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===[[Salvation Friends Like These by Peter F HamiltonSarah Alderson]]===
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Apparently the term ''space opera'' was coined Life in 1941 as London isn’t always glam, especially if you’re young and underpaid. For Lizzie it’s all a bit of a pejorativebalancing act. It was borrowed not from She has a nice home but it technically belongs to her room-mate’s parents. She works in the high-brow musical art formentertainment industry, but from the common or garden 'soap opera'her job itself is probably not one you’d covet. It related to a particular kind of science fiction which the coiner (one Wilson Tucker) described as a ''hackyShe doesn’t have much spare time, grinding, stinkingbut that’s because she’s been working through some self-improvement. If they could only see her now. And, outwornwell, spaceship yarn". It would be fifty years later before the term started to be re-appropriated to cover – if still the same themes of distant futuresactually, military conflictthey can, heroism and although there’s a simplistic set lot less of values – more literaryher to see than there once was. But yes, more expansive works. The term is now taken as complimentshe doesn’t really have much time for the past and the people from it. [[Salvation Friends Like These by Peter F HamiltonSarah Alderson|Full Review]]
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===[[House of Glass by Susan Fletcher]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Clara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta'': these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there is still no cure, treatments have advanced. At the beginning of the twentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her home, living life through a window and the tales her mother, Charlotte, brought home. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones and the sounds they made on breaking. Charlotte would ''list bones like continents''. Clara would only escape the house after her mother's death - of a tumour at the age of thirty nine - and in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led to the offer of a job stocking a newly-built glass house at Shadowbrook Malice in Gloucestershire. [[House of Glass by Susan Fletcher|Full Review]] <!-- Rachael Blok -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1788547993.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788547993/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-alignMalmo: left;"|===[[Under the Ice (DCI JansenInspector Anita Sundstrom) by Rachael BlokTorquil MacLeod]]===
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It's eleven days to Christmas and the cathedral city of St Albans is looking particularly festive with was embarrassing when a covering of snowleading Malmo business man was kidnapped, but this belies particularly as the atmosphere: police didn't know anything about it until the body of man was discovered afterwards, tied to a young girl has been found frozen park bench in the local lakea cemetery. DCI JansenHe was coy about how much ransom was paid, but it was sufficient that he's only lead comes from Jenny Brennan - but can you put any credence on statements made by d felt the sleep-deprived mother pain of a four month old child, particularly one who claims to the digital transfers. That would have seen visions? Can you believe her statements that she's been sleep-walking in bad enough, but a second businessman was snatched soon afterwards and the middle of the night when she pressure on Inspector Anita Sundström and her colleagues was to find evidence that the police have missed? When another girl goes missing the tiny city is in melt-down businessman ''and for Jenny it all seems close '' to homecapture the kidnappers before they took anyone else. Far too close Worse was to homecome though when an investigative journalist was found murdered in his flat. Was one of his victims the murderer, or was it someone he was about to expose? [[Under the Ice Malice in Malmo: (DCI JansenInspector Anita Sundstrom) by Rachael BlokTorquil MacLeod|Full Review]]
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===[[The Light Between Worlds Vera Magpie by Laura WeymouthSolomon]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Five years ago Evelyn, Philippa and James Hapwell escaped to the safety of their air raid shelter as bombs fell all around the streets of London. In the terrifying darkness waiting for their parents to join them, Evelyn prayed to be anywhere else. A plea that was answered by The Woodlands. One moment in grey London and the next surrounded by a rich green forest, the three children were transported from one world trapped in war, to another on the brink of its own. [[The Light Between Worlds by Laura Weymouth|Full Review]] <!-- Durant -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1406374628.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1406374628/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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[[image:4starAs 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersVera Magpie by Laura Solomon|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
When Dak's dad dies very suddenly, from a heart attack, Dak is left feeling lost and alone. His mum is lost inside her own grief, struggling to take care of herself, let alone care for Dak, and so he escapes to the local aquarium - somewhere that both he and his dad had loved. But then he discovers that actually, his dad has turned into a clownfish and is living at the local aquarium! What will Dak do when the aquarium's future is in question, and he may potentially lose his dad all over again? [[Clownfish by Alan Durant|Full Review]] <!-- Carthew Karin Fossum -->
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===[[The Whisperer by Karin Fossum]]===
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[[imageWhen 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 custody because of a crime which she admits she's committed. Only, as we hear about 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 to add insult to injury she's been left with a horrible scar across her throat. She's done her best to make a go of her life though:5starshe enjoys her work in a shop and has learned ways of coping with the difficulties of communicating with people.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensThe Whisperer by Karin Fossum|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 Rachel Abbott -->
