I have good news and I have bad news. The bad news first: The Library will not be re-opening on Sundays this fall. I wanted to give you fair warning so you can make an adjustment in your library visitation schedule. As you know, many city and county departments have to make substantial budget reductions. Sunday closing is just one of changes you may see in the future. We are reducing spending by $12,500 this year and supposedly next year will be worse. If you see the librarians standing on Main Street with tin cups begging for money and weeping inconsolably, you’ll understand why. Keep in mind, however, that the continued goal of the Library Board and the staff is to provide the best library service that we possibly can. Now for the good news: The new book by Kate White is out, "A Body to Die For." Bailey Weggins, the clever and irreverent true crime writer for Gloss, a leading women's magazine, is in desperate need of a little R&R after solving the murder of her boss' nanny. A trip to the Cedar Inn Spa seems like the perfect remedy. But when Bailey goes to the massage room to retrieve her lost Rolex, she finds a dead body getting a seaweed wrap. As Bailey uncovers the victim's mysterious past, she finds herself becoming infatuated with Jeffrey Beck, a detective working on the case. Meanwhile, another horrifying murder is committed at the inn — and Bailey finds herself the killer's next target. Also new on the shelf is "Exit Wounds" by J.A. Jance. The heat is a killer in Cochise County, Ariz., with temperatures more than 100 degrees. In the suffocating stillness of an airless trailer, a woman is lying dead, a bullet hole in her chest. Why someone would murder a harmless loner with a soft spot for stray dogs is only one of the questions nagging at the local police; another is why the killer used an 85-year-old bullet, fired from the same weapon that slaughtered two other women. The slayings are as oppressive as the blistering heat for Sheriff Joanna Brady, who must shoulder the added burden of a brutal reelection campaign and major developments on the home front. With suddenly more on her plate than many big-city law officers have to contend with, Joanna must deal with the terrifying reality that now threatens everyone in her jurisdiction: a serial killer in their midst.
