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Still Life by Louise Penny

In a non-mystery book club I belong to, another member and I stumbled onto a mutual interest in mysteries and she suggested this author to me. “Sill Life” is the first book in Louise Penny’s Chief...

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Deadly Deal by Fern Michaels

This book is part of a series about the Sisterhood, whatever that means. This book focuses on a surrogate parent and adoption ring that preys on parents who can’t have children of their own to scam...

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Finding Books that Interest You

Yesterday, I mentioned that I consider books from certain publishers over other publishers when looking for a book that interests me. While that’s not a surefire way to determine what you will or won’t...

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Bleed for Me by Michael Robotham

While “Bleed for Me” is the first book I have read from Michael Robotham, it is not the first in his series about Joe O’Loughlin. I’m reading it for a book group and we were not able to get copies …...

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Why Your Local Library and Bookstore

Why should you support your local library and bookstore when you can now just order books from home and have them delivered to your door? Because they’ll help you out, personally. Recently, I wrote a...

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The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry

The full title of this book is “The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired Chicago.” In this title, they’re talking about what we now think of as the modern musical on...

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A Trail of Ink by Mel Starr

This is the third book in the Hugh de Singleton, surgeon series. In this book, Hugh has come to Oxford to investigate the theft of Master John Wyclif’s books. Master John is a secular scholar and, as...

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The Hypnotist

This is yet another book I started reading because it was on a suggested reading list for those people who liked the Millennium series. In this story set in Tumba, Sweden, Detective Inspector Joona...

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Princess Elizabeth’s Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal

This book is the second in the Maggie Hope Mystery series. In “Princess Elizabeth’s Spy,” Maggie is enrolled at “Camp Spook,” a training camp for future MI-5 spies, but she does poorly with the...

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Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

My mystery book group read “Child 44″ before I joined the group. One meeting, as we were suggesting books to each other, a number of people INSISTED I read this. “Child 44″ is set in Russia in...

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Murder in the Hearse Degree by Tim Cockey

This undertakeer-detective series set in Baltimore is a short and quirky series but worth knowing about. The main character, Hitchcock “Hitch” Sewell is an orphan who went to live with his aunt and...

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Murder of a Small-Town Honey by Denise Swanson

This book is the first in the Scumble River series. Scumble River is a small town off Interstate 55 in Illinois, about 70 miles southwest of Chicago. Being from that general area and having relations...

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Nickeled-and-Dimed to Death by Denise Swanson

This is the second in the “Devereaux’s Dime Store Mystery” series. In this book, one of Dev’s best friends, Boone, is charged with murder. She and their other BFF, Poppy, know he’s innocent and work to...

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Dead Man’s Grip by Peter James

A friend and I had seen Peter James on an author’s panel at the Bouchercon crime writer’s convention, last fall. When he spoke about his writing and his books, both of us left that talk convinced that...

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