Uncovering Sadie’s Secrets A Bianca Balducci Mystery Libby Sternberg In this gem of a book, scholar and wit Kenneth Lasson takes on all manner of excesses in the Ivory Tower, which from his insider’s viewpoint, constitute little less than a …
The Two-Plate Solution A Novel of Culinary Mayhem in the Middle East Jeff Oliver A James Beard Award-winning chef stands atop a 50-foot-high diving platform having just plated a competition-winning culinary masterpiece. He looks down, faints from fear of heights, …
It Won’t Always be this Great Peter Mehlman In the crushing complacency of suburbia, mid-life crises pop in unannounced on men’s lives. For one Long Island podiatrist, it takes an impromptu act of vandalism just to make him aware of …
Pinot Envy Murder, Mayhem, and Mystery in Napa Edward Finstein Meet Woody Robins, a bon vivant, devil-may-care wine guru who specializes in investigatory work involving rare artifacts of a vinous nature. Amidst the backdrop of world-famous Napa, California wine country, …
The Understory Elizabeth Leiknes Story Easton knows the first line of every book, but never the last. She never cries, but she fakes it beautifully. And at night, she escapes from the failure of her own life by breaking into …
Purple Jesus Ron Cooper Purvis Driggers is a South Carolina Low Country loser. With little judgment and even less chance for a decent life beyond his parents’ house, home town, and whatever part-time work he can scrounge up, he’s sure …
As Dog is My Witness Jeffrey Cohen Another Aaron Tucker Mystery In this, the third Aaron Tucker mystery, Aaron, fresh from a trip to Hollywood to “take meetings” on his screenplay, finds himself dragged kicking and screaming once again into …
A Farewell to Legs Jeffrey Cohen An Aaron Tucker Mystery Work-at-home dad, devoted husband, hustling freelance writer, aspiring screenwriter—all ways to describe the unwilling sleuth Aaron Tucker, whom one reviewer dubbed a combination of “Bart Simpson and James Bond.” In …
The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns Elizabeth Leiknes Lucy Burns wants a normal life: friends, love, and a family of her own. And she could have it all if only she could break free from the job she hates. That …
Hume’s Fork: A Novel Ron Cooper Barely adequate philosophy professor Legare Hume has a mind-body problem. No matter how far he goes, no matter how hard he thinks, he can’t escape the world he lives in. On the run from …