All aboard the twisty, turny Tom Ryan train! If you haven’t yet gotten your ticket punched, now is the time. A screenwriter and producer, Ryan is also the author of two young adult mysteries. The first, Keep This to Yourself, won the 2020 ITW Thriller Award for Best YA Thriller, while the second, I Hope…
When Liv Wilcox moves to New Hampshire, it’s with a fresh start in mind. She’s quit her job and divorced her husband, and is intent on making a new life for herself and her daughter Piper in the house that she’s recently inherited from her late Aunt Esther. Staying in the small town of Whitebridge…
Colin works for a company called Dark Enterprises, which is involved in the dark forces that lurk behind the scenes. Employees routinely die under accidental circumstances or are executed for failure to live up to the high standards demanded of management. Colin is on the lowest rung of the corporate ladder, and his direct supervisor…
Debut author Tessa Calloway is in an enviable position: her book, All This Could Be Yours, is the flavor of the month. How did Tessa pull this off? Three years earlier, emboldened by her connection to the #MomsWithDreams cyber-community, Tessa made the irrevocable decision to jettison her high-powered job. Readers will be reminded of poet…
It isn’t always necessary to read every book in a mystery series to understand the overarching plot and the characters, but that’s not true of The Black Wolf. A sense of what happened in The Grey Wolf is required to understand the thriller that completes the story arc. Can there be a worse feeling for…
Clio Barnes is living the high life in New York City as a young and beautiful fashion influencer when she gets a phone call that changes everything. Her mother, Alexandra, has been found dead in the house where they lived after Alexandra’s messy divorce from Clio and her sisters’ father. Now the Barnes sisters are…
New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson (the Truly Devious/Stevie Bell series) and illustrator Jay Cooper (The Spy Next Door)—each distinguished in their respective fields of words and/or imagery—just may be the proverbial partners in crime. Longtime friends, the two first collaborated on 2021’s Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village—a…
Mazzy and Nora have been best friends since they were little girls. With their other friend Elliot, they’ve been a tight little trio since seventh grade, even if Elliot doesn’t quite believe in the witchcraft that the teenage girls have immersed themselves in. He’s happy to come along for the ride, however, and hang out…
Readers were so disappointed when Ann Cleeves’ Shetland series ended. They were not ready to say cheers enoo to Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez after Wild Fire, the final Shetland book. Ann Cleeves’ new series features Willow Reeves and Jimmy Perez, now a firmly established couple. They live in Orkney, “the group of islands, off the…
In Death, J.D. Robb’s futuristic police procedural series, set in the second half of the 21st century, has maintained its best seller status for thirty years. What has readers hooked? The number one reason is the eternally fascinating character of Lt. Eve Dallas. She rose from detective to lieutenant; she’s now “in charge of a…
