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On the Radar: The Ice Temple is coming

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What a time to be alive… The saying reverberates around social media as exasperated people observe a world in chaos, picking out the anomalies and contradictions while ducking insults and blocking racists. But this week we are saying ‘What a time to be alive’ with…
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Naked Came the Florida Man

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Former newspaper editor Tim Dorsey has an eye for the telling detail. With #FloridaMorons trending IRL as beach-going in the Sunshine State resumes, you may take special delight in this antic excursion into Florida history, hurricane recovery and a contemporary crime spree by aptly named…
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The Vanished Bride

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Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë become female detectives when they set off across the wet and wild Yorkshire moors in pursuit of the truth in 1845, with this crime debut for Rowan Coleman, writing as Bella Ellis. A young bride is missing from her home…
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Naked Came the Florida Man

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Written by Tim Dorsey — ‘“Don’t shoot guns into the hurricane.” Elsewhere this would go without saying, but Floridians need to be told.’ So begins Tim Dorsey’s comic crime novel Naked Came the Florida Man. If you live in the United States, you know that…
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The Vanished Bride

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Written by Bella Ellis — Would you believe the premise that three spinster sisters living in a Victorian parsonage would have the experience and nous to solve a crime? And really, would you believe that the work of such seemingly innocent and almost unworldly women could have…
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