September 2015 New Mystery Releases!

In many areas of the world, summer is already waning, but fortunately for me my favorite season still has most of the month of September to run. I'll have to drain what I can of it to the very dregs because I'm going to be incredibly busy this month-- so much so that it will be October before I can tell you what I've been up to.

But no matter how busy I am, you know that I always keep my eyes peeled for new crime fiction! These are my picks for new mysteries being released during the month of September. I've grouped them by release date, and I've included all the information you'll need to find them at all your favorite "book procurement" sites. Book synopses are courtesy of Amazon. 

Happy Reading!

=== September 1 ===

Title: A Curious Beginning
Author: Deanna Raybourn
Series: #1 in the Veronica Speedwell series set in Victorian England
ISBN: 9780451476012
Publisher: NAL
Hardcover, 352 pages

Synopsis: "London, 1887. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned Veronica is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry—and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as she is fending off admirers, Veronica wields her butterfly net and a sharpened hatpin with equal aplomb, and with her last connection to England now gone, she intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime.

But fate has other plans, as Veronica discovers when she thwarts her own abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron with ties to her mysterious past. Promising to reveal in time what he knows of the plot against her, the baron offers her temporary sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker—a reclusive natural historian as intriguing as he is bad-tempered. But before the baron can deliver on his tantalizing vow to reveal the secrets he has concealed for decades, he is found murdered. Suddenly Veronica and Stoker are forced to go on the run from an elusive assailant, wary partners in search of the villainous truth. " 

Title: All Sales Final
Author: Josie Belle (AKA Jenn McKinlay)
Series: #5 in the Good Buy Girls cozy series set in Virginia
ISBN: 9780425271377
Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime
Mass Market Paperback, 288 pages

Synopsis: "There’s something 100% off about Maggie and her fiancé Sam’s new dream home in the historic section of St. Stanley. The lights flicker, the doors blow shut, and their cat, Marshall Dillon, hisses at empty space. And there’s something in the basement that’s definitely not a bargain . . .

After Maggie discovers a skeleton in the root cellar, she’s convinced her house is haunted by a murdered man’s ghost. With the help of her Good Buy Girls, Maggie works to tag a killer. But she’ll need to be careful as she digs into the history of her new digs. Someone is willing to keep the truth buried at all costs . . ." 

Title: Booked for Trouble
Author: Eva Gates (AKA Vicki Delany)
Series: #2 in the Lighthouse Library cozy series set on North Carolina's Outer Banks
ISBN: 9780451470942
Publisher: NAL
Mass Market Paperback, 304 pages

Synopsis: "Lucy has finally found her bliss as a librarian and resident of the Bodie Island Lighthouse. She loves walking on the beach, passing her evenings with the local book club, bonding with the library cat, Charles, and enjoying the attention of not one, but TWO eligible men. But then her socialite mother, Suzanne, unexpectedly drops in, determined to move Lucy back to Boston—and reunite her with her ex-fiancé.

To make matters worse, Suzanne picks a very public fight at the local hotel with her former classmate Karen Kivas. So, when Karen turns up dead outside the library the next morning, Suzanne is immediately at the top of the suspect list. Now Lucy must hunt down a dangerous killer—before the authorities throw the book at her poor mother…"

Title: Knot the Usual Suspects
Author: Molly MacRae
Series: #5 in the Haunted Yarn Shop cozy series set in Tennessee
ISBN: 9780451471314
Publisher: NAL
Mass Market Paperback, 352 pages

Synopsis: "It’s time for Handmade Blue Plum, an annual arts and crafts fair, and Kath and her knitting group TGIF (Thank Goodness It’s Fiber) plan to kick off the festivities with a yarn bombing. But they’re not the only ones needling Blue Plum. Bagpiper and former resident Hugh McPhee had just returned after a long absence, yet his reception is anything but cozy. The morning after his arrival, he’s found dead in full piper’s regalia.

Although shaken, Kath and her knitting group go forward with their yarn installation—only to hit a deadly snag. Now, with the help of Geneva, the ghost who haunts her shop, Kath and TGIF need to unravel the mystery before someone else gets kilt!" 

