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Book #60 was A Hard Death, the second book in Jonathan Hayes’s Edward Jenner series. The back of the book reads: Brilliant forensic pathologist Edward Jenner returns in this explosive sequel to Precious Blood—an edgy, electrifying thriller set in a small-town coastal community where nothing is as it seems. Edward Jenner, introduced in Precious Blood, has survived the horrific ordeal of the Inquisitor serial killings
Read moreBook #59 was The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard. The back of the book reads: At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is shattered by the discovery of a young cadet’s body swinging from a rope. The next morning, an even greater horror comes to light. Someone has removed the dead man’s heart. Augustus Landor—who acquired some renown in
Read moreBook #58 was In the Shadow of Gotham, the first book in Stefanie Pintoff’s Simon Ziele series. The back of the book reads: Stefanie Pintoff’s acclaimed and award-winning debut is the taut historical tale of Detective Simon Ziele, a man who lost his fiancée in the 1904 General Slocum ferry disaster and thereafter flees New York City for Dobson, New York, to escape the memories
Read moreBook #57 was The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt. The back of the book reads: Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn’t share his brother’s appetite for whiskey and killing, he’s never known anything else. But their
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