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Kate's Corner
Happy Father's Day! When I was in kindergarten I had to do a picture telling why I love my dad. Mine, of course, was "I love my dad because he reads me books." It's no small wonder the love of reading that my parents instilled in me set me on the path that led me to The Learned Owl. I'm thankful for them every day. So here's to all the dads out there, whether they are near or far, we raise our glasses and our books to you!
Thank you for your support, and happy reading!
- Kate
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Meet the authors
Thurs., June 19, 7 PM
(at the Hudson Library)
Sat., June 21, 1-3 PM
(at The Learned Owl)
Sun., June 22, 2 PM
(at The Learned Owl)
Our History Book Club will meet to discuss 19th Century Inventors. Read any book on the topic and join us!
Thurs., June 26, 7 PM
(at Zenas, 215 S. Depeyster St., Kent)
Sat., June 28, 1-3 PM
(at The Learned Owl)
Meet Wendy Webb, author of The Vanishing (a Learned Owl staff pick!).
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Mysterious happenings at The Learned Owl
Thursday, June 26, 7 PM (at Zenas in the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center, 215 S. Depeyster St., Kent)
Saturday, June 28, 1-3 PM (at The Learned Owl)
Meet Wendy Webb, author of The Vanishing (a Learned Owl staff pick!). Linda calls it "a delicious gothic-style thriller that takes place in an intriguing old mansion."
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New mysteries
 Liz recommends:Identity by Ingrid Thoft [Putnam, $26.95; available June 26]
It's been a couple months since Fina's last big case - the one that exposed dark family secrets and called Fina's family loyalty into question - but there's no rest for the weary, especially when your boss is Carl Ludlow. Renata Sanchez, a single mother by choice, wants to learn the identity of her daughter Rosie's sperm donor. A confidentiality agreement and Rosie's reticence might deter other mothers, but not Renata, nor Carl, who's convinced that lawsuits involving cryobanks and sperm donors will be "the next big thing." Fina uncovers the donor's identity, but the solution to that mystery is just the beginning: Within hours of the case going public, Rosie's donor turns up dead. Fina didn't sign on for a murder investigation, but she can't walk away from a death she may have set in motion. She digs deeper and discovers that DNA doesn't tell the whole story and that sometimes, cracking that code can have deadly consequences.
 
 Linda recommends:[Minotaur Books, $25.99]
Lacey Flint, Sharon Bolton's enigmatic protagonist, has been living in a houseboat on the River Thames, and she's becoming a part of London's weird and wonderful riverboat community. For the first time in her life, as she recovers from the trauma of the last few months, Lacey begins to feel almost happy. Then, at dawn one hot summer morning while swimming down the river, Lacey finds the body of a shrouded young woman in the water. She assumes it was chance; but further investigation leads her policing team to suspect the woman's body was deliberately left for Lacey to find. Lacey's no longer a homicide detective, but as she begins to notice someone keeping a strangely close eye on her, she's inexorably drawn into the investigation.   
The Silkworm
by Robert Galbraith (aka J. K. Rowling)
[Mulholland Books, $28.00; available June 19]
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives, so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him.
And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before...
A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, The Silkworm is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant Robin Ellacott.
Death threats, highly trained assassins, highly untrained assassins, and Stark Street being overrun by a pack of feral Chihuahuas are all in a day's work for Stephanie Plum. The real challenge is dealing with her Grandma Mazur's wild bucket list. A boob job and getting revenge on Joe Morelli's Grandma Bella can barely hold a candle to what's number one on the list - but that's top secret.
 Now in paperback:Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen [Grand Central Publishing, $15.00]
Andrew Yancy, late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff's office, has a human arm in his freezer. There's a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, the sheriff might rescue him from his grisly Health Inspector gig (it's not called the roach patrol for nothing). But first - this being Hiaasen country - Yancy must negotiate an obstacle course of wildly unpredictable events with a crew of even more wildly unpredictable characters, including his just-ex lover, a hot-blooded fugitive from Kansas; the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; two avariciously optimistic real-estate speculators; the Bahamian voodoo witch known as the Dragon Queen, whose suitors are blinded unto death by her peculiar charms; Yancy's new true love, a kinky coroner; and the eponymous bad monkey - who just may be one of Carl Hiaasen's greatest characters.
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