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===[[A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Mystery by Steve Burrows]]===
===[[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeFor Sharing|CrimeFor Sharing]]
DCI Domenic Jejeune's most celebrated case was his rescue of the Home Secretary's daughter when she was kidnapped. It's always been his deep regret that he failed to rescue the man who was kidnapped with her and this has all resurfaced now that the case is being reviewed. Long-buried secrets are bound to come to light, even though the officer reviewing the case, DC Desdemona Gill, is a fan of his to the extent that it's almost embarrassing. The review isn't the only problem he has though: a body has been found on some waste ground, but it's so badly burned that identification is difficult - and made more difficult by the indecision of the Medical Examiner. [[A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Mystery by Steve Burrows|Full Review]]
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]]<!-- Neil White Keeley -->
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===[[The Darkness Around Her by Neil White]]===
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Lizzie Barnsley was escaping from her abusive boyfriend when she was murdered on the canal towpath on New Year's Eve[[image:4star. It obviously wasn't the boyfriend as he was still being held by Lizzie's friends at the pub, but before long Peter Box was arrested and charged. He'd sought treatment at the local hospital for an injury to his head which was the same shape as the heel of Lizzie's shoe - and her blood was on the shoe. Dan Grant was called in to represent Box, but there's a problem. Box won't talk - won't talk to the police or to Grant, so how is he to represent the man? And had Box killed Lizzie? It was obvious that he hadn't known her - so why would he kill her? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Darkness Around Her by Neil White:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
 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]]<!-- Connors Wilson -->
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===[[Blue Sky Black Snowglobe by John ConnorsAmy Wilson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
''When Tom Allenby, the 14 year-old boy who can control the elements, sees metal objects and cars rising into the air one night he knows he is facing a powerful enemy. The trail leads to stolen magnetic stones, sinister experiments in an old country house and a village hiding a secret[[image:4star. As each of his friends faces challenges of their ownjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], can Tom fight a force which knows all about them?''[[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
Of course Jago doesn't like Clementine. He knows there is something different about her and he can! 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. [[ Blue Sky Black Snowglobe by John Connors Amy Wilson|Full Review]] <!-- Melissa Leet Haig -->
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===[[Landslide by Melissa Leet]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's FictionThe Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Chris Mould]]===
The area where Jill and Susie lived wasn't highly populated so it was fortunate that they became such good friends[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], despite the fact that Susie was a year older than Jill[[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixie. Susie lived with her mother, an alcoholic, and Jill lived with She's cursed! She can'hert speak unless it'' mother, who dedicated herself s to her gardentell the truth. Jill's father was Jay TutleYou might think this is a good thing because telling lies is bad, right? But sometimes the photographer, but he spent much of his time working away - often for months on end. In reality there was little difference between the two families: Mrs Smithtruth isn's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still young. Joy t nice and sometimes a white lie is okay and tragedy would visit Jillsometimes it's homebetter to say nothing at all. ''Landslide'' is You might not want to attract the story attention of how what happened determined the course of Jill's life school bully by calling him mean and how great tragedy can breed resilience and hopenasty, for example, or you might not want to tell someone that you think their brand new haircut looks awful. [[Landslide The Truth Pixie by Melissa LeetMatt Haig and Chris Mould|Full Review]]
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===[[The House Across Jess Castle and the Street Eyeballs of Death by Lesley PearseM B Vincent]]===
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Have you ever found yourself staring out Dr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to the window slightly longer sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Rather than needed to see what your neighbours being delighted, her family are up to? This is a common occurrence suspicious, especially her father, the judge. Luckily for Katy Speed who regularly watches Jess, she doesn'The House Across the Streett have to try too hard to dodge her family' s suspicions as a frequent stream series of women gruesome local murders are brought there in the same black hummer taking place and seen leaving a short while later. Although slightly unusual, not much is said aside from your typical neighbourhood gossip, that 's all anyone is until Katy is woken up talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in the early hours one morning to find out that thick of the same house has been burnt investigation, and to the ground, along with the woman who lives there. This situation is made a whole lot worse for Katy when her father is arrested for starting the firedelight finds that she can actually be useful. What follows is an engrossing depiction of Katy's quest to prove her father's innocence whilst dealing But with her unbearable mother the small population dwindling and ultimately having the safety sense of many people's lives in her hands. danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[The House Across Jess Castle and the Street Eyeballs of Death by Lesley PearseM B Vincent|Full Review]]
