A wounded woman is assisted in the search for the truth about her late father in the empathetic novel "Threads of Us". Christie Havey Smith weaves together four entwined perspectives in "Threads of Us", a novel about grieving a parent... Read More

A sweet, anxious agender teenager comes into their own while facing new challenges in the involving novel "Ugliest". Kelly Vincent’s novel "Ugliest" is the earnest continuation of an agender Oklahoma teenager’s coming-of-age story.... Read More

A knowledgeable professor is thrust into a murder investigation in the information-rich novel "Murder in the Grand Bazaar". In Miles Nilsson Fowler’s novel "Murder in the Grand Bazaar", a murder involving early Christian history leads... Read More

A man on the edges of a dystopian society seeks riches in the exciting novel "Ride the Snake Road". A pseudo-Western thriller set in an immersive dystopian landscape, LeRoy Wow’s novel "Ride the Snake Road" is set eleven hundred years... Read More

Alki Zei’s novel "The Wildcat Behind Glass" is a timely portrayal of childhoods interrupted under fascism. First published in 1963, this is the story of an affluent Greek family in 1936, when a dictator took control of the country.... Read More

"The Fallen Within" is a nuanced and complex thriller in which there are no pure heroes or villains. A teenage spy is caught between his twin brother and the organization that raised him in "The Fallen Within", R. S. Twells’s witty and... Read More

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

"Death at the Point" is a compelling mystery novel in which a vibrant former detective relishes his surroundings—and fights against those who disturb them. Andrew Dutfield’s atmospheric mystery novel "Death at the Point" reads like a... Read More