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===[[Empire of Sand Friends Like These by Tasha SuriSarah Alderson]]===
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Mehr is Life 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 girl trapped between two culturesnice home but it technically belongs to her room-mate’s parents. Her father comes from She works in the ruling classes of the empire 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 mother's people were outcastsnow. And, well, actually, they can, Amrithi nomads who worshipped the spirits although there’s a lot less of the sandsher to see than there once was. Caught one night performing these forbidden ritesBut yes, Mehr is brought to she doesn’t really have much time for the attention of past and the Emperor's most feared mystics, who force her into their service by way of an arranged marriagepeople from it. [[Empire of Sand Friends Like These by Tasha SuriSarah Alderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Alternative Medicine Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Laura SolomonTorquil MacLeod]]===
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Laura SolomonIt was embarrassing when a leading Malmo business man was kidnapped, particularly as the police didn's publisher describes t know anything about it until the short stories man was discovered afterwards, tied to a park bench in ''Alternative Medicine'' as ''black comedy with a twist of surrealism''cemetery. I'm rather glad He was coy about how much ransom was paid, but it was sufficient that I didn't see this until ''after'' Ihe'd finished reading as I'm not normally a fan felt the pain of eitherthe digital transfers. That would have been bad enough, but I've come a second businessman was snatched soon afterwards and the pressure on Inspector Anita Sundström and her colleagues was to two conclusions about find the book: what the publisher says is correct - and I really enjoyed it. The comedy is not businessman ''tooand'' black and to capture the surrealism is gentle and perhaps best described as a twist or flick of reality when you were least expecting itkidnappers before they took anyone else. Your comfort zones are going Worse was to be invaded come though when an investigative journalist was found murdered in his flat. Was one of his victims the nicest possible way. murderer, or was it someone he was about to expose? [[Alternative Medicine Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Laura SolomonTorquil MacLeod|Full Review]]
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===[[The Count of 9 Vera Magpie by Erle Stanley GardnerLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Historical General Fiction|Historical General Fiction]] ''The Count of 9'' is a hardboiled detective story written in the 1950s. It revolves around the detective duo of Donald Lam and Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve the theft of priceless Bornean artefacts. However, their case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. [[The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]] <!-- Mandeville -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0751571695.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0751571695/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Every Colour of You by Amelia Mandeville]]===
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Zoe believes in adding life 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 years as well as years 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 lifesentence. Her worldonly friend is Shirley, like her namea lesbian, is bursting with life and colourbut Vera's not one to let herself be a victim. She is the sort of girl who would sing 's not keen on having a rainbow if sexual relationship with Shirley (she could. Tristan (or ''Tree'wouldn' as she calls him) is t risk the opposite. Fresh out security of hospital following a prolonged stay her life in prison for the sake of a psychiatric unitfling), he sees but she is keen on getting an education and she's studying for a world as a grey placedegree in English Literature. [[Every Colour of You Vera Magpie by Amelia MandevilleLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Case (Bob Skinner) The Whisperer by Quintin JardineKarin Fossum]]===
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Bob Skinner left the police service in Scotland when it was amalgamated into one unit. He didnWhen we first meet Ragna we can't believe in it then and he doesnunderstand what't now and many serving officers would agree with hims going on. He might be retired but heShe's hardly idle: hetalking to Inspector Konrad Sejer and it'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. Thereobvious that she's the occasional private commission, although he stops short being held in custody because of calling himself a private investigator, but he's just been presented with a problem crime which itshe admits she's difficult to refusecommitted. ItOnly, as we hear about Greta's not the problem life it seems thatshe's the difficulty - it's the person who is asking for helpmore sinned against than sinning. Sir James Proud was SkinnerAfter a botched operation on her vocal chords she can's predecessor as Chief Constable t speak above a whisper and heto add insult to injury she's been approached by left with a blogger who feels that he has evidence that Proud was involved in a famous murder for which a man was convictedhorrible scar across her throat. He subsequently committed suicide whilst She's done her best to make a go of her life though: she enjoys her work in prison - a shop and went to his death denying that he was guiltyhas learned ways of coping with the difficulties of communicating with people. [[Cold Case (Bob Skinner) The Whisperer by Quintin JardineKarin Fossum|Full Review]]
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===[[Be Your Higher Self And So It Begins by Samesh RamjattanRachel Abbott]]===
