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===[[Every Colour of You Friends Like These by Amelia MandevilleSarah Alderson]]===
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Zoe believes Life in adding life 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 years as well as years to lifeher room-mate’s parents. Her worldShe works in the entertainment industry, like but her name, job itself is bursting with life and colourprobably not one you’d covet. She is the sort 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 girl who would sing a rainbow if she couldher to see than there once was. Tristan (or ''Tree'' as But yes, she calls him) is doesn’t really have much time for the past and the opposite. Fresh out of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unit, he sees a world as a grey placepeople from it. [[Every Colour of You Friends Like These by Amelia MandevilleSarah Alderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Case Malice in Malmo: (Bob SkinnerInspector Anita Sundstrom) by Quintin JardineTorquil MacLeod]]===
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Bob Skinner left It was embarrassing when a leading Malmo business man was kidnapped, particularly as the police service in Scotland when it was amalgamated into one unit. He didn't believe know anything about it until the man was discovered afterwards, tied to a park bench in it then and he doesn't now and many serving officers would agree with hima cemetery. He might be retired was coy about how much ransom was paid, but it was sufficient that he's hardly idle: he's contracted to spend one day a week working for a media group, but usually gives more. His family - six children now - is important to himd felt the pain of the digital transfers. There's the occasional private commission, although he stops short of calling himself a private investigatorThat would have been bad enough, but he's just been presented with a problem which itsecond businessman was snatched soon afterwards and the pressure on Inspector Anita Sundström and her colleagues was to find the businessman 's difficult to refuse. It's not the problem thatand's the difficulty - it's to capture the person who is asking for helpkidnappers before they took anyone else. Sir James Proud Worse was Skinner's predecessor as Chief Constable and he's been approached by a blogger who feels that he has evidence that Proud to come though when an investigative journalist was involved found murdered in a famous murder for which a man was convictedhis flat. He subsequently committed suicide whilst in prison - and went to Was one of his death denying that victims the murderer, or was it someone he was guilty. about to expose? [[Cold Case Malice in Malmo: (Bob SkinnerInspector Anita Sundstrom) by Quintin JardineTorquil MacLeod|Full Review]]
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===[[Be Your Higher Self Vera Magpie by Samesh RamjattanLaura Solomon]]===
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There are a lot of self-help books about: it's one of the most thriving sections of the average bookshop, but it's not always easy to find the book you needI have murdered three husbands. 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? [[Be Your Higher Self by Samesh Ramjattan|Full Review]] <!-- Lisa Regan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:B07H2ML6LB.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07H2ML6LB/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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. [[Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Woods Murder Whisperer by Roy LewisKarin Fossum]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Jenny Carson was just nine years old when she was murdered whilst taking a shortcut through Kenton Woods. Her father blamed lawyer Charles Lendon for her death - not that he thought he was physically responsible, but because Lendon had refused to allow the local children to use his driveway as a shortcut to school, forcing them to cut through the woods if they were late. Lendon wasn't a popular man - he would say that lawyers never are - partly because of his attitudes, but his incessant womanising had made him a lot of enemies. When Lendon was murdered a couple of months after Jenny's death, there was no shortage of suspects. [[The Woods Murder by Roy Lewis|Full Review]]<!-- Betty Rowlands -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:B07GX7KGVR.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07GX7KGVR/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Murder at the Manor Hotel (Melissa Craig 4) by Betty Rowlands]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
Melissa Craig should have been getting on with writing her latest mystery novel but sheWhen we first meet Ragna we can't understand what'd been sidetracked into working s going on the script for a pantomime. It wasnShe't a traditional panto, but a spoof for the birthday party of a local millionaire, s talking to be held on Halloween. ItInspector Konrad Sejer and it's obvious that she's got all the hallmarks being held in custody because of a mystery crime which she admits she's committed. Only, as we hear about Greta'ands 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 pantomime whisper and it looks as though cast and audience are all in for a good time to add insult to injury she's been left with the rehearsals being held in a luxury hotelhorrible scar across her throat. Well, they were until one member She's done her best to make a go of the cast turns up dead her life though: she enjoys her work in a shop and has learned ways of coping with the cellar at the bottom difficulties of a steep flight of stairscommunicating with people. What was he doing there and why is the hotel manager acting so strangely? [[Murder at the Manor Hotel (Melissa Craig 4) The Whisperer by Betty RowlandsKarin Fossum|Full Review]]
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===[[Salvation And So It Begins by Peter F HamiltonRachel Abbott]]===
