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The Black Jersey

Jorge Zepeda Patterson, translated by Achy Obejas

"But Steve was doing okay."


The Friend

Joakim Zander, translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel

"Some things happen so fast."


A Nearly Normal Family

M. T. Edvardsson

"Agnes Thelin almost looked apologetic when she explained I was a suspect."


A Lady’s Guide to Gossip and Murder

Dianne Freeman

"Murdered? I snatched the newspaper from Hetty’s hands and spread it on my lap."


The Good Sister

Gillian McAllister

"Christopher lets himself into his seafront town house alone."


The Ugly Truth

Jill Orr

"Southerners will go to great lengths to avoid speaking ill of the dead, no matter how much they hated a person’s guts while they were alive."


Shoot the Bastards

Michael Stanley

"As Crys walked, all she could see were surreal shapes of trees and bushes and white images of impala and other animals that she couldn’t identify."


Girl Gone Missing

Marcie Rendon

"For the rest of the week Cash drove beet truck ’til two a.m."


Fake Like Me

Barbara Bourland

"This is it."


The Perfect Plan

Bryan Reardon

"As the sun rises, I walk across the street toward the second row home on the block, five up from where Lauren Branch lives with her two roommates."



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