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There are a lot of self-help books about: itWe know there's one of something very strange going on as soon as we join the most thriving sections of the average bookshop, but story: we begin by hearing how it's not always easy going to find the book you needend and that someone must die. Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in But that's just a hint: for the time being we'Be Your Higher Self're with two police persons. Stephanie's the sergeant and she has Jason, a book which allows us all to make sense of our place the probationer with her in the worldsquad car, 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 itbut Stephanie doesn's difficult to understand why or how t like where they can be overcome're heading. Ramjattan offers us a guide to the spirit worldThe house is stunning, but the chakras, karma and reincarnation as well as information about last time she was here it was because there was a dead body at the age bottom of Aquarius and the egostairs to the pool. ItThis time there's been a 999 call with a slim book woman screaming for help: the omens are not good and when they enter the house they find two tangled, blood- just 128 pages soaked bodies in the bed. They both look dead, but one of them moves - so can it provide us with the answers we seek? 's Evie Clark and she confesses to killing her partner. [[Be Your Higher Self And So It Begins by Samesh RamjattanRachel Abbott|Full Review]]
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===[[Her Final Confession (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4) The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Lisa ReganMick Herron]]===
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Detective Josie Quinn is no longer Chief When you've done a job for any length of Policetime, but in many ways that's something the memory, the instincts of a relief, although it does mean that she doesnstay with you and they't quite have the autonomy that she hadre impossible to forget. It also means that was the other detectives have same with Solomon Dortmund, a habit of calling her 'bossretired spy: when he watches a woman making a drop he knows exactly what he's seeing and he passes this on John Batchelor, the man charged with looking after the retired spooks. It's Bachelor has problems of his own: the autonomy bit that strikes home though when she has closest he comes to watch a fellow officer being arrested for a cold-blooded murder, but what other conclusion can you come to when home is the officer goes missing, her vehicle back seat of his car and phone are off the radar and therehe's run out of people whose sofas he can commandeer for the body of a young man in her driveway? night. Josie Quinn The best he cando with Solomon't believe that Gretchen - s problem is to pass it on the woman she brought onto the Denton police force - could be guilty of such a crime, but she someone else and Noah Fraley are not going to have much time to prove hope that Gretchen is innocent, and Gretchen doesnthey't seem inclined to help themll deal with it/solve the problem/quietly forget about it. [[Her Final Confession (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4) The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Lisa ReganMick Herron|Full Review]]
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===[[The Woods Murder Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Roy LewisLouise Penny]]===
[[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 sheIt came as something of a surprise when Armand Gamache was named as liquidator in the estate of a woman he'd been sidetracked into working on the script for a pantomimenever met. It wasn't Another villager from Three Pines is also a traditional pantoliquidator, but a spoof for the birthday party of third is a local millionaire, stranger to be held on Halloweenthem both. It's got all The mystery deepens when the will is read: given that the hallmarks of a mystery ''and'' deceased was a pantomime and cleaner it looks as though cast and audience are all in for a good time with seems unlikely that she would have had the rehearsals being held in millions which she bequests at her disposal. Then a luxury hotelbody is found. Well, they were until That's not Gamache's only problem though: one member of his protégées, Amelia Choquet, has been expelled from the police academy for drug dealing, and the cast turns up dead in enquiry into the cellar at incident which led to his suspension as the bottom head of a steep flight of stairs. What was he doing there the Sûreté in Quebec is dragging on and why the outcome is the hotel manager acting so strangely? looking increasingly ominous. [[Murder at Kingdom of the Manor Hotel Blind (Melissa Craig 4Chief Inspector Gamache) by Betty RowlandsLouise Penny|Full Review]]
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===[[Salvation The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Peter F HamiltonKate Atherley]]===
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Apparently the term I've been knitting for well over sixty years, following patterns of varying complexity with success. I'space opera've knit Aran sweaters, socks by the dozen and I' was coined in 1941 as m currently knitting blankets for a pejorativecharity to sell. It was borrowed not from the high-brow musical art form, but from the common or garden There hasn'soap operat been an occasion when I'. It related ve been stuck and people have often come to a particular kind of science fiction which the coiner (one Wilson Tucker) described as a ''hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarnme'' for help when ''they've''been stuck. It would Would a knitter's dictionary really be fifty years later before the term started of any help to be re-appropriated to cover – if still the same themes of distant futures, military conflict, heroism and a simplistic set me? I was surprised by just how much I got out of values – more literary, more expansive works. The term is now taken as complimentit. [[Salvation The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Peter F HamiltonKate Atherley|Full Review]]
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===[[House of Glass Be Your Higher Self by Susan FletcherSamesh Ramjattan]]===
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Clara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta''There are a lot of self-help books about: these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there is still no cure, treatments have advanced. At 's one of the beginning most thriving sections of the twentieth century average bookshop, but it meant that Clara was confined 's not always easy to her home, living life through a window and find the tales her mother, Charlotte, brought homebook you need. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones and the sounds they made on breaking. Charlotte would Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''list bones like continentsBe 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. Clara would only escape the house after her motherEven with hard work and dedication, obstacles present themselves and it's death - of difficult to understand why or how they can be overcome. Ramjattan offers us a tumour at guide to the spirit world, the chakras, karma and reincarnation as well as information about the age of thirty nine - Aquarius and in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardensthe ego. Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led to the offer of It's a job stocking a newlyslim book - just 128 pages -built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershire. so can it provide us with the answers we seek? [[House of Glass Be Your Higher Self by Susan FletcherSamesh Ramjattan|Full Review]]
