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Top Ten Tuesday – My Love Affair with Crime Solvers

Brought to you thanks to the girls at The Broke and The Bookish This week on Top Ten Tuesday it’s a ‘Choose-Your-Own-Top-Ten’—that is, there’s no set topic.  I may very well have spent the entire week trying to decide between the many glorious Top Ten lists I could come up with, but after recently reading Another Day, Another Dali from the Serena Jones Mystery series by Sandra Orchard (you can read my review here), I got to thinking about my lifelong love of mysteries and thought, “Why not blog about my love affair with bookish crime solvers?”

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When Death Draws Near (Carrie Stuart Parks) – Review

  Publisher’s Description: Forensic artist Gwen Marcey is between jobs when she accepts temporary work in Pikeville, Kentucky—a small town facing big-city crime. But before Gwen can finish her first drawing of the serial rapist who is on the loose, the latest witness vanishes. Just like all the others. Gwen suspects a connection between the rapist and the “accidental” deaths that are happening around town, but the local sheriff has little interest in her theories. When her digitally-obsessed teenage daughter joins her, Gwen turns her attention to a second assignment: going undercover in a serpent-handling church. She could get a

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