NEW BOOKS: August 2008

Fiction

Blind Rage, by Terri Persons

In her second novel featuring FBI Agent Bernadette Saint Clare, Terri Persons delivers enough twists and turns to keep you guessing until the last page. Young women committing suicide is haunting the Twin Cities—but FBI Agent Bernadette Saint Clare has a hunch that these women didn’t die by their own hand. It’s a big leap to take, and Bernadette’s going to need some serious evidence to back it up.

Blind Spot: A Novel, by Terri Persons

Introducing a heroine unlike any other . . . FBI Agent Bernadette Saint Clare’s gift of sight allows her to see things others can’t. Not long after she’s placed at a desk in the basement of the off-site St. Paul office, she’s called on to do what she does best: use personal effects found at a crime scene to see through a killer’s eyes. A complex novel filled with quirky characters on the right and wrong sides of the law,Blind Spot reminds us that life is filled with leaps of faith both great and small.

Home of the Brave, by Katherine Applegate

Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.

The Mystery of the Third Lucretia, by Susan Runholt

While traveling in London, Paris, and Amsterdam, fourteen-year-old best friends Kari and Lucas solve an international art forgery mystery.

Phantom Prey, by John Sandford

A widow comes home to her large house in a wealthy, exclusive suburb to find blood everywhere, no body—and her college-aged daughter missing. She's always known that her daughter ran with a bad bunch. What did she call them—Goths? But the police can't find the girl, and when a second Goth is found slashed to death in Minneapolis, the widow truly panics. Lucas Davenport begins to investigate only reluctantly—but then when a third Goth is slashed in what is now looking like a 'Jack the Ripper' series of killings, he starts working it hard.