CHECK IT OUT:Adults can uncover mysteries at the library
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Calling all adults! Summer reading programs are not just for kids. Join the Mysterious Summer Reading Program at the Crean Mariners, Balboa or Corona del Mar Branch libraries and experience the thrill of discovering new authors and receiving prizes for reading. You could win tickets to a Newport Beach Public Library Foundation’s Distinguished Lecture Series Saturday event or a Newport Theater Arts Center play. The library is offering weekly and grand prizes to winners.
Entering for the prizes is easy. Just complete a book review on the forms available when you finish reading a new book — mystery or any other type. More reviews mean more entries for the weekly and grand prizes, plus the knowledge that you are helping your friends and neighbors discover new books and authors. Any book reviews submitted to the libraries will be posted for other patrons to read.
To help you get started, the libraries’ collections have separate adult mystery sections filled with individual and series titles to go with your summer fun.
“Plum Lovin’ ” by Janet Evanovich: Get hooked on the Stephanie Plum series and you’re set to enjoy summer beach reading. Evanovich regularly holds contests asking readers for suggestions for her titles. This book features our favorite New Jersey private investigator coming to the rescue in a mysterious case of love letters and hate mail. Could the secret admirer and the stalker be the same person?
“S is for Silence” by Sue Grafton: Kinsey Millhone is back as international bestseller Grafton’s private detective, having solved cases alphabetically from A through R. This time she is helping a daughter find her long-lost mother. Discover and enjoy the entire series that is now published in 28 countries and in 26 languages.
“Nature Girl” by Carl Hiaasen: Can mystery and laugh-out-loud humorous fiction exist together? Miami Herald journalist Hiaasen follows the bipolar Honey Santana on a wild chase as she is unknowingly stalked by her obsessed ex-boss and her drug runner ex-husband. Explore this writer’s other fictional titles and you might recognize some of your favorite movies set in Florida.
“Honeymoon: A Novel” by James Patterson: Fast-paced and action-packed, Patterson novels deliver the suspense. Add zest to your vacation reading by packing some of his books. In this title, follow FBI agent John O’Hara’s suspicions that a young banker’s new bride may have been his killer. Patterson’s “Women’s Murder Club” titles are an ABC television series slated for fall 2007.
“Messenger of Truth: A Maisie Dobbs Novel” by Jacqueline Winspear: Where would the mysterious world be without English women of a certain age solving enigmatic circumstances that baffle those involved? Join psychologist Maisie Dobbs in 1931 London when she aids a journalist looking into her brother’s death. Can’t get enough of Maisie after one title? There are more from Agatha and Macavity award-winner Winspear.
“Princess of Burundi” by Kjell Eriksson: Immerse yourself in a translation of an award-winning Swedish police procedural featuring police inspectors Ann Lindell and Ola Haver. Author Eriksson’s popularity is moving beyond Scandinavia to Germany and the English-speaking world. In this title, set in Libro, Sweden, a cruel cat-and-mouse game develops in the search to find out who killed a husband and father found in the snow. Look forward to more translations of these mysterious reads.
“The Case of the Missing Books” by Ian Sansom: Discover a new series with intelligent, sensitive, shy, Jewish, vegetarian librarian Israel. When he arrives in Ireland to find his promised job has evaporated, he ends up driving the old mobile library — but first he must find his books. Who steals 15,000 books? And why? Pure escapist literary fare for a totally satisfying summer read.
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