Posts Tagged ‘fiction’

“Maia D’Aplièse and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, ‘Atlantis’–a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva–having been told that their beloved father, who adopted them all as babies, has died. Each of them is handed a tantalizing clue to her true heritage–a clue which takes Maia across the…

In Copenhagen . . . a suspicious bookstore fire propels Commander Gray Pierce on a relentless hunt across four continents—and into a terrifying mystery sur-rounding horrific experiments once performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain in Poland. In the mountains of Nepal . . . in a remote monastery, Buddhist monks inexplicably…

After she is dumped by her boyfriend, Ansley Waller leaves the South for her grandmother’s apartment in New York City, where she opens a cupcake bakery and focuses on finding herself before she tries to find another man. A first novel. Original.

“Annie McMorrow, 31 and not recovered from the end of her long-term relationship, is an assistant to film producer Carlo Spinetti and then to his chilling wife Rebecca Winkleman Spinetti whose father started Winkleman Fine Art in Curzon St. Annie has spent her meagre savings on a dusty painting from a junk shop to give…

“In southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to a close. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. “Issues” is correct. The proposal up for a vote before them is whether a local reporter should die. And the vote is…