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===[[When The Curtain Falls Unrest by Carrie Hope FletcherJesper Stein]]===
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A thoroughly, magical DCI Steen is assigned a puzzling case – the tortured body of a man found in a cemetery in Copenhagen but left there during a riot – a riot that had the area swarming in police. How could anyone have been murdered and riveting story that hooks you left in from the first page and takes you open with so many police on a roller coaster ride towards the last. Fletcher weaves together a dash of ''Whodunit'' site? Unless the thrill killer is one of romance, (them… As the course of which never runs smoothly,) case becomes more and an unpredictable ghost. The ghost appears once a year, the principal star of her very own showmore complicated, it soon begins to meet with the love of her take a toll on Steen's already troubled personal life and re-enact her death. A tragic accident with He won't stop until the roots buried deep within killer is caught, whatever the whole array of human nature. Love, joy, care, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, all laid bare on centre stageconsequences.But the consequences may turn out to be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[Unrest by Jesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Naomi NovikDominic Watson]]===
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Miryem comes from Even with a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isnbirthday fast approaching, I't very good at it at allm still a bit young to be reading about retirement. Lending freely My next life change in the pipeline will be a big one, and rarely collecting, he leaves it does involve leaving the family on 9 to 5 behind for a yacht and the edge silky blue waters of povertythe Caribbean, but only for a year, until Miryem must step in. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagersthen I will be back, she becomes a person of great interest when she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from her Grandfather tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and returns it full of goldwith many working years still to come. Also, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creaturesI like work. My job is interesting, from the dark beings that haunt the wood through I get to a King whotravel, what we do matters and it's eager not badly rewarded. So no, I'm not planning to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… retire just yet. But as the premise of this book is about planning (and if not now, then when?) I was still intrigued. [[Spinning Silver Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Naomi NovikDominic Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Party Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Lisa HallLynda La Plante]]===
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Rachel wakes up It was February 1979 in the strike-ridden 'Winter of Discontent' when a strange bedroombody was discovered in Peckham. It was to be the first of two bodies in two days, with but the worst hangover she's ever had and no memory first - that of the night beforea young woman - would remain unidentified for some time. And even though she has no memory, she knows at The second - an older lady - was found in the core boot of her being that something very bad has happened to car by her at her neighbour's New Year's Eve partyson. But with everyone there appearing Jane Tennison has been promoted to be hiding something Sergeant and finds herself in the midst of an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and no one giving her pressure to get a straight answer quick result. Four days later and another body to add to her questionsthe count, will Rachel ever find out what happened at the party? police have named their suspect, but Tennison has her doubts. [[The Party Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Lisa HallLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[The Con Artist Broken Ground by Fred Van LenteVal McDermid]]===
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Comic-Cons are a place As the Officer in Charge of wonder and sanctuary for many peoplethe Historic Cases Unit, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at San Diego Comic-Conthe scene of the crime, but for once, heshe's looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus in the right place at the right time when a body is dug up in the chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his exHighlands. However Initially it looks as though the death dates back to WWII, when his rival is found but the fact that the dead, Mike man is forced to navigate every dark corner wearing a pair of Nikes means that the con case is Karen's. A little while later she'd come to think that she'd been in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, the wrong place at the wrong time when she overheard a conversation in doing soa cafe. Intervening, may just unravel she thought that she'd prevented a dark secret behind a legendary industry creatorcrime, but what she said would come back to haunt her. [[The Con Artist Broken Ground by Fred Van LenteVal McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Half Moon Bay by Boyd TonkinAlice LaPlante]]===
