Lindsay Owen Pierre
When an old friend of New York Sentinel Crosswords editor Tess Harper is found murdered on the very day her puzzle includes his proposal of marriage, Tess unofficially teams up with Detective Logan O’Connor to find the killer.
Jamie's no cheese connoisseur. And the macho cheese monger at Global Cheese knows it. So when Jamie buys some cheese for a party, she's unwittingly drawn into a macho superiority contest. Challenged to stand her ground, this is a cheese shop face-off between old-guard patriarch and new-generation feminism.
The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands.
Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina Vasquez breaks her engagement with her beloved fiancé Mike due to his suffocating jealousy, but misses him. Mike is stalked by a stranger, bartender Artie Venzuela. The poor Jules arranges to spend Christmas Eve in the hospital, where he spent the best Christmas of his life when he was a teenager. The lives of some of these characters cross with others along the night.
The conscientious beauty editor of a women’s magazine persuades an up-and-coming photographer to pretend to be her boyfriend when her ex (who is also her boss) gets engaged to somebody else. Whilst working together to shake up the magazine’s waning reputation, the photographer brings out the fun-loving part of her she’d forgotten existed – but isn’t developing real feelings for each other against the rules.
