A House to Die For by Vicki Doudera5/31/2023 ![]() "Light and entertaining, A House to Die For is a fun mystery and fantastic way to spend an evening!" -Suspense Magazine "A superb prologue, wonderful story, atmospheric with a good plot."-Crimespree Magazine the author does a good job portraying Darby in her efforts to make peace with her childhood past and solve a murder on a picturesque Maine island."-Publishers Weekly ![]() As a brutal storm surges up the coast, Darby must salvage the deal, find the killer-and somehow stay alive. Assisted by handsome journalist Miles Porter, Darby uncovers dark secrets that reveal an ugly scandal. Within hours of Darby's arrival, an obscure deed restriction scuttles the sale just as the backup buyer is found bludgeoned to death on the property's grounds. The deal seems simple, but trouble is brewing on the rocky coast. Then one morning, she learns her aunt is dying, and the calculating woman has one final demand: clinch the multimillion-dollar sale of Fairview, a breathtaking waterfront estate. ![]() ![]() Red-hot real estate agent Darby Farr has spent years trying to forget her hometown of Hurricane Harbor, Maine-especially the painful memories of being raised by her controlling aunt following her parents' tragic deaths. ![]()
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![]() And then the real truths-and something definitely more intimate-emerge!Ī story from the Dreamspinner Press 2017 Advent Calendar “Stocking Stuffers.” ![]() Or so they seem to each other, until the night of the annual inventory, when they’re trapped together in the Seasonal Gifts storeroom, with nothing but candy and peppermint schnapps to sustain them until they’re rescued. Bill is steady and sober Frankie is frivolous and flaky. Bill Mason is his boss, the son of the store’s founder, and the object of Frankie’s long-suffering, deeply devoted crush. ![]() ![]() Title: The Peppermint Schnapps PredicamentĪt a Glance: If you’re looking for a quick fix of holiday romance, without delving into loads of narrative detail and plot minutiae, The Peppermint Schnapps Predicament is an uplifting and rather adorable read.īlurb: Frankie Faraday is a promising young salesperson at Mason’s Emporium. ![]() Rosemarked by livia blackburne5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() This is Not My Home by Eugenia Yoh and Vivienne Chang (January 24th, 2023).Chloe’s Lunar New Year by Lily LaMotte and Michelle Lee (January 3rd, 2023). ![]()
The hunting party lucy foley5/31/2023 ![]() See-Saw’s BBC mini-series The North Water, from director Andrew Haigh, is gearing up to shoot later this year, while on the movie side both Steve McQueen’s Widows and Chris Morris’ new untitled comedy are in post. When the estate manager and groundskeeper find one of the guests the death is anything but an accident. But, tensions run deep, and everyone has dark secrets. We are sure it will captivate a huge readership, and we couldn’t be more excited to bring this story to the screen.” An annual getaway in the Scottish Highlands, nine friends gather for a New Year’s weekend. Lucy Foley’s novel is psychological suspense at its very best, blending razor sharp observations about a group of friends in crisis with a deftly plotted murder mystery that surprised us right until the end. ![]() Patrick Walters, Head of Development for See-Saw Films, said, “As soon as we started reading The Hunting Party we were hooked. ![]() ![]() Luke Speed, on behalf of Cathryn Summerhayes, both of Curtis Brown Group, brokered the deal with Hakan Kousetta, Chief Operating Officer for Television at See-Saw. The Hunting Party sees Foley make her crime debut. Best known for her sweeping wartime historical fiction, Foley’s debut novel, The Book Of Lost And Found, was acquired at auction by HarperFiction in 2013, and was one of the top selling debuts of the year. ![]() Homecoming kate morton5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() As such, you can read her books in any order. Each of Kate Morton's seven novels, all reissued for 2023 with new cover designs, has its own standalone set of characters, settings and secrets to discover. With Kate Morton's new novel, Homecoming, out this year, there's never been a better time to fall in love with her books. Citing her childhood spent in the Australian rainforest, her lifelong love of literature and theatre, and her time living in London as just some of her inspirations, each of Morton's seven novels have topped bestseller lists around the world thanks to their vivid settings and twisty, mysterious plots with family secrets at their heart. With their evocative settings in eras past and mysteries that will keep you on the edge of your seat as you journey between the past and the present, Kate Morton's books are unputdownable. ![]() |