Whispers in the Reading Room by Shelley Gray

Librarian Lydia Bancroft and club-owner Sebastian Marks are the unlikeliest of friends, but their love of books connects the two in Shelley Gray’s Whispers in the Reading Room, book three in The Chicago World’s Fair Mystery series. Lydia and Sebastian form a fragile friendship, but when she discovers that Mr. Marks isn’t merely a very wealthy gentleman, but also the proprietor of an infamous saloon and gambling club, she is shocked. One fateful night, suddenly Lydia is a suspect to a murder. She must determine who she can trust and if Sebastian Marks is actually everything her heart believes him to be.

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Whispers in the Reading Room (Zondervan, November 2015)
Lydia’s job at the library is her world—until a mysterious patron catches her eye . . . and perhaps her heart.

Just months after the closure of the Chicago World’s Fair, librarian Lydia Bancroft finds herself fascinated by a mysterious dark-haired and dark-eyed patron. He has never given her his name; he actually never speaks to a single person. All she knows about him is that he loves books as much as she does.

Only when he rescues her in the lobby of the Hartman Hotel does she discover that his name is Sebastian Marks. She also discovers that he lives at the top of the prestigious hotel and that most everyone in Chicago is intrigued by him.

Lydia and Sebastian form a fragile friendship, but when she discovers that Mr. Marks isn’t merely a very wealthy gentleman, but also the proprietor of an infamous saloon and gambling club, she is shocked.

Lydia insists on visiting the club one fateful night and suddenly is a suspect to a murder. She must determine who she can trust, who is innocent, and if Sebastian Marks—the man so many people fear—is actually everything her heart believes him to be.

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If you have a love for reading then Shelley Shepard Gray's book Whispers in the Reading Room is just the book for you.  A fun winter, curl-up-by-the-fire book read.  You won't want to stop turning the pages Gray has you trapped from the start to the finish.  It is definitely a hard book to put down.  I have read Gray's Amish writings but this is the first one of her books nonAmish that I've read and love it as I love her Amish books.  It's the third book in the World's Fair series, but I didn't feel as if I'd missed anything by not reading 1 & 2 first.  Now, I'm going to have to back peddle and read the first two books. 

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Shelley Shepard Gray is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, a finalist for the American Christian Fiction Writers prestigious Carol Award, and a two-time HOLT Medallion winner. She lives in southern Ohio, where she writes full-time, bakes too much, and can often be found walking her dachshunds on her town’s bike trail.
Find out more about Shelley at http://www.shelleyshepardgray.com.




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