Arthur Pepper’s wife of 40 years, Miriam, died a year ago. In finally tackling cleaning out her clothes, he finds a gold charm bracelet he has never seen before. One of the charms is a beautiful elephant with an emerald, and a name and phone number engraved on it. He...

Mary Kubica writes the kind of thrillers I love to listen to in the car. In this fine offering, Esther Vaughn, an exemplary young woman, disappears without a trace from her Chicago apartment one Saturday night. Her roommate, Quinn, is devastated and in searching for...

A chance encounter with a friend from her youth raises memories of the time in the seventies when August and her girlfriends were becoming women in Brooklyn.  The novel explores the different fate of each young woman, and the bonds of female friendship, enduring and...

An aging itinerant newsreader agrees to return a young girl freed from her Kiowa captives to her living relatives in Texas. The time is after the Civil War, and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd makes his living by reading the news in public assemblies. Johanna, the young...

“Roanoke girls never last long around here. In the end, we either run or we die.” After her mother's suicide, 16-year-old Lane Roanoke comes to live on her grandparents’ vast estate in Kansas. Her cousin Allegra, about the same age, is there too, being raised by her...

Young attorney Paul Cravath is chosen to defend George Westinghouse from patent infringement lawsuits about the first lightbulbs, filed by Thomas Edison, in this fast paced and entertaining historical novel. I knew nothing about the birth of the electric industry and...

I was completely drawn in by this story. What happened in the ruins of Eastern State Penitentiary on that night so long ago? Six college friends, a professor, and a little boy are locked in, and one of them doesn't come out. Boylan keeps us guessing who the victim is...

What can possibly happen at a simple, ordinary backyard barbecue that can change people’s lives and relationships forever? Clementine and Erika are each other’s closest friends. When Erika and her husband are invited to a spur of the moment barbecue at their...

Rupert Falkes dies of cancer and his widow, Eleanor, and their 5 adult sons cope with the aftermath. Rupert was a foundling, raised by an Anglican priest at an orphanage in England. He comes to America, becomes a wealthy lawyer and marries exceptionally well. Eleanor...

Seventeen-year-old Nadia Turner, grieving her mother’s suicide, takes up with the pastor’s son, Luke Sheppard. It’s a summer romance, but the pregnancy and cover-up that result have long reaching repercussions for Nadia, Luke, and Nadia’s best friend, Aubrey, as they...

I love the Stephanie Plum novels on audio. It’s like revisiting a favorite sitcom. The story matters less that the characters and they are all here: Lula, Grandma Mazar, Ranger, and company. An ice cream truck is hijacked, a corpse coated in chocolate, sprinkles rolls...

An Australian farmer, Luke Handler, turns his gun on his wife, 7-year-old son, and himself in the middle of the worst drought the town of Kiewarra has ever seen. Aaron Falk, close friend of the farmer and a federal agent, returns to the town that rejected him 20 years...