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===[[Russian Roulette Unrest by Sara SheridanJesper Stein]]===
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It makes DCI Steen is assigned a pleasant change to have puzzling case – the tortured body of a female detective who isn't man found in a slightly eccentric grandma, cemetery in Copenhagen but left there during a world-weary cop with as many hang-ups, bad habits and family traumas as her male colleagues, or riot – a slick, skinny, sharp-shooting type who lives riot that had the area swarming in a loft police. How could anyone have been murdered and works out left in the gym after work, boxing open with (and trouncing) every big burly bloke they can throw at her. Mirabelle may have somehow got herself involved in crime-fighting, with all so many police on site? Unless the requisite tropes of climbing through unguarded windows, contacts who are not killer is one hundred per cent on the right side of them… As the lawcase becomes more and more complicated, and a refusal it soon begins to faint at the sight of blood, but she is, as everyone around her will attest, first and foremost take a ladytoll on Steen's already troubled personal life. Indeed, He won't stop until the first encounter we have with her in thiskiller is caught, whatever the sixth book in this excellent series, sees her giving a police superintendent an icy stare for his lack of mannersconsequences. No matter what But the life-and-death crisis, there's no reason not consequences may turn out to be polite, is there? greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[Russian Roulette Unrest by Sara SheridanJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[Even The Dead Will BleedRockstar Retirement Programme: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead How to retire like a rockstar by Steven RamirezDominic Watson]]===
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In the third and final part of the ''Tell Me When Even with a birthday fast approaching, I'm Dead'' seriesstill a bit young to be reading about retirement. My next life change in the pipeline will be a big one, Dave Pulaski is headed and it does involve leaving the 9 to Los Angeles – seeking revenge 5 behind for a yacht and retribution. With the events silky blue waters of book two the Caribbean, but only for a year, and then I will be back, tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and with many working years still weighing heavily on Daveto come. Also, he struggles against the rage burning inside him and saves Sasha – a young escapee from the secret testing facilityI like work. As events come My job is interesting, I get to a climaxtravel, what we do matters and Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath and a group of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims aliveit's not badly rewarded. So no, I'm not planning to retire just yet. But as the stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out premise of this alive? And what kind of world will he have leftbook is about planning (and if not now, then when? ) I was still intrigued. [[Even The Dead Will BleedRockstar Retirement Programme: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead How to retire like a rockstar by Steven RamirezDominic Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Steven RamirezLynda La Plante]]===
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Still battling It was February 1979 in the zombie hordes who first appeared in ''Tell Me When I'm Deadstrike-ridden 'Winter of Discontent', Dave Pulaski thinks his prayers have been answered when the Black Dragon Security team show up a body was discovered in Peckham. It was to rescue him and his wife Holly. But things only get worse – with be the virus mutatingfirst of two bodies in two days, and but the infected getting smarterfirst - that of a young woman - would remain unidentified for some time. When Dave discovers The second - an older lady - was found in the truth behind boot of her car by her son. Jane Tennison has been promoted to Sergeant and finds herself in the contagion it will drive him past all limits midst of faith or reason – but will he able an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and pressure to manage dealing with this knowledge whilst protecting Holly get a quick result. Four days later and those closest another body to him? add to the count, the police have named their suspect, but Tennison has her doubts. [[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Steven RamirezLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead Broken Ground by Steven RamirezVal McDermid]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:HorrorCrime|HorrorCrime]]
A recovering alcoholicAs the Officer in Charge of the Historic Cases Unit, Dave Pulaski has had a long road to recoveryDCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at the scene of the crime, but finally feels like hefor once, she's getting his life backin the right place at the right time when a body is dug up in the Highlands. Then - a plague hits Initially it looks as though the towndeath dates back to WWII, turning but the majority fact that the dead man is wearing a pair of Nikes means that the population into flesh-hungry monsters who crave the taste of humanscase is Karen's. Fighting A little while later she'd come to survive - Davethink that she's urge to hide away and drink is strong - will he fight to live when d been in the chances of survival are so slim? With wrong place at the hordes of the undead growing and the security forces outnumberedwrong time when she overheard a conversation in a cafe. Intervening, it seems she thought that hell has arrived for Dave..she'd prevented a crime, but what she said would come back to haunt her. [[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead Broken Ground by Steven RamirezVal McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gilded Ones Half Moon Bay by Brooke FieldhouseAlice LaPlante]]===
