Book Review: Craig Johnson’s Hell is Empty
Raynaud Shade, a dangerous sociopath who confessed to murdering a boy ten years ago, is leading the FBI and Walt through a blizzard to the burial site.
Format: Hardcover
Book Review: Jennifer McGowan’s Maid of Secrets
Orphan Meg Fellowes makes her living picking pockets—until she steals from the wrong nobleman. Instead of rotting in prison like she expected, she’s whisked away to the court of Queen Elizabeth and pressed into royal service, where she joins four other remarkable girls in the Maids of Honor, the Queen’s secret society of protectors.
Book Review: Frances and Richard Lockridge’s The Norths Meet Murder
THE NORTHS MEET MURDER in the top-floor studio of the old house in which they live. Long left vacant, Mrs. North decides it is just the place for a party and takes her husband up to check it out when they find a murdered man in the bathtub! With no clue, Detective Weigand begins spinning his web and gathering into it the most amazing conglomeration of information. With the aid of Mrs. North’s “hunches” Weigand carries through to a brilliant, entertaining and fascinating conclusion.
Book Review: Chris Crutcher’s Period 8
Telling the truth can cause problems, and not minor ones. And as Paulie discovers, finding the truth can be even more problematic. Period 8 is supposed to be that one period in high school where the truth can shine, a safe haven. Only what Paulie and Hannah (his ex-girlfriend, unfortunately) and his other classmates don’t know is that the ultimate bully, the ultimate liar, is in their midst.
Book Review: Tracy Kidder & Richard Todd’s Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
Good Prose explores three major nonfiction forms: narratives, essays, and memoirs. Kidder and Todd draw candidly, sometimes comically, on their own experience—their mistakes as well as accomplishments—to demonstrate the pragmatic ways in which creative problems get solved. This useful book that is the perfect companion for anyone who loves to read good books and longs to write one.
Book Review: Charlaine Harris’ Dead Ever After
There are secrets in the town of Bon Temps, ones that threaten those closest to Sookie—and could destroy her heart . . .
Book Review: Steven Saylor’s Seven Wonders
It’s 92 B.C. and eighteen-year-old Gordianus embarks on the adventure of a lifetime: a far-flung journey to see the Seven Wonders of the World. Not yet called “the Finder”, Gordianus encounters a mystery at each of the Wonders to challenge his powers of deduction.
Book Review: Penny Le Couteru & Jay Burreson’s Napoleon’s Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
A fascinating look at cause-and-effect in history and on the world.
Book Review: Dorothy L. Sayers & Jill Paton Walsh’s Thrones, Dominations
The wife of a wealthy man is found dead, and it is up to Lord Peter Wimsey and his wife, Harriet, to solve the case.
Book Review: Mercedes Lackey’s Home From the Sea
Mari Prothero gets an unexpected surprise on her sixteenth birthday, and she demands her choice of suitors and a teacher from the sea ruler.