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		<title>Book Review: Every Lie I Told by Hilary Davidson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Valeri]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hilary Davidson is an indomitable force in crime fiction (and beyond). To date, she has published eight suspense novels including singular and series titles (the latter of which encompass the Lily Moore and Shadows of New York sagas), two collections, and more than fifty short stories; such prolific output has earned her two Anthony Awards…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: I Did Not Kill My Husband by Linda Keir</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Sheridan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This gripping dual-perspective thriller follows the efforts of a wrongly convicted lifestyle influencer trying to clear her name after escaping custody, and the dogged rural sheriff determined to bring her back to justice. Cara Campbell was always very open about her desire to marry rich and live well. Once she’d landed her wealthy plastic surgeon…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Featured Excerpt: Nightjars by Michael Wehunt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Prologue <i>Does the nightjar remember the night?</i> This was what the Polaroid asked me. I knew it had nothing to do with the bird, because the question rose off the photograph in my father’s voice. Six small words that brought him back from the grave in my heart. He crouched just outside the glow of…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Levine Grills Einstein</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Levine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s 1940. Europe is in flames, and while America remains on the sidelines, sparks already flicker on its shores. In <i>Midnight Patriots</i>, real-life friends Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin are torn from their private lives and thrust into the crosshairs of a deadly Nazi conspiracy. While the legendary German spy Fritz Duquesne plots to kidnap…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Featured Excerpt: A Map to Murder by Michelle Chouinard</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[SF Killer Crime Tours The Haight—Cush, Counterculture, and Crime <i>If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair—and head over to the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, where the Summer of Love’s flower-child spirit still wafts through the streets on intertwined ribbons of patchouli and marijuana.</i> <i>In late 1966, California banned use…</i>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why I Love Stories That Unfold in a Single Day (or Less)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allison Brennan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There’s something irresistibly delicious about a story that races against the clock. I adore sprawling epics and slow-burn mysteries that stretch across weeks, but give me a tale crammed into twenty-four hours—or even real time—and I’m hooked. The pressure cooker of a tight timeline turns every decision into pure adrenaline.  In movies, this trick feels…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Sheridan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Best friends Joy Moore and Benny Abbott didn’t start out wanting to be famous. For Joy, having a quasi-entrepreneurial activity like a podcast was just a way to ensure that the two of them had guaranteed friend time, even as their personal obligations and her debilitating narcolepsy made their schedules harder to sync otherwise. So…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cooking the Books: The Diva Hosts A Murderer by Krista Davis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Sheridan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Domestic diva Sophie Winston has a full house in her Old Town Alexandria townhome as the 4th of July approaches. In addition to her sister Hannah and her parents, Paul and Inga, her Aunt Melly has come to stay, along with Aunt Melly’s new husband, Gus Eberle. Completing the set are two family friends, the…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Explore Mike Bowditch’s Maine with Paul Doiron</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Doiron]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<em>Storm Tide</em> is the sixteenth Mike Bowditch novel, and in some ways it feels like a culmination—because for the first time in the series, the story unfolds over the course of an entire year. The deaths Mike investigates, and that lead him to believe vigilantes are executing criminals who escaped justice, take him across Maine…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Featured Excerpt: A Deadly Entanglement by Cathy Pegau</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One “Miss Harriman?” Margot Baxter Harriman looked up from the month-old copy of <i>Harper’s Bazaar</i>. She should have made better use of her time waiting outside of Doctor Stephen Jameson’s office, but she’d left her satchel of paperwork at home. As B&#38;H Food’s company president at the height of the growing season, she had no…]]></description>
		
		
		
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