The Johnson County Library will host a three part Comic Drawing and Writing Workshop, at the Central Resource Library, 9875 W. 87th Street, Overland Park, KS, beginning on Sunday, January 17 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. and continuing on Sundays, February 21, and March 21.

Despite a plot that stretches the bounds of credulity, Snow Angels by James Thompson fields a solid first entry for a new police procedural series starring Inspector Kari Vaara. It’s kaamos, the darkest time of the year above the Arctic Circle in Finland, when Inspector Vaara is called to the scene of a brutal murder of B-movie star, Sufia Elmi, a beautiful black Somali immigrant.