Allure of Deceit
Suspense novels about charity, religion, literacy and women fleeing control
Thursday, December 21
Secrets in an unhappy marriage
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What We Kept to Ourselves by Nancy Jooyoun Kim starts with a Korean American father discovering a body of a homeless black man in the yard ...
Monday, December 18
Free thought
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In The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman, Ivy Jacob grows up in Boston, beautiful and wild, spoiled yet neglected. An unintended pregnancy pr...
Monday, December 11
Hunt for a happy ending
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Hardy Reed, nicknamed Hardly, in Dark Ride by Lou Berney, is content to slacker. Stuck in a Midwest town, he gets high with friends and wat...
Monday, November 13
Breakable
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Oliva Denaro in 1960 is on the cusp of adolescence, adhering to the numerous rules imposed on girls in her Sicilian village, but the rigid...
Wednesday, October 25
Quest
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The Trackers by Charles Frazier has a dual personality – the story’s beginning is slow as a young, ambivalent protagonist arrives in Dawes, ...
Monday, October 16
Customs
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The Disenchantment by Celia Bell starts off slowly despite the setting of 1680 France and volatile politics. Characters make the mistake of ...
Thursday, October 5
Witness protection
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In The Lie Maker by Linwood Barclay, Boston journalist and novelist Jack Givins is down on his luck. He’s fired before even starting a new j...
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