Girl Last Seen (NetGalley) Nina Laurin Grand Central Publishing/Hatchett Group Unbecoming Rebecca Scherm Penguin Two young women: Laine, a kidnap victim; and Julie, an accessory to a crime. Both are living under assumed names, supposedly for protection. Except, as both Girl Last Seen and Unbecoming demonstrate, it’s difficult, if not impossible, to run away from one’s past. The …
Girl Waits With Gun Amy Stewart Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Constance Kopp and her sisters Norma and Fleurette manage the farm just fine, thank you very much. They garden, raise chickens (and pigeons!), and, since their mother died, have successfully rebuffed brother Francis’s pleas to come live with him and his family in town: “You can’t …
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d Alan Bradley Delacorte Press Little Flavia is growing up. In her previous adventure, The Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, as well as her new one, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d, Flavia displays more poise and decorum than she ever thought possible. And she’s puzzled by a new-found tendency towards …
Little Pretty Things Lori Rader-Day Seventh Street Books I don’t read mysteries. Never liked ’em. Except when I like them as here or here or even here. And of course there’s my beloved Flavia. So maybe I’d better rethink this mystery thing, right?! Lori Rader-Day’s Pretty Little Things is a pretty straightforward murder mystery from about page 40. …
Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster (Edelweiss; NetGalley) Scott Wilbanks Sourcebooks Landmark paperback release: August 4, 2015 lemoncholy: (noun) 1. The habitual state in which one makes the best of a bad situation. (adjective) 2. Afflicted with, characterized by, or showing lemoncholy. I’ll just lay it right out there and tell you I loved this novel …
As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust (DRC) Alan Bradley Delacorte Press Release date: January 6, 2015 If you haven’t caught Flavia fever by now, you’re missing out on something special. Twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is a chemist prodigy-turned-sleuth who has solved any number of thefts, murders, and kidnappings in her six previous adventures. At the …
The Life We Bury (Edelweiss DRC) Allen Eskens Seventh Street Books I usually pass over mystery or crime novels–but something in the blurb for this title pulled me in. It could have been that the main character, Joe Talbot, was an English major . It could have been the mention of his autistic brother. Or it could …
Noah’s Rainy Day (NetGalley) Sandra Brannan release date: Sept. 3, 2013 Although normally being called a vegetable or broken might hurt my feelings, for the first time in my life, I was relieved that someone thought of me that way. I knew that if the scaredy-cat neighbor believed I couldn’t think or speak -being nothing more than a vegetable–the …
The Longings of Wayward Girls (Galley Alley) Karen Brown Karen Brown’s Longings of Wayward Girls is one of the only chick lit titles I’ve read this summer … and it’s a great one! Brown tells the story of Sadie at twelve and Sadie years later as wife and mother. Because what happened to Sadie then was haunting …
Speaking From Among the Bones (NetGalley)Alan Bradleyrelease date: February 2013 Was sorrow, in the end, a private thing? A closed container? Something that, like a bucket of water, could be borne only on a single pair of shoulders? The story begins in true Flavia fashion with a twelve-year-old girl who can’t keep her eyes off …
This is my symphony 