Summary While a small-town amateur theatre group is trying to raise money for a young girl’s experimental cancer treatment, a murder is committed in their midst. Two law students are examining the evidence to determine if the person who was sent to prison was wrongfully accused. Quote “Her neediness borders on obsession, and where obsession is concerned, isn’t there a fine line between love and hate? Obsessive love – if…
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Cormoran Strike
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Career of Evil – Robert Galbraith
Summary When Robin receives a woman’s severed leg by courrier at work, four suspects emerge from detective Cormoran Strike’s past. As the police seems to focus on the wrong suspect, Robin decides to lead her own investigation. Quote “A vast unfocused rage rose in her, against men who considered displays of emotion a delicious open door; men who ogled your breasts under the pretense of scanning the wine shelves; men…
Cormoran Strike
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The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith
Summary Leonora Quine hires private detective Cormoran Strike to find her husband, Owen, who has disappeared after an argument with his publisher about his new book, a tell-all about everyone he knows. When Owen turns up dead, the list of suspects is very long. Quote “You can’t plot murder like a novel. There are always loose ends in real life.” Interesting Facts 1 Source: BBC Media Centre2 Source: The Leaky…
Cormoran Strike
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The Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert Galbraith
Summary Cormoran Strike, a war veteran who was wounded in Afghanistan, runs a private detective agency in London and is struggling to make ends meet when John Bristow asks him to investigate his sister’s death as he is convinced that she was murdered. The victim, Lula Landry, was a supermodel with mental health problems and the police have closed the case, believing she committed suicide. With the help of his…
Mystery
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Hurricane Hole by R.P. Dahlke
Leila Hunter Standiford, a beautiful soap opera actress, is on vacation sailing in Mexico with her friend Gabe Alexander. They have just arrived in Puerto Felice when a boat is destroyed in a fire, and a body is found below. Luckily, the ship’s handsome owner, Ari Starns, wasn’t on board. When Leila offers to help him, she soon discovers that he turns out to be the man who could boost her acting career….
Erik Therme
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Mortom by Erik Therme
When Craig Moore drowns in a lake, Andy Crowl is surprised to learn that his cousin left him his few possessions despite their not seeing each other for years because of a childhood rivalry. Andy and his sister Kate, go to Craig’s house in Mortom to sort through the inheritance when they come upon a dead rat with a key in its mouth. It turns out someone has set up clues for Andy…
Fiction
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Knots & Crosses by Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin was in Ottawa on Saturday 30 November 2013 to talk about his new book, Saints of the Shadow Bible. Earlier that day, he was having a drink in a pub when he started chatting with one of the customers there. The guy noticed that he was Scottish, and asked Rankin what he was doing for a living. When the author told him, the guy said he was actually…