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		<title>Featured Excerpt: Daisy by Katie Cotugno</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Crime HQ]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Prologue A young man stands with his back to the wall, watching as a woman moves through the crowd at the party. Red lips and white dress, her golden hair catching the glow from the chandeliers sparkling high above them. Her eyes a hundred thousand adjectives beyond blue. He waits in the shadows, and he…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: Murder on Charity Lane by Jo Nichols</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Webb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Marigold Cottages are a hive of activity and friendship. They’re titularly managed by Mrs. B, the Mama Bear of the complex.  For background, read <i>The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective</i>, the first Marigold Cottages Mystery. Mrs. B is nostalgic for the community spirit that arose after murders six months ago. Obviously she wasn’t hoping for…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: The Hostess by Courtney Psak</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Sheridan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The rental home in the Hamptons seems like the perfect getaway for Natalie and her husband Luke. After a near-fatal car collision that’s left its scars on them in more ways than one, the young couple is hoping that escaping from New York City to this idyllic beachside location will allow Natalie the chance to…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Featured Excerpt: Speechless by Jordan Sawyer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Chapter 1 Sometimes people ask me what I do. For a living, they mean. I start by telling them a story. It’s a hundred percent true—and if it’s not, there’s no one you can complain to about it since it originated in some musty eighteenth-century almanac. In 1723, a man was found unresponsive by his…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Can We Start Over? 6 Great Novels Where Characters Try To Outrun Their Pasts.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carly Hillman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fresh starts. New beginnings. Blank slates. We’ve all felt the urge for reinvention, considering a new style, a different career, or a bold move somewhere far away. But clichés always exist for a reason, and one of my favorites is this: &#8220;Wherever you go, there you are.” There are so many incredible books about characters…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cover Reveal and Excerpt: Shadow Cast by Deborah J Ledford</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Preorder SHADOW CAST by Deborah J Ledford Prologue Time has run out to fix what I took part in breaking. I stand at an actual crossroads. Where opportunity now meets fate. A song taught by my long-passed grandmother comes to my mind. The high and low of notes remembered from my childhood that would calm…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cooking the Books: Murder At First Slice by Valerie Burns</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Sheridan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Maddy Montgomery has come a long way since fleeing the West Coast after being jilted at the altar during what was supposed to be her livestreamed wedding. Looking for a place to escape her very public humiliation, she took refuge in the lakeside house she inherited from her great-aunt Octavia in the small town of…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Movie Review: Buddy, co-written and directed by Casper Kelly</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve Erickson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What if Barney the Dinosaur were an evil tyrant whose primary goal was to reign in a world of his own creation, in total control of all children and sentient beings around him? That’s the fun and frightening question that Casper Kelly’s horror-comedy <i>Buddy </i>explores. <i>Buddy </i>starts refreshingly; the first third of its run-time mimics…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: Mrs. Shim Is A Killer by Kang Jiyoung</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Sheridan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When the butcher shop where the widowed Shim Eunok works abruptly closes, she doesn’t know what to do. She has two children on the verge of adulthood, bills to pay, and minimal job prospects. Her only real skills involve knives, not the most in-demand quality for a woman who’s just turned fifty-one.  But the Smile…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: The Unknown by Riley Sager</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Valeri]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A decade ago, the author known as Riley Sager—then writing under his own name, Todd Ritter—was at a crossroads. He had published four novels (the last under the pseudonym Alan Finn), none of which reached the level of commercial success to sustain a fledgling career. Having lost his job and been dropped by his publisher,…]]></description>
		
		
		
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