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===[[Two Dark Reigns And So It Begins by Kendare BlakeRachel Abbott]]===
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We know there's something very strange going on as soon as we join the story: we begin by hearing how it'You cannot put on a costume s going to end and become something elsethat someone must die. You are But that's just a queen of Fennbirn islandhint: for the time being we're with two police persons. Stephanie'' Following on from [[Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake|Three Dark Crowns]] s the sergeant and its sequel [[One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake|One Dark Throne]]she has Jason, the probationer with her in the squad car, but Stephanie doesn't like where they'Two Dark Reigns'' each of the Goddess' daughters have their own battles to fightre heading. All her life The house is stunning, Katharine has dreamed but the last time she was here it was because there was a dead body at the bottom of being the great Queen stairs to the island of Fennbirn deservespool. Having won This time there's been a 999 call with a woman screaming for help: the omens are not good and when they enter the crown thoughhouse they find two tangled, she is facing trial after difficult trial and murmurs of dissent and revolution grow louder on blood-soaked bodies in the streets each and every daybed. And without evidence They both look dead, but one of her sistersthem moves - it' death does anyone but herself s Evie Clark and the old queens buried under she confesses to killing her skin, believe she is the one true Queen? partner. [[Two Dark Reigns And So It Begins by Kendare BlakeRachel Abbott|Full Review]]
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===[[The Drop: A Spark of Light Slough House Novella by Jodi PicoultMick Herron]]===
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The Center is When you've done a job for any length of time, the last remaining abortion clinic in memory, the state instincts of Mississippi it stay with you and is the source of great controversy when it comes they're impossible to the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debateforget. It is at The Center where one manwas the same with Solomon Dortmund, George Goddarda retired spy: when he watches a woman making a drop he knows exactly what he's seeing and he passes this on John Batchelor, takes it upon himself to get revenge for the loss man charged with looking after the retired spooks. Bachelor has problems of his grandchild, in own: the form of closest he comes to a mass-shooting. What arises home is a novel that details the lives back seat of his car and he's run out of people whose sofas he can commandeer for the remaining hostages, as well as other characters central to the storynight. One of these characters The best he can do with Solomon's problem is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in to help deflate pass it on the situation, who soon discovers someone else and hope that his sister and daughter, Wren, happened to be at they'll deal with it/solve the clinic that dayproblem/quietly forget about it. [[The Drop: A Spark of Light Slough House Novella by Jodi PicoultMick Herron|Full Review]]
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===[[Gentleman Jack Kingdom of the Blind (DI Yates 7Chief Inspector Gamache) by Christina JamesLouise Penny]]===
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The investigation into It came as something of a surprise when Armand Gamache was named as liquidator in the thefts estate of farm machinery has been going on for months and it's getting DI Tim Yates down: a woman he can't see where to go nextd never met. It's almost Another villager from Three Pines is also a relief when Jack Fovargueliquidator, agricultural entrepreneur and local celebrity but the third is assaulted in a stranger to them both. The mystery deepens when the street, but no one can understand why Fovargue will is so reluctant to help read: given that the police with their enquiries, or to press charges, particularly when deceased was a police officer was also assaultedcleaner it seems unlikely that she would have had the millions which she bequests at her disposal. Yates Then a body is then diverted found. That's not Gamache's only problem though: one of his protégées, Amelia Choquet, has been expelled from the police academy for drug dealing, and the enquiry into the investigation incident which followed led to his suspension as the discovery head of the headless body of a woman Sûreté in a canal near Lincoln: it's an interesting case but the downside Quebec is that dragging on and the senior investigating officer outcome is DI Michael Robinson. They're contemporaries but Robinson is bumptious and inclined to taking credit for other people's effortslooking increasingly ominous. [[Gentleman Jack Kingdom of the Blind (DI Yates 7Chief Inspector Gamache) by Christina JamesLouise Penny|Full Review]]
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===[[The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A Clean Death to Z by Adriaan VerheulKate Atherley]]===
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Three very different men meet in the jungleI've been knitting for well over sixty years, led there by fatefollowing patterns of varying complexity with success. Davey sees conspiracies everywhere I've knit Aran sweaters, Oliver seeks answers about socks by the death of his father, dozen and Captain Christmas leads I'm currently knitting blankets for a community of armed men, women charity to sell. There hasn't been an occasion when I've been stuck and children, hidden far from justice in the forestpeople have often come to ''me'' for help when ''they've'' been stuck. As the three men are brought together, the events could cause each Would a knitter's dictionary really be of any help to lose something me? I was surprised by just how much I got out of consequence: maybe illusion, maybe conviction, and maybe, just maybe, life itself… it. [[The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A Clean Death to Z by Adriaan VerheulKate Atherley|Full Review]]
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===[[Be Your Higher Self by Samesh Ramjattan]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Beyond Thought by Chris Dhladhla:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]]===
