"Madeline Martin has built a life for herself as the young owner of a thriving business, The Next Chapter Bookshop, despite her tragic childhood and now needing to care for her infirm father. When Harley Granger, a failed novelist turned true crime podcaster, drifts into her shop in the days before Christmas, he seems intent on digging up events that Madeline would much rather forget. She's the only surviving victim of Evan Handy, the man who was...

"On a bone-chilling October night, Medical Examiner Rowan Winthorp investigates the death of her daughter's best friend. Hours later, the tragedy hits even closer to home when she makes a devastating discovery--her daughter, Chloe, is gone. But, not without a trace. A morbid mosaic of clues forces Rowan and her husband to question how deeply they really knew their daughter. As they work closely to peel back the layers of this case, they begin to unearth...

Invited by a reclusive mystery novelist to help draft his life story, a longtime correspondent and detective fiction expert finds herself in a real whodunnit when she learns the writer's first wife and son mysteriously vanished.

In rural Caball Hollow, surrounded by the vast National Forest, the James women serve up more than fried green tomatoes at the Harvest Moon diner, where the family recipes are not the only secrets. Like her sisters, Linden was born with an unusual ability: she can taste what others are feeling. But this so-called gift soured her relationship with the annoyingly attractive Cole Spender one fateful night a year ago--the same night Linden vanished into...

It's been two years since a mysterious cloud rolled through their home and swept Ewan's dad away with it. Certain that his father wouldn't have left willingly, the normally timid Ewan decides to take destiny into his own hands. Along with his little sister, Flora, and his new friend, Mr. So-and-So, Ewan departs on a journey that will test his belief in himself and unravel secrets of his father's disappearance.

"Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime Vero are in sore need of a girls' weekend away. They plan a trip to Atlantic City, but odds are-seeing as it's actually a cover story to negotiate a deal with a dangerous loan shark, save Vero's childhood crush Javi, and hunt down a stolen car-it won't be all fun and games. When Finlay's ex-husband Steven and her mother insist on tagging along too, Finlay and Vero suddenly have a few too many meddlesome...

Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Gray Eminence. But within days of their arrival, Irena disappears without a trace. The translators, who hail from eight different countries but share the same reverence for their beloved author, begin to investigate where she may have gone while proceeding with...

Daisy Thistledown is on the run. Her mother has been keeping big, glittering secrets, and now she has vanished. Eleven-year-old Daisy knows it's up to her to find Ma--but she's being hunted by someone determined to stop her from discovering the truth. The chase will lead her through a hidden doorway into another world: a place that's bursting with magic and enchantment. This is the Greenwild. Full of astonishing natural wonders, this land of green...

Hedgehog and Mutty live on a teeny-tiny island, just the two of them. Until a storm comes, and carries Mutty away. As Hedgehog searches for her friend, she meets a wiggly mole, a wordy owl, a curmudgeonly beaver, a treasure-hunting hen and her scatterbrained chicks, and a girl who's new to the neighborhood, Annika Mae. There's nothing that can stop these eight from finding Mutty, but along the way, they discover something even more important: each...

"Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud's. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would...