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It was Half Moon Bay is a hot day in 1984 and Pulse had two job interviews for small town on the daywest coast of America, but the heat wasn't the only reason why he wasn't feeling on top form. He'd had a disturbing dream the night beforelittle down from San Francisco. He'd been following Jane has just moved there, to start a Porsche on a difficult route, probably somewhere in the Alps new life after losing everything when the Porsche went off the roadher teenage daughter was killed and her husband left her. The passenger, Although she has begun to find a manlittle peace in the quiet, was deadseaside town, but the woman was still alive. ''I'm Freia...''one day a child goes missing, she said. ''It's spelled the German way.'' Of the two job interviews, the first was with an up-bringing back painful memories for Jane of her grief and-coming design studio in Brighton loss and it would almost certainly be good for Pulse's career. The second was with a run-down practice based in an old London house and headed by Patrick Lloyd-Lewis, whose wifealso, Freia, had recently died in unexplained circumstances. The link with rousing the dream suspicions of the night before was too much for Pulse to refuse the offer of a job. He couldn't resist the lure of local townsfolk that she is somehow involved in the mysterydisappearance. [[The Gilded Ones Half Moon Bay by Brooke FieldhouseAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[Speaking Up by Allyson Jule]]===
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'Speaking Up' has a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions of gender. It looks at our use of language in media, education, religion, the workplace and personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the mid twentieth century to the present day. Reading it, we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the Kardashians with equal rigour[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Speaking Up by Allyson Jule:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
Sixteen-year-old Nova is an undercity dweller and a leecher - a futuristic kind of pickpocket who uses tech hacks to steal byts from hapless corps workers. The higher up in the city you live, the more sunlight you see and the easier your life. For leechers like Nova, four hundred storeys below the surface, life is tough. But with the help of the hacking program Phantom, invented by legendary anti-corps hacker the Moth, Nova can sneak up to the city, leech some byts and at least make rent. v[[Phantom by Leo Hunt|Full Review]] <!-- Sacks Claire Askew -->
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===[[You Were Made for This All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Michelle SacksClaire Askew]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
[[imageAs a news item, school shootings always terrify me:4star the deaths are bad enough, but even the young people who survive are always going to be scarred by the fact that this was done to them by one of their number.jpg|link=Category It doesn't end on the day, either. School shootings cast a very long shadow. May the 14th had the makings of being a normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to shoot thirteen fellow students - and one last bullet to kill himself. We follow the story through the lives of three women:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Moira Summers, the mother of the murderer, Helen Birch, the newly-promoted detective inspector who will investigate the killings and Ishbel Hodgekiss, the mother of one of the victims. [[:Category:ThrillersAll the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Claire Askew|ThrillersFull Review]]
I'm not really sure what to say about this book. It was a really good psychological thriller with plenty of twists and turns but unfortunately it just wasn't really my cup of tea. <!-- Aaron -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[You Were Made for This by Michelle Sacksimage:1683690613.jpg|Full Reviewlink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690613/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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===[[G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: The Island by M A year in the life of George Engleheart by John WebleyBennett]]===
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George Engleheart was one A contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the leading portrait miniaturists Flies'': a group of Georgian Londonmismatched, with modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. Link is a career lasting fish out of water. Newly arrived from the 1770s America, he is finding it hard to settle into the Regency eravenerable and prestigious Osney School. He was also one Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). Throughout most of school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in years, he carefully recorded immediately becomes the names butt of each of his clients, and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred every school joke. And some students are determined to as make his fee booklife more miserable than others... [[G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: The Island by M A year in the life of George Engleheart by John WebleyBennett|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mapmakers' Race Colour Me In by Eirlys HunterLydia Ruffles]]===
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It's easily done. You nip off Reeling from a tragedy and unable to fill everyone's water bottlescope, and your mum starts unemployed actor Arlo decides to fret in case you don't make it back before the train leaves. Mum gets off to find you, you make it back in good time but she doesn't, and hey presto, four children and get on a parrot disappearing into the unknown with no money, no home plane and not a parent in sightgo somewhere new. [[The Mapmakers' Race Colour Me In by Eirlys HunterLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[The Death A Treachery of Mrs Westaway Spies by Ruth WareManda Scott]]===