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===[[A Gathering of Ghosts Nothing Lasting by Karen MaitlandLaura Solomon]]===
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Witchcraft, We never know the supernatural and the will man's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. It's what his mother used to survive at all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the darker side of human naturecall him, not least because he found it annoying. The land When we first meet Boyo his mother is unhappyalive, the old spirits want revenge if not ''living'' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and famine drinking. Housework is kindling a resurgence foreign country. When she dies she's not missed, firstly because she'd spent a couple of the old faithyears in a mental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues to haunt Boyo. As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne She wants him to ignore that achieve something rotten in his life: what she has taken root. The sacred well in mind is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on that he could be a wind of changefamous arsonist. [[A Gathering of Ghosts Nothing Lasting by Karen MaitlandLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Monsters We Deserve Broken Things by Marcus SedgwickLauren Oliver]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image''This is the problem with words and even stories:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]]there is never one truth''
Two hundred years agoSummer, bad weather, bad company (wellMia and Brynn are obsessed with a novel called ''The Way into Lovelorn''. They begin to believe it is real, that the kind that world of Lovelorn is also mad, and dangerous to know)really materialising around them, a spooky reading list and a few chance topics of discussion all led a young woman to start writing her first, and definitely her most famous ever, booktheir own fan-fiction sequel. The narrator of this novel has brought himself to a remote Alpine building One day, Summer is violently murdered in the centre of that first novel's world, to revisit it in honour of its bicentenary. He hates it, for he sees it as badly written woods where they all played and with some unwelcome biases. He seems to only be there everyone thinks Mia and doing this for the publisher to whom he addresses a lot of the script we readBrynn did it. But what if some greater force wanted him there too? [[The Monsters We Deserve Broken Things by Marcus SedgwickLauren Oliver|Full Review]]
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===[[The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) What if It's Us by Denzil MeyrickBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image:4star''I believe in love at first sight.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]Fate, the universe, 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.''
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 ''What If It's Us'' is one of three women initially caused great excitement, which rapidly turned to horror when they realised those books that the women had died just over twenty years agogives you a boost when you need it. 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 ninetiesA feel good, fun and easy read. It I was also an opportunity for DCI Jim Daley to confront a failure in his past. He'd been on surprised at the original case collaboration of Silvera and Albertalli – one known for happy endings, the murderer had never been foundother for tragedy – but they really work together well. He'd also lost Each takes a close friend character and made some enemiestheir voices are so distinct, so real, one of whom would return to taunt him when Police Scotland's Cold Case Unit arrived on the scenethat you are immediately sucked in. [[The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) What if It's Us by Denzil MeyrickBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera|Full Review]]
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===[[21 Lessons for the 21st Century Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Yuval Noah HarariQuentin Bates]]===
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Yuval Noah HarariIf Gunna wasn't too keen when she was taken off police duties to become a bodyguard. gave us It wasn''Sapiens'', which told t just the history sheer inconvenience of mankind it - away from home for however long the job took and then with no contact with the family - she wasn''Homo Deus'' which looked at mankind's futuret the only one to have doubts about the man she was guarding. Now we have ''21 Lessons for Invited to Iceland by prominent politician Steinunn Strand, Ali Osman was either a saint who devoted himself to helping refugees escape the 21st Century'' which looks at the challenges we currently face and it's enlighteningcarnage in their Middle Eastern homeland, thoughtor a money-provoking and occasionally just a little bit frighteninglaundering gunrunner. It's unlikely that mankind will face what - eighty years ago - would have been thought The truth was probably a combination of as a traditional warthe two, with armiesbut whichever or whatever was correct, navies and air forces fighting it out hand to hand. Itthere's money on Osman's much more likely that head and this is the threats we'll face will be relatively new. Harari looks at them reason why he and Gunna are holed up in an isolated house outside Reykjavik, with Gunna toting a gun under her fleece and with a group of armed police in some deptha nearby house. [[21 Lessons for the 21st Century Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Yuval Noah HarariQuentin Bates|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]], ==[[Dear Evan Hansen:Category:General Fiction|General FictionThe Novel by Val Emmich]]===
