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===[[Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) Friends Like These by Amy Patricia MeadeSarah Alderson]]===
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Tish Tarragon is working towards opening her literary cafe, Cookin' The BooksLife in London isn’t always glam, when the opportunity to cater for the Library fundraiser comes her wayespecially if you’re young and underpaid. It's For Lizzie it’s all a bit of a poisoned chalice, balancing act. She has a nice home but it technically belongs to her room-mate’s parents. She works in more ways than one, as the head of the library committeeentertainment industry, Binnie Broderick but her job itself is difficultprobably not one you’d covet. In factShe doesn’t have much spare time, when she's poisoned at the meal Tish has cateredbut that’s because she’s been working through some self-improvement. If they could only see her now. And, well, actually, they can, there's no shortage although there’s a lot less of suspects. It's not just that she feels herself her to be superior (she's a Darlington, you see)than there once was. But yes, but that she actively goes out of her way to make life difficult doesn’t really have much time for anyone she encounters. The town might be heaving a collective sigh of relief (except not in front of the sheriff, obviously) but Tish is worried that past and 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 from it's opened. [[Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) Friends Like These by Amy Patricia MeadeSarah Alderson|Full Review]]
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===[[A Step So Grave Malice in Malmo: (Dandy GilverInspector Anita Sundstrom) by Catriona McPhersonTorquil MacLeod]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Dandy 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: they 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. 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. [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|Full Review]] <!-- Suri -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0356512002.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356512002/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Mehr is It was embarrassing when a girl trapped between two cultures. Her father comes from leading Malmo business man was kidnapped, particularly as the ruling classes of police didn't know anything about it until the empire man was discovered afterwards, tied to a park bench in a cemetery. He was coy about how much ransom was paid, but her motherit was sufficient that he's people were outcasts, Amrithi nomads who worshipped d felt the spirits pain of the sandsdigital transfers. Caught one night performing these forbidden rites That would have been bad enough, Mehr is brought but a second businessman was snatched soon afterwards and the pressure on Inspector Anita Sundström and her colleagues was to find the businessman ''and'' to capture the attention kidnappers before they took anyone else. Worse was to come though when an investigative journalist was found murdered in his flat. Was one of his victims the Emperor's most feared mysticsmurderer, who force her into their service by way of an arranged marriage. or was it someone he was about to expose? [[Empire of Sand Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Tasha SuriTorquil MacLeod|Full Review]]
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===[[Alternative Medicine Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|Short StoriesGeneral Fiction]] Laura Solomon's publisher describes the short stories in ''Alternative Medicine'' as ''black comedy with a twist of surrealism''. I'm rather glad that I didn't see this until ''after'' I'd finished reading as I'm not normally a fan of either, but I've come to two conclusions about the book: what the publisher says is correct - and I really enjoyed it. The comedy is not ''too'' black and the surrealism is gentle and perhaps best described as a twist or flick of reality when you were least expecting it. Your comfort zones are going to be invaded in the nicest possible way. [[Alternative Medicine by Laura Solomon|Full Review]] <!-- Gardner -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785656341.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785656341/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner]]===
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As an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera''s telling us the truth. The Count of 9first 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 hardboiled detective story written in the 1950slesbian, but Vera's not one to let herself be a victim. It revolves around She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the detective duo security of Donald Lam and Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve her life in prison for the theft sake of priceless Bornean artefacts. Howevera fling), their case quickly turns into something darker - but she is keen on getting an impossible murdereducation and she's studying for a degree in English Literature. [[The Count of 9 Vera Magpie by Erle Stanley GardnerLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Every Colour of You The Whisperer by Amelia MandevilleKarin Fossum]]===
