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===[[The Chaos of Now by Erin Lange]]===
===[[The Coming of the Spirits by Rob Keeley]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:CrimeConfident Readers|CrimeConfident Readers]]
Eli, a talented hacker, is one of those people who manage to fly below the radar. When new friends offer him the 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 permanent online reminder, the very presence of which refuses to allow you to adapt, to change, to grow. Eli has a few mistakes skulking online, moments of madness that if discovered would change his life forever. [[The Chaos of Now by Erin Lange|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]]<!-- Clár Ní Chonghaile Wilson -->
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[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary FictionSnowglobe by Amy Wilson]]===
As the blurb says[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], ''In a cottage in Normandy, Lina Rose is writing to the daughter she abandoned as a baby''…the whole of Chonghaile's second novel is a series of letters addressed to Diane. Lina is now in her seventies and Diane is a mother herself. They have met just once since Lina gave her up for adoption. It was not a good meeting. [[The Reckoning by Clar Ni Chonghaile: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]]<!-- Michael Pronko Haig -->
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===[[The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Michael Pronko]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersThe Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Chris Mould]]===
The funeral [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] 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 time to rob thing because telling lies is bad, right? But sometimes the truth isn't nice and sometimes a house in Tokyo - white lie is okay and even sometimes it's better when they're famous as most people will be thereto say nothing at all. Bernard Mattson had been famous - one You might not want to attract the attention of the great political thinkers - school bully by calling him mean and renowned for his support of the American bases in Japan. 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 estrangednasty, but when Mattson and her mother divorced she took the teenager to the USA and father and daughter just drifted apart. Jamie and her mother came back for the funeralexample, but her mother departed as soon (or even before) she decently could, leaving Jamie you might not want to settle her father's affairs. The only problem is tell someone that an you think their brand new haircut looks awful lot of people seem very interested in Bernard Mattson's legacy - and they're prepared to be violent to get their hands on it. [[The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) Truth Pixie by Michael PronkoMatt Haig and Chris Mould|Full Review]]
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===[[StorytellingJess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M B Vincent]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category: The Presenter{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Dr 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 Secret Weapon 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. But with the small population dwindling and the sense of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by John ClareM B Vincent|Full Review]] <!-- Laura Solomon -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:9386897385.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/9386897385/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 
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I was a little bit nervous when I picked up ''Storytelling[[image: The Presenter's Secret Weapon''3. 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 entertainment5star. I needn't have worried thoughjpg|link=Category: the book is an essential guide to preparing and giving your presentation{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], 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.[[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]
We never know the man's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. It's what his mother used to call him, not least because he found it annoying. When we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, if not ''living'' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and drinking. Housework is a foreign country. When she dies she's not missed, firstly because she'd spent a couple of years in a mental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues to haunt Boyo. She wants him to achieve something in his life: what she has in mind is that he could be a famous arsonist. [[Nothing Lasting by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Broken Things by Lauren Oliver]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[Treasure :Category:Teens|Teens]] ''This is the problem with words and even stories: there is never one truth'' 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 Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) woods where they all played and everyone thinks Mia and Brynn did it. [[Broken Things by Chris PriestleyLauren Oliver|Full Review]]===
[[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? It's run down. It's gloomy. You can't move for gargoyles and that's discounting the teachers. But when they find out that there's no money left and the school might close they realise that, tatty and morose as the Maudlin Towers is, it is ''home''. So they set their minds on a rescue mission... [[Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Chris Priestley|Full Review]]<!-- Bolton Albertelli -->
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===[[The Syndicate What if It's Us by Guy BoltonBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image:4''I believe in love at first sight.5starFate, the universe, all of it.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]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.''
