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Ruta Sepetys’ new novel is a Roaring Twenties mystery featuring nefarious automobile barons, jewel thieves, and suspicious goings-on at an artist residency. by Amy Lyons & Chapter16.org A Fortune of Sand By Ruta Sepetys. Ballantine Books. 320 pages. $30. The year is 1927, the city Detroit, and Marjorie Lennox, youngest daughter of a dirty-dealing automobile family, has been invited to an artist residency, where she’ll supposedly have time, space, and like-minded company to do her work as a fashion designer. Thus

On the Sound of Pursuit Podcast: We talk to private investigator and identity theft expert Carrie Kerskie about how private investigators can help victims restore their identities and credit and move on with their lives. Identity theft. It’s a nightmare, and it can happen to anyone. Imagine this: your wallet goes missing at a bar one night. You cancel everything, but the alerts keep coming: new bank accounts, new credit cards in your name, email and social media accounts taken over, passwords

News flash: Reading is apparently dead. At PursuitMag headquarters, we didn’t get the memo. This spring and summer, we’ve been doubling down on book coverage — at least, to the extent we can, whilst operating with no actual staff devoted full-time to magazine things. To help out with our relative poverty of resources, we’re lucky to have struck an agreement some years ago with Chapter 16, a regional online literary magazine that publishes book reviews, author interviews, and occasional essays: