Check this out, at the library this week
There is still time to pick up a League of Women Voters Guide at the library, while supplies last. Did you miss the Friends of the Library Fall Book Sale? Don't worry you can still come by the library and get a great deal on great books. Books are on display near the front of the circulation desk and in the basement of the library. Come by the library during regular business hours to buy books.
This week's reviews include fiction titles in audiobook format.
It's sweltering in Charlotte, North Carolina and Temperance Brennan, is recovering from neurosurgery following an aneurysm in “A Conspiracy of Bones” (AUCD F REI K) by Kathy Reichs, Linda Emond (Narrator). Tempe is battling nightmares, migraines, and what she thinks might be hallucinations when she receives a series of mysterious text messages, each containing a new picture of a corpse that is missing its face and hands. Immediately, she's anxious to know who the dead man is, and why the images were sent to her. To discover the man's identity, Tempe must go rogue and work outside the system. Her new boss holds a fierce grudge and is determined to bar her from the case. But she bulls forward anyway, even as she begins questioning her instincts and as puzzles accumulate: Was the faceless man a spy? A trafficker? A target for assassination by the government? And why was he carrying the name of a long-missing child? With help from a number of law enforcement associates including her Montreal beau Andrew Ryan and the always-ready-with-a-smart-quip, exhomicide investigator Skinny Slidell, and utilizing new cutting-edge forensic methods, Tempe draws closer to the astonishing truth. But the more she uncovers, the darker and more twisted the picture becomes.
Dr. Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, is a renowned investigator known for her razor-sharp senses, and keen deductive abilities, honed during her years in the dark. Now her skills are needed uncomfortably close to home in “Hindsight” (AUCD F JOH R) by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen. Two staff members have been murdered at a school for the blind where Kendra spent her formative years. But the murders are puzzlingly dissimilar: one victim was brutally stabbed, while the other was killed by a bullet to the head. Are the crimes related? Or is Kendra on the hunt for more than one dangerous killer? With the killer or killers still on the loose, Kendra races against time to unravel a dangerous conspiracy. But Kendra soon discovers that she herself may hold the key to the deadliest secret of all.in the small north Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night in “The Guardians” (AUCD F GRI J) by John Grisham, Michael Beck (Narrator).
The killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo's. Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twentytwo years he languished in prison, maintaining his innocence. But no one was listening. He had no lawyer, no advocate on the outside. In desperation he writes a letter to Guardian Ministries, a small nonprofit run by Cullen Post, a lawyer who is also an Episcopal minister. Guardian accepts only a few innocence cases at a time. Cullen Post travels the country fighting wrongful convictions and taking on clients forgotten by the system. With Quincy Miller, though, he gets far more than he bargained for. Powerful, ruthless people murdered Keith Russo, and they do not want Quincy exonerated. They killed one lawyer twenty-two years ago, and they will kill another one without a second thought.
Grandma Mazur, Stephanie Plum's favorite family member and occasional partner in crime, has decided to get married again in “Twisted TwentySix” (AUCD F EVA J) by Janet Evanovich, Lorelei King (Narrator). Grandma Mazur is marrying local gangster, Jimmy Rosolli. If Stephanie has her doubts about this marriage, she doesn't have to worry for long, because the groom drops dead of a heart attack 45 minutes after saying, "I do." A sad day for Grandma Mazur turns into something far more dangerous when Jimmy's former "business partners" are convinced that his new widow is keeping the keys to a financial windfall all to herself. But the one thing these wise guys didn't count on was the widow's bounty hunter granddaughter, who'll do anything to save her. Stephanie Plum has made a career out of tracking down bad guys, but this time some of the worst people in all of New Jersey are coming after the most important person in her life, and she's the only thing standing in their way.
“No two persons ever read the same book.” – Edmund Wilson
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