"Strange Alchemy" features a unique solution to the Roanoke mystery in a YA paranormal thriller. Gwenda Bond’s "Strange Alchemy" solves the historical mystery of Roanoke with a thrilling YA adventure tinged with romance and... Read More

Warm and occasionally edgy, this self-discovery-on-the-road novel evokes meaningful memories. In Susan Jackson Rodgers’s quirky This Must Be The Place, Thea Knox has just graduated college and is on a solo road trip from California to... Read More

Nicole Graves is a charming and straight-shooting heroine who reads like a grown-up Nancy Drew. Readers who were first introduced to Nicole Graves in The Swap will be delighted to catch up with her again in Nancy Boyarsky’s "The... Read More

The true story here is one of a sister helping a sister, a mother-and-child-reunion, and a woman on the road to recovery. H. G. McKinnis’s "A Justified Bitch" may be labeled a murder mystery, but its real story is of family ties and... Read More

Wilfried N’Sondé delivers a deep slice of the human experience in luminous prose. Flight, forgiveness, and the plight of an illegal African immigrant in Paris are the subjects of Wilfried N’Sondé’s accomplished and richly... Read More

Vega is a perfectly flawed, Technicolor noir detective: obsessive, neurotic, and self-indulgent. "The Last Girl" is a modern noir set in steamy Florida in which an ex-reporter traces a young woman who doesn’t want to be found. Laid off... Read More

A haunting tale rife with gruesome murders and secrets, "Path into Darkness" shines. In Lisa Alber’s "Path into Darkness", residents of an Irish county gather for a festival, but their ghastly past is about to come to light. The... Read More

Chin takes aim at factions on the left and the right as they confront the topic of European multiculturalism. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the triumph of capitalism seemed to signal a flowering of democratic possibilities across... Read More