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The Red Queen Martha Grimes’ latest Richard Jury novel, The Red Queen, features the entire complement of characters we have come to know and love in the long-running (26 installments thus far) series: Jury himself, of course, a Detective Chief Inspector at Scotland Yard; Melrose Plant, Jury’s friendly aristocratic nemesis and off-the-books investigator, unfettered by
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With their quaint settings, unlikeable victims and no on-page violence, cozy mysteries can make murder feel good—at least for the reader. But sometimes you want a shot of something a little extra in your chamomile tea, a la Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series with its complex characters and occasional strays into serious territory. We
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With Psilocybin Mushrooms in Their Natural Habitats: A Guide to the History, Identification, and Use of Psychoactive Fungi, Paul Stamets has compiled a comprehensive magnum opus on psilocybin mushrooms. This is obviously a topic that’s close to the author’s heart. Stamets promises readers that the more they know about mushrooms, the more they’ll recognize their
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The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy is your debut. Could you please tell us a bit about the book?Irresistible is the first in a romantasy duology featuring a chaotic assassin and the uptight healer he bribes to cure him. Expect denial, terrible coping mechanisms and, above all, a masochistic slow burn. This is
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The Accidental Stowaway is just the sort of thing action-seeking readers will tear through: a high-octane romp set aboard a Titanic-like ship, the RMS Glorious, in 1910. Judith Eagle (The Secret Starling, The Pear Affair) continues to write about fearless, independent young heroines whose thirst for adrenaline leads them to mystery and danger. From the
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Names of Sleuths: Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney Day Job: Job? Heavens no. Gentry do not work. Fun Fact: Jonathan is the son of Pride and Prejudice’s Darcy and Elizabeth, while Juliet is the daughter of Northanger Abbey’s Catherine and Henry. The best installment by far in Claudia Gray’s Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney series,
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Lana Ferguson has crafted a sharp contemporary romance with the sexy, saucy Overruled, where there’s more drama in the bedroom than in the courtroom. Danica Pierce is a divorce attorney working for one of Austin’s top law firms. She’s tough and headstrong, and when she makes up her mind, she stays the course. It all
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Jane Eyre Confession time: I have never read a sentence by any of the Bronte sisters. For too long, I have rested on my laurels for completing Moby Dick, Ulysses and The Brothers Karamazov (all in my 20s, all to impress men). Now in my blissfully boring mid-40s, I am setting my bookshelf to rights
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