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Book #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 #58 was In the Shadow of Gotham, the first book in Stefanie Pintoff’s Simon Ziele series. The back of the book reads: Stefanie Pintoff’s acclaimed and award-winning debut is the taut historical tale of Detective Simon Ziele, a man who lost his fiancée in the 1904 General Slocum ferry disaster and thereafter flees New York City for Dobson, New York, to escape the memories
Read moreBook #48 was Bloodline, the eighth book in Mark Billingham’s Tom Thorne series. The back of the book reads: A killer is on the loose. The victims: children whose mothers can’t protect them. The past is coming back to haunt the people of London: a murderer is targeting the children of victims of Raymond Garvey, an infamous serial killer from London’s past. When Murder Squad
Read moreBook #44 was Fallen by Karin Slaughter, the third book in her Georgia series. The back of the book reads: There’s no police training stronger than a cop’s instinct. Faith Mitchell’s mother isn’t answering her phone. Her front door is open. There’s a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is hidden in a shed behind the house. All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations
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