From the Bookshelf of Baltimore County Public Library Summer Reading BCPL SRC …

[close] I love her writing. I just can't help it. Sure, all her books have the same basic plot: some sort of crime occurs, but only at the very end do we find out the real story, and there's always a romantic relationship element. But she makes all of her characters so real! I mean, one of them in this book was a reference librarian, originally from Ohio (just like me!) And, as a librarian, I was won over by this quote: "Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat on a par with God--who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many different types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not haord the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see." This one was a real page-turner, and a tear-jerker: two families lived next door to each other, becoming best friends and raising their children together. Then one child ends up dead in a suspected suicide but the other child is put on trial for murder. And that's all I'll say here ;)