It's not hard to see why Sheila Turnage's Three Times Lucky won a Newbery Honor for 2013! The story is quirky and unique, and Mo's voice throughout it is fun and engaging. While the mystery that makes…
I've seen several of my students reading and enjoying Ally Carter, but have never read any of her books myself. This fun novella had me wondering what's taken me so long to discover her!
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There but for the by Ali Smith opens with a London couple hosting a dinner party. Between the main course and dessert, one of their guests, a man they have only just met, goes upstairs and silent…
Move over mice of the literary world! You may be cute (and some of you may have a motorcycle), but rats can be noble creatures, too, as we learn in Malcolm at Midnight by W.H. Beck. This w…
"As I have said many times, my dear, each case has a way of shining a light on something we need to know about ourselves."
In Birds of a Feather, the intuitive Maisie Dobbs is asked to l…
Small towns make great settings for amateur sleuths. Everyone living in them knows everyone else's business and some are even willing to share. The Devil's Puzzle is set along th…
Sherlock Holmes is a name many of us grew up with. Any time a mystery would crop up, we would either say aloud or think to ourselves, "Elementary, my dear Watson!" and imagine the funny detectiv…
The character P.K. Pinkerton had won me over by page 3! A perfectly voiced protagonist with a Gift and a Thorn, P.K. is a breath of fresh air. The Case of the Deadly Desperados i…
I have never met another character like Maisie Dobbs. She's kind, compassionate, hard-working, brilliant, family-oriented and just so darn likable! Yet with a mysteriously complicated past, Maisie mak…
Criminal: A Novel is Karin Slaughter's dark crime novel. Criminal is interesting in many ways. First, the story is told during two different time periods--the story switches back …
Books Can Be Deceiving combines many loved themes: libraries, books, small coastal towns, good friends and of course, a murder mystery. This story creates interesting characters and draws readers int…
In this first book of a (completed) four book series called The Homelander Series, Andrew Klavan hooks the reader with immediate page-turning suspense. It became so intense in a few spots that I kept …
