![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With the boisterous, expansive Chummy living up to his name, and Donald a surly presence in his brother’s shadow, feeling is generally that the younger Melling twin would be a more appropriate recipient of the wealth…and if you couldn’t spot the murder coming at this stage of the narrative, I have a bridge I’d like to sell you. The series may be designed to be comforting and familiar, but you don’t want to get too cozy…Ĭambridge, and Maudlin College thereof, will then be the background for much merriment in the run-up to Christmas, with the only mark against comity being twins Chummy and Donald Melling - the former missing out by a mere five minutes on the fortune that Donald is due to inherit upon achieving his majority on Christmas day itself. The girls have differing perspectives on this meeting - Hazel is giddy just at the thought of Alexander, whereas Daisy resents what she sees as the intrusion of the Pinkertons into their to previous cases - and it provides a nice tension at the heart of the opening of the book. It is also, Hazel is very excited to note, a chance for the girls to meet up again with Alexander - who helped them in First Class Murder (2014) - and to meet for the first time his friend George, with whom he has formed a detective society called the Junior Pinkertons. This fifth entry in the series sees teenage sleuths Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong head to a gelid, frosty Cambridge to spend Christmas with Daisy’s undergraduate brother Bertie. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Officially, Jenny Stills tragically drowned, but the letters insist she was murdered - and when Rachel starts asking questions, nobody in town wants to answer. Someone is following her, and she won't stop until Rachel finds out what happened to her sister twenty-five years ago. Under pressure to make Season 3 a success, Rachel throws herself into her investigation - but the mysterious letters keep coming. A local golden boy, a swimmer destined for Olympic greatness, has been accused of raping the beloved granddaughter of the police chief. ![]() The new season of Rachel's podcast has brought her to a small town being torn apart by a devastating rape trial. Which makes it all the more unsettling when she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging for help. But she's used to being recognised for her voice, not her face. In The Night Swim, a new thriller from Megan Goldin, author of the "gripping and unforgettable" (Harlen Coben) The Escape Room, a true-crime podcast host covering a controversial trial finds herself drawn deep into a small town's dark past and a brutal crime that took place there years before.Įver since her true-crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall has become a household name - and the last hope for people seeking justice. ![]() ![]() The collection also includes new encounters with Boba Fett and Jabba the Hutt, and the introduction of Doctor Aphra, Black Krrsantan, Triple-Zero, and BeeTee-One to the Star Wars Universe. Vader begins reasserting the Empire’s might throughout the galaxy and also begins to rebuild his own reputation after the destruction of the first Death Star, with new villains waiting in the wings to take Vader’s spot as Emperor Palpatine’s right hand man. Originally published in 2017, the Darth Vader Omnibus contains the Jason Aaron and Kieron Gillen tales (with art by Salvador Larroca, Leinel Francis Yu, Gerry Alanguilan, Mike Norton, Max Fiumara, and Mike Deodato, Jr.) in Star Wars Darth Vader #1-25 and Annual #1, Star Wars: Vader Down One-Shot, and Star Wars #13-14. Just in case you missed Marvel’s collection of the post “New Hope” Darth Vader comics, the Star Wars: Darth Vader Omnibus returns this April. ![]() ![]() He begins to realize that the zoo is far more exciting than he thought it was, and soon the mysteries at FunJungle are piling up… There’d be the occasional elephant stampede and water balloon fight with the chimpanzees, of course, but when Henry the Hippo dies from not-so-natural causes, Teddy suspects foul play. When Teddy Fitzroy moved into FunJungle, the nation’s largest zoo, with his scientist parents, he expected things to be kind of quiet. Join FunJungle’s resident zoo sleuth, Teddy Fitzroy, as he solves mysteries and strives to protect the animals at the zoo with the first three funny and suspenseful novels of the bestselling FunJungle series from New York Times bestselling author Stuart Gibbs, now available together in one collectible boxed set! It all starts when the hippo goes belly up-and it’s a wild ride from there. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic-including the work of Bird's mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old.īird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems he doesn't know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn't wonder. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve "American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But wooing her will take more than a seasoned seducer’s skill. He’s enchanted by her fierce determination, her unusual beauty, and her quiet, unfailing strength. But Bowen’s rugged sensuality stirs something deep inside her that longs to be awakened by his patient, gentle caress-something warm, wicked, and tempting.