Wednesday Novel Readers 2019

BOOK SUGGESTIONS FROM THE 2019 EVA PERRY LIBRARY WEDNESDAY MORNING NOVEL READERS BOOK GROUP

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Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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RECOMMENDED BY ROBBIE
Description:
Discovering a tattered letter that says she is to open it only in the event of her husband's death, Cecelia is unable to resist reading the letter and discovers a secret that shatters her life and the lives of two other women. Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret, something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but...
Book cover for "The lost girls of Paris"
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Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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SUGGESTED BY ROBERTA AND ROBBIE
Description:
1946. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Inside is a dozen photographs--each of a different woman. Grace soon learns that the suitcase belonged to Eleanor Trigg, leader of a network of female secret agents deployed out of London during the war. Twelve of these women were sent to Occupied Europe as couriers and radio operators to aid the resistance, but they never...
Book cover for "Magpie murders"
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Series:
Magpie murders volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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RECOMMENDED BY LISA
Description:
When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan's traditional formula has proved hugely successful. Conway's latest tale has Atticus Pund investigating a murder at Pye Hall, a local manor house. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing...
Book cover for "The president is missing"
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Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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RECOMMENDED BY ROBBIE
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"The White House is the home of the President of the United States, the most guarded, monitored, closely watched person in the world. So how could a U.S. President vanish without a trace? And why would he choose to do so? An unprecedented collaboration between President Bill Clinton and the world's bestselling novelist, James Patterson, The President Is Missing is a breathtaking story from the pinnacle of power. Full of what it truly feels like to...
Book cover for "A single thread"
Star rating for A single thread
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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RECOMMENDED BY ROBERTA
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"1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a 'surplus woman,' one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home...
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Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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THE FIRST IN A NEWER SERIES RECOMMENDED BY LISA. THE SECOND IN THE SERIES IS 'THE SENTENCE IS DEATH' AND THE AUTHOR HAS PLANNED ABOUT NINE FOR THE SERIES.
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One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper -- the wealthy mother of a famous actor -- enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who's as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes....