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Reporter Eddie Bourque chases stories for the Lowell Empire, a second-class rag in a Massachusetts city of first‑generation immigrants and bare‑knuckled politicians.

Elaine Benson, a successful novelist who jettisoned her career over an unreliable screenwriter, is now divorced, broke, and come to a “primitive, untamed northern forest” on Lake Muskoka to intervi

Alan Saxon, pro golfer and amateur sleuth, has hit rock bottom.

The World Cup, which arrives in June, has ripple effects on all South Africa’s neighbors.

Charley Fairfax—heiress, theatrical producer, newlywed—has every intention of living happily ever after with her tall, dark, and sarcastic husband Jack.

Waldo Templeton was, at best, a mediocre organist.

Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake.

Nothing ever happens in Benteen County, Kansas.

Hannah Dain, a skilled business lawyer, is on the verge of leaving her family’s law firm for a better job. But her plan is derailed when a real estate deal she’s put together suddenly goes bad.

Saint John wrote the apocalyptic book of Revelation over 1900 years ago in a cave on Greece’s eastern Aegean island of Patmos.

Spiky freelancer Theda Krakow has fallen on a bare patch. Changes at the newspaper have cut her regular assignments and magazine work is slim.

Sabrina Dunsweeney desperately needs a job.

Fifteen years ago a young girl by the name of Moonlight Smith went to her best friend Nicky Nowak’s house for a sleepover.

It’s the spring of 1913, and love is in bloom for Alice Tucker. Alice’s new beau, Walter Kelley, is handsome, popular, and wealthy. Everyone in Boynton, Oklahoma, likes him.

When one of her company falls ill on a return journey to Tyndal, Prioress Eleanor accepts lodging at a nearby manor.