A Lady’s Guide to Gossip and Murder
These new books are available at St. Catharines Public Library.
Fiction
All That’s Dead, by Stuart MacBride. Inspector Logan McRae is caught in the war brewing between factions for and against Scottish nationalism as he investigates the blood-stained disappearance of a prominent campaigner.
Found Drowned, by Laurie Glenn Norris. Based on a true unsolved crime from 1877, this novel tells the story of two towns linked by the disappearance of a teenage girl whose fragile domestic situation unravels when she goes missing from her Nova Scotia home.
The Gifted School, by Bruce Holsinger. This timely take on ambitions parents, wilful kids and the pursuit of prestige reveals not only the lengths to which these four families will go to get ahead, but also the effect these actions have on children, siblings, marriages and careers.
If You Want to Make God Laugh, by Bianca Marais. On the outskirts of Johannesburg an eight-months-pregnant 17-year-old lives in desperate poverty and under the threat of racial violence, while guarding secrets that could get her killed. On a rural farm outside the city, two sisters find a newborn baby on their doorstep, and this child will change everything they’ve believed about race, motherhood and the power of the past.
A Lady’s Guide to Gossip and Murder, by Dianne Freeman. The widowed Countess of Harleigh, Frances Winn, becomes involved in a shocking mystery when her friend Mary Archer is found murdered. Apparently, genteel Mary was blackmailing many of Victorian England’s elite, and recent events put Frances’ cousin Charles in the spotlight as the prime suspect.
Non-fiction
The Domestic Geek’s Meals Made Easy, by Sara Lynn Cauchon. From the host of one of YouTube’s most popular cooking shows comes this cookbook of easy to make, healthy recipes.
Truth Worth Telling, by Scott Pelley. In this memoir, “60 Minutes” correspondent and former CBS news anchor Pelley chronicles his career and examines why journalism matters.
Our Universe, by Jo Dunkley. Beginning in our solar system and moving outward to the edge of the observable universe, an astrophysicist explores the history and structure of the universe.
Waterloo You Never Knew, by Joanna Rickert-Hall. A historian tells the little known stories of those who lived on the margins of society in Waterloo, Ontario during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Murder Aboard, by Michael C. Hiam. This is an account of the Herbert Fuller tragedy of 1896, in which three of the ship’s passengers were murdered by a fellow shipmate.