Kris Radish Books in Order

Journalist Kris Radish investigates Laurie Bembenek's murder conviction, prison escape, and contested treatment by Milwaukee authorities. Drawing on interviews, she examines Bembenek's life as a former police officer and the questions surrounding the prosecution.

Clifford Isaacson and Kris Radish present a personality framework based on perceived position within a family. A questionnaire and five categories explore how birth order, adoption, divorce, and sibling gaps may influence relationships and behavior.

Eight longtime friends leave their ordinary lives to walk along a Wisconsin highway after midnight. As their unplanned journey attracts national attention, shared memories reveal the private losses, relationships, and frustrations that brought them together.

Discovering her husband's infidelity awakens Meg Fratano to her dissatisfaction after twenty-seven years of marriage. With support from friends and her teenage daughter, she begins questioning others' expectations and considering a life shaped by her own wishes.

Katherine receives her late friend Annie's ashes in red sneakers, along with an unusual request. Joined by four other women, she travels to places important to Annie, sharing grief, memories, and secrets along the way.

Connie Nixon repeatedly revises her private wish list without acting on it. Discovering her estranged daughter's involvement in a sex-toy business prompts a sudden trip to New York, where reconnecting with Jessica challenges Connie's inhibitions.

Addy Lipton hopes a Costa Rican holiday might revive her troubled marriage, but her husband's injury cancels their escape. With support from her sister and friends, she begins changing her life in their Pennsylvania town.

Dependable Emma Gilford juggles her sisters, widowed mother, and a teenage niece as a family reunion approaches. An unexpected message from Samuel, a man she tried to forget, unsettles the carefully managed life she has built.

A storm strands Holly Blandeen and four unfamiliar women at an airport, prompting them to share a hotel suite. Their enforced proximity draws out secrets and difficult questions about the relationships and choices shaping their lives.

Psychologist Olivia Bayer takes an unconventional approach to four women's court-ordered anger-management sessions. As their meetings move beyond the classroom, reluctant participants confront personal pressures, hidden wounds, and the frustrations that brought them into treatment.

A wrong turn in rural Florida leads librarian Emily Weaver to a manuscript apparently written after Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's death. Investigating its origins draws Emily into a dangerous literary mystery that challenges the accepted story.

In autobiographical essays, Kris Radish revisits experiences from childhood, motherhood, relationships, and her journalism career. Encounters with murderers, travel into wartime Bosnia, and personal emergencies form part of her account of an unusually eventful life.

In 1904, Boston socialite Julia Briton discovers her husband's involvement in the bird-plume trade and joins activists in Florida. Years later, hidden recordings confront her great-granddaughter with secrets about Julia's choices and their lasting legacy.

When gold miners abduct her husband in the 1860s frontier, Briar Logan must abandon her solitary habits. A troubled young man and a female horse trainer join her dangerous pursuit through a lawless western landscape.