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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: , , , , , |

Honey Roasted

The Blend is Buzzing with Murder Author: Cleo Coyle It’s here at last – the 19th installment in the ongoing Coffeehouse mystery series. Normally, by the time a cozy is pushing twenty books, the magic is long gone, as is the realism, and the dynamic characterization. What keeps this series still perking, however, is the husband and wife author duo’s focus on relationship building alongside relevant and often quirky mysteries. In Honey Roasted, The Blend is literary buzzing with bees, and it’s not Claire’s latest honey cinnamon latte that is causing the buzz. Claire and her ex-husband and current business partner, [...]

Last Thing He Told Me, The

Protect Her Author: Laura Dave Protect her. That’s the last thing Hannah Hall hears from her husband, Owen, before he goes missing. And she doesn’t even hear it from him so much as receive the note. Then she finds the bag of money. She sees the breaking story: the investigation into her husband’s company, the shady deals, the missing money, and now the missing man. Did she ever really know Owen? Despite all the questions, the lies, the subterfuge, she still thinks she knows him well enough to understand his last desperate message. Hannah needs to protect Bailey, her belligerent teenage [...]

2022-07-26T09:40:07-07:00June 18th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |
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