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===[[The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) by Denzil Meyrick]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime|CrimeSanta Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]===
The site was rumoured to have been the home of Viking warlord Somerled so the discovery by Professor Francombe and her team of archaeologists of the graves of three women initially caused great excitement, which rapidly turned to horror when they realised that the women had died just over twenty years ago. The graves would bring some closure though - these were the bodies of the three missing victims of the 'Midweek Murderer' who operated in Glasgow in the early to mid nineties. It was also an opportunity for DCI Jim Daley to confront a failure in his past. He'd been on the original case and the murderer had never been found. He'd also lost a close friend and made some enemies, one of whom would return to taunt him when Police Scotland's Cold Case Unit arrived on the scene[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) by Denzil Meyrick:Category:For Sharing|Full ReviewFor Sharing]]
 Something's gone horribly wrong. It's Christmas Eve and everything is very busy in Santa's grotto. The presents are all ready and waiting to be loaded onto the sleigh and the reindeer are itching to get going. But Santa? Santa is just not in the mood. He is tired of delivering the latest toys to children who only play with them for five minutes. He wishes people would remember what Christmas is really about - a time for families to come together for love and friendship and goodwill to one another. [[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston|Full Review]]<!-- Yuval Noah Harari Keeley -->
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===[[21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari]]===
===[[The Coming of the Spirits by Rob Keeley]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|Politics and SocietyConfident Readers]]
Yuval Noah HarariIf gave us ''Sapiens'', which told the history of mankind and then ''Homo Deus'' which looked at mankind's future. Now we have ''21 Lessons for the 21st Century'' which looks at the challenges we currently face and it's enlightening, thought-provoking and occasionally just a little bit frightening. It's unlikely that mankind will face what - eighty years ago - would have been thought of as a traditional war, with armies, navies and air forces fighting it out hand to hand. It's much more likely that the threats we'll face will be relatively new. Harari looks at them in some depth. [[21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari|Full Review]]
In Victorian England, young Edward Fitzberranger is about to be infected with scarlet fever and die. Further back still in time, Sir Francis Fitzberranger is about to marry Tina, the love of his life. In the modern day, Henry and Luke are getting on with life. And in an alternate timeline, Ellie is working for a resistance movement and struggling under a Britain ruled by the Nazis... [[The Coming of the Spirits by Rob Keeley|Full Review]]
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===[[Aftershocks by A N Wilson]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionSnowglobe by Amy Wilson]]===
In a country very much like New Zealand, but at the same time most avowedly not, two women will find love[[image:4star. Strong love toojpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was the only thing to make sense of all those exaggerated songs she'd heard, and books and poems she'd read, and plays she'd acted in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbole. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some time, but it does burgeon, or so we're promised from the off, because of something quite drastic – a major earthquake very much like the one that hit Christchurch, but at the same time most avowedly not. This book then is the combined exploration of the lovers and the story of the quake. [[Aftershocks by A N Wilson:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
Jago doesn't like Clementine. He knows there is something different about her and he doesn't like it. And he never lets her forget it. Clementine knows she's different too, and that the difference is magic. And as much as she tries to ignore it, Clementine's magic is getting stronger. So when Jago's bullying gets too much, it's not really surprising that Clem loses control of it and gets herself suspended from school. [[Snowglobe by Amy Wilson|Full Review]]<!-- Torday Haig -->
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===[[The Lost Magician by Piers Torday]]===
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In a world ravaged by the horrors of the Second World War[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], two boys and two girls move [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixie. She's cursed! She can't speak unless it's to tell the countryside to stay with a professortruth. They find You might think this is a secret door good thing because telling lies is bad, right? But sometimes the truth isn't nice and then sometimes a strange white lie is okay and enthralling world where they are neededsometimes it's better to say nothing at all. You might not want to attract the attention of the school bully by calling him mean and nasty, for example, or you might not want to play a major role in an epic battletell someone that you think their brand new haircut looks awful. Sound familiar? [[The Lost Magician Truth Pixie by Piers TordayMatt Haig and Chris Mould|Full Review]]
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===[[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M B Vincent]]===
