Murder by Tradition
10 best books like Murder by Tradition (Katherine V. Forrest): The Temple of My Familiar, Breathe, Full English, Snowbound, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, Alias, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories, Desolation Point, Deaths of Jocasta, By The Light Of My Father's Smile
The Temple of My Familiar
| Author | Alice Walker |
| ISBN | 0753819481 |
A visionary cast of characters weave together their past and present in a brilliantly intricate tapestry of tales.
It is the story of the dispossessed and displaced, of peoples whose history is ancient and whose future is yet to come. Here we meet Lissie, a woman of many pasts; Arveyda the great...
Jemima Pardon, a paramedic with a daft name and chronic asthma, has never had much in the way of good luck. The only things she attracts are traumatic jobs, and no one wants to work with her for long.
But when Jem bumps into devil-may-care police officer Rosie Jones, her fortunes seem to be changing....
| Author | Rachel Spangler |
| ISBN | 1612941559 |
After a publicly humiliating divorce, best-selling author Emma Volant runs away to hide in the seaside English village of Amberwick, where she doesn’t know another living soul. She wants nothing more than to surrender to her broken heart in private. However, when the locals discover their newest...
| Author | Cari Hunter |
| ISBN | 1602825815 |
“The policewoman got shot and she’s bleeding everywhere. Get someone here in one hour or I’m going to put her out of her misery.”
An ultimatum that forever changes the lives of police officer Sam Lucas and Dr. Kate Myles.
When heavy snowfall isolates the small English village...
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
| Author | Amy Bloom |
| ISBN | 0375705570 |
Transcendent stories: about the uncertain gestures of love, about the betrayals and gifts of the body, about the surprises and bounties of the heart, and about what comes to us unbidden and what we choose.
A great short story has the emotional depth and intensity of a poem and the wholeness and...
A car lies crashed below a Welsh mountain road. One of the young women inside it is dead, the other badly injured, with no memory of who she is or what just happened. All she has is a bus pass showing her photograph and a name she doesn’t recognise.
As she struggles to recover from her injuries,...
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories
In Alice Walker’s second story collection, women stand their ground in the midst of crisis
This collection builds on Alice Walker’s earlier work, the much-praised In Love & Trouble. But unlike her first collection of stories, the women in these tenderly wrought tales face their...
| Author | Cari Hunter |
| ISBN | 1602828652 |
"He's going to find me," Sarah whispered. "He's going to find me before you do."
One wrong step in Los Angeles leaves Alex Pascal scarred and traumatized, unable to continue the career she loves.
In England, a drunk driver shatters Sarah Kent’s family.
For Sarah, exploring...
| Author | J.M. Redmann |
| ISBN | 1931513104 |
In this long-awaited reprint, Micky Knight had a pleasant evening to look forward to; she was running security at a party of beautiful lesbians and gay men. But a dead body ruins the affair. When more dead women are found, the police target Dr. Cordelia James as the killer - the same Cordelia who broke Micky's...
| Author | Alice Walker |
| ISBN | 0753819511 |
All your life you have the necessary illusion that you know all there is to know about heartbreak. I hate to be the one to tell you about the heartbreak you will experience after you die...
A family goes to the remote sierras of Mexico - the writer-to--be Susannah; her sister Magdalena; their father...
| Author | Cari Hunter |
| ISBN | 1626393524 |
“I can’t do this. I can’t do any of this without her.”
Detective Sanne Jensen (not blonde, not tall, definitely not Scandinavian) and Dr. Meg Fielding (scruffy, scatterbrained, prone to swearing at patients) are lifelong best friends, sharing the same deprived background and occasionally...
The second novel written by Alice Walker, preceding The Color Purple is a heartfelt and moving story about one woman's personal revolution as she joins the Civil Rights Movement. Set in the American South in the 1960s it follows Meridian Hill, a courageous young woman who dedicates herself heart and...
| Author | Cari Hunter |
| ISBN | 1626395268 |
Winter in the Derbyshire Peaks: months of knee-deep snow, short days, and rocketing crime rates.
Detective Sanne Jensen is living in self-imposed isolation and quietly falling apart, while Dr. Meg Fielding--Sanne's best friend and occasional lover--is struggling to cope with her violent...
| Author | Cari Hunter |
| ISBN | 1626398151 |
In book three in the Dark Peak series, things are looking up for Detective Sanne Jensen and Dr. Meg Fielding. Dating each other seems to be working, their families are behaving themselves, and the worst of the post-Christmas crime wave is over.
The discovery of a Pakistani girl’s body out...
The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World
| Author | Nawal El Saadawi |
| ISBN | 1842778757 |
This powerful account of brutality against women in the Muslim world remains as shocking today as when it was first published, more than a quarter of a century ago. It was the horrific female genital mutilation that she suffered aged only six, which first awakened Nawal el Saadawi's sense of the violence...
