Book Review: The Cottager

An elderly woman travels back in time to save her teenage son’s life. She’s waited decades for this opportunity, but when it comes, she finds herself in a past she doesn’t recognize. Her family appears the same as she remembers. Her son, for now, is alive–but when she installs hidden cameras throughout the family home, she uncovers another layer of his life, a pain she’s never seen.

Did she go back far enough? When did he decide to take his own life? She watches from the empty house next door, observing her past from every angle. Still, the more she looks, the more she wonders what she can’t see–and what happens when the past notices she’s watching?

Book Review: A Killer Plot

Jane Hepburn has almost made it. After solving the murder of her literary agent at last season’s crime-book festival, Jane receives a burst of internet fame that lands her an invite to a splashy book launch in London. Visiting beloved bookstores along the winding alleyway of Cecil Court, and brushing shoulders with famous writers and the editors and agents who made them stars, Jane is looking forward to a fun, murder-free weekend and a distraction from her own writer's block. The party might not be for her novel, but still, Jane’s happy to celebrate her far more successful friend with free wine and plenty of books.

However, things take a turn for the worse when the hotshot editor is nowhere to be seen. And they really go south after Jane discovers a body in the bookshop cellar. To ensure that another event isn’t overshadowed by an unsolved murder, Jane and her two friends—debut novelist and star of the party Natasha Martez and clumsy publicity assistant Daniel Thurston—must put their sleuthing skills to the test. But nothing is as it seems at a party full of attendees with secrets they'd do anything to keep.