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===[[The Count of 9 Friends Like These by Erle Stanley GardnerSarah Alderson]]===
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''The Count Life in London isn’t always glam, especially if you’re young and underpaid. For Lizzie it’s all a bit of 9'' is a hardboiled detective story written balancing act. She has a nice home but it technically belongs to her room-mate’s parents. She works in the 1950sentertainment 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. It revolves around the detective duo And, well, actually, they can, although there’s a lot less of Donald Lam and Bertha Cool as they attempt her to solve the theft of priceless Bornean artefactssee than there once was. HoweverBut yes, their case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murdershe doesn’t really have much time for the past and the people from it. [[The Count of 9 Friends Like These by Erle Stanley GardnerSarah Alderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Every Colour of You Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Amelia MandevilleTorquil MacLeod]]===
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Zoe believes in adding life to years It was embarrassing when a leading Malmo business man was kidnapped, particularly as well as years the police didn't know anything about it until the man was discovered afterwards, tied to lifea park bench in a cemetery. Her world He was coy about how much ransom was paid, like her name, is bursting with life and colour. She is but it was sufficient that he'd felt the sort pain of girl who the digital transfers. That would sing have been bad enough, but a rainbow if she could. Tristan (or second businessman was snatched soon afterwards and the pressure on Inspector Anita Sundström and her colleagues was to find the businessman ''Treeand'' as she calls him) is to capture the oppositekidnappers before they took anyone else. Worse was to come though when an investigative journalist was found murdered in his flat. Fresh out Was one of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unithis victims the murderer, or was it someone he sees a world as a grey place. was about to expose? [[Every Colour of You Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Amelia MandevilleTorquil MacLeod|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Case (Bob Skinner) Vera Magpie by Quintin JardineLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeGeneral Fiction|Crime]General Fiction] Bob Skinner left the police service in Scotland when it was amalgamated into one unit. He didn't believe in it then and he doesn't now and many serving officers would agree with him. He might be retired but 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 him. There's the occasional private commission, although he stops short of calling himself a private investigator, but he's just been presented with a problem which it's difficult to refuse. It's not the problem that's the difficulty - it's the person who is asking for help. Sir James Proud was Skinner's predecessor as Chief Constable and he's been approached by a blogger who feels that he has evidence that Proud was involved in a famous murder for which a man was convicted. He subsequently committed suicide whilst in prison - and went to his death denying that he was guilty. [[Cold Case (Bob Skinner) by Quintin Jardine|Full Review]] <!-- Samesh Ramjattan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1789015200.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789015200/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Be Your Higher Self by Samesh Ramjattan]]===
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There are a lot of self-help books about: it's one of the most thriving sections of the average bookshopAs an opening line that must take some beating, but itVera's not always easy to find telling us the book you needtruth. Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self''The first two husbands, Gary and Harry were abusive, but Larry was a book which allows us all to make sense of our place in the worldtreasure, as most of us only glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve it. Even with hard work and dedicationa keeper, obstacles present themselves and it's difficult to understand why or how they can 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 overcomea victim. Ramjattan offers us She's not keen on having a guide to sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the spirit world, security of her life in prison for the chakrassake of a fling), karma and reincarnation as well as information about the age of Aquarius but she is keen on getting an education and the ego. Itshe's studying for a slim book - just 128 pages - so can it provide us with the answers we seek? degree in English Literature. [[Be Your Higher Self Vera Magpie by Samesh RamjattanLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Her Final Confession (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4) The Whisperer by Lisa ReganKarin Fossum]]===
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Detective Josie Quinn is no longer Chief of Police, but in many ways When we first meet Ragna we can't understand what's going on. She's talking to Inspector Konrad Sejer and it's obvious thatshe's something being held in custody because of a reliefcrime which she admits she's committed. Only, although as we hear about Greta's life it does mean seems that she doesn't quite have the autonomy that she hads more sinned against than sinning. It also means that the other detectives have After a habit of calling botched operation on her vocal chords she can'bosst speak above a whisper and to add insult to injury she's been left with a horrible scar across her throat. ItShe's the autonomy bit that strikes home done her best to make a go of her life though when : she has to watch a fellow officer being arrested for enjoys her work in a cold-blooded murder, but what other conclusion can you come to when the officer goes missing, her vehicle shop and phone are off the radar and there's the body has learned ways of a young man in her driveway? Josie Quinn can't believe that Gretchen - the woman she brought onto coping with the Denton police force - could be guilty difficulties of such a crime, but she and Noah Fraley are not going to have much time to prove that Gretchen is innocent, and Gretchen doesn't seem inclined to help themcommunicating with people. [[Her Final Confession (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4) The Whisperer by Lisa ReganKarin Fossum|Full Review]]
