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Homicide and Halo-Halo

Homicide, Hairdos, and Heroics Author: Mia P. Manansala Lila Macapagal finally has her dream, but after her near-murder and the lingering effects of her previous investigation, life has become a nightmare. She is about to open her new café with her best friend, Adeena, but her mind is caught back in time. She can’t cook, she can’t make new recipes, and she can’t move on. What she needs to get back in touch with herself and her friends and family is a good distraction . . . and that distraction has just come to town. As a former beauty queen, Lila [...]

2022-08-11T17:42:03-07:00August 11th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

Whisper Down the Lane

A Fictionalized Account of the Satanic Panic Author: Clay McLeod Chapman Richard is happy in his new marriage to fellow teacher Tamara. It is new love and his first chance to be a father to Tamara’s young son, Elijah. Everything is going well, until one day the school’s pet rabbit is found on the school grounds, ritualistically sacrificed. There is something strange and horrifying at work here, something that sparks talk of children corrupted by satanic cults. And it’s only the beginning. For Richard, this is the return of a nightmare, of suppressed memories of his childhood in the 80s, of [...]

2022-08-01T18:59:38-07:00August 1st, 2022|Tags: , , , |

Alienist, The

To Catch a Predator Author: Caleb Carr It is 1896, New York, a world teaming with opulence and severe oppression. The seedy underbelly of society is thriving: brothels are teaming, criminal organizations and crime lords run rampant, immigrants live in sordid tenements, and everything that seems innocent is underpinned by the money and political influence of the malevolent. Worse yet, a sadistic killer is on the loose, a man who targets young boys working out of brothels and leaves them carved open, mutilated and abused. He has struck before, and he will strike again. But these are forgotten boys; they come [...]

2022-07-31T19:15:02-07:00July 31st, 2022|Tags: , , , , , |
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