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“Curse-Maker” by Kelli Stanley

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Dead on Arrival

by Jackie Griffey

Widowed at twenty-four by her husband Horace’s motorcycle accident, Maggie Murphy is broke, unemployed and all the cosmetic companies say your skin starts drying out at twenty-five. She finds a part-time job which turns into full time when she finds the mutilated body of the man she replaced behind the office dumpster. …

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David Liss recommends this book

Kelli Stanley shows herself, once again, to be the most remarkable writer of historical noir going. The Curse-Maker has an absorbing mystery, a compelling protagonist, and a unique setting, and they are all buoyed up by Stanley’s exhaustive research that informs and strengthens the story without ever bogging it down. This is how historical mystery should be done.

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Rhys Bowen recommends this book

No one blends authentic period detail with hardboiled crime like Kelli Stanley. This is Sam Spade in a toga!

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Cara Black recommends this book

I loved The Curse-Maker – a compelling, engrossing tale from Kelli Stanley who’s carved out her own unique genre of Roman Noir. Don’t miss this one.

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