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===[[A Necessary Murder Unrest by M J TjiaJesper Stein]]===
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It's 1863 and DCI Steen is assigned a puzzling case – the tortured body of a little girl has been man found murdered at in a cemetery in Copenhagen but left there during a riot – a riot that had the family home area swarming in Stoke Newingtonpolice. A few days later How could anyone have been murdered and a few miles across London, a man is found dead left in a similar way outside the opulent townhouse open with so many police on site? Unless the killer is one of Heloise Chancey, courtesan them… As the case becomes more and part-time detective. Could they be connected? And what, if anythingmore complicated, does either of them have it soon begins to do with Heloisetake a toll on Steen's maidalready troubled personal life. He won't stop until the killer is caught, Amah Li Leen, and whatever the consequences. But the troubling events in her past which are threatening consequences may turn out to resurface?be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[A Necessary Murder Unrest by M J TjiaJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[Apollo Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsDominic Watson]]===
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This incredible graphic novel is Even with a birthday fast approaching, I'm still a love letter bit young to be reading about retirement. My next life change in the Moon landings pipeline will be a big one, and it does involve leaving the passion 9 to 5 behind for a yacht and the silky blue waters of the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt FitchCaribbean, but only for a year, and then I will be back, Chris Baker tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and Mike Collinswith many working years still to come. This Also, I like work. My job is a story interesting, I get to travel, what we know well do matters and because of this the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanksit's not badly rewarded. These shortcuts are the only downside So no, I'm not planning to retire just yet. But as the premise of this 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 about planning (and if not now, then when?) I was still felt too shortintrigued. [[Apollo Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsDominic Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[The War in the Dark Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Nick SetchfieldLynda La Plante]]===
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Europe – 1963. The world is used to It was February 1979 in the constant tensions between the West and Russia, with the Cold War strike-ridden 'Winter of Discontent' when a seemingly never ending threat body was discovered in Peckham. It was to be the lives first of everyday people. What they don't know howevertwo bodies in two days, is but the first - that the real cold war is fought on the borders of this world, far from prying eyes at a young woman - would remain unidentified for some time. The second - an older lady - was found in the edges boot of the lighther car by her son. British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter is forced Jane Tennison has been promoted to flee London when an assassination attempt goes horribly wrong, Sergeant and is forced into a tense, unwelcome alliance with the lethal Karina Lazarova. As the threats rise, Christopher finds himself caught herself in a quest for centuries old hidden knowledge – the midst of an occult secret that will give instant supremacy investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and pressure to whichever nation possesses itget a quick result. Racing against the enemy, Christopher is taken from ruins in Bavaria through Four days later and another body to add to the haunted Hungarian bordercount, all in search of something unholy – born of the power of white fire and black glass. It's a world of treacherypolice have named their suspect, blood and magic. A world at war in the darkbut Tennison has her doubts. [[The War in the Dark Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Nick SetchfieldLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[Run Wild Broken Ground by Gill LewisVal McDermid]]===
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Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from As the Officer in Charge of the local attempt Historic Cases Unit, DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at a skatepark, they find a huge waste ground in the shadow scene of a derelict gasometer to practise onthe crime, which they duly dobut for once, even though they have to drag Izzyshe's younger brother with themin the right place at the right time when a body is dug up in the Highlands. The following day they all want Initially it looks as though the death dates back to returnWWII, as does but the fact that the dead man is wearing a pair of Nikes means that the brothercase is Karen's schoolfriend, despite – and of course because of – there being a huge wolf living . A little while later she'd come to think that she'd been in the site. Can wrong place at the children survive living wrong time when she overheard a conversation in the urban wildernessa cafe. Intervening, she thought that she'd prevented a crime, alongside such obvious dangers? but what she said would come back to haunt her. [[Run Wild Broken Ground by Gill LewisVal McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On Half Moon Bay by C M TaylorAlice LaPlante]]===
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Tony Metcalfe Half Moon Bay is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honestsmall town on the west coast of America, Yorkshire's where he'd really like to bea little down from San Francisco. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfect Jane has just moved there, but he's living in to start a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde new life after losing everything when her teenage daughter was killed and running a pubher husband left her. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return Although she has begun to find a little peace in the UKquiet, what with the uncertainty of Brexit and everythingseaside town, but there are one day a couple of problems. First offchild goes missing, his wife - Laney - refuses to go bringing back to the UK. She'd have you believe that she's not wellpainful memories for Jane of her grief and loss and, but there's a backstory there that's not being talked about. Then there's the pubalso, which isn't doing well enough to sell. In fact Tony's cleaning rousing the swimming pools suspicions of expats who have left Spain and returned home, the local townsfolk that she is somehow involved in order to make a bit of money to try and make ends at least come in sight of each other, even if they never meetthe disappearance. [[Staying On Half Moon Bay by C M TaylorAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[The Truth About Lies Phantom by Tracy DarntonLeo Hunt]]===
