Jill Churchill
It Had To Be You

March 3, 1933, the day before Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration. Siblings Lily and Robert Brewster have agreed to help out at a nursing home next door to their own cottage. The convalescent home is full of colourful characters, including a cantankerous old man named Sean Connor. The day the Brewsters arrive, he slips into a coma and dies. No one is surprised at his passing - until it's revealed that he was murdered. And Mr Connor isn't the only victim in town. With multiple murders plaguing the community, the Brewster siblings are more committed than ever to helping the police find a cold-blooded criminal before he strikes again.

Pearl Cleage
Babylon Sisters

Catherine, facing forty and fifteen years older than her half-sister Amelia, returns to Atlanta to celebrate her baby sister's birthday, wondering what the next phase of her life will hold. Riding through the West End neighbourhood where she and her sisters were born, Amelia makes a confession that will alter both their lives.

Perhaps it's a blessing when Jasmine Dent dies in her sleep. At last an end has come to the suffering of a body horribly ravaged by disease. But small inconsistencies lead her neighbour, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid, to a startling conclusion: Dent was murdered. But, if not for mercy, why would someone destroy a life already doomed? As Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James sift through the dead woman's strange history, a troubling puzzle emerges - a bizarre amalgam of charity and crime - and of the blinding passions that can drive the human animal to perform inhuman acts.