This short novella When We Touch introduced me to the small town of Whiskey Creek, California and the love stories that seem to happen there in the most unlikely places. The story begins with Olivia Arnold on her way back home from Sacramento to help plan her sister’s wedding. The wedding Olivia was supposed to have [...]

Drums of Autumn is the fourth book in the Outlander series has Claire and Jamie starting out in the New World, aka the Carolinas and the subsequent settling in a harsh and unfamiliar territory. Between pirate raids and Native American friends, the Frasers eventually settle on Fraser’s Ridge and start a new life in the wilderness. [...]

Growing up in the the small Indiana town of Plainview, Indiana, Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean have been friends since childhood. Guitarist El Walker swore he would never set foot in town again, but circumstances conspire against him, and soon he is in Plainview, playing the blues at a local wedding. Once in town, it does [...]

The characters in these eleven stories are all on the edge of making some pretty rotten decisions. Most of them go over that edge, some in a very big and darkly comic way. In The Valetudinarian Arty’s plans of enjoying his retirement were derailed. On their second day in Florida his wife was killed in a [...]

Fredrik Backman’s central characters, flawed, prickly individuals, slowly reveal themselves as people to be cherished. I truly love his books, and whole-heartedly recommend them to everyone. Britt-Marie Was Here is no exception. An older woman who has devoted her entire life to her husband, only to discover that he is unfaithful, sets out to make her [...]

Maggie Rose is a true crime writer and a lawyer. She uses her experience with the law to find enough doubt about convictions that the conviction is overturned the the prisoner is freed. And, of course, she writes about what she finds to earn her livelihood. Hamish Wolfe is a convicted serial killer, found guilty of [...]