Month: May 2020

RWA Dumps RITA for Vivian

Post author By Jessica Pryde
Post date May 27, 2020

New Releases: Ilhan Omar, Solving Health Care, and Eels!

Post author By Alice Burton
Post date May 27, 2020

Sponsored by our Robyn Carr Prize Pack giveaway, courtesy of Harlequin.com.

We’re teaming up with Harlequin.com to give away a prize pack which includes the following Robyn Carr titles: Four Friends, The Life She Wants, The Summer That Made Us, The View from Alameda Island, and Virgin River. Enter now!

Happy Almost-June! Yes, things in the world are still weird, but yes, you can also momentarily forget about it by reading about some new nonfiction! It’s why I’m here. I think release dates are gonna be wonky for a whiiile, but I’m double-checking them pretty much up to their date of release, so these should all be available as of writing this. Which is great! Because they look super interesting.

This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman by Ilhan Omar. Omar was born in Somalia, and when war broke out, she and her dad and siblings fled to its capital of Mogadishu, and then to a refugee camp in Kenya. After four years, they came to Virginia. Omar was 12, so this had been her life from eight till then. From that, she became a grassroots organizer, went to college, and was elected to represent Minnesota in Congress. This is her story of that journey.

The Long Fix: Solving America’s Health Care Crisis with Strategies that Work for Everyone by Vivian Lee, MD. We all know there’s something wrong with the health care system. Dr. Lee says “The problem with the way medicine is practiced, she explains, is not so much who’s paying, it’s what we are paying for. Insurers, employers, the government, and individuals pay for every procedure, prescription, and lab test, whether or not it makes us better―and that is both backward and dangerous.” Her proposal to fix it is described as “realistic and optimistic,” two words you don’t see paired often.

Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History by Sarah Prager and Sarah Papworth. It’s almost Pride Month! Read some gay books! But for real, you’ve gotta love some brief biographies that launch you into learning more about amazing people. This one focuses on queer people around the world and, as is the trend with these, has some ~fun illustrations~, which I am all about. Huzzah!

Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food by Gina Rae La Cerva. Dang, I like this cover. Do you like anthropology and adVENTURE? La Cerva “embarks on a global culinary adventure to trace our relationship to wild food.” Love it, yes, great. She “reflects on how colonialism and the extinction crisis have impacted wild spaces, and reveals what we sacrifice when we domesticate our foods —including biodiversity, Indigenous and women’s knowledge, a vital connection to nature, and delicious flavors.” Look, I don’t know why I love books about the history / extinction of food, because I don’t cook, but I LOVE them. This looks super interesting.

The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson. Eels! They’re so weird! Apparently, scientists have also thought so for QUITE some time: “scientists and philosophers have, for centuries, been obsessed with what has become known as the “eel question”: Where do eels come from? What are they? Are they fish or some other kind of creature altogether?” What are they indeed! Svensson looks into all this in…*dramatic pause*….The Book of Eels.

BOY, I cannot believe we’re at the end of May. Time is flyin’. As always, you can find me on social media @itsalicetime and co-hosting the For Real podcast with Kim here at Book Riot. Until next time, enjoy those facts, fellow nerds.

Giveaways

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Post author By Hannah Cherie Hudson
Post date May 27, 2020

In The Club

In the Club – 05/27

Post author By Vanessa Diaz
Post date May 26, 2020

Sponsored by our Robyn Carr Prize Pack giveaway, courtesy of Harlequin.com.

We’re teaming up with Harlequin.com to give away a prize pack which includes the following Robyn Carr titles: Four Friends, The Life She Wants, The Summer That Made Us, The View from Alameda Island, and Virgin River. Enter now!

Welcome to In The Club, a newsletter of resources to keep your book group well-met, well-read, and well-fed. Well sh*t, friends. A couple of you got me in my feelings this week with your sweet emails! Thank you for reaching out, truly. It was such a nice warm hug to my bookish heart to know that my little ramblings on books, club business, and tasty things are a source of comfort and entertainment for you (and not just me nerding out by myself in cyber space). You’re simply the best and I appreciate you. Sending virtual hugs to you and everyone else reading this newsletter.

Whew! Enough feels. To the club!!