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Apparently We know there's something very strange going on as soon as we join the term story: we begin by hearing how it's going to end and that someone must die. But that'space operas just a hint: for the time being we're with two police persons. Stephanie' was coined s the sergeant and she has Jason, the probationer with her in 1941 as a pejorative. It was borrowed not from the high-brow musical art formsquad car, but from the common or garden Stephanie doesn'soap operat like where they're heading. It related to The house is stunning, but the last time she was here it was because there was a particular kind dead body at the bottom of science fiction which the coiner (one Wilson Tucker) described as stairs to the pool. This time there's been a 999 call with a ''hackywoman screaming for help: the omens are not good and when they enter the house they find two tangled, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn''. It would be fifty years later before the term started to be reblood-appropriated to cover – if still soaked bodies in the same themes bed. They both look dead, but one of distant futures, military conflict, heroism them moves - it's Evie Clark and a simplistic set of values – more literary, more expansive works. The term is now taken as complimentshe confesses to killing her partner. [[Salvation And So It Begins by Peter F HamiltonRachel Abbott|Full Review]]
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===[[The Drop: A Slough House of Glass Novella by Susan FletcherMick Herron]]===
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Clara suffered from When you''Osteogenesis imperfecta'': these days ve done a job for any length of time, the memory, the instincts of it would probably be called brittle bone disease stay with you and whilst there is still no cure, treatments have advancedthey're impossible to forget. At It was the beginning of the twentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her homesame with Solomon Dortmund, living life through a window retired spy: when he watches a woman making a drop he knows exactly what he's seeing and he passes this on John Batchelor, the tales her mother, Charlotte, brought homeman charged with looking after the retired spooks. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones and Bachelor has problems of his own: the sounds they made on breaking. Charlotte would ''list bones like continents''. Clara would only escape closest he comes to a home is the house after her motherback seat of his car and he's death - run out of a tumour at people whose sofas he can commandeer for the age of thirty nine - and in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardensnight. Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led The best he can do with Solomon's problem is to pass it on the someone else and hope that they'll deal with it/solve the offer of a job stocking a newly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershireproblem/quietly forget about it. [[The Drop: A Slough House of Glass Novella by Susan FletcherMick Herron|Full Review]]
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===[[Under Kingdom of the Ice Blind (DCI JansenChief Inspector Gamache) by Rachael BlokLouise Penny]]===
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It's eleven days to Christmas and came as something of a surprise when Armand Gamache was named as liquidator in the cathedral city estate of St Albans a woman he'd never met. Another villager from Three Pines is looking particularly festive with also a covering of snowliquidator, but this belies the atmospherethird is a stranger to them both. The mystery deepens when the will is read: given that the deceased was a cleaner it seems unlikely that she would have had the millions which she bequests at her disposal. Then a body of a young girl has been is found frozen in the local lake. DCI JansenThat's not Gamache's only lead comes problem though: one of his protégées, Amelia Choquet, has been expelled from Jenny Brennan - but can you put any credence on statements made by the sleep-deprived mother of a four month old childpolice academy for drug dealing, particularly one who claims and the enquiry into the incident which led to have seen visions? Can you believe her statements that she's been sleep-walking in his suspension as the middle head of the night when she find evidence that the police have missed? When another girl goes missing Sûreté in Quebec is dragging on and the tiny city outcome is in melt-down and for Jenny it all seems close to home. Far too close to homelooking increasingly ominous. [[Under Kingdom of the Ice Blind (DCI JansenChief Inspector Gamache) by Rachael BlokLouise Penny|Full Review]]
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===[[The Light Between Worlds Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Laura WeymouthKate Atherley]]===
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Five I've been knitting for well over sixty years ago Evelyn, Philippa and James Hapwell escaped to the safety following patterns of their air raid shelter as bombs fell all around the streets of Londonvarying complexity with success. In I've knit Aran sweaters, socks by the terrifying darkness waiting dozen and I'm currently knitting blankets for their parents a charity to join them, Evelyn prayed sell. There hasn't been an occasion when I've been stuck and people have often come to ''me'' for help when ''they've'' been stuck. Would a knitter's dictionary really be anywhere else. A plea that of any help to me? I was answered surprised 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 just how much I got out of its ownit. [[The Light Between Worlds Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Laura WeymouthKate Atherley|Full Review]]
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===[[Clownfish Be Your Higher Self by Alan DurantSamesh Ramjattan]]===
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When DakThere are a lot of self-help books about: it's dad dies very suddenlyone of the most thriving sections of the average bookshop, but it's not always easy to find the book you need. Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self'', from a heart attackbook which allows us all to make sense of our place in the world, Dak is left feeling lost as most of us only glimpse our true potential and alonefew people ever achieve it. His mum is lost inside her own griefEven with hard work and dedication, struggling obstacles present themselves and it's difficult to take care of herselfunderstand why or how they can be overcome. Ramjattan offers us a guide to the spirit world, let alone care for Dakthe chakras, karma and so he escapes to reincarnation as well as information about the local aquarium - somewhere that both he age of Aquarius and his dad had lovedthe ego. 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 aquariumIt's future is in question, and he may potentially lose his dad all over againa slim book - just 128 pages - so can it provide us with the answers we seek? [[Clownfish Be Your Higher Self by Alan DurantSamesh Ramjattan|Full Review]]
