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Classic in the Barn

Classic Cars and Crazy Crimes Author: Amy Myers Jack Colby runs a forever-in-the-red car restoring business, a leftover from his father’s heyday. To make ends meet and keep his shady competitors from buying him out, Jack also does some work on cold-car cases, mostly by helping the police track car theft rings. One day, as he is going about business, he runs into a 1938 Lagonda V12, hidden in a country barn. Overwhelmed with car love, he jumps a fence, does a little trespassing, and is just inspecting the forlorn beauty with her sad headlights when the enraged owner shows up [...]

2024-12-07T15:16:08-07:00December 7th, 2024|Tags: , , , , |

Bucket of Ashes

When the Past Comes Calling Author: P.B. Ryan Nell Sweeny is forced to confront her troubled past. A young governess in post-Civil War Boston, she is ostensibly respectable. Childless, devoted, apparently unmarried. But, of course, Nell is none of those things. She is secretly pregnant thanks to the house’s infamous black sheep – Will Hewitt – a man torn apart by his own demons of addiction. She’s also married, her husband a violent criminal, in jail. Now the dead murderer found nearby is proven to be her estranged brother. Things are coalescing for Nell – the difference between the outwardly respectable [...]

2024-10-14T10:41:32-07:00October 14th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |

Cabinet of Curiosities

Agent Pendergast’s Secrets Authors: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Childs The mystery of the museum beast and opening day massacre is long behind him, so journalist Bill Smithback has his sights on other record-breaking stories and on getting his longtime girlfriend, Nora, to move in with him. Everything seems ordinary, but something suspicious and dark is lurking just beneath the surface. When a pale FBI agent shows up on scene, the mystery descends into chaos, which descends into death, long buried secrets, and a family tie-in for the enigmatic Agent Pendergast. Enter the finding of a charnel house, right where a powerful [...]

2024-09-29T16:34:20-07:00September 29th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , , , , |
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