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===[[Apollo Unrest by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsJesper Stein]]===
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|summary= This incredible graphic novel DCI Steen is assigned a love letter to 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 Moon landings area swarming in police. How could anyone have been murdered and left in the passion for open with so many police on site? Unless the subject drips off every page. This killer is a story we know well and because one of this them… As the authors case becomes more and more complicated, it soon begins to take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in toll on Steen's already troubled personal life. He won't stop until the killer is caught, whatever the blanksconsequences. These shortcuts are But the only downside consequences may turn out to the book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short. greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[Apollo Unrest by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[The War in the Dark Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Nick SetchfieldDominic Watson]]===
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Europe – 1963Even with a birthday fast approaching, I'm still a bit young to be reading about retirement. The world is used to My next life change in the constant tensions between the West pipeline will be a big one, and Russia, with it does involve leaving the Cold War 9 to 5 behind for a seemingly never ending threat in yacht and the lives silky blue waters of everyday people. What they don't know however, is that the real cold war is fought on the borders of this worldCaribbean, far from prying eyes at the edges of the light. British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter is forced to flee London when an assassination attempt goes horribly wrongbut only for a year, and is forced into a tensethen I will be back, unwelcome alliance tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and with the lethal Karina Lazarovamany working years still to come. As the threats riseAlso, Christopher finds himself caught in a quest for centuries old hidden knowledge – an occult secret that will give instant supremacy to whichever nation possesses itI like work. Racing against the enemyMy job is interesting, Christopher is taken from ruins in Bavaria through I get to the haunted Hungarian bordertravel, all in search of something unholy – born of the power of white fire what we do matters and black glass. Itit's a world of treacherynot badly rewarded. So no, blood and magicI'm not planning to retire just yet. A world at war in But as the darkpremise of this book is about planning (and if not now, then when?) I was still intrigued. [[The War in the Dark Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Nick SetchfieldDominic Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[Run Wild Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Gill LewisLynda La Plante]]===
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Meet Izzy and AshaIt was February 1979 in the strike-ridden 'Winter of Discontent' when a body was discovered in Peckham. Bullied away from It was to be the local attempt at a skateparkfirst of two bodies in two days, they find but the first - that of a huge waste ground young woman - would remain unidentified for some time. The second - an older lady - was found in the shadow boot of a derelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly do, even though they have to drag Izzy's younger brother with themher car by her son. The following day they all want Jane Tennison has been promoted to return, as does Sergeant and finds herself in the brother's schoolfriend, despite – midst of an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and of course because of – there being pressure to get a huge wolf living in the sitequick result. Can Four days later and another body to add to the children survive living in count, the urban wildernesspolice have named their suspect, alongside such obvious dangers? but Tennison has her doubts. [[Run Wild Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Gill LewisLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On Broken Ground by C M TaylorVal McDermid]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionCrime|General FictionCrime]]
Tony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honestAs the Officer in Charge of the Historic Cases Unit, Yorkshire's where he'd really like to be. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfectDCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at the scene of the crime, but hefor once, she's living in the right place at the right time when a mountain village just beyond body is dug up in the Costa Verde and running a pubHighlands. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell Initially it and return looks as though the death dates back to WWII, but the UK, what with fact that the uncertainty of Brexit and everything, but there are dead man is wearing a couple pair of problems. First off, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to Nikes means that the UKcase is Karen's. She A little while later she'd have you believe come to think that she's not well, but there's d been in the wrong place at the wrong time when she overheard a conversation in a backstory there that's not being talked aboutcafe. Then there's the pub Intervening, which isnshe thought that she't doing well enough to sell. In fact Tony's cleaning the swimming pools of expats who have left Spain and returned homed prevented a crime, in order to make a bit of money but what she said would come back to try and make ends at least come in sight of each other, even if they never meethaunt her. [[Staying On Broken Ground by C M TaylorVal McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[Half Moon Bay by Alice LaPlante]]===
