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Publication Date:  July 27, 2021 Format:  ebook Genre:   Police Procedural Publisher:  St. Martins Press Length:  410 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis Running a small-town police force in the mountains of New Mexico should be a smooth, carefree kind of job. Sadly, full-time Sheriff—and even fuller-time coffee guzzler—Sunshine Vicram, didn’t get that memo.  All Sunshine really wants is one easy-going day. You know, the kind that starts with coffee and a donut (or three) and ends with take-out pizza and a glass of chardonnay (or seven). Turns out, that’s about as easy as switching to decaf. (What kind of people do that? And who hurt them?) Before she can say  iced mocha latte , Sunny’s got a bar fight gone bad, a teena...

  Publication Date:  October 3, 2017 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Coming of Age/Fiction Publisher:  Thomas Dunne      Length:  432 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives. As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the field...

  Publication Date:  February 6, 2018 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Historical Fiction Publisher:  St Martins Press          Length:  450 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier. Cora will do anything for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. Thirteen-year-old Leni, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, has little choice but to go along, daring to hope this new land promise...

  Publication Date:  June 8, 2021 Format:  Kindle Genre:  Biography Publisher:  St Martin Press Length:  320 pages Buy:  Audio  |  Kindle  Synopsis In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the US government was aware that the evidence against Ethel was shaky at best and based on the perjury of her own brother.  This audiobook is the first to focus on one half of that couple for more than 30 years, and much new evidence has surfaced since then. Ethel was a bright girl who might have fulfilled her personal dream of becomi...

Title:   The Book of Speculation: A Novel by Erika Swyler Publisher: St. Martin's Press Format: advanced e-galley from the publisher through netgalley.com Pages: 352 pages Genre: Fiction This title is due to be released June 23, 2015 Synopsis:  Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His parents are long dead. His mother, a circus mermaid who made her living by holding her breath, drowned in the very water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, ran off six years ago and now reads tarot cards for a traveling carnival. One June day, an old book arrives on Simon's doorstep, sent by an antiquarian bookseller who purchased it on speculation. Fragile and water damaged, the book is a log from the owner of a traveling carnival in the 1700s, who reports strange and magical things, including the drowning death of a circus mermaid. Since then, generations of "mermaids" in Simon's ...