Public Enemy
Publisher Weekly Review: After a slow start, Staeger's solid second novel to feature semiretired CIA agent W. Cooper (after 2005's Painkiller) turns into a riveting and timely story revolving around a biological weapons threat. While Cooper explores a botched smuggling job involving stolen Mayan gold artifacts in the Virgin Islands that results in many deaths, […]
Marley & Me : Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
Library Journal Review: Grogan, a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer and former editor of Organic Gardening magazine, offers a humorous and loving tribute to Marley (after Bob Marley), his late 100-pound yellow Labrador. The story begins in south Florida when Grogan and his wife, Jenny, decide to adopt a puppy and begin their search. Marley […]
The Wrong Hostage
Publisher Weekly Review: A mother's worst nightmare of an endangered child is just one breathless element of Lowell's latest romantic thriller (after Always Time to Die). Newly divorced California judge Grace Silva discovers her billionaire ex-husband, Ted Franklin, is missing, after she's summoned to the exclusive Mexican prep school where her 15-year-old computer whiz son, […]
Dark Tort
Publisher Weekly Review: At the start of bestseller Davidson's delicious 13th culinary adventure featuring caterer Goldy Schulz (after 2004's Double Shot), Goldy stumbles over the body of neighbor Dusty Routt, a paralegal at Hanrahan & Jule, a boutique law firm in Aspen Meadow, Colo., with which Goldy has a lucrative contract to provide breakfasts and […]
Tomb of the Golden Bird
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. The absorbing 18th entry in MWA Grand Master Peters's bestselling Amelia Peabody series (after 2005's The Serpent on the Crown) centers on one of the great real-life discoveries in Egyptology?the opening of Tutankhamon's tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922. Amelia's husband, Radcliffe Emerson (aka "the Father of […]
Who's Sorry Now?
"Sister and brother duo Lily and Robert Brewster may not have a penny to their names, but at least they're in good company – times couldn't be tougher in the Hudson River Valley during the Great Depression, and even the much-revered chief of police has abandoned his boardinghouse. The poor town has been stripped of […]
Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books
The Midnight Feast
26a
The attic room at 26a Waifer Avenue in the lower-middle-class London neighborhood of Neasden is a sanctuary for identical twins Georgia and Bessi Hunter. It is a private universe where fantasy reigns as well as an escape from the sadness and danger that inhabit the floors below. Here the girls share nectarines and forge their […]