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Friday, April 29, 2016

The Edgars

On April 28, 2016, Mystery Writers of America announced the winners of the 2016 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. Let Me Die In His Footsteps by Lori Roy was awarded "best novel."



Best first novel by an American author went to Viet Thahn Nguyen for his novel, The Sympathizer.

Best paperback original went to Lou Berney's The Long and Faraway Gone. 

http://www.theedgars.com/2016EdgarWinners.pdf

http://theedgars.com/nominees.html

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Pie by Sarah Weeks

When Alice's Aunt Polly dies suddenly, Alice's world crumbles. The two had always enjoyed a close relationship and spent hours baking pies in Aunt Polly's pie shop. 

To her surprise, Aunt Polly bequeaths her disagreeable cat, Lardo, to her. The secret pie crust that has made the town famous goes, incredibly, to Lardo! But who would leave a pie crust recipe to a cat!

In the meantime, someone breaks into Aunt Polly's pie shop that is appropriately named Pie. The whole pie shop is damaged. Alice and Charlie try to solve the mystery of the pie shop break-in as well as the strange recipe bequeathment.

While solving these mysteries, Alice also attempts to figure out who she is and why her mother acts the way she does.

This is a delightful story for young readers who enjoy humor and small town mysteries.  

www.sarahweeks.com