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The Falling Woman

Publisher Algonquin Press, May 2020 The Falling Woman weaves the interconnecting stories of Charlie Radford, an ambitious airline accident investigator but a failed pilot, and Erin Geraghty, the rumored but real survivor of airline disaster who disappears after miraculously surviving a fall from a passenger plane that explodes over Kansas. …

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The Favorite Daughter
The Favorite Daughter

Publisher Berkley/Penguin Random House, June 4, 2019 New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry returns to the Lowcountry setting of The Bookshop at Water’s End with a novel of one woman’s homecoming–and the family memories that have shaped her life…  On her wedding day ten years ago, Lena Donohue …

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Fidel’s Last Days

Shaye Arehart Books, December 2008 A sophisticated thriller that takes readers on a wild ride through a clandestine plot to assassinate Fidel Castro. Former CIA agent Carolina Perez has spent five years working deep undercover for a very secret and very powerful organization. Their mission is to bring down Castro …

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The Four Ms. Bradwells

Publisher Ballantine, March 22, 2011 Meg Waite Clayton’s national bestseller The Wednesday Sisters was a word-of-mouth sensation and book club favorite. In THE FOURS MS. BRADWELLS Clayton delivers an affecting page-turner that explores the secrets we keep—even from those we love most—and celebrates the enduring power of friendship. Years before …

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I Gave My Heart To Know This

Publisher Random House, August 2, 2011 A big-hearted, sweeping twentieth-century saga about the strength of women’s friendships, by the beloved author of Keeping the House. In 1944, Grace Anderson, Lena Maki, and Lena’s mother, Violet, are working for the war effort at the local shipyard. Grace dreams of a glamorous …

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The General and Julia

A Novel, Publisher Atria Books November 14, 2023 Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and a president while writing his memoirs and reckoning with his complicated legacy in this epic and intimate novel from the author of the …

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The Girl in the Garden

Publisher Grand Central/Hachette, June 15, 2011 At once a powerful family saga and compelling personal odyssey, Kamala Nair’s debut novel tells the story of a haunted young woman who, in an effort to seek clarity about her impending marriage, confronts one fateful summer from her childhood. When Rakhee Singh is …

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Girl on the Leeside
Girl on the Leeside

Publisher Nan  A. Talese Books/Knopf, Penguin Random House, June 20, 2017 Siobhan Doyle grew up with her Uncle Kee at their family pub, the Leeside, in rural Ireland. Kee has been staunchly overprotective of Siobhan ever since her mother’s death in an IRA bombing, but now that she’s an adult, …

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Gold of our Fathers
Gold of our Fathers

Publisher Soho Press, March 3, 2017 Darko Dawson, Chief Inspector in the Ghana police service, returns in this atmospheric crime series often compared to Alexander McCall Smith’s The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels.  Darko Dawson has just been promoted to Chief Inspector in the Ghana Police Service—the promotion even …

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The Golden Hour

Publisher NAL/Putnam, February 2012 A young Italian woman risks her life to defy the injustice surrounding her in this touching novel of forbidden love in war-torn Italy. It is autumn of 1943 when German forces invade the peaceful vineyards and olive groves of Giovanna Bellini’s village in Tuscany. At first, …

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Golfing With God

Publisher Algonquin Books, October 2005 In a previous life, Herman “Hank” Fins-Winston had been a golf pro—an excellent teacher of the game who never quite made it on the circuit, having missed his one real shot at greatness. He now lives in a lovely condominium on the thirteenth fairway of …

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The Good Detective

Publisher Putnam, March 19, 2019 Detective P.T. Marsh is up against the toughest case of his career. And he’s pretty sure he killed the prime suspect. P.T. was a rising star on the police force of Mason Falls, Georgia–until his wife and young son died in an accident. Since that …

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A Good Kill

Publisher Putnam Books, June 15, 2021 An electrifying mystery featuring a troubled small-town police detective faced with three interwoven crimes that reveal sinister secrets about his community–and the deaths of his family, by the Edgar Award-and Thriller Award- short-listed author whose novels have been described by the New York Times …

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Haunted

This is Book Number 1 in The Arnaud Legacy series Publisher Kensington – February 24, 2015 Moving to my stepfather’s English country mansion sounded so promising. But the Arnaud Manor is neglected and unwelcoming, and I get the feeling it isn’t exactly uninhabited. Something wants to hurt us–especially my little …

