The first book in the Colinas County Mystery series has a lot of work to do; we need to be introduced to the place, characters and even the times. A QUIET LITTLE TOWN is set during the Eisenhower era, when the Dust Bowl is driving farmers off the overworked land, ...
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All her life, Sophy Harper has heard about the feud her family has with the Wells family. So when she discovers that her Aunt Bea has been having a love affair with Deke Wells, and now they’re both missing, she’s more than a little shocked. Using her psychic abili...
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Braedyn Winslow will do anything to find her best friend, Nova, who vanished without a trace during their hike a year ago. Her search leads her back to the quiet, mysterious town of Starlight Grove. Local law enforcement offers little help, her eight-year-old son ...
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I always enjoy Deanna Raybourn's stories, so I was excited to pick up A GHASTLY CATASTROPHE, book 10 in the Veronica Speedwell series. Social media was all-a- flutter when this book was announced, and Raybourn fans were ecstatic to describe this as a cros...
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Fredia McFadden is known for her mind- twisting psychological novels, and WANT TO KNOW A SECRET?, will keep you on the edge until the end.  McFadden is always great at describing her characters, who make you feel like you are really reading about one of the ladies...
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This 1890 woman sleuth story explores one of the earliest organised franchise hospitality jobs open to women, and one of the earliest crime-solving jobs. Neatly combining waitress and detective is THE HARVEY GIRL. The expanding frontier is sometimes lawless, but i...
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TEA ON SUNDAY is an engaging character- driven detective story that asks the question - who is the most likely suspect in an elderly woman’s circle of acquaintances to wish her dead? Part of the British Library Crime Classics series and written by Lettice Cooper, ...
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A member of the town council is threatening the library’s funding. Lindsey isn’t going down without a fight. Inspired to get more people caring about the library, she has the brilliant idea of having a boat book mobile so she can deliver books to people on the sur...
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466 pages in hardcover, CROWN OF WAR AND SHADOW is the first in a new series, Kingdoms of the Compass, by NY Times bestseller author J.R. Ward.  I am a huge fan of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by Ward, but most of her other series don’t work for me...
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A lively historical romance is conjured for us in the lush setting of Osaka, Japan, in 1590. Samurai Nishioji Tomi strides around wearing silk and carrying swords. THE SAMURAI’S SOUL concerns his unusual Christian faith, which was not officially approved since an ...
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The final part of the Grace Valley trilogy shows us June Hudson in a new light. This capable lady is the town's doctor, who settled in during the first novel and soon fell for undercover DEA agent Jim Post. DOWN BY THE RIVER is a fitting title for a story...
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AND NOW, BACK TO YOU is book 2 in the Heartstrings Series by author B.K. Borison. In book 1, FIRST TIME CALLER, we saw R.J. Grumpy fall for a caller on his popular radio show on Baltimore airwaves. We also met the weather nerds, like I call them - the met...
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Once again, J. D. Robb amazes readers with the perfect balance of police procedure and time spent with friends and colleagues.

The story opens with Dallas and Roake attending a gigantic benefit for Sarah's Song and mingling with friends Nadine and Mavis. Ac...
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What starts out as the perfect romantic beginning, Tavish Advani marries the love of his life, Diya Prasad, in a Vegas wedding, leaving behind his past and moving toward SUCH A PERFECT FAMILY he was thrilled to find. But what starts out as perfect just might not b...
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Sabrina Greenlee is a marketing specialist living with the BKI team as their social media expert, and is wondering if she should be looking too closely at Hewitt “Hew” Birch. Hew a former SEAL helicopter pilot. A man too controlled, though she never imagined herse...
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As the trial begins for Laurel Snow’s half-sister, Dr. Abigail Caine, the F.B.I agent realizes that her life will never be the same. With every horrible headline that hits, she knows YOU CAN SCREAM or try to do what you can to make the best of the world you really...
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Jesse Hudson had left Canton, Missouri without a second thought. Her stepmother and stepsister had disappeared under suspicious circumstances, making her father a murder suspect, but he vanished. Unable to take it after months of waiting, she left. Years of barten...
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In STOLEN IN DEATH, Nathan Barrister had supposedly interrupted a burglary in progress and was killed by the burglar, but things don’t add up for Lt. Eve Dallas. A vault filled with priceless treasures – stolen, priceless treasures – was wide open, and one item is...
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When I did not think an author’s writing could get any better, Taylor Adams did it again! I love his latest thriller, HER LAST BREATH. Adams is the author of the amazing book NO EXIT, and that one had me second-guessing trips and whether I really need to be taking...
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CHASING DREAMS has three stories between the covers, told by the inimitable Carolyn Brown. Characters are the lifeblood of this author. Her fans are insurmountable, and I definitely count myself as one. Humor, sass, and wittiness are central. In CHASING DREAMS, th...
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Family drama, generational stories, missed opportunities, robberies, all rolled into one big tale between two covers by Sharon Sala. Page by page and chapter by chapter, MIDNIGHT brings the reader further into a complicated affair of individual experiences. We get...
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Lauren discovers that her best friend and her boyfriend are having an affair. After a massive mistake at work, her boss suggests she take time off. Lauren hands in her notice instead. After a mourning period, she accepts a job interview in England at Buckingham Pa...
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MURDER ON THE SEA OTTER EXPRESS is the third outing in the Grace “The Hit Mom” mysteries, where a field trip chaperone takes a dive into a beluga whale tank and ends up dead. No one is sorry for the loss, as the man had an irreprehensible past, but the oddest thin...
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When walkers find a body lying amid the dunes of beautiful Spartina Island, South Carolina, the police are quickly on the scene. The media term the case THE KILLER IN THE CORDGRASS. Detective Sergeant Charlie Nash, in charge, soon learns that the young woman was C...
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