In [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Evan Hansen spends a country very much like New Zealand, but at the same lot of time most avowedly notindoors by himself. This worries his mother, two women will find lovewho has engaged a therapist to try to help Evan with his extreme anxiety issues. Strong love too, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was Evan's therapist assigns him the only thing task of writing a daily letter to make sense himself as a way of all those exaggerated songs she'd heard, getting Evan to think more constructively about himself and books and poems she'd read, and plays she'd acted in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbolethe world around him. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some timeBut Connor Murphy, but it does burgeona rather scary boy at school, or so wefinds one of Evan're promised from s letters and gets the off, because wrong end of something quite drastic – a major earthquake very much like the one that hit Christchurchstick because Evan has mentioned Zoe, but at the same time most avowedly not. This book then girl he has a crush on and who is the combined exploration of the lovers and the story of the quakeConnor's sister. [[Aftershocks Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by A N WilsonVal Emmich|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Magician Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by Piers TordayM C Beaton]]===
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In St Ethelred's Church in the idyllic Cotswold village of Thirk Magna has a world ravaged by the horrors team of dedicated bell ringers, with the Second World War, two boys keenest being twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin and two girls move to when we first meet them they're preparing for the countryside to stay with bishop's visit. Now you might be expecting an older, perhaps rather grey man, but this bishop is a professorlittle different. They find One description is 'sex on legs' and even Agatha Raisin is a secret door and then little smitten - at first - but there's the merest whiff of a strange scandal about the bishop. It's the mystery of the bishop's ex-fiancee, local heiress Jennifer Toynby, who disappeared very suddenly and enthralling world where they are needed, to play a major role in an epic battleneither she nor her body have ever been found. Sound familiar? [[The Lost Magician Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by Piers TordayM C Beaton|Full Review]]
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===[[Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo]]===
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It is the middle of the night when twelve year old Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they must leave home immediately. Granny is prone to middle of the night ideas so initially Louisiana is not too worried by this but then gradually she realises that this time it is different. This time Granny intends that they will never return. Separated from her friends, Raymie and Beverly and her cat, Archie, Louisiana is devastated and desperate. She is determined that she will find her way home somehow. But as her life becomes entwined with the people living in a small Georgia town Louisiana starts to worry about the ''curse'' Granny told her was upon her head and fears that she is destined only for goodbyes. [[Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo|Full Review]] <!-- Chadwick --> |-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:4star0349700249.jpg|link=Categoryhttp:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction//www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349700249/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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. The grubby and torn label to which is attached reads... [[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden|Full Review]]
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===[[Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]]Mr Tiger, [[:Category:Pets|PetsBetsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner]]===
When we [[Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonjeimage:5star.jpg|last met Worzel Woolfacelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] he was a rather frightened dog who had difficulty meeting people. He's a bit better now and something which he really enjoys is going for a walk. It'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:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
Betsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father, Alonso, makes the most wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Her mother, Myrtle, is a mermaid and comes to visit regularly, although she still lives in the sea. Betsy dreams of two things: firstly, about the circus owned by a tiger and whether it would ever come to her island and secondly, about a magical ice cream made from the berries of the Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true.
