- One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson: A cast of strangers, each scarred by his or her past, is brought together by an Edinburgh road-rage incident that sets off a wave of murders. It's gotten great reviews and Stephen King called this book the best mystery of the decade.
- The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard: A sheriff finds the body of a teenage girl and fearing that his son or his son's friend is the killer, he bashes her face so that it is unrecognizable. The son's friend unintentionally witnesses this and leaves town. Almost twenty years later, his mother's body is found near a marker commemorating the dead girl. This book has also gotten great reviews and won an Agatha award. I subscribe to the Quail Ridge Bookstore newsletter and it popped up numerous times as a great mystery.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Allison's Mystery Nominations
Here are two mystery novels that looked interesting to me:
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These both sound great! My only concern about One Good Turn is that it's almost 500 pages long, so it might be too long to have ready for March. However, we could just put it off another month. The Virgin Plains sounds really intriguing and sounds like a fast read.
Good call. I didn't even look at page length. Let's definitely take that one off the table.
One good turn looks great (if not for March then definitely for another time). So far I have liked all of the choices (which I realize is not much help when it comes to actually picking a book) - I just have always been partial to a good mystery!!
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