

Crown of Midnight
“‘There was a time when people valued honor and loyalty— when serving a ruler wasn’t about obedience and fear… Do you think another court like that could ever rise again?’”

The Locked Ward
“‘I didn’t do it,’ you tell your sister. ‘And if you don’t get me out of here, they’re going to kill me.’”

The Martha’s Vineyard Beach and Book Club
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Beyond Reasonable Doubt
“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.” — Voltaire

Art and Faith
“Let us reclaim creativity and imagination as essential, central, and necessary parts of our faith journey. Imagination is a gift given to us by the Creator to steward, a gift that no other creature under heaven and earth has been given.”

First Love, Second Draft
“There were only two ways this forced reunion of theirs could end— a passionate reconciliation that led to the renewal of their vows… or a double homicide.”

The Kill Artist
“As always he was struck by the similarities between the craft of restoration and the craft of killing. The methodology was precisely the same: study the target, become like him, do the job, slip away without a trace.”

The Last Murder at the End of the World
“Sometimes the only way to win the game is to let the pieces think they’re the ones playing it.”

The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God
“The love of God in our culture has been purged of anything the culture finds uncomfortable. The love of God has been sanitized, democratized, and above all sentimentalized.”

Rift
“There’s a lot of history here in the region, and where there’s a lot of history somewhere, you can be sure you’ll find a lot of tragedy. And where there’s a lot of tragedy, there always seem to be a lot of ghosts— or at least stories about them.”

Big Dumb Eyes
Riveting.

The Artist of Blackberry Grange
“‘This old house holds many ghosts, my dear. Some of them are mine.’”

A Dead Draw
“‘Revenge can be a powerful motivator.’”

Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
“Seven writers board a train. At the end of the line, five will leave it alive. One will be in cuffs.”

All We Thought We Knew
“There are things you need to know. To understand. Our family… it isn’t what you’ve always believed.”

Nobody’s Fool
“Did it all go wrong the moment I saw you?”

Some Like it Scot
“Home. We’re all trying to find it. Sometimes it’s a place. Sometimes it’s a person. Sometimes it’s both.”

Good Dirt
“This was the true miracle of life, he thought. No so much to be born as to bear up under what comes your way. To find a way forward. To embrace what was good.”

Heist Royale
Ocean’s Eleven meets 21…. a three phase gambit, winner lives.

Famous Last Words
When your loving husband takes hostages and then disappears for seven years…