Nibbles and Sips

So this Portland weather cannot make up its mind, a thing I was warned it was prone to do but keep forgetting nonetheless. It will *allegedly* be over 80 degrees and sunny mid week and I plan on packing up a little picnic to go sit in a park. I’ll be making my favorite quick chicken salad and thought I’d share it with you today- I love using this recipe for sandwiches in an afternoon tea and at book club gatherings in general.

Ingredients: shredded chicken, greek yogurt*, fresh chopped rosemary, golden raisins, salt and pepper

Instructions: Mix that ish up and enjoy! This is one of those recipes you just sort of need to eyeball and season to taste. Enjoy on its own or on bread!

*I use Greek yogurt because mayonnaise is my personal hell, but you do you, boo. When someone first made this chicken salad for me, she used one part Greek yogurt for every one part mayo. Vaya con dios.

Talkin’ Bout Mental Health

May is Mental Health Awareness month and I totally slacked on recommending this as a book club topic! May or not, anytime is a good time to better understand (and work on!) mental health.

The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang – This is one of my five-star reads of 2019 and I wish more people would pick it up. It’s a very personal account of Wang’s diagnoses—schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, and late-stage Lyme disease—told through a collection of essays, one that asks readers to understand that schizophrenia in particular is not a single, unifying diagnosis. I know I’ve probably read several candid portrayals of mental and chronic illness, but this one stands apart. Maybe it’s the clarity of the writing, the honesty, the care with which Wang addresses both her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” and those of us who just want to understand it better. So moving, so educational.

Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan – Hello, ol’ reliable! I used to tell people that I wanted this book shoved into the hands of my physicians if I ever displayed symptoms of an undiagnosable mental illness. Susan Cahalan was 24 years old and life was swell: she was in a promising new relationship, had just begun an exciting career in journalism, and was overall living the New York dream. Almost overnight and with no clear explanation as to why, she found herself tied down to a hospital bed in a psychiatric ward. She was labeled violent, psychotic, a threat to both herself and others, but her diagnosis was unclear. The eventual what, why, and how of her final diagnosis are at once a riveting page-turner and a maddening (maddening, I say!!) peak into the pitfalls of the US healthcare system.

Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella – This work of fiction is a very recent release that I highly recommend on audio! Cady is (maybe not?) processing her brother Eric’s recent death by suicide when she begins her freshman year at Harvard. Eric himself attended Harvard and was diagnosed with schizophrenia in his final year, and now Cady is hearing voices too. Does she share her brother’s mental illness, or are the voices she hears ghosts from Harvard’s unsavory past? I’ve seen some people give it a negative review because it wasn’t quite the mystery or ghost story they thought it was going to be. While I don’t know that I would quite call it a thriller in the “traditional” sense, it is definitely both psychological and suspenseful. It’s also a compelling reflection on the devastating effects—especially of the mental health variety– of unprocessed grief. (TW: discussions of suicide throughout, attempted sexual assault, off-page violence)

Suggestion Section

Some more tips for organizing a virtual book club and getting your friends in on the fun

The LA Times Book Club will discuss a book I’ve had my eye on for weeks: The Compton Cowboys by Walter Thompson-Hernandez! Did you know about this community of Black cowboys in Compton, one that still exists today? I lived in LA for almost a decade and half my extended family still lives there, yet I still knew nothing about this fascinating piece of LA history.

Catch up on week three of Vox’s discussion of The Secret History

A book club in the Colorado Springs area turned to mask-making to help fill a community need. I love this idea and encourage all my craft club people to try it!

Thanks for hanging with me today! Shoot me an email at vanessa@riotnewmedia.com with your burning book club questions or find me on Twitter and the gram @buenosdiazsd. Sign up for the Audiobooks newsletter, catch me once a month on the All the Books podcast, and watch me ramble about even more new books every Tuesday on our YouTube channel.

