{"id":74288,"date":"2014-06-12T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=74288"},"modified":"2014-06-12T10:02:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T15:02:01","slug":"readers-advisory-if-you-liked-hbos-true-detective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=74288","title":{"rendered":"Reader\u2019s Advisory \u2013 If You Liked HBO\u2019s True Detective"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Renee Holden, Head Editor,\u00a0INALJ Nebraska<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Reader\u2019s Advisory \u2013 If You Liked HBO\u2019s True Detective<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"reneeh\"<\/a>As a fiction librarian in a public library, I often get patrons who have watched compelling shows or\u00a0movies and want to read fiction books that are similar to what they have seen on TV or at the movies.\u00a0The latest TV show that patrons cannot seem to get enough of is HBO\u2019s True Detective. So, if you have\u00a0any patrons that are asking for titles like this tense crime drama, then here are a few titles that patrons\u00a0are really enjoying.<\/p>\n

An Officer and a Spy<\/strong><\/span>by Robert Harris<\/p>\n

\u2022 Paris, winter 1895. Georges Picquart is promoted head of the agency that helped convict\u00a0Dreyfus of treason. Picquart believes in Dreyfus\u2019s guilt, even after he witnesses the man\u2019s\u00a0protestations of innocence. But gradually Picquart comes to suspect that a spy remains at large\u00a0in the military. With evidence mounting, pointing to deceit at the highest levels of government,\u00a0Picquart has nowhere to turn and is compelled to question his most deeply held beliefs about\u00a0his country and himself.<\/p>\n

The Last Child<\/strong><\/span> by John Hart<\/p>\n

\u2022 After his twin sister Alyssa disappears, thirteen-year-old Johnny Merrimon is determined to\u00a0find her. When a second girl disappears from his rural North Carolina town, Johnny makes a\u00a0discovery that sends shock waves through the community in this compelling tale of broken\u00a0families and deadly secrets.<\/p>\n

Alex<\/strong><\/span> by Pierre Lemaitre<\/p>\n

\u2022 Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven must learn all he can about a woman with a troubled\u00a0past if he is ever going to save her from the twisted killer who is holding her hostage.<\/p>\n

The Bat<\/strong><\/span> by Jo Nesbo<\/p>\n

\u2022 Inspector Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case.\u00a0Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions to stay out of trouble. The victim\u00a0is a twenty-three year old Norwegian woman who is a minor celebrity back home. Never one\u00a0to sit on the sidelines, Harry befriends one of the lead detectives, and one of the witnesses, as\u00a0he is drawn deeper into the case. Together, they discover that this is only the latest in a string\u00a0of unsolved murders, and the pattern points toward a psychopath working his way across the\u00a0country.<\/p>\n

Winter\u2019s Bone<\/strong><\/span> by Daniel Woodrell<\/p>\n

\u2022 Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father who put their house up for his\u00a0bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails to find him, she and her family will be turned out\u00a0into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin\u2019s code of silence and risking her life, Ree\u00a0hacks through the lies, evasions, and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece\u00a0together the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Renee Holden, Head Editor,\u00a0INALJ Nebraska Reader\u2019s Advisory \u2013 If You Liked HBO\u2019s True Detective As a fiction librarian in a public library, I often get patrons who have watched compelling shows or\u00a0movies and want to read fiction books that are similar to what they have seen on TV or at the movies.\u00a0The latest TV…<\/p>\n

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