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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

Close to the Bone by Lisa Black

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Perish, February 2018
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Unpunished, January 2018
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Unpunished, February 2017
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That Darkness, May 2016
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Close to the Bone, October 2014
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The Price of Innocence, November 2013
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Defensive Wounds, September 2012
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Defensive Wounds, October 2011
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Trail Of Blood, August 2011
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Evidence of Murder, September 2010
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Evidence Of Murder, September 2009
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Takeover, July 2009
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Takeover, August 2008
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CLOSE TO THE BONE
By: Lisa Black

A Theresa MacLean Mystery
Severn House
October 2014
On Sale: October 1, 2014
221 pages
ISBN: 0727884026
EAN: 9780727884022
Kindle: B00MHREUCI
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery Police Procedural | Thriller Police Procedural

Forensic scientist Theresa MacLean stumbles across a murder rather too close for comfort when she returns to the Medical Examiner’s office following a late-night call to find one deskman missing and the other beaten to death. Written in blood above the dead man’s head is a single word: β€˜Confess’.

It’s the first time a homicide has taken place actually within the ME’s office. Medical Examiner Stone works on how to spin the news while Theresa works the scene.

When a second victim is discovered, Theresa uncovers a link to the death of another co-worker, records secretary Diane Allman, who was murdered in her own home ten years before. As she painstakingly pieces the clues together, Theresa realizes that she has become an integral part of a ruthless killer’s murderous agenda. And if she is to survive, she must find out what really happened to Diane all those years ago.