River Bodies, Karen Katchur, Thomas & Mercer – Veterinarian Becca Kingsley grew up in Portland, a small Pennsylvanian town alongside the Delaware River. Her father Clint was chief of police, respected by the community but an object of fear and loathing to Becca for his stern discipline and womanizing.
The Forgotten Hours, Katrin Schumann, Lake Union – Katie Gregory has a successful consultancy career in New York City. Her lover, Zev, is an older man and a rising artist.
Just After Midnight, Catherine Ryan Hyde, Lake Union – Thirty-something Faith escapes her abusive husband Robert and seeks refuge at her parent’s California beach house.
Killer Thriller, Lee Goldberg, Thomas & Mercer – Ian Ludlow, best-selling author of the Clint Straker thriller series, got an offer from the CIA. The agency is impressed by Ludlow’s talent for devising plots which have an unnerving habit of coming true, and wants to hire him to predict trouble for the United States, but Ludlow declines.
All This I Will Give To You, Dolores Redondo, Amazon Crossing – Novelist Manuel Ortigosa is at home in Madrid when he learns his husband Álvaro has died in a car accident.
Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s, editor Leslie S. Klinger, Pegasus Crime – Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle set the gold standard of detective fiction with his Sherlock Holmes stories, and for many years Conan-Doyle and other British crime writers, such as Agatha Christie, dominated the genre. In the 1920s American crime writers appeared on the scene with a distinctive style all their own.
In the Vines, Shannon Kirk, Thomas & Mercer – Twenty-something Princeton student Mary Olivia Pentecost – “Mop” – is related to the Vandonbeers, an old New England family with “more family money than all the Kennedys ever had, combined.”
Jane Doe, Victoria Helen Stone, Lake Union – Steven Hepsworth has a nice life. He’s good looking, pleasant, a rising middle manager at work, and a deacon in his father’s church.
In Your Hands, Inês Pedrosa, Amazon Publishing – Told in three parts, In Your Hands begins in Portugal in 1935. Wealthy socialite Jenny falls in love with businessman Antonio, who is already in love with bisexual Pedro.
The Lost Letters of William Wolf, Helen Cullen, Graydon House – Compatible in every way William and Clare Woolf’s marriage seemed a match made in heaven – then it began to break apart.
