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Lackberg’s novels are much more slow and character-driven than you expect a procedural to be, but I always enjoy them. In The Preacher, you not only get the mystery of the fresh body covering the older skeletons, but you also get a peek into Patrik and Ericka’s life as they are expecting their first child. The family Patrik is investigating is a tangled web of
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This is a series I’ve dipped into over the years, mostly out of order. In this second book of the series, Amelia and Emerson have been out of the Egyptologist game for a few years after the birth of their son, Ramses. They had no intention of returning so soon, but when Lady Baskerville comes to her door and begs them to finish the dig
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This is a wild book where two sociopaths meet on a plane, get married, have 2 kids, and become serial killers. You get everything from the point of view of the husband, which certainly qualifies as an unreliable narrator. The wife is not very well portrayed, despite both of them being partners in these crimes — he as the hunter, she as the killer. The
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I enjoyed this simply because it’s Nora Roberts and it involves a heist or two. It’s a book that doesn’t age well. The main character, Adrianne, grows up the child of a Middle-Eastern king and his American actress wife in a fictional, very religiously-strict Middle Eastern country. The attitudes put forward about Islam are very outdated and over-the-top. But Adrianne is an interesting character. She
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