Set in Post War America, with ''What If It's Us'' is one of those books that just gives you a society finding its feet againboost when you need it. A feel good, this thriller weaves its way through the glitz of Hollywood, the dirt of Mob rule fun and the birth of an American institutioneasy read. Whilst most of this book is set in Hollywood the whole story sits in I was surprised at the shadow collaboration of Silvera and Albertalli – one known for happy endings, the birth of Las Vegasother for tragedy – but they really work together well. We open with the murder of Each takes a high level Mob boss and when the Police character and FBI refuse to properly investigate, his associates decide to bring in their own detective. Retired legend, Jonathon Crainevoices are so distinct, only wanted a quiet life away from the Studiosso real, 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 readyou are immediately sucked in. [[The Syndicate What if It's Us by Guy BoltonBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera|Full Review]]
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===[[The Sisters of the Winter Wood Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Rena RossnerQuentin Bates]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:TeensCrime|TeensCrime]]
Raised in Gunna wasn't too keen when she was taken off police duties to become a small village surrounded by woodland on bodyguard. It wasn't just the border sheer inconvenience of Moldova it - away from home for however long the job took and Ukrainewith no contact with the family - she wasn't the only one to have doubts about the man she was guarding. Invited to Iceland by prominent politician Steinunn Strand, Ali Osman was either a saint who devoted himself to helping refugees escape the carnage in their Middle Eastern homeland, sisters Liba and Laya have lived or a sheltered life money- although there are whispers laundering gunrunner. The truth was probably a combination of troubling times ahead for Jews. When their grandfather takes ill, their parents must leave the sisters behind while they travel to his sickbedtwo, but life for Liba whichever or whatever was correct, there's money on Osman's head and Laya this is about to drastically change. Before their parents leave, Liba discovers that the fairy tales she heard as a child reason why he and Gunna are holed up in fact true as she learns that an isolated house outside Reykjavik, with Gunna toting a gun under her Tati can turn in to a bear fleece and her Mami in to a swan. Liba must carry this secret in order to help protect her sister, but the arrival of with a mysterious group of men armed police 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 thema nearby house. [[The Sisters of the Winter Wood Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Rena RossnerQuentin Bates|Full Review]]
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===[[Sweep: The Story of a Girl and her Monster by Jonathan Auxier]]===
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Nan is [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Evan Hansen spends a climber, the best chimney sweep in Londonlot of time indoors by himself. She is growing fastThis worries his mother, so what will happen who has engaged a therapist to try to her when she gets too big help Evan with his extreme anxiety issues. Evan's therapist assigns him the task of writing a daily letter to climb, when people realise she is himself as a girl? Everything changesway of getting Evan to think more constructively about himself and the world around him. But Connor Murphy, when she is stuck in a chimneyrather scary boy at school, set on fire, and saved by a golem. A story finds one of outcasts, Evan's letters and friendships, told through two tales, gets the girl and wrong end of the sweepstick because Evan has mentioned Zoe, and the girl he has a crush on 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 who is a heart-warming and engaging read for both young and oldConnor's sister. [[SweepDear Evan Hansen: The Story of a Girl and her Monster Novel by Jonathan AuxierVal Emmich|Full Review]]
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===[[Come Agatha Raisin and Find Me (DI Marnie Rome Book 5) the Dead Ringer by Sarah HilaryM C Beaton]]===
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ThereSt Ethelred's no reason to think that Lara Chorley and Ruth Hull have anything Church in commonthe idyllic Cotswold village of Thirk Magna has a team of dedicated bell ringers, other than a rather strange infatuation with writing to Michael Vokey, a sadistic inmate of Cloverton Prison. They crave his attention the keenest being twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin and canwhen we first meet them they't believe that here preparing for the bishop's as evil as his trial suggestsvisit. It Now you might not have become important was it not for the riot at the prisonbe expecting an older, which ended up with Vokey killing two inmatesperhaps rather grey man, blinding but this bishop is a little different. One description is 'sex on legs' and maiming more even Agatha Raisin is a little smitten - at first - and escaping under cover but there's the merest whiff of a scandal about the smoke from the fire he causedbishop. Not surprisingly staff and inmates at Cloverton are unwilling to talk about where they think Vokey might be hiding out It's the mystery of the bishop's ex- they have wivesfiancee, local heiress Jennifer Toynby, children who disappeared very suddenly and friends who might be at riskneither she nor her body have ever been found. [[Come Agatha Raisin and Find Me (DI Marnie Rome Book 5) the Dead Ringer by Sarah HilaryM C Beaton|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead End (D I Kelly Porter) Louisiana's Way Home by Rachel LynchKate DiCamillo]]===