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[[image:4starDr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to the sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her father, the judge. Luckily for Jess, she doesn't have to try too hard to dodge her family's suspicions as a series of gruesome local murders are taking place and that's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in the thick of the investigation, and to her delight finds that she can actually be useful.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] But with the small population dwindling and the sense of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[:Category:General FictionJess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M B Vincent|General FictionFull Review]]
Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the weekend and, while waiting for his wife to arrive, finds a mysterious key down the back of an antique chair<!-- Laura Solomon -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:9386897385. The grubby and torn label to which is attached readsjpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. [[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden|Full Reviewuk/dp/9386897385/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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===[[Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too? Broken Things by Catherine Pickles and Chantal BourgonjeLauren Oliver]]===
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When we [[Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|last met Worzel Woolface]] he was a rather frightened dog who had difficulty meeting people. He's a bit better now 'This is the problem with words and something which he really enjoys even stories: there is going for a walk. Itnever one truth''s not just a case of attaching a lead and heading for your favourite spot - there are a lot of other things to think about first. [[Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|Full Review]]
Summer, Mia and Brynn are obsessed with a novel called ''The Way into Lovelorn''. They begin to believe it is real, that the world of Lovelorn is really materialising around them, and start writing their own fan-fiction sequel. One day, Summer is violently murdered in the woods where they all played and everyone thinks Mia and Brynn did it. [[Broken Things by Lauren Oliver|Full Review]]
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[[image:4''I believe in love at first sight.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]Fate, [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]the universe, [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]]all of it. But not how you're thinking. I don't mean it in the our souls were split and you're my other half forever and ever sort of way. I just think you're meant to meet some people. I think the universe nudges them into your path.''
Flitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, ''BellewetherWhat If It's Us'' tells the fascinating tale is one of the Wilde House and all its inhabitantsthose books that just gives you a boost when you need it. In the present tense aspectsA feel good, the Wilde House is being turned into a museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wildefun and easy read. It is told from I was surprised at the perspective collaboration of CharleySilvera and Albertalli – one known for happy endings, the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house other for tragedy – but they really work together well. Each takes a character and their story; a tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sistervoices are so distinct, Lydiaso real, and a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to live there. The perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time that you are immediately sucked in history, just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself. [[Bellewether What if It's Us by Susanna KearsleyBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera|Full Review]]
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===[[The Legend of Kevin: A Roly-Poly Flying Pony Adventure Cold Breath (Legend of Kevin 1Gunnhildur Mystery) by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreQuentin Bates]]===
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Meet Kevin. HeGunna wasn's a flying pony, and he's t too keen when she was taken off police duties to become a little on the plump sidebodyguard. He loves biscuits too much is why, but he It wasn's happily living in t just the middle sheer inconvenience of nowhere, in it - away from home for however long the job took and with no contact with the family - she wasn't the wild, wet hills of only one to have doubts about the Outermost Westman she was guarding. Now meet Max. He's a simple human being Invited to Iceland by prominent politician Steinunn Strand, not flying anywhere, and wishing for Ali Osman was either a pet saint who devoted himself to share his time helping refugees escape the carnage in his toptheir Middle Eastern homeland, or a money-floor flat with, something his Byronically goth sister and parents don't agree withlaundering gunrunner. One night The truth was probably a combination of the two, howeverbut whichever or whatever was correct, there's money on Osman's head and this is the wild reason why he and wet hills Gunna are wilder and wetter than usualholed up in an isolated house outside Reykjavik, with Gunna toting a gun under her fleece and an enormous storm blows Kevin out with a group of his nest, and on to the balcony outside Max's windowarmed police in a nearby house. The two are bound to become friends, but they might not be able to relax just yet, for the bad weather has not finished… [[The Legend of Kevin: A Roly-Poly Flying Pony Adventure Cold Breath (Legend of Kevin 1Gunnhildur Mystery) by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreQuentin Bates|Full Review]]
