Monthly Archives: March 2018

The UPS man came by yesterday.  He delivered a tasty mix of thrillers, fiction and real-life stories. 

Another nor’easter is hitting the region, so the Nichols Library will not open today.  From the forecast:  “A winter storm will evolve into a blizzard along coastal New England on Tuesday, pounding the region with heavy snow and powerful wind”.  … Continue reading →

“Sunburn” by Laura Lippman is about two loners,  Polly and Adam, who meet in a sleepy Delaware not-quite-beach town.  They begin an affair but each holds something back from the other— secrets that feed  growing doubts about their motives. One is … Continue reading →

The library is not opening today, TH March 8th.  A winter storm, the mighty Quinn, is making for hazardous driving conditions.  Be careful out there.

In “Poison” by John Lescroart, San Francisco attorney Dismas Hardy gets a call from an old client, who is now accused of killing her boss to gain an inheritance.  In “Night Moves” by Jonathan Kellerman, a family returns from dinner out … Continue reading →

It’s all about the plot in these new mysteries featuring your favorites crime fighters. In “The Gate Keeper” by Charles Todd, Inspector Ian Rutledge, on leave from Scotland Yard, is driving down a country road when he encounters a motorcar in … Continue reading →

“The Immortalists”,  Chloe Benjamin‘s (“Anatomy of Dreams“) second novel offers a “moving meditation on fate, faith, and a. In 1969, the four rambunctious Gold children, visit a psychic on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.  The psychic predicts the date each of them … Continue reading →