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===[[Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) Santa Goes on Strike by Chris PriestleyJem Vanston]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] 
[[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 biggest fans of their school, Maudlin Towers. Who would be? ItSomething's run downgone horribly wrong. It's gloomy. You can't move for gargoyles Christmas Eve and thateverything is very busy in Santa's discounting the teachersgrotto. But when they find out that there's no money left The presents are all ready and waiting to be loaded onto the school might close they realise that, tatty sleigh and morose as the Maudlin Towers reindeer are itching to get going. But Santa? Santa is, it just not in the mood. He is ''home''tired of delivering the latest toys to children who only play with them for five minutes. So they set their minds on He wishes people would remember what Christmas is really about - a rescue mission.time for families to come together for love and friendship and goodwill to one another.. [[Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) Santa Goes on Strike by Chris PriestleyJem Vanston|Full Review]]<!-- Bolton Keeley -->
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===[[The Syndicate by Guy Bolton]]===
===[[The Coming of the Spirits by Rob Keeley]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersConfident Readers|ThrillersConfident Readers]]
Set in Post War America, with a society finding its feet again, this thriller weaves its way through the glitz of Hollywood, the dirt of Mob rule and the birth of an American institution. Whilst most of this book is set in Hollywood the whole story sits in the shadow of the birth of Las Vegas. We open with the murder of a high level Mob boss and when the Police and FBI refuse to properly investigate, his associates decide to bring in their own detective. Retired legend, Jonathon Craine, only wanted a quiet life away from the Studios, the Police, and most of all The Mob but they wouldn't let him have that. From the shocking start to the dramatic conclusion this is a great and compelling read. [[The Syndicate by Guy Bolton|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]]<!-- Rossner Wilson -->
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===[[The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Teens|TeensSnowglobe by Amy Wilson]]===
Raised in a small village surrounded by woodland on the border of Moldova and Ukraine, sisters Liba and Laya have lived a sheltered life - although there are whispers of troubling times ahead for Jews[[image:4star. When their grandfather takes ill, their parents must leave the sisters behind while they travel to his sickbed, but life for Liba and Laya is about to drastically change. Before their parents leavejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], Liba discovers that the fairy tales she heard as a child are in fact true as she learns that her Tati can turn in to a bear and her Mami in to a swan. Liba must carry this secret in order to help protect her sister, but the arrival of a mysterious group of men in the village carries more danger as Laya is dragged under their spell. Both sisters must stick together if they are to survive what is happening around them and they soon realise that their new-found magical heritage may be what saves them. [[The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner: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]]<!-- Auxier Haig -->
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 ===[[Sweep: The Story of a Girl Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and her Monster by Jonathan AuxierChris Mould]]===
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Poor old Truth Pixie. She's cursed! She can't speak unless it's to tell the truth. You might think this is a good thing because telling lies is bad, right? But sometimes the truth isn't nice and sometimes a white lie is okay and sometimes 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 tell someone that you think their brand new haircut looks awful. [[The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Chris Mould|Full Review]]
Nan is a climber, the best chimney sweep in London. She is growing fast, so what will happen to her when she gets too big to climb, when people realise she is a girl? Everything changes, when she is stuck in a chimney, set on fire, and saved by a golem. A story of outcasts, and friendships, told through two tales, the girl and the sweep, and the girl and her monster. Both intertwined beautifully, so that you have a fairy tale within a fairy tale. Moments of sadness slip easily into glorious happiness, then swiftly into heart-breaking tragedy. This is a heart-warming and engaging read for both young and old. [[Sweep: The Story of a Girl and her Monster by Jonathan Auxier|Full Review]] <!-- Sarah Hilary Vincent -->
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===[[Come Jess Castle and Find Me (DI Marnie Rome Book 5) the Eyeballs of Death by Sarah HilaryM B Vincent]]===