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===[[The Murder of Harriet Monkton by Elizabeth Haynes]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]], ==[[Dear Evan Hansen:Category:True Crime|True CrimeThe Novel by Val Emmich]]===
''But that's just it'', she said[[image:4.5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''It's ''not'' HarrietEvan Hansen spends a lot of time indoors by himself. This worries his mother, is it? Not our Harrietwho has engaged a therapist to try to help Evan with his extreme anxiety issues. ItEvan's some manufactured creature, that exists only for this blessed inquest: something therapist assigns him the task of writing a daily letter to be summed up like himself as a spirit, way of getting Evan to be examined think more constructively about himself and pored overthe world around him. But Connor Murphy, to be sneered a rather scary boy at school, finds one of Evan's letters and judged. Harriet deserves to be remembered as she was to usgets the wrong end of the stick because Evan has mentioned Zoe, not picked at like carrionthe girl he has a crush on and who is Connor's sister.''[[Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by Val Emmich|Full Review]]
And that was the problem: it seemed that there were two Harriets. There was the one her friends - a fellow teacher, her would-be lover, her seducer and the man who was her landlord who was also her lover - knew. Some spoke of her as kindly, virtuous and pious, but that was before her body was found behind the chapel which she regularly attended in Bromley. She'd been poisoned - or had taken her own life. After the inquest was opened another Harriet would emerge, one who was about six months pregnant and who had obviously not been living the chaste life expected of a young, unmarried woman in 1843. [[The Murder of Harriet Monkton by Elizabeth Haynes|Full Review]] <!-- Vallance M C Beaton -->
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===[[You Only Live Once Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by Jess VallanceM C Beaton]]===
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Gracie Dart is St Ethelred's Church in the idyllic Cotswold village of Thirk Magna has a studiousteam of dedicated bell ringers, responsible student with the keenest being twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin and when we first meet them they're preparing for the bishop's visit. Now you might be expecting an older, perhaps rather grey man, but this bishop is a colour coded timetable and French verbs covering her wallslittle different. SheOne description is 'sex on legs's hardworking and smart even Agatha Raisin is a little smitten - at first - but once her final school exams are over, Gracie has there's the merest whiff of a revelationscandal about the bishop. After she mistakenly thinks she It's contracted a fatal illness (the perils mystery of looking up symptoms on the internet) Gracie decides to start living her life. Her studies are finished for the summer so Gracie wants to say yes to every opportunity that comes her waybishop's ex-fiancee, local heiress Jennifer Toynby, who disappeared very suddenly and just like neither she nor her meticulous study timetable, Gracie Dart doesn't do anything by half measuresbody have ever been found. [[You Only Live Once Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by Jess VallanceM C Beaton|Full Review]]
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===[[Foundryside Louisiana's Way Home by Robert Jackson BennettKate DiCamillo]]===
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Sancia Grado It is just about to pull off the biggest heist middle of the night when twelve year old Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her fugitive life for more money than she has ever seen before in all up to tell her gruelling years on Tevanne's streets. The job: steal a small wooden box from a safe deep inside that the Waterwatch-patrolled harbour day of reckoning has arrived and deliver it untouched they must leave home immediately. Granny is prone to middle of the client. Fearless and quick, night ideas so initially Louisiana is not too worried by this but then gradually she realises that this time it is the best thief Foundryside has to offer and has different. This time Granny intends that they will never interfered with jobs beforereturn. Yet once she has the box in Separated from her friends, Raymie and Beverly and her possessioncat, Archie, she can't shake the uneasy apprehensive feeling of what lies withinLouisiana is devastated and desperate. For Sancia She is no ordinary thief, with the magical ability to scrive and understand everything she touches determined that she's about to discover a secret that will sent find her fleeing for way home somehow. But as her life, unearthing myths that are it transpires more truth than fairy-tale. Working against becomes entwined with the clock, Sancia will work people living in a small Georgia town Louisiana starts to save worry about the ''curse'' Granny told her world was upon her head and prevent a descent into destructionfears that she is destined only for goodbyes. [[Foundryside Louisiana's Way Home by Robert Jackson BennettKate DiCamillo|Full Review]]
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===[[What's Left Unsaid Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Deborah StoneSally Gardner]]===
