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  The Man Who Swore He'd Never Go...

  David Handler

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  Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag always swore that he would never return to Oakmont, Connecticut, the small mill town where his family lived for generations. He certainly has no desire to interrupt his high life as the newest great American novelist to revisit the town that hates his family and will only bring back memories of his unhappy childhood. But when his childhood sweetheart phones to say that her mother, Mary McKenna, the librarian who inspired Hoagy's dream to be a writer, has died, Hoagy knows he has to return for her funeral. Especially when Maggie adds that her mother didn't die of natural causes. 
   
   
   
  Determined to pay his respects to one of the few people in his hometown he truly cared for, Hoagy hops in his Jaguar and heads to Oakmont with his new girlfriend Merilee and even newer basset hound puppy Lulu in tow. The town where his family's brass mill once thrived is now a toxic, lead-poisoned ghost town. Hoagy is surprised to discover former classmate and bullying target, Pete Schlosski, has become the State Police Resident Trooper. But while Pete seems to have forgiven his past tormentors, he doesn't have any ideas as to which of them might be a killer. Hoagy, on the other hand, has learned plenty about the art of investigation from hours spent in the library, and his four-month-old puppy shows a surprising knack for tracking down clues . . .

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  Barrel of Lagavulin The - A...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Craig...

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  You need more Sherlock? You love the stories of The Canon but you want more ... more stories that are similar to the original sixty. You have come to the right place.
  The Barrel of Lagavulin:
  "Ah, Watson, how good of you to join me. I trust I did not disturb your work at the hospital."
  "Not at all. We younger doctors are not exactly choc-a-block with patients." "Not yet, my dear chap. Not yet. However, I am very grateful that you are here, and I expect that you will quite enjoy recording my meeting with this fellow."

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  The Welcome Centre - Sweeney...

  Christopher Allen

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  "The Welcome Centre" is a chilling modern retelling of Sweeney Todd set in contemporary London, where charity becomes a mask for systematic murder. The story follows Marcus Lovett, a disgraced NHS surgeon who transforms a Victorian building in Bermondsey into what appears to be a beacon of hope for homeless youth aged 16-25. 
  Beginning in early 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Welcome Centre presents itself as a privately funded facility offering genuine support to London's most vulnerable young people. Marcus, stripped of his medical license after a fatal surgical error caused by substance abuse, partners with Eleanor Blackwood, a former crematorium manager, and Dr. Sarah Chen, an addicted surgeon, to create an elaborate facade hiding a sophisticated organ trafficking operation. 
  The pandemic provides perfect cover for their crimes. With social services overwhelmed and oversight reduced, the Centre systematically identifies residents with valuable organs, murders them in a basement surgical suite, and sells their organs to international buyers for millions of pounds. Bodies are disposed of through corrupt crematorium contacts, leaving no trace of the victims. 
  Seventeen-year-old Lily Morrison becomes suspicious when residents repeatedly disappear without explanation. Her investigation uncovers financial records proving the organ sales, but her discovery puts her in mortal danger. Meanwhile, the arrival of Sarah Morrison, whose aunt Kate is a Metropolitan Police detective, creates an unexpected complication for the operation. 
  As Lily faces imminent death in Dr. Chen's surgical suite, Sarah's desperate phone call to her aunt triggers an armed police response. The dramatic rescue exposes one of Britain's most shocking criminal enterprises, revealing that 73 young people had been murdered over 14 months. 
  The story follows the investigation, trial, and aftermath, exploring themes of exploitation, societal failure to protect the vulnerable.

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  Criminal Intentions: Season One...

  Cole McCade

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  ABOUT THIS EPISODE 
   
   
   
  Tragedy strikes on the homefront when a husband and father snaps . . . but if Detectives Malcolm Khalaji and Seong-Jae Yoon can't track down a killer on the run, this crime of passion may take one more victim. Moral boundaries blur, lines cross, and even as a secretive puppetmaster watches from the shadows, both Malcolm and Seong-Jae must make a choice. One path leads to salvation. 
   
   
   
  While the other may leave an innocent dead. 
   
   
   
  And not even the feelings growing between them will stop Malcolm and Seong-Jae from shattering for good. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  The Sign of the Four - A...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective.
  The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.

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  Double Mocha Blues

  Tyora Moody

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  Jocelyn “Joss” Miller, a twenty-something barista, works at Sugar Creek Cafe, a hip coffeehouse with deep ties to the local arts and music community. Joss is finally feeling like she’s found her purpose as her recently launched true crime podcast soars in popularity. With her family’s blessings, Joss produces a special tribute to her grandfather. 
  What seems like a step towards healing instead sets off a firestorm of reactions in the community. There are a few who would rather not be reminded of how Joss’s grandfather had been murdered years ago. When the staunchest protester is found dead, Joss becomes the number one suspect.

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