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With the opening line of "Nice young ladies really shouldn't be dumping bodies at sea.", you really can't help but be pulled into the story of Hazel, a strong-willed, 20-year old who is searching for her cousin who is missing. Between the dead bodies of the guys who come after her, looking for something she doesn't have and trying to figure out who she can trust, she must protect her father. She is chased up and down the eastern coastline on a boat she captains and swerves around the corners of
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I'm reading this for the 2015 Ultimate Reading Challenge category "set in your hometown." I grew up in Union County, NJ. Literally millions - MILLIONS - of other people grew up there, too - JUDY BLUME was born and raised in Union County. Was I able to find a book specifically set in Union County? Why, no, of course not!! I found a bunch of murder mysteries set in Newark, but that sounded a lot grittier than my suburban childhood. I found Last Exit, which promised to involve driving all over the
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