Harlequin Mira Mystery and Suspense Titles for March 2009

eHarlequin.com has announced the March 2009 titles for their Mira imprint, the brightest stars in fiction in women's fiction. From all titles available, we've only listed those that are mystery, thriller, or suspense on this page. To purchase any of the books below, click on the book title or the book cover. (Previous months titles can be found on the backlist page.)

Betrayals by Carla Neggers
Non-series

Rebecca Blackburn caught a glimpse of the famed Jupiter Stones as a small child. Unaware of their significance, she forgot about them -- until she discovered the priceless, long-missing gems were the key to a deadly chain of events spanning thirty years and three continents…sparing no one.

When a seemingly innocent photograph reignites one man's simmering desire for vengeance, Rebecca turns to Jared Sloan, the love she lost to tragedy and scandal. His own life has changed forever because of the secrets buried deep by their two families.

Their relentless quest for the truth will dredge up bitter memories and shocking revelations of misplaced loyalty, dangerous pride and naked ambition … and they will stop at nothing to expose a cold-blooded killer.

The Whispering Room by Amanda Stevens
Non-series

Work is a welcome refuge for New Orleans homicide detective Evangeline Theroux. Feeling suffocated by her new baby, in whose eyes she sees only her dead husband, she throws herself into a high-profile murder case.

Reclusive writer Lena Saunders offers Evangeline a provocative theory about the crime: it is the work of a lunatic vigilante. Lena spins the sordid story of Ruth and Rebecca Lemay, whose mother brutally murdered her male children in an insane effort to root out an 'evil' gene. The girls survived and grew to adulthood -- but one is carrying on her mother's grisly work.

When the case takes a terrifyingly personal turn, Evangeline's whole life will depend on a crucial, impossible choice: the lesser of two evils.

Silent on the Moor by Deanna Raybourn
A Lady Julia Gray Mystery (3rd in series)

Despite his admonitions to stay away, Lady Julia arrives in Yorkshire to find Brisbane as remote and maddeningly attractive as ever. Cloistered together, they share the moldering house with the proud but impoverished remnants of an ancient family -- the sort that keeps their bloodline pure and their secrets close. Lady Allenby and her daughters, dependent upon Brisbane and devastated by their fall in society, seem adrift on the moor winds, powerless to change their fortunes. But poison does not discriminate between classes.

A mystery unfolds from the rotten heart of Grimsgrave, one Lady Julia may have to solve alone, as Brisbane appears inextricably tangled in its heinous twists and turns. But blood will out, and before spring touches the craggy northern landscape, Lady Julia will have uncovered a Gypsy witch, a dark rider and a long-buried legacy of malevolence and evil.

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie by Suzann Ledbetter
Non-series

Private investigator Jack McPhee has a two-word business philosophy: no partners. Rules are allegedly made to be broken, but Jack didn't expect that a contract to nab the so-called Calendar Burglar would force him to team up with a ten-pound, hyperactive Maltese.

Or that as McPhee Investigations goes to the dogs, he'd fall deeply in-like with Dina Wexler, an undertall groomer, whose definition of a P.I. comes from watching w-a-a-y too many detective shows.

Or that his absolutely genius idea to catch a thief would make him the prime -- and only -- suspect in a cold-blooded, diabolical homicide.

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Harlequin Worldwide Mystery Titles for March 2009

eHarlequin.com has announced the March 2009 titles for their Worldwide imprint, your partner in crime. Amateur sleuths, traditional cozies, police procedurals and private-eye fiction, written by award-winning authors. To purchase any of the books below, click on the book title or the book cover. (Previous months titles can be found on the backlist page.)

Of All Sad Words by Bill Crider
A Sheriff Dan Rhodes Mystery (15th in series)

What are the Crawford brothers cooking up in their trailer in the middle of Blacklin County? Sheriff Dan Rhodes receives a complaint that it's meth, a growing menace in the East Texas woods, and a likely culprit when the trailer explodes and one of the siblings is found dead.

To his surprise, Rhodes discovers a still with a fresh batch of moonshine, and clear evidence the explosion was no accident. And he's not buying the surviving brother's innocence act.

