Death Throes
Hostile Intent
Middlemarch
Silas Marner
Intent to Kill
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Penny Weymouth. Ryan James, a minor league baseball star, was poised for the major leagues until the hit-and-run death of his beloved wife Chelsea destroyed his dream. Now hes a popular shock jock at a Boston radio station trying to raise his six-year-old daughter on his own. His […]
Devil Bones
Publishers Weekly: Dr. Temperance Brennan's quest to identify two corpses pits her against citizen vigilantes intent on a witch-hunt in bestseller Reichs's exciting 11th thriller to feature the forensic anthropologist (after 2007's Bones to Ashes). While working in Charlotte, N.C., Brennan investigates remains unearthed during a housing renovation and discovers disturbing clues possibly pointing to […]
Being Elizabeth
At age twenty-five, Elizabeth Deravenel finds herself in a position few women her age could image: the head of Deravenels, a business empire that spans the globe. It?s a company whose reach is wide and whose secrets are deep. Deravenels has roots that go far back in her family?s history, and she knows the price […]
The Laughter of Dead Kings
Laura A.B. Cifelli – Library Journal: In Vicky Bliss's final adventure, the art historian is reunited with her reformed art-thief boyfriend, John Tregarth, on a mission to Egypt to help her old friend Feisal out of a jam. Imagine the ramifications of the most iconic symbol of your homeland going missing on your watch. Feisal […]
Smoke Screen
Publishers Weekly At the start of this scorching if somewhat formulaic thriller from bestseller Brown (Play Dirty), Charleston, S.C., TV reporter Britt Shelley wakes up in bed next to the dead body of police detective Jay Burgess. While Jay had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, the authorities suspect foul play. Jay's former best friend, ex-fireman […]
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Washington Post – Wendy Smith: Though it deals with a dark period in history, this first novel is an essentially sunny work. It affirms the power of books to nourish people enduring hard times?not so surprising, since Mary Ann Shaffer, who died earlier this year, had a long career as a librarian, bookseller and […]