted. He knew Birdie a long time ago, in a life she’d sooner forget, and he isn’t the only one with something to hide. As the two circle each other in a heart-stopping game of cat and mouse, they plunge into a murky world of family secrets, betrayals and unsolved mysteries.
About the Book
A taut, electrifying thriller about a woman determined to avenge her sister’s murder --- and the killer who must confront his own ghosts.
Birdie Keller wakes one freezing January morning to the news she’s been waiting 18 years to hear. Jimmy Maguire, the man who killed her sister, has been freed from jail. She leaves for London with a pistol and a plan: to find this man and make him pay.
But every story has two sides. Jimmy can sense he’s being hunted. He knew Birdie a long time ago, in a life she’d sooner forget, and he isn’t the only one with something to hide. As the two circle each other in a heart-stopping game of cat and mouse, they plunge into a murky world of family secrets, betrayals and unsolved mysteries.
A tense, spellbinding page-turner, THE SUNSHINE MAN twists its way through the web of lives left shattered after a terrible crime and crafts an unforgettable tale of loss and revenge.
Audiobook available, read by Edward Rowe and Meg Salter
December 12, 2025
Celebrating the Life of a Beloved Author: Remembering Sophie Kinsella, 1969-2025
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On Wednesday morning, I read the very sad news that Sophie Kinsella had died from glioblastoma, which she was diagnosed with three years ago. She was an author who brought me so much joy when I read her books. She wrote funny but also very smart women’s fiction with her lead character, Becky Bloomwood, in her Shopaholic books. The first installment in the series, CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC, was published in the US in 2001. That was five years after Bookreporter launched and three years after “Sex and the City” premiered with Carrie Bradshaw embracing her own sense of style. I still remember reading an early copy of that book and wanting to talk about it with everyone.
THE NAVIGATOR'S LETTER brings to light one of the best untold and dangerous stories of World War II. Releasing on February 10th, Jan Cress Dondi’s book chronicles a moving and heroic story of patriotic duty, familial bonds, brotherhood and love. In her holiday blog post, Jan talks about one of her most cherished gifts, which has touched multiple generations of her family and has become a treasured holiday keepsake.
December 12, 2025
Our house is close to being fully decorated for the holiday. If I could just remember where the piece of garland that we post above the sliding door in the kitchen is, I would be very happy. And if the candles in my office window were not on 24/7, that would be a good thing too. I must adjust that timer!
The thing I learned this week after 36 years of living in this house is that the front guest closet has a light in it. That makes looking for vases on the top shelf a lot easier, as well as tablecloths that hang there instead of coats. And for some reason, my high school cap and gown are there! WHY?
We kick off this year’s Holiday Author Blog series with Thrity Umrigar, the bestselling author of such novels as HONOR, which was a Reese's Book Club pick, as well as three picture books and a memoir. Her upcoming novel, MISSING SAM, which releases on January 27th, is the tense and twisty story of a woman who goes missing on a morning run and her wife's determination to both find her and clear her own name. Thrity recalls a book that her friend gave her one snowy Christmas in Ohio. Reading it that night brought up a flood of holiday memories and made her think about all the other special gifts she has received.
