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===[[Friends Like These by Sarah Alderson]]===
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[[image:5starLife in London isn’t always glam, especially if you’re young and underpaid. For Lizzie it’s all a bit of a balancing act. She has a nice home but it technically belongs to her room-mate’s parents. She works in the entertainment industry, but her job itself is probably not one you’d covet. She doesn’t have much spare time, but that’s because she’s been working through some self-improvement. If they could only see her now. And, well, actually, they can, although there’s a lot less of her to see than there once was. But yes, she doesn’t really have much time for the past and the people from it.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensFriends Like These by Sarah Alderson|TeensFull Review]]
Kel Crow lives with a heart defect that could kill her at any time. Her only hope is to escape the floodridden, waterlogged Cornish world she lives in, to leave her drug-running family far behind, and get to America with enough money for an operation. She has a plan: stowaway on a ship, kidnap a rich girl, exchange the girl for enough money for the journey to America and the surgery that will change her life. [[Only the Ocean by Natasha Carthew |Full Review]]<!-- Blake Torquil MacLeod -->
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===[[Two Dark Reigns Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Kendare BlakeTorquil MacLeod]]===
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It was embarrassing when a leading Malmo business man was kidnapped, particularly as the police didn''You cannot put on t know anything about it until the man was discovered afterwards, tied to a park bench in a costume and become something elsecemetery. You are a queen He was coy about how much ransom was paid, but it was sufficient that he'd felt the pain of Fennbirn islandthe digital transfers.'' Following That would have been bad enough, but a second businessman was snatched soon afterwards and the pressure on from [[Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake|Three Dark Crowns]] Inspector Anita Sundström and its sequel [[One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake|One Dark Throne]], in her colleagues was to find the businessman ''Two Dark Reignsand'' each of the Goddess' daughters have their own battles to fight. All her life, Katharine has dreamed of being capture the great Queen the island of Fennbirn deserveskidnappers before they took anyone else. Having won the crown Worse was to come though, she is facing trial after difficult trial and murmurs of dissent and revolution grow louder on the streets each and every daywhen an investigative journalist was found murdered in his flat. And without evidence Was one of her sisters' death does anyone but herself and his victims the old queens buried under her skinmurderer, believe she is the one true Queenor was it someone he was about to expose? [[Two Dark Reigns Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Kendare BlakeTorquil MacLeod|Full Review]]
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===[[A Spark of Light Vera Magpie by Jodi PicoultLaura Solomon]]===
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The Center is the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi and is the source of great controversy when it comes to the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate''I have murdered three husbands. It is at The Center where one man, George Goddard, takes it upon himself to get revenge for the loss of his grandchild, in the form of a mass-shooting. What arises is a novel that details the lives of the remaining hostages, as well as other characters central to the story. One of these characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in to help deflate the situation, who soon discovers that his sister and daughter, Wren, happened to be at the clinic that day. [[A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult|Full Review]] |-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1784631345.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784631345/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]''
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===As an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera's telling us the truth. The first two husbands, Gary and Harry were abusive, but Larry was a treasure, a keeper, and it's difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and now she's in prison with a mandatory life sentence. Her only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, but Vera's not one to let herself be a victim. She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the security of her life in prison for the sake of a fling), but she is keen on getting an education and she's studying for a degree in English Literature. [[Gentleman Jack (DI Yates 7) Vera Magpie by Christina JamesLaura Solomon|Full Review]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] The investigation into the thefts of farm machinery has been going on for months and it's getting DI Tim Yates down: he can't see where to go next. It's almost a relief when Jack Fovargue, agricultural entrepreneur and local celebrity is assaulted in the street, but no one can understand why Fovargue is so reluctant to help the police with their enquiries, or to press charges, particularly when a police officer was also assaulted. Yates is then diverted into the investigation which followed the discovery of the headless body of a woman in a canal near Lincoln: it's an interesting case but the downside is that the senior investigating officer is DI Michael Robinson. They're contemporaries but Robinson is bumptious and inclined to taking credit for other people's efforts. [[Gentleman Jack (DI Yates 7) by Christina James|Full Review]] <!-- Adriaan Verheul Karin Fossum -->
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===[[A Clean Death The Whisperer by Adriaan VerheulKarin Fossum]]===
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Three very different men When we first meet Ragna we can't understand what's going on. She's talking to Inspector Konrad Sejer and it's obvious that she's being held in the jungle, led there by fatecustody because of a crime which she admits she's committed. Davey sees conspiracies everywhere Only, Oliver seeks answers as we hear about the death of his father, Greta's life it seems that she's more sinned against than sinning. After a botched operation on her vocal chords she can't speak above a whisper and Captain Christmas leads to add insult to injury she's been left with a community of armed men, women and children, hidden far from justice in the foresthorrible scar across her throat. As the three men are brought together, the events could cause each She's done her best to lose something make a go of consequenceher life though: maybe illusion, maybe conviction, she enjoys her work in a shop and maybe, just maybe, life itself… has learned ways of coping with the difficulties of communicating with people. [[A Clean Death The Whisperer by Adriaan VerheulKarin Fossum|Full Review]]
