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Code of the Hills

Chris Offutt

"Janice drove slowly to avoid jostling the plastic containers of food on the floor behind her seat."


What are all the Genesis Allusions doing in Preston Sturges’s The Lady Eve?

On temptation, apples, falls, and snakes in the classic con artist caper/screwball romantic comedy from 1941.


What Kind of Mother: Excerpt and Cover Reveal

Clay McLeod Chapman

"A dizzy spell has me now in its grip. I can’t focus on what’s in front of me, my mind still stuck between two places. What just happened to me?"


The Last Remains

Elly Griffiths

"The bonfire is burning brightly now, its heart molten gold."


Exclusive Cover Reveal and Excerpt: Christmas Presents

Lisa Unger

"Four days until Christmas."


Going Zero

Anthony McCarten

"She has a plan. And it has to work. It has to. It’s gonna be fun, she tells herself. It’s also gonna be terrifying."


Palomino

Stephan Franck

"And on the pedal street guitar, ladies and gentlemen, the one and only, Mister Eddie Lang!"


Where Are the Children Now?

By Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke

"She could feel the damp evening winds coming in through the cracks around the windowpanes."


Tina, Mafia Soldier

Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, translated by Robin Pickering-Iazzi

"A young girl and a band of little gangsters, unaware of the fragility of their age."


The Golden Spoon

Jessa Maxwell

"Betsy had watched only one episode of The Cutting Board and was not impressed"



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