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August 30, 2008

Sunday in the Sun: Edna Buchanan's latest

Sunday's YOU section offers a look at Legally Dead (Simon & Schuster/359 pages/$26), the latest crime novel by former Miami Herald police reporter Edna Buchanan. She introduces readers to Michael Venturi, a U.S. marshal for the Witness Protection Program. He's charged with relocating an important witness who also happens to be a dangerous pedophile. The assignment tests Venturi, whose focus is the victims of crimes, not the perpetrators.

Also, you'll find capsule reviews of new children's books, including Chester Raccoon and the Big Bad Bully by Audrey Penn Tanglewood, Stanley and the Class Pet by Barney Saltzberg Candlewick, Splat the Cat by Rob Scotton, and Beware of the Frog by William Bee.

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While she always preferred The Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew, Nancy Johnston grew up reading nearly everything she could get her hands on, including a probably unhealthy amount of R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike, with the obligatory Jane Austen thrown in. She'll still read just about anything you put in front of her, especially the funny or weird. She lives in the city with her books, cat and drum set.

Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is an assistant managing editor and Sunday editor. He reads a wide range of books (but never as many as he'd like), usually alternating between non-fiction and fiction. Some all-time favorites: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; and anything by Calvin Trillin or John McPhee. He belongs to a book club with a Jewish theme.