
What Happens When a Town Loses Its Young People?
A town begins to change long before its buildings fall apart. The first sign may be a school with fewer children. Then a shop closes

A town begins to change long before its buildings fall apart. The first sign may be a school with fewer children. Then a shop closes

Book Description Crossing Baghdad, Beirut, and the small towns of Kansas, August is an intimate, atmospheric novel about memory, longing, and the invisible threads that

Crime fiction often shows policing from the outside: the detective arrives, the clues appear and the investigation moves neatly towards a conclusion. Stephen Collier’s fiction

Crime fiction is often at its most compelling when it takes readers beyond the obvious drama of flashing lights, sealed-off streets and forensic tents. Stephen

He changed his face. He changed his name. But he couldn’t escape who he really was. James Alfred Zachary has disappeared, replaced by a new

What if the person sitting next to you is a threat? While we don’t want to spoil your day, think about it for a second…

The crowded landscape of modern police procedurals often suffers from a lack of genuine consequence. Detectives frequently brush off horrific violence with a witty remark,

Some secrets are buried deep. Others refuse to stay hidden. Journey into the haunting world of 1850s Appalachia with The Peacemaker’s Wife by Julie Dorsey.

In the shadowed mountains of nineteenth-century Appalachia, seventeen-year-old Polly Justice is trapped between a troubled marriage, painful memories, and a secret that refuses to stay

Jealousy has a bad reputation. It is often treated as proof that a relationship is unhealthy, that someone is insecure, or that trust is missing.