Stay bad & bookish, my friends.
Vanessa

Today In Books

Illustrator Turns Windows Into Storybooks: Today In Books

Post author By Jamie Canaves
Post date May 26, 2020

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Illustrator Turns Windows Into Storybooks

Children’s book illustrator Rob Sayegh needed an outlet for his creativity and feelings of helplessness during San Francisco’s shelter in place orders, so his partner suggested he put some drawings in their windows. Now he regularly creates what look like storybook page illustrations for the windows for people to enjoy and tags the photo of his creations with #drawthecurtains on Instagram. Someone get that “snax”, needing piggy snax right now.

Select A Dickens For Next Group Read

The Guardian wants to do a group read of one of Charles Dickens’ creations in June, which marks 150 years since his death. And you can help select which one everyone reads. You can choose from the 15 listed novels, or from the list of 25 short stories, novellas, journalism and ephemera. To vote you just leave a comment with the title you’re choosing.

Free Relaxing PDF

The ALA has collected excerpts from four books– Check This Out! A Coloring Book for Library Lovers; This Journal is Overdue; The Librarian’s Book of Quotes; Future-Proof Your Team–and created a free PDF to download. Let the quotes, coloring pages, and writing prompts help you destress for a bit.

New Rowling Announcement

JK Rowling announces a new children’s book, The Ickabog, to be published for free online.

What's Up in YA

This Week’s YA Book News and New YA Books

Post author By Kelly Jensen
Post date May 26, 2020

Sponsored by Write the World, publishers on Writers on Earth.

When it comes to confronting climate change, Gen Z is leading the way. “Writers on Earth” captures that hope and energy with powerful poems and stories by young writers about the global environment, its future, and our place in it. From Singapore to Canada, Australia to Pakistan, the US to Japan—Gen Z bares its heart. Equal parts love letter to planet Earth and a rallying cry, Writers on Earth will galvanize and inspire climate activists, educators, and nature lovers of all ages.

Hey YA Fans!

For those of you who had a long weekend, I hope you’re feeling refreshed and prepared for another weekend coming along super soon.

Let’s dive into this week’s YA book news and new books.

YA Book News

I dug this piece about musicians who are huge Twilight fans.
There is a super fancy edition of Stephanie Perkins’s Anna and the French Kiss coming this fall.
Suzanne Collins reads from A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
Surprise! There’s a new book coming in Holly Black’s The Folk of the Air series.
July is when you can catch the second season of The Kissing Booth on Netflix.
Thomas Low, of Lee & Low publishers, died last week.

New YA Books This Week

A * means I’ve read and recommend the book. As has been the case the last couple of months, some of the publication dates have changed, so this is as accurate as I can possibly be.

The Afterward by EK Johnston (paperback)

The Archer at Dawn by Swati Teerdhala (series)

*The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta

The Bone Thief by Breeana Shields (series)

*Camp by LC Rosen

Home Home by Lisa Allen-Agostini

*Jack of Hearts (And Other Parts) by LC Rosen (paperback)

The Jewel Thief by Jeannie Mobley

A Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee (paperback, series)

Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl (paperback)

Out Now edited by Saundra Mitchell

The Paper Girls of Paris by Jordyn Taylor

*Parachutes by Kelly Yang

The Queen’s Resistance by Rebecca Ross (paperback, series)

The Ship We Built by Lexie Bean

Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith

YA on Book Riot

Going deep with Neal Shusterman on identity, his career, and how YA has evolved over the last few decades.
20 completed YA fantasy series to begin for the first time or revisit.
Three great YA books without romance.
Remembering Karen Blumenthal and her legacy in YA nonfiction.

Thanks for hanging out, and we’ll be back in your inbox on Saturday with a roundup of excellent deals to fill up your ereader.

— Kelly Jensen, @heykellyjensen on Instagram and editor of Body Talk, (Don’t) Call Me Crazy, and Here We Are.

Unusual Suspects

Investigators & A Wealthy Family Are Trapped On An Island Together 🔪

Post author By Jamie Canaves
Post date May 26, 2020

Sponsored by Hannah Mary McKinnon, author of this summer’s most bone-chilling read, Sister Dear.

Everything is slipping through Eleanor’s fingers… In a gut-wrenching discovery, she learns that she isn’t her dying father’s daughter: she was the product of an affair. With her personal life spiraling, she seeks her biological father out, and discovers something else- an infuriatingly enviable half-sister. Perfectly perfect Victoria has everything Eleanor could ever dream of. Loving childhood, luxury home, devoted husband. All of it stolen from Eleanor, who deserves it just as much. Consumed by an overwhelming obsession, she slowly begins to infiltrate her sister’s seemingly perfect life.