But the crime wave is just beginning. Radical newcomers with decidedly controversial politics fan the flames, as do trails of a drug ring and possible vigilantes enrolling as students in Rhodes's own political headache, the Citizens' Sheriff's Academy. Another body, another hooch operation and a whiny county commissioner all add up to a mystery that will test Rhodes's cool head and unfailing humor to their limits.

Flawed by Jo Bannister
A Brodie Farrell Mystery (7th in series)

There is nothing as constant as change, a reality that seems to descend with a heavy hand when Brodie Farrell, newly single and unexpectedly pregnant, ponders the fate of her one-woman detective agency, Looking for Something.

Her loyal best friend, mathematics teacher Daniel Hood, determinedly steps up to the plate, offering to do the legwork of the agency. And Brodie, with few options, accepts. But then Daniel becomes concerned about a badly bruised twelve-year-old boy and suspects that the father, an influential London attorney, is abusing him.

This leads to a bigger problem -- and a situation oddly linked to Brodie's former flame, Detective Superintendent Jack Deacon, as well as a mysterious criminal.

Murder at Wrightsville Beach by Ellen Elizabeth Hunter
A Wilmington NC Mystery with Ashley Wilkes (4th in series)

It's a sweltering late August in North Carolina, and historic preservationist Ashley Wilkes is ready to hit the beach -- after a quick business stop at an upscale art gallery owned by friend Valentine Russo. Inside the cool, elegant storefront, she finds Val dead at her desk, a bullet in her head, and the gallery walls bare of artwork.

The murderer follows Ashley to the beach house, where assorted suspicious houseguests, a bizarre bonfire and late-night break-ins paint a picture of art thieves, bad blood and dark secrets. When the lifeless body of Ashley's prime suspect washes ashore, she realizes she has figured out enough to make a killer determined to send her packing, permanently.

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The Wall Street Journal Interviews Robert B. Parker

Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal published a Q&A with mystery novelist Robert B. Parker. The 8th book in the Jesse Stone series, Night and Day, was published this week and is the author's 58th book to date. [MBN note: The 5th made-for-television movie based on the Paradise (MA) police chief, Jesse Stone: Thin Ice, airs tonight on CBS at 9 PM.]

Parker may be best known for his long-running Spenser mysteries, the first of which was published in 1974, with the 37th book coming out this fall (The Professional). In addition to the Jesse Stone series, he is also the author of the Sunny Randall mystery series, an original Phillip Marlowe novel, and several others. Later this spring he brings out a new novel for young adults introducing young Spenser titled Chasing the Bear. At 76, Parker seems as active as ever.

In the interview, it's interesting to note that Parker doesn't think of himself as a genre novelist. "I think of myself as a person writing novels about people involved with crime," he says. "It's all about the limits of your imagination and the limit of your skill."

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Mystery Book Review: A Dead Man in Barcelona by Michael Pearce

Mysterious Reviews, mysteries reviewed by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, is publishing a new review of A Dead Man in Barcelona by Michael Pearce. For our blog readers, we are printing it first here in advance of its publication on our website.

A Dead Man in Barcelona by Michael Pearce
A Seymour of Scotland Yard Mystery

Soho Constable (Hardcover)
ISBN-10: 1-56947-537-7 (1569475377)
ISBN-13: 978-1-56947-537-9 (9781569475379)
Publication Date: December 2008
List Price: $25.00

Review: Sandor Seymour of the Special Branch of Scotland Yard investigates a cold case, the mysterious death of an Englishman some two years previous, in A Dead Man in Barcelona, the fifth mystery in this series by Michael Pearce.

