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Continue reading →: Moon Games by Shelly Frome
At the outset, Miranda Davis has nothing much going for her. The tourists are long gone by October in the quaint Carolina town of Black Mountain, her realty business is at a standstill, and her weekend stint managing the local tavern offers little to pull her out of the doldrums.…
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Continue reading →: Picture Not Perfect (The Not So Reluctant Detectives #2) by D.E. Haggerty
A picture tells a story. But is it the truth? When the police find pictures of Melanie hanging up at her murdered colleague’s house, they’re convinced he was stalking her. Maybe she even killed him. Melanie was not being stalked! And she certainly didn’t kill her supposed stalker – as…
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Continue reading →: Nine Lessons (Josephine Tey #7) by Nicola Upson
Called to the peaceful wooded churchyard of St-John’s-at-Hampstead, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose faces one of the most audacious and unusual murders of his career. The body of the church’s organist is found in an opened grave, together with a photograph of a manor house and a cryptic note. The…
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Continue reading →: London Rain (Josephine Tey #6) by Nicola Upson
Intrepid writer and amateur sleuth Josephine Tey returns in this sixth installment of Nicola Upson’s popular series—perfect for fans of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot and Jaqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs—that unfolds in 1930s London as England prepares to crown a new king. London, 1937. Following the gloomy days of the abdication…
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Continue reading →: Rivers of London Volume 5: Cry Fox (Peter Grant/Rivers of London graphic novels #20-23) by Ben Aaronovitch and Rivers of London Volume 6: Water Weed (Rivers of London: Water Weed) by Ben Aaronovitch
Child kidnapping is already an appalling crime, but in the latest case for Detective Constable Peter Grant–newly promoted in the ranks of London's Metropolitan Police, but with a lot still to learn about wizarding–things take a truly dark turn when the victims become prey in a homicidal hunt that Grant…
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Continue reading →: The Death of Lucy Kyte (Josephine Tey #5) by Nicola Upson
In this atmospheric, intriguing historical mystery brimming with psychological tension, an unexpected inheritance plunges beloved British mystery author Josephine Tey into a disturbing puzzle of dark secrets eerily connecting the present and the past When Josephine Tey unexpectedly inherits Red Barn Cottage from her estranged godmother, the will stipulates that…
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Continue reading →: Victorian Farm: Rediscovering Forgotten Skills (Period Farms) by Alex Langlands, Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn
No electricity, no gas, no flushing toilet . . . and no tractor! Could you survive a year on a Victorian farm? In this fascinating time-traveling experiment a team of historians spend a year recreating farm life in 1885. Accompanying the television series, this book follows the team as they try…
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Continue reading →: The Cha-Cha Babes of Pelican Way by Frances Metzman
Would you move a dead body for the sake of your best friend? Ask cha-cha babe Celia Ewing, a sixty-five-year-old widow who has just settled into Boca Pelicano Palms, the Florida retirement community of her dreams. When Celia's best friend Marcy calls her and their friend Deb for help in…
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Continue reading →: Spectacles by Sue Perkins
When I began writing this book, I went home to see if my mum had kept some of my stuff. What I found was that she hadn't kept some of it. She had kept all of it – every bus ticket, postcard, school report – from the moment I was…
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Continue reading →: Fashions Fade, Haunted Is Eternal (A Haunted Vintage Mystery #7) by Rose Pressey
Cookie Chanel–owner of the chic clothing store It's Vintage Y'All in Sugar Creek, Georgia–has been hired to dress models for a fashion shoot. The spread will be featured in Fashion and Style magazine's October issue–so the models are posing in a cemetery. As someone who can see and talk to…
