by radguru | Aug 28, 2007 | Fiction
An eight year old girl is abducted from a soccer field after a game. What appears to be a simple kidnapping turns out to be much more. The author of The Color of Law has written another novel that will keep you guessing and reading through the night.
by ta | Aug 27, 2007 | Fiction, Marie's Monthly Minutes
Let us introduce you to our new monthly feature. Marie’s Monthly Minutes. Why minutes? Because it just takes a minute to recommend a few great books. What will you find in these posts? Just straight ahead fiction – no vampires, aliens, or other worlds...
by ta | Aug 23, 2007 | Fiction, Mystery
” Laura Lippman writes mostly about private investigator Tess Monaghan. Monaghan is a made-up name and what she does is a matter of fiction. But when Lippman puts Baltimore on the page, she’s got to get it right.” Fans of Lippman’s novels will...
by ta | Aug 13, 2007 | Fiction, Literary Fiction
“Those who have an orphan’s sense of history love history. And my voice has become that of an orphan. Perhaps it was the unknown life of my mother, her barely drawn portrait, that made me an archivist, a historian. Because if you do not plunder the past,...
by radguru | Aug 9, 2007 | Fiction
I was very excited to discover this author. He has written a very suspenseful legal thriller about a lawyer that puts his highly successful career and affluent lifestyle on the line to defend a black prostitute. She has been accused of murdering the son of a...
by ta | Aug 7, 2007 | Fiction, Mystery
In Sansom’s second Mobile Library Mystery, we find our hero, Israel Armstrong, BA (Hons), in another ridiculous predicament. Our beloved underachiever has just finished his mobile-library-sponsored five-panel display on the history of the Dixon and...
