Book Review
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Haley, age 17, has been missing for three months and the family is losing hope. Wendy Tynes, TV News Reporter, has set up a sting to catch Dan Mercer in a pedophilia assignation. Wendy is positive that Dan is a pedophile who has been terrorizing her New Jersey town. Coben once again weaves a tangled web of intrigue and suspense in this page turner.
Alice Hayward was strangled by her husband on the evening following her baptism. Her husband’s dead body is found in the same room and it is assumed that he shot himself. However, complications are discovered in the form of Alice’s diary.
La – short for Lavender – must deal with a broken heart and World War II in a quiet Suffolk village. She quickly realizes she needs more to do than gardening and helping to care for a neighbor’s chickens. Believing that music is soothing to the soul, La forms an orchestra, made up of local residents and military personnel from a nearby base.
Three recent titles illuminate issues affecting Midwestern culture and small town life:
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