Lakewood Public Library
Lakewood, Ohio
In this witty mystery, retired pensioners Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron become entangled in a dangerous adventure. When Elizabeth’s ex-husband appears with a desperate plea for help after stealing diamonds, they must protect him and themselves from ruthless assassins seeking revenge. Their clever sleuthing and skills lead to a thrilling cat-and-mouse game involving stolen jewels, […]
In 15th-century China, Tan Yunxian, a female physician, defies societal constraints to practice medicine alongside her female physician grandmother. Despite restrictions on women’s education and mobility, she forms deep bonds with her sworn sisters and becomes a groundbreaking healer, treating women’s ailments with skill and compassion in a world that attempts to limit her potential.
A mild-mannered provincial doctor, Edmund Bickleigh, murders his domineering wife Julia, meticulously planning her poisoning. Driven by resentment and a desire for freedom, he kills her to pursue romantic affairs, particularly with a younger woman. His crimes gradually unravel, leading to his eventual capture and downfall, revealing the psychological complexity of a seemingly ordinary man’s […]
A Mi’kmaq family’s summer picking blueberries in Maine takes a devastating turn when 4-year-old Ruthie goes missing. Decades later, her brother Joe and a woman named Norma become entangled in uncovering the painful truth about Ruthie’s disappearance, exploring themes of family, identity, and the lasting impact of childhood trauma across generations.
In this Adam Dalgliesh mystery, prominent criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is brutally murdered in her chambers. Commander Dalgliesh investigates the killing, uncovering a web of professional rivalries, personal vendettas, and dark secrets within the legal community. The complex plot explores themes of justice, revenge, and moral ambiguity in a gripping narrative of murder and retribution.
Sera Swan was one of the most powerful witches in Britain. Then she resurrected her Great-Aunt Jasmine from the (very recently) dead, lost most of her magic, befriended a semi-villainous talking fox, and was exiled from her Guild. Now she helps her aunt run an enchanted inn in Lancashire and longs for a future that […]
In this stunningly twisty thriller, a secret from former Detective Sami Kierce’s college days comes back to haunt him. His memory is clear, but all these years later, the facts don’t add up…which is something he cannot ignore.
The Devil in the White City draws the reader into the enchantment of the Guilded Age, with a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. Larson’s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of a master builder, a […]
Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum's windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams. But when Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to […]
Ella finds herself acting to save her town from the encroaching totalitarianism of the Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is a love […]
The tranquility of a lovely cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot. She was young, stylish, and beautiful, a girl who had everything – until she lost her life.
Curmudgeonly professor Emily Wilde is the foremost expert on faeries. When she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik for research, she has no intention of befriending the townsfolk or the other new arrival; her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby. As Emily gets closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones […]