ELLINWOOD —”Her Last Breath” by Linda Castillo. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder comes face-to-face with her Amish past when she investigates a deadly car accident that involves the family of her childhood friend Mattie. The investigation takes on a more sinister cast as evidence reveals that nothing about the crash was accidental. Is there a stone-cold killer amid the Amish community?
“The Tilted World” by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly. The year is 1927, and federal revenue agent Ted Ingersoll and his partner arrive in a small town in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of two fellow agents who’d been on the trail of a local bootlegger… and in the middle of the crime scene they are shocked to find an abandoned baby boy.
“Deadline” by Sandra Brown. Dawson Scott is a well-respected journalist recently returned from Afghanistan. Haunted by everything he has experienced, and suffering from battle fatigue, he gets a call from a source within the FBI. He’s back on a story that started forty years ago, and he delves into the story of a missing marine with terrorist connections.
“The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells” by Andrew Sean Greer. After the death of her beloved twin brother and the betrayal of her longtime love, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and Greta finds herself transported to the lives she might have had if she’d been born in different eras, and each life is fraught with tensions and difficult choices.
“Winners” by Danielle Steel. Aspiring ski champion Lily Thomas has her future changed forever in a tragic accident, and five other characters, with their own personal tragedies, find their lives intertwined with Lily’s. From the ashes of all their lives, all six fight to alter the course of destiny and refuse to be defeated. Winners is about refusing to be beaten, no matter how insurmountable the challenge.
“Takedown Twenty” by Janet Evanovich. When powerful mobster Salvatore Sunucchi goes on the lam, it’s up to New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie to find him. But nobody wants to turn in “Uncle Sunny” With bullet holes in her car and henchmen on her tail, Stephanie will have to up her game for the ultimate takedown.
Sharon Sturgis is the librarian at the Ellinwood School/Community Library.