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Flitting between the present day and mid 16thcenturyThis is a quiet but remarkable story, written in a style reminiscent of E. M. Forster, ''Bellewether[Tirzah and the Prince of Crows'' tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House has no great and all its inhabitantsstirring action but rather small ripples that make a huge impact. In the present tense aspects, the Wilde House Tirzah is being turned into a museum due to young girl of sixteen raised in a small Welsh town in the legacy left 1970s by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is told from the perspective highly religious parents as part of Charley, the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; a tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sister, Lydia, and strict religious community. The book follows Tirzah though a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe tumultuous year as she tries to decide who was sent she wants to live there. The perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charleybe, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history, just as Charley is beginning she wants to unravel it herselfdo with her life. [[Bellewether Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Susanna KearsleyDeborah Kay Davies|Full Review]]
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Meet Kevin. He's The problem with a flying ponycraft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results from your labours is also traditional, and he's a little or - depending upon what light you shine on the plump sideit - old-fashioned. He loves biscuits too much is why, but he Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection of patterns from today's happily living in the middle top designers. As a word of nowherewarning, in the wild, wet hills of the Outermost West. Now meet Max. Heif you read ''Modern Patchwork Magazine'' you may well find that there's a simple human being, not flying anywhere, and wishing for a pet to share his time nothing new in his top-floor flat withthe book, something his Byronically goth sister and parents donbut if you't agree with. One night, however, the wild and wet hills are wilder and wetter than usual, and an enormous storm blows Kevin out of his nest, and on re new to the balcony outside Max's window. The two are bound magazine this could well prove to become friends, but they might not be able to relax just yet, for a delightful collection from the bad weather has not finished… back catalogue. [[The Legend of KevinModern Patchwork Home: A Roly-Poly Flying Pony Adventure Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Vivika DeNegre (Legend of Kevin 1Editor) by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre|Full Review]]
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===[[The Murder Chaos of Harriet Monkton Now by Elizabeth HaynesErin Lange]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]], [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]]
''But that's just it'', she said[[image:4. ''It's ''not'' Harriet, is it? Not our Harriet5star. It's some manufactured creaturejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], that exists only for this blessed inquest[[:Category: something to be summed up like a spirit, to be examined and pored over, to be sneered at and judged. Harriet deserves to be remembered as she was to us, not picked at like carrion.''Crime|Crime]]
And that was Eli, a talented hacker, is one of those people who manage to fly below the problem: it seemed that there were two Harrietsradar. There was When new friends offer him the one her friends - chance to enter a prestigious competition he soon realises this golden opportunity has a sting in its tail. How many people can hand on heart say that they have not made mistakes? Most people are fortunate not to have a fellow teacher, her would-be loverpermanent online reminder, her seducer and the man who was her landlord who was also her lover - knew. Some spoke very presence of her as kindlywhich refuses to allow you to adapt, virtuous and piousto change, but that was before her body was found behind the chapel which she regularly attended in Bromleyto grow. She'd been poisoned - or had taken her own life. After the inquest was opened another Harriet Eli has a few mistakes skulking online, moments of madness that if discovered would emerge, one who was about six months pregnant and who had obviously not been living the chaste change his life expected of a young, unmarried woman in 1843forever. [[The Murder Chaos of Harriet Monkton Now by Elizabeth HaynesErin Lange|Full Review]]
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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[You Only Live Once The Reckoning by Jess VallanceClar Ni Chonghaile]]===
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Gracie Dart is As the blurb says, ''In a studiouscottage in Normandy, responsible student with Lina Rose is writing to the daughter she abandoned as a colour coded timetable and French verbs covering her walls. Shebaby''s hardworking and smart but once her final school exams are over, Gracie has a revelation. After she mistakenly thinks she…the whole of Chonghaile's contracted second novel is a fatal illness (the perils series of looking up symptoms on the internet) Gracie decides letters addressed to start living her lifeDiane. Her studies are finished for the summer so Gracie wants to say yes to every opportunity that comes Lina is now in her way, seventies and Diane is a mother herself. They have met just like once since Lina gave her meticulous study timetable, Gracie Dart doesn't do anything by half measuresup for adoption. It was not a good meeting. [[You Only Live Once The Reckoning by Jess VallanceClar Ni Chonghaile|Full Review]]
