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Read an Excerpt from SELDOM SEEN ROAD, the First Title in the New Burnt River Mystery Series from John Degen

A murder on a riverbank pulls an unlikely detective out of retirement in Seldom Seen Road (Latitude 46),l the first instalment in John Degen’s Burnt River mystery series.When the body of a local environmental ...

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