[[imageThere are a lot of self-help books about:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Have you ever felt trapped by your own thoughts? That your mind is so busy processing whatit's going on in one of the world around you that you just can't catch a moment and simply ''be''? Or that most thriving sections of the outside world just wonaverage bookshop, but it't stop pressing in upon an inner life that you'd like s not always easy to be more peaceful? [[Beyond Thought by Chris Dhladhla|Full Review]] <!-- M J Lee -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:B07HYQ99YV.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07HYQ99YV/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Where find the Truth Lies (DI Ridpath) by M J Lee]]=== [[image:3book you need.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] DI Thomas Ridpath - call him Ridpath as he doesn't think Tom or Thomas suits him - looked to have a promising future Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in CID until he was forced to take extended sick leave nine months ago. He's back, but the word ''cancerBe Your Higher Self'' leaves people doubting how well you really are, or are going a book which allows us all to staymake sense of our place in the world, as most of us only glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve it. Perhaps Even with hard work and dedication, obstacles present themselves and it would 's difficult to understand why or how they can be better if he quietly retired? overcome. His wife, Polly, would like to see him in Ramjattan offers us a desk job. Ridpath would like guide to be back in front-line policingthe spirit world, the chakras, but all that's available to him is a secondment for three months karma and reincarnation as well as Coroner's Officerinformation about the age of Aquarius and the ego. If thatIt's how a slim book - just 128 pages - so can it's got to be, then he'll do provide us with the best job he can. answers we seek? [[Where the Truth Lies (DI Ridpath) Be Your Higher Self by M J LeeSamesh Ramjattan|Full Review]]
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===[[Tales of Love and Disability Black Light by Laura Solomon]]===
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I've always believed that less-able writers produce longer books: it takes Jim is a great deal of skill university student and talent , as the saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to write a short story which holds the reader seek. His father committed suicide when he was young and keeps them coming back for moresomehow he's never really managed to connect with his step-father. There are far too many collections of short stories which are all too easy to put down and forget after His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you've read a couple of piecesd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him. IJim've recently read s in love with a couple woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the looks, the attitude, the (lack of novellas by Laura Solomon - [[Marsha) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to be desired. Despite all that's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marshahe's Deal]] not about to sit back and [[Hellallow his life to drift: he's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hellactually writing 's Unveiling]] 'two'' novels and enjoyed them, so I was intrigued he reads excerpts from these to see what she could do with an even shorter formhis friends in the pub. [[Tales of Love and Disability Black Light by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
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Even detectives need a break and for Kate ShackletonA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, photography gives her sent far from his family in the mental relaxation which she needsFar East. When As the local Photographic Society proposed an outingboy travels to the school, Kate was keen a family tragedy causes the boy to take arrive at the opportunity to visit Haworth school a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. Plunged into a school full of danger and Stanburybetrayal, not least because the deeds of the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become boy is seen as a museum trophy by friends and her parents will be there for the eventenemies alike. What could be better than seeing her familyWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, witnessing a momentous event and having it comes to the opportunity boy to take photographs attempt to clean up the pit of filth that the setting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrongschool has become. Or could it? [[A Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) Redemptor Domus by Frances BrodyGamelyn Chase|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 Sendker -->
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===[[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingShort Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|For SharingGeneral Fiction]]
On my travels around the world, I have a tendency to end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next person, what I'm really looking for is the 'local' – the cookbook maybe, the maps definitely, but above all: the folk tales. If I ever get to Burma, I won't need to hunt, I can read before I go. [[The Long Path To Wisdom by Jan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
Something's gone horribly wrong. It's Christmas Eve and everything is very busy in Santa's grotto. The presents are all ready and waiting to be loaded onto the sleigh and the reindeer are itching to get going. But Santa? Santa is just not in the mood. He is tired of delivering the latest toys to children who only play with them for five minutes. He wishes people would remember what Christmas is really about - a time for families to come together for love and friendship and goodwill to one another. [[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston|Full Review]]<!-- Keeley Julia Jones -->
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===[[Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Julia Jones]]===
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[[imageLiam isn't ''quite'' the youngest in a large family:4starhe doesn't have the distinction of being the baby anymore and he doesn't have the ''heft'' of his older brothers and sisters.jpg|link=Category He's rather like one of the pebbles on a large shingle beach:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] part of the mass but easily overlooked as an individual. So when he starts having problems with his sight no one really 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. [[:Category:Confident ReadersPebble (Strong Winds series) by Julia Jones|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 Hall -->