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===[[And So It Begins by Rachel Abbott]]===
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[[imageWe know there's something very strange going on as soon as we join the story: we begin by hearing how it's going to end and that someone must die. But that's just a hint:4starfor the time being we're with two police persons.jpg|link=Category Stephanie's the sergeant and she has Jason, the probationer with her in the squad car, but Stephanie doesn't like where they're heading. The house is stunning, but the last time she was here it was because there was a dead body at the bottom of the stairs to the pool. This time there's been a 999 call with a woman screaming for help:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] the omens are not good and when they enter the house they find two tangled, blood-soaked bodies in the bed. They both look dead, but one of them moves - it's Evie Clark and she confesses to killing her partner. [[:Category:LifestyleAnd So It Begins by Rachel Abbott|LifestyleFull Review]]
Have you ever felt trapped by your own thoughts? That your mind is so busy processing what's going on in the world around you that you just can't catch a moment and simply ''be''? Or that the outside world just won't stop pressing in upon an inner life that you'd like to be more peaceful? [[Beyond Thought by Chris Dhladhla|Full Review]] <!-- M J Lee Mick Herron -->
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===[[Where the Truth Lies (DI Ridpath) The Drop: A Slough House Novella by M J LeeMick Herron]]===
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DI Thomas Ridpath - call him Ridpath as he doesnWhen you't think Tom or Thomas suits him - looked to have ve done a promising future in CID until he was forced job for any length of time, the memory, the instincts of it stay with you and they're impossible to take extended sick leave nine months agoforget. HeIt was the same with Solomon Dortmund, a retired spy: when he watches a woman making a drop he knows exactly what he's backseeing and he passes this on John Batchelor, but the word ''cancer'' leaves people doubting how well you really are, or are going to stayman charged with looking after the retired spooks. Perhaps it would be better if Bachelor has problems of his own: the closest he quietly retired? His wife, Polly, would like comes to see him in a desk job. Ridpath would like to be home is the back in front-line policing, but all thatseat of his car and he's available to him is a secondment run out of people whose sofas he can commandeer for three months as Coroner's Officerthe night. If thatThe best he can do with Solomon's how problem is to pass it's got to be, then heon the someone else and hope that they'll do deal with it/solve the best job he canproblem/quietly forget about it. [[Where the Truth Lies (DI Ridpath) The Drop: A Slough House Novella by M J LeeMick Herron|Full Review]]
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===[[Tales Kingdom of Love and Disability the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Laura SolomonLouise Penny]]===
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I've always believed that less-able writers produce longer books: it takes It came as something of a great deal surprise when Armand Gamache was named as liquidator in the estate of skill and talent to write a short story which holds woman he'd never met. Another villager from Three Pines is also a liquidator, but the reader and keeps third is a stranger to them coming back for moreboth. There are far too many collections of short stories which are all too easy to put down and forget after you've The mystery deepens when the will is read : given that the deceased was a couple of piecescleaner it seems unlikely that she would have had the millions which she bequests at her disposal. I've recently read Then a couple of novellas by Laura Solomon - [[Marshabody is found. That's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marshanot Gamache's Deal]] only problem though: one of his protégées, Amelia Choquet, has been expelled from the police academy for drug dealing, and [[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hell's Unveiling]] the enquiry into the incident which led to his suspension as the head of the Sûreté in Quebec is dragging on and enjoyed them, so I was intrigued to see what she could do with an even shorter formthe outcome is looking increasingly ominous. [[Tales Kingdom of Love and Disability the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Laura SolomonLouise Penny|Full Review]]
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===[[The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A Snapshot of Murder (to Z by Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Frances BrodyAtherley]]===
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Even detectives need a break and I've been knitting for Kate Shackletonwell over sixty years, photography gives her the mental relaxation which she needsfollowing patterns of varying complexity with success. When the local Photographic Society proposed an outingI've knit Aran sweaters, Kate was keen to take socks by the opportunity to visit Haworth dozen and Stanbury, not least because the deeds of the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become I'm currently knitting blankets for a museum and her parents will be there for the eventcharity to sell. What could be better than seeing her family, witnessing a momentous event There hasn't been an occasion when I've been stuck and having the opportunity people have often come to take photographs of the setting ''me'' for help when ''they've'Wuthering Heights'been stuck. Would a knitter's dictionary really be of any help to me? Nothing could go wrongI was surprised by just how much I got out of it. Or could it? [[The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A Snapshot of Murder (to Z by Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Frances BrodyAtherley|Full Review]]<!-- Harrold -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1408894319.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408894319/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Afterwards by A F Harrold and Emily Gravett]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