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IWhen Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she've only just got into psychological thrillers so, despite being an international best-seller, author Ruth Ware s puzzled – whilst the identity of the woman has passed me by until now. Butbeen erased, I can see why sheit's much acclaimed as I absolutely loved clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this book woman – and can't wait back to get started on her previous three books nowa time when the men and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[The Death A Treachery of Mrs Westaway Spies by Ruth WareManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family Anomaly by Helen RappaportMichael Rutger]]===
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The basic facts about Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the Youtube era. Join the deaths of Nicholas and Alexandra, some intrepid (if rather inept) team of which were deliberately obscured at the time internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for various reasons''an anomaly'' only to (spoilers) actually find one. Imagine if, have long since been established. For the last few months instead of being scared by their lives in Russia the former Tsar and Tsarinaown acting, their children Derek Acorah and few remaining servants, were held in increasingly squalid, humiliating captivityYvette Fielding actually found something; that is the starting point of this book. To prevent them from being rescued, Deep in July 1918 a cave within the revolutionary regime had them all shot Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in a Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and bayoneted to death in circumstances which, once conspiracy thrown into the news was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europeblend. [[The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family Anomaly by Helen RappaportMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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===[[Take Me In The Water Thief by Sabine DurrantClaire Hajaj]]===
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It's not pleasant, the first time Marcus and Tessa meet Dave. They've taken their toddler, Josh, to Greece on holiday and Nick is in the blink middle of an eye something awful happens. Tessa isn't there, Marcus isn't looking, but Dave steps wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and disaster is averted. Just. They're grateful to him, of course they are, but after the usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and the offer to buy lunch take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for everyone, they're a little relieved to return to their villa and live out the rest building of their week in peace. Just a tight little 3-person family unitchildren's hospital. Because although Dave is a nice chap, and although of course they owe him a great deal, He has no idea what he is a little, well, intensegetting himself into. [[Take Me In The Water Thief by Sabine DurrantClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Elisabeth HydePeter Lovesey]]===
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Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for Children love wrecking balls, so the young lad wasn't going to pass up the best when he waited for his three children opportunity to arrive watch one hit a building through one Friday nightof those very tempting holes in fencing which you find around building sites. He might be The problem was that when the dust settled a retired lawyerskeleton, sitting in an armchair and clad in clothes which looked to be a state legislatorfew hundred years old, elected congressman was visible in the loft of the half-demolished building. The lad's father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrivedhurried the boy away. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. Ruth, Viewing the corpse from a corporate lawyercherry picker, would find fault and want an unfortunate adjustment to talk about the controls left him going into a retirement home. Georgeeye to, a nurseer, would argue eye socket with the corpse and Lizzie, the picture was caught by a professor of English Literature, who lived locally and kept and visited him regularly, would be unpredictablepress photographer. Murray hoped that all would It was too good not to go smoothly, but that simply wasn't going to happenviral. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Elisabeth HydePeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[Riddle of the Runes Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Janina RamirezKatherine Webber]]===
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The name Janina Ramirez is well known: Though it's been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the ghost of her television programmes on cultural historysister every day, especially of early medieval timesforever 14. It's something that brings her comfort, are but also a constant reminder that she has to make up for being one when there should have been two. She has to shine bright enough for both lively and informativeof them. She shares When she befriends outsider Seth, he presents her extensive learning with a light hand (and a frequent giggle) and an escape. From her family, her enthusiasm encourages students friends, the grief and viewers alike loss that continue to explore further the subjects she discussesscar them all. Seth is instantly smitten with her. But how will that translate into childrenAfter all, who wouldn's fiction? Will her academic desire t fall for accuracy make the story dull and factgorgeous, popular Reiko Smith-packedMori? Will But while she hold up falls in love with the action to display escape that he represents from her considerable knowledge? Nopegrief, it's not a bit of it! so clear that she's falling in love with him. [[Riddle of the Runes Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Janina RamirezKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French]]===
