{"id":3165,"date":"2025-05-15T19:43:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T19:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2025-05-15T19:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T19:45:11","slug":"ldrl-recommends-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/?p=3165","title":{"rendered":"LDRL Recommends"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3165\" class=\"elementor elementor-3165\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9ee9734 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9ee9734\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-92666b7\" data-id=\"92666b7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-825ddbc elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"825ddbc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/LDRL.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-3033\" alt=\"LDRL Recommends\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/LDRL.jpg 851w, https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/LDRL-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/LDRL-768x284.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-49e7007 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"49e7007\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"il\">LDRL<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Recommends<\/span>: Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson<\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\">Staff member: Krystal<\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\">Krystal says, &#8220;This young adult book had me hooked. I ended up finishing the whole 5 book series! A decades-old kidnapping and murder case is revisited. Although I am not a huge fan of dual timeline books where it jumps from present to past with a completely different set of characters,\u00a0 it worked well for this book.\u00a0Stevie Bell, a new student who is an expert in true crime,\u00a0 is determined to solve the Ellingham mystery (involves the kidnapping of Albert Ellingham&#8217;s wife and daughter, with the only clue being a ransom note signed &#8220;Truly, Devious&#8221;) while also navigating her new school and a current murder that occurs on campus. The more books you read the more you see about this case and what is truly going on not only on campus but off as well.&#8221;<\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\">Little Dixie Regional\u00a0Libraries\u00a0serves Randolph and Monroe Counties with branches in Moberly, Madison, Paris, and Huntsville.\u00a0<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b1a40dd elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b1a40dd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/b06ef3f2-2b1a-4752-900f-ca5e57a822e61-768x1365.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-3167\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/b06ef3f2-2b1a-4752-900f-ca5e57a822e61-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/b06ef3f2-2b1a-4752-900f-ca5e57a822e61-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/b06ef3f2-2b1a-4752-900f-ca5e57a822e61-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/b06ef3f2-2b1a-4752-900f-ca5e57a822e61-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/b06ef3f2-2b1a-4752-900f-ca5e57a822e61.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LDRL\u00a0Recommends: Truly Devious by Maureen JohnsonStaff member: Krystal\u00a0Krystal says, &#8220;This young adult book had me hooked. I ended up finishing the whole 5 book series! A decades-old kidnapping and murder case is revisited. Although I am not a huge fan of dual timeline books where it jumps from present to past with a completely different set of characters,\u00a0 it worked well for this book.\u00a0Stevie Bell, a new student who is an expert in true crime,\u00a0 is determined to solve the Ellingham mystery (involves the kidnapping of Albert Ellingham&#8217;s wife and daughter, with the only clue being a ransom note signed &#8220;Truly, Devious&#8221;) while also navigating her new school and a current murder that occurs on campus. The more books you read the more you see about this case and what is truly going on not only on campus but off as well.&#8221;\u00a0Little Dixie Regional\u00a0Libraries\u00a0serves Randolph and Monroe Counties with branches in Moberly, Madison, Paris, and Huntsville.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}