Penelope Fitzgerald
10/22
**** Houseboat dwellers along the Thames in 1960's London live ambivalent lives by choice and necessity
Katrina Kittle
10/19
**** Grieving widow invites nurses aide and family into her home at the start of the pandemic
Jennifer S Roberts
09/30
**** Woman accused of witchcraft allies with alchemist accused of murder in 1650's England
Penelope Fitzgerald
09/30
*** Dense study of class and impending change in pre-WW1 Cambridge England
Mark Sullivan
09/25
*** Family survives the Nazis and escapes from the Soviets during/after WWII
Liza Palmer
09/08
** Neurotic daughters finally stand up to controlling famous chef mother
Carlene O'Connor
8/19
*** Satisfying puzzler with credible plot, appealing characters and colorful Irish setting
Ellery Lloyd
8/02
**** Celebrity actress with clever assistant and murderous son outwits scheming stalker
Lynn Liao Butler
08/01
*** Chef with PTSD finds Taiwanese grandmother's long-lost daughter and love
Carlene O'Connor
7/25
*** Light and charming mystery with colorful Irish characters
Geraldine Brooks
7/21
***** Believable, engaging and evocative biography of King David
Jane Healy
07/11
**** Young woman in 1940's helps crack Soviet code, falls in love.
Audrey J Cole
06/28
*** Alcoholic detective solves serial murder case in Seattle. Fast-paced, compelling.
Umar Turaki
06/23
**** Children in a village survive a plague which kills all the adults. Dystopian with final miracle.
William Dameron
06/19
*** Blended family challenges face two married gay men. Confusing but upbeat.
Diane Murci
06/15
*** Journalist visits butterfly zoo in England and butterfly farm in Belize. Philosophical, playful.
Emily Bleeker
05/26
*** Granddaughter learns secrets about her Italian movie star grandmother during filming of biopic
Amy Sue Nathan
05/25
*** Well-off Jewish housewives in 1962 try to conform to society and cope with domestic abuse
Alexandra Fuller
5/01
***** Author's childhood in a hardscrabble white farm family in the African bush
Lynda Rutledge
04/21
***** Dust bowl orphan drives flatbed truck carrying two giraffes across the US in 1938
Hayley Phelan
04/19
*** Obsessive young woman emulates then replaces influencer whom she idolizes
Nicola Kraus
4/05
** Woman raises abused sister's children, projects abuse onto her daughter, who works out the truth
Danielle Prescod
4/04
*** Daughter of wealthy black businessman discovers skeletons in the corporate closet
Anita Abriel
3/11
** Young woman in 1950's New York finds fame as TV show hostess and resolves relationships
Audrey Cole
03/04
*** Mother loses baby on flight, revealed to have been kidnapped, flight almost crashes
Hans Fallada
02/17
** Young couple struggles to establish their home in Weimar Germany
Lyanda Lynn Haupt
02/15
*** Both the author and Mozart learned from and loved a pet Starling
Tamara L. Miller
02/11
*** Husband abandons wife and children during canoe trip
Crichton & Patterson
01/28
*** Volcano erupts and threatens toxic waste dump in Hawaii
Namrata Patel
12/24
** Young Indian American woman finds love and independence from family Ayurveda ttradition
Farah Naz Rishi
12/24
** Young Pakistani American woman's memoir about family, friendship, loss and love
Marc Guggenheim
12/24
*** Physicist searches multiple universes to reunite with his dead wife
Rhys Bowen
12/24
*** Young London woman becomes a spy in WWII occupied France
Colin Mills
12/24
***** British explorers face starvation, death and themselves in 1850's Canadian Arctic
Midge Raymond
11/24
*** Two women eighty years apart find agency and direction in the Galapagos Islands
Nadine Nettmann
11/24
*** Two young women, a liquor seller and a cop, face off in Prohibition-era Los Angeles