Solomon Carter
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Police Procedurals
When campaigner Penny Wharton is found dead in the garden of a notorious house, Detective Inspector Joe Hogarth is dragged into a labyrinth of lies. 🏚️ Someone powerful is twisting the truth—and they’ll do anything to keep their secrets buried.
Wharton fought for justice. She made dangerous enemies. And now Hogarth must untangle a case where every suspect hides a motive—and every revelation could cost him everything. 🔍 But while Hogarth hunts a killer, DS Sue Palmer is being hunted herself. Local gangster Alex Galvan wants revenge—and he won’t stop until blood is spilled.
Carter ratchets up the pressure on both his leads. This isn’t just a murder investigation—it’s a fight for survival as corruption tightens its grip and Hogarth and Palmer are pushed to the edge. ⚡ Their integrity, their careers, their lives—all hang in the balance.
The seventeenth installment in the series shows a writer confident in his characters and willing to put them through hell. 💀 The parallel threats—the official investigation and the personal vendetta—create mounting tension that drives toward a storm of a conclusion.
Here’s what you’re getting: a gripping British police procedural where the detectives are as endangered as the case is complex. 🌩️ Book 17 in the DI Hogarth Mysteries—longtime fans will find the stakes higher than ever.
James Joyce
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Classic Literary Fiction
Enter the world of James Joyce—a universe of memory, language, myth, and inner consciousness that forever changed the course of modern literature. 📚 This complete collection gathers all of his groundbreaking works, offering readers the rare chance to journey through the full evolution of a writer whose influence shaped the 20th century and beyond.
Experience the lyrical brilliance of Dubliners, where everyday life reveals unexpected depths. 🍀 Follow the intimate emotional power of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Tackle the monumental stylistic achievement of Ulysses, often hailed as the greatest novel of the modern age. And explore the dazzling, dreamlike experiment of Finnegans Wake, Joyce’s ultimate exploration of myth, language, and the subconscious.
Also included are Joyce’s poems, critical essays, and lesser-known writings that illuminate the complexity of his craft. ✨ Through shifting perspectives, rhythmic prose, stream-of-consciousness techniques, and vivid portraits of Irish life, Joyce captures the struggle for identity, the search for meaning, and the beauty hidden in the ordinary.
This is challenging literature that rewards patience and rereading. Joyce demands more from readers than almost any other novelist—and gives more in return. 📖 For those willing to do the work, there’s nothing else quite like it.
Here’s what you’re getting: the complete works of one of literature’s most important and influential writers—Dubliners, Portrait, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and more. 🌟 Essential for serious readers.
Janet Dawson
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Private Investigator Mysteries
Oakland PI Jeri Howard worked at a private investigator firm before striking out on her own. Her former colleague Cal Brady had a history with the bottle that cost him his license. 🥃 But Cal reclaimed his life through AA and found work as a security guard at a construction site on Oakland’s gritty waterfront. Then his body washes up in the estuary.
Did Cal fall off the wagon and into the water? His daughter Madison isn’t buying that story. She thinks Cal was murdered, and she wants Jeri to find out what really happened. 🔍 The waterfront is changing at breathtaking pace—long-abandoned industrial sites transforming into apartments, condos, and retail spaces. Money to be made, hand over fist.
And unscrupulous people doing business their way, ready to push aside anyone who gets in their way. 💀 Dawson delivers a mystery steeped in Oakland’s geography and politics, where gentrification creates winners, losers, and motives for murder. Jeri’s investigation takes her through the waterfront’s transformation, from ship and rail yards to construction sites to corporate offices.
The personal connection—Cal was a friend, a colleague, a cautionary tale—gives the case emotional weight beyond the procedural. 🌊 Jeri becomes convinced Cal was murdered, but proving it means going up against people with resources and ruthlessness she can barely imagine.
Here’s what you’re getting: a gritty Oakland mystery where waterfront development and murder intersect, and a PI must find justice for a friend who couldn’t save himself. 🖤 Book 12 in the Jeri Howard series.
Francesca Spencer
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Holiday Humor
James Hadley’s son Alfie is playing Santa’s helper in this year’s community Christmas show, which means James will be spending rehearsals in close proximity to Alfie’s teacher, Miss Flo Simmons. 🎄 When she’s around, he lights up like a Christmas tree. It could just be the effects of tinsel and glitter, but he’s feeling something he thought was lost after his wife’s death.
