Lovin To Read Little Book Corner

  A widow hires Nils Shapiro to investigate her husband's savage murder, but she's not the only one to seek him out.  Everyone from the widow's boyfriend to a polarizing congressional candidate to the FBI wants to know what happened to Todd Rabinowitz.  As Nils unravels the convoluted case, the bodies pile up.  Someone doesn't want him to discover what happened to Todd , and won't stop until they silence Niles as well. This is a good as a stand-alone but is part of the Nils Shapiro series by author Matt Goldman.   Nils is a gumshoe detective, one day a widow walks into his office and puts him on the case to investigate her husbands death.  He isn't that sure if he even likes the woman but is intrigued enough to start working the case.   Nils, with help from colleagues Annika and Ellegaard,and Minneapolis PD detective Gabriella Nunez they try and figure out the twist and turns of unique spider web of lies, tangles and spins.  Bo...

The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney Please make a list of every possession you consider essential in your life. The request seems odd, even intrusive --and for the two women who answer, the consequences are devastating Emma Reeling from a traumatic break-in, Emma wants a new place to live. But none of the apartments she sees are affordable or feel safe.   Until One Folgate Street.  The house is an architectural masterpiece:  a minimalist design of pale stone, plate glass, and soaring ceilings.  But there are rules. The enigmatic architect who designed the house remains in full control:  no books, no throw pillows, no photos or clutter or personal effects of any kind. The space is intended to transform it occupants--and it does. Jane After a personal tragedy, Jane needs a fresh start.  When she finds One Folgate Street she is instantly drawn to the space--and to its aloof but seductive creator.  Moving in, Jane soon learns about the unti...

A Negro and an Ofay (The Tales of Elliot Caprice) by  Danny Gardner On the run for killing two crooked cops, Chicago PD Detective Elliot Caprice finds himself in a jailhouse in St. Louis on false charges. He enlists friends from his hometown of Southville, IL. to secure his release and returns to find the family farm in foreclosure and the man who raised him dying in a flophouse. Desperate for money, he accepts a job from the son of a deadly Jewish mobster and eventually crosses paths with a powerful family from Chicago's North Shore. A captain of industry is dead, and the key to his estate disappeared with the Chauffeur. There's good money in it if Elliot finds him, but the mixed-race son of Illinois farm country must return to the Windy City with the cops on his heels, the Syndicate with a knife to his throat, and the wealthy and powerful at his back. Good thing he is used to playing both sides to the middle.   What a great change of pace. I can easily...

The Saturday Evening Girls Club: A Novel by Jane Healey For four young immigrant women living in Boston's North End in the early 1900s, escaping tradition doesn't come easy. But at least they have one another and the Saturday Evening Girls Club, a social pottery-making group offering respite from their hectic home lives-and hope for a better future. Ambitious Caprice dreams of opening her own hat shop, which clashes with the expectations of her Sicilian-born parents. Brilliant Ada secretly takes college classes despite the disapproval of her Russian Jewish father.  Stunning Maria could marry anyone yet guards her heart to avoid the fate of her Italian Catholic mother, broken down by an alcoholic husband.  And shy Thea is torn between asserting herself and embracing an antiquated Jewish tradition The friends face family clashes and romantic entanglements, career struggles and cultural prejudice.  But through their unfailing bond,  forged through ...