Curiosity Didn't Kill the Cat (A Conan Flagg Mystery)

By M.K. Wren ,

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A widow who feels her husband's drowning was not accidental calls upon a former intelligence agent and private detective to uncover the truth

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I first met Wren's character, Conan Flagg when I was a teenager. I'd picked up this book in a secondhand bookshop and decided to give it a try. Even at that time, the book had been out for over ten years, so it was already a bit dated, but Wren's writing and plotting drew me. Set in a small seaside town in Oregon, this book contains a cast of quirky, unique characters that outshine any of the archaic references that make this book seem a bit out of date. You tend to forget that smoking in public is no…

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