Pursuits Unknown: An Amy and Lars Novel, Ellen Clary. $16.95, 978-1-943006-86-1. Search-and-rescue agent Amy and her telepathic dog, Lars, locate a missing scientist who is reported to have an Alzheimer’s-like disease—only to discover that someone wants to steal his research for potentially ominous purposes.
Tracing the Bones: A Novel, Elise A. Miller. $17, 978-1-940716-48-0. When 41-year-old Eve Myer—a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage and plagued by chronic back pain—begins healing sessions with her new neighbor Billy, she’s increasingly drawn to him, despite the mysterious circumstances surrounding his wife and child’s recent deaths.
The Goodbye Year: A Novel, Kaira Rouda. $17, 978-1-940716-33-6. Told from the points of view of both the parents and kids, The Goodbye Year explores high school peer pressure, what it’s like for young people to face the unknown of life after high school, and how a transition that should be the beginning of a parents’ second act together—empty nesting—is often actually the end.
