Gregg Olsen combines the action and mystery of a thriller with an added layer of memoir in his coverage of the murder of Ida, an Amish woman. On July 12, 1977, a mother in Ohio, Ida Stutzman, perished in a barn fire. Olsen first... Read More

"The Best Laid Traps" is a thrilling coming-of-age story in which a lost man seeks retribution against those who did him grave harm. Philip La Croix’s thriller "The Best Laid Traps" is a dramatic story about revenge and hope set... Read More

"Black, White, and Gray All Over" is a gritty, authentic memoir about what it’s like to be a Black police officer in the US. Frederick Douglass Reynolds’s memoir "Black, White, and Gray All Over" recounts a life spent in law... Read More

Ward’s humorous book uses the American Southwest and its inhabitants to tell a beautiful story about a place, people, and time. A small town in the American Southwest and its diverse denizens are the focal point of the three... Read More

Virden captures the ethos of the time perfectly, contrasting the rigidity of conservative social norms with spirited rebellion on the part of the children. The bundle of old letters, carefully tied with a blue ribbon, that Jo Virden... Read More

Hippies, criminals, con men, and cult leaders all want a piece of what Harry has discovered in Northern California gold country. Take a little northern California history, add a touch of Christopher Moore and a large dash of Elmore... Read More

"Falling for the Devil", by Britt Holmström, explores the dark era of early seventeenth-century Scotland. Readers are taken along on one woman’s internal journey as she struggles with religious faith and doubt. The book raises complex... Read More

Regardless of the countless scholars worldwide who have proposed theories on how the ancient Egyptian pyramids were constructed, doubt remains the overriding force in this fascinating field of archaeological architecture. Though experts... Read More