When Luc Deveraux’s grandfather has another heart attack, the old man wants Luc to come home to Bayou Chaveau, along with his wife and child, for an extended visit. The only problem is that Luc has been lying to his grandfather. He has no wife and no children that he knows of—and if he can’t produce them before his grandfather dies, he’ll be disinherited. He finds the solution in a 7-Eleven, in the form of down-on-her-luck Julie and her
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If you read a lot of mysteries (like I do), you might sometimes get the feeling that mystery writers are stuck in a rut. Their stories often seem to follow the same patterns—with the same characters, too. But the hero in Naomi Hirahara’s Blood Hina is anything but expected.
Mas Arai thinks that his best friend and fellow Hiroshima survivor, Haruo Mukai, is crazy when he decides to get remarried at 71. But Haruo seems so
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