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There's no reason Dr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to think that Lara Chorley and Ruth Hull have anything in commonthe sleepy, other idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Rather than a rather strange infatuation with writing being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her father, the judge. Luckily for Jess, she doesn't have to try too hard to Michael Vokey, dodge her family's suspicions as a sadistic inmate series of Cloverton Prison. They crave his attention gruesome local murders are taking place and can't believe that he's as evil as his trial suggestsall anyone is talking about. It might not have become important was it not for Jess accidentally finds herself in the riot at thick of the prisoninvestigation, which ended up and to her delight finds that she can actually be useful. But with Vokey killing two inmates, blinding the small population dwindling and maiming more - and escaping under cover the sense of the smoke from the fire he caused. Not surprisingly staff and inmates at Cloverton are unwilling danger moving ever closer to talk about where they think Vokey might be hiding out - they have wiveshome, children and friends who might be at risk. has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[Come Jess Castle and Find Me (DI Marnie Rome Book 5) the Eyeballs of Death by Sarah HilaryM B Vincent|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead End (D I Kelly Porter) Nothing Lasting by Rachel LynchLaura Solomon]]===
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The seventh earl of Lowesdale was found hanging in his study by his teenage grandson, ZacharyWe never know the man's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. Initially everyone assumed that the nonagenarian, hard-partying aristocrat had finally realised that the glories of It's what his youth were long past and had decided mother used to take the quick way outcall him, not least because he found it annoying. When forensics discovered signs of foul play DI Kelly Porter was called inwe first meet Boyo his mother is alive, if not ''living'' as most people would understand it. It's not the only problem she has though: two young hikers have gone missing on the fells near Ullswater She spends her days watching daytime television and she drinking. Housework is in charge of the searcha foreign country. When theyshe dies she're s not found within missed, firstly because she'd spent a couple of days years in a mental hospital, but mainly because her team uncover links ghost continues to two other unsolved disappearances - and the girls all look startlingly similarhaunt Boyo. She wants him to achieve something in his life: what she has in mind is that he could be a famous arsonist. [[Dead End (D I Kelly Porter) Nothing Lasting by Rachel LynchLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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[[image''This is the problem with words and even stories:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Art|Art]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Reference|Reference]]there is never one truth''
Summer, Mia and Brynn are obsessed with a novel called ''Oh Joy for me!The Way into Lovelorn'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first person . They begin to walk believe it is real, that the mountains aloneworld of Lovelorn is really materialising around them, not because he had to for work, as a miner, quarryman, shepherd or packand start writing their own fan-horse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure and adventurefiction sequel. His rapturous encounters with their natural beautyOne day, Summer is violently murdered in the woods where they all played and everyone thinks Mia and its literary consequences, changed our view of the world''Brynn did it. [[O Joy for me! Broken Things by Keir DavidsonLauren Oliver|Full Review]]
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===[[The Ember Blade What if It's Us by Chris WoodingBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera]]===
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A land under occupation. A legendary sword. A young man's journey to find his destiny'I believe in love at first sight. Aren has lived by Fate, the rules universe, all his lifeof it. But not how you're thinking. HeI don's never questioned t mean it; thatin the our souls were split and you's just the re my other half forever and ever sort of way things are. But then his father is executed for treason, and he and his best friend Cade are thrown into a prison mine, doomed I just think you're meant to work until they drop. Unless they can somehow break free . meet some people. But what lies beyond I think the prison walls is more terrifying still. Rescued by a man who hates him yet is oath-bound to protect him, pursued by inhuman forces, Aren slowly accepts that everything he knew about his world was a lie. The rules are not there to protect him, or his people, but to enslave universe nudges them. A revolution is brewing, and Aren is being drawn into it, whether he likes it or notyour path. The key to the revolution is the Ember Blade. The sword of kings, the Excalibur of his people. Only with the Ember Blade in hand can their people be inspired to rise up . . . but it's locked in an impenetrable vault in the most heavily guarded fortress in the land. All they have to do now is steal it... [[The Ember Blade by Chris Wooding|Full Review]]'
''What If It's Us'' is one of those books that just gives you a boost when you need it. A feel good, fun and easy read. I was surprised at the collaboration of Silvera and Albertalli – one known for happy endings, the other for tragedy – but they really work together well. Each takes a character and their voices are so distinct, so real, that you are immediately sucked in. [[What if It's Us by Becky Albertelli and Adam Silvera|Full Review]] <!-- Felix Francis Quentin Bates -->
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===[[Crisis Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Felix FrancisQuentin Bates]]===
