In Kaethe Schwehn’s numinous historical novel "The Gospel of Salome", an aging physician is asked about her connection to Jesus of Nazareth. In 38 CE, Salome, an elderly Greek woman and physician with a thriving clinic in Alexandria,... Read More

Civilized values, conscientiousness, and scruples fall away in the face of daily needs in the lean, affecting novella In the Mountain’s Shadow. The price of survival takes a devastating toll for a woman who finds a wilderness refuge in... Read More

In Elisabeth Rhoads’s brooding psychological thriller "Haggard House", a sheltered religious boy meets his free-spirited match, unlocking a door to the past where trauma and truth lie hidden. It is 1859 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,... Read More

A lively thriller featuring a tough amateur boxer, "Knock Out" is about friendship, survival, and determination. In Jaden Noble’s inspiring novel "Knock Out", a woman who is desperate to escape her violent past must outwit a malicious... Read More

Nine revolving points of view sync with snippets of the national anthem in "Sixty Seconds", a captivating novel in which history unfolds moment by moment. In Steven Mayfield’s kinetic historical novel "Sixty Seconds", nine people... Read More

A gifted girl’s murder speaks to the changing world for women in the mid-1960s in the perceptive mystery novel "Vested Interest". In Bailey Herrington’s taut mystery novel "Vested Interest", a pastor confronts the senseless murder of... Read More

A family’s fraught road back to each other is the focus of Shirley Russak Wachtel’s bittersweet historical novel "The Baker of Lost Memories". Josef and Anya run a small bakery in Lodz, Poland, with the help of their bubbly young... Read More

Mary Noé’s keyhole true crime book The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan is about false identities, radical politics, and the prewar tensions of the early twentieth-century US. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 16, 1906, Leone Krembs... Read More