Page Turners

Here is a list of books that have been shared on KMA's Page Turners with the Shenandoah Public Library.

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

 aired the week of October 12, 2020

Clutter Corpse by Simon Brett introduces Ellen Curtis who runs her own decluttering business.  When Ellen goes to tour the apartment of a possible new client she finds a hand sticking out from under a pile of linens.  When it comes to light that Ellen knew the deceased and that they had had several negative encounters suddenly the police think she is a major suspect.

 aired the week of October 5, 2020

The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard introduces June Walker who has just graduated high school and started working at the facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee not far from her family farm.  She has no idea what her job does other than there is a lot of security and no one is supposed to talk about what they do at work.  When she meets physicist Sam Cantor he tells her more about the Manhattan Project.  How can what they are doing help end the war?

 aired September 28, 2020

November Road by Lou Berney follows Frank Guidry a fixer for the New Orleans Mob.  This time Frank is about to be fixed and he needs to disappear.  He is headed to Las Vegas when he encounters Charlotte, her two daughters and their dog.  What better cover than to appear to be a family man on a trip.

Tuesday, September 01, 2020

 aired the week of September 21, 2020

Half of What You Hear by Kristyn Kusek Lewis introduces Bess who is trying to fit in, in the small, quaint, insular town of Grayhill.  It is where her husband grew up and now that they have moved there she is definitely the outsider.  When she takes on a freelance journalist job interviewing the town's most famous resident and town pariah she thinks things might change.  What she uncovers is a decades old mystery that Bess feels compelled to solve, even if cements her outcast status.

aired the week of September 14, 2020

 Caged by Ellison Cooper introduces FBI Special Agent Sayer Altair who has just been assigned to a high profile case of a serial killer soon to be dubbed the Cage Killer.  The stakes rise as the agents realize the scene has been booby trapped in several places and a crime scene tech is killed.  They also find evidence of another young woman being held in another location.  Will Sayer and her team be able to save this young woman?

Agent Sayer Altair Series:
1. Caged (2018)
2. Buried (2019)
3. Cut to the Bone (2020)

 aired the week of September 7, 2020

Ellie and the Harp Maker by Hazel Prior stats when Ellie meets Dan a harp maker.  Dan see's Ellie's fascination with his harps and gives her one.  However, Ellie's husband won't let her keep it.  Dan let's Ellie keep the harp at his workshop and she begins lessons in secret.  The truth always comes out in the end and this time it has dire consequences.