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Jess Half Moon Bay is in a meeting with Dr Harrisonsmall town on the west coast of America, the school counsellora little down from San Francisco. Dr Harrison is hoping Jane has just moved there, to help Jess come start a new life after losing everything when her teenage daughter was killed and her husband left her. Although she has begun to terms with find a little peace in the death quiet, seaside town, one day a child goes missing, bringing back painful memories for Jane of her room-mategrief and loss and, Hanna. But he's not having much successalso, largely because Jess has no intention rousing the suspicions of telling him how she feels. Instead, she feigns a grief the local townsfolk that she does not feel so that he is satisfied and she gets out of there as quickly as possiblesomehow involved in the disappearance. [[The Truth About Lies Half Moon Bay by Tracy DarntonAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones Phantom by Joanna NadinLeo Hunt]]===
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Bridie Sixteen- Birdy year- Jones old Nova is eleven an undercity dweller and finding life rather harda leecher - a futuristic kind of pickpocket who uses tech hacks to steal byts from hapless corps workers. After her mother diedThe higher up in the city you live, it used to be just Birdy and Dad and that was okay, but now there's Birdy, Dad, an overbearing step mum, a little sister the more sunlight you see and another baby on the wayeasier your life. There's precious little room for Birdy any more and For leechers like Nova, four hundred storeys below the only place she really feels happy and secure surface, life is at her grandfather's pigeon lofttough. Birdy loves pigeons. She loves caring for themBut with the help of the hacking program Phantom, invented by legendary anti-corps hacker the Moth, training themNova can sneak up to the city, leech some byts and releasing them to wait for them to find their way homeat least make rent. v[[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones Phantom by Joanna NadinLeo Hunt|Full Review]]
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Elizabeth Klehfoth's debut novel is As a mystery thriller written from news item, school shootings always terrify me: the deaths are bad enough, but even the perspective young people who survive are always going to be scarred by the fact that this was done to them by one of Charlie Callowaytheir number. It doesn't end on the day, either. School shootings cast a teenage girl in her final years at boarding school who is plagued by her mother’s disappearancevery long shadow. As May the 14th had the story progresses she begins makings of being a normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to learn more about what happened shoot thirteen fellow students - and one last bullet to her kill himself. We follow the story through the lives of three women: Moira Summers, the motherof the murderer, Helen Birch, finding out along the way that not everyone was newly-promoted detective inspector who she thought they were. Titled ''All These Beautiful Strangers'' it really makes you question whether you are surrounded by strangers toowill investigate the killings and Ishbel Hodgekiss, the mother of one of the victims. [[All These Beautiful Strangers the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Elizabeth KlehfothClaire Askew|Full Review]]
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===[[When The Curtain Falls Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Carrie Hope FletcherRachel Aaron]]===
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A thoroughly, magical and riveting story that hooks you in from the first page and takes you on a roller coaster ride towards the last. Fletcher weaves together a dash of ''Whodunit'' the thrill of romance, (the course of which never runs smoothly,) You want me to be like everyone else and an unpredictable ghost. The ghost appears once a year, the principal star of her very own show, to meet with the love of her spend my life and re-enact her death. A tragic accident with hiding inside the roots buried deep within the whole array of human nature. Lovewalls where it's safe, joy, care, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, all laid bare on centre stagebut that's an illusion.So long as there are titans out there… no one is safe''
In 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. 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… [[Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron|Full Review]]  <!-- Novik Bennett -->
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===[[Spinning Silver The Island by Naomi NovikM A Bennett]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyTeens|FantasyTeens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
Miryem comes from a long line A contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of moneylenders – but her Father isnthe Flies''t very good at it at all. Lending freely and rarely collecting, he leaves the family on the edge : a group of povertymismatched, until Miryem modern-day teenagers must step infight to survive on a deserted island. Hardening her heart and collecting what Link is owed from local villagers, she becomes a person fish out of great interest when she borrows a pouch of silver pennies water. Newly arrived from her Grandfather America, he is finding it hard to settle into the venerable and returns it full prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind of gold, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creatures, from school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the dark beings school quad - however ancient that haunt quad may be? When Link runs the wood through slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to a King who's eager to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be make his life more trouble miserable than they're worth… others... [[Spinning Silver The Island by Naomi NovikM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[The Party Colour Me In by Lisa HallLydia Ruffles]]===
[[image:3star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersTeens|ThrillersTeens]]