Title: The Darling Dahlias and the Eleven O'Clock Lady
Author: Susan Wittig Albert
Series: #6 in the Darling Dahlias series set in 1930s Alabama
ISBN: 9780425260623
Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime
Hardcover, 320 pages

Synopsis: "The eleven o’clock lady has always been one of garden club president Liz Lacy’s favorite spring wildflowers. The plant is so named because the white blossoms don’t open until the sun shines directly on them and wakes them up.

But another Eleven O’Clock Lady is never going to wake up again. Rona Jean Hancock—a telephone switchboard operator who earned her nickname because her shift ended at eleven, when her nightlife was just beginning—has been found strangled with her own silk stocking in a very unladylike position.

Gossip sprouts like weeds in a small town, and Rona Jean’s somewhat wild reputation is the topic of much speculation regarding who might have killed her. As the Darling Dahlias begin to sort through Rona Jean’s private affairs, it appears there may be a connection to some skullduggery at the local Civilian Conservation Corps camp. Working at the camp, garden club vice president Ophelia Snow digs around to expose the truth…before a killer pulls up stakes and gets away with murder." 

Title: The Girl in the Spider's Web
Author: David Lagercrantz
Series: #4 Lisbeth Salander mystery continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium series
ISBN: 9780385354288
Publisher: Knopf
Hardcover, 416 pages

Synopsis: "She is the girl with the dragon tattoo—a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusading journalist whose championing of the truth often brings him to the brink of prosecution.

Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone call from a source claiming to have information vital to the United States. The source has been in contact with a young female superhacker—a hacker resembling someone Blomkvist knows all too well. The implications are staggering. Blomkvist, in desperate need of a scoop for Millennium, turns to Salander for help. She, as usual, has her own agenda. The secret they are both chasing is at the center of a tangled web of spies, cybercriminals, and governments around the world, and someone is prepared to kill to protect it . . .

The duo who captivated millions of readers in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest join forces again in this adrenaline-charged, uniquely of-the-moment thriller." 

Title: The Marsh Madness
Author: Victoria Abbott
Series: #4 in the Book Collector cozy series set in New York State
ISBN: 9780425280348
Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime
Mass Market Paperback, 304 pages

Synopsis: "Jordan works hard to improve Vera Van Alst’s collection of classic detective stories. So when Chadwick Kauffman—heir to the Kauffman fortune—offers a very good price on a fine collection of Ngaio Marsh first editions owned by his recently deceased stepfather, she is thrilled to meet with him at his fabled summer estate, Summerlea.

The next day, Jordan and Vera are shocked to read that Chadwick has died in a fall from the grand staircase at Summerlea. But when the picture in the paper is of a different man, it becomes clear that the ladies are victims of a scam. And they’ll have to unmask the imposter fast, because someone is trying to frame them for murder…" 

Title: Dark Places
Author: Reavis Z. Wortham
Series: #5 in the Red River historical series set in 1960s Texas
ISBN: 9781464204241

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press

Paperback, 370 pages

 

Synopsis: "At the tail end of 1967, the Parker family once again finds it impossible to hide from a world spinning out of control. Fourteen-year-old Top still can't fit in with their Center Springs, Texas, community or forget recent, vicious crimes. His near-twin cousin Pepper, desperate to escape her own demons, rashly joins the Flower Children flocking to California―just as two businessmen are kidnapped and murdered in the Red River bottoms on the same night a deadly hit and run kills a farmer. Constable Ned Parker wonders if these crimes are connected, but he goes after Pepper, leaving the investigation in the hands of Sheriff Cody Parker. Parker hires Deputy Anna Sloan, an investigator with an eye toward detail as everyone is eyeing her. Yet it is instinct that propels her after killers through a world nearly forgotten, the hunt’s backdrop one of continuous rain, gloomy skies, and floods. When she’s ambushed, the investigation accelerates into gunfire, chases, and hair-raising suspense. What of Pepper? Out on Route 66, the Mother Road to California, a man named Crow isn't what he seems. Lies, deceptions, and a band of outlaw motorcyclists proves to the Parkers that no matter where you turn, no matter what you do, the world is full of such darkness that even grandmothers are capable of unspeakable deeds." 