īowen seizes his enemy’s keep, unprepared for the brooding and reclusive woman who captures his heart. Unable to bear the shame of returning to a family that believes her dead or to abandon others at the keep to an imposing new laird, Genevieve opts for the peaceful life of an abbess. Still, her path toward freedom remains uncertain. Yet when Bowen Montgomery storms the gates on a mission of clan warfare, Genevieve finds that her spirit is bent but not broken. Genevieve McInnis is locked behind the fortified walls of McHugh Keep, captive of a cruel laird who takes great pleasure in ruining her for any other man. ![]() In Highlander Most Wanted, a reclusive woman content to live in the shadows shows a Highland warrior the true meaning of love. Maya Banks, the bestselling author of romance and romantic suspense has captivated readers with her steamy Scottish historical novels, perfect for fans of Julie Garwood. ![]() ![]() The family that we have built for ourselves requires a kind of radical honesty. A brown man and a white man with two little black boys is going to attract looks, especially because they’re the two best looking children on the planet. I am conscious of people looking at our family in a different way, and I don’t blame them for that. It is incumbent on my husband and I to raise our boys with an understanding of the 50 percent of the planet who are different from - they are. I exist within a nuclear family where there are no women. A year or so after we were married legally, we became parents. And it was much more romantic than it sounds. ![]() We got married in the parking lot of the Santa Cruz City Hall. I met my husband on the world’s most successful blind date. Your task as a parent is to repeat and repeat and repeat yourself, to really inculcate in your child your own - the values you want them to hold. And anybody who is raising a child is going to nod their head when they hear that. RUMAAN ALAM, Author, “Rich and Pretty”: Subtlety doesn’t work for children. Alam’s latest book is called “Rich and Pretty.” He speaks to us about family as an experiment. ![]() Tonight, we hear from author Rumaan Alam. ![]() JUDY WOODRUFF: Now to our Brief But Spectacular series, where we ask interesting people to share their passions. ![]() ![]() ![]() In reality, evangelicals did not cast their vote despite their beliefs, but because of them.” ![]() She says, “In 2016, many observers were stunned at evangelicals’ apparent betrayal of their own values. Her book is not a compassionate, pointed critique of sin, the happening and mishandling of abuse and violence, the falls of the powerful, consumerism, Christian nationalism, or unbiblical prescriptive “gender roles” (whatever this means anymore) nor is it an urging to evangelicals to return to and hold fast to biblical principles (because she never checks in with what the Bible teaches), but rather, Jesus and John Wayne is an accusatory reviling against an entire group of people, condemned by transplanting the sins of “evangelical” leaders and assuming motives and beliefs of “all” their apparent followers-identified distinctly by their ballot in 2016. Paired with the mystery of what KDM actually believes about the Bible, I’m not sure how much of her worldview I want to ingest. ![]() ![]() It is clear Kobes Du Mez (KDM) is writing to ruffle feathers.Īlthough feathers need to be ruffled, her writing, dripping with disdain for white evangelicals and all things Christian, and her blatant, contemptuous bias single-handedly discredits to me any important and rightful critiques she makes. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a NationĪ provocative title. ![]() ![]() ![]() He's just superb, audacious and sassy and swaggering, and you can't help but like him even as you see him cheerfully taking up a life of crime. ![]() He doesn't just act the role, he doesn't just sing it and dance it, he slips into the character's skin and he IS Fagin, in a way that makes it impossible to imagine anyone else in this role. Here we have Ron Moody in the role of Fagin, and he is INDELIBLE. Anyway, suffice it to say: "Oliver!" is the musical at its best. This is a lost art now, I'm convinced, although maybe with the TV series "Glee!" now riding a wave of popularity, there will be some talented musicians and lyricists who will revive this art-form. ![]() These are wonderfully singable, indelibly memorable, and they move the plot and action along the way musical numbers in a film should. The songs: "Food, Glorious Food," "Consider Yourself," "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two," just for starters. So: if you find the musical genre contrived or unnatural or kitschy, if it's just not your thing, then don't bother with this movie because it is unabashedly and outstandingly a MUSICAL. But I know that not everyone loves musicals. ![]() ![]() ![]() Young Vietnam War veteran Russ van Alstyne found the body while riding his motorcycle and is quickly pegged as the prime focus of the investigation. The only difference is this time, they have a suspect. Millers Kill Police Chief Jack Liddle is called to a murder scene of a woman that's very similar to one he worked as a trooper in the 50s. Millers Kill Police Chief Harry McNeil is called to a crime scene where a woman in a party dress has been murdered with no obvious cause of death. ![]() "New parents Clare Fergusson and police chief Russ Van Alstyne tackle three copycat murders and one testy baby in this riveting addition to an acclaimed series" -People magazine 1952. THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER New York Times bestseller Julia Spencer-Fleming returns to her beloved Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery series with new crimes that span decades in Hid from Our Eyes. ![]() |