by JVBrown | Jul 31, 2020 | Robin, Staff Picks
I do love a murder mystery where nearly everyone has a motive. Glamor couple Will and Jules are throwing a spectacular wedding on a remote Irish island. We know from the beginning that something terrible has happened on the wedding night during the reception. But the...
by JVBrown | Jul 31, 2020 | Robin, Staff Picks
San Francisco software robotics engineer Lois Clary is the unlikely inheritor of an ancient sourdough starter in this whimsical and thought-provoking novel. Lois is not a baker, but she soon learns, and discovers both that this starter has some strange qualities, and...
by JVBrown | Jul 31, 2020 | Robin, Staff Picks
The Vignes sisters, identical twins, grow up in Mallard, Louisiana, a town so tiny it is not on any map, populated entirely by light-skinned African-Americans. At 16, they run away from their stifling life to New Orleans, where they eventually part company. Estelle...
by JVBrown | Jul 31, 2020 | Robin, Staff Picks
This is a novel about three generations of the Strick family, living in a small town in the Hudson valley. When Astrid Strick, the matriarch, witnesses a bus accident that kills a contemporary, it jogs loose a series of memories and sets several storylines in motion....
by JVBrown | Jul 31, 2020 | Dana, Staff Picks
This book opens when a group of 30-something friends from Oxford get together to ring in the New Year at a private estate in the Scottish Highlands. The group has been getting together for nearly a decade and over the years they have grown and changed, which adds to...
by JVBrown | Jul 31, 2020 | Dana, Staff Picks
Queenie is a 25-year-old Londoner who is going through many crises – her boyfriend asked for a “break” and kicked her out of their home; she had a miscarriage while on birth control; she’s about to lose her job; she keeps going out with the wrong men; and she has no...