Rachel wakes up in Reeling from a strange bedroom, with the worst hangover she's ever had tragedy and no memory of the night before. And even though she has no memoryunable to cope, she knows at the core of her being that something very bad has happened unemployed actor Arlo decides to her at her neighbour's New Year's Eve partyget on a plane and go somewhere new. But with everyone there appearing to be hiding something and no one giving her a straight answer to her questions, will Rachel ever find out what happened at the party? [[The Party Colour Me In by Lisa HallLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[The Con Artist A Treachery of Spies by Fred Van LenteManda Scott]]===
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Comic-Cons are When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a place strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's puzzled – whilst the identity of wonder and sanctuary for many peoplethe woman has been erased, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, heit's looking for both clear that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus she has been killed in the chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced same way that traitors to navigate every dark corner of the con resistance were executed in order to clear his name World War Two. Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans back to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence a time when the men and, women of 1940s France were engaged in doing soa desperate, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creatorbrutal 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 Con Artist A Treachery of Spies by Fred Van LenteManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Anomaly by Boyd TonkinMichael Rutger]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ReferenceHorror|ReferenceHorror]]
ConsiderTomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, if you will, translated fictionfor the Youtube era. Some say it's impossible – that Join the intrepid (if a book was so good in one tongue it could never survive being put into rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another. Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and search for ''Breathan anomaly'', but he could translate his own works, and other equally complex pieces can cross borders. It's a market that has actually doubled in sales volume between 2000 and 2016 only to (thanks, ''Millennium Trilogy''spoilers)actually find one. Novels, in particular, in translationImagine if, are – as the introduction here so smartly puts it – ''a privileged means instead of passing border postsbeing scared by their own acting, a sort of universal passport issued by Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that Utopian state, is the Republic starting point of Letters''this book. We here at the 'Bag regularly try and give equal credit to Deep in a cave within the translator, without whom we wouldn't be reading what we have in Grand Canyon our hands. But all that said, do we really need one team of those list books about the subject? I got given adventurers find themselves trapped in a book Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and conspiracy thrown into 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 thingblend. Should it take our time? [[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Anomaly by Boyd TonkinMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of the Orphan Water Thief by Dr Nat TanohClaire Hajaj]]===
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Saga Nick is eighteen and, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening in the middle of wedding preparations when he decides to what leave his mum calls ''hop-hip'', eating copious amounts of food, and learning about girls. Living fiancée behind in an affluent, liberal London and protected suburb, he has take up a good life. However, post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the suburb is in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched in an instantbuilding of a children's hospital. When his friends and family are dragged into the conflict raging around the dictatorship that Saga lives under, He has no idea what he is forced to become an unlikely revolutionarygetting himself into. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of the soldiers desperate to stop him? [[The Day of the Orphan Water Thief by Dr Nat TanohClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Peter Lovesey]]===
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[[image:5starChildren love wrecking balls, so the young lad wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to watch one hit a building through one of those very tempting holes in fencing which you find around building sites. The problem was that when the dust settled a skeleton, sitting in an armchair and clad in clothes which looked to be a few hundred years old, was visible in the loft of the half-demolished building. The lad's father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and hurried the boy away. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. Viewing the corpse from a cherry picker, an unfortunate adjustment to the controls left him eye to, er, eye socket with the corpse and the picture was caught by a press photographer. It was too good not to go viral.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersBeau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Peter Lovesey|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 Webber -->
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===[[The Great Believers Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Rebecca MakkaiKatherine Webber]]===
