When the mayor’s daughter disappears, the local police ask for Maggie’s help in analyzing the notes left by the abductor. Her professor, and law enforcement, think she can offer insights they are missing. She acts as an unofficial profiler considering the perpetrator’s vocabulary and choice of phrasing.
Swimming Pretty is not just a book about what we now know as synchronized swimming. It follows the throughline of women earning the right to be swimmers at all — recreationally and competitively.
Spend July between the pages of a book
As a baby, Clayton was left on the front steps of a retirement home. He grew up among the Fellowship for Puzzlemakers, a group of enigmatologists, codebreakers, and crossword setters who share a reclaimed country estate. Now he has to uncover his origin to secure his future, and that of the Fellowship.
Mark Cecil has deftly reframed the hallowed figures of Paul Bunyan and John Henry in this book. The legendary men are forced to go toe to toe with the capitalistic greed of an expanding America. They remain heroes in this retelling but their foes now include amorphous ideals as well as bad guys.