The Poison Thread, Laura Purcell, Penguin Books – Dorothea Truelove is a young, beautiful and rich society woman, living a life of ease with her widowed father.
Cindy Matthews
Cindy A. Matthews' articles and essays have appeared in over forty publications. She works as a freelance manuscript evaluator, book reviewer, and copy editor. Her writer's guide, Defeating the Slushpile Monster, was a finalist in the self-help/non-fiction category of the 2009 EPIC awards and is now available in print and in Kindle formats. More information about her editorial services and non-fiction works can be found at her web site/blog www.cindyamatthews.com
Writing as Cynthianna, Cindy has published contemporary and fantasy romantic-comedies. Cindy also writes sf/paranormal erotic-romance as Celine Chatillon. See her work on Amazon.com.
Valencia and Valentine by Suzy Krause
Valencia and Valentine, Suzy Krause, Lake Union – Working over seventeen years as a debt collector, suffering a lifetime with crippling OCD, Valencia approaches her thirty-fifth birthday with trepidation.
Dahlia Black by Keith Thomas
Dahlia Black, Keith Thomas, Leopoldo & Company – In 2023 astronomer Dahlia Mitchell is the first to identify a signal beamed from outer space by an intelligence other than human.
Summer Hours by Amy Mason Doan
Summer Hours, Amy Mason Doan, Graydon House – Becc Reardon, ace student and fan of Nellie Bly and Ed Murrow, always intended to become a star print journalist.
The Object of Your Affections by Falguni Kothari
The Object of Your Affections, Falguni Kothari, Graydon House – Paris Kahn Fraser and her Scottish husband Neal Singh Fraser have an idyllic life in NYC. Her career as assistant DA is blooming, and Neal’s family chain of furnishing and art stores is expanding.
Stars In His Eyes by Marti Gironell
Stars in his Eyes, Marti Grionell, Amazon Crossing – 1949: Franco’s rule has settled on Spain like a lead weight.
The Black Ascot by Charles Todd
The Black Ascot, Charles Todd, William Morrow – In 1910 two attendees at the famous Black Ascot horse race, Harold and Blanche Fletcher-Munro, left early in their car which later crashed. Blanche died.
The Last of the Stanfields by Marc Levy
The Last of the Stanfields, Marc Levy, Amazon Crossing – London, England: Eleanor-Rigby Donovan’s family life is fun, yet when she receives an anonymous letter it upsets everything. The letter writer alleges that thirty-six years ago Eleanor-Rigby’s late Beatles-loving mother Sally-Anne once led a completely different life.
The Plotters by Un-Su Kim
The Plotters, Un-Su Kim, DoubleDay – Reseng is an assassin, a thirty-something veteran of the Library, a clearing house for assassinations across South Korea. The Library is owned by the curmudgeonly Old Raccoon, a recluse who commissions work without ever seeming to leave the place.
One Small Sacrifice by Hilary Davidson
One Small Sacrifice, Hilary Davidson, Thomas & Mercer – Celebrity war photojournalist Alex Traynor blames himself for many things, not least of which are the deaths of two women. One was a casualty of the war in Syria.
