This column was submitted by Evangeline Cessna, local history librarian at the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library.

This week’s column features titles from our New Large Print collection.

In A Lethal Lady by Nekesa Afia, Louise Lloyd’s splendid time in Paris is interrupted by a brutal murder. Louise thought she was finally living the life of her dreams; working in a parfumerie by day and spending time with her new friends every night at the Aquarius night club. A young mother comes to Louise with a letter of introduction from an old friend in Harlem and a story of her missing daughter. Reluctant at first, she realizes she has no choice but to look for the missing woman. The woman’s daughter is named Iris Wright, and she is a part of an elite social circle of artists who will do anything to get ahead. Louise quickly finds herself drawn into a world of privilege and ruthless ambition. With the help of friends from home, Louise must untangle a web of lies, jealousy, and betrayal to find out what happened to Iris; all the while keeping her new life from crashing down around her.

The latest from Allison Brennan is titled North of Nowhere. Kristen and Ryan McIntyre have been hiding for the past five years from their ruthless mob father. Their worst fears are realized when Boyd McIntyre tracks them to a small Montana town where they have been living with a man who has been raising them as his own. As the three manage to get to a plane to escape, their fuel line is hit by gunfire, and they crash in the middle of the Montana wilderness. There’s a storm coming and Kristen and Ryan hike deep into the woods searching for safety. Meanwhile, Boyd’s estranged sister, Ruby, disowned the family and joined the Army. When Ruby gets word that the kids’ plane has gone down, she drops everything to save them. As the storm draws closer, Boyd’s expert tracker is also on their trail. It depends on who finds them first as to whether they will live or die.

The latest from Rita Mae Brown’s Jefferson Hunt Club series is titled Time Will Tell. “Sister” Jane Arnold is busy as can be between leading her own Jefferson Hunt Club’s fox hunting season and organizing a joint session with her friends at Bull Run Hunt. When she and her friend Tootie Harris are helping her neighbor round up some naughty cows, they discover an expensive watch carelessly left on an overgrown path. A few days later, a young man is murdered, but there doesn’t seem to be any connection to the watch. When the hounds on the hunt discover a truck covered in blood, but no body, Jane realizes she’s in over her head with this cunning criminal.

Amanda Flower takes us back to wintry Michigan for the annual cherry pit spitting contest in her book, Crime and Cherry Pits. Everyone is having a blast until the local drama professor chokes on more than his pride. Shiloh Bellamy is aghast, for the first time in her family farm’s seventy-year history, she has managed to get a highly coveted booth at the Cherry Farm Market. It’s a major step in bringing the family farm back to life. When a man dies right in front of Shiloh during the cherry spitting contest, the police take a very close look at her. Law enforcement finds that Shiloh’s cousin had been secretly dating the man. It will take her tenuous friendship with the local sheriff and the help of her trusty pug, Huckleberry, to help find the real killer.