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Leslie Budewitz Author Of Lavender Lies Bleeding

From Leslie's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Leslie Budewitz Why Leslie loves this book

The River We Remember is emotionally engaging, perfectly paced, and beautifully written. A complex, credible plot. Excellent character development. As with his earlier standalone novels, Ordinary Grace and This Tender Land, and his series prequel, Lightning Strike, Krueger does a terrific job portraying the young boys, Scott and Del, on the cusp of understanding, though they are secondary characters, unlike the boys in the earlier books.

By William Kent Krueger ,

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12 authors picked The River We Remember as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh fuel on old grievances in this dazzling standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the "expansive, atmospheric American saga" (Entertainment Weekly) This Tender Land.

On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern,…


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The Rosewood Penny by J.S. Fields,

2023 Queer Indie Award Nominee!

The dragons of Yuro have been hunted to extinction.

On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictive…

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Leslie Budewitz Author Of Lavender Lies Bleeding

From Leslie's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Leslie's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Leslie Budewitz Why Leslie loves this book

The Case of the Missing Maid by Rob Osler is a delightful start to a new series. It's 1898 in Chicago, and 21 year old Harriet Morrow needs to find a way to support herself and her 16 y.o. brother after the deaths of their parents. She's hired as the first "lady operative" in a detective agency and assigned a nuisance case, interviewing the owner's neighbor in what no one thinks is a serious matter. Ah, but it is, and Harriet is quickly plunged into mysteries and secrets within Chicago's Polish community, its queer community, and the agency itself. So interesting to learn more about them all, wrapped inside a mystery with an unpredictable resolution that makes perfect sense.

By Rob Osler ,

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1 author picked The Case of the Missing Maid as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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The acclaimed author of the Anthony, Agatha, Macavity, and Lefty Award-nominated Devil's Chew Toy delights with the first in a new historical mystery series set in turn-of-the-20th-century Chicago, as America is entering its Progressive Era and Harriet Morrow, a bike-riding, trousers-wearing lesbian, has just begun her new job as the first female detective at the Windy City's Prescott Agency...

Chicago, 1898. Rough-around-the-edges Harriet Morrow has long been drawn to the idea of whizzing around the city on her bicycle as a professional detective, solving crimes for a living without having to take a husband. Just twenty-one with a younger brother…


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