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LIAR by Jan Burke

LIAR by Jan Burke

Intrepid sleuth/reporter Irene Kelly barely has time to recover from the shock of learning that her estranged aunt has been killed before being blindsided by an even bigger surprise — she’s the number one suspect! With the LAPD biting fast at her heels, Irene searches for her aunt’s son, Travis — a young man who wants nothing to do with Irene or any of the Kelly clan.

Centuries of June by Keith Donohue

It is the middle of the night and Harry finds himself on the bathroom floor with a hole in the back of his head. When he gets up off the floor, he faces an old man who seems very familiar and yet he cannot place how he knows the old man. One good thing about the old man is that he keeps a Tlingit woman from bashing in Harry’s skull. In order to explain why, Yeikoo.shk tells a story about her husband, a man who could transform into a bear.

Don’t Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon

Don’t Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon

Phoebe heard about the little girl lost in the woods, supposedly the victim of the Fairy King. Something about the story intrigued and interested her. The town was near where she lived so she went to take a look, catching sight of a young boy looking out of the upstairs window at her. His eyes were so sad, so full of pain and loss, that she felt connected to him.

Prophecy by S. J. Parris

Prophecy by S. J. Parris

Dr. John Dee, astrologer and philosopher to Queen Elizabeth I, and Dr. Giordano Bruno, King Henri of France’s protégé, are absorbed by the coming Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the beginning of a new quadrant of the sky, the beginning of a new age that happens only once a millennium. Neither knows that murder, conspiracies involving Queen Elizabeth and Mary Stewart, once queen of Scotland, will bring them close to death for black magic.

These Dark Things by Jan Merete Weiss

Gina Francone, a bone cleaner and relative of a Camorra crime boss, finds a body lain out in a church crypt. Teresa Steiner, a student working on her doctorate, seemed to be a sweet, poor girl and it is Captain Natalia Monte’s job to find out who killed her.

Doc by Mary Doria Russell

Doc by Mary Doria Russell

Doc is a fantastic work of fiction that brings imagination, fact, and beauty together, in order to describe and “tell” each and every reader how overwhelming the life of Doc Holliday was.

Darkside by Belinda Bauer

Darkside by Belinda Bauer

In bleak midwinter, the people of Shipcott are shocked by the murder of an elderly woman in her bed. As snow cuts off the village, local policeman Jonas Holly is torn between catching a brutal killer and protecting his vulnerable wife, Lucy.