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Domestic disturbance

othing is as it seems in the compulsive new tale from bestselling Irish novelist and screenwriter Jo Spain. (Quercus, $34.99) opens with Erin Kennedy waking early on a Tuesday morning to sea air and sex with Danny, her detective husband, in their apartment on New York’s Long Island. An Irishwoman abroad, putting distance

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