Washoe County Library System

"Una wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavík. Her savings are depleted, her love life is nonexistent, and she cannot face another winter staring at the four walls of her shabby apartment. Celebrating Christmas and ringing in 1986 in the remote fishing hamlet of Skalar seems like a small price to pay for a chance to earn some teaching credentials and get her life back on track. But Skalar...

Barbara is a cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. Her only means of taking the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. Sheba is a younger, attractive woman, who joins the faculty as an art teacher. Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary. Barbara finds herself reaching out to Sheba. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba's lecturer husband and...

When a DVD discovered near Elise Freeman's decomposing corpse sheds insight on her yearlong torture and eventual murder, detective Milo Sturgis calls on the help of his longtime friend Dr. Alex Delaware. As they examine the evidence, Alex and Milo home in on the prime suspects: three teachers from the prestigious Windsor Academy. However, as the investigation continues, Alex discovers that solving Elise's murder will barely crack the surface in the...