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The Perfect Daughter
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This well written mystery series continues with another strong entry. It is 1914, with the suffragettes still fighting for the right to vote, WWI ...Read Review
So Shall We Stand
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After her husband is killed in the London blitz, Nella Killian returns to her hometown in Wales with her young daughter. The horrors ...Read Review
For Such a Time
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InspirationalMystery/CrimeRomance
Elyse Larson skillfully combines inspiration, romance and suspense in the first novel of the Women of Valor series. Cousins, living across continents, join ...Read Review
The Weeping Woman
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Michael Kilian’s day job consists of writing a weekly newspaper column, mostly commenting with a rather attractive, sly shallowness on the putative ...Read Review
Standing at the Scratch Line
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This is probably the most violent book I have read, but I continued in the knowledge that I was experiencing a part of ...Read Review
Losing Julia
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For a first novel, Losing Julia is an amazingly well crafted story. The tale opens as World War I veteran Patrick Delaney, in ...Read Review
Ribbon of Years
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Julianna, forty-something and disappointed with her life, wanders in on an intimate circle of friends. They have joined to share the memories of ...Read Review
The Red Heifer
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Told from the point of view of a first-generation Jewish immigrant, only five when the story begins, this work deals with the trials ...Read Review
Groucho Marx and the Broadway Murders
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This is Goulart’s fourth in his series featuring Groucho Marx as a detective aided and abetted by Frank Denby, the writer for ...Read Review
Carter Beats the Devil
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In August 1923, President Harding dies after attending a performance of stage illusionism given by Carter the Great. The capstone of the evening’s ...Read Review