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A Real Basket Case

Claire Hanover, a Colorado Springs housewife who has started a gift-basket business, is feeling lonely and unloved by her work-obsessed husband. Her best friend, Ellen, divorced and bitter, urges her to attend an aerobics class. When the handsome instructor, Enrique, flirts with Claire, Ellen tells her to have an affair with him. Claire agrees only to a massage. After Enrique is shot and killed while giving Claire the massage, the police arrest her husband, Roger. Claire realizes that she has jeopardized her marriage and her husband, whom she still loves. She is sure that someone has framed him and sets out to prove it. As she investigates, she learns that there are many people who could have killed Enrique, ex-girlfriends and drug-dealing cohorts among them. Spying on drug dealers, confronting angry aerobics classmates who are now suspects, and screwing up gift-basket deliveries, not to mention a breaking-and-entering charge, complicate Claire's life, but she carries on, determined to save her husband and marriage. This will appeal to Desperate Housewives fans and those who like cozies with a bit of spice. Barbara BibelCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Another Beautiful Day Indoors

'Layering comedy over insight over rue and pathos over comedy, mixing its flexible couplets with beautifully spiky free verse, Erik Kennedy' s first collection should climb up all the right charts: his phrases can go anywhere, then come back, and he has figured out how to sound both trustworthy and nonplussed, both giddy and humble, in the same breath. Sometimes he impersonates spiny lobsters; sometimes he' s a socialist chambered nautilus. Sometimes he' s our best guide to the globe-trotting ridiculous. And sometimes (start with ‘ Mailing in a Form Because There' s No Online Form' ) he' s the ‘ un-flick-off-able' , so-wrong-he' s-just-right guide to the way we live now.' — Stephanie Burt'Erik Kennedy' s frequently playful book offers intellectual and aesthetic surprises, not least of which in the way it moves beyond its ironic mode to at times vulnerable meditations on politics, family, relationships and the self. ... Kennedy' s frequently light tonal touch...

How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom

Two years have passed since the Spirit King's Curse shook the world. In this time, Souma and the Kingdom of Friedonia have been preparing for an impending period of unprecedented chaos.

Reef Road

"Reef Road is magnificent. It feels utterly real, a novel of deeply personal context. It swerves between truth and lies—the lies that lead to an even deeper—and more devastating—truth. Though pure fiction, it reads as compellingly as a mixture of memoir and exposé. It has left me shaken to the core. Deborah Goodrich Royce writes with brilliant understanding of the mystery and occasional grace of trauma." —Luanne Rice, New York Times bestselling author

The House Sitter

⭐The new breathtaking suspense from the author of bestselling The Vow and Richard and Judy pick The Bones of You – available to pre-order now!⭐ A scheming travellerAcross Europe, a young woman with no name and no fixed appearance hops from empty villa to vacated apartment to dormant summer house under the guise of house sitter. Her agenda? Steal from the rich, and kill anyone who gets in her way... A grieving wifeOn a stormy night in England, travelling home down narrow country lanes, a fatal car crash leaves Kat's husband Oliver dead. But as Kat begins to mourn his loss, she discovers something that suggests she never knew her husband at all... A plot to killAs the people in Oliver's life try to reconcile what they've found with the man they thought they knew, a very different picture begins to emerge. But is it Oliver they shouldn't have trusted, or is someone even closer to home harboring a secret they'd kill to keep hidden...? An unputdownable thriller that will keep you on...

The Third Tunnel

Why would Alby even think about peeing in Reenie's uncle's best Sunday suit? OK, he'd lost all his clothes and his house, but did he have to lose his flamin' dignity too? However, not only did the lovely Reenie have an eye for putting together a sharp whistle, she was after all the local Plod's wife, but she'd found that lately, she'd also had a roving eye and Ralph the Spiv had fallen deep between the sight lines. The trouble was, that was right where he wanted to be! That is until it all goes off deep inside The Third Tunnel.

