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Behind the story of Salem’s Cipher with Jess Lourey

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Jess Lourey is the author of the outrageously funny Murder-by-Month mystery series. She’s also written a magical realism novel and has now turned her pen toward thrillers. Say hello to “Salem’s Cipher” and the mysterious world of cryptography. Lourey describes herself as someone who loves puzzles. “My brain cracks and pops like a mad dancer […]

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Bank Robbers app from the FBI helps track criminals

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Do you remember back to the days of the first iPhones? Apple had a commercial touting all of the apps available on the App Store. The commercial featured a catch marketing tagline, “There’s an app for that.” Guess what? The FBI can now say the same thing about catching bank robbers. They’ve just released a […]

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Friday Fotos – the clouds move in on trip to Iao Valley

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During our last trip to Maui, we decided to take a trip to Iao Valley. It had rained heavily the night before, but we didn’t realize how much rain had been coming down in this area until we turned onto the road to the valley. During the trip, the clouds were playing peek-a-boo with the mountains around […]

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Behind the story of Stripped Bare with Shannon Baker

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Shannon Baker is the author of the Nora Abbott mystery series, a fast-paced mix of Hopi Indian mysticism, environmental issues, and murder. With “Stripped Bare,” Baker is debuting her new Kate Fox series, which has been described as Longmire meets the Good Wife. A circuitous route led Baker to this series. The path involved a twenty-year […]

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Kelly Oliver is versatile — a fiction and nonfiction writer

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Kelly Oliver has written nonfiction extensively. Her projects include work on campus rape, reproductive technologies, women and the media, film noir, and Alfred Hitchcock. In this interview, the author of thirteen scholarly books and ten anthologies discusses a few of those projects and how they relate to her new fiction writing in the Jessica James […]

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Smarter in 14 days — the old scam remains strong

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Who doesn’t want to be smarter in 14 days? If there was a pill that would do the job, would you take it? My email box is bulging with promotions for drugs like Geniux, Neurocell, Adderin, and Synage. According to the emails, these miracle cures are capable of rapidly improving cognition. Let’s be clear: the premise […]

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Friday Fotos — Haleiwa Beach Park on a calm day

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It was a calm day when we visited Haleiwa Beach Park during our last trip to Oahu. It had been years since we’d been up to the North Shore, and we only had one day to explore. At the time, I was working on North Shore Nanny and needed a refresher on this little sleepy […]

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Review: The Girl Before by Rena Olsen

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The Girl Before — from the publisher In this powerful psychological suspense debut, when a woman’s life is shattered, she is faced with a devastating question: What if everything she thought was normal and good and true . . . wasn’t? Clara Lawson is torn from her life in an instant. Without warning, her home […]

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Review for With Love from the Inside by Angela Pisel

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From the publisher: Angela Pisel’s poignant debut explores the complex relationship between a mother and a daughter, and their quest to discover the truth and whether or not love can prevail—even from behind bars. Grace Bradshaw knows the exact minute she will die. On death row for murdering her infant son, her last breath will […]

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IRS phone call scam uses old tricks – new techniques

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If you thought the days of worrying about income tax were behind you, think again. On August 2, the IRS announced there has been an increase in telephone calls in which the caller claims to be an IRS agent.  The callers have also begun using robo-dialers to increase the number of people they reach in this IRS phone call […]

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