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Ontario Public Library Week
Sunday, October 14 to Saturday, October 20th,
Food for Fines (All Week) -- "The Desk Set" (Monday movie) -- Guess the bookworms (Tuesday) -- Superhero Day (Wednesday) -- "Pop" into the Library (Thursday) -- Spin the Wheel for Prizes (Friday) -- Book Sale and Silent Auction (Saturday 10am to 2pm) Check our online calendar for more details!
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| Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding: A Royal Spyness Mystery by Rhys BowenStarring: penniless Georgiana "Georgie" Rannoch, who was 35th in line for the British throne before she withdrew from her position to marry Darcy O'Mara, an Irishman with a secretive government job.
What happens: Georgie plans her summer 1935 wedding (the king and queen are attending) and takes over the running of her godfather's country house...only to find that the servants might be trying to kill her.
Series alert: This is the charming 12th in the Royal Spyness mysteries, but newcomers can start here. |
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Under water
by Casey Barrett
Disgraced competitive swimmer, ex-con and current unlicensed PI Duck Darley must revisit his past when he is tasked with finding a former roommate turned Olympic champion's teenage daughter, an investigation that gets more complicated when the missing girl's ex-boyfriend is found savagely murdered.
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A measure of darkness : a novel
by Jonathan Kellerman
Attending the scene of a mass shooting at a West Oakland party, Alameda County Coroner's Deputy Clay Edison discovers a mysterious victim and is drawn into a bizarre counterculture world of blurred moralities. By the award-winning authors of Crime Scene
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Dead man running
by Steve Hamilton
"Alex McKnight--hero of Steve Hamilton's bestselling, award-winning, and beloved private eye series--is back in a high-stakes, nail-biting thriller, facing the most dangerous enemy he's ever encountered. On the Mediterranean Sea, a vacationer logs onto the security camera feed from his home in Scottsdale, Arizona. Something about his living room seems not quite right--the room is bright, when he's certain he'd left the curtains closed. Rewinding through the feed, he sees an intruder. When he shifts to the bedroom camera, he sees the dead body. Martin T. Livermore is the key suspect in the abduction and murder of at least five women, but he's never been this sloppy before. When the FBI finally catches him in Scottsdale, he declares he'll only talk to one person: a retired police officer from Detroit, now a private investigator living in the tiny town of Paradise, Michigan. A man named Alex McKnight. Livermore means nothing to McKnight, but it soon becomes clear McKnight means something to Livermore. and that Livermore's capture was only the beginning of an elaborate, twisted plot with McKnight at the center. In a hunt that will take him across the country and to the edge of his limits, McKnight fights to stop a vicious killer before he can exact his ultimate revenge. And his grand finale will cut closer to home than he ever could have imagined"
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Till death do us tart
by Ellie Alexander
When a murder occurs and she discovers that she was the intended victim, Jules Capshaw, who is hosting a surprise Elizabethan-themed wedding for her mom and soon-to-be-stepdad, takes a break from the festivities to turn the tables on a killer. Original.
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| The Silkworm by Robert GalbraithWhat it's about: London P.I. Cormoran Strike, a veteran and amputee, and his young assistant Robin investigate the brutal murder of a writer whose latest novel exposed other people's secrets; Robin also plans her wedding, but her fiancé disapproves of both her work and her boss.
Series alert: This is the cleverly plotted 2nd in a series by J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith (the 4th, Lethal White, just came out).
Media buzz: These compelling books have been adapted for TV; in the U.K., the show's title is Strike, and in the U.S., it's C.B. Strike. |
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| The Silence of the Library by Miranda JamesStarring: middle-aged Mississippi librarian Charlie Harris and Diesel, his 36-pound Maine Coon cat, who goes with him almost everywhere.
What happens: Electra Barnes Cartwright, the nearly 100-year-old author of a Nancy Drew-esque series, agrees to attend a special exhibit at the Athena Public Library...and the result is excitement and then murder.
Don't miss: This 5th entry in a fun cozy series features excerpts of one of Cartwright's vintage teen detective novels. |
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Books can be deceiving
by Jenn McKinlay
Newly single Lindsey Norris, the director of the Briar Creek Public Library, tries to help her best friend Beth, a children's book author, prove her innocence when she is accused of murdering her boyfriend Rick, a local celebrity
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| The Last Dickens by Matthew PearlWhat happens: After his clerk is murdered while picking up a copy of Charles Dickens' final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, American publisher James Osgood and the dead man's sister leave Boston for London in search of the manuscript and a killer.
Read this next: Pick up Dan Simmons' Drood, which is spooky, critically acclaimed, and covers Dickens' troubled last years (mystery writer Wilkie Collins, who's jealous of Dickens, is the narrator); or to see what all of the fuss is about, pick up The Mystery of Edwin Drood and read Dickens' own words. |
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Death by Pumpkin Spice
by Alex Erickson
When a woman is found strangled to death during a Halloween party at Yarborough mansion, bookstore cafT owner Krissy Hancock, with the estate on lockdown and a killer roaming the halls, must help Officer Paul Dalton find the truth, while confronting some hardùand terrifyingùtruths of her own.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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