The Widening Gyre
Author: Robert B. Parker
The adoring wife of Senate candidate Meade Alexander has a smile as sweet as candy and dotted her i’s with little hearts. A blond beauty, she was the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she had a little problem with sex and drugs–a problem someone had managed to put on videotape…..Read More
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