Showing posts with label detective and mystery stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label detective and mystery stories. Show all posts

Paper Towns: Official Movie Trailer!

Paper Towns by John Green
Paper Towns, another novel of esteemed YA author John Green, will be released on the silver screen this July! There's still plenty of time to read the book before seeing the movie and make sure you check out the official movie trailer below!

One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears. (Publisher Summary)
 

You'll Want to Change Your Locks After Reading This

A Pleasure and a Calling by Phil Hogan
A Pleasure and a Calling by Phil Hogan is a deliciously unsettling, darkly funny novel about a man who quietly spies on the private lives of his neighbors.

You won't remember Mr. Heming. He was the agent who showed you around your home, negotiated a price with the owner, and called you with the good news. The less good news is that, all these years later, he still has the key. That's absurd, you laugh. Of all the many hundreds of houses he has sold, why would he still have the key to mine? The answer is; he has the keys to them all.

Mr. Heming considers himself a connoisseur of the private lives of others. As details emerge about his troubled childhood, his hobby begins to form a clear pattern, and the reasons behind it come into focus. When the quiet routine of the village is disrupted by strange occurrences, including a dead body found in the backyard of a client's home, Mr. Heming realizes it may only be a matter of time before his secrets are found out.

"Hogan skillfully builds a character that combines Mr. Goodbar, Hannibal Lector and Moriarty..." (Kirkus Reviews)

"William Heming joins the ranks of unforgettable, unreliable narrators in this gloriously creepy novel of psychological suspense." (Booklist Reviews)

New to the New York Times Bestseller List 10/12/14

Check out Bones Never Lie and To Dwell in Darkness, both new to the New York Times Bestseller Hardcover Fiction List and available at the Community Library - place your hold today!

Bones Never Lie by Kathy Reichs

To Dwell in Darkness by Deborah Crombie

Bones Never Lie by Kathy Reichs
When a serial killer previously responsible for a string of kidnappings and murders in Canada resurfaces in the United States, Tempe Brennan is called in to pursue a deadly predator who narrowly evaded capture by Brennan once before. (Publisher Summary)

To Dwell in Darkness by Deborah Crombie
Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his new murder investigation team are called to investigate a deadly bombing and while putting together the puzzle, uncover an unexpected pattern, including the disappearance of a mysterious bystander. (Publisher Summary)

The New York Times Best Sellers - August 17, 2014

Click here to access The New York Times Best Sellers List from Sunday, August 17, 2014.
 

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
New to the list this week, Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty! 

This new book follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated. 

Click here to place your hold today!