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A Reading & Conversation with Brad Smith
Saturday, April 28, 2:00 p.m.
Cobourg Public Library - Rotary Room
Join us for a visit by author Brad Smith, in conversation with Kelly Beers & Julie Maynard about his new book "The Return of Kid Cooper." Adults Welcome. Registration required.
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Look for me : a novel
by Lisa Gardner
Detective D. D. Warren teams up with Flora Dane from Find Her in an investigation involving the sinister disappearance of a 16-year-old girl whose family has been brutally murdered. By a #1 New York Times best-selling author.
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| Force of Nature by Jane HarperWhat it's about: Whistleblower Alice Russell disappears while on a corporate retreat with four other women in the Australian Bush. Federal agents Aaron Falk and Carmen Cooper, who were working with her on a money laundering case, uncover plenty of possible suspects, including a serial killer's son.
Series alert: This follow-up to the author's acclaimed debut, The Dry (Reese Witherspoon bought the movie rights), provides another suspenseful, vividly drawn tale but can be read as a standalone. |
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Dark in death : An Eve Dallas Novel
by J. D. Robb
When a young woman is brutally murdered while attending a screening of Psycho at Times Square, Eve Dallas is contacted by a writer of crime fiction who recognizes the case, and other recent killings, from storylines in her books. By the best-selling author of Echoes in Death.
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Raspberry danish murder
by Joanne Fluke
Throwing herself into the holiday season in the aftermath of her husband Ross' disappearance, Hannah Swensen investigates the murder of her husband's television-station assistant, who had been driving Ross' car and working from his office at the time of his death. Includes recipes. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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Death of an honest man
by M. C Beaton
When an insensitive newcomer to the village of Cnothan is found dead, flame-haired sergeant Hamish Macbeth confronts a bewildering array of suspects at the same time his clumsy police sidekick, Charlie, resigns in protest of his treatment by Chief Inspector Blair. By a New York Times best-selling author. 40,000 first printing.
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| Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter MosleyIntroducing: PI Joe King Oliver, a former NYPD cop who was framed by someone on the force and spent months in the notorious Rikers Island jail.
What it's about: While he's helping a man wrongly accused of murdering two corrupt cops, Oliver receives a confession from the woman who helped set him up.
Try this next: If you like this gritty, compelling 1st in a new series by the author of the acclaimed Easy Rawlins mysteries, try Rachel Howzell Hall's LA-set Detective Elouise Norton novels or Chester Himes' classic Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones mysteries. |
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Irish tweed : a Nuala Anne McGrail novel
by Andrew M. Greeley
While Nuala Anne and her daughter take karate classes to protect themselves from bullies, shy nanny Julie is courted by a new beau, and Dermot examines a famine refugee's memoir for clues about the mysterious fever that killed his family. 75,000 first printing.
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| Land of Careful Shadows by Suzanne ChazinWhat it's about: This 1st in the Jimmy Vega series finds the Latino homicide detective investigating the racially charged murder of a Hispanic woman found dead in the small town of Lake Holly, New York. Jimmy doesn't have many clues to work with, just the two items left in the dead woman's purse: a photo of a woman and baby, and a note that says, "Go back to your country. You don’t belong here."
Read it for: an intriguing mystery, multidimensional characters, and a compelling, thought-provoking plot. |
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Raging heat
by Richard Castle
When her Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist boyfriend decides that her latest case is his next big story, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat, investigating the death of an illegal immigrant who fell from the sky, clashes with the man she loves when he writes that she arrested the wrong man for the murder. 300,000 first printing.
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| Faceless Killers: A Kurt Wallander Mystery by Henning Mankell; translated by Steven T. MurrayWhat it's about: When an elderly Swedish couple is brutally killed at their rural farm in Skåne, troubled, opera-loving Inspector Kurt Wallander tries to find the killer amid a wave of anti-immigrant attitudes following the news that the woman's last word was "foreign." This is the engrossing 1st in a popular series.
Media buzz: There have been several page-to-screen adaptations of the Wallander books, including two Swedish series and a British one, Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh. |
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