Sam Lockhart, a businessman based in Gibraltar, had been arrested as part of a general crack-down by the Spanish government during what was popularly known as "Tragic Week", a week in mid-summer 1909 when conscripts from Catalonia were ordered to fight a war in Spanish Morocco but rioted instead. "And this man Lockhart was mixed up in it?" asks the Deputy Commissioner. "Apparently," replies Seymour. "It sounds even less our kind of thing," says the Deputy Commissioner. "In fact, it doesn't sound our kind of thing at all." It turns out the man was poisoned in his cell, murdered by any other name. The Spanish authorities, years later, still haven't issued their official report. "But two years ... when is the report expected?" asks Seymour. "Soon," the prison governor replies, "Soon." Still, Seymour jumps at the chance to investigate, if not for truly altruistic reasons. For it is in Barcelona that he arranges to meet Chantale, the woman he intends to marry.

At scarcely 200 pages, A Dead Man in Barcelona is a mystery of modest length, yet it is filled with rich details of the period and place. But this is a hallmark of the books in this series, where the reader is transported back in time and immersed in the events being investigated by Seymour. More driven by character than plot, the narrative nonetheless introduces several potential lines of inquiry for Seymour to explore. In the end, he says, "The difficult thing for me was to distance myself from everyone's suggestions. Everyone thought they knew the answer and was eager to give it to me. Before they had been asked the questions."

A Dead Man in Barcelona is a solid entry in this series that, although comparable in many ways to the author's mysteries featuring the Mamur Zapt, continues to establish its own unique identity.

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Synopsis (from the publisher): Barcelona, 1912, a city still recovering from the dramatic incidents of the so-called "Tragic Week" when Catalonian conscripts bound for the unpopular war in Spanish Morocco had rebelled at the city's dockside against the royalist forces. In the fighting, many were killed, and afterward, even more imprisoned, including an Englishman, who was later found dead in his cell.

The dead man had been a prominent businessman in Gibraltar, so what was he doing in Barcelona? And how did he really meet his end, murdered in a prison cell? The case, in Gibraltar's view, cries out for investigation -- and by someone independent of the Spanish authorities. So Scotland Yard dispatches Seymour of the Special Branch.

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Games of Mystery: The Serpent of Isis, New at Big Fish Games

Games of Mystery, your source for mystery-themed electronic and board games, parties for kids and adults, and mystery getaway vacations, is pleased to announce the availability of a new mystery game from Big Fish Games released today. You can find out more about these games by visiting our Mystery Games: Big Fish Download Games page or by clicking on the links provided below.

In the early 1900's the legendary artwork The Serpent of Isis was stolen at the grand opening of the Egypt Museum in Cairo. Originally discovered by your grandfather, you have been searching for the missing masterpiece your entire adult life. One day, a mysterious letter arrives indicating that the person who possesses the artwork can be found on board the Mont Palu Express. Catch the train and solve the ancient mystery!

The Serpent of Isis, a Big Fish Games exclusive, may be downloaded and purchased for as little as $6.99 with the Big Fish Game Club Jumbo Pack. A demonstration version (100.97 MB) may be downloaded and played for one hour for free. The Serpent of Isis Strategy Guide is also available.

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Mystery Book Review: Angel Food and Devil Dogs by Liz Bradbury

Mysterious Reviews, mysteries reviewed by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, is publishing a new review of Angel Food and Devil Dogs by Liz Bradbury. For our blog readers, we are printing it first here in advance of its publication on our website.

Angel Food and Devil Dogs by Liz Bradbury
A Maggie Gale Mystery

Boudica Publishing (Trade Paperback)
ISBN-10: 0-9800549-1-5 (0980054915)
ISBN-13: 978-0-9800549-1-0 (9780980054910)
Publication Date: May 2008
List Price: $14.95

Review: Liz Bradbury introduces former police officer, now private investigator Maggie Gale as she looks into the suspicious suicide of a college professor in Angel Food and Devil Dogs.

Dr. Carl Rasmus, a blind music history professor at the local college, killed himself by jumping over a balcony from the top of a 6-story building. He left a suicide note indicating his intention, and the police are satisfied with closing the case. But the college's new president, Dr. Max Bouchet, isn't convinced. He hires Maggie to look more closely into the circumstances surrounding his suicide. Maggie tends to agree with Bouchet's assessment. When she visits the building's rooftop, she ponders, "How did he even know there was a balcony? Where did he get the key [to the locked French doors]? How did he know there wasn't a huge awning under the balcony that would break his fall? The whole thing seemed implausible. Killing a blind man wouldn't have been that hard to do ... but Carl had left a suicide note in a locked room ... and that I couldn't explain."

