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It’s the summer of 1950 and in the big mansion in Buckshaw, the young Flavia de Luce, a budding chemist who is passionate about poison, is fascinated by a series of unexplained events: a dead bird stands in front of the door, ‘ a seal strange to its beak. A few hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber field watching him as he takes his last breath.

For Flavia, upset as well as happy, life begins in all seriousness when the murder arrives in Buckshaw. I wish I could say I was scared, but I wasn’t. The opposite. It was by far the most interesting thing that ever happened to me in my life.

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The secrets hidden in a dilapidated roadside motel fascinate the young girl, as her aunt did thirty-five years ago, in this new novel about the atmospheric tension of the national bookseller and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.

Upstate NY, 1982. Every city like Fell, New York, has a place like the Sun Down Motel. Some customers come from the city and move to a better place. Some locals are trying to hide their secrets. Vad Delaney works a night carrier to pay for a move to New York. But something is wrong with the Sun down, and soon he is set to reveal all the hidden secrets

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November 15, 1959 In the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Culter family were brutally killed by a rifle held a few inches from their faces. There was no obvious motive for the crime and almost no evidence.

When Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and investigation that led to the arrest, trial and execution of murderers, he generates both hypnotic excitement and fantastic empathy. At the center of his research is the immoral young murderers Perry Smith and Dick Hickok, attracted by Hood, proving to be judgmental, yet completely frightening people. In Cold Blood is a groundbreaking work of modern prose, an extraordinary synthesis of journalistic skills and an extremely provocative story.