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Eight years ago, Tuesday Hendrickson’s world shattered when her younger sister was murdered by a serial-killer boyfriend, Arsen Bauer, a monster who was shot …
There but for the grace of God go the rest of us feral ‘70s kids. Mira Winston stands out at her swanky suburban New …
If you have the taste for crime writing—either the real stuff or the imaginative—then you are destined to love Emma Rosenblum’s latest satirical thriller. …
Dead bodies turning up in the Old Juniper Bookshop is nothing new, in fact it’s something of a local joke. Maddy opens the door …
Book of the Week June 25, 2026 A massive tsunami hits the Pacific Northwest and sweeps away Annie’s mother and father Maya and Aiden, …
Coltrane Davis made a deal with his childhood friend. “We don’t snitch. We don’t leave. We keep our word and ride ‘til the wheels …