 

 

Title: The Dungeon House

Author: Martin Edwards

Series: #7 in the Lake District series set in England and featuring historian Daniel Kind and DCI Hannah Scarlett

ISBN: 9781464203183

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press

Hardcover, 276 pages

 

Synopsis: "The magnificent Dungeon House and gardens overlook Cumbria's remote western coast with its mix of beaches, dunes, and fells, Roman ruins, and nuclear plant. Twenty years ago the wealthy Whiteleys called it home. But not a happy one. Malcolm Whiteley had begun to disintegrate under financial and emotional pressures. He suspected various men in their social circle of being his wife's lover. After a disastrous party for the neighbours, Lysette told Malcolm their marriage was over. Sadly an old Winchester rifle he had been hiding was at hand…. Fast forward to today. Hannah Scarlett's cold case team is looking into the three-year old disappearance of Lily Elstone whose father Gray had been Malcolm's accountant. The investigation coincides with yet another disappearance of a teenage girl: Shona Whiteley, daughter of Malcolm's nephew Nigel, who now lives in the Dungeon House despite its tragic history. As Hannah's team digs down into the past, doubts arise about what really happened the night Malcolm killed his wife and 16-year-old daughter Amber, then himself. Most of the people once close to the Whiteleys still live nearby. And one Joanna Footit, and her secrets, now returns from London. While Hannah leads the complex police inquiries, it is her lover, historian Daniel Kind, who supplies Hannah with the lead that unlocks the whole. Does it come too late?"

 

 

Title: A Beam of Light

Author: Andrea Camilleri

Series: #19 in the Inspector Salvo Montalbano police procedural series set in Sicily

ISBN: 9780143126430

Publisher: Penguin Books

Paperback, 288 pages

 

Synopsis: "When Inspector Montalbano falls under the charms of beautiful gallery owner Marian, his longtime relationship with Livia comes under threat. Meanwhile, he is also troubled by a strange dream as three crimes demand his attention: the assault and robbery of a wealthy merchant's young wife, shady art deals, and a search for arms traffickers that leads him deep into the countryside, where the investigation takes a tragic turn." 

 

 

 

 

=== September 8 ===

 

 

Title: Make Me

Author: Lee Child

Series: #20 in the Jack Reacher series

ISBN: 9780804178778

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Hardcover, 416 pages

 

Synopsis: "“Why is this town called Mother’s Rest?” That’s all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It’s a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal.

Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, and there’s something about Chang . . . so he teams up with her and starts to ask around. He thinks: How bad can this thing be? But before long he’s plunged into a desperate race through LA, Chicago, Phoenix, and San Francisco, and through the hidden parts of the internet, up against thugs and assassins every step of the way—right back to where he started, in Mother’s Rest, where he must confront the worst nightmare he could imagine.

Walking away would have been easier. But as always, Reacher’s rule is: If you want me to stop, you’re going to have to make me."

 

 

=== September 15 ===

 

 

Title: The Zig Zag Girl

Author: Elly Griffiths

Series: #1 in the Magic Men historical series set in 1950s England

ISBN: 9780544527942

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Hardcover, 336 pages

 

*Review of UK edition

 

Synopsis: "Brighton, 1950. The body of a girl is found cut into three pieces. Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is convinced the killer is mimicking a famous magic trick—the Zig Zag Girl. The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, is an old war friend of Edgar’s. They served together in a shadowy unit called the Magic Men, a special ops troop that used stage tricks to confound the enemy. 

  

Max is on the traveling show circuit, touring seaside towns with ventriloquists, sword-swallowers and dancing girls. He’s reluctant to leave this world to help Edgar investigate, but advises him to identify the victim quickly — it takes a special sidekick to do the Zig Zag Girl. Those words come back to haunt Max when the dead girl turns out to be Ethel, one of his best assistants to date. He’s soon at Edgar’s side, hunting for Ethel’s killer. 

