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Bibliography: Verdon, John. (2010). Think of a Number.  New York: Crown. ISBN: 978-0307588920 Plot Summary:  Dave Gurney, recently retired NYPD homicide detective, is having a hard time adjusting to leisurely life.  When old acquaintance Mark Mallery calls in a panic about puzzling messages that contain veiled threats hinting at a past crime, Dave promises to [...]

Bibliography: Pickard, Nancy. (1995). Twilight. New York: Atria. ISBN: 978-0671782719 (hc) ISBN: 978-0671782900 (pbk) Plot Summary:  Jenny Cain is planning and coordinating Port Frederick’s Fall Festival when a friend asks her to look into several deaths on “God’s Highway,” a biking/hiking path which has long been a bone of contention between residents and environmentalists, outdoors [...]

Bibliography: Winspear, Jacqueline. (2005). Pardonable Lies. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN: 978-0805078978 (hc) 978-0312426217 (pbk) Plot Summary:  Psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs is asked to fulfill a death bed wish: settle once and for all whether a couple’s aviator son was killed as reported in the Great War.  Starting with psychics in London, the case takes her [...]

Bibliography: Hamilton, Steve. (2010). The Lock Artist. New York: St. Martin’s Press. ISBN: 9780312380427 Plot Summary:  Michael is writing down his story from jail, trying to find his voice lost when childhood tragedy struck and left him mute.  He tells of his uncle, the only family he had left, the art class and talent for [...]

Bibliography: Patterson, James. (1976). The Thomas Berryman Number. New York: Little, Brown. ISBN: 978-0446600453 Plot Summary:  The story of the investigation of Nashville reporter Ochs Jones into the murder of Jimmie Lee Horn, one of Nashville’s first black mayors. Jones meets with friends and family of an assassin named Thomas Berryman and discovers everything people thought they knew about [...]

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