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Archive for the 'Mystery' Category

Weekly Web Spotlight

Friday, June 19th, 2009

PBS will be running Six By Agatha starting this Sunday (June 21). Six programs based on Agatha Christie novels, these Masterpiece Mystery presentations should be wonderful. The series includes:
A Cat Among the Pigeons (June 21)
Mrs. McGinty’s Dead (June 28)
A Pocket Full of Rye (July 5)
Murder Is Easy (July 12)
They Do It With Mirrors (July 19)
Why [...]

New and Upcoming

Monday, June 8th, 2009

This week I notice a lot of books with strong settings are being added to the collection. They look thick and rich, like excellent chocolate cake, and make me want to plunge in and be drawn into their worlds.
Firstly, we’re adding Mrs. Somebody Somebody, a collection of stories set in Lowell Massachusetts by Tracy Winn, [...]

Recent Book Awards

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Some recent book awards caught my attention and I thought I’d highlight them here. Hopefully, we’ll be able to keep up with the book awards news from here on out. If you know of any book awards that we miss, please post them!
The first one I noticed was that the Eric Hoffer Book Award was [...]

Still Life by Joy Fielding

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

Casey Marshall is beautiful, married to a great guy and is a very successful interior designer.
In the blink of an eye, all that changes when she is hit by a car going 50 miles an hour. Every bone in her body is broken and she can not move or see or communicate.
While seeming to [...]