May – Mystery Month

Welcome Summer Students,

Take a minute and review SCC Libraries Mystery Collection.

Mystery Month

Double Whammy

By Carl Hiaasen

Private eye, R.J. Decker, is searching for a cheater at a sporting event (bass fishing) but instead steps into a murder investigation in Coon Bog, Florida. This novel is an earlier work by Carl Hiaasen. This story contains humorous situations and fast pace fun.

Mistress of Mellyn

By Victoria Holt

This classic novel has a romantic suspense plot.  Connan TreMellyn is a widow and looking for a governess for his daughter. Martha Leigh is the new governess for the wealthy TreMellyn Family. Martha falls in love with the master of the house and discovers the mystery about the death of Connan’s wife.

Cookie Cutter

By Sterling Anthony

This novel has a psychological suspense plot. The killings are racially charged and Mary Cunningham, Detroit’s Homicide Lieutenant is on the case. This novel contains graphic violence and sexual situations. The storyline could inspire book discussions about race and black culture in the South (1960s) and Detroit, Michigan (1990’s). I recommend this book to any Walter Mosley fan.

Booklist:

Southern Fried                  By Cathy Pickens

The Blackheath Poisonings: A Victorian Murder Mystery             

 By Julian Symons

Paying the Piper              By Sharyn McCrumb

Simon Said                         By Sarah Shaber

Play Dirty                            By Sandra Brown

Dust to Dust                       By Tami Hoag

Popular fiction books can be checked out for 3 weeks at any of SCC Libraries (Central, Cherokee, and Tyger River).

It’s Mystery Novel Month at SCC – Central Library

Come by the SCC – Central Campus Library and check out a mystery novel for your summer reading.

Available Titles:

A Body in the Bathhouse by Lindsey Davis (PR6054. A8925)

• Marcus Didius Falco discovers a dead body in his father’s newly remodeled bathhouse and his sister, Maia, is being stalk by a a powerful Roman official. You thought that your home improvement projects were a headache.

Stromchild by Bernard Cornwell (PR6053. O75 S76 1991)

• This novel has lots of sailing action. Land lubbers beware of the sailing terms.

Cold Shoulder by Lynda LaPlante (PR6062. A65 C65 1996)

• The novel focuses on LAPD cop, Lorraine Page, who turns to booze when her partner is killed. Page eventually commits the unforgivable sin of shooting an innocent teenager and is banished from the force.  Page joins AA and becomes involved in solving a series of  killings.

Dark Angel by Sally Beauman (PR6052. E223 D3 1990)

• This novel spans the period from 1910 to the ’80s, the narrative moves between Winterscombe, the English country manor where the fashionable gather for shooting and “leisured adultery,” and the New York City/Hamptons scene of aging eccentric gays, aestheltes and interior decorators.

The Man From St. Petersburg by Ken Follett (PR6056. O45 M3)

10 Lb. Penalty by Dick Francis (PR6056. R27 A615 1998)

Devices & Desires by P.D. James (PR6060. A467 D4 1990)

The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan (PR6063. C4 C46 1978)

The Daughters of Cain by Colin Dexter (PR6054. E96 D38 1995)

View our library catalog:

http://mason.sccsc.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/lMKJdT8WHW/STCLIBRARY/67890162/60/135/X

November’s Booklist @ SCC Library

If You Enjoyed “The Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett try…

E. C. Bentley’s,

Trent’s Last Case

PR 6003. E 7247 T75 2000  (Book On Tape)

 

 

Wilkie Collins’,

The Moonstone

PR 4494. M62 1955

 

 

Sue Grafton’s,

A Is for Alibi

PS 3557. R13 A64 1987X

 

 

Patricia Highsmith’s,

The Talented Mr. Ripley

PS 3558. I366 T33 1992

 

 

Edgar Allan Poe’s,

The Mystery of Marie Roget

PS 2618. M83 W3