Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York — and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty...
Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters he created in Nobody’s Fool.
The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is...
James Abel — author of the electrifying Joe Rush novels Protocol Zero and White Plague — unleashes another heartstopping thriller in which an unholy plague from the past has been awakened…
While trying to alleviate the suffering of...
Agatha Award Best Historical Novel
Friday 3rd June, 1927 Dear Alec, 'Careful what you wish for, lest it come true' is my new motto, and here is why. I was summoned to Dunfermline, that old grey town, in the matter of a missing heiress. She had...
1st May 1926 – Dear Alec, Just when those who should be working are all downing tools for this wretched strike (and I still can't believe it – I mean to say: riots, Alec – in Edinburgh of all places) guess who is setting her virgin shoulder to...
Summer 1923, and as the village of Queensferry prepares for the annual Ferry Fair and the walk of the Burry Man, feelings are running high. With his pagan greenery, his lucky pennies and the nips of whisky he is treated to wherever he goes, the...
Perthshire 1929 and the menfolk of the Gilver family have come down, between them, with influenza, bronchitis, pneumonia and pleurisy. Dandy the devoted wife and mother decides it is time to dec & Dandy the intrepid detective, however, decides...
Before she was a detective, before she was a reluctant wife and distracted mother, before she was even a debutante, Dandy Gilver spent one perfect summer with the Lipscotts of Pereford. The golden memories of it have sustained her through many a...
Dandy Gilver, her husband back from the War, her children off at school and her uniform growing musty in the attic, is bored to a whimper in the spring of 1923 and a little light snooping seems like harmless fun. And what could be better than to...
An Anthony Award-winning Author For Keiko Nishisato, leaving Tokyo is a rare adventure. But it's living in Painchton, Scotland, that shows her how far she is from home. Keiko has never met friendlier people. Only the Pooles, the butchers below her...