Another new author, Vanessa Diffenbaugh, has written a wonderful new book called. The Language of Flowers. Sounds almost like a romance novel doesn't it? In fact, the main character of the book spends her childhood in the foster care system with all that implies, although the author resisted putting in any sexual molestation incidents. One of the main themes of the book is second chances, important to all foster children and those who love them. Ms. Diffenbaugh spent years as a foster parent so she knows.
There really is a language of flowers by the way. There's a BBC series called Rosemary and Thyme where a murder in a past century is solved by reading the flowers planted in a garden in a certain order.

Author Ronald DeFeo, has his first novel out, Calling Mr. King, a crime novel about a hit man along the lines of Lawrence Block's hit man John Keller, only his thing is architecture, not stamps. I'm looking forward to more in this series. Very good.