Recommendations for Adults

Poor Richard Osman. He wrote a beloved, critically acclaimed mystery series that breathed new life into the cozy mystery subgenre, spawned countless imitations, and is currently in production as a Netflix series. Then he pressed pause.  At the end of The Last Devil To Die, Osman announced that the members of the Thursday Murder Club would…

    Would you let your children pick your next date? In Is She Really Going Out with Him? (I must confess to humming the old Joe Jackson song every time I say the title) by Sophie Cousens that is exactly what our narrator agrees to.  Anna Appleby is a busy, newly divorced mother of…

  Office politics are the subject of Natalie Sue’s debut dramedy novel, I Hope This Finds You Well.  Jolene works at the corporate offices of a big box store, Supershops.  Her desperate loneliness is as redolent as the smell of burnt popcorn in the staff room microwave.  It is in fact, a smell that kicks…

“They stared down at the ground in stony imitation of the graveyard angels, without the blank unblinking eyes or patchy beards of lichen. When they heard Edie’s footsteps round the Drewalt obelisk, they looked up and she looked down and realized that what they were actually staring at was a hole in the ground.”  M.L.…