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Zoe believes in adding life When we first meet Ragna we can't understand what's going on. She's talking to years as well as years to life. Her world, like her name, is bursting with life Inspector Konrad Sejer and colour. She is the sort it's obvious that she's being held in custody because of girl who would sing a rainbow if crime which she admits she could's committed. Tristan (or Only, as we hear about Greta's life it seems that she'Trees 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' as she calls him) is the opposites been left with a horrible scar across her throat. Fresh out She's done her best to make a go of hospital following a prolonged stay her life though: she enjoys her work in a psychiatric unit, he sees a world as a grey placeshop and has learned ways of coping with the difficulties of communicating with people. [[Every Colour of You The Whisperer by Amelia MandevilleKarin Fossum|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Case (Bob Skinner) And So It Begins by Quintin JardineRachel Abbott]]===
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Bob Skinner left We know there's something very strange going on as soon as we join the police service in Scotland when story: we begin by hearing how it was amalgamated into one unit. He didn't believe in it then s going to end and he doesn't now and many serving officers would agree with himthat someone must die. He might be retired but heBut that's hardly idlejust a hint: hefor the time being we'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 himre with two police persons. ThereStephanie's the occasional private commissionsergeant and she has Jason, although he stops short of calling himself a private investigatorthe probationer with her in the squad car, but heStephanie doesn's just been presented with a problem which itt like where they's difficult to refusere heading. It's not The house is stunning, but the last time she was here it was because there was a dead body at the problem that's bottom of the difficulty - it's stairs to the person who is asking for helppool. Sir James Proud was Skinner's predecessor as Chief Constable and heThis time there's been approached by a blogger who feels that he has evidence that Proud was involved in 999 call with a famous murder woman screaming for which a man was convictedhelp: the omens are not good and when they enter the house they find two tangled, blood-soaked bodies in the bed. He subsequently committed suicide whilst in prison They both look dead, but one of them moves - it's Evie Clark and went she confesses to his death denying that he was guiltykilling her partner. [[Cold Case (Bob Skinner) And So It Begins by Quintin JardineRachel Abbott|Full Review]]
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===[[Be Your Higher Self The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Samesh RamjattanMick Herron]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality and ReligionThrillers|Spirituality and ReligionThrillers]]
There are When you've done a lot job for any length of time, the memory, the instincts of self-help books about: itstay with you and they's one of re impossible to forget. It was the most thriving sections of the average bookshopsame with Solomon Dortmund, but ita retired spy: when he watches a woman making a drop he knows exactly what he's not always easy to find seeing and he passes this on John Batchelor, the man charged with looking after the book you needretired spooks. Samesh Ramjattan Bachelor has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self'', problems of his own: the closest he comes to a book which allows us all to make sense of our place in home is the world, as most back seat of us only glimpse our true potential his car and few he's run out of people ever achieve itwhose sofas he can commandeer for the night. Even The best he can do with hard work and dedication, obstacles present themselves and itSolomon's difficult problem is to understand why or how they can be overcome. Ramjattan offers us a guide to the spirit world, pass it on the chakras, karma someone else and reincarnation as well as information about the age of Aquarius and the ego. Ithope that they's a slim book - just 128 pages - so can ll deal with it provide us with /solve the answers we seek? problem/quietly forget about it. [[Be Your Higher Self The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Samesh RamjattanMick Herron|Full Review]]
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===[[Her Final Confession Kingdom of the Blind (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4Chief Inspector Gamache) by Lisa ReganLouise Penny]]===
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Detective Josie Quinn It came as something of a surprise when Armand Gamache was named as liquidator in the estate of a woman he'd never met. Another villager from Three Pines is no longer Chief of Policealso a liquidator, but in many ways the third is a stranger to them both. The mystery deepens when the will is read: given that's something of the deceased was a relief, although cleaner it does mean seems unlikely that she doesn't quite would have had the autonomy that millions which she hadbequests at her disposal. It also means that the other detectives have Then a habit of calling her 'boss'body is found. ItThat's not Gamache's the autonomy bit that strikes home only problem though when she : one of his protégées, Amelia Choquet, has to watch a fellow officer being arrested been expelled from the police academy for a cold-blooded murderdrug dealing, but what other conclusion can you come to when and the officer goes missing, her vehicle and phone are off enquiry into the radar and there's incident which led to his suspension as the body head of a young man the Sûreté in her driveway? Josie Quinn can't believe that Gretchen - the woman she brought onto Quebec is dragging on and the Denton police force - could be guilty of such a crime, but she and Noah Fraley are not going to have much time to prove that Gretchen outcome is innocent, and Gretchen doesn't seem inclined to help themlooking increasingly ominous. [[Her Final Confession Kingdom of the Blind (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4Chief Inspector Gamache) by Lisa ReganLouise Penny|Full Review]]
