Personalized Picks
If you have enjoyed our monthly staff picks, why not get personalized picks based on your own preferences and favorite authors? For those of you who have visited our reference desk or emailed us in the past you know that we are good for a personalized pick or two or three. Now you can get personalized picks right from our website at Good Read Recommendations. Just fill in a quick form, and we’ll get back to you with suggestions based on your favorite authors and genres.
No format or genre is off limits. In terms of reading interests and and tastes, we are a fairly diverse group at the library so we are sure to have something for most everyone.
So, say you are one of the many who like international thrillers / mysteries with dark, intricate plots and interesting dynamics between the main characters. You have read the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and want something similar. Here is what we might send you.
A few picks from me:
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In the Woods French, Tana Click here to check our catalog For readers who like their hard-boiled police procedurals with an international flare (“USA Today”), this thriller marks the debut of an astonishing new voice in psychological suspense. …More |
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The Sculptress
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A Great Deliverance George, Elizabeth A. Click here to check our catalog George’s acclaimed debut novel introduces Scotland Yard’s Thomas Lynley and his partner Havers who are assigned to a murder in Keldale, where the detectives uncover a shattering series of revelations that will reverberate through this tranquil English valley–and in their own lives as well. |
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The Mermaids Singing
By McDermid, Val Even for a seasoned professional, the series of mutilation sex murders is unlike anything he’s encountered before. But profiling the psychopath is not beyond him. Hill’s own past has made him the perfect man to comprehend the killer’s motives. It’s also made him the perfect victim. A game has begun for the hunter and the hunted. But as Hill confronts his own hidden demons, he must also come face-to-face with an evil so profound he may not have the courage–or the power–to stop it… |
A couple of picks from Novelist:
(For more on Novelist see my post, Find Your Next Book with Novelist)
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The Redbreast
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Faceless Killers
Early one morning, a small-town farmer makes the horrible discovery that his neighbors have been brutally attacked during the night. An old man is dead, and his wife lies dying before the farmer’s eyes. The only clue is the single word she utters before she dies: “foreign”. In charge of the investigation is Inspector Kurt Wallander, a local cop whose personal life is a shambles. His family is falling apart, he’s gaining weight, and he’s drinking too much, but he is tenacious and level-headed in his sleuthing. Still, things get complicated when he has to deal with an eruption of violent antiforeigner sentiment, as well as a tough-minded – and very attractive – female district attorney, as he searches for the killers. |
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