Check out these new books of interest to readers in Whatcom County
FICTION
“Feast for Thieves”“Impasse,”
“Stone and Silt,”
• “A Cup of Hemlock,” by Clyde Curley, $15.95 paper, $4.99 ebook. In Curley’s second novel in his Detective Matthew Toussaint mystery series, a beloved teacher is found dead, shot while working late in his classroom. Helped by a student teacher, Toussaint delves into school politics to learn the crime’s truth. Curley lives in Bellingham.
• “The Murder of Adam and Eve,” by William Dietrich, $13.99. In the survival thriller by the former Bellingham Herald reporter and WWU instructor, a 16-year-old risks visiting a forbidden island and abandoned fort for a high school scholarship project. The lad tumbles into a perilous adventure that finds him fighting for his life and questioning all that he believes.
“Who is Mackie Spence?”• “Murder Beside the Salish Sea,” by Jennifer Mueller, $10. A bomber pilot is troubled by the many missions he flew during World War II, but his troubles mount when he returns to Bellingham. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya, Mueller lives in Bellingham.
“Nicholas Barnaby and the Magic Stick,”
“The Ariadne Connection,”
POETRY
“Collage,”• “Bellingham Poems,” by Tim Pilgrim, Paul Piper and Chuck Luckmann, $9.95. Three Whatcom County poets share poems that are set in and reflect upon familiar terrain, from Boulevard Park to Clayton Beach to the Cascade Mountains.