Central Kansas Library System

Mary's Mystery Bookshop is hosting a very special guest: beloved mystery author Addison Hartley. Hartley gives an intimate reading to the fans gathered in the store, but Mary's eyes are drawn not to the famous author but to a familiar face in the crowd. Could it be Mary's best friend from childhood, Claire Wilkes? As soon as Mary moves to greet her old friend, the woman disappears. Mary is certain it was Claire, but no one else seems to have recognized...

A man falls from a mountain peak to his death. The detective in charge of the investigation, Hae-Joon, comes to meet the dead man's wife Seo-Rae. When she becomes a suspect, Hae-Joon finds himself slowly developing an interest in her.

Schoolteacher Leanna McKee plans on leaving the coal mining town of Castle Gate, Utah, and never looking back, until the widow meets a widower who awakens her heart.

"It's up to Miss Julia to sort out the murder of a hoity-toity newcomer in the latest addition to the "New York Times" bestselling series"--

"Four Widows. Four Wishes. One Wild Adventure. When Sylvie's husband passed away, she'd barely hung her black dress back in the closet when three widows on Wilder Lane showed up on her doorstep. Who had time to properly mourn when an adventure spanning the globe awaited her? After putting their own needs on the back burner to raise their families, Sylvie, Doris, Alice, and Marge struggle to find purpose now that their children are grown, and their...

A journalist and essayist traces the difficult process of picking up the pieces of her life after it was shattered by the death of her husband, a Texan soldier whose Apache helicopter crashed in Iraq. His death mirrored the death of her own father in a military plane crash when she was five, leaving her own mother a young widow.

Elizabeth receives the worst news imaginable when she learns that Jack has died in a landslide. Crushed, she struggles to get through each day. The town comes together to help her in her time of need as Rosemary manages the school and Abigail gathers the widows of the town to impart their wisdom to Elizabeth. Finally finding the strength to read Jack's good-bye letter, Elizabeth realizes that he will always be with her in spirit.

Ellie Quicke is shocked when her daughter, Diana, turns up at her door with a suitcase in tow. Bunny Brewster has died of an overdose, and Diana's husband, Evan, is convinced that she is responsible for his friend's death. It seems that Diana and four other neglected, bored wives of Evan's friends recently joked about ways to kill their husbands. Diana's suggested method of murder involved muddling up pills--could this be how Bunny died, or was it...

"Based on real history and alternating between the story of war widow Alice searching for identity in the 1940s and excerpts from Eleanor Dare's Commonplace Book and the tale of her harrowing survival, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare explores the meaning of female history and the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter. The fate of the world is often driven by the curiosity of a girl. In 1938, a large stone covered in strange markings made headlines....