🥇 Library Champion Newsletter #78 | Saturday event: 🐛 Ryan Bridge "The BugMan" (10/29)
Library Champion,
👋 Welcome to our new subscribers! I am SO GLAD to have you aboard!
Ryan Bridge "The BugMan" will be joining us on Saturday morning for a fun and creepy (at least to me!) program all about bugs! Come learn about how insects play an important role in the world and even hold some creepy crawlies (if you're brave enough...which I am not)! See you at 10 am!
📖 Book of the week...
Triple Cross: The Greatest Alex Cross Thriller Since Kiss the Girls (An Alex Cross Thriller book #28) by James Patterson
(New adult fiction: thriller, suspense, mystery, crime)
Releases Monday, October 31st 2022
In this corner, the D.C. Metro Police Department, where Dr. Alex Cross still serves as a consultant, brings him in to throw light on the murders committed by the Family Man, who breaks into upscale homes and shoots everyone inside: grandparents, parents, children. In this corner, Bree Stone, who’s moved from D.C. Metro to the Bluestone Group, is tasked with keeping everything hush-hush while she investigates a series of explosive charges against fashion queen Frances Duchaine, whom multiple litigants have accused of saddling them with insurmountable debts for plastic surgery she and her close associate Paula Watkins insisted they'd need to make it as models, then forcing them into sexual slavery when they couldn’t repay them. As Bree worms her way into ever darker allegations about Duchaine, the Family Man continues his open season on picture-perfect households. Then editor Suzanne Liu, who’s just been dumped by star true-crime author Thomas Tull, comes to Cross with an incredible story: Tull, whose pitch for a new book on the Family Man earned an eight-figure contract in a closed auction, has actually been killing all those people himself.
Bottom line: As usual, Patterson throws everything against the wall to see what sticks until the two cases, either of them complicated enough to sustain an entire volume, eventually collide in a way that’s surprising but ultimately unsatisfying.
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