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Lydia Leftcoast

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12. Bedside book: "The Gods of Gotham"--a mystery that

Wed Sep 26, 2012, 02:40 PM

Sep 2012

depicts the more squalid aspects of life in New York City in 1845. One of the first official New York cops encounters a little girl running hysterically down the street clad only in a blood-soaked nightgown.

Purse book: Killer's Island by Anna Jansson, a Swedish mystery in the "Maria Wern" series (viewers of MHz Worldview TV will know that name) about the interlocking lives of six people, the first of whom is Maria Wern, a policewoman who happens upon three grown men beating a teenage boy.

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