Fresh Fiction for August Is Here Cowboys, castles, and shiftersβthis month has it all.
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Double Double Fadeaway Girl Fadeaway Girl The Black Cat Dakota Dust: A Richard Jury Mystery Dust The Old Silent Belle Ruin The Dirty Duck The Anodyne Necklace The Grave Maurice The Old Fox Deceiv'd The Man With a Load of Mischief The Blue Last The Five Bells and Bladebone Cold Flat Junction I Am the Only Running Footman The Train Now Departing: Two Novellas The Lamorna Wink Biting the Moon The Stargazey The Case Has Altered
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Mystery Woman Sleuth
For waitress and cub reporter Emma Graham, tragedy defines where she lives. Spirit Lake, La Porte, and Lake Noir have been held in thrall by intertwined crimes: the murders of Mary-Evelyn Devereau, Rose Queen, and Fern Queen; the supposed kidnapping of a four-month-old baby from the Belle Ruin hotel twenty years previously; and, most recently, the attack on Emma. And with the arrival of an unexpected visitor and a drifter, it looks like the bad times have only begun...
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