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		<title>Cooking the Books: A Cyclist’s Guide To Poppies &amp; Predicaments by Ann Claire</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Sheridan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When the icy mother of Sadie Greene’s boyfriend Jacques Laurent recommends Sadie’s bicycle tour company to a close friend, Sadie hopes that this marks the start of a thaw in their relationship. Madame Laurent does not approve of Sadie for various reasons, including the fact that Sadie keeps coming across dead bodies during her tours.…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: The Fourth Wife by Linda Hamilton</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Sheridan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Young Hazel Russon knows that the life path mapped out for her by the Mormon church of Utah in 1879 includes her becoming a sister wife, one of several women married to a god-fearing male pillar of their society. Her rebellious heart resists the idea, but personal circumstances soon see her agreeing to become the…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: Nothing Tastes As Good by Luke Dumas</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Sheridan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Emmett Truesdale has been fat for as long as he can remember, and has always felt like a pariah for it. Despite his academic accomplishments and his friendships, being fat has always felt like his defining characteristic, the demoralizing result of a lifetime of social conditioning. It doesn’t help that his attempts at getting professional…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Featured Excerpt: The Body in the Bath by Ragnar Jónasson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Crime HQ]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Helgi <i>Almost a Week Earlier</i> <i>Friday, 14 December 2012</i> ‘Helgi,’ said Magnús. ‘It’s good to have you back, of course, but I would’ve thought you might take a longer leave of absence. This has all been so awful, and again, you have my deepest sympathies. The poor girl.’ ‘Aníta, was her name,’ Helgi interjected. ‘Exactly,…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Getting Cozy in the Kitchen: Hot Toddies with a Splash of Homicide</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandra Jackson-Opoku]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cozy mysteries revolve around amateur sleuths solving crimes in their close-knit communities—historic towns and villages, the intimate enclaves of urban spaces. A popular niche within this genre allows readers to “eat with their eyes.” If thrillers are a shot of whiskey, and hardboiled mysteries a martini, then culinary cozies are a comforting toddy of hot…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cover Reveal and Excerpt: Cold Dark Deep by Julia Keller</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Crime HQ]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Preorder COLD DARK DEEP by Julia Keller Chapter One When Sarah Fielding saw a young girl standing alone upon the busy street the next morning, her first thought was how cold the child must be, dressed as she was in a soiled gray scrap of a dress, the sleeves so shredded that they left her…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Page to Scream: A Summerween Triple Feature</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Valeri]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers: “Summerween” is all the rage this year. And why shouldn’t it be? The brightness of sunny days has always been in stark contrast to the darkness that follows—a time made for scary stories told around the campfire, splatter movies at the drive-in (assuming you can still find a drive-in), and semi-supervised shenanigans at…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: Shrink Solves Murder by Philippa Perry</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Webb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<i>Shrink Solves Murder</i> accurately portrays the psychotherapist/client relationship, likely because author Philippa Perry is a trained psychotherapist.  Patricia (Pat) Phillips lives above the coast of Sussex. She likes routine: each morning, she walks to the beach where she swims year-round.  Walking home afterward, bothersome events occur on the regular. Dog owners let their canines run…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<i>Probable Caws</i> by Donna Andrews Readers will flock to <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author Donna Andrews&#8217;s next installment in the award-winning Meg Langslow series. MacmillanAudio · PROBABLE CAWS by Donna Andrews, audiobook excerpt <i>Brimstone Hollow</i> by Archer Sullivan Following her powerful debut in <i>The Witch’s Orchard</i>, private investigator Annie Gore returns in <i>Brimstone Hollow</i>, bringing readers back to the…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Featured Excerpt:  Cherry by Rose Wilding</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Prologue Easter Sunday, 1999 Anticipation pools beneath her skin. She feels like she might create sparks if she moves too quickly, like she could set a fire with just the heat and the power in her fingertips. She takes off the green silk shirt, her favorite, and hangs it on the back of a dining…]]></description>
		
		
		
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