Sister Dear by Hannah Mary McKinnon. Order your copy today!

Hello mystery fans! This week I have for you a PI series with a lead I really like, a serial killer thriller focused on the victims, and a murder mystery on an island where everyone is trapped thanks to a storm!

What You Don't See cover image What You Don’t See (Cass Raines #3) by Tracy Clark: This is one of the handful of ongoing series that I keep up with because I love the character: Cass Raines, a former police officer turned P.I. in Chicago. Unlike many of the PI leads that are loners or bad at personal relationships, Raines has a nice support system, is in a new romantic relationship, and has a great relationship with her ex police partner. That’s how this mystery, her new case, starts: Ben Mickerson is working for Vonda Allen, the woman on top of a media empire, as a bodyguard because she’s receiving threats. Mickerson convinces Raines to join him as a bodyguard and help figure out what is happening and immediately the job Raines didn’t want to take becomes the job she hates: there’s a shooting and Allen is so unpleasant that Raines probably wants to murder her rather than risk her life protecting her… Come for the great twisty mystery cases and stay for the found family. (TW suicide/ past animal cruelty, skippable and not graphic)

Please See Us by Caitlin Mullen: This is one of those mysteries that very much sinks you into the place, Atlantic City, and the residents’ current struggles. It’s told mainly by two characters but also by the victims and a coworker. There’s a teenage psychic, Clara, working for her aunt since her mother left who is seeing visions that may be related to the recent missing women cases. And then there’s Lily, heartbroken and newly arrived after running away from her art gallery life in NY. They meet one day in a spa Lily works in as Clara is trying to drum up business and steals from her. They have an instant connection as women who see the difficulty of being a woman in this world and the economic struggles Atlantic City has been suffering.

Both Lily and Clara have different backgrounds and thus struggle in different ways, but both are very aware of their place in the world and the struggle of moving from it. We also read as victims of the serial killer meet their end—written to give these woman voices, not to show gratuitous violence—and how close Clara and Lily’s lives are circling this danger… The audiobook has a multicast that kept my earbuds in and had me ignoring everything until I was done. (TW addiction/ past date rape alluded/ eating disorder discussed/ teen sex work/ attempted rape/ past suicidal thoughts, brief detail/ recalls past thoughts of wanting to harm child)

Death In The Family by Tessa Wegert: This is exactly as advertised—investigators and a wealthy family trapped on an island together with a missing man and tons of blood—but with the added story of the lead investigator’s past. The mystery: in an Upstate New York private island, a man is missing from his bed and he’s left behind his living girlfriend and a ton of blood. The wealthy family thinks he staged it, certainly, and is fine somewhere. Former NYPD detective Shana Merchant and fellow investigator Tim Wellington disagree on whether the man is missing or dead, but they have plenty of time to look into it since everyone is stuck together on the island thanks to a storm. If you don’t read the book summary: Shana Merchant’s past trauma, which is why she left the NYPD and is currently engaged to her psychologist (gross!), is slowly revealed in more detail over the course of the investigation.

Everyone is a suspect here as you get the family with plenty of the usual motives for murder: infidelity, inheritance, secrets, people are aholes… This one reads like a standalone but it’s labeled as the start of a procedural series, so it looks like we’ll be getting more of cynical survivor Shana Merchant. And YMMV but I was having a hard time getting into the print copy and switched to audio and found myself finishing it in less than two days! (TW panic attack/ PTSD/ talk of statutory)

Browse all the books recommended in Unusual Suspects previous newsletters on this shelf. See 2020 upcoming releases. An Unusual Suspects Pinterest board. Get Tailored Book Recommendations!

Until next time, keep investigating! In the meantime, come talk books with me on Twitter, Instagram, and Litsy–you can find me under Jamie Canavés.

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Check Your Shelf

I Saw a Tiger, and the Tiger Saw a Man

Post author By Katie McLain
Post date May 26, 2020

Swords and Spaceships for May 26

Post author By Alex Acks
Post date May 26, 2020

Sponsored by The audiobook edition of The Cerulean Queen by Sarah Kozloff.

