An all-star trio of books has officially hit store shelves – Wilde Lake by Laura Lippman, The Bridge Ladies by Betsy Lerner, and Heat and Light by Jennifer Haigh go on sale today!
Wilde Lake is an emotionally gripping standalone that explores an ambitious state's attorney's first major case which has mysterious ties to the case that thrust her lawyer father into the spotlight 30 years prior. A LibraryReads pick for May, Wilde Lake also received a starred review from Booklist, calling it a "brainy, witty, socially conscious, and all-consuming inquiry into human nature and our slowly evolving sense of justice and equality…Lippman is an A-list crime writer.”
The Bridge Ladies is a memoir unlike any other, as a trip home to care for her ailing mother turns into an unexpected journey of discovery when Betsy joins her mother's long-running bridge club. In a starred review, Booklist deems it a "touching tribute to a generation of women who seemingly had their priorities straight and their lives in control, at a price. Lerner’s portraits may well help grown daughters facing similar struggles gain some perspective." ***BONUS*** Check out the video below to meet the colorful cast of ladies who make up the bridge club.
Heat and Light is a thrilling literary inspection of small towns, big energy, and the individuals caught in between. Richard Ford states, “Heat and Light achieves pure novelistic virtuosity. It’s brilliant beginning to end.” Another deserving recipient of a starred Booklist review, Heat and Light "is not an environmental treatise masked as fiction; rather, it’s a perfectly paced rendering of the intertwined characters’ personal stories. Haigh smoothly switches between past and present, fully exposing that, indeed, the past is not even past."