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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:5starthe 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:TeensBlack Light by Laura Solomon|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 Chase -->
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===[[Two Dark Reigns Redemptor Domus by Kendare Blake]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] ''You cannot put on a costume and become something else. You are a queen of Fennbirn island.'' Following on from [[Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake|Three Dark Crowns]] and its sequel [[One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake|One Dark Throne]], in ''Two Dark Reigns'' each of the Goddess' daughters have their own battles to fight. All her life, Katharine has dreamed of being the great Queen the island of Fennbirn deserves. Having won the crown though, she is facing trial after difficult trial and murmurs of dissent and revolution grow louder on the streets each and every day. And without evidence of her sisters' death does anyone but herself and the old queens buried under her skin, believe she is the one true Queen? [[Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake|Full Review]] <!-- Picoult -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1444788124.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444788124/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Spark of Light by Jodi PicoultGamelyn Chase]]===
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The Center is A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the last remaining abortion clinic scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the state of Mississippi and is Far East. As the source of great controversy when it comes boy travels to the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate. It is at The Center where one manschool, George Goddard, takes it upon himself a family tragedy causes the boy to get revenge for arrive at the loss of his grandchildschool a vulnerable orphan, in the form of a mass-shootingwith an uncertain future. What arises is Plunged into a novel that details the lives school full of danger and betrayal, the remaining hostages, boy is seen as well as other characters central to the storya trophy by friends and enemies alike. One of these characters is Hugh McElroyWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, a hostage negotiator called in it comes to help deflate the situation, who soon discovers that his sister and daughter, Wren, happened boy to attempt to be at clean up the clinic pit of filth that daythe school has become. [[A Spark of Light Redemptor Domus by Jodi PicoultGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[Gentleman Jack (DI Yates 7) The Long Path To Wisdom by Christina JamesJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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The investigation into On my travels around the thefts of farm machinery has been going on for months and it's getting DI Tim Yates down: he can't see where world, I have a tendency to go next. It's almost a relief when Jack Fovargueend up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, agricultural entrepreneur and local celebrity is assaulted in while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the streetnext person, but no one can understand why Fovargue what I'm really looking for is so reluctant to help the police with their enquiries'local' – the cookbook maybe, or to press chargesthe maps definitely, 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 Lincolnbut above all: it's an interesting case but the downside is that the senior investigating officer is DI Michael Robinsonfolk tales. TheyIf I ever get to Burma, I won're contemporaries but Robinson is bumptious and inclined t need to taking credit for other people's effortshunt, I can read before I go. [[Gentleman Jack (DI Yates 7) The Long Path To Wisdom by Christina JamesJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[A Clean Death Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Adriaan VerheulJulia Jones]]===
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Three very different men meet Liam isn't ''quite'' the youngest in a large family: he doesn't have the distinction of being the jungle, led there by fate. Davey sees conspiracies everywhere, Oliver seeks answers about baby anymore and he doesn't have the death ''heft'' of his father, older brothers and Captain Christmas leads sisters. He's rather like one of the pebbles on a community large shingle beach: part of armed men, women and children, hidden far from justice in the forestmass but easily overlooked as an individual. As 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 three men are brought togetherLuminal Festival and when he asked his elder step-sister, the events could cause each to lose something of consequence: maybe illusionAnna, maybe convictionif she'll take him for an eye test, she puts him off. In fairness she's got important exams and maybe, Liam's convinced that it's just maybea case of getting spectacles, life itself… but Liam's eyes are changing in a rather strange way. [[A Clean Death Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Adriaan VerheulJulia Jones|Full Review]]
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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]] By the time the truth is revealed, V will be dead but who else will lose their life? [[:Category:LifestyleSo Many Doors by Oakley Hall|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 Anderson -->
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===[[Where The Fraternity of the Truth Lies (DI Ridpath) Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by M J LeeBrian Anderson]]===