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===[[The Woods Murder And So It Begins by Roy LewisRachel Abbott]]===
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Jenny Carson was We 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 nine years old when she was murdered whilst taking a shortcut through Kenton Woodshint: for the time being we're with two police persons. Her father blamed lawyer Charles Lendon for Stephanie's the sergeant and she has Jason, the probationer with her death - not that he thought he was physically responsiblein 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 Lendon had refused to allow there was a dead body at the bottom of the local children to use his driveway as a shortcut to school, forcing them stairs to cut through the woods if they were latepool. Lendon wasnThis time there't s been a 999 call with a popular man - he would say that lawyers never woman screaming for help: the omens are not good and when they enter the house they find two tangled, blood- partly because of his attitudessoaked bodies in the bed. They both look dead, but his incessant womanising had made him a lot one of enemies. When Lendon was murdered a couple of months after Jennythem moves - it's death, there was no shortage of suspectsEvie Clark and she confesses to killing her partner. [[The Woods Murder And So It Begins by Roy LewisRachel Abbott|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]]
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===[[Salvation The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Peter F HamiltonMick Herron]]===
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Apparently the term ''space operaWhen you'' was coined in 1941 as ve done a pejorative. It was borrowed not from job for any length of time, the high-brow musical art formmemory, but from the common or garden 'soap operainstincts of it stay with you and they're impossible to forget. It related to was the same with Solomon Dortmund, a retired spy: when he watches a particular kind of science fiction which the coiner (one Wilson Tucker) described as woman making a drop he knows exactly what he''hackys seeing and he passes this on John Batchelor, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn''the man charged with looking after the retired spooks. It would be fifty years later before Bachelor has problems of his own: the term started closest he comes to be re-appropriated to cover – if still a home is the same themes back seat of distant futures, military conflict, heroism his car and a simplistic set he's run out of values – more literary, more expansive workspeople whose sofas he can commandeer for the night. The term best he can do with Solomon's problem is now taken as complimentto pass it on the someone else and hope that they'll deal with it/solve the problem/quietly forget about it. [[Salvation The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Peter F HamiltonMick Herron|Full Review]]
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===[[House Kingdom 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 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-align: left;"|===[[Under 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 BlakeGamelyn Chase]]===
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''You cannot put on a costume and become something else. You are a queen of Fennbirn island.'' Following A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from [[Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake|Three Dark Crowns]] and its sequel [[One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake|One Dark Throne]], his family in ''Two Dark Reigns'' each of the Goddess' daughters have their own battles Far East. As the boy travels to fight. All her lifethe school, Katharine has dreamed of being a family tragedy causes the great Queen boy to arrive at the island of Fennbirn deservesschool a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. Having won the crown though, she is facing trial after difficult trial and murmurs Plunged into a school full of dissent danger and revolution grow louder on betrayal, the streets each boy is seen as a trophy by friends and every dayenemies alike. And without evidence of her sisters' death does anyone but herself With them locked into their scheming and plotting, it comes to the old queens buried under her skin, believe she is boy to attempt to clean up the pit of filth that the one true Queen? school has become. [[Two Dark Reigns Redemptor Domus by Kendare BlakeGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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The Center is On my travels around the last remaining abortion clinic world, I have a tendency to end up in the state of Mississippi and any bookshop that is the source of great controversy when it comes to the Proselling English-Life versus Prolanguage books, and while I buy as many second-Choice debate. It is at The Center where one manhand escapist tales as the next person, George Goddard, takes it upon himself to get revenge what I'm really looking for is the 'local' – the loss of his grandchildcookbook maybe, in the form of a mass-shooting. What arises is a novel that details the lives of the remaining hostagesmaps definitely, as well as other characters central to but above all: the storyfolk tales. One of these characters is Hugh McElroy If I ever get to Burma, a hostage negotiator called in I won't need to help deflate the situation, who soon discovers that his sister and daughter, Wrenhunt, happened to be at the clinic that dayI can read before I go. [[A Spark of Light The Long Path To Wisdom by Jodi PicoultJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Gentleman Jack Pebble (DI Yates 7Strong Winds series) by Christina JamesJulia Jones]]===
