Emulating one of her favorite literary sleuths, event planner Amy-Faye Johnson sets out to find the truth surrounding the death of Ivy, one of her fellow book-obsessed Readaholics, who supposedly committed suicide by poisoning.

When gigantic egos, old resentments, uninvited guests and murder ruin the Celebration of Gothic Novels festivities, Amy-Faye Johnson and the Readaholics must tap into their knowledge of the classics and read between the lines to lure a killer out of the shadows.--

"When Lucy Hannigan returned to her childhood home in Somerset Lake, one of the first things she did was join the local book club. And thank goodness, because now that Lucy's first Christmas without her mother is bearing down upon her, she can use all the help and support she can get. Especially when she has to take in a tenant and the only person interested is Miles Bruno, her ex-fiance. Lucy's friends keep teasing her about the way Miles is trying...

Kiki wants to start a book club, but Pearl tries to steal the spotlight with a rival fashion club in this sparkling Mermaid Tales adventure. Kiki misses her brother, Yuta, who lives on the other side of the ocean. To help keep in touch, the two of them start a book club, and Kiki decides it would be fun to expand the club for all of Trident Academy. But Pearl doesn't want anything to do with a boring book club. Instead, she decides she's going to...

Norah forms a book club and falls in love with James, one of the club's members.

"Hollis Morgan is a survivor. She married young to flee an unloving family and ended up in prison, paying the price for her charming husband's embezzlement. After finally obtaining a California judicial pardon, Hollis has climbed the ladder from paralegal to probate attorney at a respected law firm in the Bay Area. Unfortunately her first two cases are trials by fire. One involves a vicious family dispute over a disinheritance of family members who...

Amy-Faye Johnson and her fellow book club members imitate Poirot as they try to prove Amy's brother's innocence in the murder of his business partner, an investigation during which the truth becomes stranger than fiction.

The 2016 edition not only provides over 75 book recommendations, but it offers three sections: fiction, nonfiction, and young adult. There are books by authors and publishers you will recognize as well as books by debut authors and independent presses from California to Colorado to New York. There are translated works, memoirs (including a grpahic novel memoir), and some books that will be published in 2016.

"Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs theprison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest. Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn't yet come to grips with the complications of his marriage to the woman Violet killed....

For decades, the Hollander Estates winery has been the premier destination for lavish parties and romantic day trips on the North Fork of Long Island. But behind the lush vineyards and majestic estate house, the Hollander family fortunes have suffered and the threat of a sale brings old wounds to the surface. For matriarch Vivian, she fears that this summer season could be their last—and that selling their winery to strangers could expose a dark...