The breathtaking and cinematic epic fantasy series The Nine Realms by Sarah Kozloff traces the journey of Cerulia, Princess of Weirandale, from an attempted assassination and exile to her triumphant, but bloody, return to the throne and her magic birthright. This unforgettable audiobook adventure, which began with A Queen in Hiding, now comes to a thrilling conclusion in The Cerulean Queen. Start the audiobook of The Cerulean Queen, read by Imogen Church, or binge listen to the entire series on audio now.

Happy Tuesday, shipmates! It’s time for some new books for your shelves and a few internet items to read to pass the time, and I’m just the Alex to bring it to you. I hope all the US-ians out there had a lovely holiday weekend even if we’re pretty much doing staycations, with lots of reading and silly movies, and I hope the same for everyone who didn’t have a long weekend!

Not SFF as such, but KJ Charles wrote an amazing craft essay about consent in romance as a thing that speaks meaningfully to character and it’s SO GOOD.

Also: GLACIER MICE! (they are not really mice. They are cuter than mice. And photosynthesize.)

New Releases

Note: The lists of new releases I have access to only included one author of color this week.

Sunshield by Emily B. Martin – The lush country of Moquoia maintains its opulent lifestyle and runs its factory on slave labor abducted from the nearby canyons of desert Alcoro. But the Sunshield Bandit, Lark, has made her name attacking and stopping those slave caravans; her mission is to shake the foundations of Moquoia while protecting those she rescues from the harsh and unforgiving environment in which they live. She unknowingly has allies inside of Moquoia, and soon the bandit, a diplomat, and a prisoner may with their individual actions change the world forever.

Ballistic by Marko Kloos – Aden chose the wrong side in a reckless war, and the price he pays is having to start a new life that demands his past stay hidden. He’s gotten himself a place on a merchant ship smuggling goods through dangerous space and that takes him to Gretia, an occupied world that’s a hotbed of political conspiracy. As war threatens to break out again, Aden must rediscover who he is, and see if he can choose the right side this time.

The Archer at Dawn by Swati Teerdhala – A soldier and a newly-minted royal advisor infiltrate the enemy court to seek allies for the rebel cause. Their ultimate goal is to rescue the long-missing princess, Rehala, who is the key to throne. The Sun Mela festival and games seems like the perfect cover for this mission, but the glitter and celebration hide deadly secrets, and the allies will soon have to reassess their loyalties to their countries and each other if they want to make it out alive, let alone successful.

The City of a Thousand Faces by Walker Dryden – Tumanbay is the most magnificent city on Earth and the beating heart of a sprawling empire. Paranoia and suspicion run rampant; the Master of the Palace Guard never runs out of spies and assassins to route out, while other court officials watch their underlings with suspicions. All of this suspicion and preparation do not prepare them for the day a stranger arrives in court, bearing a gift for the Sultan.

Queen of Coin and Whispers by Helen Corcoran – Idealistic Lia becomes queen after her uncle dies, leaving her a kingdom that’s been badly mismanaged, is bankrupt, and has neighboring powers circling like vultures that smell easy pickings. She wants to do a better job than her uncle, and it shouldn’t be too hard—but first she has to beat the court at its own games. Xania becomes the new Spymaster after Lia offers her a choice: pursue the investigation of your father’s murder while working for me, or be executed. The last thing on either of their minds in this complicated web of politics, lies, and treason is falling in love; too bad their hearts have other ideas.

News and Views

Isabel Yap’s short story collection has a gorgeous cover–and you can pre-order it.

Mallory O’Meara, author of The Lady From the Black Lagoon, asks the important questions. Like “Did Frankenstein Bone?”

Why She-Ra Will Go Down in History

A look at the art of Jenn Ravenna

So Jason Momoa and Peter Dinklage are going to team up as a vampire and Van Helsing respectively in Good Bad & Undead and I need this RIGHT NOW.

A tornado under the ocean! If you want to see more of the reef dive, there’s over six hours of it on YouTube.

