Books

April 2024

The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith Goodreads description: It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper – and cousin by marriage – of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives,…

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The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhorn Goodreads description: Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record…

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The Heiress

By: Rachel Hawkins Goodreads description: When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman, she’s also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family’s estate high in…

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The Hunter

By: Tana French Goodreads description: It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural…

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Tidbit- April 2024

What are we digging this month? Helen says: I have been a manic reader this month! I only liked 2 out of 4 of our assigned books. I decided to read and listen to a few others. As I have already mentioned, I started The Court of Thorns and Roses series- very enjoyable and entertaining.…

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