Bestselling crime author Ann Cleeves joins us from her English home in the Northumberland to talk about her beloved literary characters including Vera Stanhope.

A powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.

“Fast Girls” tells the story of three athletes determined to defy society’s expectations of what women can achieve.

“The Writer’s Library” is a treasure for anyone who has been moved by the written word.

Writer Jill McCorkle’s new novel “Hieroglyphics” examines connections between the past and present, the burden of secrets, and the legacy we leave behind.

The virtuosic novelist, poet, and storywriter, Ron Rash, offers a collection of ten searing stories in his new work, “In the Valley.”

“Atomic Love” by Jennie Fields features a brilliant woman scientist, espionage, and a love triangle set in the beginning of the Cold War.

In her new book, “How Ike Led,” President Eisenhower’s Granddaughter Susan looks at key inflection points in her grandfather’s life.

In “The Butterfly Lampshade,” Aimee Bender presents a luminous, poignant examination of mental illness and the broken love between a mother and daughter.

In Fiona Davis’s latest historical novel, “The Lions of Fifth Avenue,” a series of book thefts roils the iconic New York Public Library.