Book of the Week: The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice: On the Segregation of the QueenLaurie R. King1994, 356 pagesMystery A young woman named Mary Russell meets Sherlock Holmes while out reading and walking on the Sussex Downs. She thinks she is alone, and almost steps on him. They surprise each other, and this strange meeting is the beginning of a friendship that neither could have imagined.Mary Russell is highly intelligent, independent, an orphan, and is...
Book of the Week: Rebel of the Sands
Rebel of the Sands Alwyn Hamilton 2016, 314 pages Fantasy Amani is an orphan, a teenager, a girl and – a dead shot. She is scheming on how to get out of Dustwalk, the grim, dead-end town on the edge of a desert. To make money she disguises herself and enters sharpshooting contests. She’s a loner, and plans to stay that way. But then she meets the handsome rebel named Jin, who is on the run from the Sultan’s army, and something...
Book of the Week: The Cellist of Sarajevo
The Cellist of SarajevoSteven Galloway2008Fiction When was the last time you thought about the availability of water? In this compelling novel, set in Sarajevo under siege during the Yugoslav war and based on a true story, a young man sets out to get water for his family and a neighbor, chancing death with every street he crosses or intersection he approaches because of the soldiers in the hills overlooking the city.An older man sets...
Book of the Week: The Art of Murder
The Art of Murder Elaine Viets 2016 Mystery PI Helen Hawthorne is taking a tour of Fort Lauderdale’s Bonnet House Museum when she meets a group of art students. Unfortunately, one of the art students passes out, is taken to the hospital and dies. Was she murdered? Was her ex-husband, who was one of the other art students, the one who poisoned her tea? Helen is hired to find the answers, even as the police investigate the death. At the...
Book of the Week: Come Dark
Come DarkSteven F. Havill2016, 298 pagesMystery After a victorious game, the handsome coach for the girls’ high school volleyball team is murdered in the small village of Posadas, N.M. A young mother leaves her toddler and a puppy locked in a car and disappears, and a teenage graffiti artist (vandal?) is in the hospital after a serious car crash. Are these strange events all related? The case also involves a crime at the gigantic new...