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===[[So Many Doors by Oakley Hall]]===
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[[image:4starVassilia Caroline Baird, known to all as V, is dead. Jack sits in his cell refusing to talk to the lawyer tasked with his defence. Starting at the murderous finale, Hall skillfully weaves together the stories of his key players, in a tale of love spanning decades and states, marriages and tragedies.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]By the time the truth is revealed, V will be dead but who else will lose their life? [[:Category:TeensSo Many Doors by Oakley Hall|TeensFull Review]]
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 Anderson -->
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===[[The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Brian Anderson]]===
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[[image:5starOriginally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]But during this time, [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixierestrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. She's cursed! She can't speak unless it's to tell Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the truthnature of homosexuality appeared. You might think this is a good thing because telling lies is badThey were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, right? But sometimes as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the truth isn't nice margins of society and sometimes a white lie is okay and sometimes it's better studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to say nothing at all. You might not want to attract the attention scientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the school bully by calling him mean struggle for recognition and nasty, for exampleequality, or you might not want leading to tell someone that you think their brand new haircut looks awfulthe milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967. [[The Truth Pixie Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Matt Haig and Chris MouldBrian Anderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by M B VincentAmy Patricia Meade]]===
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Dr Jess CastleTish Tarragon is working towards opening her literary cafe, Cookin' The Books, when the self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home opportunity to cater for the sleepyLibrary fundraiser comes her way. It's a bit of a poisoned chalice, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Rather in more ways than being delightedone, her family are suspiciousas the head of the library committee, especially her father, the judgeBinnie Broderick is difficult. Luckily for Jess In fact, when she doesn't have to try too hard to dodge her familys poisoned at the meal Tish has catered, there's suspicions as a series no shortage of gruesome local murders are taking place and suspects. It's not just thatshe feels herself to be superior (she's all a Darlington, you see), but that she actively goes out of her way to make life difficult for anyone is talking aboutshe encounters. Jess accidentally finds herself The town might be heaving a collective sigh of relief (except not in the thick front of the investigationsheriff, and to her delight finds obviously) but Tish is worried that the fact that Binnie died face down in a meal she can actually 'd prepared might mean that people will not be usefulall that keen to come to her cafe once it's opened. 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 Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by M B VincentAmy Patricia Meade|Full Review]]
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===[[Nothing Lasting A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Laura SolomonCatriona McPherson]]===
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We never know Dandy Gilver and family had made the man's name arduous journey to Wester Ross, but letDandy had mixed feelings even when they arrived. They were there to meet the family of Mallory, her son Donald's call him fiancee. It wasn't that Dandy thought Donald to be rather 'Boyo'young'. It's what his mother used at twenty three to call himbe contemplating matrimony, not least because he found it annoying. When we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, if not but that Mallory was rather ''livingold'' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and drinkingfor him at thirty. Housework is There was also a foreign countryniggling worry because Donald wasn't the sharpest pin in the cushion. When she dies sheAll the doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross: they might have come to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of Lady Lavinia, Mallory's not missed, firstly because she'd spent a couple of years in a mental hospitalmother, but mainly because her ghost continues to haunt Boyoit soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the mother rather than the daughter. She wants him Dandy and Hugh were considering whether or not they should try to put an end to achieve something in his life: what she has in mind is the engagement when the news arrived that he could be a famous arsonistLady Lavinia had been found dead. [[Nothing Lasting A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Laura SolomonCatriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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Summer, Mia and Brynn are obsessed with Mehr is a novel called ''The Way into Lovelorn'girl trapped between two cultures. Her father comes from the ruling classes of the empire but her mother'. They begin to believe it is reals people were outcasts, that Amrithi nomads who worshipped the world spirits of Lovelorn is really materialising around them, and start writing their own fan-fiction sequelthe sands. One dayCaught one night performing these forbidden rites, Summer Mehr is violently murdered in brought to the woods where they all played and everyone thinks Mia and Brynn did itattention of the Emperor's most feared mystics, who force her into their service by way of an arranged marriage. [[Broken Things Empire of Sand by Lauren OliverTasha Suri|Full Review]]
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