The Widow's Son (21 page)

Authors: Thomas Shawver

For the Sunday dinner gang.

Acknowledgments

With deepest gratitude to my agent, Victoria Skurnick, and my editor, Kate Miciak, for their enthusiasm, kind wit, and good counsel. XO!

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The Dirty Book Murder

Left Turn at Paradise

The Widow's Son

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is a former marine officer, lawyer, and journalist with American City Business Journals. An avid rugby player and international traveler, Shawver owned Bloomsday Books, an antiquarian bookstore in Kansas City. He's at work on the fourth Rare Book mystery.