Week 3 Prompt Response

1. I am looking for a book by Laurell K. Hamilton. I just read the third book in the Anita Blake series and I can't figure out which one comes next?

The third book in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series is Circus of the Damned, book #4 is Lunatic Cafe.
I definitely think Novelist is the best thing ever. I am so happy that it is part of our catalog system. I like to show patrons how they can use it too when looking up their next read.


4. I read this great mystery by Elizabeth George called Well-Schooled in Murder and I loved it. Then my dentist said that if I liked mysteries I would probably like John Sanford, but boy was he creepy I couldn't finish it! Do you have any suggestions?

For the reader who enjoys Elizabeth George (I'm a fan!!), I would consider George in the mystery-police procedural genre. The Well-Schooled in Murder title is part of the Inspector Linley series. The characters are well developed, there is an intricate plot with lots of detail and suspense. I would suggest a couple of read-a-likes/similar authors. Louise Penny and her Armand Gamache series and Martha Grimes and the Richard Jury series. Both of these series are character driven, have a lot of detail and suspense, but I would not describe them as creepy. As an RA I would not have recommended John Sanford to someone with an interest in Elizabeth George. John Sanford is considered a police procedural, but is more thriller/suspense. Novelist also describes him as "Urban Police" and"gritty", which Elizabeth George is not.


7. I love thrillers but I hate foul language and sex scenes. I want something clean and fast paced.

I used Novelist and looked up Christian Thrillers. I did this because I know generally speaking these do not contain foul language or sex scenes. Three authors I found (and I have read these, so I wouldn't feel I was proselytizing - they have fast pace, action, but not heavy handed or overtly
 Christian messaging.) Irene Hannon, Dee Henderson and Joel Rosenberg.