Florence understood instinctively that beauty, as well as money, was power; and she had both in abundance. Florence Gould was an intelligent, conniving, self-centered, savvy business woman, but most of all she was a survivor. She survived the San Francisco earthquake and fire as a child, a major flood in France, World War I and… Continue reading A Dangerous Woman: The Life of Florence Gould by Susan Ronald
Month: February 2018
Liar, Liar: The Omnibus by Suzie Quint
She’d gotten nervous about her first day at The Inside Word—a tabloid! God help her, how had she come to this?—and before she knew it, she’d found herself walking out the door of her new apartment dressed in what, in her saner moments, she referred to as her slut suit. Cleo is an up-and-coming investigative… Continue reading Liar, Liar: The Omnibus by Suzie Quint
By the Book by Julia Sonneborn
"You know how people start to look a lot like their dogs? Well, professors start to look a lot like their subjects." Professor Anne Corey normally looks forward to starting the new academic year, but this year is different. She's been desperately trying to find a publisher for her book so she can keep her… Continue reading By the Book by Julia Sonneborn
Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict
He had vowed to her that he would carve out a different path from those materialistic industrialists and society folk, and he would keep that vow, even though she was gone. Clara Kelley is in America as a source of income to help her family in Ireland. Expecting to work in the textile mills or… Continue reading Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict
The Promise by Sally Jenkins
BLURB A man has been stabbed. A woman is bloodstained. The nightmares from her teenage years have begun again for Olivia Field – just as she is preparing to marry. Ex-convict, Tina is terminally ill. Before she dies, the care of her younger, psychologically unwell brother, Wayne must be ensured. So Tina calls in a… Continue reading The Promise by Sally Jenkins
If You Knew Her by Emily Elgar
But here we are, day in, day out with our patients, their families; we see it all. Nurses are like hospital furniture. Everyone else constantly moves, the Ists get promoted, patients go home or die but we stay, steadfast, waiting to be sat on, leant on, perhaps kicked about a bit. Alice is a compassionate… Continue reading If You Knew Her by Emily Elgar
Forget Her Name by Jane Holland
BLURB Rachel’s dead and she’s never coming back. Or is she? As she prepares for her wedding to Dominic, Catherine has never been happier or more excited about her future. But when she receives an anonymous package—a familiar snow globe with a very grisly addition—that happiness is abruptly threatened by secrets from her past. Her… Continue reading Forget Her Name by Jane Holland
No Sad Songs by Frank Morelli
Grandpa used to be the one to make demands of me. Now he’s almost completely gone. His brain is, anyway. His body’s as strong as the day he stormed the beach at Normandy. Maybe stronger. Gabe LoScuda is no ordinary 18-year-old. After his parents die in a car accident, he's the caretaker of his eighty-year-old grandfather… Continue reading No Sad Songs by Frank Morelli
66 Metres by J. F. Kirwan
BLURB The only thing worth killing for is family. Everyone said she had her father’s eyes. A killer’s eyes. Nadia knew that on the bitterly cold streets of Moscow, she could never escape her past – but in just a few days, she would finally be free. Bound to work for Kadinsky for five years, she has one… Continue reading 66 Metres by J. F. Kirwan