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Updated 08/29/10

 

Title:   Think of a Number                                       Author: John Verdon 
Reviewer: Nancy                                                        Book Rating:
Reviewer Comments: Pretend you’re rich, famous, admired, but that before you were all those you were a blackout drunk.  Pretend you get a letter in the mail from someone who claims to know you better than you know yourself and to prove it that someone asks you to think of a number.  You do, and open the extra envelope included with the letter only to find your number, the number you just thought of, written there.  If you’re Mark Mellery, you call on the only person you know in law enforcement, retired detective David Gurney, even though you haven’t seen him in twenty-five years.

So begins Think of a Number, and the mystery only becomes darker, more twisted and more confusing from there in this amazing debut.  Whatever you do, don’t miss this book!

Title:   Ice Cold                                                          Author: Tess Gerritsen 
Reviewer: Nancy                                                        Book Rating:
Reviewer Comments: Wrestling with whether to end her affair with a priest, Dr. Maura Isles welcomes the chance to attend a medical conference in Wyoming, never guessing that she’d run into a former classmate: handsome, personable Doug Comley.  When Maura is invited to join Doug and his friends for a ski trip it proves to be irresistible—a chance to forget her problems for awhile.  Little do any of them realize the horrors that lay before them as they are forced to find shelter in an abandoned village tucked into a remote valley. This is just about the best suspense book of 2010! Stunning…don’t miss it!

Title:  Never Wave Goodbye                                     Author:  Doug Magee
Reviewer: Nancy                                                           Book Rating:

Reviewer Comments:
Lena Trainor is nervous and excited about her daughter’s first time away at camp, so it’s hard for her to see Sarah leave in the camp van.  It isn’t until another van arrives for Sarah that Lena and three other families realize that they’ve been duped and that their children are in the hands of kidnappers.  Remembering her grandmother’s advice to never wave goodbye, Lena can’t believe she’ll never see her daughter again but there seems to be know one who knows where the children are. A dynamite debut novel!  A page-turner of the first order.

Title:  Live To Tell                                                         Author:  Lisa Gardner
Reviewer: Nancy                                                            Book Rating:
Reviewer Comments:
Twenty-five years ago, Danielle’s father murdered her mother and siblings before killing himself and for all these years Danielle has been haunted by the guilt of being the only one he left alive.  Now a nurse working in a pediatric psych ward, caring for disturbed and violent children, Danielle is stunned when detective D.D. Warren comes with questions about one of their former patients.  Not only are families being massacred but each family has a link to the hospital and each killing bears a chilling resemblance to the deaths of Danielle’s family. Completely riveting and heart-pounding…Gardner’s best to date.

 

Title: A Single Thread                               Author: Marie Bostwick
Reviewer: Carol                                                         Book Rating:

Reviewer Comments:

Evelyn Dixon, after the abrupt end to her marriage, travels to New England and falls in love with small town New Bern, Conn. Fulfilling her dream to open a quilt shop, she settles in, becomes friends with 3 very different women, but then faces a serious illness. Her illness and recovery create a bond of community which forces all 4 women to re-examine their own lives. Poignant and polished "A Single Thread" (first in a series) is a definite must read.

Title: The Mapping of Love and Death              Author: Jacqueline Winspear 
Reviewer: Carol                                                        Book Rating:
Reviewer Comments: The 7th and latest Maisie Dobbs novel, "The Mapping of Love" finds Maisie and assistant Billie investigating the death of an American cartographer, attached to the  British army in France during WWI. In discovering that his death was actually murder Maisie's own well being is threatened. Several subplots, the chance for personal romance and the approaching loss of her mentor all build to a moving conclusion. If you like a more subtle, introspective and gentle heroine, Maisie Dobbs is definitely for you!

Title: Grave Goods                                                     Author:  Ariana Franklin   
Reviewer: Carol                                                           Book Rating:
Reviewer Comments:
Gastonbury Abbey, England, 1176, where the remains of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere are reported to have been found. In "Grave Goods" King Henry II again calls upon Adelia Agular to investigate. Rich with family, friends and an assortment of locals this is a terrific blend of history and mystery in Franklin's 3rd "Mistress of the Art of Death" series.

 

 

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