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Widow's Son 33%

Mormon mystery.  Emery, as a young man, swears to avenge the murderers of Joseph Smith by slitting the throat of living relative.  He's all set to do it, but he falls in love with her instead.

Our rare books guy has a daughter.  The daughter is  falling  in love with the son of a long-time friend.  But wait--that son of a long-time friend is also the son of our rare books guy. He and his friend had a fling one night.  So it would be incest were his daughter to take up with the boy.   Yikes!

Cozy but definitely creepy story.

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