Recovering Dad A Bianca Balducci Mystery Libby Sternberg It’s Bianca Balducci’s junior year in high school, and she’s got more than enough on her plate—impending SAT scores, college admissions, and the mixed signals of sort-of-boyfriend Doug. But when she finds out her mother, widowed as long as Bianca can remember, plans to marry Officer Steve… Continue reading Recovering Dad
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Uncovering Sadie’s Secrets
Uncovering Sadie’s Secrets: A Bianca Balducci Mystery Libby Sternberg In this gem of a book, scholar and wit Kenneth Lasson takes on all manner of excesses in the Ivory Tower, which from his insider’s viewpoint, constitute little less than a full-scale assault on American values and mores. Lasson uses his sharply pointed pen to skewer… Continue reading Uncovering Sadie’s Secrets
Finding the Forger
Finding the Forger: A Bianca Balducci Mystery Libby Sternberg Bianca Balducci, everybody’s favorite teenage amateur sleuth, is back on the case, and this time the resourceful Baltimorean has her hands more than full. On top of school (St. John’s), her two bickering friends (Kerrie and Sarah), and boy trouble (Doug), Bianca is brought in to… Continue reading Finding the Forger
Must Read Well
Must Read Well Ellen Pall Ellen Pall’s Must Read Well immerses the reader in an escalating game of cat-and-mouse between two women: a millennial scholar driven to deceit to reach her goals and a frail octogenarian no less capable of deception. Narrated by Liz Miller, a penniless Ph.D. candidate desperate to finish her dissertation, the novel begins… Continue reading Must Read Well
The Gene Police
The Gene Police Elliot Light Reggie Mason, a black Virginia state trooper, comes to Shep Harrington’s law office and makes a breathtaking confession to his longtime friend: “I think I’m guilty of illegally using the state DNA databases . . . and maybe a few more felonies to boot. Shep, I’m trying to decide whether… Continue reading The Gene Police
The Strange Round Bird
The Strange Round Bird Or the Poet, the King, and the Mysterious Men in Black Eden Unger Bowditch The long-awaited Strange Round Bird brings Eden Unger Bowditch’s Young Inventors Guild trilogy to a satisfying conclusion—no mean feat with so many threads and mysteries to be resolved. The children—young inventors all—are brought together with their parents at last… Continue reading The Strange Round Bird
The Ravens of Solemano
The Ravens of Solemano Or the Order of the Mysterious Men in Black Eden Unger Bowditch It has been mere days since the brilliant children of the Young Inventors Guild escaped from the clutches of the horrible Komar Romak. They’ve escaped with their lovely and caring schoolteacher, Miss Brett; with their long-absent parents; and with… Continue reading The Ravens of Solemano
Pinot Envy
Pinot Envy Murder, Mayhem, and Mystery in Napa Edward Finstein Meet Woody Robins, a bon vivant, devil-may-care wine guru who specializes in investigatory work involving rare artifacts of a vinous nature. Amidst the backdrop of world-famous Napa, California wine country, and upbeat, cosmopolitan “city by the bay” San Francisco, Woody finds he’s bitten off more… Continue reading Pinot Envy
Lonesome Song
Lonesome Song A Shep Harrington Small Town Mystery Elliot Light Reilly Heartwood, a famous country singer, is dead. His sister doesn’t recognize the dead man’s body. The local reverend has refused to permit burial. Reilly’s death is ruled a suicide. And no one has bothered to investigate. What the hell is going on here? That’s… Continue reading Lonesome Song
The Samaritan
The Samaritan Stephen Besecker After a youth marked by the death of his parents and a childhood spent with his shaman grandfather on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, Kevin “Hatch” Easter has found a job he believes in—tracker for the CIA—and a wife, Karen, he cherishes. But his life is shattered on a hot August night… Continue reading The Samaritan