November 2011 Bibliobabbler Title: The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry

November 8, 2011   Discussion led by Diana Rhudick

A young woman, Towner Whitney, descended from a long line of mind readers and fortune tellers has returned to her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, for rest and relaxation. Any tranquility in her life is short-lived, however, when her aunt drowns under mysterious circumstances. The Lace Reader is a mesmerizing tale that spirals into a world of secrets, confused identities, lies, and half-truths in which the reader quickly finds it’s nearly impossible to separate fact from fiction, but as Towner points out early on in the novel, “There are no accidents.”