One Hundred Names/Cecilia Ahern/469 pgs

Kitty Logan thought she had a story that would be a big sensation, but she was wrong.  Now Kitty is paying the price for broadcasting the story in ways she never could have imagined.  A simple apology could not undo the damage she caused.  But fortunately, her other reporting job with the magazine, Etcetera, was still there and hanging by a thread.

Constance, her mentor and friend who ran the magazine, is dying.  She tells Kitty to write the story she always wanted to write.  Kitty goes to the office and finds a file of Constance’s that she assumes to be a story that Constance always wanted to write.  Before she can ask about it, her mentor passes away.  All that is in the file is a single sheet of paper with a list of one hundred names.  There are no notes or directions as to how these people might be related.

Using every resource that she can, Kitty pursues the story that Constance knew she could.  And along the way Kitty meets the most wonderful people with the perfect stories, the stories Kitty always wanted to write.  A must read if you believe in everyday people.

Lights Out Tonight/Mary Jane Clark/340 pages

                       

      Lights Out Tonight is a lightweight suspense novel that has great characters, an intricate plot and enough twists in the story to keep everyone guessing.

     Caroline Enright is a new member of the KEY News staff.  Currently doing reviews of stage and screen performances, she is sent to interview Belinda Winthrop who gives another award winning performance before disappearing from her home with no obvious suspects for the police--but lots of suspects for the reader!  There is the totally obsessed and recluse portrait painter, the understudy for Winthrop's part, the ex-con groundskeeper dealing in drugs, the play's director who is over committed and fears losing the backing for his play and, even closer to home, Caroline's husband is acting strange whenever the unsolved death of a friend is brought up from a couple of years ago.  All seem suspicious and could be the killer!

     As always, Mary Jane Clark does a masterful job of taking all the story threads and weaving them into a fascinating mystery with an ending that most will not see coming.