Mailbox Monday

 

Mailbox Monday, originally started by Marcia is now on a rotating schedule. December's host is Let Them Read Books.

Caveat: MM can lead to exponentially exploding TBR lists.



Received from Berkley for review/giveaway

Paperback, 304 pages
Expected publication: January 3rd 2012 by Berkley
ISBN: 0425245853 (ISBN13: 9780425245859)
edition language: English
series: Gram’s Country Cooking School Mystery #1

From the publisher: Gram's Country Cooking School, Betts and Gram are helping students prepare the perfect dishes for the Southern Missouri Show-Down, the cook-off that draws the first of the summer visitors. Everything is going smoothly until they discover the body of local theater owner Everett Morningside in the school's supply closet, and Everett's widow points an accusatory finger at Gram. Now, Betts has to dig deep into Broken Rope's history to find the modern-day killer-before the last piece of chicken is served.


Received from Berkley for review/giveaway

Mass Market Paperback, 304 pages
Expected publication: January 3rd 2012 by Penguin Group (USA)
ISBN: 0425245837 (ISBN13: 9780425245835)
edition language: English
series: A White House Chef Mystery

From the publisher: White House chef Olivia Paras and her arch nemesis, White House Sensitivity Director Peter Everett Sargeant, must work together to solve the double murder of one of the First Lady's assistants and the Chief of Staff-before they become the next victims of a merciless assassin with a secret agenda.



Received an ARC from SA/Viking

Hardcover, 416 pages

Published June 23rd 2011 by Michael Joseph (first published May 2011)

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ISBN: 0718154959 (ISBN13: 9780718154950)

edition language: English

original title: Blue Monday

series: Frieda Klein #1

From the publisher: Monday, the lowest point of the week. A day of dark impulses. A
day to snatch a child from the streets ...

The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, psychotherapist Frieda Klein is left troubled: one of her patients has been relating dreams in which he has a hunger for a child. A child he can describe in perfect detail, a child the spitting image of Matthew.

Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson doesn't take Frieda's concerns seriously until a link emerges with an unsolved abduction twenty years ago and he summons Frieda to interview the victim's sister, hoping she can stir hidden memories. Before long, Frieda is at the centre of the race to track the kidnapper. But her race isn't physical. She must chase down the darkest paths of a psychopath's mind to find the answers to Matthew Farraday's whereabouts. And sometimes the mind is the deadliest place to lose yourself.

Won from Bookreporter.com Holiday contest

Hardcover, 256 pages
Published October 27th 2011 by Penguin Group USA, Inc
ISBN: 0670023116 (ISBN13: 9780670023110)

From the publisher:
An evocative and stunning photographic tribute to America's railroad stations.

For much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the railroad station or depot was the communal hub of every American town that could boast of train service. There, citizens gathered before they sent loved ones off to college, marriage, or war-and where they greeted them on their return. Most of these buildings were architectural gems, and while many are still in service, certain others now house museums, banks, restaurants, and more. In fact, in cities like Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, renovated stations are destinations unto themselves even for those not boarding the train. And in other places, whole sections of towns have been remade around these structures, restoring their vitality in novel and interesting ways long after the last train has left the station.

In America's Great Railroad Stations, award-winning photographer Roger Straus III, and two lifelong railroad buffs, Ed Breslin and Hugh Van Dusen, join forces to tell the astonishing story of these enduring structures and the important role they still play in the country's landscape. Journeying from the Pennsylvania Railroad to the Union Pacific to Michigan Central and more, readers will be dazzled by the Beaux Arts monuments of New York and the adobe buildings of the Southwest. Filled with both new and archival photographs and drawings, this volume is a glorious salute to the institution that transformed our nation.

This one made a nice little gift to TBG as he is a railroad fanatic.