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New novels by Louise Hare, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Christine Wells, Kerri Maher and Tan Twan Eng.

” begins just days after “Regrets” ends. Lena is in New York and reeling from a crossing from England on the Queen Mary that ended with three people dead. She’s spending her two weeks in New York chasing down a missing relative and familiarizing herself with life in 1936 Harlem, where many of Hare’s characters work as librarians, doctors, lawyers and musicians. Despite their successes, racism is rampant, and the novel’s backdrop is the societal impact of the Great Migration.

wraps hoaxes inside hoaxes as Rachel fights to prove she’s due an earl’s inheritance. Murders, deception and a cliff-top fight to the death have this novel roaring toward an unpredictable finish. A fictionalized Duke and Duchess of Windsor take a star turn in this utterly absorbing novel that wends its way from Cairo to Paris and then on to London, Lisbon and the wilds of Scotland.

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