Marla

Although I read anything with an interesting cover, my preferences are mystery and romance. So often one type includes the other- the adventure, the chase- but both get the blood pumping a little faster. The best of both are when an author teaches me something new. Sometimes I can solve a crossword puzzle or answer a Jeopardy question because of some little piece of knowledge I learned in one of my books.

The Litigators (Hardcover)

$28.95
ISBN-13: 9780385535137
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Published: Doubleday, 10/2011
The Litigators

Lethal (Hardcover)

$26.99
ISBN-13: 9781455501472
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Published: Grand Central Publishing, 9/2011
Lethal

$16.99
ISBN-13: 9781599906447
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Published: Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 10/2011
"Tuesdays at the Castle"

$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780061727689
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Published: Harper Perennial, 3/2011

"The Mapping of Love and Death" by Jacqueline Winspear

If you are a Maisie Dobbs fan, this mystery, the 6th in the series, is simply splendid.  I'm not going to give you any more information about the story and ruin it for you.  Just enjoy, take your time and savor the story.

If you've never read the "Maisie Dobbs" series, start with the first book. It's a gentle, well written mystery that begins before World War I in England.  Each book is so satisfying that you'll crave a cup of tea and more of Maisie's story.


Juliet (Paperback)

$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780345516114
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Published: Ballantine Books, 7/2011

Travel to Italy with this terrific tale of a modern day Juliet and her Romeo.  There's mystery, romance, adventure- and, oh, yeah, Juliet's ancestor is none other than Guilietta Tolomei, the woman on whom Shakespeare based his play.  For those who like a saga or just a good story, try "Juliet" by Anne Fortier.


$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780060594671
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks, 6/2011
Put this book on your holiday shopping list for those mystery readers--and good readers as well.  Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin is a terrific story of 2 rich characters in rural Mississippi.  Silas and Larry were boyhood friends who have been "torn apart by circumstance and brought together by tragedy."  The story --rich in the prejudices of color and hatred seen in Grisham's A Time to Kill or even the currently popular Mudbound--takes you from the 1970s to the present day. It involves the disappearance of a girl not unlike the unsolved disappearance of another girl more than 20 years before. Now the 2 men who once called themselves friends are forced to confront each other and a past they have buried.  Don't miss it.