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Jess 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 a meeting with Dr Harrisonthe city you live, the school counsellormore sunlight you see and the easier your life. Dr Harrison For leechers like Nova, four hundred storeys below the surface, life is hoping to help Jess come to terms tough. But with the death help of her roomthe hacking program Phantom, invented by legendary anti-matecorps hacker the Moth, Hanna. But he's not having much successNova can sneak up to the city, largely because Jess has no intention of telling him how she feels. Instead, she feigns a grief she does not feel so that he is satisfied leech some byts and she gets out of there as quickly as possibleat least make rent. v[[The Truth About Lies Phantom by Tracy DarntonLeo Hunt|Full Review]]
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===[[All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Claire Askew]]===
 
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===As a news item, school shootings always terrify me: 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. 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: 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. [[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Joanna NadinClaire Askew|Full Review]]===
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Bridie - Birdy - Jones is eleven and finding life rather hard. After her mother died, 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 and another baby on the way. There's precious little room for Birdy any more and the only place she really feels happy and secure is at her grandfather's pigeon loft. Birdy loves pigeons. She loves caring for them, training them, and releasing them to wait for them to find their way home. [[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones by Joanna Nadin|Full Review]]
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[[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:ThrillersGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron|ThrillersFull Review]]
Elizabeth Klehfoth's debut novel is a mystery thriller written from the perspective of Charlie Calloway, a teenage girl in her final years at boarding school who is plagued by her mother’s disappearance. As the story progresses she begins to learn more about what happened to her mother, finding out along the way that not everyone was who she thought they were. Titled ''All These Beautiful Strangers'' it really makes you question whether you are surrounded by strangers too. [[All These Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth Klehfoth|Full Review]]
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===[[When The Curtain Falls Island by Carrie Hope FletcherM A Bennett]]===
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A thoroughly, magical and riveting story that hooks you in from the first page and takes you contemporary take on a roller coaster ride towards the last. Fletcher weaves together a dash of savage classic ''WhodunitLord of the Flies'' the thrill : a group of romancemismatched, (the course of which never runs smoothly,) and an unpredictable ghostmodern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. The ghost appears once Link is a year, the principal star fish out of her very own showwater. Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to meet with settle into the love venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind of her life and reschool ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad -enact her death. A tragic accident with however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the roots buried deep within slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the whole array butt of human natureevery school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others.. Love, joy, care, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, all laid bare on centre stage.[[The Island by M A Bennett|Full Review]]
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Miryem comes Reeling from a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at it at all. Lending freely tragedy and rarely collectingunable to cope, he leaves the family unemployed actor Arlo decides to get on the edge of poverty, until Miryem must step in. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagers, she becomes a person of great interest when she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from her Grandfather plane and returns it full of gold, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creatures, from the dark beings that haunt the wood through to a King who's eager to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… go somewhere new. [[Spinning Silver Colour Me In by Naomi NovikLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[The Party A Treachery of Spies by Lisa HallManda Scott]]===
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Rachel wakes up in When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strange bedroomstrikingly beautiful elderly lady, with the worst hangover she's ever had and no memory puzzled – whilst the identity of the night before. And even though she woman has no memorybeen erased, it's clear that she knows at has been killed in the core of her being same way that something very bad has happened traitors to her at her neighbour's New Year's Eve partythe resistance were executed in World War Two. But with everyone there appearing Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – and back to be hiding something a time when the men and no one giving her women of 1940s France were engaged in a straight answer desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and more secrets come to her questionslight, will Rachel ever find out what happened at Inès discovers that there are many in the party? present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[The Party A Treachery of Spies by Lisa HallManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[The Con Artist Anomaly by Fred Van LenteMichael Rutger]]===
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ComicTomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Cons are a place Files episode, for the Youtube era. Join the intrepid (if rather inept) team of wonder and sanctuary internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators'an anomaly'' only to (spoilers) actually find one. Imagine if, plus the chance instead of maybebeing scared by their own acting, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found dead, Mike something; that is forced to navigate every dark corner the starting point of this book. Deep in a cave within the con Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs a Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creatorconspiracy thrown into the blend. [[The Con Artist Anomaly by Fred Van LenteMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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===[[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Water Thief by Boyd TonkinClaire Hajaj]]===