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By training Harrison Foster is a lawyer, but heGunna wasn's working as a crisis manager for a London firm. He t too keen when she was called taken off police duties to Newmarket after become a fire in a stable killed six very valuable horses, including the Derby favouritebodyguard. On It wasn't just the surface it looked like a simple fire, but sheer inconvenience of it - away from home for however long the job took and with no contact with the family - she wasn't long before Harrison discovered that all was not as it seemed, not least because there were human remains along with the charred bodies of only one to have doubts about the horsesman she was guarding. As all Invited to Iceland by prominent politician Steinunn Strand, Ali Osman was either a saint who devoted himself to helping refugees escape the staff were accounted forcarnage in their Middle Eastern homeland, who or a money-laundering gunrunner. The truth was probably a combination of the human victim? Harrison two, but whichever or whatever was completely new to correct, there's money on Osman's head and this is the world 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 thoroughbred racing: armed police in fact he knew little about horses and positively disliked thema nearby house. [[Crisis Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Felix FrancisQuentin Bates|Full Review]]
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===[[Rosewater by Tade Thompson]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[Dear Evan Hansen:Category:Science Fiction|Science FictionThe Novel by Val Emmich]]===
Rosewater is [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Evan Hansen spends a lot of time indoors by himself. This worries his mother, who has engaged a town on the edgetherapist to try to help Evan with his extreme anxiety issues. A community formed around Evan's therapist assigns him the edges task of writing a daily letter to himself as a mysterious alien biodomeway of getting Evan to think more constructively about himself and the world around him. But Connor Murphy, its residents comprise the hopefula rather scary boy at school, the hungry finds one of Evan's letters and gets the helpless - people eager for a glimpse inside wrong end of the dome or a taste of its rumoured healing powers. Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. He stick because Evan has seen inside mentioned Zoe, the biodome, girl he has a crush on and doesnwho is Connor't care to again - but when something begins killing off others like himself, Kaaro must defy his masters to search for an answer, facing his dark history and coming to a realisation about a horrifying futures sister. [[Rosewater Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by Tade ThompsonVal Emmich|Full Review]]
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===[[Charlesgate Confidential Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by Scott Von DoviakM C Beaton]]===
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In 1946 St Ethelred's Church in the idyllic Cotswold village of Thirk Magna has a gang team of criminals pull off dedicated bell ringers, 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 audacious art heistolder, making off with priceless works of art from perhaps rather grey man, but this bishop is a Boston Museumlittle different. These missing art works are never found. In 1988, One description is 'sex on legs' and even Agatha Raisin is a student finds himself caught up in little smitten - at first - but there's the mystery merest whiff of a scandal about the missing art and hot on bishop. It's the trail mystery of the multibishop's ex-million-dollar reward. In 2014fiancee, local heiress Jennifer Toynby, the art is still missing who disappeared very suddenly and now dead bodies are turning up at the eponymous Charlesgate, filled with alumni celebrating their 25th reunionneither she nor her body have ever been found. As the body count rises, will we discover the truth behind the art theft decades earlier? [[Charlesgate Confidential Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by Scott Von DoviakM C Beaton|Full Review]]
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===[[The Turn of Midnight Louisiana's Way Home by Minette WaltersKate DiCamillo]]===
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At It is the beginning middle of 1349 there is a glimmer of a hope the night when twelve year old Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up to tell her that the ravages day of the Black Death might be passingreckoning has arrived and they must leave home immediately. In Devilish in Dorset the population Granny is well, because prone to middle of Lady Anne's strict rules about quarantine, which are regarded as heresy as they go against the strict rules of the church, night ideas so initially Louisiana is not too worried by this but their stores of food are dwindling and they know then gradually she realises that this time it is different. This time Granny intends that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to leavenever return. What Separated from her friends, Raymie and Beverly and her cat, Archie, Louisiana is devastated and desperate. She is determined that she will they find on her way home somehow. But as her life becomes entwined with the outside? Are they 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 survivors? for goodbyes. [[The Turn of Midnight Louisiana's Way Home by Minette WaltersKate DiCamillo|Full Review]]
