Halloween Thrillers are treats for your eyes and ears.

this.is.not.here@evpl — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:54:00 GMT

Since it's Oct. and Halloween is just around the corner it is only fitting to dip into the library's collection of thrillers. There's a new chapter in the Chelsea Cain trilogy of terror. The newest one is called Evil at Heart. in which Gretchen Lowell, female serial killer is once again on the trail of the long suffering (in more ways than one) detective Archie Sheridan. In the first book, Heartsick , Archie is married with 2 kids when he first crosses paths with Gretchen. He's in charge of The Beauty Killer Task Force and has been unsuccessfully trying to catch the killer for 10 years. Enter Gretchen Lowell, a beautiful seductive blonde who is more than willing to lend a helping hand. But wait---maybe there's a reason she knows so much about the Beauty Killer. Too late Archie discovers Gretchen's true colors and is held captive for 10 days as she tortures him in all manner of horrible ways including removing is spleen. If you love blood, gore, torture, and scattered body parts, and psycho-sexual obsession then this one is for you. Then there's Sweetheart where she's turned herself in to the authorities but has managed to escape. And she's after Archie again. He's trying to kick the vicodin and she's still feeding them to him and has found new ways to tempt and torture him. In fact she's so "over the top" with her ‘bag of tricks" that it's almost comical. Now in Evil at Heart she's at large and on another killing spree with a seeming affinity for eyeballs. Or is she? She's become the object of a cult following and is perhaps tutoring a new, really confused group of young people on the internet in the ways of torture. Gretchen has become super villain and Archie is super victim. How he's managed to stay alive is the biggest mystery of all.

The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb

Guatemama@evpl — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:53:00 GMT

Many fans of the Oprah book club will remember author, Wally Lamb, from his previous books, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much is True. After a lapse of many years, Lamb is back with this new epic which is rather heavy both in subject matter and in physical size (740 pages.) Though these factors may make this reading choice a bit daunting for some, true Wally Lamb fans (and others, too) should persevere.

The Hour I First Believed follows the life of Caelum Quirk, a teacher, and his wife Maureen, a school nurse, as they experience and survive the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado. In the afermath of this tragedy the couple moves back to Caelum's family farm in Connecticut and slowly begin to piece their lives back together. With the effects of both post-traumatic stress disorder and family skeltons in the closet haunting them this proves to be an overwhelming task. Yet, when Caelum's new tenants at the farm, recent new Orleans displacees after Hurricane Katrina, discover and dissect letters, diaries, and paperwork detailing the history of Caelum's ancestors, things start to fall into place. The family story that emerges from the Civil War through to the shocking secrets of his own parents allows Caelum to finally reconnect with all of his pent up feelings and emotions. He sets out on a journey to discover his own meaning and faith and ends up finding his way to a future in the shadow of tragedy.

What would you do in the face of such tragedy? How would you go one - move forward without constantly looking back? Could you determine the hour you first believed?

Books Blog : psychological fiction

Halloween Thrillers are treats for your eyes and ears.

The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb