The Johnson County Library offers English conversation classes each Saturday from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. at the Oak Park Neighborhood Library, 9500 Bluejacket, Overland Park, KS.

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.