The Traitor Beside Her by Mary Anna Evans

June 07, 2023

Mary Anna Evans’ first Faye Longchamp mystery, Artifacts, wasn’t even out yet when I first met her. Twenty years later, though, it’s interesting to see where she’s gone. She introduces a new character, Justine Byrne, in The Traitor Beside Me....

Hill Women by Cassie Chambers

February 15, 2020

Part memoir, part family history. Whatever you want to call Cassie Chambers’ book, Hill Women, it’s a beautiful story told with love, respect, and pride. While the subtitle is “Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains”,...

A Sister’s Courage by Molly Green

January 29, 2020

While I enjoyed the premise of A Sister’s Courage, the first in Molly Green’s Victory Sisters series, I had to continually remind myself how young Raine Linfoot was. The heroine of the book may have been a pilot during World War II, shuttling planes...

St. Francis Society for Wayward Pets by Annie England Noblin

January 22, 2020

When someone feels lost, it seems as if everyone else in the world has a perfect life. It takes Maeve Stephens thirty-six years to discover she’s not alone in Annie England Noblin’s latest novel, St. Francis Society for Wayward Pets. Maeve tells her...