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Homicide and Halo-Halo

Homicide, Hairdos, and Heroics Author: Mia P. Manansala Lila Macapagal finally has her dream, but after her near-murder and the lingering effects of her previous investigation, life has become a nightmare. She is about to open her new café with her best friend, Adeena, but her mind is caught back in time. She can’t cook, she can’t make new recipes, and she can’t move on. What she needs to get back in touch with herself and her friends and family is a good distraction . . . and that distraction has just come to town. As a former beauty queen, Lila [...]

2022-08-11T17:42:03-07:00August 11th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

Alienist, The

To Catch a Predator Author: Caleb Carr It is 1896, New York, a world teaming with opulence and severe oppression. The seedy underbelly of society is thriving: brothels are teaming, criminal organizations and crime lords run rampant, immigrants live in sordid tenements, and everything that seems innocent is underpinned by the money and political influence of the malevolent. Worse yet, a sadistic killer is on the loose, a man who targets young boys working out of brothels and leaves them carved open, mutilated and abused. He has struck before, and he will strike again. But these are forgotten boys; they come [...]

2022-07-31T19:15:02-07:00July 31st, 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

Honey Roasted

The Blend is Buzzing with Murder Author: Cleo Coyle It’s here at last – the 19th installment in the ongoing Coffeehouse mystery series. Normally, by the time a cozy is pushing twenty books, the magic is long gone, as is the realism, and the dynamic characterization. What keeps this series still perking, however, is the husband and wife author duo’s focus on relationship building alongside relevant and often quirky mysteries. In Honey Roasted, The Blend is literary buzzing with bees, and it’s not Claire’s latest honey cinnamon latte that is causing the buzz. Claire and her ex-husband and current business partner, [...]

2022-07-26T09:36:41-07:00June 20th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , , , |
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