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The seventh earl It is the middle of Lowesdale was found hanging in his study by his teenage grandson, Zachary. Initially everyone assumed that the nonagenarian, hard-partying aristocrat had finally realised night when twelve year old Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up to tell her that the glories day of his youth were long past reckoning has arrived and had decided they must leave home immediately. Granny is prone to take middle of the quick way outnight 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. When forensics discovered signs of foul play DI Kelly Porter was called inSeparated from her friends, Raymie and Beverly and her cat, Archie, Louisiana is devastated and desperate. It's not the only problem She is determined that she has though: two young hikers have gone missing on will find her way home somehow. But as her life becomes entwined with the fells near Ullswater and she is people living in charge of a small Georgia town Louisiana starts to worry about the search. When they're not found within a couple of days 'curse'' Granny told her was upon her team uncover links to two other unsolved disappearances - head and the girls all look startlingly similarfears that she is destined only for goodbyes. [[Dead End (D I Kelly Porter) Louisiana's Way Home by Rachel LynchKate DiCamillo|Full Review]]
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===[[O Joy for me! XX by Keir DavidsonAngela Chadwick]]===
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Angela Chadwick''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for s debut novel explores the possibility of two women being ''able to produce a baby girl through a process called Ovum-to-Ovum fertilisation. It centres around Rosie and Jules who take part in the first person ever clinical trial that would allow them to walk have a child of their own without the mountains alone, not because he had to need for work, as a miner, quarryman, shepherd sperm donor or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure any other male intervention. What follows is a story that shows the harshness and adventure. His rapturous encounters with their natural beautyat times disgraceful behaviour of the media, and its literary consequencesthe general public, changed our view when faced with a controversial technique that could lead to the demise of the world''men. [[O Joy for me! XX by Keir DavidsonAngela Chadwick|Full Review]]
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===[[The Ember Blade by Chris Wooding]]===
===[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyConfident 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|FantasyFull Review]]
A land under occupation. A legendary sword. A young man's journey to find his destiny. Aren has lived by the rules all his life. He's never questioned it; that's just the way things are. But then his father is executed Tweet scheduled for treason, and he and his best friend Cade are thrown into a prison mine, doomed to work until they drop. Unless they can somehow break free . . But what lies beyond 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 them. A revolution is brewing, and Aren is being drawn into it, whether he likes it or not. 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.9.15clare@headofzeus. [[The Ember Blade by Chris Wooding|Full Review]]com
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===[[Crisis Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Felix FrancisDeborah Kay Davies]]===
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By training Harrison Foster This is a lawyerquiet but remarkable story, written in a style reminiscent of E. M. Forster, ''[Tirzah and the Prince of Crows'' has no great and stirring action but he's working as rather small ripples that make a crisis manager for a London firmhuge impact. He was called to Newmarket after Tirzah is a fire young girl of sixteen raised in a stable killed six very valuable horses, including small Welsh town in the Derby favourite1970s by highly religious parents as part of a strict religious community. On the surface it looked like The book follows Tirzah though a simple fire, but it wasn't long before Harrison discovered that all was not tumultuous year as it seemed, not least because there were human remains along with the charred bodies of the horses. As all the staff were accounted for, she tries to decide who was the human victim? Harrison was completely new she wants to the world of thoroughbred racing: in fact he knew little about horses be, and positively disliked themwhat she wants to do with her life. [[Crisis Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Felix FrancisDeborah Kay Davies|Full Review]]
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===[[Rosewater Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Tade ThompsonVivika DeNegre (Editor)]]===
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Rosewater The problem with a craft which is a town largely based on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodometraditional designs is that what results from your labours is also traditional, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry and the helpless or - depending upon what light you shine on it - old- people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or fashioned. Vivika DeNegre has curated a taste collection of its rumoured healing powerspatterns from today's top designers. Kaaro is As a government agent with a criminal past. He has seen inside word of warning, if you read ''Modern Patchwork Magazine'' you may well find that there's nothing new in the biodomebook, and doesnbut if you't care re new 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 the magazine this could well prove to be a realisation about a horrifying futuredelightful collection from the back catalogue. [[Rosewater Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Tade ThompsonVivika DeNegre (Editor)|Full Review]]
