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Careful what you wish for : a novel of suspense
Emily Harlow is a professional organizer who helps people declutter their lives; she's married to man who can't drive past a yard sale without stopping. He's filled their basement, attic, and garage with his finds. Like other professionals who make a living decluttering peoples' lives, Emily has devised a set of ironclad rules. When working with couples, she makes clear that the client is only allowed to declutter his or her own stuff. That stipulation has kept Emily's own marriage together these past few years. She'd love nothing better than to toss out all her husband's crap. He says he's a collector. Emily knows better-he's a hoarder. The larger his \"collection\" becomes, the deeper the distance grows between Emily and the man she married. Luckily, Emily's got two new clients to distract herself: an elderly widow whose husband left behind a storage unit she didn't know existed, and a young wife whose husband won't allow her stuff into their house. Emily's initial meeting with the young wife takes a detour when, after too much wine, the women end up fantasizing about how much more pleasant life would be without their collecting spouses. But the next day Emily finds herself in a mess that might be too big for her to clean up. Careful what you wish for, the old adage says...now Emily might lose her freedom, her marriage...and possibly her life.
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A return to Oz, marred by a wicked killing
Beneath the trappings of a genre novel, the book explores transcendent issues of identity and culture, and leaves the reader with some understanding of the horrific history that recently moved the Australian government to issue an official apology for the suffering caused by its policy of removing aboriginal children from their families. More violent deaths need to be explained when a salt mine explodes, and soon Evelyn is pulling round-the-clock shifts with no time to pay attention to her teenage daughter, and even less to nurture what seems to be a promising romance with a police detective.
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You'll never know, dear : a novel of suspense
\"From the award-winning author of Night Night, Sleep Tight comes a novel about a little girl's disappearance and the porcelain doll that may hold the key to her fate.\"--Jacket.
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Artful homage offers Tey and sympathy
With much anticipation I picked up Nicola Upson's homage to Tey, \"An Expert in Murder,\" a mystery in which the pseudonymous novelist is the lead character along with Detective Inspector Archie Penrose, perhaps a stand-in for Tey's fictional inspector Alan Grant. The story opens auspiciously with Tey bound for London to see one of the last performances of \"Richard\" and sharing her cabin with Elspeth Simmons, a charming young woman wearing a remarkable hat (\"a cloche, made of fine black straw, which was accentuated on one side by a curled white ostrich feather\").
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Night night, sleep tight
Los Angeles, 1986. Discovering her bitter father's drowned body in his 1980s Beverly Hills swimming pool, Deirdre reconnects with an old friend who confessed to killing her mother's boyfriend decades earlier.
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In baffling case, Aix marks the spot
BOOK REVIEW / On Crime Cezanne's Quarry By Barbara Pope Pegasus, 352 pp., $25 Eight in the Box By Raffi Yessayan Ballantine, 274 pp., $25 The Foreigner By Francie Lin Picador, 320 pp., paperback, $14 Barbara Pope takes a whiff of historical evidence that artist Paul Cezanne had a love affair with a mysterious woman when he was painting the mountains and quarries of Aix-en-Provence, France, in 1885 and spins it into an elegant murder mystery. The novel bogs down as it dramatizes a string of low-profile district court cases - petty drug dealing and marijuana possession, for instance - that seem unrelated to the murders.
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A house called Wit's End is only the beginning
Addison's beachside house (Wit's End) is a rambling affair, its attic stuffed with books and letters, and its rooms filled with dollhouses - meticulously constructed crime scenes from A.B. Early books. \"Cheating at Solitaire,\" Jane Haddam's latest mystery featuring FBI agent Gregor Demarkian, is set in Oscartown on the posh resort island of Margaret's Harbor (read Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard).
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Sifting through a surfeit of clues
Meticulously collecting information on index cards and coding her findings with colored pencil until the evidence begins \"falling into place,\" she traces the trouble back to a zeppelin raid during the war that killed a family of three - an event the locals are curiously reluctant to discuss.
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Sleuths bearing wrenches, and old wounds
Police procedure is nonexistent - the local police detective gives Jake carte blanche to tromp through murder scenes and sends her to interview suspects while he listens through the wall. There's plenty of slapstick, farce, and home-repair tips amid the mayhem, and between the tub sliding down the stairs, a tea party for the \"propah\" local ladies, and a romance gone haywire for Jake's father and her housekeeper, quite a few characters meet their bloody end.
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Sleuths stuck in their own tracks
With Scottish writer Caro Ramsay's debut novel, \"Absolution,\" we get another burnt-out, alcoholic detective, this one obsessed with finding a serial killer and haunted by the deaths of his brother, his mother, and a beautiful woman whose murder he never solved.
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