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===[[Under the Ice (DCI Jansen) Black Light by Rachael BlokLaura Solomon]]===
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It's eleven days to Christmas and the cathedral city of St Albans Jim is looking particularly festive with a covering of snowuniversity student and, but this belies as the atmosphere: the body of a young girl has been found frozen in the local lakesaying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek. DCI JansenHis father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's only lead comes from Jenny Brennan never really managed to connect with his step- but can father. His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you put any credence on statements made by the sleep-deprived mother of a four month old child'd just say that he was very difficult, particularly one who claims to have seen visions? but Jim does his best with and for him. Can you believe her statements that sheJim's been sleep-walking in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the middle of looks, the night when she find evidence that attitude, the police have missed? When another girl goes missing (lack of) conversational ability and the tiny city is in melt-down and for Jenny it clothing all seems close leave a lot to homebe desired. Far too close Despite all that's he's not about to sit back and allow his life to homedrift: he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[Under the Ice (DCI Jansen) Black Light by Rachael BlokLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Light Between Worlds Redemptor Domus by Laura WeymouthGamelyn Chase]]===
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Five years ago EvelynA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, Philippa and James Hapwell escaped to the safety of their air raid shelter as bombs fell all around sent far from his family in the streets of LondonFar East. In As the terrifying darkness waiting for their parents boy travels to join themthe school, Evelyn prayed a family tragedy causes the boy to be anywhere elsearrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. A plea that was answered Plunged into a school full of danger and betrayal, the boy is seen as a trophy by The Woodlandsfriends and enemies alike. One moment in grey London With them locked into their scheming and the next surrounded by a rich green forestplotting, it comes to the three children were transported from one world trapped in war, boy to attempt to another on clean up the brink pit of its ownfilth that the school has become. [[The Light Between Worlds Redemptor Domus by Laura WeymouthGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[Clownfish The Long Path To Wisdom by Alan DurantJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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When Dak's dad dies very suddenlyOn my travels around the world, from I have a heart attacktendency to end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, Dak is left feeling lost and alone. His mum is lost inside her own griefwhile I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next person, struggling to take care of herself, let alone care what I'm really looking for Dakis the 'local' – the cookbook maybe, and so he escapes to the local aquarium - somewhere that both he and his dad had loved. But then he discovers that actuallymaps definitely, his dad has turned into a clownfish and is living at but above all: the local aquarium! folk tales. What will Dak do when the aquariumIf I ever get to Burma, I won's future is in questiont need to hunt, and he may potentially lose his dad all over again? I can read before I go. [[Clownfish The Long Path To Wisdom by Alan DurantJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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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:5starhe 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:TeensPebble (Strong Winds series) by Julia Jones|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 Hall -->
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===[[Two Dark Reigns So Many Doors by Kendare BlakeOakley Hall]]===
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''You cannot put on a costume and become something else. You are a queen of Fennbirn islandVassilia Caroline Baird, known to all as V, is dead.'' Following on from [[Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake|Three Dark Crowns]] and its sequel [[One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake|One Dark Throne]], Jack sits in ''Two Dark Reigns'' each of his cell refusing to talk to the Goddess' daughters have their own battles to fightlawyer tasked with his defence. All her lifeStarting at the murderous finale, Katharine has dreamed of being the great Queen Hall skillfully weaves together the island stories of Fennbirn deserves. Having won the crown thoughhis key players, she is facing trial after difficult trial and murmurs in a tale of dissent love spanning decades and revolution grow louder on the streets each states, marriages and every daytragedies. And without evidence of her sisters' death does anyone but herself and By the time the old queens buried under her skintruth is revealed, believe she is the one true QueenV will be dead but who else will lose their life? [[Two Dark Reigns So Many Doors by Kendare BlakeOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[A Spark The Fraternity of Light the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Jodi PicoultBrian Anderson]]===