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ConsiderHalf Moon Bay is a small town on the west coast of America, if you willa little down from San Francisco. Jane has just moved there, translated fiction. Some say it's impossible – that if to start a book new life after losing everything when her teenage daughter was so good in one tongue it could never survive being put into another. Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and ''Breath'', but he could translate his own works, killed and other equally complex pieces can cross bordersher husband left her. It's Although she has begun to find a market that has actually doubled little peace in sales volume between 2000 and 2016 (thanksthe quiet, ''Millennium Trilogy''). Novelsseaside town, in particular, in translationone day a child goes missing, are – as the introduction here so smartly puts it – ''a privileged means bringing back painful memories for Jane of passing border postsher grief and loss and, a sort of universal passport issued by that Utopian statealso, rousing the Republic suspicions of Letters''. We here at the 'Bag regularly try and give equal credit to the translator, without whom we wouldn't be reading what we have local townsfolk that she is somehow involved in our hands. But all that said, do we really need one of those list books about the subject? I got given a book the other year detailing 1001 places to go to before I die, and I might even then have missed out a zero. It would take as long as a fortnight's holiday to wade through, and even though this is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, it's not a short thingdisappearance. Should it take our time? [[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Half Moon Bay by Boyd TonkinAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of the Orphan by Dr Nat Tanoh]]===
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Saga is eighteen and, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls ''hop-hip'', eating copious amounts of food, and learning about girls[[image:4star. Living in an affluent, liberal and protected suburb, he has a good life. However, the suburb is in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When his friends and family are dragged into the conflict raging around the dictatorship that Saga lives under, he is forced to become an unlikely revolutionary. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of the soldiers desperate to stop him? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Day of the Orphan by Dr Nat Tanoh: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]] <!-- Doyle Claire Askew -->
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===[[All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Claire Askew]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Storm Keeper’s Island by Catherine Doyle:Category:Crime|Crime]]===
[[imageAs a news item, school shootings always terrify me:5star 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:Confident ReadersAll the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Claire Askew|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Fionn is off to spend some time with his grandfather on the island of Arranmore. His older sister Tara is going with him. Tara is well into adolescence and she can be quite dismissive of her rather green younger brother. The siblings need some time away because their mother isn't coping well with the death of their father and needs time alone to get better. Grandfather is a strange, eccentric old man who lives in a tiny cottage full of candles. He has a crabby but wicked sense of humour and sometimes has trouble keeping hold of his memories. But he makes the candles dance and his eyes contain depths that hold the secret of the seas. [[The Storm Keeper’s Island by Catherine Doyle|Full Review]]<!-- Makkai Aaron -->
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===[[The Great Believers Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rebecca MakkaiRachel Aaron]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] ''You want me to be like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the walls where it's safe, but that's an illusion. So long as there are titans out there… no one is safe''
[[image:5starIn the dystopian world of Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside. Known as titans, these enemies are impossibly tall human like creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Difficult to kill and innumerable they roam the Earth looking for prey, and whilst the walls have always kept them out, that has begun to change… [[:Category:LGBT FictionGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron|LGBT FictionFull Review]]
''The Great Believers'' follows a group of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis in Chicago during the late 1980’s. Beginning in 1985, the reader follows Yale and his friends as they come to terms with the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at the hands of a conservative America. Thirty years later Fiona, a devoted friend to Yale, is searching for her estranged daughter on the streets of Paris, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurt. [[The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy Who Hit Play Island by Chloe DaykinM A Bennett]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[imageA contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'':4a group of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. Link is a fish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. 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 school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others..5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersThe Island by M A Bennett|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Elvis Crampton Lucas was found, as a baby, on a bench at the zoo. He knows little else about himself, other than that's where his father found him one day and he took him home and named him after the first three vinyl records he took down from the shelf! Elvis' life has been a happy one, but as his twelfth birthday comes around he finds himself suddenly wanting to know, and needing to know, the truth about who left him on the bench and why. Elvis' quest takes him far away, to a new country, facing challenges he'd never imagined in his desire to know the truth. [[The Boy Who Hit Play by Chloe Daykin|Full Review]]<!-- Sheridan Ruffles -->
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===[[Russian Roulette Colour Me In by Sara SheridanLydia Ruffles]]===
