February's Books

 

 

It's October and almost the end of  the season in Busman's Harbor, Maine. Julia Snowden runs her family's clambake business ad is renovating the old family mansion on the island. She discovers a diary written by a governess in 1890 in a sealed off room. One of the clambake's employees is murdered after arguing with a co-worker. An entertaining mystery series, with an attractive setting and likeable characters.

 Fortune and Glory by Janet Evanovich

It Was All a Lie by Stuart Stevens

My Anecdotal Life by Carl Reiner

The Lucky One by Lori Rader-Day

Sealed Off by Barbara Ross

Mousse and Murder by Elizabeth Logan

Christmas Card Murder by Leslie Meier

The Corpse in Oozak's Pond by Charlotte MacLeod

January's Books

 

Let Them East Pancakes: one man’s personal revolution in the City of Light by Craig Carlson

In a follow up to his memoir “Pancakes in Paris,” Craig Carlson writes of his adventures running an American style diner in Paris. He tells about growing up on the wrong side of the tracks in a northern Connecticut city, and how he was inspired by a language teacher and a college junior year abroad. Many of his battles are with the French bureaucracy—navigating the complicated labor laws, applying for a marriage license with his husband-to-be, and trying to relocate a man who was feeding flocks of pigeons outside his apartment. A particularly entertaining chapter had him trying to find someone to cook a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner, and locating the ingredients. Fans of Bill Bryson and Anthony Bourdain may enjoy this lighthearted look at an American in Paris.

Let Them Eat Pancakes: one man's personal revolution in the City of Light by Craig Carlson

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

The Family Lawyer by James Patterson

Robert B. Parker's Someone to Watch Over Me by Ace Atkins

Butter Safe Than Sorry by Tamar Myers

The Scorpion's Tail by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

The Death of Pie by Tamar Myers

Tea With Jam and Dread by Tamar Myers

Puddin' on the Blitz by Tamar Myers

A Museum of Poo

 

 

Miss Felicity Beadle’s The World of Poo by Terry Pratchett

Fans of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series will enjoy this children’s book, as will children who have never heard of Pratchett. In the book “Snuff” Sam Vimes, Commander of the Watch, gave this book to his young son, knowing that he would laugh himself sick.

This is the tale of young Geoffrey, who visits his grandmama’s house in Ankh-Morpork while his mother is having a baby. While he was in the yard, a bird poos on his head, and he decides to make a museum of poo in one of the gardening sheds. Geoffrey and his grandmama visit Sir Henry King, who collects all the poo in the city. He also visits the Guild of Plumbers, and along the way collects the poo of hippos, wyverns, dragons and gargoyles.

 

Armand Gamache goes to Paris

 

All the Devils are Here by Louise Penny

New York Times best selling author Louise Penny is back with another mystery featuring Armand Gamache, former head of the Quebec Surete. Gamache and his wife Reine-Marie are in Paris for the birth of a grandchild, and while they are there they have dinner with Stephen Horowitz, a billionaire and Gamache’s godfather. As they are leaving the restaurant, Horowitz is the victim of a hit and run, which Gamache believes is no accident.

Gamache and his former second-in-command and son-in-law investigate—the local police believe it was an accident. But there are secrets to uncover, and Gamache’s family is caught up in the danger, not knowing who to trust. The Paris setting is a change from the rural setting of Three Pines, Quebec, and fans of the series may miss some of the characters who inhabit the village, but will enjoy the intimate look at Gamache’s family life.