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It's late 1800s Chicago and barber Nathaniel Tall Cloud just wants to get by. Then a killer strolls in for a shave.

A documentary filmmaker plans to film a perfect family for a year. His plan needs rethinking after he murders the mother, father, son and daughter on the first day.

Thirteen-year-old Eddie Webber's dog was dead, his pa was a drunk, his stepmother was a witch, and a killer outlaw was on the loose. And then things got worse . . .

A woman's husband goes missing and people suspect she had something to do with it. She feels it's history repeating itself.

Sometimes you can't help but change the way you think.

Green blood and trench coats and death in the rain -- an oldfashioned murder detective and his coroner ex-flame tackle a newfangled problem in this retrofuture gumshoe tale set in a small town not at all close to you.

Crime and cats -- bad or good luck?

Randi has a date with a chef, and nothing is cut and dried ... yet.

A New York food tour guide brokers a deal to import a rare gourmet delicacy to the city. He discovers that what he carries, many will kill to possess.