“Time passes slowly when you’re young, and quickens as you get old. Summer lasted forever when I was seven, but now it only visits.”
– Sonya Hartnett
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Regular Lied Lincoln Library Township hours are Monday-Thursday, 1:30-5:30 p.m., and Friday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
“A Killing of Innocents” is by Deborah Crombie. On a rainy November evening, trainee doctor Sasha Johnson is hurrying through the London crowd when she feels someone jostle her. She stumbles and then collapses. By the time Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sgt. Doug Cullen arrive, they discover she’s been stabbed. Kincaid asks his detective wife, Gemma James, to investigate. Gemma and Detective Sgt. Melody Talbot assist the investigation. Sasha doesn’t fit the typical profile of a knife crime victim buth she does have secrets that may involve the investigators. Another murder means that they all must work together before more killings occur. This book is in large print.
“Poster Girl” is by Veronica Roth. Sonya Kantor has lived under the slogan “What’s Right is Right” for decades. The Delegation, who set the strict moral code, rewards or punishes each action that is tracked by an ocular implant. A revolution destroyed the Delegation, whose members were imprisoned. Sonya lived as she was directed to live and has been imprisoned for 10 years. An old enemy offers Sonya her freedom if she finds a missing girl, named Grace, kidnapped by the old regime. Her search leads her deep into her past and her own family’s dark secrets. This book is in large print.
“The Physicists’ Daughter” is by Mary Anna Evans. Justine Byrne works at a factory in 1944 New Orleans. She is called to weld parts that keep failing with no clear cause. She wonders whether someone inside the secretive Carbon Division is deliberately undermining the factory’s Allied war efforts. Raised by her parents to think logically, she also wonders what the oddly shaped carbon gadgets she welds have to do with the boats built at the factory. A crane inexplicably falls to the floor, killing a woman. Justine is sure that German spies are at work inside the building. Justine relies on her upbringing to keep her division running and to protect her co-workers, her country and herself. This book is in regular print.
“The Ink Black Heart” is by Robert Galbraith. Edie Ledwell is the co-creator of a popular cartoon, “The Ink Black Heart.” She is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure known as Anomie. Private Detective Robin Ellacott decides that her agency has too much going on to deal with this. A few days later, Robin learns that Edie was murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of the cartoon. Robin and her business partner, Cormoran Strike, try to uncover the identity of Anomie. Their search leads them into a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate. Then they discover how dangerous their search is.
