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Something Borrowed, Someone Dead

Something Borrowed, Someone Murdered Author: M.C. Beaton Agatha is bored, and that is always a dangerous thing. The recession has lessened her caseload to the point that even the bemoaned missing pets and adulterous spouse cases are absent. There is no potential love interest on the horizon, and worst of all, Agatha is trying to give up smoking. At first, a strange and violent murder in the nearby village of Piddlebury seems like something to break up the tedium. But soon, Agatha becomes afraid of her own case as the bodies start to stack up. It began with Gloria French, a [...]

2022-09-25T17:32:16-07:00September 25th, 2022|Tags: , |

Golden State

The State of Truth Author: Ben H. Winters In Underground Airlines author Ben H. Winter forced us to examine the relentless nature of the past, the violence of survival, the horrors of government and technological oversight, and the skewed nature of our individual moral compass. In Golden State, he’s back to do the same. To take the world as we know it and flip everything, to make us question past and future, our motives and morals, and the lies that we take for granted. In Golden State truth is law – literarily. To lie is more than to sin. To lie [...]

2022-09-18T20:14:33-07:00September 18th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |

Joyland

Coming of Age and Killers Author: Stephen King Devin Jones is having a strange summer. It’s half magical, and half deadly. His long-time girlfriend has recently dumped him, and now that he is growing up, still a virgin, he is experiencing his first heartache. Everywhere at the college reminds him of the girl who left, and so this summer, instead of working at the college, he goes to a small-town amusement park in North Carolina, named Joyland, to get away from it all. He is seeking isolation, but what he finds is a strange kind of magic. Some of it is [...]

2022-09-17T21:03:10-07:00September 17th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , , , |
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