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Here you can see what library staff are recommending and read a summary of each book.

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  • Select the Full Review link to read the entire summary and view the book cover, both in a popup window.
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Flash Point by Nancy Baker Jacobs
A fast paced, page-turner by this local author makes for a good read. Tough arson investigator, Susan Kim Delancey, has her hands full trying to apprehend a serial arsonist who is targeting ...
Full Review (September 2009)

Poets and Murder, a Judge Dee Mystery by Robert van Gulik
-- also available in Chinese Language Book format --
Add “Cold Case” to “Law and Order” and “CSI,” throw in a dash of “X Files,” and you have a winning recipe for a multifaceted murder mystery in Poets and Murder. Learn ...
Full Review (September 2009)

In the Moon of Red Ponies by James Lee Burke
-- also available in Book on CD format --
In another mystery page-turner starring attorney Billy Bob Holland (Cimarron Rose, Bitterroot), Burke presents a complex tale in a supposedly simple setting, Montana. The story, narrated by Billy Bob, begins with his ...
Full Review (August 2009)

The Distant Echo by Val McDermid
-- also available in Book on Cassette format --
On a cold December night in 1978, Alex Gilbey and his 3 friends, Tom, David and Sigmund, find the body of Rosie Duff who has been brutally stabbed. The four, who start ...
Full Review (August 2009)

Amendment of Life, a Mystery by Catherine Aird
A body found at the foot of the Minotaur in the center of a Tudor yew maze and an unusual motive for murder are just two of the surprise elements in another ...
Full Review (July 2009)

The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry
This is the first novel in Perry’s Victorian mystery series starring Thomas Pitt. Pitt is a London policeman who, unexpectedly, grew up in the world of the privileged classes of Victorian England ...
Full Review (July 2009)

Owls Well That Ends Well by Donna Andrews
This is the 6th book in a series of mysteries featuring blacksmith Meg Langslow, her boyfriend Rob and her wacky family. Meg and Rob are having the yard sale of yard sales. ...
Full Review (April 2008)

The Doorbell Rang : a Nero Wolfe Novel by Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe, known for his genius and weight, heads a legendary detective agency whose aim is to “detect” as little as possible. Archie Goodwin, his witty legman, is a walking recorder popular ...
Full Review (October 2007)

Cold Is The Grave: a Novel by Peter Robinson
A young boy surfing on the Internet comes across a pornographic website and finds a picture of his naked 16-year-old runaway sister. The fact that she is the daughter of the politically ...
Full Review (July 2007)

Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich
-- also available in Book on CD format --
Evanovich’s Fugitive Apprehension Agent Stephanie Plum has more misadventures than Wiley E Coyote but she solves her cases in spite of herself, her sidekick Lula and her grandmother. Grandma likes the action ...
Full Review (June 2007)

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