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===[[Marsha's Deal Take Me In by Laura SolomonSabine Durrant]]===
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Marsha didnIt't have an easy ride in life s not pleasant, the first time aroundMarcus and Tessa meet Dave. SheThey'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva]ve taken their toddler, Josh, a rare disease which turned parts of her body to bone when they were damaged. Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer Greece on holiday and went to Dignitas, in the Swiss euthanasia clinicblink of an eye something awful happens. SheTessa isn't there, Marcus isn'd thought that would be the endt looking, but after cremation her body went straight to hell Dave steps in and she found herself face-disaster is averted. Just. They're grateful to-face with him, of course they are, but after the devil. And that was when she made usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and the pact. In exchange offer to buy lunch for details about some of those who had been close everyone, they're a little relieved to return to her - their strengths villa and weaknesses live out the rest of their week in peace. Just a tight little 3- she would be reborn on the same day to the same parentsperson family unit. Because although Dave is a nice chap, but would live her life free and although of diseasecourse they owe him a great deal, he is a little, well, intense. [[Marsha's Deal Take Me In by Laura SolomonSabine Durrant|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mercy Seat Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Elizabeth H WinthropElisabeth Hyde]]===
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In Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when he waited for his three children to arrive one Friday night. He might be a retired lawyer, a state legislator, elected congressman and now an isolated Louisiana townamateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrived. Ruth, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cellcorporate lawyer, staring at the shadow of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun rayswould find fault and want to talk about him going into a retirement home. At midnight George, he will be dead; strapped to a chair nurse, would argue and electrocuted for the rape Lizzie, a professor of a white girlEnglish Literature, who later committed suicidelived locally and kept and visited him regularly, would be unpredictable. He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after Murray hoped that allwould go smoothly, love between a black man and a white woman was never but that simply wasn't going to have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded peoplehappen. [[The Mercy Seat Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Elizabeth H WinthropElisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid Riddle of the Runes by Tania UnsworthJanina Ramirez]]===
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Stella's mother died when she was a little girl. Stella The name Janina Ramirez is growing up in a house with well known: her dadtelevision programmes on cultural history, who is often awayespecially of early medieval times, are both lively and informative. She shares her grandmother, who is starting to experience the onset of dementia. This is all hard enough for extensive learning with a light hand (and a young girl, but at the same time Stella finds that she feels like rather an oddball, struggling to fit in at school, frequent giggle) and as her grandmother begins enthusiasm encourages students and viewers alike to lose her grip on reality, Stella struggles with feeling very aloneexplore further the subjects she discusses. When StellaBut how will that translate into children's only school friend suddenly moves away, Stella struggles even more. She is desperate to find out what happened to fiction? Will her mum academic desire for accuracy make the story dull and fact-packed? Will she hold up the action to uncover display her family's secrets. considerable knowledge? Nope, not a bit of it! [[The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid Riddle of the Runes by Tania UnsworthJanina Ramirez|Full Review]]
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===[[Ascension The Grey Bastards by Victor DixenJonathan French]]===
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Six girls''The Grey Bastards'' is an absolute triumph! Fantasy, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of action and adventure cleverly wrapped around a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce super plot and to make their choiceswell written characters, under the unblinking eye this book is so much fun. A word of the on-board camerascaution though, this is not suitable for all readers. They are As the contenders in the Genesis programmetittle suggests there is a lot of bad language, the world's craziest speed-dating show evera LOT of bad language, aimed at creating thrown around all the first human colony on Marstime in general speech. Leonor, an 18 year old orphanIn addition to this there is also some sex and sexual language too, there is some violence but this is one of not actually very explicit and not as constant as the chosen oneslanguage and bawdy jokes. She has signed up If this bothers you then this is not the book for gloryyou. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a one-way ticket. Even if the dream turns to a nightmare, it For anyone who doesn't mind then this is too late for regretsan absolute must read. [[Ascension The Grey Bastards by Victor DixenJonathan French|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy at the Door by Alex Dahl]]===
===[[The Toad Who Loved Tea by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingThrillers|For SharingThrillers]]
Tungtang Cecilia is not like other toads. She canpicking her daughters up from swimming when the pool't sit still, tongue protruding, and wait s receptionist asks a quick favour of her – to catch drop off a flylittle boy from the class as his parents seem to have forgotten to collect him. Tungtang needs The pool is about to be on the moveclose, and it's not a big ask although Cecilia is somewhat put out that it will interrupt her routine. SometimesBut, minor inconvenience isn't really a good enough reason to say no so she even hops right agrees and bundles the way over to boy whose name is Tobias into the rotten tree stump in her community of Muddy River. And she loves to regale her fellow toads car with stories of her exploitsgirls. That This is, until a mean old crow comes along and tells Tungtang decision that a real adventure would take will change her a lot further than a tree stump by a bridge everyone knows. Infuriated by the crow life, and inspired by that minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that will haunt her grandfather's stories of humans and ancient toad prophecies, Tungtang decides on a Real Adventure and heads off to the town of Little Cobblestone..every waking moment. [[The Toad Who Loved Tea Boy at the Door by Faiz KermaniAlex Dahl|Full Review]]
