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    Merrily WatkinsSeries

    series · 16 books · 1998

    completed

    About murder investigation.

    “‘The red soil and the long, wooded hills… the twisted houses with old bones of blackened oak.”

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    Lisa Tuttle · standalone novel · 2005

    Mythic fantasy, reflective in tone, about grief and loss and murder investigation.

    “Now he's a private investigator with an impressive track record.”

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    Jonathan Carroll · standalone novel · 1980

    About books and reading and identity, set in north america.

    “WorldCat: Schoolteacher Thomas Abbey, unsure son of a film star, doesn't know who he is or what he wants--in life, in love, or in his relationship with the strange and intense Saxony Gardner.”

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    Charles Williams · standalone novel · 1931

    Fantasy, eerie and mysterious in tone, about magical artifacts, set in contemporary and british isles.

    “Many Dimensions is the second of the novels of the supernatural by Charles Williams.”

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    Diana Wynne Jones · standalone novel · 1981

    Ghost stories, about amnesia and identity, set in countryside & village.

    “Set in the English countryside, it features a teenage ghost who is one of four sisters, and observes the family, unable to remember which one she is.”

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    Brunonia Barry · standalone novel · 2007

    Literary & general, about witches, set in north america.

    “A crucial plot device is the Ipswich lace that the protagonist's family would make.”

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