Sworn to Silence, by Linda Castillo (14 August)
All right, a thriller I mostly enjoyed! Hurrah! Well, except for the totally unnecessary (but happily brief) romance part. And the weird ending. But whatever. The story: Kate Burkholder is the female, formerly Amish, rather young chief of police in Painters Mill, Ohio, the town she grew up in. Her world is doing okay until … Read more
Plain Truth, by Jodi Picoult (15 January — 16 January)
Oh, Jodi Picoult. Just when I’m so angry at you, the library suddenly has all of your books. I remembered this as one of Picoult’s books that Laura loved a bunch, so I grabbed it. Thank goodness I did! Plain Truth starts with a girl secretly giving birth in a barn and hoping for God … Read more