Flo knows romance is a no-no—James is a student’s parent, and she has rules about these things. 🎅 But the holly-jolly time of year is turning her insides to Jello. When they get stuck behind a plywood snowman during rehearsal, close together in the dark, her pulse races at an almost-kiss.
Spencer delivers a sweet, clean holiday romance with all the festive trimmings. The single-dad-falls-for-teacher trope gets a Christmas Spectacular staging, complete with children’s pageant chaos, meaningful glances across crowded auditoriums, and the question of whether either of them is brave enough to take a chance. ✨
This is comfort reading at its coziest—no angst, no drama, just two good people who deserve happiness finding their way to each other with a little help from the season. 🎁 The community theater setting adds warmth, and Alfie’s enthusiasm for his theatrical debut provides gentle comic relief.
Here’s what you’re getting: a feel-good holiday romance about opening your heart when you thought it was closed for good. 💕 Sweet, clean, and full of Christmas spirit.
Laura Ashley Gallagher
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Humorous Christmas Holiday Romance
Belle Brooks doesn’t believe in holiday magic or blind dates. 🎄 But when her best friends sign her up for the Twelve Dates of Christmas challenge on the Skeptically In Love podcast, she’s pushed into the worst date of her life—at a restaurant that happens to belong to Miles Bennett. Her first love. The boy she left behind when she chased her career to New York.
What starts as an awkward reunion quickly spirals into something far more complicated. Between flour fights in the kitchen, Christmas Twister, and feelings they never really buried, Belle and Miles are forced to face the past and the possibility of a future. 💕 She swore she was over him. He swore he had moved on. But Christmas has a way of making even the most skeptical hearts believe in second chances.
Gallagher delivers a rom-com with both holiday sparkle and emotional depth. The podcast challenge provides a fun structural hook, but the real story is two people who hurt each other years ago learning whether they’ve grown enough to try again. 🎁 The banter is sharp, the chemistry is undeniable, and the Christmas setting provides maximum cozy atmosphere.
Belle’s skepticism about love makes her a refreshing heroine—she’s not waiting for a fairy tale, which makes it all the more satisfying when one finds her anyway. ❄️ Miles gets his own arc too, dealing with what it meant to be left behind and whether he can risk that kind of hurt again.
Here’s what you’re getting: a charming second-chance holiday romance for readers who love their Christmas stories with wit, warmth, and just enough emotional stakes to make the happy ending feel earned. 🌟 Perfect for fans of Talia Hibbert and holiday rom-coms.
Savannah Scott
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Holiday Men, Women & Relationships Humor
Gage Lockett isn’t the actual Grinch, but if someone in town woke up tomorrow to find all the candy canes missing, the smart money’s on him. 🎄 The man glares at twinkle lights like they personally insulted his mother. He’s Waterford’s grumpiest bachelor, and he seems determined to keep that title.
So when he accidentally reads her Holiday Bucket List—complete with “Kiss under the mistletoe” and “Make snow angels”—she hatches a plan. She expected him to toss it in the trash where joy goes to die. Instead, he decides to tag along. ❄️ Now she and her friends are dragging him to every holly-jolly event from ugly-sweater tree lighting to the sleigh race, and she swears she catches him almost smiling once.
Scott delivers a cozy, closed-door, laugh-out-loud small-town holiday rom-com. The grumpy-sunshine dynamic is pitch-perfect: she’s made of tinsel and enthusiasm, he’s allergic to Christmas and feelings. 😏 Watching his defenses crumble one festive activity at a time is pure romantic comedy gold.
When Gage volunteers for the town’s Secret Santa fundraiser, she starts seeing the man beneath the scowl. Maybe the one thing missing from her holiday list is him. 💚 The Waterford setting is full of quirky townspeople, and the community’s investment in getting these two together adds comic momentum.
Here’s what you’re getting: a heartwarming holiday rom-com that proves even a Grinch can believe in love with the right person and enough mistletoe. 🎁 Third in the Have Yourself a Merry Little Romance trilogy—sweet, funny, and full of Christmas spirit.