Murder at Union Station

Special thanks to all my family, especially my wonderful mom, Vondell, and in memory of my dad, Manford. And to all my terrific friends who are my chosen family. And as always, thanks and all my love to my husband, Alan. Finally, thanks also to all my readers, and to Jerry Wheeler, my editor with the most-est, as well as everyone at Bold Strokes Books who have helped me so much, especially Radclyffe, Sandy, Cindy, and Ruth, Stacia, and Sheri.

New Highway

Celebrated singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Alvin is, first and foremost, a storyteller. The Grammy winning artist's disarmingly well-crafted lyrics represent just one of the many expressions of his unique ability to capture the gritty and beautiful moments of life with the written word. This anthology of his writing is a companion piece to Dave's considerable musical output, and presents a staggering cross section of his work. New Highway includes a generous selection of his celebrated poetry; excerpts of his moving prose; newspaper articles and essays on artists including Frank Zappa, Bo Diddley, and Ray Charles (which earned Dave a Grammy nomination); tributes to influences such as Merle Haggard; a long-lost interview with Buck Owens; and, of course, a carefully curated representation of his inimitable lyrics. Packed with rich imagery and poignant observations, New Highway follows Dave's previous collections Nana, Big Joe & the Fourth of July, and...

Fatal Conception

As a teenager, Darcy thought she had it all figured out - graduate with honors, go to college and begin a career - until she decides to be a normal high school student and let loose. A night out with friends couldn't hurt, right? Wrong.

The Quest for the Crown of Thorns

AD 454. Three years after the Roman victory over Attila the Hun at Catalaunum, Arria Felix and Garic the Frank are married and enjoying life on Garic's farm in northern Gaul (France). Their happy life is interrupted when a cryptic message arrives from Arria's father, the esteemed Senator Felix, calling them to Rome. At Arria's insistence, but against Garic's better judgment, they leave at once.

The Girls Who Disappeared

"Claire Douglas is a mistress at weaving the reader into a web of domestic deceit."—Jane Corry, author of The Dead Ex

Marine Scouts

"Casemate has a long history of publishing high quality military history non-fiction. Lately, they have expanded their range of work to include well written novels using wartime settings." – WWII History MagazineAfter playing cat and mouse with a 10,000-strong Iraqi Armored Division to gain crucial intelligence, the Scouts of Marine 2nd Tank Division think they are on their way home, but their war isn't over.August 1990, 30,000 Iraqi troops have invaded Kuwait and are in a position to influence nearly half of the world's oil supply. The United Nations condemn the aggression but it is clear that only military intervention is going to displace Saddam Hussein. Captain Joseph 'Quarry' Samuels and the Marines of Scout Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Division are tasked with discovering the strength and deployment of Iraqi troops. Quarry and his scouts are soon engaged in a game of cat and mouse with the 10,000-strong 108th Iraqi Armored Division. Operating behind enemy...

Moonshiner's Son

Twelve-year-old Tom Higgins is learning the craft of making whiskey. Even though Prohibition forbids the production and sale of alcoholic beverages, Tom is determined to be a good apprentice. He is, after all, a moonshiner's son. His father has raised moonshining to an art, and Tom wants nothing more than to please this rough, distant man.Then a preacher comes to the wilds of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains to rid Bad Camp Hollow of the "evils of liquor." This is when Tom and his father begin their campaign to match wits with the preacher and try to outsmart the law officers he calls in. Tom's father is eloquent in defense of a way of life long and respectfully lived by the Higgins family. But the preacher and his pretty daughter make a powerful case against it. And when drink causes a tragedy in the community, Tom Higgins is torn....

A Chance Inheritance

Three cousins return down South for a homecoming that's a little bitter, a whole lot sweet, and full of surprises.

The Blue Women

A striking new collection of short fiction from the award-winning author of Kintsugi, Daura and Bhaunri.

Jumping Jenny

"A witty and tricky plot and a genuinely shocking conclusion."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review