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  Anything Ghost

  Elle Adams

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  Halloween is on the way, but Maura has other things on her mind than celebrations when the coven leader unexpectedly hires her to find a missing book that’s been stolen by one of her old enemies. 
  Before long, Maura is navigating her way between coven members concealing ugly secrets, police officers who’ve had enough of Reapers interfering in their business, and an unexpected phone call from a family member who Maura hasn’t spoken to in years. Soon it becomes clear that the secret she’s helped the local Reaper keep from the outside world is under threat of exposure - along with Hawkwood Hollow itself. 
  Maura has no intention of betraying all the ghosts she’s befriended to the Reaper Council, but with her enemies multiplying and her loved ones under threat, she finds herself struggling to fight the battle alone. 
  Can Maura get the book back into the right hands before Hawkwood Hollow’s tragic history repeats itself?

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  Showstopper

  Peter Lovesey

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  In the six years since the start of the hit British TV show Swift, its cast and crew have been plagued by misfortune, beginning with the star actress’s pulling out of the show before it began. By now there have been multiple injuries by fall, fire, or drowning; two deaths; and two missing persons cases. 
   
  The media quickly decides it’s a curse, but who’s to say there isn’t a criminal conspiracy afoot? Now that the filming has moved to Bath, Peter Diamond, Chief of the Avon and Somerset Murder Squad, is on the case. While the investigation  
  into one fatal accident is underway, a cameraman goes missing, challenging even the most credulous to wonder if he might have been the victim of foul play rather than a jinx. How can so many things go wrong on one set in such a short time? 
   
  Complicating already complex matters is the fact that Diamond’s boss is trying her best to get him out of her hair; he may be forced to retire if he can’t solve the case. Will this be the end for Peter Diamond?

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  If Only She Knew

  Pamela Crane

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  Welcome to the town of Bloodson Bay, where the people are strange and the rising body count even stranger.
   
  
   
  Peace Christie was warned never to visit the Slaughter Shed, an abandoned house at the edge of her farm. For good reason, because of its unexplainable mysteries since the unsolved murder of a family who lived there. Like a corpse vanishing from its rafters, and a girl’s body recently found in the basement.
   
  
   
  When the news breaks with the identity of the girl, Peace has no choice but to uncover the secrets of the house. But someone will kill to keep the truth hidden...
   
  
   
  One night, Peace finds an ancient journal that exposes the terrible history of the Slaughter Shed. As she reads each entry, more details unravel about who is behind the murders. 
   
  
   
  And then Peace reaches the last page. 
   
  She must return to the house...but she may not make it out alive.
   
  
   
  Throw on your favorite flannel and combat boots, then dive into this 1990s throwback thriller that smells like teen spirit as Peace risks her so-called life to stop a century-old murder spree...
   
  
   
  BUT BEWARE! With over 100,000 copies sold, this darkly witty mystery series can result in sleep deprivation and incurable reading addiction.

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  Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man

  Emily J. Edwards

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  New York City, 1950. Viviana Valentine is Girl Friday to the city’s top private investigator, Tommy Fortuna. The clients can be frustrating, and none more maddening than fabulously wealthy Tallmadge Blackstone, who demands Tommy tail his daughter, Tallulah, and find out why she won’t marry his business partner, a man forty years her senior. It sounds like an open-and-shut case for a P.I. known for busting up organized crime—but the next day, Viviana opens the office to find Tommy missing and a lifeless body on the floor. The cops swoop in, and Detective Jake Lawson issues a warrant for Tommy’s arrest. Desperate to clear Tommy’s name, Viviana takes on the Blackstone case herself. When she goes out for a night on the town with the heiress, she begins to learn the secrets behind Tallulah’s headline-grabbing life. Meanwhile, Lawson is itching to solve his murder case and continues harassing Viviana for answers—until she’s the victim of a series of violent attacks. But Tommy’s still missing, and Viviana is scared. As she digs into the dirty history of the Blackstone empire, she suddenly realizes the true danger at hand. Now, it’s up to her to find her missing boss and make sure he doesn’t turn up D.O.A.

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  The Negro of the "Narcissus"

  Joseph Conrad

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  Today, we're likely to react to the title of this novella, on whose 'sincerity of expression' Conrad was willing to stake his artisitic reputation, with visceral disgust. There is a sad irony in this, for Conrad's title originally alluded to a rather complex set of meanings, implying that, by virtue of our human nature, we all carry within the fragile vessel that is our idealised image of ourselves a darker being we find troubling, even despicable, but with whom we must eventually come to terms. Indeed, in the couse of this tale of a traumatic sea voyage from Bombay to London, Conrad suggests that in projecting their loathing of their own ambivalent feelings onto their (possibly dying) black shipmate James Wait, the crew of the Narcissus have considerable difficulty seeing the real James Wait behind their confused emotional reactions at all. The novella is remarkable for its knitting together of a stunningly well-realised physical drama involving an imperilled ship with a most discomforting psychodrama that draws in all twenty-six men who sail her.

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  The Perfect Staging For Murder

  Kathleen Bridge

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  As shooting concludes on the season finale of the TV mystery Mr. & Mrs. Winslow, interior decorator and set designer Meg Barrett can feel the hostility in the air. The show's new director had already alienated the entire cast and crew, and now Meg's boyfriend, Patrick, was ready to throttle him for taking liberties with the script. Meg thought the director was a very lucky man to have gotten out of there in one piece—until a few nights later when she stumbles over his dead body. 
   
   
   
  Meg knew it wasn't her job to investigate every murder she came across, especially that of a man so universally disliked, but Patrick had no alibi for the time of death and has now disappeared. As she begins to dig into every facet of the victim's life, she soon discovers that his children resented him for a lifetime of mistreatment, and his new fiancée had a history of leaving dead husbands in her wake. Certain that this was a family affair and that she was closing in on the killer, she'll have to rely on all her wits and cunning to nab the culprit, because they've decided to set the stage for her final scene . . .

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