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This week's reviews are mystery and nonfiction titles in large print.
Lorraine “Rainy” lives at the top of Tiger Mountain. Remote, moody, cloistered in pine trees and fog, it's a sanctuary, a new life in An Honest Lie (LP M FIS T) by Tarryn Fisher. She can hide from the disturbing past she wants to forget. If she's allowed to. When Rainy reluctantly agrees to a girls' weekend in Vegas, she's prepared for an exhausting parade of shots and slot machines. But after a wild night, her friend Braithe doesn't come back to the hotel room. And then Rainy gets the text message, sent from Braithe's phone, someone has her. But Rainy is who they really want, and Rainy knows why. What follows is a twisted, shocking journey on the knifeedge of life and death. If she wants to save Braithe and herself the only way is to step back into the past.
At midnight, one of them is dead. By morning, all of them are suspects. It's a party to end all parties, but not everyone is here to celebrate in The Last Party (LP M MAC C) by Clare Mackintosh. On New Year's Eve, Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests. His vacation homes on Mirror Lake were a success, and he generously invited the village to drink champagne with their wealthy new neighbors. But by midnight, Rhys will be floating dead in the freezing waters of the lake. On New Year's Day, Ffion Morgan has a village full of suspects. The tiny community is her home, so the suspects are her neighbors, friends, and family and Ffion has her own secrets to protect. With a lie uncovered at every turn, soon the question isn't who wanted Rhys dead, but who finally killed him. In a village with this many secrets, murder is just the beginning.
Colleagues turned spouses Dr.
Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton already have their plates full of crazy work schedules and family pressures in Robin Cook (LP M COO R) by Robin Cook. The last thing they need is a murder. When Laurie's longtime friend, by all accounts healthy Dr. Sue Passero, dies mysteriously in the hospital parking garage, an autopsy is required, which falls squarely under Laurie's purview as newly appointed chief medical examiner. So, when Laurie asks Jack to take special care of the case, he can hardly refuse. With his curiosity sparked by the mystery around Sue's death, the indefatigable Jack, compelled to resolve the case at hand, sets out to investigate on-site at Manhattan Memorial Hospital, even though it means blatantly defying the Office of Chief Medical Examiner's rules. What started out as an inquiry into Sue's tragic passing soon turns into a deadly and dangerous chess game between Jack and the clever and deranged killer, who might just administer another lethal blow if Jack isn't careful.”
In the wake of World War II, four agents were critical in helping build a new organization that we now know as the CIA in Wise Gals (LP 327.127 HOL N) by Nathalia Holt. Adelaide Hawkins, Mary Hutchison, Eloise Page, and Elizabeth Sudmeier, called the “wise gals” by their male colleagues because of their sharp sense of humor and even quicker intelligence, were not the stereotypical femme fatale of spy novels. They were smart, courageous, and groundbreaking agents at the top of their class, instrumental in both developing innovative tools for intelligence gathering and insisting (in their own unique ways) that they receive the credit and pay their expertise deserved. Throughout the Cold War era, each woman had a vital role to play on the international stage. Adelaide rose through the ranks, developing new cryptosystems that advanced how spies communicate with each other. Mary worked overseas in Europe and Asia, building partnerships and allegiances that would last decades. Elizabeth would risk her life in the Middle East in order to gain intelligence on deadly Soviet weaponry. Eloise would wield influence on scientific and technical operations worldwide, ultimately exposing global terrorism threats. Through their friendship and shared sense of purpose, they rose to positions of power and were able to make real change in a traditionally “male, pale, and Yale” organization but not without some tragic losses and real heartache along the way. Holt uses firsthand interviews with past and present officials and declassified government documents to uncover the stories of these four women.