===[[Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyConfident Readers|FantasyConfident Readers]]
''The Grey Bastards'' Samkad is an absolute triumph! Fantasy, action living high up in the mountainous Philippine jungle just as the nineteenth century turns to the twentieth. But Samkad has no idea about any of that. He has never met anyone from outside his own small tribe and adventure cleverly wrapped around his thoughts are focused on becoming a super plot and well written characters, this book is so much funman. A word of caution though, this is not suitable He's desperate for all readers. As the tittle suggests there is a lot of bad language, a LOT of bad language, thrown around all the time in general speech. In addition Elders to permit him to this there is also some sex and sexual language too, there is some violence but this is not actually very explicit and not as constant as join the language and bawdy jokes. If this bothers you then this is not ranks of the book for you. For anyone warriors who doesn't mind then this is an absolute must readprotect his tribe from their headhunting enemies, even though he knows it will mean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behind. [[The Grey Bastards Bone Talk by Jonathan FrenchCandy Gourlay|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy at the Door Summerland by Alex DahlHannu Rajaniemi]]===
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Cecilia is picking her daughters up from swimming when the pool's receptionist asks Imagine a quick favour of her – world in which death was no longer something to drop off a little boy from the class as his parents seem fear but something to have forgotten aspire to collect him. The pool is about to closeAfter discovery of the afterlife, and it's not a big ask although Cecilia is somewhat put out that it will interrupt her routine. Butthe British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, minor inconvenience isn't really a good enough reason to say no so she agrees and bundles the boy whose name is Tobias into Big Smoke for the car with her girlsrecently deceased. This In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a decision that will change her liferace against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in the heart of Summerland. When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and that minor inconvenience quickly becomes something how much larger that will haunt her every waking momentshe is willing to risk to uncover the truth. [[The Boy at the Door Summerland by Alex DahlHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[Showtime (Dance Trilogy) Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Jean UreK D Knight]]===
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Second yearsIn the opening story a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, but comes away with cash in his pocket - and his wife. The girls couldnIn ''A Grey Day't believe that they'd made it through an owner struggles with the first year - problem of whether or not to run his horse in fact theythe Gold Cup when the ground is against him. My favourite was 'd all made it, all eight 'The Story of them, which was most unusual. Usually some were thrown out - they might have grown too tall, didnH't look right or didn't have , the commitment requiredstory of Foinavon. Maddie felt a bit nervous when she thought about that last bit H is depicted as there'd been a point when she might have been thrown out for that reasonkind horse who only wanted to please people. She's now determined that she ''really'' does want After changing hands on various occasions he came to be the yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and considered a ballet dancerno-hoper. In one of the most dramatic runnings of the race, except.a pile up occured at the 23rd fence. Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and galloped to the line, winning the race at odds of 100/1. [[Showtime (Dance Trilogy) Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Jean UreK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gravediggers' Bread by Frederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)]]===
===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeFor Sharing|CrimeFor Sharing]] ''Biriwita the blue frog longs to be accepted at Croak College, [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]the most famous school for frogs in Malawi, but the other students all turn their backs on him. He is just too different!''
Blaise is at Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a loose endhome there, for having left Paris on a wild goose chase for a job, which was his friend's ideaincluding frogs. For some reason that nobody can remember, he's stuck outside a call box waiting to report back before he gets all the trainLake Ticklewater frogs are blue. The woman in the post office using the payphone finally finishes her businessThey think nothing of it. So, and leaves him with when Biriwita wins a strong impression – as well as a wallet dropped to place at Croak College, the floor containing several days' good money, and, when he tracks her first Ticklewater frog to the village funeral directors'manage such a feat, signs of her infidelity. Lo and behold he is given a job as the woman's husband's assistant, although she also starts to employ him in sending messages to her amour, her childhood love before circumstances changed. Blaise is of course deeply in love filled with the woman by now, excitement and hates the two obstacles preventing him from being with her. One his only worry is the lover, a brutish bloke with little prospects and a bad case of epilepsy. Surely how much he will not fall by the wayside, miss his friends and surely the brick wall of fate keeping Blaise from his intended destiny will remain two men tall? family. [[The Gravediggers' Bread Frog Who Was Blue by Frederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)Faiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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