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===[[The Poison Bed Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by E C FremantleJean Ure]]===
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Second years. The girls couldn't believe that they'd made it through the first year is 1615 and celebrated couple Robert and Frances Carr have been arrested for murder. She is young- in fact they'd all made it, beautifulall eight of them, and a member of the notorious Howard familywhich was most unusual. He is one of the most powerful men in the kingdom Usually some were thrown out - they might have grown too tall, risen from nothing yet has the Kingdidn't look right or didn's ear. Both of them are suspected but t have the crime is not as black and white as it seemscommitment required. Is Frances an innocent or is Maddie felt a bit nervous when she the witch so many believe her to be? Is Robert telling the truth thought about that last bit as there'd been a point when he says he knows nothing of the murder? In between all these questions is King James I, she might have been thrown out for it is his secret that is at stakereason. One of them is She's now determined that she ''really'' does want to be a killerballet dancer, but who has committed the murder in question? except... [[The Poison Bed Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by E C FremantleJean Ure|Full Review]]
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===[[Ash Princess The Gravediggers' Bread by Laura SebastianFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)]]===
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''My name Blaise is Theodosia Eirene Houzzaraat a loose end, Queen of Astreafor having left Paris on a wild goose chase for a job, and I will endure thiswhich was his friend's idea, he's stuck outside a call box waiting to report back before he gets the train. For the last decade, Theodosia has lived at The woman in the fragile mercy of her vicious enemies. From post office using the day payphone finally finishes her beloved countrybusiness, Astreaand leaves him with a strong impression – as well as a wallet dropped to the floor containing several days' good money, was invaded by the Kalovaxians and , when he tracks her motherto the village funeral directors', Queen signs of Flame her infidelity. Lo and Furybehold he is given a job as the woman's husband's assistant, was brutally murdered directly although she also starts to employ him in front sending messages to her amour, her childhood love before circumstances changed. Blaise is of course deeply in love with the woman by now, and hates the two obstacles preventing him from being with her. One is the lover, she has been forced into a life brutish bloke with little prospects and a bad case of submission epilepsy. Surely he will not fall by the wayside, and desperate survival. surely the brick wall of fate keeping Blaise from his intended destiny will remain two men tall? [[Ash Princess The Gravediggers' Bread by Laura SebastianFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short Boy Underwater by Lex CoultonAdam Baron]]===
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Lex Coulton's debut novel Cymbeline Igloo (yes, that’s his real name!) is a story about mistakesnine years old, failuresand he has never been swimming, and relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is this wouldn’t be a sixth form English teacher who really big problem except for the fact that the school bully has recently fallen out with her best friend Jacksonsomehow got the impression that Cym is actually an amazing champion swimmer, and has challenged Cym to a work colleaguerace at their very first school swimming lesson! He tries to research swimming on the internet, and is grappling with but there’s an accident at the increasingly eccentric behaviour pool that, initially, sees Cym embarrassed in front of her motherthe other kids, but that results in his mum having a breakdown. This relationship is complicated by Why has she never taken Cym swimming? And why does his accident at the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. pool create such devastation in Cym’s life? [[Falling Short Boy Underwater by Lex CoultonAdam Baron|Full Review]]
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===[[The Aladdin Trial Smoking Kills by Abi SilverAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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When elderly hospital patient Barbara Hennessy is found dead on the pavement outside the hospitalMeet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, and a police investigation successful one too, in an office in Paris. All around him however his world is launched into whether she jumped or was pushed. Having just have surgery on her footchanging – yes, there is sufficient grounds a new ban on smoking in all workplaces. Goaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, of sorts, he sees a hypnotist who had success with a mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to think this was no accidenthave been successful, but however he faces the only suspect the police can link prospect of having such a change to the death is the hospital cleanerhis own personality, a Syrian refugee, Ahmad Qabbani. Solicitor Constance Lamb his imbued habits and barrister Judith Burton reunite to defend Ahmadlifestyle, but with an uncooperative hospital staff, Barbara's self interested children and Ahmad keeping secretsfear, when he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it's going an increasingly difficult task to prove to what he replaces the jury and habit with that will surprise the media, that he is innocentmost. [[The Aladdin Trial Smoking Kills by Abi SilverAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[A Demon In Silver The Lost Letters of William Woolf by R S FordHelen Cullen]]===
