The Fires of Edgarville

Scheduled for release in September 2009, The Fires of Edgarville is Craig Danner's second novel. An usual tale, it is the story of Hank Davenport, a Japanese-American physician who is accused of mercy-killing a young patient. Exonerated, he decides to leave his tainted reputation behind, and moves to his adopted mother's remote and dilapidated pear farm. As his mother begins to slide into the dementia of Alzheimer's, she reveals long-held secrets while Hank becomes involved in the mystery of a phantom arsonist plaguing a community with its own shameful history. Learn more...

Himalayan Dhaba

Winner of the 2002 Pacific Northwest Book Award, Himalayan Dhaba was a surprise bestseller and a favorite novel of booksellers throughout the Northwest. It is the story of Doctor Mary Davis, recently widowed, who follows the spirit of her late husband to a town high in the Indian Himalayas. When she drops her bags at the old mission hospital where her husband once had volunteered, she begins a year-long odyssey of descent and redemption that connects her with a cast of unexpected characters. Learn more...