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Limelight Book Reviews

A Theater For Dreamers by Polly Samson

The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson

The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths (Dr Ruth Galloway #14)

The Whole Town's Talking by Fannie Flagg

The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village by Joanna Nell

The Joy and Light Bus Company (No.1 Ladies Detective Agency #22) by Alexander McCall Smith

The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey

The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

The Man Who Died Twice (The Thursday Murder Club Mysteries #2) by Richard Osmond

I'd Kill For That by Marcia Talley

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce #1) by Alan Bradley

Mr Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe

Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan

Still Life by Sarah Winman

Over My Dead Body by Dave Warner

A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions by Kerry Greenwood

Daylight by David Baldacci

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osmond

Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce

The Eighth Life (for Brilka) by Nino Haratischvili

The Dressmaker's Secret by Rosalie Ham

Death in Daylesford by Kerry Greenwood

2020 Year In Review: Award Winners

2020 Year in Review: SMSA's Top 10 Mysteries

2020 In Review: SMSA's Top 10 Books

Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike #5) by Robert Galbraith

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