[ About An Unlikely Visitor ] MARGARET THINKS HER TIME IS UP… BUT MAYBE HER TIME IS NOW? Things have been hard since her husband Derek died, and they never really got over the disappearance of their daughter, Jeanie, all those years ago. Despite everything, they built a lovely life together… it’s just starting to…
[ About The Newer World ] I knew as I made my way home that there was no home. All the old things. . . were gone forever.Against a rapidly shifting landscape, Tennyson Bouguereau – freed man, devoted brother, nascent singer, conflicted soldier and wanted man – journey to find meaning and belonging. From the…
[ About Every Buried Secret ] DI Sinead Zaf is tired of working twice as hard to be taken seriously… Frustrated by the toxic culture of Birmingham’s Serious Crime Unit and watching less capable colleagues rise through the ranks, she turns her attention to cold cases – hoping one forgotten investigation might finally prove her…
[ About The Calamity Club ] Oxford, Mississippi, 1933. Eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Ever since her beloved mother failed to come home last Christmas Eve, she’s been one of the ‘unadoptable’ girls at the town’s orphanage, where she fights each day to keep her wits sharp and her…
Los Angeles has always had secrets. Now someone is making powerful people write the truth before they die. Detective Logan Hollister knows the difference between truth and justice. He also knows how easy it is for a man to confuse the two when rage starts calling itself righteousness. The Confessor by Noah Christopher published July…
[ About Love Unlocked ] Melody has vowed never to fall in love again. Al is a hopeless romantic. So, when they quite literally bump into each other, there’s no reason sparks should fly. But the world seems a little upside down lately. A few weeks ago, Al ordered the removal of all the lovers’…
Today I am delighted to welcome Florida based Lee Davis Jr. to Swirl and Thread. Lee has just published his novel Oath of the Osprey (June 22nd) which is available on Amazon in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover editions. ‘Oath of the Osprey follows Douglas Cooper, a cultural anthropologist with an unusually precise mind, after his…
[ About Happy, Thank You. More, Please.] When I was twenty-one, a woman introduced me to five magic words that changed my life: Happy, thank you. More, please.Kyla Cobbler’s path to self-love hasn’t run smoothly. From making questionable dating decisions, to using booze to quell her constant Irish state of mortification, to getting arrested for…
[ About Make Strange ] It begins on an orange afternoon, cool but ruminant, close to Halloween. Sunny, only four years old, looks up from the tub of toys in the living room and asks, ‘Mama, do you remember when I died?’ Over the strange, strained year that follows, Sunny will refer repeatedly to her…
[ About Clara and Christina ] Two women meet in an unassuming coffee shop in Belfast; they seem an unlikely pair. Clara is young, inquisitive, optimistic for what the meeting holds. Christina is older, in her seventies, still glamorous, still quick. She is working on her fifth novel but no one yet knows of its…