How Can I Help You?

How Can I Help You?  by Laura Sims                             Mystery/Psychological Thriller

(from Amazon)  No one knows Margo’s real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library know only her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality, and charm. They have no reason to suspect that she is, in fact, a former nurse with a trail of premature deaths in her wake. She has turned a new page, so to speak, and the library is her sanctuary, a place to quell old urges.  That is, at least, until Patricia, a recent graduate and failed novelist, joins the library staff. Patricia quickly notices Margo’s subtly sinister edge, and watches her carefully. When a tragic incident in the library bathroom gives her a hint of Margo’s mysterious past, Patricia can’t resist digging deeper—even as her new fixation becomes all-consuming and sends both women hurtling toward disaster.  Chilling, incisive, and darkly humorous, How Can I Help You is a propulsive work of psychological suspense that asks how far we might go to justify our most monstrous desires.

(My Review) This book was wild!  The story was told from two point of views.  Margo has been working at the library for two years, when they hire Patricia as the new Reference Librarian.  Both have secrets.  This book was deliciously evil. 

Such Charming Liars

Such Charming Liars by Karen M. McManus                               YA Mystery

(from Amazon)  For all of Kat’s life, it’s just been her and her mother, Jamie—except for the forty-eight hours when Jamie was married and Kat had a stepbrother, Liam. That all ended in an epic divorce, and Kat and Liam haven’t spoken since.  Now Jamie is a jewel thief trying to go straight, but she has one last job—at billionaire Ross Sutherland’s birthday party. And Kat has figured out a way to tag along. What Kat doesn’t know, though, is that there are two surprise guests at the dazzling Sutherland compound that weekend. The last two people she wants to run into. Liam and his father—a serial scammer who has his sights set on Ross Sutherland’s youngest daughter.  Kat and Liam are on a collision course to disaster, and when a Sutherland dies, they realize they might actually be in the killer’s crosshairs themselves. Somehow Kat and Liam are the new targets, and they can’t trust anyone—except each other.  Or can they? Because if there’s one thing both Kat and Liam know, it’s how to lie. They learned from the best.

(My Review)  Another solid mystery from Karen M. McManus.  Kat accompanies her mom (who is a jewelry thief), on a weekend heist.  When her mom becomes sick, Kat has to take over and get caught up in a web of chaos, that they might not escape from.