Art & Music

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  Bahama Burnout by Don Bruns
  

  For rock and roll writer Mick Sever, another story, another deadly island paradise is all in a day’s work. This time, Mick heads to Nassau, Bahamas, home of the legendary Highland Studio. Known for pumping out hits that burn up the charts, Highland is where the magic happens or rather, ...

  
  

  Bruns’s laid-back fifth mystery to feature Mick Sever (after 2008’s St. Bart’s Breakdown) takes the ...Publishers Weekly
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  The Charlestown Connection by Tom MacDonald
  

  Dermot Sparhawk, a former All American Boston College football hero, is stacking cans in a parish food pantry in Boston’s Charlestown, when his godfather, Jeepster Hennessey, shows up with a knife in his back and dies at Dermot’s feet. Once slated for a professional football career, now a recovering alcoholic, ...

  
  

  The Charlestown Connection is a crackling good read, finely paced and full of surprising twists.  Fast, ...Michael Palmer, New York Times best-selling author of A Heartbeat Away
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  Dark Rhapsody: Maggie O'Shea Mysteries #2 by Helaine Mario
  

  In 1945, an Austrian girl discovers a priceless Nazi treasure near a remote alpine lake and sets in motion a decades-old secret that will change lives for generations to come. Many years later, classical pianist Maggie O’Shea is preparing her return to the world of music. Instead, a nightmare of a ...

  
  

  From Manhattan and Washington to Vienna and Salzburg, Dark Rhapsody by Helaine Mario takes the ...Gayle Lynds, New York Times best-selling author of The Assassins
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  Firebird by Helaine Mario
  

  Firebird has it all—mystery, suspense, drama, politics, romance, and sensitivity. And added to that are vivid locations—Maine, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Russia—and an author that makes you feel like you are there. Now mix in rich characters with heroic bravery and devotion to family, friends, and country, and ...

  
  

  …fans of romantic thrillers will be enthralled. Publishers Weekly
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  Frame Up by John F Dobbyn
  

  After graduating from Harvard Law with his closest friend, John McKedrick, Michael Knight practices with the U.S. Attorney’s office and with a prestigious trial firm in Boston, then Michael and his mentor, the legendary trial attorney Lex Devlin, form Devlin & Knight to do criminal defense work, while John becomes ...

  
  

  FRAME UP is a twisted tale of mafia gangsters and international intrigue providing an in-depth ...The Big Thrill
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  High Stakes by John F Dobbyn
  

  Perfect for fans of Daniel Silva and Steve Berry. An authentic Stradivarius violin turns up in Romania. A Stradivarius is rare enough, but this one is even more special. It is thought to hold the code disclosing the location of a treasure hidden in the fifteenth century. The violin is ...

  
  

  John F. Dobbyn is a master storyteller, but a quality equally important to his fiction ...Janet Hutchings, Editor-in-Chief, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
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  The Knight & Devlin Collection by John F Dobbyn
  

  These five novels in the Knight and Devlin series prove the Perry Mason spirit is alive and well. From Chinatown and the brutal Tongs in Neon Dragon to international stolen art in Frame-Up, to the warring Boston Irish mob and Italian Mafia in Black Diamond, to the diamond trade in Sierra ...

  
  

  John F. Dobbyn’s thriller Fatal Odds does everything right: a nail-biting plot to keep you ...James Rollins, New York Times best-selling author of The Bone Labyrinth
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  The Leonardo Gulag by Kevin Doherty
  

  A journey into the sinister heart of Stalin’s regime of terror, where paranoia reigns and no one is safe Stalin’s Russia, 1950. Brilliant young artist Pasha Kalmenov is arrested and sent without trial to a forced-labor camp in the Arctic gulag. This is a camp like no other. Although conditions are ...

  
  

  [The Leonardo Gulag is] an extraordinary novel with a fresh and unique premise — one ...Steve Berry, New York Times best-selling author
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  The Lost Concerto by Helaine Mario
  

  A woman and her young son flee to a convent on a remote island off the Breton coast of France. Generations of seafarers have named the place de la Brume, or Fog Island. In a chapel high on a cliff, a tragic death occurs and a terrified child vanishes into ...

  
  

  Skeletons bang on closet doors, longing to be set free—and free they are in this ...Steve Berry, New York Times best-selling author of The Patriot Threat
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  The Mick Sever Music Trilogy by Don Bruns
  

  Grab your sunscreen! You’re in for a whirlwind, music-inspired, fun-filled trip to South Beach, Miami—then on to St. Barts and the Bahamas. Music columnist Mick Sever follows pop stars around the world, looking for a story—that’s his job. But he gets way more than he bargained for in these garden ...

  
  

  
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  Shadow Music by Helaine Mario
  

  2022 IPPY Gold Award and National Indie Excellence Award Winner Overcoming loss—finding the courage to move on—trying to stay alive Late in the Cold War, a young woman escapes from Communist Hungary, vanishing into the night with a priceless painting and a baby girl—setting events in motion from a decades-old secret that ...

  
  

  Mario has once again hit all the right notes with Shadow Music, drawing the reader ...Sandra Brown, New York Times best-selling author
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  South Beach Shakedown by Don Bruns
  

  Someone is about to make a killing in the music industry. Why would songwriting legend Gideon Pike mysteriously disappear just when he is about to turn a 30-year career into a multi-million dollar profit? Music columnist Mick Sever is back in Don Brun’s third suspense masterpiece.This time he’s looking for ...

  
  

  South Beach Shakedown is a glitzy high speed run from the back alleys to the ...New York Times Best-selling author Michael Connelly
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  St. Barts Breakdown by Don Bruns
  

  Rock and roll journalist Mick Sever is back with a new assignment: interview music legend Danny Murtz. Murtz’s walls are lined with platinum records, but his closet is full of skeletons. Known for producing an unbelievable string of hits, Murtz is also tied to a string of disappearances. Seems a ...

  
  

  a Caribbean thriller with a ring tone amazingly like the near-Caribbean thrillers of Tim Dorsey ...Booklist
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  Tie Die by Max Tomlinson
  

  Perfect for fans of Harlan Coben’s noir suspense Back in London’s swinging 60s, Steve Cook was teen idol number one. But that changed when a sixteen-year-old fan was found dead in his hotel room bed. Steve’s career came to a crashing halt after he was dumped by his record company and ...

  
  

  [In Tie Die, Tomlinson] deepens the character of his multi-layered lead, Colleen Hayes, an unlicensed ...Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
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