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By Sharon Bolton, S. J. Bolton. 2008
Digging in the Shetland Islands peat, newcomer obstetrician Tora Hamilton unearths the body of a woman who had recently given…
birth and whose heart was removed. Tora becomes obsessed with investigating, even when the police, her colleagues, and eventually even her husband--a local--warn her against it. Violence and strong language. 2008By Becky Masterman, St. Martin`s Press. 2013
Retired Tucson FBI agent Brigid Quinn hides the violent details of her career from her new husband until an old…
case resurfaces. Floyd Lynch confesses to being the Route 66 killer and leads authorities to the body of Brigid's long-missing protégée. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2013By Hilary Mantel. 2012
England, 1535. Katherine of Aragon is dying and rumors of Anne Boleyn's infidelity are flying around court. Thomas Cromwell is…
charged with deposing Anne so King Henry VIII can marry Jane Seymour. Sequel to Wolf Hall (DB 70074). Some violence and some descriptions of sex. Man Booker Prize. Bestseller. 2012By Tom Perrotta, Tom Perrota. 2011
Millions disappear in a Rapture-like instant--and not just Christians. Those left behind react in different ways. Laurie Garvey joins the…
Guilty Remnant, a silent cult; her son follows a prophet; and her daughter and husband--the town's mayor--are left to flounder. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2011By Alan Jacobson, Perseus. 2009
In Napa Valley for a much-needed vacation after the events of The Seventh Victim (DB 70938), FBI profiler Karen Vail…
and her boyfriend, policeman Robby Hernandez, stumble upon a murder scene. Vail, who suspects a serial killer, forces her way onto the case. Strong language and some violence. 2009By Hilary Mantel, Henry Holt and Co.. 2009
Thomas Cromwell, a closet Protestant and blacksmith's son who becomes advisor to Henry VIII of England, realizes that he can…
accumulate power and wealth by assisting the king in obtaining an annulment and simultaneously help commoners and his country by destroying the corrupt Catholic clergy. Booker Prize. Bestseller. 2009By Tom Perrotta, St. Martin`s Press. 2007
An evangelical church's complaint forces high school sex-education teacher Ruth Ramsey to adopt an abstinence curriculum. Meanwhile, soccer coach and…
born-again Christian Tim Mason angers Ruth by leading her daughter's team in an impromptu prayer. Their differences create an uneasy acquaintanceship. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2007By Julian Fellowes, St. Martin`s Press. 2005
Well-mannered Londoner Edith Lavery lands Charles, the decent but decidedly dull earl of Broughton. Edith grows tired of their marriage…
and her priggish but polite in-laws, so when a television company arrives to film a period drama, Edith dallies with the leading man. Some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2004By H. R. F. Keating, St. Martin`s Press. 2004
When a London newspaper article threatens to expose corruption in the prestigious Maximum Crimes Squad, the Inspector of Constabulary appoints…
detective superintendent Harriet Martens (a.k.a. the "Hard Detective") to head an ultra-sensitive inquiry. Office politics and an uncooperative crew hinder Harriet's investigation. 2002By Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh, St. Martin`s Press. 2003
Hertfordshire, England; 1940. Harriet, wife of Lord Peter Wimsey, is living in the country with her children while her husband…
is away fighting. After an air raid drill in the village, a glamorous city-bred girl doing wartime farmwork is found murdered. Harriet assists the police superintendent with the investigation. 2002By Michael Frayn, Henry Holt and Co.. 2002
Following one of their mothers around the neighborhood, two British schoolboys during World War II imagine that she is a…
German spy. Stephen and Keith soon enter the world of grownups and become entangled in events beyond their comprehension. Whitbread Award. Bestseller. 2002By Salman Rushdie, Henry Holt and Co.. 1999
On St. Valentine's Day, 1989, forty-four-year-old singer Vina Apsara dies in an earthquake in Mexico. Her childhood chum from Bombay,…
the photographer Rai, tells of the music career Apsara shared with her great love, Ormus Cama. Rai reveals that he also loved her. Some strong language. BestsellerBy Gillian Roberts. 1995
Philadelphia high school English teacher Amanda Pepper is grumpy about teaching summer school until she meets her one enthusiastic pupil,…
a Vietnamese girl, April Truong. Then a series of hate crimes and April's apparent abduction force Amanda into her sleuth mode. Some violenceBy Gillian Roberts. 1994
Philadelphia teacher Amanda Pepper, previously in Caught Dead in Philadelphia (DB 37547) is invited to vacation in Atlantic City with…
her friend Sasha Berg. Sasha later finds a dead man in her bed and is arrested for murder. With the help of Amanda's police boyfriend and some colorful locals, Amanda hunts for the real killerBy Julie Salamon. 1996
Inspired by the New Jersey nuns who in 1995 donated a large Norway spruce to Rockefeller Center for its official…
Christmas tree. The Center's chief gardener tells this tale of his yearly search for the perfect Christmas tree and of what happens when the one he wants is the best friend of an elderly nun. BestsellerBy Bailey White. 1995
Collection of thirty-seven short stories depicting places, experiences, and acquaintances in White's life. One story tells of a family member's…
desire to "reunite" the Chippendale chairs that are now scattered throughout the family. Another portrays a woman who feels she has the right to pick from the town's rose garden because she was once the rose queen. BestsellerBy Doris Mortman. 1994
Isabelle de Luna, whose mother was murdered and whose father was accused of the crime, was raised as a sister…
to Nina Duran, who was adopted as a baby by the Durans. When Nina learns the truth about her past, she flees to New York, becoming a TV celebrity. Isabelle becomes a world-renowned artist. Both women are haunted by a past that must be understood before they can find true love. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. BestsellerBy Bailey White, B. White. 1993
A collection of White's tales, some of which have been heard on "All Things Considered," regarding life in rural south…
Georgia. They include "Turkeys," which tells of the time an ornithologist used her 102-degree temperature to help hatch sixteen wild turkeys, and "Porsche," which describes the car White's father left home in, that now sits on the porch with other accumulated items. BestsellerBy Doris Mortman. 1989
Gaby Cocroft, just divorced, moves to New York to start a new life. She becomes known as Gabrielle Didier--a wealthy…
French widow--and enters the world of antiques. Her past may be the creation of her imagination, but her knowledge of antiques is real and she soon becomes a force to reckon with. Descriptions of sex. BestsellerBy Lois Battle, St. Martin`s Press. 1984
When Cordy's marriage to a former football player disintegrates, she flees Chicago with her young daughter for the comforts of…
home in Savannah. There she takes refuge with her grandmother, the sharp-tongued but loving matriarch whose strong will has molded her family and her city. Cordy soon finds herself caught between family and freedom, rebellion and tradition, and reality and the myths of gentility. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex