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This Japanese cat-and-mouse mystery starts out with Yasuko, mother to a teenaged daughter who spends most of her days working at the local bento shop. She’s kept her world purposefully small in order to hide from her abusive ex-husband. But when one day he appears at her work and then follows her home, things quickly get out of control and he ends up dead on
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I liked returning to the White House kitchen to visit with Ollie and the other chefs, but I didn’t enjoy this story as much as the first one. I didn’t really care about the part of the mystery around the First Lady, because the stakes weren’t really very compelling. The part of the mystery around the death of the electrician was more interesting, but moved
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The star of this cozy mystery is Olivia (Ollie) Paras, a chef in the White House kitchen. She’s on her way back from lunch one day when she gets caught up in some Secret Service activity. A mysterious man is outrunning the service, yelling about needing to warn the President, until he runs into the back-end of the skillet Ollie is holding. At this point
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Two teenagers with depression and suicidal urges meet on the ledge of a bell tower. What could go wrong? Theodore Finch (goes by Finch) and Violet Markey knew who each other were before this fateful meeting, but they didn’t really travel in the same circles. But Finch, who likes to spend a good part of each day imagining how he could die, sees a bit
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