title: The Man in the Blizzard: A Novel
author:  Bart Schneider 
description: At the start of this offbeat crime thriller from Schneider (<i>Secret Love</i>), concert violinist Elizabeth Odegard hires eccentric Twin Cities PI Augie Boyer, who enjoys poetry and smoking pot, to investigate her husband, Perry, a dealer in rare musical instruments. Elizabeth has become suspicious of Perry's unusual business practices, especially after discovering a gun inside a violin case. When Boyer visits the Odegards' apartment, he finds a cache of German Lugers and a slim book cataloguing valuable violins seized by the Nazis. The trail leads Boyer to a possible link with a major antiabortion rally at the 2008 Republican National Convention, where a fictional Minnesota governor is angling to become John McCain's running mate. While some readers will enjoy the name-dropping (from Garrison Keillor and Al Franken to Geraldo and Anderson Cooper), others may feel the predictable story line undercuts the suspense. <i>(Aug.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: Blizzard Bound
  A
  lyssa B
  rooks
  Peanut butter has been plastered under his door handle, sugar placed in his A/C
  
  vents and a rude sign taped to the trunk of his car. Needless to say, Berk isn’t laughing.
  The failing economy has forced Berk, once a big-city vice president, to return to
  work for his father’s construction company in small-town New York. As if being laid off
  isn’t bad enough, the outfit’s secretary, Lani Turner—who also happens to be
  annoyingly sexy—has decided him haze him. After several of her pranks, Berk decides
  a little payback is in order—but his actions spur a chain of events that trap them both at
  the office in the midst of a blizzard, half dressed and with only each other for body heat.
  Recently divorced, another man in her life is the last thing Lani needs. But resisting
  Berk’s good looks and annoyingly bossy charm? Futile. Their passion as they come
  together is hot enough to melt snow. But when day breaks and the plows move in, will
  this sworn one-night stand cha