August 2020

The closing volume of Greg Iles's Natchez Burning trilogy puts Dr. Tom Cage on trial for the murder of Viola Turner - his Black nurse, his decades-long lover, the mother of a son he never publicly acknowledged - while his son Penn Cage tries to defend a father who refuses to defend himself.

A multi-timeline Louisiana novel that braids Josephine - born into slavery, a farm-owning widow in 1924, befriended by a white neighbor whose husband joins the Klan - with her biracial great-granddaughter Ava, who in 2017 New Orleans moves in with her wealthy white grandmother Martha and finds the arrangement curdling into something dangerous.

Fifteen years after Katherine 'Casey' Carter was convicted of shooting her fiancé Hunter Raleigh III - a famed philanthropist and Raleigh Foundation heir - she gets out of prison and brings her case to Laurie Moran's true-crime show Under Suspicion, hoping the cameras can find what the original investigation didn't.

After a New Hampshire car accident leaves wolf biologist Luke Warren in a vegetative state, his estranged gay son Edward flies home from Thailand and finds himself in legal combat with his teenage sister Cara over whether to remove their father's life support.

To pay for a lifetime of medical care for her six-year-old daughter Willow, who has severe osteogenesis imperfecta, Charlotte O'Keefe sues her best friend - Willow's obstetrician - for wrongful birth, forcing her to testify in open court that she would have terminated the pregnancy had she known.

Jane Austen's 1813 masterpiece follows Elizabeth Bennet through misjudgment and revelation - a Hunsford proposal that goes horribly, a letter that rearranges everything, a visit to Pemberley that changes what she thought she knew - in the great Regency comedy of manners about what we get wrong about other people and ourselves.

Nobel laureate José Saramago's final novel sends the Bible's first murderer time-traveling through Genesis and beyond - witnessing Abraham, Sodom, the Tower of Babel, Jericho, Job, and Noah's Ark - in a sustained, blasphemous prosecution of the God of the Old Testament.

A week before her wedding to Butch Dixon, Sheriff Joanna Brady is hit with two cases at once - her octogenarian neighbor Clayton Rhodes is found dead in his garage, and a woman freshly paroled for killing her husband is murdered, leaving her half-Apache fifteen-year-old daughter Lucy Ridder on the run with a red-tailed hawk and the diskette her father left her.

When free-spirited elderly widow Alice Rogers is found dead in the desert clutching an insulin vial - despite not being diabetic - Sheriff Joanna Brady investigates her greedy children, her mysterious younger boyfriend, and a web of land development corruption.

A memoir of growing up in a remote Kentucky holler in 1980s Appalachia, surviving an alcoholic, drug-dealing father, falling into her own cycles of abuse, and finding a path out through Berea College and graduate school.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that weaves together interconnected stories about a group of characters connected to the music industry, exploring themes of time, memory, and aging through an innovative narrative structure.

When a gun dealer is murdered and his assault weapons stolen, Sheriff Joanna Brady follows a trail of sniper killings and scalped victims to a New Age dude ranch - while her best friend's adopted baby daughter faces a life-or-death heart transplant.