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Featuring ‘Lady in the Lake’

Dire straits

When you are born into a region or era where poverty, addiction and crime are the norm, is it possible to escape and start life fresh? Or are we destined to follow in the footsteps of the generations who came before us? Those are the questions confronting the main characters in two gritty new mysteries from Laura Lippman and Laura McHugh.


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