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Honour the Dead by John Anthony Miller

  Perceptive, perfectly paced… a brilliant whodunit! Miller’s insightful, well-plotted fifth murder mystery is set in Lake Como, a quiet, serene town in Italy. Psychiatrist Joseph Barnett, a WWI veteran, is struggling with PTSD when Penelope Jones, wife of Alexander…
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The Secrets by Jane Adams

  An enjoyable police procedural… At the heart of this darkly themed police procedural lie bitterness, hatred; fear, trauma; and child abuse. Detective Inspector Mike Croft is working through a convicted pedophile Fletcher’s upcoming appeal. Fletcher previously claimed to have…
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Campus Confidential (A Doctor Rowena Halley Novel, #1) by Sid Stark

Brilliantly-written and highly entertaining, a must read… Campus Confidential introduces the gutsy Doctor Rowena Halley, a new PhD professor who gets a temporary teaching job at poverty wages in New Jersey. While the job doesn’t help her with her quickly…
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Lying Next to Me by Gregg Olsen

  Intense, suspenseful, and an engrossing read… Adam and Sophie Warner are holidaying for the Memorial Day weekend to unwind and to fill the gaps seeping in their relationship. A stranger kidnaps Sophie on the first morning of their trip…
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Road Shrines (The Richard Carter Novels #8) by A.R. Simmons

  Definitely one of the best whodunits… A. R. Simmons remarkably maintains suspense up to the last page in his eighth outing for Richard Carter, a cop in rural Ozark sheriff’s department. An unauthorized exhumation leads to the discovery of…