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===[[Charlesgate Confidential The Chaos of Now by Scott Von DoviakErin Lange]]===
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In 1946 Eli, a gang of criminals pull off an audacious art heisttalented hacker, making off with priceless works is one of art from those people who manage to fly below the radar. When new friends offer him the chance to enter a prestigious competition he soon realises this golden opportunity has a Boston Museumsting in its tail. These missing art works How many people can hand on heart say that they have not made mistakes? Most people are never found. In 1988fortunate not to have a permanent online reminder, a student finds himself caught up in the mystery of the missing art and hot on the trail very presence of the multi-million-dollar reward. In 2014which refuses to allow you to adapt, the art is still missing and now dead bodies are turning up at the eponymous Charlesgateto change, filled with alumni celebrating their 25th reunionto grow. As the body count rises Eli has a few mistakes skulking online, will we discover the truth behind the art theft decades earlier? moments of madness that if discovered would change his life forever. [[Charlesgate Confidential The Chaos of Now by Scott Von DoviakErin Lange|Full Review]]
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At As the beginning of 1349 there blurb says, ''In a cottage in Normandy, Lina Rose is writing to the daughter she abandoned as a glimmer baby''…the whole of Chonghaile's second novel is a hope that the ravages series of the Black Death might be passingletters addressed to Diane. In Devilish Lina is now in Dorset the population her seventies and Diane is well, because of Lady Anne's strict rules about quarantine, which are regarded as heresy as they go against the strict rules of the church, but their stores of food are dwindling and they know that when they are exhausted they will a mother herself. They have no choice but to leavemet just once since Lina gave her up for adoption. What will they find on the outside? Are they the only survivors? It was not a good meeting. [[The Turn of Midnight Reckoning by Minette WaltersClar Ni Chonghaile|Full Review]]
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===[[We Sold Our Souls The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Grady HendrixMichael Pronko]]===
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The night manager of funeral is a good time to rob a Best Western, Kris Pulaski is washed up house in Tokyo - and unhappyeven better when they're famous as most people will be there. Few know Bernard Mattson had been famous - one of her past as guitarist the great political thinkers - and renowned for his support of 90's Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – a band once tipped for greatness, but destined to obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career, rocketing to stardom as ''Koffin''the American bases in Japan. When One of the great tragedies of his murder was that he was just a shocking act few days short of violence turns Krismeeting up with his daughter Jamie: they hadn's life upside down – t been estranged, but when Mattson and her mother divorced she is forced took the teenager to look back to a past she has tried to forget – the USA and father and to a deal Hunt made that may have sabotaged more than daughter just drifted apart. Jamie and her mother came back for the band. In a journey that will take Kris from a dusty hotel to a hellish music festivalfuneral, but her mother departed as soon (or even before) shedecently could, leaving Jamie to settle her father's determined to face the man who ruined her lifeaffairs. But with dark forces rising The only problem is that an awful lot of people seem very interested in Bernard Mattson's legacy - and threatening everything Kris holds dear, will Kris they're prepared to be able violent to defeat the odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed get their hands on the Earth…? it. [[We Sold Our Souls The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Grady HendrixMichael Pronko|Full Review]]
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===[[A Tiding of MagpiesStorytelling: A Birder Murder Mystery The Presenter's Secret Weapon by Steve BurrowsJohn Clare]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]]
[[imageI was a little bit nervous when I picked up ''Storytelling:3The Presenter's Secret Weapon''.5star 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.jpg|link=Category I needn't have worried though:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]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.
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]]
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Lizzie Barnsley was escaping from her abusive boyfriend when she was murdered 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 canal towpath on New Yearbiggest fans of their school, Maudlin Towers. Who would be? It's Everun down. 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 chargedgloomy. HeYou can'd sought treatment at the local hospital t move for an injury to his head which was the same shape as the heel of Lizziegargoyles and that's shoe - and her blood was on discounting the shoeteachers. Dan Grant was called in to represent Box, but But when they find out that there's a problem. Box won't talk - won't talk to no money left and the school might close they realise that, tatty and morose as the police or to GrantMaudlin Towers is, so how it is he to represent the man? And had Box killed Lizzie? ''home''. So they set their minds on a rescue mission... It was obvious that he hadn't known her - so why would he kill her? [[The Darkness Around Her Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Neil WhiteChris Priestley|Full Review]]
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