Atlantic Ave Magazine - February 2020

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entertainment | gotta read By lisa marie
A Cold Trail
by Robert Dugoni
Released February 4th
The last time homicide detective Tracy
Crosswhite was in Cedar Grove, it was
to see her sister’s killer put behind bars.
Now she’s returned for a respite and the
chance to put her life back in order for
herself, her attorney husband, Dan, and
their new daughter. But tragic memories
soon prove impossible to escape.
Dan is drawn into representing a local
merchant whose business is jeopardized
by the town’s revitalization. And Tracy
is urged by the local PD to put her own
skills to work on a new case: the brutal
murder of a police officer’s wife and local
reporter who was investigating a cold
case slaying of a young woman. As Tracy’s
and Dan’s cases crisscross, Tracy’s
trail becomes dangerous. It’s stirring up
her own haunted past and a decadesold
conspiracy in Cedar Grove that has
erupted in murder. Getting to the truth is
all that matters. But what’s Tracy willing
to risk as a killer gets closer to her and
threatens everyone she loves?
Above the Bay of
Angels
by Rhys bOWen
Released February 11th
Isabella Waverly only means to comfort
the woman felled on a London street.
In her final dying moments, she thrusts
a letter into Bella’s hand. It’s an offer of
employment in the kitchens of Buckingham
Palace, and everything the budding
young chef desperately wants: an escape
from the constrictions of her life as a lowly
servant. In the stranger’s stead, Bella
can spread her wings.
Arriving as Helen Barton from Yorkshire,
she pursues her passion for creating
culinary delights, served to the
delighted Queen Victoria herself. Best
of all, she’s been chosen to accompany
the queen to Nice. What fortune! Until
the threat of blackmail shadows Bella to
the Riviera, and a member of the queen’s
retinue falls ill and dies.
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Having prepared the royal guest’s last
meal, Bella is suspected of the poisonous
crime. An investigation is sure to follow.
Her charade will be over. And her new life
will come crashing down—if it doesn’t
send her to the gallows.
Normal People
by Sally rOOney
Released February 18th
bsolutely engrossing and surprisingly
heartbreaking with more
“A
depth, subtlety, and insight than any one
novel deserves.”—Stephanie Danler
Connell and Marianne grew up in the
same small town, but the similarities end
there. At school, Connell is popular and
well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But
when the two strike up a conversation—
awkward but electrifying—something
life changing begins.
A year later, they’re both studying at
Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has
found her feet in a new social world while
Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and
uncertain. Throughout their years at university,
Marianne and Connell circle one
another, straying toward other people
and possibilities but always magnetically,
irresistibly drawn back together. And as
she veers into self-destruction and he
begins to search for meaning elsewhere,
each must confront how far they are willing
to go to save the other.
Normal People is the story of mutual
fascination, friendship and love. It takes
us from that first conversation to the years
beyond, in the company of two people who
try to stay apart but find that they can’t.
Dead Ringer
by Annelise Ryan
Released February 25th
Spring is beginning to brighten Sorenson,
Wisconsin for Mattie and Steve
Hurley and their family. While their son
Matthew may be in his terrible twos and
Steve’s daughter Emily a moody teenager,
the kids bring light to their lives when
their work is dark by its nature—Steve is
a homicide detective and Mattie is a medicolegal
death investigator, aka medical
examiner. They deal in corpses.
The latest corpse, a Jane Doe, was
clearly an addict, but drugs didn’t kill her,
at least not directly. She’s been stabbed
multiple times in a pattern that is disturbingly
familiar to Mattie. When she
discovers flower petals from yellow carnations
stuffed into the stab wounds, she
recognizes a very specific M.O.—belonging
to a convicted serial killer who’s currently
serving a life sentence.
The details of the flower petals were
never made public in the last case, so it
can’t be a copycat crime. It looks like the
wrong man is in prison, and the murderer
is still at large. Now it’s up to Mattie
and Steve to get the case reopened—and
catch the real carnation killer…
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