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  Fadeaway Joe

  Hugh Lessig

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  Sixty-four-year-old Joe has known violence his entire life. For forty years, he’s worked as an enforcer for loan shark and close friend Maxie Smith, breaking more than a few bones along the way. When Maxie abruptly fires him, Joe isn’t sure where to lay the blame—on Maxie, the man he once considered his brother, or on the early-onset Alzheimer’s that made Maxie lose faith in him in the first place. To keep his head above water, he begins to operate a food truck that’s barely getting by. Desperate to regain some purpose in his life, Joe makes a life-altering decision: he’s going to take down Maxie Smith by any means necessary, once and for all. However, his plan of revenge is sidelined when he meets twenty-two-year-old Paula Jessup, a wise-cracking amateur detective with a few scheming cards up her sleeve, who’s on the run from a trafficking ring she’s been investigating. The two form an unlikely bond: Paula needs some protection and Joe needs a purpose. With the stakes running high and the clock ticking down—will this gamble pay off?

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  Couple Next Door The: Book...

  Briefly Summaries

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  This is a concise summary and analysis of The Couple Next Door, by Shari Lapena.
  It is not the original book and is not affiliated with or endorsed by 
  Shari Lapena.
   
  Ideal those seeking a quick and insightful overview
   
  
   
  The Couple Next Door: A Thrilling Journey into Deception and Betrayal
   
  What if the people closest to you were hiding the darkest secrets? The Couple Next Door is more than just a psychological thriller—it’s a deep dive into the complexities of human nature, trust, and the consequences of deception.
   
  This audiobook summary and analysis take you through the novel’s most shocking twists, unraveling the layers of betrayal, desperation, and moral dilemmas faced by its characters. With every chapter, you’ll explore:
   
  ✔️ The power of trust and how easily it can be shattered.✔️ The role of ethical decision-making in high-pressure situations.✔️ The psychological impact of guilt, manipulation, and hidden motives.✔️ How personal and professional crises reveal true character.
   
  Whether you’re a fan of suspenseful thrillers or someone seeking valuable insights into human behavior, this audiobook offers an engaging and thought-provoking exploration of one of the most gripping novels of our time.
   
  Are you ready to uncover the truth behind The Couple Next Door? Let’s begin.

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  Tuxedo Park - A Novel

  Thomas Kenniff

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  A young prosecutor is confronted with his buried past as he tries to unravel a murder and stop a dangerous sociopath from ascending to the presidency.Lawyer John Palmer is awoken by an early morning phone call summoning him to a crime scene unfolding in New York's storied Tuxedo Park, involving his old summer flame, Susan Sterling. The pair had taken very different paths since their carefree teenage days: Susan reveled in the jet-set world of fashion modeling, whereas John charted a decidedly less glamorous course prosecuting bad guys in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. Yet their worlds collide again after Susan goes missing on an evening run in Tuxedo Park.John is asked to moonlight on the case with his old mentor, Don Haggerty. As the trail of evidence eventually leads to president-elect Kent Dawson, John is in a race against time, trying to stop a cold-blooded sociopath before he takes the nation's highest office. To succeed, he must overcome bureaucratic obstruction, political henchmen, and his own guilt over his and Susan's buried romantic past.

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  The Adventure of the Engineer's...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  An engineer, Victor Hatherley, attends Dr Watson's surgery after his thumb is chopped off, and recounts his tale to Watson and Holmes. Hatherley had been hired for 50 guineas to repair a machine he was told compressed Fuller's earth into bricks. Hatherley was told to keep the job confidential, and was transported to the job in a carriage with frosted glass, to keep the location secret. He was shown the press, but on closer inspection discovered a "crust of metallic deposit" on the press, and he suspected it was not being used for compressing earth. He confronted his employer, who attacked him, and during his escape his thumb is chopped off. Holmes deduces that the press is being used to produce counterfeit coins, and works out its location. However, when they arrive, the house is on fire, and the criminals have escaped.

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  A Festival of Fear

  Tyler Rhodes

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  It's Lydstock time again, the most anticipated music festival of the year. Max Effort, chilled ex-chef turned vanlifer, is already there, and when Min arrives to spend the whole weekend with him and Anxious the Jack Russell Terrier, he's as happy as any ex-husband could be. 
   
   
   
  As the first night gets underway, and Uncle Ernie "Elbows" Effort's ska punk band The Skankin' Skeletons headline instead of their arch-rivals The Third Skatallion, things get spicier than a habanero vindaloo. 
   
   
   
  Just as Ernie belts out the final note, a bandmate keels over like a dropped mic, stone cold dead. The officious DS Kate Moss (not that Kate, although it would be a plot twist!) dismisses it as an overzealous guitar solo gone wrong, so it's down to the team to solve this heinous crime. 
   
   
   
  Joining forces with Moose, a keen security guard with freaky ninja skills but a body that doesn't suit, the pounding bass and blistering drums are hiding more than some dodgy riffs as yet another murder rocks the site. 
   
   
   
  Lukewarm lager and limp lettuce wraps fly, and rockstars reel, as it all comes down to a heart-pounding crescendo. Can Max uncover the truth before another headline act bites the dust? 
   
   
   
  Let the skanking begin . . .

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  Kill Shot

  Blair Denholm

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  A brutal murder. A missing athlete. A detective with everything to prove… 
   
  Working his first homicide case since relocating from the United Kingdom, Detective Sergeant Jack Lisbon must prove he’s got what it takes to perform in the heat of tropical Northern Australia. 
   
  A mutilated body washes up on the edge of a mangrove forest with wounds in keeping with a frenzied crocodile attack, which, to begin with, seems a straightforward incident—death by misadventure. 
   
  However, when Lisbon and his partner Detective Claudia Taylor investigate further, all signs point towards a premeditated, vicious murder. The case takes another sinister turn when a champion athlete vanishes, forcing the police to consider the possibility of a double homicide. 
   
  As the list of suspects grows, the detectives find themselves up against a wall of silence in the tight-knit community of Yorkville—no one wants to talk, and the killer remains elusive. 
   
  With time running out, can Lisbon rise to the challenge and bring the perpetrator to justice? 
   
  Kill Shot is the gripping first installment of Blair Denholm’s The Fighting Detective series, a gritty, hard-boiled Australian police procedural that will keep readers guessing until the very end.

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