The Favorite Daughter by Patti Callahan Henry

June 10, 2019

If you start Patti Callahan Henry’s latest novel, The Favorite Daughter, and it feels as if it’s just another runaway bride story, hang in there. While the first sixty pages may seem familiar, the rest of the book will break your heart. It’s a story...

Hiding in Plain Sight by Mary Ellis

July 31, 2018

Mary Ellis, author of the romantic suspense stories in the Secrets of the South series, spins that series off in the first in a new series. Hiding in Plain Sight introduces the Marked for Retribution mysteries. Her sleuth is young, twenty-five, somewhat awkward...

Beach House Reunion by Mary Alice Monroe

May 19, 2018

For a while, Mary Alice Monroe wrote one of her Beach House books every five years. I’ll admit, it always took time for me to remember the family and the relationships. Fortunately for those of us who love to go back to the Isle of Palms, Beach House...

Bones to Pick by Linda Lovely

October 21, 2017

When a vegan moves to a goat farm, and a pig discovers bones, it makes for a fun mystery. Check out Linda Lovely’s first Brie Hooker mystery, Bones to Pick. Brie Hooker is a vegan, now in meat country, Ardon County, South Carolina. After her Aunt...

The Bookshop at Water’s End by Patti Callahan Henry

July 12, 2017

Mimi, the bookseller at Title Wave, the bookstore in Watersend, South Carolina, welcomes readers to her bookstore, a place as magic as the river. The characters revolve around the bookstore, the beginning and end of the story, a place of secrets and answers in Patti...