Books in the News - 2/3/12

Here's the scoop on books profiled in our local newspapers this weekend!

At the Pioneer Press, we have:

• The Fate of Mercy Alban by Wendy Webb - local author murder mystery
• Minnesota's Oldest Murder Mystery - The Case of Edward Phalen: St. Paul's Unsaintly Pioneer by Gary Brueggemann - Mark your calendars!  Gary Brueggemann will be appearing at the Maplewood Library on March 4th at 7:00 p.m. to discuss this case and his book!
• Cricket: Secret Child of a Sixties Supermodel by Susan Fedorko

And in the Star Tribune's Books section:

• Ike and DIck: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage by Jeffrey Frank - biography of the friendship of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon
• All This Talk of Love by Christopher Castellani - fiction involving a family struggling with suicide and Alzheimer's
• The Fate of Mercy Alban by Wendy Webb - doubly featured--both papers!
• Man in the Empty Suit by Sean Ferrell - science fiction novel about a time traveler solving his own murder
• See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid - novel about a woman making sense of her ailing marriage and her life
• Temple of a Thousand Faces by John Shors - novel set in Cambodia
• Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright 

Happy reading and requesting!