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Boomsday, by Christopher Buckley

Boomsday, by Christopher Buckley

Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking, takes a darkly comic look at Social Security in this brilliant, funny, and disturbing novel. Cassandra Devine is a 20-something blogger who works for Terry Tucker, PR specialist and owner of...

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Death Loves a Messy Desk, by Mary Jane Maffini

Death Loves a Messy Desk, by Mary Jane Maffini

http://youtu.be/jbl1ofAGd8A Charlotte Adams specializes in improving people's lives by cleaning up their homes, offices, and -- well, their lives. She carries her skills into her own life, too. She tidies her apartment at night to create morning...

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Making Money, by Terry Pratchett

Making Money, by Terry Pratchett

Something is amiss with the banks of Ankh-Morpork, and Lord Vetinari has just the man to fix the problem: Moist Lipwig, the man who (in Going Postal) got the post office on its feet. True, Lipwig was a con man for most of his life, but who better...

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The Botox Diaries, by Kaplan and Schnunberger

The Botox Diaries, by Kaplan and Schnunberger

Think of a favorite Coming of Age novel. Trade peer pressure to try marijuana or alcohol for peer pressure to try Botox and plastic surgery, student crushes for extramarital affairs, and insecurity about growing up for insecurity about growin older...

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New Year’s Eve Murder, by Leslie Meier

New Year’s Eve Murder, by Leslie Meier

"A solid month of baking and chasing bargains and wrapping and decorating and secret keeping, and it all came down to this..." is the first sentence in this book,  and a lot of us can relate. "This" is a messy house, family members getting on each...

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Six Geese a Slaying, by Donna Andrews

Meg Langslow is Caerphilly County's "Mistress of the Revels" in the Christmas entry in this series, and that means she's in charge of the annual Christmas parade. With a "12 Days of Christmas" theme, there are plenty of birds, plenty of noise, and...

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The 12 Clues of Christmas, by Rhys Bowen

The 12 Clues of Christmas, by Rhys Bowen

Lady Georgianna is 35th in line for the British throne, but she's also penniless, unemployed, and stuck in a gloomy old castle eating beans on toast for Christmas. When she gets a chance to help out at a country house party in a tiny village in...

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