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Though it's been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the ghost of her sister every day, forever 14. It'The Great Believers'' follows s something that brings her comfort, but also a group 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 of them. When she befriends outsider Seth, he presents her with an escape. From her family, her friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis in Chicago during the late 1980’s. Beginning in 1985, the reader follows Yale grief and his friends as they come loss that continue to terms scar them all. Seth is instantly smitten with the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at the hands of a conservative Americaher. Thirty years later FionaAfter all, a devoted friend to Yalewho wouldn't fall for gorgeous, is searching for popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls in love with the escape that he represents from her estranged daughter on the streets of Parisgrief, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurtit's not so clear that she's falling in love with him. [[The Great Believers Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Rebecca MakkaiKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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 ===[[The Boy Who Hit Play Bone Talk by Chloe DaykinCandy Gourlay]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
Elvis Crampton Lucas was found, Samkad is living high up in the mountainous Philippine jungle just as a baby, on a bench at the zoonineteenth century turns to the twentieth. He knows little else But Samkad has no idea about himself, other than any of that's where . He has never met anyone from outside his father found him one day and he took him home own small tribe 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 thoughts are focused on the bench and whybecoming a man. ElvisHe' quest takes s desperate for the Elders to permit him far away, to a new countryjoin the ranks of the warriors who protect his tribe from their headhunting enemies, facing challenges even though he'd never imagined in knows it will mean leaving his desire to know the truthchildhood friend Little Luki behind. [[The Boy Who Hit Play Bone Talk by Chloe DaykinCandy Gourlay|Full Review]] <!-- Sheridan Rajaniemi -->
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===[[Russian Roulette Summerland by Sara SheridanHannu Rajaniemi]]===
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It makes a pleasant change to have a female detective who isn't a slightly eccentric grandma, Imagine 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 which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After discovery of 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-fightingafterlife, with all the requisite tropes of climbing through unguarded windowsBritish Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, contacts who are not one hundred per cent on the right side of Big Smoke for the law, and a refusal to faint at recently deceased. In 1938 the sight of blood, but she British Empire is, as everyone around her will attest, first caught up in a race against Soviet spies and foremost dealing with a lady. Indeed, the first encounter we have with her mole buried deep in this, the sixth book in this excellent seriesheart of Summerland. When Rachel White, sees her giving a police superintendent an icy stare for his lack of manners. No matter what ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the life-and-death crisispotential rogue agent, there's no reason not she must decide how far she is willing to be polite, go and how much she is there? willing to risk to uncover the truth. [[Russian Roulette Summerland by Sara SheridanHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[Even Going To The Dead Will BleedLast: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead Short Stories About Horse Racing by Steven RamirezK D Knight]]===
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In the third opening story a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, but comes away with cash in his pocket - and final part his wife. In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem of whether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the ground is against him. My favourite was ''Tell Me When I'm DeadThe Story of H'' series, Dave Pulaski the story of Foinavon. H is headed depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to Los Angeles – seeking revenge the yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and retributionconsidered a no-hoper. With In one of the events most dramatic runnings of book two still weighing heavily on Davethe race, he struggles against the rage burning inside him and saves Sasha – a young escapee from pile up occured at the secret testing facility23rd fence. As events come to a climax Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath and a group of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alivegalloped to the line, winning the stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out race at odds of this alive? And what kind of world will he have left? 100/1. [[Even Going To The Dead Will BleedLast: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead Short Stories About Horse Racing by Steven RamirezK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead by Steven Ramirez]]===
===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:HorrorFor Sharing|HorrorFor 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!''
Still battling Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a home there, including frogs. For some reason that nobody can remember, all the zombie hordes who first appeared in ''Tell Me When I'm Dead''Lake Ticklewater frogs are blue. They think nothing of it. So, Dave Pulaski thinks his prayers have been answered when Biriwita wins a place at Croak College, the Black Dragon Security team show up first Ticklewater frog to rescue him manage such a feat, he is filled with excitement and his wife Holly. But things only get worse – with the virus mutating, worry is how much he will miss his friends and the infected getting smarterfamily. When Dave discovers the truth behind the contagion it will drive him past all limits of faith or reason – but will he able to manage dealing with this knowledge whilst protecting Holly and those closest to him? [[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead The Frog Who Was Blue by Steven RamirezFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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