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The Brides

Charlotte Cross

"I have finally made my first examination of the mind of Lady Lowell."


Surfing, Bananas, and Runners: Agatha Christie’s Grand Year of International Travel

Excerpted from 'Agatha Christie: The Mother of the Cozy Mystery'


How Pinellas County, Florida Shaped the Strange Life of Conman Paul Skalnik

An excerpt from Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast by Pamela Colloff


Rebecca Wright Stevens on Amos Lane and Repping Alaska’s Indigenous Citizens in Court

Excerpted from Sisters of the Midnight Sun: A Murder in Arctic Alaska


Mother of Night: Excerpt and Cover Reveal

James Bennett

"The ship’s bell clanged like Judgement Day, spurring every hand to alarm, struggling to batten hatches, fasten gear, and coil mooring ropes under the claws of the beast roaring out of the south."


Traitors

Robert B. McCaw

"For many of his fellow naval aviators, flying became a way of life, but for Cooper, the exhilaration of flying wore off with time."


The Organized Arson Fraud Gangs of Old New York

An excerpt from Jewish Firebugs: Arson and Antisemitism from the Civil War to World War I by Jeffrey A. Marx


The Blackthorn Women

Jess Lourey

"The snake lay across Ursula Blackthorn’s workshop doorstep, fat and lazy as spilled sin."


Blood River Witch

T.J. Martinson

"Her flashlight found Jackson’s bloodless face, as transparent as a dime bag."


Breakout

A novel from: Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon

"There was Quintin’s troublemaker grin. He was like her, she realized—a coin with two sides. She wondered what secrets he might be keeping. That curiosity drew her even closer to him."



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