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===[[The Woods Murder Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Roy LewisKate Atherley]]===
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Jenny Carson was just nine I've been knitting for well over sixty years old when she was murdered whilst taking a shortcut through Kenton Woods, following patterns of varying complexity with success. Her father blamed lawyer Charles Lendon for her death - not that he thought he was physically responsibleI've knit Aran sweaters, but because Lendon had refused to allow socks by the local children to use his driveway as dozen and I'm currently knitting blankets for a shortcut charity to school, forcing them to cut through the woods if they were latesell. Lendon wasnThere hasn'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 enemiesbeen an occasion when I've been stuck and people have often come to ''me'' for help when ''they've'' been stuck. When Lendon was murdered Would a couple of months after Jennyknitter's death, there dictionary really be of any help to me? I was no shortage surprised by just how much I got out of suspectsit. [[The Woods Murder Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Roy LewisKate Atherley|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 Be Your Higher Self by Peter F HamiltonSamesh Ramjattan]]===
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Apparently There are a lot of self-help books about: it's one of the term ''space opera'' was coined in 1941 as a pejorative. It was borrowed not from most thriving sections of the high-brow musical art formaverage bookshop, but from it's not always easy to find the common or garden book you need. Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self'soap opera'. It related , a book which allows us all to a particular kind make sense of science fiction which our place in the coiner (one Wilson Tucker) described world, as a ''hackymost of us only glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve it. Even with hard work and dedication, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarnobstacles present themselves and it''. It would be fifty years later before the term started s difficult to understand why or how they can be re-appropriated overcome. Ramjattan offers us a guide to cover – if still the same themes of distant futuresspirit world, military conflictthe chakras, heroism karma and a simplistic set reincarnation as well as information about the age of values – more literary, more expansive works. The term is now taken as complimentAquarius and the ego. It's a slim book - just 128 pages - so can it provide us with the answers we seek? [[Salvation Be Your Higher Self by Peter F HamiltonSamesh Ramjattan|Full Review]]
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===[[House of Glass Black Light by Susan FletcherLaura Solomon]]===
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Clara suffered from Jim 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'Osteogenesis imperfecta'': these days it s never really managed to connect with his step-father. His younger brother would probably be called brittle bone disease 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 whilst there is still no cure, treatments have advancedfor him. At Jim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the beginning of looks, the twentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her homeattitude, living life through a window the (lack of) conversational ability and the tales her mother, Charlotte, brought homeclothing all leave a lot to be desired. Both became far too knowledgeable Despite all that's he's not about bones to sit back and the sounds they made on breaking. Charlotte would allow his life to drift: he's actually writing 'list bones like continents'two'. Clara would only escape the house after her mother's death - of a tumour at the age of thirty nine - novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends 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 Gloucestershirepub. [[House of Glass Black Light by Susan FletcherLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Under the Ice (DCI Jansen) Redemptor Domus by Rachael BlokGamelyn Chase]]===
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It's eleven days A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the Far East. As the boy travels to Christmas and the cathedral city of St Albans is looking particularly festive school, a family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. Plunged into a covering school full of snowdanger and betrayal, but this belies the atmosphere: the body of boy is seen as a young girl has been found frozen in the local laketrophy by friends and enemies alike. DCI Jansen's only lead With them locked into their scheming and plotting, it comes from Jenny Brennan - but can you put any credence on statements made by to the sleep-deprived mother of a four month old child, particularly one who claims boy to attempt to have seen visions? Can you believe her statements that she's been sleep-walking in clean up the middle pit of the night when she find evidence filth that the police have missed? When another girl goes missing the tiny city is in melt-down and for Jenny it all seems close to home. Far too close to homeschool has become. [[Under the Ice (DCI Jansen) Redemptor Domus by Rachael BlokGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[The Light Between Worlds Long Path To Wisdom by Laura WeymouthJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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Five years ago Evelyn, Philippa and James Hapwell escaped to the safety of their air raid shelter as bombs fell all On my travels around the streets of London. In the terrifying darkness waiting for their parents to join themworld, Evelyn prayed I have a tendency to be anywhere else. A plea end up in any bookshop that was answered by The Woodlands. One moment in grey London is selling English-language books, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next surrounded by a rich green forestperson, what I'm really looking for is the 'local' – the cookbook maybe, the maps definitely, but above all: the three children were transported from one world trapped in warfolk tales. If I ever get to Burma, I won't need to another on the brink of its ownhunt, I can read before I go. [[The Light Between Worlds Long Path To Wisdom by Laura WeymouthJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Clownfish Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Alan DurantJulia Jones]]===