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Sasha has Betsy K Glory lives a lot rather wonderful life on her platea peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and Her father, Alonso, makes the marriage needs workmost wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Son Zac Her mother, Myrtle, is entering a rebellious adolescent phase mermaid and it's hard comes to know how to redirect himvisit regularly, although she still lives in the sea. Mother Annie, an alcoholicBetsy dreams of two things: firstly, is beginning about the journey into dementia circus owned by a tiger and whether it would ever come to her island and has never been an easy person at secondly, about a magical ice cream made from the best berries of timesthe Gongalong bush. Thank heavens for her lovely dog, Sebastian, and his unconditional loveOne scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true. [[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone|Full Review]]
And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive. And a journey is planned...[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner|Full Review]] Tweet scheduled for 9.15clare@headofzeus.com <!-- Marion Leigh Davies -->
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===[[A Holiday to Die For Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Marion LeighDeborah Kay Davies]]===
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It was the holiday of This is a lifetime: Petra Minx was accompanying her childhood friend, Carloquiet but remarkable story, to his cousin's wedding written in South Africa and taking the opportunity to see as much a style reminiscent of the country as she could whilst she was thereE. M. Petra works for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Carlo is from InterpolForster, so they're hoping for a holiday free from crime, although Carlo does seem to have rather more interest in diamond smuggling than '[Tirzah and the average tourist and PetraPrince of Crows's boss doesn't seem to appreciate has no great and stirring action but rather small ripples that she's on vacationmake a huge impact. It's not asking much for her to track down Tirzah is a young girl who's of sixteen raised in a small Welsh town in the daughter 1970s by highly religious parents as part of an influential friend and check that a strict religious community. The book follows Tirzah though a tumultuous year as she tries to decide who she's OKwants to be, is it? Then there are Megan and Hilary: they're on a gap year, but Petra can't help but think that they're getting themselves into dangers they don't understand. Still, it's not going what she wants to spoil a wedding in a vineyard, is it? The bride does seem strangely uninvolved in the proceedings, though..do with her life. [[A Holiday to Die For Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Marion LeighDeborah Kay Davies|Full Review]]
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===[[Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Vivika DeNegre (Editor)]]===
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[[image:4starThe problem with a craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results from your labours is also traditional, or - depending upon what light you shine on it - old-fashioned. Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection of patterns from today's top designers. As a word of warning, if you read ''Modern Patchwork Magazine'' you may well find that there's nothing new in the book, but if you're new to the magazine this could well prove to be a delightful collection from the back catalogue.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Modern Patchwork Home:Category:General FictionDynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Vivika DeNegre (Editor)|General FictionFull Review]]
''Edward is six weeks old and I’ve had no sleep. I had thirty stitches in my perineum, the wounds still tug and itch. They had to do the stitches twice because the first lot became infected. The old-school midwife told me I wasn’t paying enough attention to personal hygiene. I must shower twice a day, or better still, take a salt bath. Do they really expect me to do that? Have they ever tried to shower when a baby is crying and you’re so tired you can barely stand and your partner is banging around downstairs because he’s late for work again?'' I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a baby. Many of them simply managed to put one foot in front of the other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder and developed post-natal depression[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis|Full Review]] <!-- Stein Lange -->
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===[[Unrest The Chaos of Now by Jesper SteinErin Lange]]===
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DCI Steen Eli, a talented hacker, is assigned a puzzling case – one of those people who manage to fly below the radar. When new friends offer him the tortured body of chance to enter a man found in a cemetery in Copenhagen but left there during a riot – prestigious competition he soon realises this golden opportunity has a riot that had the area swarming sting in policeits tail. How could anyone have been murdered and left in the open with so many police people can hand on siteheart say that they have not made mistakes? Unless Most people are fortunate not to have a permanent online reminder, the killer is one very presence of them… As the case becomes more and more complicatedwhich refuses to allow you to adapt, to change, it soon begins to take grow. Eli has a toll on Steen's already troubled personal few mistakes skulking online, moments of madness that if discovered would change his lifeforever. He won't stop until the killer is caught, whatever the consequences. But the consequences may turn out to be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[Unrest The Chaos of Now by Jesper SteinErin Lange|Full Review]]
