{"title":"Allen Eskens","description":"Allen Eskens is the USA Today bestselling author of The Life We Bury, which has been published in twenty-six languages, and eight other novels, most recently Saving Emma, Forsaken Country, The Stolen Hours, The Shadows We Hide,  and Nothing More Dangerous. His books have won the Barry Award, the Rosebud Award, the Silver Falchion Award, and the Minnesota Book Award. Eskens is a former criminal defense attorney and lives with his wife, Joely, in greater Minnesota.","products":[{"product_id":"the-quiet-librarian-paperback","title":"The Quiet Librarian - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfter the murder of her best friend, a librarian's search for answers leads back to her own dark secrets in this \"searing and timely\" novel about a woman transformed by war, family, vengeance, and love, from the author of the beloved bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Life We Bury \u003c\/i\u003e(Kristin Harmel, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hana Babic is a quiet, middle-aged librarian in Minnesota who wants nothing more than to be left alone. But when a detective arrives with the news that her best friend has been murdered, Hana knows that something evil has come for her, a dark remnant of the past she and her friend had shared. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Thirty years before, Hana was someone else: Nura Divjak, a teenager growing up in the mountains of war-torn Bosnia--until Serbian soldiers arrived to slaughter her entire family before her eyes. The events of that day thrust Nura into the war, leading her to join a band of militia fighters, where she became not only a fierce warrior but a legend--the deadly Night Mora. But a shattering final act forced Nura to flee to the United States with a bounty on her head. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Now, someone is hunting Hana, and her friend has paid the price, leaving her eight-year-old grandson in Hana's care. To protect the child without revealing her secret, Hana must again become the Night Mora--and hope she can find the killer before the past comes for them, too. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Fans of Kristin Hannah's \u003ci\u003eThe Nightingale\u003c\/i\u003e or Kate Quinn's books will be caught up in this story of a courageous woman.\"―\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Exquisitely written, profoundly affecting, and undoubtedly one of the best books I will read this year.\"―Louise Fein, author of \u003ci\u003eThe London Bookshop Affair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101127250143,"sku":"9780316566322","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/xGgrfuY6QK9780316566322.webp?v=1781068311"},{"product_id":"saving-emma-paperback","title":"Saving Emma - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lawyer's race to reveal a wrongful conviction collides with the dark shadow of a murder in his own home in this propulsive and perfectly-plotted thriller from \"one of our best crime writers at the top of his game\" (William Kent Krueger, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he's certain there's not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for the past four years, convicted of brutally murdering the pastor of a megachurch. But as a law professor working for the Innocence Project, Boady agrees to look into Elijah's file. When he does, he is alarmed to find threads that lead back to the death of his colleague and friend, Ben Pruitt, a man shot to death four years earlier in Boady's own home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ben's daughter, Emma, has lived with Boady and Boady's wife Dee ever since that awful night. Now fourteen years old, Emma has been growing distant, and soon makes a fateful choice that takes her far from the safety of her godparents. Desperate to bring her home, and to free an innocent man, Boady must do all he can to investigate Elijah's case while fighting to save the family he has deeply come to love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written with energy, propulsion, and his characteristic pathos and insight, Eskens delivers another pitch-perfect legal thriller that reveals a twisted murder and explores faith, love, family, and redemption along the way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Ambitious, absorbing, and deeply satisfying.\"―Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Eskens brilliantly combines legal and personal drama.\" ―Publishers Weekly (starred review) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Superb . . . another Eskens novel to be savored.\" ―South Florida Sun-Sentinel","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101646000351,"sku":"9780316566391","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VzpxgwG_sS9780316566391.webp?v=1781071889"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/allen-eskens.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}