Angel Food and Devil Dogs has basically a locked room, impossible crime scenario, always a promising premise for a mystery. And for the most part, the story delivers on that promise. Maggie Gale is a multi-dimensional character who takes her job and her relationships seriously. Being a former cop, she understands the investigative process and she steps right in when a life is in jeopardy, endangering herself as well. Her developing relationship with a college faculty member, Dr. Kathryn Anthony, is sweetly told, and even better for the book, is an integral part of the mystery. The clues to the explanation behind Rasmus' suicide are peppered throughout, and Maggie cleverly pieces them together to discover the who, how, and why. All well and good.

A few things don't work, however. The opening investigation involving Mickey is a distraction, sets the wrong tone for the book, and really has no place in the story. The dialog is frequently stilted and the narrative at times uneven. A more critical eye towards editing would have helped here. But most disappointing is the inclusion of homophobia into the story. It seems every gay or lesbian novelist seems obliged to have one or more homophobic characters, or to make homophobia the motive for a crime. It's a tired and overworked cliché for this genre. Angel Food and Devil Dogs is a strong enough mystery, with a compelling well-developed plot and sufficiently interesting suspects with credible motives, that the homophobic references in the end are not only unnecessary, they actually weaken the book. The author should have had more confidence in her story, and her readers, and omitted them.

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Synopsis (from the publisher): As private detective Maggie Gale works to prove the innocence of a mentally challenged pinball wizard who's been arrested for murder, she is called to college president Max Bouchet's office to discuss the suspicious suicide of a gay professor. There, Maggie shakes hands with the attractive Dr. Kathryn Anthony, who smiles at her with a faint but unmistakable touch of lust. Maggie is hired and meets a collection of quirky suspects, one of whom might just be a murderer. Maggie's humorous and caring friends and family support her as she works against escalating danger, and toward escalating romantic encounters with Kathryn. Will Maggie untangle both mysteries? Will the sexual tension swirling around Maggie and Kathryn pull them together? Or will the murderer target Maggie before she gets either chance?

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Hudson Entertainment Announces Miami Law for Nintendo DS

Hudson Entertainment announced in a press release yesterday that it intends to transform gamers into crime solvers in Miami Law for the Nintendo DS.

Miami Law is an action-adventure game packed with all of the ingredients of a prime-time TV show: an intricate storyline with a shadowy terrorist conspiracy, furious shoot-outs in abandoned warehouses, challenging crime-scene detective work and more. Players will have many opportunities to choose their path and change the story -- either as the intense Law Martin from the Miami PD or the brainy Sara Starling from the FBI. Players will be presented with different challenges depending on which character they pick -- playing as Sara will feature a puzzle-based, mystery solving element, whereas playing with Law will thrust the player into the action, often into car chases or shoot-outs where taking out the bad guys is the only way to get results.

Miami Law is scheduled for release in June 2009.

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Looking Twice: An Interview with Andrew Gross

Andrew Gross' third thriller, and the second to feature Connecticut police detective Ty Hauck, Don't Look Twice, is being published next week by William Morrow. Mystery Books News is pleased to post an interview with the author provided by the publisher in which Andrew talks about the book, a sequel to The Dark Tide (which we reviewed last year, calling it "a must-read for thriller fans and those looking for high-stakes adventure"; read our review at Mysterious Reviews: The Dark Tide by Andrew Gross).

Looking Twice: An Interview with Andrew Gross

One of the strongest appeals that readers often cite about your writing are the complex web of family ties and family relationship dynamics that weave throughout your stories. In Don't Look Twice, you explore the bond between two brothers -- as well as the parent/child relationship (across two sets of characters). What draws you to focus so deeply on family in your novels? Why do you think that quality is so compelling for readers?

