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Book #62 was Shop Till You Drop, the first book in Elaine Viets’s Dead-End Job series. The back of the book reads: Once on the fast track to success, Helen Hawthorne is now going nowhere fast. She traded in her chic life for a shabby one. And now she’s on the run, jumping from city to city and dead-end job to dead-end job, trying to
Read moreBook #61 was Missing Mark, the second book in Julie Kramer’s Riley Spartz series. The back of the book reads: When Riley Spartz sees a want ad reading “Wedding Dress for Sale: Never Worn,” she finds a jilted bride unsure whether her groom got cold feet or has become a cold case himself. Her betrothed, Mark, last seen at the rehearsal dinner, never showed up
Read moreBook #60 was A Hard Death, the second book in Jonathan Hayes’s Edward Jenner series. The back of the book reads: Brilliant forensic pathologist Edward Jenner returns in this explosive sequel to Precious Blood—an edgy, electrifying thriller set in a small-town coastal community where nothing is as it seems. Edward Jenner, introduced in Precious Blood, has survived the horrific ordeal of the Inquisitor serial killings
Read moreBook #59 was The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard. The back of the book reads: At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is shattered by the discovery of a young cadet’s body swinging from a rope. The next morning, an even greater horror comes to light. Someone has removed the dead man’s heart. Augustus Landor—who acquired some renown in
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