  

Another death, another magic trick: Edgar and Max are sure the answer to the murders lies in their army days. And when Edgar receives a letter warning of another “trick” on the way — the Wolf Trap — he knows they’re all in the killer’s sights." 

=== September 22 ===

Title: Those We Left Behind

Author: Stuart Neville

Series: #4 in the Belfast series set in Ireland

ISBN: 9781616956363

Publisher: Soho Crime

Hardcover, 368 pages

 

*Upcoming review on Kittling: Books

 

Synopsis: "Ciaran Devine, who made Belfast headlines seven years ago as the “schoolboy killer,” is about to walk free. At the age of twelve, he confessed to the brutal murder of his foster father; his testimony mitigated the sentence of his older brother, Thomas, who was also found at the crime scene, covered in blood. But DCI Serena Flanagan, the only officer who could convince a young, frightened Ciaran to speak, has silently harbored doubts about his confession all this time.

Ciaran’s release means several things: a long-anticipated reunion with Thomas, who still wields a dangerous influence over his younger brother; the call-to-action of a man bent on revenge for his father’s death; and major trouble for Ciaran’s assigned probation officer. Meanwhile, Serena Flanagan has just returned to the force from her battle with breast cancer, only to endure the pitying looks of her coworkers and a mountain of open case files. She will soon discover that even closed cases can unleash terror on the streets of Belfast."

 

 

 

Another good month for crime fiction, isn't it? Which books made it onto your wish lists? Inquiring minds would love to know!

 

 

The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree by Susan Wittig Albert

First Line: Elizabeth Lacy had been a member of the Darling Garden Club ever since Mrs. Blackstone started it in 1925, and president for the last two years.

It's 1930 in Darling, Alabama (population 907), money is scarce, and everyone is making do. The ladies of the Darling Dahlias Garden Club are looking forward to sprucing up the neglected gardens of their new clubhouse, which they inherited after the club's founder, Mrs. Dahlia Blackstone died. However, there's plenty going on in town to distract them.

There are rumors floating around that the Darling Savings and Trust may be in trouble, and there's been a prison break, but what has the lion's share of club president Elizabeth Lacy's attention is the disappearance of drugstore clerk, Bunny Scott. 

Bunny was known to be flighty and man crazy, and she was always talking about moving to New York, but Liz Lacy and fellow club member Verna Tidwell know good and well that a woman doesn't leave for New York City and leave all her clothes, jewelry and cosmetics behind. When Bunny turns up dead in a stolen car, the Darling Dahlias decide to do some investigating on their own-- even if a ghost does seem to be digging around the old cucumber tree at night.

Susan Wittig Albert almost immediately transported me to Depression-Era Alabama in this first book in the series. She's done her research, and her mentions of songs playing on the radio and the movies that were showing at the theater in town created a lot of the needed ambiance. Her research shows up everywhere-- in the prices people were paying for things, in their recipes, in the fear that swept through the community when rumors of a bank closure and a prison break began to circulate-- and all these details fit into the story seamlessly. 

Add an intriguing mystery to a perfect setting, and you've got a good book to read. In fact there are several little mysteries running throughout this book. Some are easily solved, but others require much more thought and deduction.  What raises the bar even higher is Albert's cast of characters. The main garden club members come from all walks of life-- there's the mayor's wife whose husband is always telling her not to worry her pretty little head, there's a legal secretary, a probate clerk, and women who run the local diner and moonlight as telephone operators. If these women don't have their fingers on the pulse of Darling, Alabama, then no one does!

We get to know Lizzy Lacy the most in this book, and I like her a lot. She's what would have been called a spinster back then, since her domineering mother got it into her maternal head that Lizzy was going to be her live-in doormat forever more. But lest you get the idea that Lizzy has no spine, think again. I guarantee you're going to like her. I look forward to learning even more about the rest of the characters because just enough of their backgrounds were given to let readers know that there's much more to their stories, too. 

