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by Joanna Schaffhausen  Book #3 ABOUT THE BOOK For Chicago police detective Annalisa Vega, Sam Tran’s death presents an ominous puzzle. The ex-cop turned PI is found hanging from a cemetery tree with a message across his chest that suggests someone holds a murderous grudge against the police. Annalisa suspects the real answer lies in one of Tran’s open cases. She believes he stumbled on a dark secret during his investigations and someone killed himRead More →

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ABOUT THE BOOK New York, 2061: The place called the Pleasure Academy is a living nightmare where abducted girls are trapped, trained for a life of abject service while their souls are slowly but surely destroyed. Dorian, a thirteen-year-old runaway who’d been imprisoned there, might never have made it out if not for her fellow inmate Mina, who’d hatched the escape plan. Mina was the more daring of the two—but they’d been equally desperate. Unfortunately,Read More →

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A Joe Gunther Novel, #33 ABOUT THE BOOK Rating : 3.5 Stars Publisher ‏ : ‎ Minotaur Books Publication Date : September 27, 2022 Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages In Archer Mayor’s Fall Guy, a body found in the trunk of a stolen car leads Joe Gunther and his team to crucial evidence in an infamous unsolved case from years past.A high-end stolen car is discovered in Vermont. A car filled with stolen items from a far-flungRead More →

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A Book You Won’t Want To Put Down Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Genre:  Mystery / Police Procedural Length: 320 pages Publisher:  Minotaur Books Release Date: January 25, 2022 Description Last Seen Alive is the fifth book in Joanna Schaffhausen’s heartpounding Ellery Hathaway mystery series. Boston detective Ellery Hathaway met FBI agent Reed Markham when he pried open a serial killer’s closet to rescue her. Years on, their relationship remains defined by that moment and by Francis Coben’s horrificRead More →

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A Story That Won’t Disappoint ABOUT THE BOOK Playing by the rules landed him on death row. Now he’ll have to break all the rules to survive. After spending five years in jail for a murder he didn’t commit, lawyer Thane Banning agrees to take on a case defending a former inmate against the same DA who put Thane behind bars. Thane is besieged by death threats from the alleged victim’s father and a tidalRead More →

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Everything felt perfect. But then her fiance disappeared… Synopsis Two weeks before her wedding, a stranger stops Amy in the street and warns her she’s in danger. Then that night, Matt, her fiancé, doesn’t come home. Desperate, Amy calls the police – but when Matt fails to emerge, she’s forced to call off her wedding day. Then another man is reported missing, by a woman called Fiona – a man meeting Matt’s description, who was about toRead More →

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An A.L. McKittridge Novel Book #2 From the Publisher Nobody saw a thing. Or so they say… Baywood police department detective A.L. McKittridge is no stranger to tough cases, but when five-year-old Emma Whitman disappears from her day care, there isn’t a single shred of evidence to go on. Neither the grandmother who dropped her off, nor the teacher whose care she was supposed to be in, can account for the missing child. There areRead More →