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Haunting Paris

Publisher Nan A. Talese/Knopf, June 18, 2019 A timeless story of love and loss is transformed when a bereaved pianist discovers a mysterious letter among her late lover’s possessions, launching her headlong into a decades-old search for a child who vanished in the turbulence of wartime Paris.  In the summer …

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The Headmaster’s Wife
The Headmaster's Wife

Publisher Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin Press, March 1, 2014 An immensely talented writer whose work has been described as “incandescent” (Kirkus Reviews) and “poetic” (Booklist), Thomas Christopher Greene turns in a more literary direction with The Headmaster’s Wife, his most ambitious work to date. Like his father before him, Arthur …

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The Healing

Publisher Nan A. Talese/Knopf-Doubleday, February 21, 2012 The pre-Civil War South comes brilliantly to life in this masterfully written novel about a mysterious and charismatic healer readers won’t soon forget. Plantation Mistress Amanda Satterfield’s grief over the loss of her daughter crosses the line into madness. She takes a newborn …

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The Hidden Light of Northern Fires
The Hidden Light

Publisher Thomas Dunn Books/St. Martin,  August 29, 2017 A novel rooted in the remarkable, but little-known, true history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line. When escaped slave Joe Bell collapses in her father’s barn, Mary Willis must ward off Confederate guerrillas and spies, Joe’s vengeful …

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My Holocaust

Publisher Harper Collins, April 2007 Maurice and Norman Messer, father-and-son business partners, know a good product when they see it. That product is the Holocaust, and Maurice, a Holocaust survivor with an inflated personal history, and Norman, enjoying vicarious victimhood as a participant in the second-generation movement, proceed to market …

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Hotel Moscow

Publisher Morrow/Harper Collins, June 2, 2015 A thought-provoking novel that tells the riveting story of a daughter of Holocaust survivors who travels to Russia on business shortly after the fall of communism and finds herself embroiled in a perilous mafia conspiracy that could irrevocably destroy her life. Brooke Fielding, a …

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If Wishes Were Horses

Publisher William Morrow, February 2011 IF WISHES WERE HORSES, a modern day love story, explores a terrible loss and the extraordinary ability of one man to find love again. We believe that this novel will appeal to the millions of readers who enjoy fiction by writers such as Nicholas Sparks. …

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If Today Be Sweet

Publisher Harper Collins, June 2007 IF TODAY BE SWEET, a novel, deals with the personal story behind one of the hot political issues of our time–immigration. It is the story of Tehmina Sethna, a middle-aged widow who faces the agonizing decision of which place to call home — India or …

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If You Eat You Never Die

Publisher Harper Collins, January 2009 In a masterful evocation of time and place, Tony Romano introduces readers to the Comingos, a first generation Italian-American family living in a small neighborhood outside of 1950s Chicago. The evocative stories in this collection shed light on the inner secrets and desires of Italian …

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If I Forget You
If I Forget You

Publisher Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin Press, June 1, 2016 IF I FORGET YOU unfurls the story of two formers lovers who—twenty-one years after they were driven apart by circumstances beyond their control—have a chance encounter on a Manhattan street. Through altering points of view, Greene introduces Henry Gold, a poet …

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The Inheritance

Publisher St. Martin Press, April 13, 2010 A complex mystery of deception and betrayal that follows the court case of a young man set to hang for the murder of his father When a famed Oxford historian is found dead in his study one night, all evidence points to his …

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Island of the Doves

Publisher Berkley/Viking, April, 1 2014 Vivid and enthralling, Island of the Doves tells the story of two women in early nineteenth century America—one typical of her time, one extraordinary for it—who transform each other’s lives. Susannah Fraser lives in one of Buffalo’s finest mansions, but her husband has made it …

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Jerusalem Maiden

Publisher Harper Perennial, June 1, 2011 In the vein of The Red Tent and A Thousand Splendid Suns comes a novel of a young woman in early 20th-century Jerusalem who must choose between her faith and her passion. Esther Kaminski knows that her duty is to marry young and have …

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The Jewel Trader of Pegu

Publisher Wm. Morrow/Harper, January 2008 Adventure, treasure, and forbidden love are interwoven in this beautiful and original debut novel set in the lush land of 16th-century Southeast Asia In the fall of 1598, Abraham, a young Jewish jewel trader, leaves behind the comforts and familiarity of Venice to live half …

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