Albert also includes "making do" tips and recipes at the back of the book, and reading them brought back many memories for me, having grown up with a grandmother and mother who lived through the Depression. And although I did notice the slow pace of the book throughout the first half, I just chalked it up to setting the stage for this new series. History, mystery, characters, food, music, and flowers. I'm already looking forward to the next book!

The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree by Susan Wittig Albert

ISBN: 9780425234457 

Berkley © 2010

Hardcover, 304 pages

Historical Mystery, #1 Darling Dahlias mystery

Rating: A-

Source: Paperback Swap 


 

A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert

First Line: With an audible sigh, Rose Lane rolled the letter out of her Underwood typewriter and signed it  --Much love as always, Rose.

In 1928, Rose Wilder Lane packed her belongings and left Albania-- a place she loved-- to return to the Missouri Ozarks to check on her aging parents. Her father, Almanzo Wilder, was 71; her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, was 61. They needed help, and Rose felt obligated to stay and get things straightened out. But when the Crash occurred Rose's investments were wiped out, and there was no longer much money to be made writing magazine articles. This was when her mother Laura started writing about her pioneer childhood, and a collaboration was formed that has bewitched thousands upon thousands of readers to this day.

A Wilder Rose is written from Rose's point of view. She's a world traveler, a journalist, and a highly paid writer for all the best magazines of the day. Growing up poor, always having to "make do," being ridiculed at school-- all this and more made Rose want to be more, to do more, and she did. When she returns to the Ozarks and becomes trapped by lack of money, her pain is palpable as she tries desperately to gather up the funds needed for both her parents and herself to have the lives they deserve.

I can see some readers not liking this book because Albert doesn't write the fairy tale that they have grown to love. Laura isn't the adorable little Half Pint in this book; she's an older woman who's experienced many hardships and heartbreaks, and she's much more real as a result. Laura Ingalls Wilder was not an easy woman to live with, and the stories she wrote about her childhood were far from being publishable. Rose was the true writer in the family, and she knew what needed to be done to a manuscript to make it marketable. Countless battles of will occurred with the birth of each of the Little House books, and the entire process is fascinating to read.

Albert also does a masterful job of portraying the period itself: how the stock market crash affected people, what life was like during the Dust Bowl. The political and social conflicts of the time come to life. I was amazed at how similar those conflicts are to the ones we are experiencing today.

Susan Wittig Albert walks a fine line in A Wilder Rose, and she does it very successfully. While the Laura presented here isn't the lovable little tyke of the books so many people like me grew up reading and loving, the portrait of the older Laura is a realistic and utterly believable one. However, the author shines at letting us see the real Rose Wilder Lane and hear her voice. Rose's story is one that forcibly struck home with me. It was expected that Rose would give up her life, give up the person she was, give up so many of the things she loved to do, to go home and take care of her parents as their health declined. The exact same thing was expected of me when my beloved grandfather's health declined. I understood her love for her parents, her feelings of guilt and of being ripped in two.

A Wilder Rose succeeds beautifully on so many levels: as a social history of the times, as the story of the collaboration of two dissimilar women to create one of the most beloved series of books in America, and as the story of a woman trying to uphold her familial obligations while being true to herself. It's a book that I found hard to put down, and it's a book that's made me see that Rose Wilder Lane deserves to be given credit for all the work she did in creating those little houses.

A Wilder Rose: Rose Wilder Lane, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Their Little Houses 

by Susan Wittig Albert

ISBN: 9780989203500

Persevero Press © 2013

Paperback, 288 pages

Rating: A

Source: the author

Scene of the Crime with Author Susan Wittig Albert!

This week's featured author is undoubtedly known to many of you. Susan Wittig Albert has written up a storm during her career: the China Bayles mystery series, the Cottage Tales books featuring Beatrix Potter, the Darling Dahlias series set in 1930s Alabama, and twelve books written under the joint pseudonym of Robin Paige with her husband Bill. Whew!