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Consider, if you will, translated fiction. Some say it's impossible – that if a book was so good Nick is in one tongue it could never survive being put into another. Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and ''Breath'', but the middle of wedding preparations when he could translate decides to leave his own works, fiancée behind in London and other equally complex pieces can cross borders. It's take up a market that has actually doubled post in sales volume between 2000 and 2016 (thanks, ''Millennium Trilogy''). Novels, in particular, in translation, are – as some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the introduction here so smartly puts it – ''a privileged means building of passing border posts, a sort of universal passport issued by that Utopian state, the Republic of Letters'children's hospital. We here at the 'Bag regularly try and give equal credit to the translator, without whom we wouldn't be reading He has no idea what we have 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 he is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, it's not a short thinggetting himself into. Should it take our time? [[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Water Thief by Boyd TonkinClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of the Orphan Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Dr Nat TanohPeter Lovesey]]===
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Saga is eighteen andChildren love wrecking balls, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening so the young lad wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to what his mum calls ''hop-hip'', eating copious amounts watch one hit a building through one of foodthose very tempting holes in fencing which you find around building sites. The problem was that when the dust settled a skeleton, and learning about girls. Living sitting in an affluent, liberal armchair and protected suburb, he has clad in clothes which looked to be a good life. Howeverfew hundred years old, was visible in the suburb is in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched in an instantloft of the half-demolished building. When The lad's father ceased his friends explanations about kinetic energy and family are dragged into hurried the conflict raging around boy away. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. Viewing the dictatorship that Saga lives undercorpse from a cherry picker, he is forced an unfortunate adjustment to become an unlikely revolutionary. Can chubby Saga really stand up the controls left him eye to , er, eye socket with the corpse and the picture was caught by a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of the soldiers desperate press photographer. It was too good not to stop him? go viral. [[The Day of the Orphan Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Dr Nat TanohPeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Katherine Webber]]===
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[[image:5starThough it's 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 to shine bright enough for both of them. When she befriends outsider Seth, he presents her with an escape. From her family, her friends, the grief and loss that continue to scar them all. Seth is instantly smitten with her. After all, who wouldn't fall for gorgeous, popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls in love with the escape that he represents from her grief, it's not so clear that she's falling in love with him.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersOnly Love Can Break Your Heart by Katherine Webber|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 Gourlay -->
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===[[The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai]]===
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''The Great Believers'' follows a group of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis in Chicago during the late 1980’s[[image:4. 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 hurt5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai: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]] <!-- Daykin Rajaniemi -->
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===[[The Boy Who Hit Play Summerland by Chloe DaykinHannu Rajaniemi]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersDystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After discovery of the afterlife, 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 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 how much she is willing to risk to uncover the truth. [[Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi|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 K D Knight -->
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===[[Russian Roulette Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Sara SheridanK D Knight]]===
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It makes In the opening story a pleasant change to have a female detective who isn't a slightly eccentric grandmaman whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, a world-weary cop but comes away with as many hangcash in his pocket -ups, bad habits and family traumas as her male colleagues, his wife. In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem of whether or a slick, skinny, sharp-shooting type who lives in a loft and works out not to run his horse in the gym after work, boxing with (and trouncing) every big burly bloke they can throw at herGold Cup when the ground is against him. Mirabelle may have somehow got herself involved in crime-fighting My favourite was ''The Story of H'', with all the requisite tropes story of climbing through unguarded windows, contacts Foinavon. H is depicted as a kind horse who are not one hundred per cent only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the right side yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the law, Grand National and considered a refusal to faint at no-hoper. In one of the sight most dramatic runnings of bloodthe race, but she isa pile up occured at the 23rd fence. Foinavon, as everyone around her will attestwho had been many lengths adrift, first cleared the fence and foremost a lady. Indeed, galloped to the first encounter we have with her in thisline, winning the sixth book in this excellent series, sees her giving a police superintendent an icy stare for his lack race at odds of manners100/1. No matter what the life-and-death crisis, there's no reason not to be polite, is there? [[Russian Roulette Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Sara SheridanK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 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, the most famous school for frogs in Malawi, but the other students all turn their backs on him. He is just too different!''
In the third and final part of the ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' seriesBiriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a home there, Dave Pulaski is headed to Los Angeles – seeking revenge and retributionincluding frogs. With For some reason that nobody can remember, all the events Lake Ticklewater frogs are blue. They think nothing of book two still weighing heavily on Daveit. So, he struggles against the rage burning inside him and saves Sasha – when Biriwita wins a young escapee from place at Croak College, the secret testing facility. As events come first Ticklewater frog to manage such a climaxfeat, he is filled with excitement and Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath his only worry is how much he will miss his friends and a group of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alive, the stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out of this alive? And what kind of world will he have left? family. [[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead Frog Who Was Blue by Steven RamirezFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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