Black Cake

by: Charmaine Wilkerson Goodreads description: In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother’s death and her hidden past—a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake.  We can’t choose what we inherit. But […]

The Golden Couple

by: Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen Goodreads description: Wealthy Washington suburbanites Marissa and Matthew Bishop seem to have it all—until Marissa is unfaithful. Beneath their veneer of perfection is a relationship riven by work and a lack of intimacy. She wants to repair things for the sake of their eight-year-old son and because she loves […]

The Last Flight

by: Julie Clark Goodreads description: Claire Cook has a perfect life. But behind closed doors, nothing is quite as it seems. That perfect husband has a temper that burns as bright as his promising political career, and he’s not above using his staff to track Claire’s every move. But what he doesn’t know is that […]

The Maid

by: Nita Prose Goodreads description: Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by.  Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life’s […]

April 2022 Tidbit

May is a fun time of year…Which do you prefer? Kentucky Derby or Cinco de Mayo? Helen says: I won big on Barbaro in a betting pool about 15 years ago. I love to gamble and I really love to win! Sometimes I worry I sold my soul to the devil- I have a lucky […]

The Christie Affair

by: Nina de Gramont Goodreads description: The greatest mystery wasn’t Agatha Christie’s disappearance in those eleven infamous days, it’s what she discovered. London, 1925: In a world of townhomes and tennis matches, socialites and shooting parties, Miss Nan O’Dea became Archie Christie’s mistress, luring him away from his devoted and well-known wife, Agatha Christie. The […]

In Five Years

by: Rebecca Serle Goodreads description: Where do you see yourself in five years? When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Kohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend’s marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep […]

Mary Jane

by: Jessica Anya Blau Goodreads description: In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family’s subscription to the Broadway Show Tunes of the Month record club. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she’s glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter […]

The Paris Architect

by: Charles Belfoure Goodreads description: Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews. So when a wealthy industrialist offers him a large sum of money to devise secret hiding places for Jews, Lucien struggles with the choice of risking his life for a cause he doesn’t really believe […]