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The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley
This is Alan Bradley’s new installment in his series starring precocious twelve year old, Flavia de Luce. Flavia, amateur chemist with a penchant for poisons, solves mysterious death after death in otherwise dull Bishop’s Lacey. If you like your cozy touched with saucy humor, start with the series debut, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the…
Help for the Haunted by John Searles
Sylvie Mason’s parents help tormented souls until they are murdered one wintry night. Sylvie’s narrative leads us through events leading up to that night, all that happens after, and the dark secrets revealed throughout.
Letters from Skye, by Jessica Brockmole.
Dear Patron, Read this one. You’ll enjoy the correspondence between “Sue,” in the Isle of Sky, and Davey, in Urbana, Illinois, who meet, via the mail, just before the (World) War (I). Sincerely, Deer Park Pageturners.
The Rest of Us, by Jessica Lott.
What was it Mark Twain said, when news of his death was announced prematurely, “reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated”? This is the premise of this book– long-ago lovers coincidentally reunite after his obituary appears (only and only briefly) on-line.
The Why of Things, by Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop.
This is a novel with great atmosphere, if you cannot or are not taking a summer vacation this year. Travel to the coast of Massachusetts with this family– and wonder how you’d respond to the intrigue.
Everybody Has Everything, by Katrina Onstad.
… except Ana and James who want a baby but have just given up after years of futile fertility testing. And then the stork delivers a 2 year-old boy after a devastating crash kills the boy’s father and leaves his mother in a coma, acquaintances, not even long-time friends, of Ana and James.
The Silver Star, by Jeannette Walls.
Jeannette Walls has a lot of experience with crazy mothers and in this book she tackles the topic fictionally. When Liz is fifteen and Bean (Jean– aha!) is twelve, their mother ups & leaves. When the “bandersnatchers” (police) turn up at their home, the girls board a Greyhound to the town where their mother grew…
The Illusion of Separateness, by Simon Van Booy.
So of course the intention is to prove that separateness is an illusion. Van Booy does this by subtly connecting Martin in Los Angeles in 2010 to Sebastien in France in 1968 to John in France in 1944 to Amelia in Amagansett (just to throw in the fact that this is partially set on Long Island)…
Big Brother, by Lionel Shriver.
When Lionel Shriver (I love Lionel Shriver!) calls him “big brother,” she means it in both senses of the phrase (older and obese). Little sister Pandora is surprised and horrified when Edison is wheel-chaired off the plane and in the two months he’s a houseguest, his metamorphosis is like the elephant in the room. (The denouement (jeez,…