By blog guest, our reviewer Vicki Rock Since 2025 is over, it’s time to look back on the books I’ve enjoyed most this past year, listed in order of publication. All the books I review are available at the library and if you click on a title in this list you can go to the catalog to place a hold on the book. I hope you find books you really enjoy on this list. Five Star Reads of 2025: Presumed Guilty , by Scott Turow, Grand Central Publishing. A retired judge’s fiancée’s s

By guest blogger Vicki Rock Since 2024 is coming to an end, it’s time to look back on the books I’ve enjoyed most this year, listed in order of publication. All the books I review are available at the library (with the exception of one -- not on this list -- that is still backordered). If you click on a title in this list you can go to the catalog to place a hold on the book. So get a beverage, sit in your coziest chair, and enjoy some of my 5-star reads! “ The Fury ,” by Al

“Karla's Choice: A John le Carré Novel,” by Nick Harkaway, Viking, 320 pages, Oct. 22, 2024. It is spring 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus, the British overseas intelligence agency. He is living a more peaceful life. But Control has other plans. Mikhail Bortnik, a Russian agent, has defected, and the man he was sent to kill in London, Laszlo Banati, is nowhere to be found. Smiley reluctantly agrees to one last simple task: interview Susanna Gero, a Hungarian émigré

(Due to a technical issue, Vicki’s review this week is temporarily posted in the blog, where the Library Lady / webmaster can post from her phone. It will move when she has access to her computer again.) “The Waiting,” by Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, 416 pages, Oct. 15, 2024. Renée Ballard is a detective with the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit. She is surfing before work and when she gets back to her vehicle, she finds that her badge, gun, and ID were stolen. She c