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the renowned illustrator of many bestselling children’s books

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Softboiled Val Wise or trying to beat aBy Lisa Maas. Published by Black Rose Writing. Softcover, 238 pages, Colour, 2022. Calli Westbrook is a failure. Well, maybe she's not a failure, but her amazing private eye themed business certainly is. All she wants to do is tuck her fedora under her arm, retreat to suburbia, and lose herself in a cozy mystery. Instead, she comes home to find her girlfriend in the arms of another woman. Now sleeping on the couch in the office she can no longer