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Deep Roots by Sung J Woo

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Deep Roots is an entertaining soft-boiled PI story that follows on from Sung J Woo’s crime Skin Deep and features Korean-American detective Siobhan O’Brien. If the name and the ethnicity seem at odds, it’s because Siobhan was adopted by an Irish-Norwegian couple in Minnesota, as…
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A Fool's Journey

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Written by Judy Penz Sheluk — A Fool’s Journey is the third cosy mystery in Canadian author Judy Penz Sheluk’s entertaining Marketville Mystery series. In the first (Skeletons in the Attic), protagonist Callie Barnstable moved from Toronto to Marketville to investigate her mother’s long-ago disappearance,…
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Past & Present by Judy Penz Sheluk

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A young woman launching a business to help other people find missing family members ends up reconnecting to her own. This is the second in Judy Penz Sheluk’s Marketville Mystery series, set in a small town outside Toronto, and the series establishes a cosy, warm-hearted…
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The Last Thing She Told Me

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Written by Linda Green — Over the years, deathbed confessions have been used to great effect in fiction. Prepare for another variation on the theme. Nicola’s grandma is fading, and as she keeps vigil over her elderly relative, she ponders upon the strained relationship that…
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Big Sister by Gunnar Staalesen

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Translated by Don Bartlett — Varg Veum, a private eye operating out of the Norwegian town of Bergen, can’t seem to catch a break. He compulsively accepts cases that pay little or nothing but which he solves nevertheless, often at great personal sacrifice. Body and soul.When…
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