Stacking the Shelves

I have added three books to my Kindle library this week.  All of them were purchased for the Color Coded Reading Challenge.

Shadows of the White City is the second book in the Windy City Saga series by Jocelyn Green.  I haven't read any book in the series yet.  This one was just published on February 2, 2021 by Bethany House Publishers.  Sylvie Townsend is the main character and she desperately wants to have a family.  After taking in Polish immigrant Rose Dabrowski, the seventeen year old Rose goes missing at the World's Fair.  Law enforcement will not investigate (After all, it is just a Polish woman) so Sylvie asks one of her boarders, Kristof Bartok, for assistance.  Kristof is Rose's violin instructor as well as the concertmaster for the Columbian Exposition Orchestra and he is vital for navigating the immigrant communities in Chicago where the story takes place.  

The Woman in Blue was written by Elly Griffiths who I haven't had the pleasure of reading yet.  The book is the number 8 in the Ruth Galloway Series and takes place in Little Walsingham, an English town known for religious apparitions.  When Ruth's friend Cathbad sees a woman in a white dress and blue cloak standing in a cemetery, he believes that she is a vision of the Virgin Mary.  A woman wrapped in a blue cloth is found dead the next day. Ruth's friend and Anglican priest Hilary begins to receive threatening letters.  Are the two crimes connected? Probably.

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth Century China was written by Jung Chang, another new author for me.  They were known in China as being the most famous sisters.  One was married to Sun Yet-sen, another became Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the other became Chiang's main advisor.  All three ladies remained close even though they embraced different political views.