And that's not all because her latest book is about to be released. A Wilder Rose is all about the collaboration between Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, in creating the beloved "Little House" books. If you stop by Kittling: Books tomorrow-- the day of its release-- you'll be able to read my review. As a very young reader, I turned to those Little House books after devouring all of Thornton Burgess's, so I was thrilled to be able to read A Wilder Rose.

Susan Wittig Albert

You know me... I love to do a bit of research, and here are some links I've found so that you can learn even more about this talented writer:

Susan's website

Susan's blog

Her China Bayles books

Her Cottage Tales books

Her Darling Dahlias books

More on A Wilder Rose

Susan on Facebook

Susan on Twitter

Susan on LibraryThing

Susan on Goodreads
Susan on Pinterest

Now let's get to the fun part-- the interview!

What was the very first book you remember reading and loving? What makes that book so special?

It was Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit! My mother read it to me so often that I knew the words by sight and sound and could “read” it to myself out loud, as I turned the pages. I’ve thought of that many times since, because Miss Potter became a character in a mystery that my husband Bill and I wrote for our Robin Paige series, Death at Bishop’s Keep (1996). A few years later, I began writing the Cottage Tales series, eight British village mysteries that told the story of her life from 1905 (when her first love died) to 1913, when she married her country solicitor and became Mrs. Heelis.





Outside of your writing and all associated commitments, what do you like to do in your free time?

I find my center here at Meadow Knoll, our 31 acres in the Texas Hill Country. I have a veggie garden, herbs and flowers; a small laying flock (occasionally I raise a flock of meat birds for the freezer); a cow; and 2 dogs and a cat. I’m also a fiber fanatic: I love working with wool, from fleece to yarn—spinning, dyeing, weaving, knitting. I love needlepoint and cross-stich too. Keeps me out of trouble!


If I were to visit your hometown, where would you recommend that I go? (I like seeing and doing things that aren't in all the guide books.) 

My hometown—let’s see, that would be Danville, Illinois. We lived on a farm outside Danville when I was growing up. I know you like books: how about the Carnegie Library. It’s a war museum now--not sure that’s a good use of that beautiful old building. But I spent so many wonderful hours in the children’s library, basement, lower right in the photo. I can still smell those books!


You have total control over casting a movie based on your life. Which actor would you cast as you?

Kathy Bates

Oh, Kathy Bates! I adore her, especially in Dolores Claiborne, which is a fantastic film. And of course, Fried Green Tomatoes. She’s funnier than I am, which is a good thing. I’m way too serious.



Who is your favorite recurring character in crime fiction?

Oh, hey, who do you think? China Bayles! But next to her, there’s Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch. And Virgil Flowers (John Sandford). Love ’em both. Tough guys, smart cops, with hearts.



If you could have in your possession one signed first edition of any book in the world, which book would that be? Why that particular book?

Another easy one. John Gerard’s Great Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes, 1597, illustrated with woodblocks by Jacobus Theodorus Tabernaemontanus (wouldn’t you hate to have a name like that?). But I’ll have to be content with digital images. The book is priceless.


How did you celebrate when you first heard you were to be published?

I was at my desk at Southwest Texas State University in 1983 when I got a phone call from a YA editor at Bantam. She said (and I quote—it’s graven on my memory): “You’re not going to believe this, but I’m buying your book.” She had picked it off the slush pile—I was too dumb to know I needed an agent.


Name one thing on your Bucket List.

Aw, gee—just one? Attend the Hollywood premier of A Wilder Rose. Wouldn’t that be amazing?


You've just received a $100 gift card to the bookstore of your choice. Which bookstore are you making a bee-line for?  

Murder by the Book, in Houston. They have hosted me every year (often several times a year!) since 1992. I absolutely love those guys, and I always spend way too much money when I go there.

Available October 1!

Thank you so much for spending this time with us, Susan. It was a pleasure to be able to get to know you a little better! This interview reminds me that I have a "Darling Dahlias" and a "Robin Paige" waiting for me on my to-be-read shelves, and as a fellow needlepoint enthusiast, I made note of the American Quilt Collection you  mention on your blog.

May your book sales do nothing but increase!

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Don't forget to stop by tomorrow for my review of A Wilder Rose!