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Even with a birthday fast approachingAs the blurb says, I'm still 'In a bit young to be reading about retirement. My next life change cottage in the pipeline will be a big oneNormandy, and it does involve leaving Lina Rose is writing to the 9 to 5 behind for daughter she abandoned as a yacht and the silky blue waters baby''…the whole of the Caribbean, but only for Chonghaile's second novel is a year, and then I will be back, tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and with many working years still series of letters addressed to come. Also, I like workDiane. My job Lina is interesting, I get to travel, what we do matters now in her seventies and it's not badly rewardedDiane is a mother herself. So no, I'm not planning to retire They have met just yetonce since Lina gave her up for adoption. But as the premise of this book is about planning (and if It was not now, then when?) I was still intrigueda good meeting. [[Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar The Reckoning by Dominic WatsonClar Ni Chonghaile|Full Review]]
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===[[Murder Mile The Moving Blade (Jane Tennison 4Detective Hiroshi 2) by Lynda La PlanteMichael Pronko]]===
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It was February 1979 The funeral is a good time to rob a house in Tokyo - and even better when they're famous as most people will be there. Bernard Mattson had been famous - one of the strikegreat political thinkers -ridden 'Winter and renowned for his support of Discontent' when a body was discovered the American bases in PeckhamJapan. It was to be One of the first great tragedies of two bodies in two his murder was that he was just a few daysshort of meeting up with his daughter Jamie: they hadn't been estranged, but when Mattson and her mother divorced she took the teenager to the first - that of a young woman - would remain unidentified for some timeUSA and father and daughter just drifted apart. The second - an older lady - was found in Jamie and her mother came back for the boot of funeral, but her car by mother departed as soon (or even before) she decently could, leaving Jamie to settle her sonfather's affairs. Jane Tennison has been promoted to Sergeant and finds herself The only problem is that an awful lot of people seem very interested in the midst of an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence Bernard Mattson's legacy - and pressure they're prepared to be violent to get a quick result. Four days later and another body to add to the count, the police have named their suspect, but Tennison has her doubtshands on it. [[Murder Mile The Moving Blade (Jane Tennison 4Detective Hiroshi 2) by Lynda La PlanteMichael Pronko|Full Review]]
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===[[Broken Ground Storytelling: The Presenter's Secret Weapon by Val McDermidJohn Clare]]===
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As the Officer in Charge of the Historic Cases UnitI was a little bit nervous when I picked up ''Storytelling: The Presenter's Secret Weapon''. After all, DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at the scene majority of the crime, but for once, shepresentations which I's ve seen or given were in the right place at the right time when a body is dug up in the Highlandsbusiness context and what was required was absolute professionalism, not an act put on for light entertainment. Initially it looks as I needn't have worried though : the death dates back book is an essential guide to WWIIpreparing and giving your presentation, but the fact that the dead man is wearing a pair of Nikes means that the case is Karen'swith or without what has now come to be known as The Dreaded PowerPoint. A little while later sheI'd come to think that sheve been making presentations successfully (but I'd been ll say more about this later) in various professional situations for some forty or more years and I did wonder if the wrong place at the wrong time when she overheard a conversation in a cafebook would be able to teach me anything. Intervening, she thought that she'd prevented a crime, but what she said would come back to haunt herIt did. [[Broken Ground by Val McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[Half Moon Bay by Alice LaPlante]]===
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Half Moon Bay is a small town on [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] (If multiple categories use the same format, separated by comma + space)Sponge and Mildew are not the west coast biggest fans of Americatheir school, a little Maudlin Towers. Who would be? It's run down from San Francisco. Jane has just moved there, to start a new life after losing everything when her teenage daughter was killed It's gloomy. You can't move for gargoyles and her husband left herthat's discounting the teachers. Although she has begun to But when they find a little peace in out that there's no money left and the quiet, seaside town, one day a child goes missingschool might close they realise that, bringing back painful memories for Jane of her grief and loss tatty andmorose as the Maudlin Towers is, also, rousing the suspicions of the local townsfolk that she it is somehow involved in the disappearance''home''. So they set their minds on a rescue mission... [[Half Moon Bay Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Alice LaPlanteChris Priestley|Full Review]]
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