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Take William Woolf is a fantasy world where gods once walked letter detective, working in the land Dead Letters Depot in East London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and magic influenced everything for millenniareading endless letters of love, where magic was power and the entire world was shaped around its influence. Thenguilt, overnightdeath, that power was ripped awayhope, sorcerers' died instantly and magic is never heard of again. Until now. A farm girl from the middle of nowhere has unleashed raw magic and the tribal leaders will stop at nothing to control her, using whatever means necessaryeveryday life. Can anyone save her, or will they need saving from her? [[A Demon In Silver The Lost Letters of William Woolf by R S FordHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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===[[Lala by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)]]===
===[[The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary FictionTeens|Teens]]  ''Funny how no one ever uses the word 'love' when discussing my case. I do what I do because she's my mum. That pure and that simple.'' Bobby Seed's mum has MS and it's getting worse. Bobby, who is seventeen, shoulders most of her care. And he also keeps house and also looks after his little brother Danny. He gets some help from his best friend Bel, who has her own reasons for spending as much time as possible not at home, but it's still a slog. But Bobby doesn't mind because he loves his mum and they have a wonderful relationship, mostly based on taking the mickey out of each other. Bobby also attends a support group for young carers. It's a bit daft with all the role play exercises and the like, but it's nice to meet other kids in the same boat as you. Especially Lou, the American boy with the weird way of speaking and the Vespa and the air of cool. Bobby can barely keep his eyes off Lou.[[The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan|Literary FictionFull Review]]
''This is the mysterious nature of storytelling: the same start can also mean different endings, and different starts can lead to the same finale. It's all subordinate to the greater narrative, which starts somewhere in Kiev''. This beautiful book is exactly that, the mysterious art of storytelling. The wayward meanderings of memory, of tangents and digressions, of side notes and elaborations, but above all that of affection; for both the story and the storyteller. What makes us who we are if not our culture and heritage and in this book our narrator re-lives and re-tells the story of his heritage told to him by his grandmother. [[Lala by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Old Religion by Martyn Waites]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[A Thousand Perfect Notes by C G Drews:Category:Crime|Crime]]===
[[imageThe Cornish village of St Petroc isn't on the tourist trail:4there's nothing particularly pretty, or historic, or interesting about it, which might be one of the reasons why Tom Killgannon is there. He had been an undercover policeman, but something had gone badly wrong and now he's in witness protection and working in the local pub. St Petroc feels safe and it's put a good deal of distance between him and some very violent people. He's got an on-again, off-again relationship with the local policewoman, with the on-again bits coinciding with the times when her husband's away. It's not an exciting life, but right now it suits Tom just fine.5star Until he meets Lila, that is.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensThe Old Religion by Martyn Waites|TeensFull Review]]
''What he wants most in the world is to cut off his own hands. At the wrist would be best.'' What child would think such a thing? Beck would think such a thing. The son of a talented pianist who became ill and could no longer play, Beck is the servant of his thwarted mother's ambitions. He must be the pianist now. And Beck's mother - the Maestro - makes him practise for hours every day. If he rebels in any way, his mother's response is violent. But Beck doesn't want to play Chopin. He wants to compose. Forbidden music fills his head but it's an impossible dream.[[A Thousand Perfect Notes by C G Drews|Full Review]]  <!-- Ruth Mancini Owen -->
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===[[In The Blood by Ruth Mancini]]===
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Bringing up a child on your own is difficult[[image: when that child is severely disabled the obstacles are almost insurmountable and criminal defence lawyer Sarah Kellerman struggles on a daily basis4. Ben is nearly five but still can't walk or talk and isn't toilet trained. His main way of communicating is to have a screaming tantrum, but he will watch ''Teletubbies'' - for hours on end. She has sympathy with Ellie when she's charged with trying to murder her son, firstly by poisoning him and them by removing the dialysis line with was circulating his blood to clean it. On the face of it there doesn't seem to be a lot of chance of fighting the charge - that's certainly what Sarah's boss thinks - but Sarah isn't quite so certain5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[In The Blood by Ruth Mancini:Category:For Sharing|Full ReviewFor Sharing]]
''The Owen family were feeling sad. There used to be five of them. There was Mum, Dad and three children: Abi, Jenny and Joe. But then Abi died. Now there were only four of them. Life felt very strange without their sister, and they were all very unhappy.'' How does a family cope with the loss of a beloved child and sibling?[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Kelly Owen|Full Review]]  <!-- Winn Laura Solomon -->
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===[[Hello, Shadowlands Marsha's Deal by Patrick WinnLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True CrimeShort Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|True CrimeFantasy]]
Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life the first time around. She'Hellod been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], Shadowlands'' chronicles a booming crime wave in South East Asiarare disease which turned parts of her body to bone when they were damaged. It illuminates everything from the meth industry in Myanmar Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer and went to Dignitas, the abortion pill black market in Swiss euthanasia clinic. She'd thought that would be the Philippines using both Winn's personal accounts end, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and historical context. It is devastating she found herself face-to imagine -face with the very real human lives devil. And that are swept up in this cloud was when she made the pact. In exchange for details about some of refuse, those who had been close to her - their strengths and how weaknesses - she would be reborn on the West helped create it and is doing nothing same day to prevent itthe same parents, but would live her life free of disease. [[Hello, Shadowlands Marsha's Deal by Patrick WinnLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Hunted The Mercy Seat by G X ToddElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersHistorical Fiction|ThrillersHistorical Fiction]]
''Do you not sometimes think In an isolated Louisiana town, a storm is coming?'' ''Hunted'' continues where young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the shadow of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening''Voices'' series left offs dying sun rays. At midnight, with our heroine on he will be dead; strapped to a chair and electrocuted for the run without rape of a white girl, who later committed suicide. He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to defend her whilst the world around her is descending into chaosbelieve what really happened; after all, love between a black man and a white woman was never going to have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people.[[The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
Lacey, barely escaped with her life after the events of [[Defender by G X Todd|Defender]] and now she's being hunted. By a boy driven by a voice stealing away his sanity piece by piece and by another incapable of speech. Both are determined to find her at all costs and both are building up an army of followers to track her precise location before the other. [[Hunted by G X Todd|Full Review]] <!-- Booth Unsworth -->
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===[[Across the Divide The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Anne BoothTania Unsworth]]===
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Stella''I want all children to know that they CAN already make the world s mother died when she was a little girl. Stella is growing up in a better placehouse with her dad, and that there are other peoplewho is often away, now and in history and in fictionher grandmother, who stand alongside them in thisis starting to experience the onset of dementia.'' This is what author Anne Booth said about all hard enough for a young girl, but at the inspiration behind same time Stella finds that she feels like rather an oddball, struggling to fit in at school, and as her grandmother begins to lose her latest childrengrip on reality, Stella struggles with feeling very alone. When Stella's book and this thoughtful story about familyonly school friend suddenly moves away, friendship and being brave enough Stella struggles even more. She is desperate to speak up for find out what you believe should help happened to achieve this. In Across the Divide she cleverly combines current issues regarding peace her mum and conflict and the history of conscientious objectors during World War 1 in a moving portrayal of young people trying to make sense of the world and the decisions made by adultsuncover her family's secrets. [[Across the Divide The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Anne BoothTania Unsworth|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness Ascension by Stephan CollishawVictor Dixen]]===
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Mazowe ValleySix girls, 2011 – Natalie hears six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a sharp cry that she thinks single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the on-board cameras. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the world's craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the first might be a birdhuman colony on Mars. Leonor, but turns out to be a babyan 18 year old orphan, abandoned to is one of the birds on the kopjechosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She is there with her uncle and they take has signed up for a one-way ticket. Even if the child, back to his farm initially and then dream turns to a local village where nightmare, it is taken in. They do not report it to the policetoo late for regrets. [[A Child Called Happiness Ascension by Stephan CollishawVictor Dixen|Full Review]]
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===[[Running Amok (DCI Spearing and DI Devlin Series Book 2) by Paul Hughes]]===
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'''Caution[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category: Mild spoilers for {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Beginning to End by Paul Hughes:Category:For Sharing|Beginning to EndFor Sharing]]'''
DS Kevin Devlin has settled into his new job at Scotland Yard very quickly, although he didnTungtang is not like other toads. She can't have much choice but sit still, tongue protruding, and wait to catch a fly. Tungtang needs to hit be on the ground runningmove. When we last saw him quite a few of Sometimes, she even hops right the rogue element at MI5 and others who were causing Spearing and Devlin difficulties were conveniently dead and as Spearing has gone missing, Devlin can't help but wonder if Spearting was involved in some way over to the rotten tree stump in bringing this convenient solution abouther community of Muddy River. Whilst he might have wanted to search for Spearing, there's upheaval at the Yard: the new commissioner is offering deals And she loves to corrupt officers. They can leave regale her fellow toads with a year's pay in lieu stories of notice or they can be prosecutedher exploits. Unsurprisingly there are suddenly That is, until a mean old crow comes along and tells Tungtang that a real adventure would take her a lot further than a tree stump by a bridge everyone knows. Infuriated by the crow and inspired by her grandfather's stories of empty desks - humans and ancient toad prophecies, Tungtang decides on a promotion opportunity for DevlinReal Adventure and heads off to the town of Little Cobblestone... [[Running Amok (DCI Spearing and DI Devlin Series Book 2) The Toad Who Loved Tea by Paul HughesFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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