I am thrilled to welcome best-selling true crime author Caitlin Rother back to Colloquium today. Her tenth book, Then No One Can Have Her, has just been published and is…
Synopsis: Carol Kennedy was a gentle-spirited artist, gifted teacher and therapist, and devoted mother to her daughters, Katie and Charlotte. For more than two decades, she remained a committed wife…
Synopsis: June Nealon has sustained unbearable heartbreaks. Not only did she lose her first husband in a tragic accident, her second husband, Kirk, and young daughter, Elizabeth, were murdered while…
Synopsis: Smoke is an evocative tale of two women navigating the secrets and lies at the heart of a wildfire threatening their town. After a decade-long career combating wildfires, Elizabeth…
Synopsis: Tess Monaghan’s life — like the recessed Baltimore of the late 1990’s in which she lives — is stagnant. On hold. In her late 20’s, her career as a…
My special guest today, Joan Steinau Lester, recently published her second novel, Mama’s Child. She describes writing as “totally involving, pleasurable, existing only for itself, not the end product. .…
Gloria Loring is no stranger to daytime television fans or music lovers. However, she is also well-known for her work on behalf of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, serving as…
Imagine your dog penning a diary or journal in which he/she not only recounts the developments in his/her life, but also reveals his/her thought processes. Consider how much easier the…
Through the telling of 115 short stories related by eleven canine authors, secrets maintained for centuries are finally revealed in Things Your Dog Doesn’t Want You to Know. Those brave…
I no longer remember the point at which I simply gave up. But I know it happened. My weight crept up and up and up as the years rolled by.…
In author Suzanne Jenkins’ first novel, Pam of Babylon, fictional Pam Smith has led a charmed life. She has a beautiful home by the water in tony Babylon, New York.…
Synopsis: Heloise grew up as Helen Lewis, the product of her mother’s unfortunate devotion to her father, Hector, an abusive adulterer who never divorced his wife. Hector told Helen that…
Synopsis: Sandy Lincoln has everything going for her. At seventeen, she is a beautiful and popular honors student and cheerleader headed for college and a bright future. But when Brad…
Synopsis: The Bissette family is on the verge of homelessness. Arthur Bissette’s factory is about to be shut down by the bank and seized, along with the family home in…
Synopsis: Lttle Charity, age six, has never known her father. That’s because her unmarried mother, Lizzie Engel, left the tiny little Mennonite community of Kingdom, Kansas, shortly after her birth.…
Synopsis: Chelsea King was a vivacious, accomplished, and extremely popular high school senior who expressed her goals and ambitions with eloquence and insight far beyond her years. She was good…
It is my honor to welcome acclaimed true crime author Caitlin Rother to Colloquium today. She has penned eight fiction and nonfiction works, including Dead Reckoning, in which she recounted…
Synopsis: Alice Humphrey really needs a job. So when she attends a gallery opening and is approached by Drew Campbell about serving as the manager of a new gallery, she…
Synopsis: Phoebe Hall has survived the break-up of her long-term relationship and being falsely accused of plagiarizing her most recent book, a celebrity biography that, like her previous work, hit…
Synopsis: Nicole-Marie Handy has been fascinated by the French language and anything having to do with France her entire life. As a child, she was enchanted by the French dictionary…
Jacqueline E. Luckett is my special guest today. She is the author of Searching for Tina Turner and Passing Love, an engrossing tale about a woman who fulfills her lifelong…
Synopsis: In the little North Carolina town of Hope Springs, the Sanders family is gathering for Christmas at the home of their matriarch, Grandma Jeri, for a reunion. Granddaughter Stephanie…
Synopsis: Logan Pyle’s life is falling apart. It has been just four months since his father, Gus, died after an agonizing four-year illness. Bennie, Logan’s stepmother, has moved out of…
Synopsis: Lucy Tucker is one of the nameless, faceless people who roam America’s streets, seeking shelter wherever they can find it. Lucy’s eightieth birthday is looming and over the years…