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  The Alexandrite

  Rick Lenz

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  How many lives does Jack have to blow before getting it right? And is sleeping with Marilyn Monroe worth getting murdered again? 
  A time-travel noir that slips between the shimmering worlds of modern and midcentury Los Angeles. 
  When Jack Cade is fired from a no-pay production of Hamlet, he has no inkling his next role will be opposite Marilyn Monroe - 40 years back in time, in 1956. As a down-and-out aging actor, Jack's luck and life change when he's anonymously sent a pawn ticket for an alexandrite ring. After his wife leaves him, a mysterious woman asks him to meet her at an old mansion deep in the San Fernando Valley. With nothing to lose, Jack decides to go. Once he steps through her door, he enters a world of beguiling physics and plain old magic to travel through time. Through a dark, glitzy whirlwind of events, Jack meets Marilyn, gets killed more than once, and emerges with the jewel that changes his destiny. He discovers the answers to all his life-and-death questions within the constantly shifting colors of the alexandrite.

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  Doomed by Blooms

  Anna St. John

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  Josie Posey, a mature yet ever-feisty big city crime reporter turned crime solver, has officially retired to a small, touristy town in middle America where she and her posse of friends "unofficially" have their noses in everything. 
   
   
   
  Josie loves her new life, but a weekly game of mahjong isn't enough: she itches to get back into the action. She gets more than she bargained for when The Village Gazette asks her to interview their local celebrity, a former NYC prima ballerina. 
   
   
   
  Then, the ballerina's husband is discovered dead—face down in the couple's beloved field of flowers. Now, Josie has the inside track on solving the murder, with her quirky Mahjong Mavens as useful sidekicks. 
   
   
   
  And if a killer in their midst wasn't enough distraction, Josie's matchmaking friends are pushing her to date again—particularly, to pursue an attraction toward a certain local blacksmith, with whom sparks fly.

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  The Adventure of the Golden...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
  One wretched November night, Inspector Stanley Hopkins visits Holmes at 221B Baker Street to discuss the violent death of Willoughby Smith, secretary to aged invalid Professor Coram. Coram had dismissed his previous two secretaries. The murder happened at Yoxley Old Place near Chatham, Kent, with a sealing-wax knife of the professor's as the weapon. Hopkins can identify no motive for the killing, with Smith having no enemies or trouble in his past. Smith was found by Coram's maid, who recounts his last words as "The professor; it was she."

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  Run Man Run

  Chester Himes

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  In this knockout standalone crime novel from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a white cop's murderous outburst leads to a pulse-pounding chase to silence a witnessIt's early morning in New York, a few days after Christmas and bitter cold. A white detective named Walker accuses the black workers at a luncheonette on 37th Street and Fifth Avenue of stealing his car. He's been drinking—a lot. By the time he corners Fat Sam in the refrigeration room, he's raving mad, and his .32-caliber revolver goes off. But who would believe it was an accident? Two other men work in the luncheonette, and in his fuming, psychotic state, Walker is determined to take out these witnesses. One of them, Luke, he kills in cold blood. But the other, Jimmy, gets away by the skin of his teeth. As Jimmy tries to stay one step ahead and desperately pleads with the authorities that the killer is on the force, Walker closes in until the chase culminates in an explosive conclusion. 
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Death at Blenheim Palace

  Robin Page

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  Marlborough Hall, 1154. According to British lore, this ancient palace once hosted a torrid love affair between young King Henry II and a teenaged Rosamund, right under the patrician nose of his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine. To keep his mistress safe from his scorned wife, Henry built Rosamund a house once could only reach by labyrinth—and only then with a spool of thread. But his titanic efforts proved futile when he found the girl poisoned to death—and along with his only love died the secret of the killer's identity... The Site of Marlborough Hall, 1903. The current Duke and Duchess of Marlborough have invited husband-and-wife sleuths Charles and Kate Sheridan to what is now Blenheim Palace, for Kate is working on a book about the age-old scandal that became known as the Marlborough Folly. But as she tries to pull together pieces of the mystery, Kate must set aside her research and lend a hand when a household maid is kidnapped—and, not long afterward, the duke and his mistress disappear. However, Kate my have set aside her work too soon. For as the intrigue unfolds, it holds and uncanny resemblance to a certain Marlborough Folly...

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  Devil's Memoirs The: Volume One

  Lucienne LeBeau

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  Every deal has a cost. Every soul has a story. And the Devil remembers all of them. 
  Meet Lucky Beaumont: casino mogul, mother, monster, angel fallen and remade. To mortals, she's a billionaire with a smile sharp enough to draw blood. To those who cross her path, from bullied children to broken men to the wicked who think they'll never fall, she is something far older, far kinder, and far more terrifying than the legends ever dared to tell. 
  In these interwoven tales, Lucky opens the door to her past and present: 
  a lonely girl clutching a jump rope in a ruined church.... 
  a family road trip to a crater where Heaven once broke.... 
  a trio of students caught between a haunted house and a debt long overdue.... 
  and a predator who finally meets something hungrier than himself. 
  Through each story, Lucky writes to the one person she cannot forget: Rafe, revealing the truth behind mercy, monstrosity, and the love that reshaped Hell itself. 
  Gothic folklore, supernatural noir, an intimate confessional combine in The Devil's Memoirs as it pulls back the curtain on the Morning Star and finds not a villain, but a protector; not damnation, but choice.

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