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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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Many years ago, I read The Crimson Petal and the White and fell in love with Michel Faber’s writing. I finally picked up this book, and it couldn’t be more different in subject matter. That’s not a bad thing! This was sort of a crazy read, but it wasn’t unpleasant. Peter is a pastor who has been chosen by a company called USIC to travel to a
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Ivy Gamble is a private investigator. Normally she spends a lot of time following around cheating spouses, so when a well-dressed woman appears in her office and offers her a chance to work on a murder case, it’s tough to refuse. But there’s another wrinkle — the possible murder happened at a school for magically-inclined children where Ivy’s very magical twin sister Tabatha is a
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