Book Review
The Waiting Rooms
In the near future of Eve Smith’s novel "The Waiting Rooms", antibiotics no longer work, and people don’t often make it to their golden years. Following The Crisis, antibiotic-resistant strains of diseases have overrun the world,...
Book Review
Winter of the Wolf
In Martha Hunt Handler’s young adult mystery "Winter of the Wolf", a girl recovering from her brother’s death searches for answers. Bean is devastated when her brother, Sam, is found dead after an apparent suicide. As her family...
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Night Train
In David Quantick’s horror comedy "Night Train", a woman wakes on a train with no idea how she got there—or, worse: who she is. As she explores her surroundings, the woman encounters a room full of dead bodies; the only other living...
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The Lost Boys of London
Bianca Goddard, an alchemist’s daughter living in the last years of Henry VIII’s rule, is called upon by the local constable to help solve a murder in Mary Lawrence’s "The Lost Boys of London". The victim is a boy, found hanging at...
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In the Absence of Miracles
Family abuse and the complex secrets surrounding it are at the heart of Michael J. Malone’s new thriller In the Absence of Miracles. John is struggling to live a normal life. He teaches at a local high school and spends time with...
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Coconut Layer Cake Murder
Cozy mysteries don’t get any cozier than Joanne Fluke’s, and her latest in the Hannah Swensen series, Coconut Layer Cake Murder, is no exception. Hannah is a baker and amateur sleuth who’s ordered to take a vacation after a...
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Flip-Flops and Microwaved Fish
Starting your first job out of college is tough, as Peter Yawitz knows. Helping young people to navigate their new worlds of employment with plenty of humor, Flip-Flops & Microwaved Fish is written with the wise but sarcastic tone of...
Book Review
Fatal Roots
The dead do not want to stay buried in Sheila Connolly’s ninth installment of her County Cork series, Fatal Roots. Maura Donovan, who moved from Boston to take over her family’s pub in Ireland, is getting used to rural Irish living...