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BookWoman BookGroup Discussion

Actually, this doesn't happen very often- we're reading & discussing two (unrelated) books for the next meeting... please feel free to read one or both or half and half.

1. The Man Who Cast Two Shadows by Carol O'Connell.

Kathleen Mallory returns. This gritty thriller featuring "the strongest new detective of the decade" (Kirkus Reviews) follows Mallory as she pursues her own unpredictable vision of right and wrong in a murder case that strikes close to home in more ways than one.

2. A Gift of Age: Old Lesbian Life Stories ed. by Arden Eversmeyer & Margaret Purcell

After a decade of amassing interviews of women born early in the 1900s, The Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project (www.olohp.org) has released its first book. A Gift of Age is a retelling of the stories of 22 lesbians, each offering a valuable glimpse into what it was like to be a lesbian during a unique and challenging period in American history.

*We usually meet every 4th Tuesday- except during the Holidays. This month we are sliding to the first Tuesday in December.

New members welcome! Please join us!

Location: Street: 5501 N Lamar Blvd Additional: #A-105 City: Austin, Province: Texas Postal Code: 78751-1029 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Mallory's Oracle by Carol O'Connell

Kathleen Mallory was saved from the streets of New York and taken in by a police sargeant when she was ten. Fifteen years later, she too is part of the NYPD and about to embark on the case of her life--finding her father's murderer. Serial killing, insider trading, the occult and the vices of wealthy Manhattan widows are the themes that collide in O'Connell's debut.

We meet every 4th Tuesday. New members welcome!

Location: Street: 5501 N Lamar Blvd Additional: #A-105 City: Austin, Province: Texas Postal Code: 78751-1029 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

CAROL O'CONNELL

The bestselling author of the Mallory crime novels is on her way to Anderson’s! Carol O’Connell visits to share It Happens in the Dark, about a mystery where lives are being claimed in the theater itself and seemingly everyone’s a suspect. Totally satisfying. FRIDAY, AUGUST 23 at 7:00 p.m. Anderson's Bookshop Naperville | 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville

Location: Street: Anderson's Bookshop Naperville Additional: 123 W Jefferson Ave City: Naperville, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60540 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Carol O’Connell signa The Chalk Girl.

Carol O’Connell signs The Chalk Girl. A young girl is found in Central Park. She appears to be perfect – pretty and full of smiles – except for that spot on blood on her shoulder. She claims it came out of the sky while she was looking for her uncle who’d been turned into a tree. Strange, sure, surreal even. That is until the body of her uncle is found hanging in a tree. Mallory is called in to investigate and, as a former child of the streets, forms a strong bond with the child. A maternal Mallory? Keep your distance! JB, Adele & Fran highly recommend. She will be on hand to sign books and speak informally to her fans. All we ask is you purchase one of her books at our store, so we can continue to host these great events! (seattlemystery)… (més)

Carol O'Connell de gira per Bone by Bone.

Carol O’Connell’s most recent Mallory novel, Find Me, was one of the most highly praised suspense novels of the year. “A terrific find: a tightly wrapped, expert combination of suspense, mystery and show-stopping character” (Janet Maslin of The New York Times); “yet another example of the spot-on talents of one of America’s finest writers of mysteries” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). In Bone by Bone, however, she may have written her most unforgettable novel yet. In the northern California town of Coventry, two teenage brothers go into the woods one day, but only one comes back. No one knows what happened to the younger brother, Josh, until twenty years later, when the older brother, Oren, now an ex-investigator for the Army CID, returns to Coventry for the first time in many years. His first morning back, he hears a thump on the front porch. Lying in front of the door is a human jawbone, the teeth still intact. And it is not the first such object, his father tells him. Other remains have been left there as well. Josh is coming home . . . bone by bone. Using all his investigative skills, Oren sets out to solve the mystery of his brother’s murder, but Coventry is a town full of secrets and secret-keepers: the housekeeper with the fugitive past, the deputy with the old grudge, the reclusive ex-cop from L.A., the woman with the title of town monster, and, not least of all, Oren himself. But the greatest secret of all belonged to his brother, and it is only by unraveling it that Oren can begin to discover the truth that has haunted them all for twenty years. Written with the rich prose, resonant characters, and knife-edge suspense that have won the author so many fans, Bone by Bone is further proof that “O’Connell is one of the most poetic yet tough-minded writers of the genre” (San Francisco Chronicle). Carol O'Connell (Lorriamsden)… (més)