BKLYN BookMatch- Mysteries and Historical Fiction
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When their best friend, the gorgeous and wealthy Nancy Hennessy, is murdered, Eleanor and Mary wrestle with their grief while dealing with how little they knew their friend, each other and maybe even themselves as the investigation lays bare all of Nancy's secrets.
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How do you clear your name when you can't trust your own memory? That's the question for the flawed female protagonists at the center of these compelling, suspenseful mysteries as their tenuous connections with reality leave them facing the possibility of dire consequences ahead.
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A high-ranking Jewish detective in Berlin in 1932, Willi Kraus finds his murder investigation of an oddly deformed and mysterious young woman made difficult by his superiors and several disturbing events.
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Juliet Armstrong is a radio producer in a 1950s London that is recovering from the war as much as she is. During World War Two, Juliet transcribed conversations between an MI5 agent and a ring of suspected German sympathizers, which quickly plunged Juliet into a treacherous world of code words and secret meetings. Now her routine is upended by a meeting with a mysterious man from her past. Haunted by the actions of her past and a very real threat in the present, Juliet realizes she cannot escape the repercussions of her work for the government.