Over a hundred years ago, in a small town near the California coast, lived a young woman named Daphne Lindstrom. She was not only a beautiful woman, she was newly married to the most prominent citizen of Red Gap. Her strange disappearance created a local legend. Someone even wrote a book based on Daphne’s story. Now, in the present day, Red Gap is no longer a redwood logging town. As Christina Dudley imagines it,...
A young and successful, but emotionally troubled artist in search of self-acceptance is at the heart of the new novel by Tiffany Lovering called “Alone.” Buy the book Willow is 23 years old, and has been cutting herself almost half her life, because sometimes a knife provides the only comfort Willow knows. Tiffany says that “Alone” was a “labor of love” book, and although not autobiographical, it was nevertheless a very personal story. Listen...
After years of sexual abuse, then the loss of his mother, then the loss of his faith and finally the loss of his one true love, David Howard finally cracks. Buy the book In S.C. Cunningham‘s intense thriller “The Penance List” David has turned from a mama’s boy to a psychotic killer, and is terrorizing London. Yet’s a character who elicits from readers mixed feelings – empathy for a killer. Understanding. Fear. Mostly fear,...
Mina Kitchen is a forty-something single woman, a New Jersey native currently living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania — and true to her surname, Mina loves to cook. In fact, you could say Mina has a “catering disorder.” Buy the book We meet Mina in Lizz Lund‘s book “Kitchen Addiction.” We also meet Mina’s Swiffer-addicted neighbor Vito, her godmother who has unusual methods for encouraging new members to join St. Bart’s church, and Mina’s enormous cat....
Have you ever wondered what it might feel like if the world just started moving too fast for you to keep up with it? You know that feeling – you think you can no longer handle the pace and the pressure. You’d love to escape the madness. Buy the book Neville Lansdowne escaped. Well, he let go. And the world spun away without him, leaving him standing in the middle of a dark nothingness....
Mallory Petersen is a private investigator in Des Moines, Iowa, whose caseload usually runs to the routine, even the mildly offbeat. But when a young mom named Cheryl McGee comes to her with a heartbreaking story, Mallory is drawn into a nightmare of a case, in Stephen Brayton‘s mystery “Beta.” Cheryl’s 8-year-old daughter Cindy has disappeared, the apparent victim of a kidnapping. But there is no ransom demand, no word at all about what...
