American Andarte is a war story, Book #2 in The Greek Stories series. The protagonist, Stavros, is a babe in arms in Book #1. By 1942, he is military age. He joins a special unit, the U.S. Army Greek Battalion. When that unit disbands, he joins an OSS Operational Group (OG). Stavros deploys to Greece as a commando to partner with the resistance movement against the occupying Nazis. In Greece, he leads raids, learns the “Greek Way,” and falls in love with a guerrilla Kapetánios.
She Who Remains
Rene Karabash
Translated by Izidora Angel
Sandorf Passage
She Who Remains, Rene Karabash’s landmark Bulgarian queer novel, secrets readers into a rural Albanian village where the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini—a collection of archaic laws—looms over the lives of the residents with the same haunting presence as the surrounding mountains. Bekija, painfully aware of why she cannot have what she most wants, chooses to become a “sworn virgin,” setting off a bloody and heartbreaking chain of events that shatters a family and destroys a cherished relationship, but also reveals how trauma can lead to vital, if uncomfortable, truths. “She Who Remains reads like a dark fairy tale from a time when life was lived closer to the bone . . . Bold and visionary, Rene Karabash’s novel unfurls a world of blood feuds and sworn virgins in a dreamlike narration that burns up the page with feverish urgency”—Katrina Dodson, prize-winning translator and author.
On a moonless stretch of backcountry road, Detective Brock Justice stares down at a crime scene that refuses to play by the rules. A woman lies dead, the apparent victim of a lethal roadside crash—until a stab wound is found hidden beneath her clothing. Two causes of death. Zero easy answers. Reunited with his partner, Detective Chloe Wright, Justice begins pulling at threads too many people want left alone. The victim had secrets—the kind worth killing for. And each suspect carries enough baggage to sink a body in Moosehead Lake. As golden leaves turn blood-red against pewter skies, Justice is fighting more than just a killer. The fallout from testifying against a fellow trooper clings to him like a bad debt, and someone inside the department is making sure he pays for it.
Bob and George are octogenarian ROMEOS—Retired Old Men Eating Out, which they do every Tuesday morning at a local Belfast Bistro. On one such morning, George receives a phone call from his distraught wife, Karolyn. She asks George to help her poet friend, Marguerite Handley, who has just discovered a dead body at the Belfast dog park. For no other reason than having nothing better to do, Bob and George begin searching for the killer of Jediah Folke, a man disliked by everyone, including his dog. Their search takes them on a rambling excursion through Waldo County, meeting a wide assortment of amusing, bewildering, and dangerous characters, while causing no end of trouble for both the local police and a Bangor mafioso. Everyone they meet appears to have a motive for killing Folke. But who actually did it, and why?
Rattling The Bones
K.B. Vaughan
Independently Published
Meet Matty Swift, a young bookworm and ancestry buff from Percy Harbor, a small town in coastal Maine where everybody knows everybody else. Asked to write a family history for an elderly neighbor curious about her beloved grandfather’s early life, Matty accepts with confident enthusiasm. After all, she’s researched her own ancestors, seeking solace after a family tragedy. She moves into the neighbor's creaky old home on the bluff overlooking town, and the quest begins. Yet Matty is still grieving and vulnerable, and self-doubt creeps in when the grandfather’s past proves far murkier than expected. She doggedly rattles the bones, uncovering his trail, piece by enigmatic piece, until frightening incidents make her aware that a mysterious someone else is on the hunt. As she scrambles to unearth long-buried Dowe secrets, she’ll need courage, daring, and help from those who love her. (Book One in the Matty Swift Mystery series).
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