Contemporary

The Wine Club by J.L. Vox is a tender, sunlit debut about a father and son driving through Italy toward the conversations they postponed for years. Rich with vineyard lore, warm humor, and quiet…

Shifta by Miles Joyner opens with a Lunar New Year attack and never slows down. Bodyguard Yemi Uzunma faces a revived assassination market and a taunting hacker called Nightjar while protecting a polarizing senator.…

happily (n)ever after by Jinesh Bhagdev is a debut that earns its tears honestly. Through Viyaan, Meera and their rescue dog Goldie, it turns dawn runs, campfire chai and impossible days into a love…

Shadows of Leningrad by Kay Williams returns to Kate Hennessey in 1991 New York, where a brutal attack on her mentor forces her to run his film production and his investigation at once. Grounded…

The Confessor by Noah Christopher opens the Logan Hollister series with a killer who forces liars to write their own confessions and a wealthy LAPD detective who cannot stay away from the work. Alternating…

The Matryoshka Murders by Kay Williams drops an American documentary filmmaker into 1991 Leningrad, where a missing girl and an accidental piece of footage make her a target. Written with firsthand knowledge of that…

The Coach by Joshua Walker follows Jason Nash, a young coach carrying private grief, as he takes over a struggling Division 1 women's lacrosse team. Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this 2025 debut delivers…

The Family Speaks by Kirk Ward Robinson brings the Speaks Saga to a moving close. Rotating through seven distinct voices, it follows a scattered Appalachian family drawn back toward their hardscrabble hometown as the…

In A Moment’s Surrender, John Burt turns a shocking murder and a devastating secret into a profound meditation on love, grief, and human forgiveness. Set between Reno and Riverside in 1980, this psychologically rich…

Locked In a Box by Sheila Sharpe is a masterfully layered psychological thriller in which therapist Kate O'Dade confronts the repressed memories surrounding her opera-star father's death at the Met. Blending clinical authenticity, dual…