Sisters Dara and Marie, along with Dara’s husband, Charlie, live and breathe ballet, running a school for budding dancers and living together in their family home. When a fire destroys the studio right before Nutcracker season, a smarmy contractor…
This compelling, violent thriller is another triumph for returning champ Cosby, whose Blacktop Wasteland was an LJ 2020 Best Book. Two men who’ve served time in prison, one Black and one white, find common ground when their married gay sons are…
Reyes’s debut introduces Cuban American Miriam Quinones-Smith, a food anthropologist out of her element when she moves to her husband’s hometown, a stodgy, white, upper-class enclave in Miami. After a woman dies at a luncheon, Miriam’s best friend…
The 18th “Cork O’Connor Mystery” is a prequel that draws new readers into the series. In 1963, 12-year-old Cork finds the corpse of a man he admired, Big John Manydeeds. A perceptive, poignant coming-of-age story unfolds as Cork and his father, the…
In Moreno-Garcia’s neo-noir set in politically explosive 1970 Mexico City, a dreamy secretary named Maite and a reluctant street soldier who calls himself Elvis cross paths as they search for Maite’s neighbor Leonora, a beautiful art student who has…
In this crime caper set during the civil rights era, Black businessman Ray tumbles over the line between respectable and criminal when his cousin Freddie involves him in a heist at Harlem’s upscale Hotel Theresa. Things go wrong, and Ray falls…
During World War II, the Ito family is sent to Manzanar, a concentration camp for Japanese Americans. Daughter Rose is released early and relocates to Chicago, where her younger sister Aki and their parents will follow. But when the Itos arrive in…
Gerry, an author, breaks his leg and is confined to bed, tended to by his assistant and a surly night nurse. In a painkiller haze, he floats through his past and fends off unwelcome visitors. Then the untraceable phone calls begin, and a dead body…
Mick Hardin returns to the hills of rural Kentucky to resolve things with his pregnant wife. When a widow is murdered, he assists his sister, the local sheriff. With an understanding of local betrayals and feuds and the value of family, Mick…
LAPD homicide detective Niels Madsen intercedes at a scene where a rookie holds a man at gunpoint. Cisco Gutierrez appears to have killed a man, but the former gang member denies he shot his friend. Both Cisco and his friend are men with…