Andrew Gross
photo courtesy William Morrow

It’s never my precise goal to write “crime” novels, but to write stories about compelling, human situations in which a crime, or some other world-shattering event, takes place. My stories are rooted in the drama of broken trust, of calm disturbed, when something a person counts on for sure turns out to be false. The family unit is the most universal one where a rupture can feel the most traumatic. I know I’m not exactly the first to work with this material. Our most compelling stories and myths are tales of families in conflict going all the way back to Genesis.

Your previous novel, The Dark Tide, literally started with a bang. We're sensing a precedent, especially as we begin reading Don't Look Twice and our heart is in our throats in the first scene. How important is the opening scene of your novels? What do you think it has to do to be successful? How do you come up with them?

Well, call it my Patterson training, but I believe in hooking the reader in conflict right from the start. It doesn’t always have to be a bomb or a shooting. In The Blue Zone, it was a happy, prosperous family torn apart by a father’s arrest. My goal is to make the reader care about the character quickly -- in a few pages -- and then rip the rug out from under that security. Don't Look Twice is different, in that the hero and his daughter are thrust into the middle of that action from the starting bell. I think readers will care for Hauck because of the way he handles himself and protects his daughter as the bullets are flying.

Don't Look Twice
by Andrew Gross

This is set in a relatively small town, mostly in Greenwich, Connecticut ... but it has global implications, from New York City to Asia to the Middle East. Can you tell us a little about the way corporate misdeeds can have massive, global, political repercussions?

Greenwich is a perfect “small” place with universal dimensions. It is the home to hedge fund barons and powerful CEOs. Yet, as I like to say, it’s a town of yoga moms and dads who cheer their kids’ teams from the sidelines. So what happens in the “big” world filters down to the small world pretty quickly. My books are also about conspiracies, and ultimately, the people behind them, who are not bigger than life, or twisted, evil doers, but people we all might know, and people for whom, greed, fraud, and deceit are part of the corporate misdeeds. People who have been tilted off the moral plane by the evil in life.

Yet the large scale issues you write of also have ramifications that feel so intimate, life-changing, and personal -- tell us how you bring it back home to your readers?

Like I said, these “macro events” are only the public arena for the drama that’s really playing out behind the scenes. For me, the seeds of corruption and cover-up that pit two brothers against each other, as in Don't Look Twice, are much more compelling than what happens in the boardrooms and statehouses. The death of Hauck’s closest comrade is the true cost of deceit, not the profits or loss.

How much of the scandal and intrigue that you write about in Don't Look Twice is based on fact, and how much is conjecture?

I live more in that hedge fund world than I do artists and writers, around here, so a lot of what goes on in my books are threads that I pick up. I don’t think of myself as a “topical” writer, meaning I’m not combing the headlines for ideas, but The Dark Tide is rooted in the question, “what happens when you invest billions for some of the most dangerous people in the world---and then you lose every penny?” In this post-Madoff world, just last month, the front page of the New York Times reported on an Austrian fund manager who had to go underground to save himself from that very fear. And Don't Look Twice ends up in a military corruption scheme that will also be familiar to those who watch the news.

Ty Hauck, the Greenwich cop who is the "white knight" of both The Dark Tide and Don't Look Twice, finds himself in some unlikely places (once again) -- such as in the pit boss' lair in one of Connecticut's native casinos. What motivates you to put him in such high-stakes situations?

The nature of Hauck’s worthiness is the question of whether he can go up against the modern day “fortresses” of people far more powerful and connected than he is. Some of what he does is literally in defense of “the damsel.” And some of it is simply the dogged, age old mission for the truth. He is a romantic, and is rooted in the trenches. Each book seems to have him asking, am I capable? Am I the person to do this? Yet the true triumph is always when Hauck outwits and defeats forces that he cannot even imagine bringing down.

What's next for Hauck ... and for Andy Gross?

To me, it was hard to set these books around New York City and Greenwich and not deal with the financial meltdown. So the next book pits Hauck in the middle of a group of conspirators who use vulnerable fund managers to bring an already teetering economy to its knees. For me, the struggle is for the whole story not to be too gloomy -- especially when it deals with the personal side of what’s going on today -- because I don’t believe in gloomy, especially for escapist fiction. But again, I think Hauck will find himself on a similar quest.

