Summer months are the perfect time to escape with fiction
and the new book shelves at the Peter White Public Library have plenty of
offerings for all reading tastes.
Reykjavik Nights by Arnaldur Indridason is the prequel to the
critically acclaimed Inspector Erlendur series.
Readers will find Erlendur as a young and budding detective on the busy
streets in Reykjavik. Erlendur is
haunted by the drowning death of a tramp he regularly sees on his nightly rounds. When nobody else cares about the crime, the
young detective gets dragged into the strange and dark underworld of the city
in an effort to solve the mystery.
Orient is a small isolated town on
the north fork of Long Island. As the
summer draws to a close, the residents are gripped by a series of mysterious
deaths. Mills Chevern is a new resident
of town. An orphan with no ties and a
hazy history, suspicion lands on him.
Can he solve the mysteries before time runs out? That is the question posed in Orient by Christopher Bollen.
Anne Rice
reinvented the vampire universe in her Vampire Chronicles series. Her latest, Prince Lestat is a chillingly hypnotic thriller that picks up where
Rice left off with the Queen of the
Damned and The Vampire Lestat. She creates new characters, legends and lore
in this eagerly-awaited novel.
The Witch of Painted Sorrows by M.J.
Rose conjours the brilliance and intrigue of Belle Epoque Paris through the
travels of New York socialite Sandrine Salome.
Salome flees an abusive husband by traveling to her grandmother’s Paris
mansion. There she finds a situation
more menacing than that which she left at home.
In
southeast Minnesota, a school board meeting is drawing to a deadly close as the
Board chair announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed to the public
and press. He persuades his fellow board
members to vote for the execution of local reporter Clancy Conley. Detective Virgil Flowers is confronted with
numerous crimes as he is called from one investigation to another in John
Sanford’s Deadline.
Lynne Truss
is best known for Eats, Shoots and
Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. She tries her hand at mystery with Cat out of Hell. Librarian Alec Charlesworth is having a bad
day. He recently lost his job, his
beloved wife has just died and to top it off, his sister is missing. Things can’t get any worse, or can they? When his sister’s cat Roger starts talking to
Alec, he finds that he is not alone.
Roger and Alec try to piece together clues involving local history,
mysterious deaths and missing persons in this clever mystery.
Sano
Ichirio’s career as the Shogun’s detective has experienced ups and downs, but
nothing seems to be as bad as he finds things in 1709. He has been demoted to a lowly patrol
guard. His relationship with his wife
Reiko is in tatters and his two bitter enemies have formed an alliance. With the Shogun old and ailing, can Sano find
the culprit who tried to murder the Shogun and to destroy Japan before all is
lost? The Iris Fan is the seventeenth novel in Laura Joh Rowland’s Sano
Ichirio series.
Jane Smiley
has written the first in what is to be a new family-saga trilogy set in
Iowa. Spanning three decades, the 1920s
through 1950s, Some Luck tells the
tale of Roseanna and Walter Langdon and their five children. Each chapter covers a single year. As the novel opens, Walter has returned from
World War I. He and Rosanna raise five
children, each of whom follows a different path. Upon completing this novel, Smiley fans will
be eagerly awaiting the next installment.
One of the
most popular thrillers this year is Paula Hawkins’ slow burning psychological
thriller The Girl on theTrain. Each
morning Rachel takes the same London commuter train past a stretch of cozy
suburban homes. Each day, the train
stops at the same signal and Rachel observes a couple eating breakfast on their
deck. She starts to spin a fantasy life
about the couple, until one day, their perfect life is disrupted by a shocking
sight. Her actions
in reporting the situation spin out of control in a story
reminiscent of a Hitchcock thriller.
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty also
focuses on suburban conflict as three mothers juggle rivalries and plenty of
juicy secrets. The connections between
the three women drawn together in a peaceful little town develop into more than
they expect. The little lies they each
tell themselves to survive may not be so innocent after all.
Hildie Good is a native of a small little town
on Boston’s rocky North Shore. She is a
successful real estate broker, mother and grandmother, but her children have
decided she is too dependent on wine.
They send her off to rehab and upon release, she is in a less than
dedicated recovery. Wealthy newcomer
Rebecca McAllister provides some diversion, but also spells danger. As a cluster of secrets becomes known, this
darkly comic novel, The Good House by Ann
Leary, takes a deadly turn.
There is no
limit to the variety of fiction available on the new book shelves of the Peter
White Public Library.
--Pam Christensen, Library Director
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