By Geraldine Brooks
King David’s rags-to-riches story is heard through the voices of his wives, his son Solomon and others close to him as they retell his journey from shepherd to king, and murderous to remorseful.





Purity, also known as Pip Tyler, is deep in student debt and squatting with anarchists when a brush with a German peace activist lands Purity an internship with a South American organization dedicated to managing the world’s deepest secrets. Purity seeks the answers to her mysterious past as she falls for the company’s brainchild, who challenges her long-held view of right and wrong.
Over a century after a man and his wife were mysteriously murdered in the same building that now hosts a Colorado museum and a bed-and-breakfast, historian Scarlett Barlow finds herself taking pictures of dead people. When the museum statues start talking to her, she calls on her ex-husband, Diego, who has been picked to join the Krewe of Hunters, for help.
An internet sleuth’s claims about a missing person’s report connected to a body in Temperance Brenance’s lab reveal a local cult’s potential role in the mysterious light phenomenon that has long intrigued the area in which the bones were first found.
When two young men go missing, Inspector Alan Banks must race to determine how the bloodstains in the abandoned airport hanger were found so far away from the scorched van. The mystery deepens when a subsequent hailstorm sends a truck sliding off an icy road, killing the driver and revealing the body of a victim who was dead long before the fatal accident.
Hoping to cut costs and celebrate their love with a simple ceremony their friends and family will never forget, animal clinic owner Dooley Kavanagh and Lace Harper decide on a potluck wedding and a country band as they finally prepare to exchange vows in the mucked-out barn.