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2015 Arthur Ellis Award — Nominated, Best First Novel A terrible tragedy tears a family apart.

2016 VOYA Top Shelf Fiction Selection Anna has always been so level-headed, so easy-going, so talented and funny. How could anyone have guessed she wanted to die? Anna is not like other people.

2017 Evergreen Award, Forest of Reading — Nominated A sister. A baby. A man who watches from the trees.

In Victory (1915) Conrad returns to the Malay Archipelago, to the setting of his first mature novel, Lord Jim, and in Axel Heyst he creates a hero who is in many ways similar to Jim, a noble altrui

Haunted by the memory of the hijacked Paris-New York flight on which his mother was killed when he was a teenager, Lowell has been receiving calls from a stranger obsessed with learning the whole t

Where do we come from? Where do we belong? For David and Nathalie, this need to know is more urgent than for most people, because they are adopted.

Charlie Gordon has an IQ of only sixty-eight and, the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, he conscientiously sweeps the floor in his local bakery until he is recommended to some university researchers

Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Vianne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully, if not happily, above their little chocolate shop.

Fred Scully can't wait to see his wife and daughter. He's got them all worked out. He's sweated on this reunion. The doors hiss open. Scully's life falls apart.