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Claire Wright likes to play other people. A struggling British actress, in New York without a green card, Claire needs work. She takes the only part she's offered: as a decoy for a firm of divorce lawyers, hired to entrap straying husbands, catching them on tape with their seductive propositions. The rules? Never hit on them directly. Make it clear you're available, but they have to proposition you, not the other way around. The firm is after evidence, not entrapment.

In Cross Township, a small college town paralyzed by a string of mysterious shootings, the only one with the courage to stand against the darkness is John Pilate: a weary survivor of a recent attempt on his life. With no support but his own faith in himself, Pilate must join forces with the law to discover who is terrorizing his town in his name and put an end to it. Everything he believes in is at stake in Pilate's Faith, the eighth thrilling installment of the beloved John Pilate Mysteries series.

Anthony Berkeley was a journalist, novelist, and founding member of the Detection Club - whose members included Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers - and was one of crime fiction's greatest innovators, developing the idea of the psychological crime novel in the 1920s and '30s. One of his recurring and most-beloved characters was Roger Sheringham, a novelist and amateur detective. In these two classic tales, Roger Sheringham must investigate two terrible murders