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The night manager of a Best Western, Kris Pulaski is washed up and unhappy. Few know of her past as guitarist of 90Angela Chadwick's Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – debut novel explores the possibility of two women being able to produce a band once tipped for greatness, but destined to obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on baby girl through a solo career, rocketing process called Ovum-to stardom as ''Koffin''-Ovum fertilisation. When a shocking act of violence turns Kris's life upside down – she is forced to look back to a past she has tried to forget – It centres around Rosie and Jules who take part in the first ever clinical trial that would allow them to have a deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than just child of their own without the bandneed for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. In What follows is a journey story that will take Kris from a dusty hotel to a hellish music festivalshows the harshness and at times disgraceful behaviour of the media, she's determined to face and the man who ruined her life. But general public, when faced with dark forces rising and threatening everything Kris holds dear, will Kris be able a controversial technique that could lead to defeat the odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed on the Earth…? demise of men. [[We Sold Our Souls XX by Grady HendrixAngela Chadwick|Full Review]]
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===[[A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Mystery by Steve Burrows]]===
===[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeConfident Readers|Confident 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. And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive. And a journey is planned...[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner|CrimeFull Review]]
DCI Domenic Jejeune's most celebrated case was his rescue of the Home Secretary's daughter when she was kidnappedTweet scheduled for 9. 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 reviewed15clare@headofzeus. 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]]com
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===[[The Darkness Around Her Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Neil WhiteDeborah Kay Davies]]===
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Lizzie Barnsley was escaping from her abusive boyfriend when she was murdered on the canal towpath on New Year's EveThis is a quiet but remarkable story, written in a style reminiscent of E. M. It obviously wasnForster, 't the boyfriend as he was still being held by Lizzie's friends at the pub, but before long Peter Box was arrested [Tirzah and charged. He'd sought treatment at the local hospital for an injury to his head which was the same shape as the heel Prince of LizzieCrows''s shoe - has no great and her blood was on the shoestirring action but rather small ripples that make a huge impact. Dan Grant was called Tirzah is a young girl of sixteen raised in a small Welsh town in to represent Box, but there's the 1970s by highly religious parents as part of a problemstrict religious community. Box won't talk - won't talk The book follows Tirzah though a tumultuous year as she tries to the police or decide who she wants to Grantbe, so how is he and what she wants to represent the man? And had Box killed Lizzie? It was obvious that he hadn't known do with her - so why would he kill her? life. [[The Darkness Around Her Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Neil WhiteDeborah 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:TeensDynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Vivika DeNegre (Editor)|TeensFull Review]]
''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. As each of his friends faces challenges of their own, can Tom fight a force which knows all about them?'' Of course he can! [[ Blue Sky Black by John Connors |Full Review]] <!-- Melissa Leet Lange -->
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===[[Landslide The Chaos of Now by Melissa LeetErin Lange]]===
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The area where Jill and Susie lived wasn't highly populated so it was fortunate that they became such good Eli, a talented hacker, is one of those people who manage to fly below the radar. When new friends, despite offer him the fact 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 Susie was they have not made mistakes? Most people are fortunate not to have a year older than Jill. Susie lived with her motherpermanent online reminder, an alcoholicthe very presence of which refuses to allow you to adapt, and Jill lived with ''her'' motherto change, who dedicated herself to her gardengrow. Jill's father was Jay Tutle, the photographerEli has a few mistakes skulking online, but he spent much moments of madness that if discovered would change his time working away - often for months on end. In reality there was little difference between the two families: Mrs Smith's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still young. Joy and tragedy would visit Jill's home. ''Landslide'' is the story of how what happened determined the course of Jill's life and how great tragedy can breed resilience and hopeforever. [[Landslide The Chaos of Now by Melissa LeetErin Lange|Full Review]]
