New Large Print Fiction, 1.30.08

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Bleeding Kansas, Sara Paretsky
Set in the Kaw River Valley where Paretsky grew up, Bleeding Kansas is the story of the Schapens and the Grelliers, two farm families whose histories have been entwined since the 1850s, when their ancestors settled the valley as antislavery emigrants. Today, the Schapen family, terrified by the lawlessness of the 1970s — when Lawrence was the most violent college town in the nation — has turned to that old-time religion for security. The Schapens keep a close eye on all their neighbors, most especially the Grelliers. They maintain careful track of everyone's misdeeds, printing the most egregious on their family website. When Gina Haring, a Wiccan, moves into an empty farmhouse and starts practicing pagan rites, the family members are so outraged that they begin an active harassment campaign against the Wiccans. The Schapens worry, too, about who stands better with the Lord: their family or the Grelliers. When a Schapen cow gives birth to what may be a Perfect Red Heifer — needed if the temple is ever rebuilt in Jerusalem — the Schapens feel convinced that God is indeed smiling on them. Despite parental cautions, the Grelliers' teenagers are enraged by the Schapens. All their short lives, they and the young Schapens have fought. One particularly angry confrontation causes Chip Grellier to be expelled from school and consequentlyto join the army. Chip's death in Iraq is the catalyzing event for momentous changes in the lives of not only both the Schapens and the Grelliers but of all the families in the valley. The powerful, climactic scene at Gina Haring's Samhain bonfire will forever haunt the reader.

True Evil, Greg Iles
Dr. Chris Shepard has never seen his new patient before. But the attractive young woman with the scarred face knows him all too well. An FBI agent working undercover, Alex Morse has come to Dr. Shepard's office in Natchez, Mississippi, to unmask a killer. A local divorce attorney has a cluster of clients whose spouses have all died under mysterious circumstances. Agent Morse's own brother-in-law was one of those clients, and now her beloved sister is dead. Then comes Morse's bombshell: Dr. Shepard's own beautiful wife consulted this lawyer one week ago, a visit Shepard knew nothing about. Will he help Alex Morse catch a killer? Or is he the next one to fall victim to a deadly trap of sex, lies, and murder?

Front Page Love, Paige Lee Elliston (#2 in the Montana Skies Series)
Extra, extra, read all about it: young hot-shot journalist looks for love. Maybe it's not front-page news, but for journalist Julie Downs, it's true. With two men vying for her attention, Julie doesn't know what to do. So to avoid a decision, she throws herself into her job as a reporter in her small town of Coldwater, Montana. In a moment of good fortune, she is assigned a special-interest column about the long drought that has turned the town to desert and sapped the strength of the local ranchers. But Julie can't escape the inevitable. When she unwittingly stumbles onto the trail of something even more threatening than the parched land, she must decide whether she will pursue a headline-grabbing story or follow her heart--wherever it may take her.

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