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It makes Reeling from a pleasant change tragedy and unable to have a female detective who isn't a slightly eccentric grandmacope, a world-weary cop with as many hang-ups, bad habits and family traumas as her male colleagues, or a slick, skinny, sharp-shooting type who lives in a loft and works out in the gym after work, boxing with (and trouncing) every big burly bloke they can throw at her. Mirabelle may have somehow got herself involved in crime-fighting, with all the requisite tropes of climbing through unguarded windows, contacts who are not one hundred per cent unemployed actor Arlo decides to get on the right side of the law, and a refusal to faint at the sight of blood, but she is, as everyone around her will attest, first plane and foremost a ladygo somewhere new. Indeed, the first encounter we have with her in this, the sixth book in this excellent series, sees her giving a police superintendent an icy stare for his lack of manners. No matter what the life-and-death crisis, there's no reason not to be polite, is there? [[Russian Roulette Colour Me In by Sara SheridanLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 A Treachery of Tell Me When I'm Dead Spies by Steven RamirezManda Scott]]===
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In When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's puzzled – whilst the third and final part identity of the woman has been erased, it''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' series, Dave Pulaski is headed s clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to Los Angeles the resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – seeking revenge and retribution. With back to a time when the events men and women of book two still weighing heavily on Dave1940s France were engaged in a desperate, he struggles brutal fight for survival against the rage burning inside him and saves Sasha – a young escapee from the secret testing facilitytheir Nazi oppressors. As events more and more secrets come to a climaxlight, and Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath and a group of scientifically engineered humans Inès discovers that there are many in the present who flay would rather their victims alive, the stakes are higher than ever before past stay buried – will Dave make it out of this alive? And what kind of world will he have left? and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 A Treachery of Tell Me When I'm Dead Spies by Steven RamirezManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead The Anomaly by Steven RamirezMichael Rutger]]===
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Still battling Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the Youtube era. Join the zombie hordes who first appeared in intrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''Tell Me When Ian anomaly'm Dead'', Dave Pulaski thinks his prayers have been answered when the Black Dragon Security team show up only to rescue him and his wife Holly(spoilers) actually find one. But things only get worse – with the virus mutatingImagine if, instead of being scared by their own acting, Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is the infected getting smarterstarting point of this book. When Dave discovers Deep in a cave within the truth behind the contagion it will drive him past all limits Grand Canyon our team of faith or reason – but will he able to manage dealing adventurers find themselves trapped in a Stephen King plot with this knowledge whilst protecting Holly added levels of paranoia and those closest to him? conspiracy thrown into the blend. [[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead The Anomaly by Steven RamirezMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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===[[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead The Water Thief by Steven RamirezClaire Hajaj]]===
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A recovering alcoholic, Dave Pulaski has had a long road Nick is in the middle of wedding preparations when he decides to recovery, but finally feels like he's getting leave his life back. Then - fiancée behind in London and take up a plague hits the town, turning the majority of the population into fleshpost in some un-hungry monsters who crave named west African country providing engineering support for the taste building of humans. Fighting to survive - Davea children's urge to hide away and drink hospital. He has no idea what he is strong - will he fight to live when the chances of survival are so slim? With the hordes of the undead growing and the security forces outnumbered, it seems that hell has arrived for Dave..getting himself into. [[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead The Water Thief by Steven RamirezClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gilded Ones Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Brooke FieldhousePeter Lovesey]]===
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It was a hot day in 1984 and Pulse had two job interviews for the dayChildren love wrecking balls, but so the heat young lad wasn't going to pass up the only reason why he wasn't feeling on top form. He'd had opportunity to watch one hit a disturbing dream the night beforebuilding through one of those very tempting holes in fencing which you find around building sites. He'd been following The problem was that when the dust settled a Porsche on skeleton, sitting in an armchair and clad in clothes which looked to be a difficult routefew hundred years old, probably somewhere was visible in the Alps when loft of the Porsche went off the roadhalf-demolished building. The passenger, a man, was dead, but the woman was still alive. ''I'm Freia...'', she said. ''Itlad's spelled father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and hurried the German wayboy away.'' Of the two job interviews, the first Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was with an up-and-coming design studio in Brighton and it would almost certainly be good for Pulse's careernot so lucky. The second was with Viewing the corpse from a run-down practice based in cherry picker, an old London house and headed by Patrick Lloyd-Lewisunfortunate adjustment to the controls left him eye to, whose wifeer, Freia, had recently died in unexplained circumstances. The link eye socket with the dream of corpse and the night before picture was too much for Pulse to refuse the offer of caught by a jobpress photographer. He couldn't resist the lure of the mysteryIt was too good not to go viral. [[The Gilded Ones Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Brooke FieldhousePeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[Speaking Up Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Allyson JuleKatherine Webber]]===
