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Let’s dive back inside the pages of these award-nominated books, starting with some of the fiction titles.

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These mysterious local stories will draw you in.

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Setting, style and story combine to pull readers in

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What Kills Good Men
by David Hood
$21.95, paperback, 296 pp.
Nimbus Publishing, September 2015

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