''Tell them what The Afterwards is about, they said.''<br>''Hopefully you know this, but...''<br>''It's a book with friendship in it.''<br>''It's a book with death in it.''<br>''It's a book with betrayal in it.''<br>''It's a book with love in it.''<br>''It's a book with a cat in it.''<br>''That's what I know.''<br>''That's what I can tell you.''<br>''That'll do me.'' To be honest, I'd be surprised if that wouldn't do you, too.[[The Afterwards by A F Harrold and Emily Gravett|Full Review]]<!-- Vanston Samesh Ramjattan -->
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===[[Be Your Higher Self by Samesh Ramjattan]]===
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[[imageThere are a lot of self-help books about:4starit's one of the most thriving sections of the average bookshop, but it's not always easy to find the book you need.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self'', a book which allows us all to make sense of our place in the world, as most of us only glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve it. Even with hard work and dedication, obstacles present themselves and it's difficult to understand why or how they can be overcome. Ramjattan offers us a guide to the spirit world, the chakras, karma and reincarnation as well as information about the age of Aquarius and the ego. It's a slim book - just 128 pages - so can it provide us with the answers we seek? [[:Category:For SharingBe Your Higher Self by Samesh Ramjattan|For SharingFull 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]]<!-- Keeley Laura Solomon -->
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===[[Black Light by Laura Solomon]]===
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[[imageJim is a university student and, as the saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's never really managed to connect with his step-father. His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him. Jim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why:4starthe looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desired.jpg|link=Category Despite all that's he's not about to sit back and allow his life to drift:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[:Category:Confident ReadersBlack Light by Laura Solomon|Confident ReadersFull 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]]<!-- Wilson Chase -->
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===[[Redemptor Domus by Gamelyn Chase]]===
===[[Snowglobe by Amy Wilson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  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]]<!-- Haig -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786894327.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786894327 /ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Chris Mould]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:For SharingGeneral Fiction|For SharingGeneral Fiction]] 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]] <!-- Vincent -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471168239.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471168239/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by M B Vincent]]===
[[image:4starA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the Far East. As the boy travels to the school, a family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. Plunged into a school full of danger and betrayal, the boy is seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]With them locked into their scheming and plotting, it comes to the boy to attempt to clean up the pit of filth that the school has become. [[:Category:CrimeRedemptor Domus by Gamelyn Chase|CrimeFull Review]]
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 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 M B Vincent|Full Review]] <!-- Laura Solomon Sendker -->
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===[[Nothing Lasting The Long Path To Wisdom by Laura SolomonJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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We never know On my travels around the man's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. It's what his mother used world, I have a tendency to call himend up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, not least because he found it annoying. When we first meet Boyo his mother is aliveand while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next person, if not what I'm really looking for is the 'livinglocal'' 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– the cookbook maybe, firstly because she'd spent a couple of years in a mental hospitalthe maps definitely, but mainly because her ghost continues to haunt Boyoabove all: the folk tales. She wants him If I ever get to achieve something in his life: what she has in mind is that he could be a famous arsonistBurma, I won't need to hunt, I can read before I go. [[Nothing Lasting The Long Path To Wisdom by Laura SolomonJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Broken Things Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Lauren OliverJulia Jones]]===
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Liam isn't 'This is 'quite'' the youngest in a large family: he doesn't have the distinction of being the baby anymore and he doesn't have the problem with words ''heft'' of his older brothers and even storiessisters. He's rather like one of the pebbles on a large shingle beach: there is never part of the mass but easily overlooked as an individual. So when he starts having problems with his sight no one truthreally takes any notice. He doesn't want to bother his mother as she's heavily involved in the Luminal Festival and when he asked his elder step-sister, Anna, if she'll take him for an eye test, she puts him off. In fairness she's got important exams and Liam's convinced that it's just a case of getting spectacles, but Liam's eyes are changing in a rather strange way. [[Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Julia Jones|Full Review]]
Summer, Mia and Brynn are obsessed with a novel called ''The Way into Lovelorn''. They begin to believe it is real, that the world of Lovelorn is really materialising around them, and start writing their own fan-fiction sequel. One day, Summer is violently murdered in the woods where they all played and everyone thinks Mia and Brynn did it. [[Broken Things by Lauren Oliver|Full Review]] <!-- Albertelli Hall -->
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===[[What if It's Us So Many Doors by Becky Albertelli and Adam SilveraOakley Hall]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
''I believe in love at first sight[[image:4star. Fatejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], the universe[[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]], 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.''[[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
