Archive for July, 2009

Fri
31
Jul

Events calendar (The Times-News)

11:48 pm

MagicFest, with free magic performances, 4-11 p.m. at downtown businesses; and children’s movie matinees at 10:30 a.m., 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. at the Orpheum Theater, 146 Main Ave. N.; cost is 50 cents (with a coupon printed in the Times-News).

JEFFERSON - It remains to be seen whether a Louisville, Ky., man will fight extradition to Wisconsin to face charges he killed Timothy Hack and Kelly Drew in 1980, but when that is determined, Jefferson County officials will continue pursuit of his double-homicide conviction.

Jan Goldstein, author of the Los Angeles Times bestsellers ALL THAT MATTERS and THE PRINCE OF NANTUCKET, has once again penned a delightfully entertaining and engrossing novel. Our intrepid heroine is New Yorker Madison Mandelbaum, a spunky art gallery manager and bride-to-be.

TODAY

Fri
31
Jul

DYING FOR MERCY (Book Reporter)

7:49 pm

Eliza Blake is the host of the morning television show “KEY to America.” She and her crew of investigative reporters are known for their curiosity and ability to uncover mysteries.

Detective novels by Rennie Airth, Harry Dolan, Steve Hockensmith and Theresa Schwegel.

A Holocaust survivor was found bound, beaten, and killed in his home in a murder mystery on the Upper East Side. Now police are trying to figure out who killed him – and why. He got through the camps, including years spent at Auschwitz. “He had no animosity towards anything that happened to him,” friend Beau Dietl said. “One of the classiest men I ever met – he was part of my family.”

Fri
31
Jul

Face Time (BellaOnline)

5:52 pm

Investigative TV reporter Charlie McNally soon finds her own life in danger when she attempts to prove an innocent woman is in prison, even as the woman continues to stand by her confession of guilt.

MOUNT HOLLY — This man-kills-lover slaying sounds like our DiGirolamo/Giordano saga, only with a reversal in sadistic burials.

Zainab Shafia planned to celebrate young love on July 1 with the announcement of her engagement. On June 30, her body was one of four pulled from a submerged car at Kingston Mills.[...]