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Title: Keep reading - the second novella makes the first more meaningful
Review: This was my first exposure to the author who has written a series of related mystery novels with a rural Minnesota setting. This book contains two novellas and at first I didn't realize they were related.. The first is a brisk, seemingly silly little mystery featuring quirky characters but the second is a really profound portrait of regrets, aging and death, a little like Ethan Frome in tone, and brings in some characters from the first novella which me think that reading more of the series will bring out more depth.
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