Nancy Middaugh
At the Library
Daily at our home we play a game called Connections. The idea being to take the sixteen random words provided and determine commonalities that will divide them into four groups of four. Sometimes the groupings are easy, sometimes they look easy and you’re thrown a curve, and at other times one just continues to wonder.
I’m thinking connections today, too, as I write this article about Hamburg Public Library. What do 2, 25, death, God, sealed, strangers, and wedding all have in common? Answer: They are all beginning words to the title of new books at the library.
2, for instance, is “2 Sisters Murder Investigators” by James Patterson and Candice Fox. Combine a by-the-book approach to crime solving and a reliance on street smarts and you have the two partners in a detective agency. The two half-sisters can’t seem to agree on anything except fighting for justice.
“25 Alive” is also by James Patterson but with his Women’s Murder Club co-author Maxine Paetro. SFPD Homicide Detective Lindsay Boxer is looking for the individual who brutally murdered her former partner. Warren Jacobi, himself a top investigator until the end, managed to leave Lindsay a clue.
“Death of a Smuggler” by M C. Beaton is a Hamish Macbeth murder mystery in large print. “A murder, a missing man, and the secret past of his newest constable are all that’re standing in the way of Sergeant Hamish Macbeth settling in for a relaxing winter in his sleepy Scottish village of Lochdubh.”—publisher’s words.
“The God of the Woods” has become a New York Times bestseller for author Liz Moore. A teenage girl goes missing from her Adirondack Summer Camp. Barbara Van Laar is not just any camper; she’s the daughter of the summer camp and the sister of a boy who similarly vanished fourteen years before. As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds.
“Sealed with a Hiss” is a new Mrs. Murphy mystery by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown. “When a decades-forgotten car bobs to the surface of a local creek, with a body still in the driver’s seat, it’s up to Mary Minor ‘Harry’ Haristeen and her beloved cats and dogs to save the day. . . .”—publisher’s words.
“Strangers in Time” by David Baldacci is set in London in 1944. An usual trio composed of a homeless teenage boy, a teenage girl who has returned to the city after being evacuated five years before and can no longer find her parents, and a recently widowed bookshop owner rediscover the spirit of the family each has lost. But someone is watching all of them.
Author Alison Espach has written a New York Times best seller and a Read with Jenna pick in her novel “The Wedding People.” Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn at Newport, Rhode Island, expecting to have one last splurge and is immediately mistaken for one of the wedding people. That easily happens, because she is the only guest at the Cornwall not there for the wedding.
Stop by the library and let us connect you with these new books or any of hundreds of other titles waiting for you on our shelves.
