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How to Get Away with Murder

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« What a treat! A twisted tale like no other this reader has encountered, so compulsively readable you will struggle to put it down. As the title implies, this book features a diabolical author who somewhat cheekily (and exceedingly disturbingly) runs through a list of tips and techniques to show…

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Shatter Creek

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 The second in the superb DS Casey Wray series, this taut and complex story stretches tight, pulling the reader close into as absorbing a read as upper-echelon crime fiction can get. Following on the heels of a major police department shakeup (read the first book for details!) Detective Sergeant…

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The Solitary Friend

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Book #23 in a mystery series featuring Joanne Kilbourn, this book came to this reader with history attached. Initially a Canadian series I loved, based in Saskatchewan, and featuring a wonderfully-accessible female professor,β€” a character authored so well, and decades before strongly centered, plain-spoken, independent female leads were a…

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Skin and Bones

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 This collection of eight original short stories features Mike Bowditch and his colleague, retired game warden Charley Stevens, a duo made popular in a series of novels penned by this author, and the first this reader has come to experience. Reminiscent of Robert B Parker’s Jesse Stone, Mike Bowditch…

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Shaw Connolly Lives to Tell

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« β€œNothing to do, but let the dread eat her alive.” A cat and mouse game of the highest order, this psychological suspense novel teems with tension as a thirty-four year old finger-print analyst, still grieving the loss, decades earlier, of her teenage sister, encounters the relentless stalking of a…

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The Killing Stones

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« The ninth installment of the Shetland series, this mystery takes place in a new location β€” Orkney, a remote series of islands north of Scotland, rich with archeological significance. Famous for their Neolithic structures, the author incorporates two of these β€” a pair of ancient story stones from the…

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Home Fires Burn

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« A wonderfully diverse mystery, peopled with characters you will wish for more time with, this is the third (and final) book in a trilogy featuring PI Merry Bell, a transgender woman based in Saskatchewan, Canada. The first in the series for this reader, this book is easily enjoyed as…

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Head Cases

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Gardner Camden (Gardy) is a thirty-seven year old FBI agent who works for an unusual division called PAR (Patterns and Recognition). With a focus on solving the toughest crimes, those involving pattern recognition and the making of obscure connections, Gardy is a genius level agent, who just happens to…

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Party of Liars

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Wowza! A perfectly crafted multiple-POV psychological suspense story, rich with sizzling characters (all of them hiding something) and a setting as lip-smackingly luscious as it is creepy and sinister. With a plot that builds, and winds, and re-winds, gleefully delighting in tricking the reader, several times, into what feels…

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Good Girl, Bad Girl

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A pitch-perfect UK-based thriller with a pair of fabulous main characters, and a kickoff of a whole new series to boot. Written in 2019, this author and his work had previously somehow passed this reader by β€” a misstep that will now be quickly corrected. Dr Cyrus Haven is…

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