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Young British widow Emma Blackstone moved to 1920s Hollywood to care for her silent-movie star sister-in-law, Kitty. When a famous director calls for help, Emma and Kitty race over to the set of his new blockbuster movie.

As penance for a professional misstep, former LAPD detective Charlie Waldo lives deep in the woods, owning no more than 100 things. In Pay or Play, Waldo’s old adversary strongarms him into investigating a vagrant’s death.

A diary turns up that hints at a romance young Jacqueline Bouvier had as an exchange student in Paris in 1949. It’s been a secret for seventy years. Lucie Montgomery discovers this clandestine affair between someone she loves and the most famous, fiercely private women in American history.

At his beloved grandfather’s deathbed, a teenage boy receives a yellowing manuscript which reveals his grandfather’s darkest secrets from Nazi-occupied Venice in 1943. The manuscript describes how the grandfather’s support for a murdered Jewish woman drew the attention of the underground resistance. The Garden of Angels is a gripping tale, both for its imagining of war-torn Venice and the timeless portrait of life under Fascism.

Candace Robb brings her passion for York to this new page-turning crime thriller. She shared her thoughts about the latest installment in her long-running hit series with Library Journal.

Rosemarie and Vince Keenan (aka Renee Patrick) are back with their fourth Edith Head/Lillian Frost mystery set in Hollywood’s Golden Age.

Candace Robb brings her passion for York to this new page-turning crime thriller. She shared her thoughts about the latest installment in her long-running hit series with Library Journal.

In 1988, Qiu Xiaolong came to St. Louis, planning to stay for one year at Washington University to research T. S. Eliot, whose poems he’d translated. Following political upheaval in China, Xiaolong decided to make his home in America.

To hunt down a brutal bludgeoner, Buffalo Detective Lauren Riley must travel to Reykjavik, Iceland, in the latest Cold Case Investigation mystery by Lissa Marie Redmond. At age 22, Redmond passed her police exam while still a student at the University of Buffalo.