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Tanya read Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail: Can a Punk Rock Legend Find What Monty Python Couldn’t?, by Christopher Dawes. In this non-fiction punk rock Da Vinci Code quest, the drummer from The Damned and a semi-retired rock-music critic become obsessed with finding the Holy Grail in an atypical travelogue.



Valerie thinks that Water for Elephants, the new novel by Sara Gruen, could become a bestseller. This romantic story about a Depression-era traveling circus is narrated by animal caretaker Jacob Jankowski from his present day nursing home.



Susan read Run the Risk and Never Fear by Scott Frost, who was a screenwriter for The X-Files and Twin Peaks. Both novels feature Pasadena homicide detective Alex Delillo as she tries to solve serial killer cases that are threatening her family. These suspense novels will appeal to fans of Marcia Muller and Sue Grafton.



Julie read The Last Kashmiri Rose by Barbara Cleverly, which is set in India in 1922, in the final days of the Raj. A Scotland Yard detective who is in India to help train their police force is drawn into a complex who-done-it mystery. The series continues in Ragtime in Simla, The Damascened Blade, and The Palace Tiger.