Bootleg Springs #1 by Lucy Score Scarlett Bodine does not need another project, but Devlin McCallister walks into Bootleg Springs looking like a man whose life has just come apart. She is all sharp edges, noise, and restless energy, while…
Blue Moon #1 by Lucy Score No More Secrets by Lucy Score is a contemporary small-town romance in the Blue Moon series. It follows Carter Pierce, a former soldier who has returned from Afghanistan and wants a quiet life working…
Benevolence #1 by Lucy Score Pretend You’re Mine by Lucy Score is a contemporary small-town romance and the first book in the Benevolence series. It centers on Luke Garrison, a brooding National Guard member preparing for deployment, and Harper, a…
Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James #1 by Deborah Crombie A Share in Death introduces Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard and begins with a setup that has become a classic entry point into the series. Kincaid takes what is supposed to be…
Standalone Novels #1 by Vince Flynn Term Limits is a standalone political thriller, not a Mitch Rapp novel. It opens with the assassination of three of Washington’s most powerful politicians in a single night, followed by an ultimatum from the…
Mitch Rapp #1 by Vince Flynn Transfer of Power throws Mitch Rapp into a full-scale national security nightmare when terrorists seize the White House, take hostages, and threaten the president at the heart of American power. With Washington reeling and…
Non-Fiction #1 by Paul Doiron Eating Between the Lines: A Maine Writers’ Cookbook is not a Mike Bowditch title or a conventional narrative work, but an edited cookbook that brings together recipes and writing from Maine authors. Edited by Paul…
Collections #1 by Wally Lamb You Don’t Know Me: The Incarcerated Women of York Prison Voice Their Truths is not a novel but a collaborative nonfiction collection shaped through Wally Lamb’s long-running writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, Connecticut’s prison…
Standalone Novels #1 by Wally Lamb She’s Come Undone follows Dolores Price from childhood into adulthood as she tries to make sense of a life marked by family upheaval, isolation, and painful emotional setbacks. Told in Dolores’s own voice, the…
Kay Scarpetta #1 by Patricia Cornwell Postmortem introduces Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the chief medical examiner in Richmond, Virginia, as she is drawn into the investigation of a serial killer targeting women across the city. The case offers very little to…