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Ugh, this started out so promising. Adam, his wife Sophie, and their 3 year old daughter are renting a cabin on the water in the Pacific Northwest for a little vacation. But while Adam and his daughter are out in the boat that first morning, someone ambushes his wife and abducts her while they watch helplessly off-shore. One of the responding detectives is Lee, a
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I pick up a lot of books without remembering what they are supposed to be about, so I was surprised to find that this was less of a narrative novel than it was a collection of loosely-connected short stories about music executive Bennie Salazar and the people in his orbit (and sometimes their orbits). I thought it was well written enough to keep me reading
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This is one of those books that has been recommended to me over and over again, and I finally got around to reading it! The Chief Inspector Gamache series is often referred to as a cozy mystery, but I found it to be a bit meatier than the cozies I’m used to. That’s not a bad thing. The case that brings Gamache and his team
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This book is a sequel to McManus’s first book, One of Us Is Lying, which I enjoyed a lot. Instead of focusing on the main characters from that book, this book centers around the classmates of Bronwyn’s younger sister, Maeve. It’s hard to keep a good gossip down, and everyone wants to fill the shoes of Simon, the gossip-slinging victim of the first book. So when
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