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    "title": "The Undertaker's Daughter",
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    "annotation": "<p><span>Already widowed by the age of forty, Ilka Nichols Jensen, a school portrait photographer, leads a modest, regimented, and uneventful life in Copenhagen. Until unexpected news rocks her quiet existence: Her father&ndash;who walked out suddenly and inexplicably on the family more than three decades ago&ndash;has died. And he&rsquo;s left her something in his will: his funeral home. In Racine, Wisconsin.</span><br /><span>Clinging to this last shred of communication from the father she hasn&rsquo;t heard from since childhood, Ilka makes an uncharacteristically rash decision and jumps on a plane to Wisconsin. Desperate for a connection to the parent she never really knew, she plans to visit the funeral home and go through her father&rsquo;s things&ndash;hoping for some insight into his new life in America&ndash;before preparing the business for a quick sale.</span><br /><span>But when she stumbles on an unsolved murder, and a killer who seems to still be very much alive, the undertaker&rsquo;s daughter realizes she might be in over her head.</span></p>",
    "description": "<p><span>Already widowed by the age of forty, Ilka Nichols Jensen, a school portrait photographer, leads a modest, regimented, and uneventful life in Copenhagen. Until unexpected news rocks her quiet existence: Her father&ndash;who walked out suddenly and inexplicably on the family more than three decades ago&ndash;has died. And he&rsquo;s left her something in his will: his funeral home. In Racine, Wisconsin.<br /></span><br /><span>Clinging to this last shred of communication from the father she hasn&rsquo;t heard from since childhood, Ilka makes an uncharacteristically rash decision and jumps on a plane to Wisconsin. Desperate for a connection to the parent she never really knew, she plans to visit the funeral home and go through her father&rsquo;s things&ndash;hoping for some insight into his new life in America&ndash;before preparing the business for a quick sale.<br /></span><br /><span>But when she stumbles on an unsolved murder, and a killer who seems to still be very much alive, the undertaker&rsquo;s daughter realizes she might be in over her head.</span></p>",
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