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Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The

First in a New Cozy Mystery Series Author: Lilian Jackson Braun Jim Qwilleran has recently joined The Daily Fluxion, and as their newest reporter, he is immediately out of his depth, stuck in the art critic section. While he enjoys a good juice at the local press club, and a good complaint with coworkers, he realizes that he has fallen into the ominous shadow of the much hated main art critic for the paper – George Bonifield Mountclemens. What the weedy Mountclemens lacks in charisma, he makes up for with a poison pen. Mountclemens has sent many an aspiring artist into [...]

2022-10-01T16:41:15-07:00October 1st, 2022|Tags: , , , |

Something Borrowed, Someone Dead

Something Borrowed, Someone Murdered Author: M.C. Beaton Agatha is bored, and that is always a dangerous thing. The recession has lessened her caseload to the point that even the bemoaned missing pets and adulterous spouse cases are absent. There is no potential love interest on the horizon, and worst of all, Agatha is trying to give up smoking. At first, a strange and violent murder in the nearby village of Piddlebury seems like something to break up the tedium. But soon, Agatha becomes afraid of her own case as the bodies start to stack up. It began with Gloria French, a [...]

2022-09-25T17:32:16-07:00September 25th, 2022|Tags: , |

Golden State

The State of Truth Author: Ben H. Winters In Underground Airlines author Ben H. Winter forced us to examine the relentless nature of the past, the violence of survival, the horrors of government and technological oversight, and the skewed nature of our individual moral compass. In Golden State, he’s back to do the same. To take the world as we know it and flip everything, to make us question past and future, our motives and morals, and the lies that we take for granted. In Golden State truth is law – literarily. To lie is more than to sin. To lie [...]

2022-09-18T20:14:33-07:00September 18th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |
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