Friday, June 1, 2007

River's End by Nora Roberts

June staff pick from Michele

Olivia McBride was only four the night she followed a scream and discovered her father standing over her mother's body, a pair of bloody scissors in his hand. In one short night, Hollywood's golden couple had ceased to exist. Olivia's testimony put actor Sam Tanner in prison for 20 years. Her grandparents then whisked her away to the Pacific Northwest, where her parents were never mentioned. Twenty years later, Sam wants to tell his story, his truth, and he wants Noah Brady, the son of the cop who arrested him, to write it. Noah agrees because pictures of the traumatized four-year-old have always haunted him. Noah and Olivia strike sparks off one another that quickly ignite a conflagration of emotions. Roberts keeps you guessing until the end.

Watch your back! by Donald E. Westlake

June staff pick from Molly

Westlake is in fine form in this twelfth comic caper featuring hapless burglar John Dortmunder and his crew of irrepressible ex-cons. This time around, the bumbling lawbreakers (including mildly offensive fence Arnie Albright and fireplug of a thug Tiny) plan to rob the Manhattan penthouse of billionaire reprobate Preston Fareweather (the smug financier is hiding out at Club Med in the Caribbean, bedding young lovelies and desperately trying to forget about his five ex-wives).