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DI Thomas Ridpath - call him Ridpath as he doesn't think Tom or Thomas suits him - looked to have Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a promising future crime remained in CID until he was forced to take extended sick leave nine months agoplace for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. He's backBetween 1891 and 1908, but three books on the word ''cancer'' leaves people doubting how nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well you really are, or are going to stayas the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Perhaps it would be better if he quietly retired? His wifeExploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, Pollybut barely talked about in the UK, would like so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to see him in a desk job. Ridpath would like to be back in front-line policingthe scientific understanding of homosexuality, but all that's available to him is a secondment and beginning the struggle for three months as Coroner's Officer. If that's how it's got recognition and equality, leading to be, then he'll do the best job he canmilestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967. [[Where The Fraternity of the Truth Lies (DI Ridpath) Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by M J LeeBrian Anderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Tales of Love and Disability Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Laura SolomonAmy Patricia Meade]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short StoriesCrime|Short StoriesCrime]] I've always believed that less-able writers produce longer books: it takes a great deal of skill and talent to write a short story which holds the reader and keeps them coming back for more. There are far too many collections of short stories which are all too easy to put down and forget after you've read a couple of pieces. I've recently read a couple of novellas by Laura Solomon - [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and [[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hell's Unveiling]] and enjoyed them, so I was intrigued to see what she could do with an even shorter form. [[Tales of Love and Disability by Laura Solomon|Full Review]] <!-- Frances Brody -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0349414327.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349414327/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Frances Brody]]===
[[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. It's a bit of a poisoned chalice, in more ways than one, as the head of the library committee, Binnie Broderick is difficult. In fact, when she's poisoned at the meal Tish has catered, there's no shortage of suspects. It's not just that she feels herself to be superior (she's a Darlington, you see), but that she actively goes out of her way to make life difficult for anyone she encounters.5star The town might be heaving a collective sigh of relief (except not in front of the sheriff, obviously) but Tish is worried that the fact that Binnie died face down in a meal she'd prepared might mean that people will not be all that keen to come to her cafe once it's opened.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime Cookin' The Books (HistoricalTish Tarragon Mystery)by Amy Patricia Meade|Crime (Historical)Full Review]]
Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. When the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, Kate was keen to take the opportunity to visit Haworth and Stanbury, not least because the deeds of the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a museum and her parents will be there for the event. What could be better than seeing her family, witnessing a momentous event and having the opportunity to take photographs of the setting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong. Or could it? [[A Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Frances Brody|Full Review]]<!-- Harrold Catriona McPherson -->
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===[[The Afterwards by A F Harrold and Emily Gravett]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersCrime (Historical)|Confident ReadersCrime (Historical)]]
''Tell them what The Afterwards is aboutDandy Gilver and family had made the arduous journey to Wester Ross, but Dandy had mixed feelings even when they saidarrived.''<br>''Hopefully you know this They were there to meet the family of Mallory, but...''<br>''Ither son Donald's a book with friendship in itfiancee. It wasn't that Dandy thought Donald to be rather '<br>'young'It's a book with death in it.at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, but that Mallory was rather ''<br>old''It's for him at thirty. There was also a book with betrayal in it.''<br>''Itniggling worry because Donald wasn's a book with love t the sharpest pin in itthe cushion.''<br>''It All 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 a book with a cat in mother, but itsoon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the mother rather than the daughter.''<br>''That's what I know Dandy and 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 found dead.''<br>''That's what I can tell you.''<br>''That'll do me.''[[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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 Suri -->
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===[[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingFantasy|For SharingFantasy]] 
Something's gone horribly wrongMehr is a girl trapped between two cultures. ItHer father comes from the ruling classes of the empire but her mother's Christmas Eve and everything is very busy in Santa's grotto. The presents are all ready and waiting to be loaded onto people were outcasts, Amrithi nomads who worshipped the sleigh and spirits of the reindeer are itching to get goingsands. But Santa? Santa Caught one night performing these forbidden rites, Mehr is just not in brought to the mood. He is tired attention of delivering the latest toys to children Emperor's most feared mystics, 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 anotherforce her into their service by way of an arranged marriage. [[Santa Goes on Strike Empire of Sand by Jem VanstonTasha Suri|Full Review]]
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