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The investigation into Liam isn't ''quite'' the youngest in a large family: he doesn't have the thefts distinction of farm machinery has been going on for months being the baby anymore and it's getting DI Tim Yates down: he candoesn't see where to go nexthave the ''heft'' of his older brothers and sisters. ItHe's almost rather like one of the pebbles on a relief when Jack Fovargue, agricultural entrepreneur and local celebrity is assaulted in large shingle beach: part of the street, mass but easily overlooked as an individual. So when he starts having problems with his sight no one can understand why Fovargue is so reluctant really takes any notice. He doesn't want to help bother his mother as she's heavily involved in the police with their enquiriesLuminal Festival and when he asked his elder step-sister, Anna, or to press chargesif she'll take him for an eye test, particularly when a police officer was also assaultedshe puts him off. Yates is then diverted into the investigation which followed the discovery of the headless body of a woman in a canal near Lincoln: In fairness she's got important exams and Liam's convinced that it's an interesting just a case of getting spectacles, 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 peopleLiam's effortseyes are changing in a rather strange way. [[Gentleman Jack Pebble (DI Yates 7Strong Winds series) by Christina JamesJulia Jones|Full Review]]
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===[[A Clean Death So Many Doors by Adriaan VerheulOakley Hall]]===
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Three very different men meet Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all as V, is dead. Jack sits in his cell refusing to talk to the jungle, led there by fatelawyer tasked with his defence. Davey sees conspiracies everywhereStarting at the murderous finale, Oliver seeks answers about Hall skillfully weaves together the death stories of his fatherkey players, and Captain Christmas leads in a community tale of armed menlove spanning decades and states, women marriages and children, hidden far from justice in tragedies. By the forest. As time the three men are brought togethertruth is revealed, the events could cause each to V will be dead but who else will lose something of consequence: maybe illusion, maybe conviction, and maybe, just maybe, their life itself… ? [[A Clean Death So Many Doors by Adriaan VerheulOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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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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[[imageOriginally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men:4starEdward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Exploring the margins of society and 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 the scientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967. [[The Fraternity of the Estranged:Category:LifestyleThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Brian Anderson|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 Amy Patricia Meade -->
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===[[Where the Truth Lies Cookin' The Books (DI RidpathTish Tarragon Mystery) by M J LeeAmy Patricia Meade]]===
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DI Thomas Ridpath - call him Ridpath as he doesnTish Tarragon is working towards opening her literary cafe, Cookin't think Tom or Thomas suits him - looked The Books, when the opportunity to have cater for the Library fundraiser comes her way. It's a bit of a promising future poisoned chalice, in CID until he was forced to take extended sick leave nine months agomore ways than one, as the head of the library committee, Binnie Broderick is difficult. HeIn fact, when she's backpoisoned at the meal Tish has catered, but the word there's no shortage of suspects. It'cancers not just that she feels herself to be superior (she'' leaves people doubting how well s a Darlington, you really aresee), or are going but that she actively goes out of her way to staymake life difficult for anyone she encounters. Perhaps it would The town might be better if he quietly retired? His wife, Polly, would like to see him in heaving a desk job. Ridpath would like to be back collective sigh of relief (except not in front-line policingof the sheriff, obviously) but all Tish is worried that the fact that's available to him is Binnie died face down in a secondment for three months as Coronermeal she's Officer. If d prepared might mean that people will not be all that's how keen to come to her cafe once it's got to be, then he'll do the best job he canopened. [[Where the Truth Lies Cookin' The Books (DI RidpathTish Tarragon Mystery) by M J LeeAmy Patricia Meade|Full Review]]
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===[[Tales of Love and Disability A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Laura SolomonCatriona McPherson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] 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]] 
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[[imageDandy Gilver and family had made the arduous journey to Wester Ross, but Dandy had mixed feelings even when they arrived. They were there to meet the family of Mallory, her son Donald's fiancee. It wasn't that Dandy thought Donald to be rather ''young'' at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, but that Mallory was rather ''old'' for him at thirty. There was also a niggling worry because Donald wasn't the sharpest pin in the cushion. All the doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross:4they might have come to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of Lady Lavinia, Mallory's mother, but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the mother rather than the daughter.5star 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime A Step So Grave (HistoricalDandy Gilver)by Catriona McPherson|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 Suri -->
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===[[The Afterwards by A F Harrold and Emily Gravett]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersFantasy|Confident ReadersFantasy]]  ''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 honestMehr is a girl trapped between two cultures. Her father comes from the ruling classes of the empire but her mother's people were outcasts, Amrithi nomads who worshipped the spirits of the sands. Caught one night performing these forbidden rites, IMehr is brought to the attention of the Emperor'd be surprised if that wouldn't do yous most feared mystics, toowho force her into their service by way of an arranged marriage.[[The Afterwards Empire of Sand by A F Harrold and Emily GravettTasha Suri|Full Review]]
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