Title: Nosy NeighborsAuthor: Denise HartmanPublisher: AmazonLinks: Website | Goodreads | AmazonBook Summary (from Goodreads)Blanche Binkley is living the retired life in Florida and likes to keep things orderly. When a suspicious new neighbor slinks around the Seaside Flats condos, she starts snooping. No one’s going to mess up her corner of paradise. Neighborhood robberies are on the rise …

Title: Sketches of a Small Town…circa 1940. A memoirAuthor: Clifton K. Meador (Illustrations), Beth Stein (Editor), Mark Cowden (Illustrations)Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing PlatformLinks: Website | Goodreads | AmazonThese are stories of coming to age  in the great depression in the deep South in the times of strict segregation of the races. The stories are funny, sad, …

Title: The Canary RoomAuthor: Edwin F. Casebeer, Linda Casebeer (Contributor)Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing PlatformLinks: Goodreads | AmazonBook Summary (from Goodreads)In the spring of 1945, a young boy in the Pacific Northwest will make a life-or-death decision. Every morning, Herman “Hermy” Auerbach awakens to the pre-dawn song of canaries. The porch where he sleeps contains dozens of the …

Title: Killer in Sight (A Tom Lackey Mystery, #1)Author: Sandra Carrington-SmithLinks: Goodreads | AmazonBook Summary (from Goodreads)When a young woman is found murdered in a public park, it is up to RPD detective Lt. Tom Lackey to locate her killer. With the help of his longtime girlfriend and professional photographer, Kathy Spencer, Lackey unravels a …

Title: Gone GirlAuthor: Gillian FlynnLinks: Goodreads | AmazonBook Summary (from Goodreads)Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy’s friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she …

Title: Appalachian Justice (Gay & Lesbian)Author: Melinda ClaytonLinks: Goodreads | AmazonBook SummaryGrowing up in depression-era West Virginia was hard; no one knew that better than fourteen year old Billy May Platte. Her father a victim of the mines, her mother dead from cancer, Billy May relied on the kindness of the residents of the tiny mining town of …