''What If It's Us'' Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all as V, is one of those books that just gives you a boost when you need itdead. A feel good, fun and easy readJack sits in his cell refusing to talk to the lawyer tasked with his defence. I was surprised Starting at the collaboration murderous finale, Hall skillfully weaves together the stories of his key players, in a tale of Silvera love spanning decades and Albertalli – one known for happy endingsstates, marriages and tragedies. By the time the other for tragedy – truth is revealed, V will be dead but they really work together well. Each takes a character and who else will lose their voices are so distinct, so real, that you are immediately sucked in. life? [[What if It's Us So Many Doors by Becky Albertelli and Adam SilveraOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Quentin BatesBrian Anderson]]===
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Gunna wasn't too keen when she was taken off police duties to become Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a bodyguardcrime remained in place for 82 years. It wasn't just the sheer inconvenience of it But during this time, restrictions on same- away from home for however long the job took sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and with no contact with 1908, three books on the family - she wasn't the only one to have doubts about the man she was guardingnature of homosexuality appeared. Invited to Iceland They were written by prominent politician Steinunn Strandtwo homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, Ali Osman as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was either a saint who devoted himself to helping refugees escape common on the carnage European Continent, but barely talked about in their Middle Eastern homelandthe UK, or a money-laundering gunrunner. The truth was probably a combination so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the twoscientific understanding of homosexuality, but whichever or whatever was correct, there's money on Osman's head and this is beginning the reason why he struggle for recognition and Gunna are holed up in an isolated house outside Reykjavikequality, with Gunna toting a gun under her fleece and with a group leading to the milestone legalisation of armed police same-sex relationships in a nearby house1967. [[Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Quentin BatesBrian Anderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Amy Patricia Meade]]===
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[[image:4Tish Tarragon is working towards opening her literary cafe, Cookin' The Books, when the opportunity to cater for the Library fundraiser comes her way.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Evan Hansen spends It's a lot bit of time indoors by himselfa poisoned chalice, in more ways than one, as the head of the library committee, Binnie Broderick is difficult. This worries his mother In fact, who when she's poisoned at the meal Tish has engaged a therapist to try to help Evan with his extreme anxiety issuescatered, there's no shortage of suspects. Evan It's therapist assigns him the task of writing a daily letter not just that she feels herself to himself as be superior (she's a Darlington, you see), but that she actively goes out of her way of getting Evan to think more constructively about himself and the world around himmake life difficult for anyone she encounters. But Connor Murphy, The town might be heaving a rather scary boy at school, finds one collective sigh of Evan's letters and gets the wrong end relief (except not in front of the stick because Evan has mentioned Zoesheriff, obviously) but Tish is worried that the girl he has fact that Binnie died face down in a crush on and who is Connormeal she'd prepared might mean that people will not be all that keen to come to her cafe once it's sisteropened. [[Dear Evan Hansen: Cookin' The Novel Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Val EmmichAmy Patricia Meade|Full Review]]
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===[[Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by M C BeatonCatriona McPherson]]===
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St Ethelred's Church in Dandy Gilver and family had made the idyllic Cotswold village of Thirk Magna has a team of dedicated bell ringersarduous journey to Wester Ross, with the keenest being twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin and but Dandy had mixed feelings even when we first they arrived. They were there to meet them they're preparing for the bishopfamily of Mallory, her son Donald's visitfiancee. Now you might It wasn't that Dandy thought Donald to be expecting an older, perhaps rather grey man''young'' at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, but this bishop is a little differentthat Mallory was rather ''old'' for him at thirty. One description is 'sex on legs' and even Agatha Raisin is There was also a little smitten - at first - but thereniggling worry because Donald wasn's t the merest whiff of a scandal about sharpest pin in the bishopcushion. It's All the doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross: they might have come to celebrate the mystery fiftieth birthday of the bishopLady Lavinia, Mallory's ex-fianceemother, local heiress Jennifer Toynby, who disappeared very suddenly but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the mother rather than the daughter. Dandy and neither she nor her body have ever Hugh were considering whether or not they should try to put an end to the engagement when the news arrived that Lady Lavinia had been founddead. [[Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by M C BeatonCatriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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===[[Louisiana's Way Home Empire of Sand by Kate DiCamilloTasha Suri]]===
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It Mehr is a girl trapped between two cultures. Her father comes from the middle ruling classes of the night when twelve year old Louisiana Elefanteempire but her mother's granny wakes her up to tell her that people were outcasts, Amrithi nomads who worshipped the day spirits of reckoning has arrived and they must leave home immediatelythe sands. Granny Caught one night performing these forbidden rites, Mehr is prone brought to middle the attention 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 friendsEmperor's most feared mystics, Raymie and Beverly and her cat, Archie, Louisiana is devastated and desperate. She is determined that she will find who force her into their service by 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 goodbyesof an arranged marriage. [[Louisiana's Way Home Empire of Sand by Kate DiCamilloTasha Suri|Full Review]]
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