Who says Twitter doesn’t put any good into the world? It helped scientists find a new species of parasitic fungus that infects millipedes.

I expect to be reading a fantasy novel about this shortly: Bolivian orchestra stranded at ‘haunted’ German castle surrounded by wolves

On Book Riot

Last week’s SFF Yeah! podcast had the hosts rereading some old favs.

Quiz: How well do you know the Hitchhiker’s Guide trilogy?

You can enter to win $50 at your favorite indie book store and/or a 1-year subscription to Kindle Unlimited.

See you, space pirates. You can find all of the books recommended in this newsletter on a handy Goodreads shelf. If you’d like to know more about my secret plans to dominate the seas and skies, you can catch me over at my personal site.

New Books

Hooray, It’s Time for New Books!

Post author By Liberty Hardy
Post date May 26, 2020

Sponsored by Carina Adores and The Girl Next Door by Chelsea M. Cameron.

New York Times bestselling author Chelsea M. Cameron delivers the opposites-attract, sweet-and-sexy small-town romance you’ve been waiting for.

“Cameron’s cleverly conceived and brilliantly executed contemporary romance is elevated by her superb character development and flair for delivering exquisite sexual tension.” —Booklist on The Girl Next Door

Carina Adores is home to highly romantic contemporary love stories where LGBTQ+ characters find their happily-ever-afters.

How is it possible that it is Tuesday again already?!? But I am glad it is Tuesday, because that means NEW BOOK DAY. A lot of titles have been postponed in the last couple weeks – August is now PACKED with new releases – but there are still a bunch of amazing books coming out today, too. At the top of my list of today’s titles that I want to read are The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta and Camp Murderface by Josh Berk & Saundra Mitchell. (THAT TITLE, LOL.)

You can also hear about some of the amazing new books coming out that I did get to read on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Patricia and I discussed Camp, Fairest, The Ship We Built, and more!

As always, I am wishing the best for all of you in whatever situation you find yourself in now. Please stay safe and reach out to your friends and family if you’re having a hard time – talking on the computer or phone is a great way to communicate right now! I wish you all wonderful reading during this hard time.

And now, it’s time for everyone’s favorite gameshow: AHHHHHH MY TBR! Here are today’s contestants:

All My Mother’s Lovers by Ilana Masad

Full disclosure: I am excited about this book because Masad is a former Rioter, and doubly excited because it’s SO good! It’s a tremendous debut about a woman, Maggie, who returns home when her mother dies. Maggie and her family have not had the best relationship, and her mother had never hidden the fact that she was uncomfortable with the fact that Maggie is a lesbian. When her mother’s will is read, there are also five envelopes addressed to five different men that Maggie has never heard of before. She decides to hand-deliver each letter in an effort to learn more about her mother, and the life she kept hidden from her children.

Backlist bump: Find Me by Laura van den Berg

Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev

I can’t believe it has already been a year since the first book in this series came out! The first was a take on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and this one is a twist on – you guessed it – Persuasion. Chef Ashna Raje thinks her appearance on Cooking with the Stars will help get publicity for her restaurant, but then she’s paired up with the last celebrity she wants to see – her ex-boyfriend, soccer star Rico Silva. Rico is also excited about the show until he finds out he has to work with Ashna, the woman who broke his heart. But their obvious chemistry drives the public’s interest in their partnership and the show’s ratings. Will all the time they are spending together prove to be a recipe for disaster?

Backlist bump: Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev

What You Don't See cover image What You Don’t See (A Chicago Mystery) by Tracy Clark

Okay, I haven’t actually read this one BUT I wanted to use the opportunity to recommend the first one, because I think I read it after its release, and it’s really good. Cass Raines was an officer with the Chicago PD, until a coworker’s screw-up caused her serious harm. Now she’s retired and working as a detective in her own agency. In her first case, the first book in the series, she investigates the murder of a priest, who happened to be like a father to her. The local police are ready to write his death off as a robbery gone wrong, but Cass’s spidey senses tell her that there’s something larger behind his murder. I have read the first two in this series and I think Cass is a great character, and that the plots and action move at a quick pace. I look forward to getting this one too!

Backlist bump: Broken Places (A Chicago Mystery) by Tracy Clark

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