Literary Fiction – Blue Mood Café

Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves @authorbenreeves @mikefranklandvo @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social #EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurt

the setup… To most people, Travis is an ordinary, indistinct man living in a quiet, indistinct English town. He walks through the neighborhood everyday, connecting with strangers and familiar faces alike. See, Travis is Death and appears when someone is nearing the end of their time in this world. He doesn’t look the role, attractive… Continue reading Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves @authorbenreeves @mikefranklandvo @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social #EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurt

the setup… Daphne Fuller is a fifty-three year old private school English teacher. She and husband Jonathan are in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art when they notice an older gentleman who appears to be following her. It’s Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather who she hasn’t seen since she was nine years… Continue reading Whistler by Ann Patchett @parnassusbooks @parnassusbooks.bsky.social @harperbooks @harperbooks.bsky.social @librofm @libro.fm #Whistler

the setup… April and Leo Torres are roused in the middle of the night when their house is suddenly in flames. They escape with their two young children and find respite with her family in nearby Dallas. Their house isn’t the only thing on fire as they face the fracturing of their marriage. She’s a… Continue reading The Burning Side by Sarah Damhoff @sarahdamoff @stacygonzalezbooks @timapabon @hellojacks @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social #TheBurningSide

the setup… One man has forever altered the trajectory of three women’s lives. Birdie Chang was 9-years old when she was sexually assaulted by Calvin Boyd, a young man in his twenties. Linzie King was 13-years old when he sexually assaulted her. Mary-Beth Boyd loves her son unconditionally and chooses to blindly make excuses for… Continue reading Whidbey by T Kira Madden @tkiramadden @tkiramadden.bsky.social @eunicewongnarration @ladychristinamoore @miahutchinsonshaw @lobecca @marinerbooks @marinerbooks.bsky.social @librofm @librofm.com #Whidbey

the setup… Water…Earth…Fire…Air. These four elements are used to provide illustrative perspectives in four interconnected stories about aspects of crime, originally published as separate novellas. The enabler is about a woman fleeing from her husband’s scandal, wondering about her possible complicity, with the water element having a strong influence. The accomplice is a young man… Continue reading The Elements by John Boyne @johnboyneauthor @johnboynewriter.bsky.social @annafriel @colin.morgan_ @danewhyteohara #NiamhCusack @macmillan.audio @macmillanaudio.bsky.social #TheElements

the setup… Our narrator begins her story when she was a senior in college where she meets two young men in her 17th Century Lit Class. Sam and Yash are house sitting in a grand home owned by a professor on sabbatical. Sam takes her out and invites her into their world of smart conversation,… Continue reading Heart the Lover by Lily King @lilykingbooks #RebeccaLowman @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social #HeartTheLover

the setup… The story continues with Rose Douglas who has grown comfortable and confident now that her abusive ex, Tommy Merchant, left town five years ago. She’s loving her job at the clinic, her two boys are thriving and she’s tiptoeing around a potential relationship with widower Nate Theroux. But when Tommy suddenly shows back… Continue reading In a Distant Valley by Shannon Bowring @shannonbowring.author @shannonbowring.bsky.social @tantoraudio @tantoraudio.bsky.social #PatriciaShade #DaltonMaine #InADistantValley

the setup… It begins in the small town of Bonhomie, Ohio in the 1920s and the saga continues through the turbulent time of the 1960s and the Vietnam War era. Cal Jenkins was born with a leg deformity that defines and prevents him from serving his country in WWII. He marries Becky, the first woman… Continue reading Buckeye by Patrick Ryan @patrickryannyc @patrickryannyc.bsky.social @michael.l.crouch @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #Buckeye

the setup… Louisa, just a few days shy of her eighteenth birthday, decides to leave her foster home in search of the painting that left an indelible mark on her soul from the moment she saw it on a postcard years before. She makes her way into the New York gallery where The One of… Continue reading My Friends by Fredrik Backman @backmansk @marinireland @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social #MyFriends

the setup… Sybil Van Antwerp is a retired lawyer of distinction. When her story begins, she’s 73-years old, divorced, living in Arnold, Maryland and has two children; daughter Fiona married and living in London and son Bruce also married with two children. Every morning she begins her day at her desk, organizing her correspondence, preparing… Continue reading The Correspondent by Virginia Evans @virginia.l.evans @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #TheCorrespondent

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