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Harrison Book Club News April 2023
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The Man Who Would Be King
by Rudyard Kipling
First published in 1888, The Man Who Would Be King is a short story about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan.
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A Certain Justice
by P. D. James
When noted criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge turns up murdered after defending young Garry Ashe for the brutal killing of his mother, Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team struggle to unravel the case, which involves him in a series of deadly crimes linked to the complexities of the legal system.
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In every life
by Marla Frazee
Powerful and profound, this visually stunning picture book celebrates the moments, feelings and experiences, both big and small, that make up a life.
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Ralph Compton Snake Oil Justice
by Jackson Lowry
A medicine man turns vigilante when he sets out to take revenge against the gang who took everything from him.
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I will find you
by Harlan Coben
Receiving evidence that his son might still be alive, an innocent father convicted of murdering his own child breaks out of prison to uncover the truth, in the new novel by the best-selling author of The Stranger.
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The Metropolitan affair
by Jocelyn Green
"With a notorious forger preying on New York's high society, Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Lauren Westlake is just the expert needed to track down the criminal. As she and Detective Joe Caravello search for the truth, the closer they get to discovering the forger's identity, the more entangled they become in a web of deception and crime"
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French Creek
by Paul H. Rowney
Following a combination of natural disasters, in the space of just a few weeks, one-half of America plunges back into the Pioneer era. French Creek is a fast-paced thriller with numerous, unexpected twists and turns. Always at the back of your mind are the questions: how close are we to a collapse like this, caused by natural disasters-and how would we cope if they happened?
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Small mercies : a novel
by Dennis Lehane
In 1974 Boston, as a heatwave blankets the city, Mary Pat Fennessey, in a desperate search for her missing daughter, asks questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, who doesn't take kindly to anyone who threatens his business.
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The soulmate
by Sally Hepworth
When her husband becomes a local hero, saving person after person from ending their lives until one night he doesn't, Pippa discovers he knew the victim and wonders if she jumped or was pushed? A question that cracks the foundations of the life they've built.
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Homecoming : a novel
by Kate Morton
A laid-off London journalist returns home to Sydney where she discovers a link between her family and an infamous 1959 crime.
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Mastering the Art of French Murder
by Colleen Cambridge
While staying in post-World War II Paris with her grandfather, Tabitha Knight becomes friends with her neighbor and fellow American, Julia Child, and must clear both their names when a woman they both knew is murdered with a knife from Julia's kitchen and a note from Tabitha in her pocket.
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