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Spotlight on Author Stuart Neville

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If you like Irish crime fiction, or you just want to find a new author, you should give Stuart Neville a try. Neville is a staff favorite (especially for one particular staff member), and has a great backlist to choose from. His newest, THE...

Check Out These Mystery Series!

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Scottish Bookshop Mystery Series by Paige Shelton For fans of contemporary or cozy mysteries, this series features Delaney Nichols, an American who has left home for a job in Edinburgh, Scotland at The Cracked Spine. So much more than just a bookshop, the Cracked...

International Mysteries

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  MURDER IN AN IRISH PUB By Carlene O’Connor “Fourth in the series, this is a delightful combination of Irish village life, family dynamics, and romance.” ~Booklist For more information, or to place a hold, please click here. AUNTIE POLDI AND THE VINEYARDS OF ETNA...

Did You Ever Have a Family?

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Title: Did You Ever Have a Family? Author: Bill Clegg Publisher:  Gallery/Scout, September 2015 Summary/Review: Bill Clegg’s devastatingly beautiful fiction debut is portrait of a community in the aftermath of an unspeakable tragedy.  June Reid, the broken woman at the epicenter of the novel,...

My Sunshine Away

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Title: My Sunshine Away Author: M.O Walsh Publisher: Penguin, 2015 Summary/Review: I really enjoyed this book for a lot of reasons, I have to say the first is because it starts off with the act which is the foundation for the book. There is...

Night Sister

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Title: The Night Sister Author: Jennifer McMahon Publisher: Doubleday, August 2015 Summary/Review: “Do you believe in monsters?” You might after reading the creepy new novel by Jennifer McMahon. And by creepy I mean awesome. Growing up in and around the decrepit Tower Motel in...

At the Water’s Edge

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Title: At the Water’s Edge  Author: Sara Gruen  Publisher: Penguin Random House, June 2015 Summary/Review: Sara Gruen has taken on elephants, bonobos, and now the Loch Ness Monster. It’s the height of WWII in Europe as Maddie and Ellis Hyde, along with their friend...

Miniaturist

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Title: The Miniaturist Author: Jessie Burton Publisher: Harper Collins, August 2014 Summary/Review: When 18 year old Nella Oortman travels to Amsterdam to meet her new husband, she finds her life will be very different than she could ever have imagined. Nella’s new husband, Johannes...