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Though it'Speaking Ups been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the ghost of her sister every day, forever 14. It' s something that brings her comfort, but also a constant reminder that she has to make up for being one when there should have been two. She has a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions to shine bright enough for both of genderthem. It looks at our use of language in mediaWhen she befriends outsider Seth, educationhe presents her with an escape. From her family, religionher friends, the workplace grief and personal relationshipsloss that continue to scar them all. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the mid twentieth century to the present daySeth is instantly smitten with her. Reading itAfter all, who wouldn't fall for gorgeous, we feel popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls in love with the escape that she has studied everything he represents from her grief, it's not so clear that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the Kardashians 's falling in love with equal rigourhim. [[Speaking Up Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Allyson JuleKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[You Were Made for This by Michelle Sacks]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersBone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]===
I'm not really sure what to say about this book[[image:4. It was a really good psychological thriller with plenty of twists and turns but unfortunately it just wasn't really my cup of tea5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[You Were Made for This by Michelle Sacks:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
Samkad is 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 his thoughts are focused on becoming a man. He's desperate for the Elders to permit him to join the ranks of the warriors who protect his tribe from their headhunting enemies, even though he knows it will mean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behind. [[Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay|Full Review]]
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===[[G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart Summerland by John WebleyHannu Rajaniemi]]===
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George Engleheart Imagine a world in which death was one no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After discovery of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian Londonafterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a career lasting from mole buried deep in the 1770s to the Regency eraheart of Summerland. He was also one of the most prolificWhen Rachel White, painting nearly 5an ambitious SIS agent,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded becomes suspicious about the names of each of his clientspotential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and subsequently transcribed them into what how much she is referred willing to as his fee bookrisk to uncover the truth. [[G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart Summerland by John WebleyHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[Going To The Mapmakers' Race Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Eirlys HunterK D Knight]]===
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ItIn 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. In ''A Grey Day's easily done. You nip off to fill everyone's water bottles, and your mum starts an owner struggles with the problem of whether or not to fret run his horse in case you donthe Gold Cup when the ground is against him. My favourite was ''The Story of H't make it back before ', the train leavesstory of Foinavon. H is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please people. Mum gets off After changing hands on various occasions he came to find you, you make it back the yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in good time but she doesn't, the Grand National and hey prestoconsidered a no-hoper. In one of the most dramatic runnings of the race, four children and a parrot disappearing into pile up occured at the unknown with no money23rd fence. Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, no home cleared the fence and not a parent in sightgalloped to the line, winning the race at odds of 100/1. [[Going To The Mapmakers' Race Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Eirlys HunterK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[The Death of Mrs Westaway by Ruth Ware]]===
===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersFor Sharing|ThrillersFor Sharing]] ''Biriwita the blue frog longs to be accepted at Croak College, the most famous school for frogs in Malawi, but the other students all turn their backs on him. He is just too different!''
I've only just got into psychological thrillers soBiriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a home there, despite being an international best-sellerincluding frogs. For some reason that nobody can remember, author Ruth Ware has passed me by until nowall the Lake Ticklewater frogs are blue. They think nothing of it. ButSo, when Biriwita wins a place at Croak College, the first Ticklewater frog to manage such a feat, I can see why she's he is filled with excitement and his only worry is how much acclaimed as I absolutely loved this book he will miss his friends and can't wait to get started on her previous three books nowfamily. [[The Death of Mrs Westaway Frog Who Was Blue by Ruth WareFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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