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raccoon

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17. Funny you'd mention Haines...I just started "Bonefire of the vanities." Found it in new fiction

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Mon Dec 3, 2012, 04:02 PM

Dec 2012

at my local library. I'd never heard of that series before. A few chapters into it, so far so good.

I prefer cozies now. I don't like my mysteries to be too graphic.

I really enjoyed Anne George's mysteries about two sisters who live in Birmingham, AL.

http://www.mysterynet.com/george/author.shtml Sadly, the author is dead.

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Funny you'd mention Haines...I just started "Bonefire of the vanities." Found it in new fiction raccoon Dec 2012 #17