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Many thanks to William Morrow for giving us the opportunity to publish this interview with Andrew Gross.

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Mystery Bestsellers for February 27, 2009

A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending February 27, 2009 has been posted on the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books website.

No change in the top 2 bestselling mysteries this week with John Grisham and James Patterson retaining the top two positions this week with their respective thrillers, The Associate and Run for Your Life. And Jacqueline Winspear's latest Maisie Dobbs mystery, Among the Mad, takes the biggest jump this week, moving into 4th position.

Debuting in the 9th position this week is Promises In Death, the 28th mystery in the Eve Dallas series by J. D. Robb. Amaryllis Coltraine may have recently transferred to the New York City police force from Atlanta, but she's been a cop long enough to know how to defend herself against an assailant. When she's taken down just steps away from her apartment, killed with her own weapon, for Eve the victim isn't just "one of us." Dallas's friend Chief Medical Examiner Morris had started a serious relationship with Coltraine, and from all accounts the two were headed for a happy future together. But someone has put an end to all that. After breaking the news to Morris, Eve starts questioning everyone, including Coltraine's squad, informants, and neighbors, while Eve's husband, Roarke, digs into computer data on the dead woman's life back in Atlanta. To their shock, they discover a connection between this case and their own painful, shadowy pasts. The truth will need to be uncovered one layer at a time, starting with the box that arrives at Cop Central addressed to Eve, containing Coltraine's guns, badge, and a note from her killer: "You can have them back. Maybe someday soon, I'll be sending yours to somebody else." But Eve Dallas doesn't take too kindly to personal threats, and she is going to break this case, whatever it takes. And that's a promise. Publishers Weekly says that "Robb (aka Nora Roberts) has a real gift for keeping this long-running thriller series fresh."

Also new this week in 12th position is the 8th Jesse Stone mystery, Night and Day by Robert B. Parker. Police chief Jesse Stone has received his share of unusual calls, but none can top the one from the local junior high school. When reports of lewd conduct by the school’s principal, Betsy Ingersoll, filter into the station, Jesse is faced with a particularly delicate situation. Jesse, of course, would like nothing more than to see the prim, peculiar Ingersoll punished. But Betsy Ingersoll is married to the managing partner of the biggest law firm in the state, and Jay Ingersoll wants the matter buried. And he is used to getting what he wants. At the same time, the women of Paradise are being threatened by a tormented voyeur, dubbed “The Night Hawk,” who’s been scouring suburban neighborhoods as evening falls. Initially he’s content to simply peer through windows, but as pressure builds, he becomes more reckless, entering homes, forcing his victims to strip at gunpoint, then photographing them at their most vulnerable. And according to the notes he’s sending, he’s not satisfied to stop there. It’s up to Jesse to catch the Night Hawk, before it’s too late. [MBN note: The 5th Jesse Stone made-for-television movie, Jesse Stone: Thin Ice, airs this Sunday, March 1st at 9 PM ET on CBS.]

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eHarlequin's Free Book Friday: Deadly Night by Heather Graham

eHarlequin.com gives you another reason to love Fridays! Buy two or more books on any Friday and they'll give you their weekly featured book absolutely free! That's right, every Friday, enjoy a featured free book with the purchase of two or more other titles! (Your free book will automatically be added to your cart.)

This Friday's free book (02/27/2009):

Deadly Night by Heather Graham
The Flynn Brothers Trilogy (Book 1)

The Flynn brothers have inherited more than a New Orleans plantation. They've inherited a ghostly presence … and a long-kept secret.

Aidan Flynn, a private investigator and eldest of the Flynn brothers, scoffs at the haunted-house rumors -- especially since Kendall Montgomery, a tarot card reader who has been living in the mansion, is the one to tell him the tale of a woman in white. But when he finds a human bone on the grounds and another by the river, Aidan delves into the dark history of the Flynn plantation.

Forced together to uncover the truth, Aidan and Kendall realize that a serial killer whose victims seem to vanish into thin air has long been at work … and that their own fates are about to be sealed forever unless they believe in the unbelievable.

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