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		<title>Cooking the Books: Eight Enchanting Elixirs by Lynn Cahoon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Sheridan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The eighth installment of the Kitchen Witch Mystery series plunges our heroine, caterer and kitchen witch Mia Malone, into the power struggles that she’s been desperately trying to avoid ever since learning of the local coven’s interest in recruiting her. Life since moving to Magic Springs, Idaho hasn’t been entirely smooth sailing for our protagonist.…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: Good Girls Die Bored by Elizabeth Little</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Webb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<i>Good Girls Die Bored</i> opens with a powerful monologue.   My name’s Juno Hardwick, and I’m here to save your life. &#160; As a private security professional, it’s my job to look into the future. Call it what you will—access control, target hardening, penetration testing, close protection—at the end of the day, it all means the…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: The Silver Fish by Connor Martin</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Sheridan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Once Dani Moreau realized that her life of privilege meant that she was better off than the vast majority of the world’s populace, she began looking for a way to make that right. Not through charitable work, as other people in her position might do, but by flinging herself body and soul into investigative journalism.…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Webb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Colson Whitehead’s <i>Cool Machine</i> grabbed me from the epigraph, “It’s harder to find a good coffee table than it is to fall in love.” Whitehead is a Picasso of prose, painting pages with ebullient word-pictures.  <i>Cool Machine</i> follows <i>Crook Manifesto</i>, which comes after <i>Harlem Shuffle</i>: they comprise the <i>Harlem Trilogy</i>. Ray Carney is the main…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Jennifer Hillier on Seaside and Heart of Glass</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Hillier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers, I first wrote about Seaside – a fictional beach town – in a thriller I published back in 2015. It was loosely inspired by the summers I spent in a small lake town about three hours north of Toronto. For a city kid like me, a small town was a whole different world.…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: The Enigma Challenge by S.C Godfrey</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Ayers]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Writing for the first time as S.C. Godfrey, Sierra Godfrey blends action, intricate puzzles, globe-trotting settings, and romance into one thrilling package. At a cryptology conference in Madrid, Zoe Wilder finally breaks things off with her boyfriend Eric, who&#8217;s also her boss and refuses to accept it&#8217;s over. While studying the bronze Angel Caído statue…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Page to Screen: Pop. 1280/Coup de Torchon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian Greene]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes an especially compelling story can be told in a novel or movie when pretty much all of the characters are morally irredeemable. We all love a literary or cinematic hero for whom we can root, even if it can be said that they are anti-heroes. But can we stay engrossed in such tales if…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: The Beginning of Everything by Charles Salzberg</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Valeri]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Charles Salzberg is a man of words. As an acclaimed novelist, journalist, and writing instructor, he has been selling, and shaping, stories for decades. His five-book series featuring Henry Swann was nominated for a Shamus Award (for Best First PI Novel for <i>Swann’s Last Song</i>), while his standalone novel, <i>Second Story Man</i>, won the Beverly…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Featured Excerpt: Murder Unabridged by P. J. Nelson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Crime HQ]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[1 There’s a certain lazy delight to be had from a sunset in Enigma, Georgia. Thin clouds drifted in the pale winter sky. A bird, only one, was singing in a bare sycamore tree near the gazebo where I was sitting. The tree had turned blue, and I couldn’t quite understand that. All the sky…]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review: A Killer in the Family by Amin Ahmad</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Sheridan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ali Azeem comes from money, but not the kind of family money you can really compare to the immense wealth of global real estate tycoon Abbas Khan. When Abbas and his wife approach Ali’s parents about potentially arranging Ali’s marriage to their younger daughter Maryam, Ali decides to just grin and bear it, as he’s…]]></description>
		
		
		
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