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Have you ever found yourself staring out As the window slightly longer than needed to see what your neighbours are up to? This is a common occurrence for Katy Speed who regularly watches blurb says, 'The House Across the Street' as In a frequent stream of women are brought there cottage in the same black hummer and seen leaving a short while later. Although slightly unusual, not much is said aside from your typical neighbourhood gossipNormandy, that is until Katy Lina Rose is woken up in the early hours one morning writing to find out that the same house has been burnt to the ground, along with the woman who lives there. This situation is made daughter she abandoned as a baby''…the whole lot worse for Katy when her father is arrested for starting the fire. What follows is an engrossing depiction of KatyChonghaile's quest second novel is a series of letters addressed to prove Diane. Lina is now in her father's innocence whilst dealing with her unbearable seventies and Diane is a mother and ultimately having the safety of many people's lives in herself. They have met just once since Lina gave her handsup for adoption. It was not a good meeting. [[The House Across the Street Reckoning by Lesley PearseClar Ni Chonghaile|Full Review]]
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===[[A Gathering of Ghosts The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Karen MaitlandMichael Pronko]]===
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Witchcraft, 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 supernatural great political thinkers - and renowned for his support of the will to survive at all costs collide American bases in Japan. One of the great tragedies of his murder was that he was just a story that never shies away from the darker side few days short of human nature. The land is unhappymeeting up with his daughter Jamie: they hadn't been estranged, but when Mattson and her mother divorced she took the teenager to the old spirits want revenge USA and father and famine is kindling a resurgence of the old faithdaughter just drifted apart. As fear risesJamie and her mother came back for the funeral, but her mother departed as soon (or even before) she decently could, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne leaving Jamie to ignore that something rotten has taken rootsettle her father's affairs. The sacred well only problem is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood that an awful lot of people seem very interested in Bernard Mattson's legacy - and strangers are blowing in they're prepared to be violent to get their hands on a wind of changeit. [[A Gathering of Ghosts The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Karen MaitlandMichael Pronko|Full Review]]
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===[[Storytelling: The Monsters We Deserve Presenter's Secret Weapon by Marcus SedgwickJohn Clare]]===
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Two hundred years ago, bad weather, bad company (wellI was a little bit nervous when I picked up ''Storytelling: The Presenter's Secret Weapon''. After all, the kind that is also mad, and dangerous to know), a spooky reading list and a few chance topics majority of discussion all led presentations which I've seen or given were in a young woman to start writing her first, business context and definitely her most famous everwhat was required was absolute professionalism, booknot an act put on for light entertainment. The narrator of this novel has brought himself to a remote Alpine building, in I needn't have worried though: the centre of that first novel's world, book is an essential guide to revisit it in honour of its bicentenary. He hates itpreparing and giving your presentation, for he sees it as badly written and with some unwelcome biases. He seems or without what has now come to only be there and doing 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 publisher book would be able to whom he addresses a lot of the script we readteach me anything. It did. But what if some greater force wanted him there too? [[The Monsters We Deserve by Marcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]
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===[[The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) by Denzil Meyrick]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime|CrimeTreasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Chris Priestley]]===
The site was rumoured to have been [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] (If multiple categories use the home of Viking warlord Somerled so the discovery same format, separated by Professor Francombe comma + space)Sponge and her team of archaeologists of Mildew are not the graves biggest fans of three women initially caused great excitementtheir school, which rapidly turned to horror when they realised that the women had died just over twenty years agoMaudlin Towers. The graves Who would bring some closure though - these were the bodies of the three missing victims of the be? It'Midweek Murderer' who operated in Glasgow in the early to mid ninetiess run down. It was also an opportunity for DCI Jim Daley to confront a failure in his past's gloomy. HeYou can'd been on the original case t move for gargoyles and that's discounting the murderer had never been foundteachers. HeBut when they find out that there'd also lost a s no money left and the school might close friend they realise that, tatty and made some enemiesmorose as the Maudlin Towers is, one of whom would return to taunt him when Police Scotlandit is ''home''s Cold Case Unit arrived . So they set their minds on the scenea rescue mission... [[The Relentless Tide Treasure of the Golden Skull (DCI DaleyMaudlin Towers) by Denzil MeyrickChris Priestley|Full Review]]
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