If you are looking for a well-written page-turner, look no further. This mesmerizing thriller will have you in its grip from the very first page. The year is 1982; the setting, a rural community some ninety miles north of New York City. There, among the rocky cliffs of timeworn mountains, three friends—Patrick, Matthew, and Hannah—are bound together by a terrible and seemingly senseless crime. Twenty-six years later, living lives their younger selves never could have predicted, the main characters meet again—with even more devastating results. The three strong narrators of Grist Mill Road tell a compelling tale of love, rage, fear, guilt and the complex forces that shape who they are and how they see things.

Grist Mill Road is an immersive and harrowing crime novel that’s perfect for readers looking for a gripping psychological suspense story with a literary bent.

Talent is a modern-day exploration of the parable of the talents. Coursing through a fictionalized New Haven, it follows a narrator of spectacular loathsomeness who ends up an object of considerable sympathy. This short, hilarious, and hugely intelligent novel is a many-layered labyrinth of possible truths that reveals at each turn the great danger of interpreting another person’s intentions, literary or otherwise.

Due to unforeseen circumstances Therese Anne Fowler, author of A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts, will not be able to attend.

Fasten your seatbelt and get ready for a wild ride into the times of Prohibition – from the jazz-filled clubs of Harlem to Portland, Oregon’s Paragon Hotel. It is 1921 and Alice “Nobody” James has just arrived in Oregon with a bullet wound, a lifetime’s experience battling the New York Mafia, and fifty thousand dollars in illicit cash. She is helped off the train by a porter, who takes her to The Paragon Hotel, where she can rest and get medical attention. As she becomes aware of her surroundings, Alice realizes that her presence worries the residents of the all-black hotel, who are doing their best to avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Alice makes some good friends as she recuperates, particularly with cabaret singer Blossom Fontaine and Max, a veteran of the Great War and the porter who saved her life.

While The Paragon Hotel is a stunning historical novel that is primarily about inequality and power struggles, it is also about friendships that defy color lines and gender norms. Superbly written, this tale explores racism, violence, and extremist groups in America in the 1920’s.