The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

February 2010

Sarah Blake's THE POSTMISTRESS is a wonderful and engaging story of three women set during 1941 as the war is raging in Europe and America is not yet involved in the conflict, though people are wondering when, not if, we will be.

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Sarah Blake, author of The Postmistress

It is 1940. Iris James is the postmistress and spinster of Franklin, Massachusetts, a small town on Cape Cod. She firmly believes that her job is to deliver and keep people’s secrets, to pass along the news of love and sorrow that letters carry.

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Lisa Scottoline, author of Look Again

When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a “Have You Seen This Child?” flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look again, and her heart stops --- the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. Everything inside her tells her to deny the similarity between the boys, because she knows her adoption was lawful. But she’s a journalist and won't be able to stop thinking about the photo until she figures out the truth.

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One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

February 2010

ONE AMAZING THING by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni takes place in a passport office somewhere here in the United States when an earthquake hits and the nine people waiting for visas for travel to India are all trapped.

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of One Amazing Thing

Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine people remain. When an earthquake rips through the afternoon lull, trapping them together, their focus first jolts to their collective struggle to survive.

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Gregg Olsen, author of Victim Six

The bodies are found in towns and cities around Puget Sound. The young women who are the victims had nothing in common --- except the agony of their final moments --- and somebody carefully chose them to stalk, capture, and torture…a depraved killer whose cunning is matched only by the depth of his bloodlust.

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Beverly Barton, author of Dead by Midnight

The last sounds Dean Wilson hears are a clock striking 12 and a killer’s taunting words, and his death is just the first. One-by-one, victims are stalked and shot at close range. Only the killer knows their sins, and who will be the next to die at midnight.

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