If you’re looking for a new mystery series, do consider those by M. E. Hilliard, featuring Greer Hogan. Although in her late thirties, she calls herself “girl detective,” likening herself to Trixie Belden (preferable to Nancy Drew, because Trixie got into more trouble) and applying lessons from her favorite detectives—everyone from Hercule Poirot to Harriet Vane. She is by profession, I hardly need to say, a librarian, working in a small town’s public library. The first book in the series, which I gobbled in two days, in entitled The Unkindness of Ravens. (The village is called Ravens Hill, and the library is in an old mansion donated for a library, full of old house noises—and the occasional dead body. There are to date four books in the series, and I’m planning to read them all.
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What I’m ReadingI began working in libraries as a seventh grader, courtesy of scoliosis. My orthopedic surgeon wrote me a pass to miss gym class, so I began working in the school library to feed my love of reading. Even after my surgery to correct the curvature, I kept getting out of gym to work in my high school library and then in my college library (for pay, at last!).
So began my eventual career as a college reference librarian—after a detour into teaching high school English. Later I worked for an educational publisher before going back to libraries.
I have a reading and writing life now. I devour both fiction and nonfiction, and will tell you about some of my favorite reads, both old friends and new discoveries.
Here's some library-themed music to get you in the mood.
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