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===[[Foundryside The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Robert Jackson BennettMichael Pronko]]===
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Sancia Grado The funeral is just about a good time to pull off the biggest heist of her fugitive life for more money than she has ever seen before rob a house in all her gruelling years on TevanneTokyo - and even better when they's streetsre famous as most people will be there. The job: steal a small wooden box from a safe deep inside Bernard Mattson had been famous - one of the Waterwatchgreat political thinkers -patrolled harbour and deliver it untouched to renowned for his support of the clientAmerican bases in Japan. Fearless One of the great tragedies of his murder was that he was just a few days short of meeting up with his daughter Jamie: they hadn't been estranged, but when Mattson and quick, her mother divorced she is took the best thief Foundryside has teenager to offer the USA and has never interfered with jobs beforefather and daughter just drifted apart. Yet once she has Jamie and her mother came back for the box in funeral, but her possessionmother departed as soon (or even before) she decently could, she canleaving Jamie to settle her father't shake the uneasy apprehensive feeling of what lies withins affairs. For Sancia The only problem is no ordinary thief, with the magical ability to scrive that an awful lot of people seem very interested in Bernard Mattson's legacy - and understand everything she touches shethey's about re prepared to be violent to discover a secret that will sent her fleeing for her life, unearthing myths that are get their hands on it transpires more truth than fairy-tale. Working against the clock, Sancia will work to save her world and prevent a descent into destruction. [[Foundryside The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Robert Jackson BennettMichael Pronko|Full Review]]
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===[[Storytelling: The Presenter's Secret Weapon by John Clare]]===
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[[imageI was a little bit nervous when I picked up ''Storytelling:4starThe Presenter's Secret Weapon''.jpg|link=Category After all, the majority of presentations which I've seen or given were in a business context and what was required was absolute professionalism, not an act put on for light entertainment. I needn't have worried though:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] the book is an essential guide to preparing and giving your presentation, with or without what has now come to be known as The Dreaded PowerPoint. I've been making presentations successfully (but I'll say more about this later) in various professional situations for some forty or more years and I did wonder if the book would be able to teach me anything. It did.
Sasha has a lot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and the marriage needs work. Son Zac is entering a rebellious adolescent phase and it's hard to know how to redirect him. Mother Annie, an alcoholic, is beginning the journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the best of times. Thank heavens for her lovely dog, Sebastian, and his unconditional love. [[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone|Full Review]]
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===[[A Holiday to Die For by Marion Leigh]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersTreasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Chris Priestley]]===
It was [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] (If multiple categories use the holiday of a lifetime: Petra Minx was accompanying her childhood friendsame format, Carlo, to his cousin's wedding in South Africa separated by comma + space)Sponge and taking Mildew are not the opportunity to see as much biggest fans of the country as she could whilst she was theretheir school, Maudlin Towers. Petra works for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Carlo is from Interpol, so theyWho would be? It're hoping for a holiday free from crime, although Carlo does seem to have rather more interest in diamond smuggling than the average tourist and Petras run down. It's boss doesngloomy. You can't seem to appreciate move for gargoyles and that she's on vacationdiscounting the teachers. It's not asking much for her to track down a young girl whoBut when they find out that there's no money left and the daughter of an influential friend and check school might close they realise that she's OK, tatty and morose as the Maudlin Towers is , it? Then there are Megan and Hilary: theyis 're on a gap year, but Petra can't help but think that theyhome're getting themselves into dangers they don't understand. Still, it's not going to spoil a wedding in So they set their minds on a vineyard, is it? The bride does seem strangely uninvolved in the proceedings, thoughrescue mission... [[A Holiday to Die For Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Marion LeighChris Priestley|Full Review]]
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