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July 2011

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published July 2011.

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Requiem for a Gypsy

by Elizabeth Breau

When police commander Jana Matinova arrives at a lavish birthday party for financier Oto Bogan she glimpses a notorious killer exiting only moments before gunfire erupts. Jana’s boss dismisses her siting of Makine, mostly because the... Read More

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Hotel Bosphorus

by Trina Carter

"Hotel Bosphorus" is light and flaky as Turkish baklava. It features a heroine who is “not the sort of woman to spend [her] time gazing at wrinkles and cellulite” when there is a crime to solve. A foreign film director has been... Read More

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The Oriental Wife

by Hilary Daninhirsch

This intriguing novel, set against the backdrop of pre- and post-World War II, centers around two German Jewish immigrants. Louisa, Rolf, and Rolf’s cousin Otto were childhood friends in Germany. A variety of circumstances lands the... Read More

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Once Upon a River

by Jessica Henkle

“The Stark River flowed around the oxbow at Murrayville the way blood flowed through Margo Crane’s heart.” These lines begin Bonnie Jo Campbell’s stunning new novel, Once Upon a River, a story whose seemingly simple rhythm is as... Read More