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The Center is Originally passed in 1885, the last remaining abortion clinic law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in the state of Mississippi and is the source of great controversy when it comes to the Proplace for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-Life versus Pro-Choice debatesex relationships did not go unchallenged. It is at The Center where one man, George GoddardBetween 1891 and 1908, takes it upon himself to get revenge for three books on the loss nature of his grandchildhomosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, in as well as the form of a mass-shootingheterosexual Havelock Ellis. What arises is a novel that details Exploring the lives margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the remaining hostagesUK, as well as other characters central to so the story. One publications of these characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in men were hugely significant – contributing to help deflate the situationscientific understanding of homosexuality, who soon discovers that his sister and daughter, Wrenbeginning the struggle for recognition and equality, happened leading to be at the clinic that daymilestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967. [[A Spark The Fraternity of Light the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Jodi PicoultBrian Anderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Gentleman Jack Cookin' The Books (DI Yates 7Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Christina JamesAmy Patricia Meade]]===
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Tish Tarragon is working towards opening her literary cafe, Cookin' The investigation into Books, when the thefts of farm machinery has been going on opportunity to cater for months and it's getting DI Tim Yates down: he can't see where to go nextthe Library fundraiser comes her way. It's almost a relief when Jack Fovarguebit of a poisoned chalice, agricultural entrepreneur and local celebrity is assaulted in more ways than one, as the streethead of the library committee, but no one can understand why Fovargue Binnie Broderick is so reluctant to help difficult. In fact, when she's poisoned at the police with their enquiriesmeal Tish has catered, or there's no shortage of suspects. It's not just that she feels herself to press chargesbe superior (she's a Darlington, you see), particularly when a police officer was also assaultedbut that she actively goes out of her way to make life difficult for anyone she encounters. Yates is then diverted into the investigation which followed the discovery The town might be heaving a collective sigh of relief (except not in front of the headless body of a woman in a canal near Lincoln: it's an interesting case sheriff, obviously) but the downside Tish is worried that the senior investigating officer is DI Michael Robinson. Theyfact that Binnie died face down in a meal she're contemporaries but Robinson is bumptious and inclined d prepared might mean that people will not be all that keen to come to taking credit for other peopleher cafe once it's effortsopened. [[Gentleman Jack Cookin' The Books (DI Yates 7Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Christina JamesAmy Patricia Meade|Full Review]]
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===[[A Clean Death Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Adriaan VerheulCatriona McPherson]]===
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Three very different men meet in Dandy Gilver and family had made the junglearduous journey to Wester Ross, led but Dandy had mixed feelings even when they arrived. They were there by fate. Davey sees conspiracies everywhere, Oliver seeks answers about to meet the death family of his fatherMallory, her son Donald's fiancee. It wasn't that Dandy thought Donald to be rather ''young'' at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, and Captain Christmas leads but that Mallory was rather ''old'' for him at thirty. There was also a community of armed men, women and children, hidden far from justice niggling worry because Donald wasn't the sharpest pin in the forestcushion. As All the three men are brought together, doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross: they might have come to celebrate the events could cause each to lose something fiftieth birthday of consequence: maybe illusionLady Lavinia, maybe convictionMallory's mother, but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the mother rather than the daughter. Dandy and maybe, just maybe, life itself… 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. [[A Clean Death Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Adriaan VerheulCatriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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===[[Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Beyond Thought by Chris Dhladhla:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Have you ever felt trapped by your own thoughts? That your mind Mehr 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 girl trapped between two cultures. Her father comes from 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 -->|-| 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 ruling classes of the Truth Lies (DI Ridpath) by M J Lee]]=== [[image:3.5star.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 in CID until he was forced to take extended sick leave nine months ago. Heempire but her mother's backpeople were outcasts, but Amrithi nomads who worshipped the spirits of the word ''cancer'' leaves people doubting how well you really are, or are going to stay. Perhaps it would be better if he quietly retired? His wife, Polly, would like to see him in a desk jobsands. Ridpath would like to be back in front-line policingCaught one night performing these forbidden rites, but all that's available to him Mehr is a secondment for three months as Coroner's Officer. If that's how it's got brought to be, then he'll do the best job he can. [[Where the Truth Lies (DI Ridpath) by M J Lee|Full Review]] <!-- Laura Solomon -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:9386897504.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/9386897504/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tales attention of Love and Disability by Laura Solomon]]=== [[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 - [[MarshaEmperor's Deal most feared mystics, who force her into their service 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 way of an even shorter formarranged marriage. [[Tales Empire of Love and Disability Sand by Laura SolomonTasha Suri|Full Review]]
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