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When DakLiam isn's dad dies very suddenly, from t ''quite'' the youngest in a heart attack, Dak is left feeling lost and alone. His mum is lost inside her own grief, struggling to take care large family: he doesn't have the distinction of herself, let alone care for Dak, being the baby anymore and so he escapes to doesn't have the local aquarium - somewhere that both he ''heft'' of his older brothers and his dad had lovedsisters. But then he discovers that actually, his dad has turned into He's rather like one of the pebbles on a clownfish and is living at large shingle beach: part of the local aquarium! mass but easily overlooked as an individual. What will Dak do So when the aquariumhe starts having problems with his sight no one really takes any notice. He doesn't want to bother his mother as she's future is heavily involved in question, the Luminal Festival and when he may potentially lose asked his dad all over again? 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. [[Clownfish Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Alan DurantJulia Jones|Full Review]]
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===[[So Many Doors by Oakley Hall]]===
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[[image:5starVassilia 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:TeensSo Many Doors by Oakley Hall|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 Anderson -->
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===[[Two Dark Reigns The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Kendare BlakeBrian Anderson]]===
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''You cannot put Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on a costume same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and become something else. You are a queen 1908, three books on the nature of Fennbirn islandhomosexuality appeared.'' Following on from [[Three Dark Crowns They were written by Kendare Blake|Three Dark Crowns]] two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and its sequel [[One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake|One Dark Throne]]John Addington Symonds, in ''Two Dark Reigns'' each as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the Goddess' daughters have their own battles to fight. All her lifeEuropean Continent, Katharine has dreamed of being but barely talked about in the great Queen UK, so the island publications of Fennbirn deserves. Having won these men were hugely significant – contributing to the crown thoughscientific understanding of homosexuality, she is facing trial after difficult trial and murmurs of dissent beginning the struggle for recognition and revolution grow louder on equality, leading to the streets each and every daymilestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967. And without evidence [[The Fraternity of her sisters' death does anyone but herself and the old queens buried under her skinEstranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, believe she is the one true Queen? [[Two Dark Reigns 1891-1908 by Kendare BlakeBrian Anderson|Full Review]]
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===[[A Spark of Light Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Jodi PicoultAmy Patricia Meade]]===
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Tish Tarragon is working towards opening her literary cafe, Cookin' The Center is Books, when the last remaining abortion clinic in opportunity to cater for the state of Mississippi and is the source of great controversy when it Library fundraiser comes to the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debateher way. It is at The Center where 's a bit of a poisoned chalice, in more ways than one man, George Goddard, takes it upon himself to get revenge for as the loss head of his grandchildthe library committee, in Binnie Broderick is difficult. In fact, when she's poisoned at the form meal Tish has catered, there's no shortage of a mass-shootingsuspects. What arises is It's not just that she feels herself to be superior (she's a novel Darlington, you see), but that details the lives she actively goes out of the remaining hostages, as well as other characters central her way to the storymake life difficult for anyone she encounters. One The town might be heaving a collective sigh of these characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called relief (except not in to help deflate front of the situationsheriff, who soon discovers obviously) but Tish is worried that the fact that his sister and daughter, Wren, happened to Binnie died face down in a meal she'd prepared might mean that people will not be at the clinic all that daykeen to come to her cafe once it's opened. [[A Spark of Light Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Jodi PicoultAmy Patricia Meade|Full Review]]
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===[[Gentleman Jack A Step So Grave (DI Yates 7Dandy Gilver) by Christina JamesCatriona McPherson]]===
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The investigation into Dandy 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 thefts family of farm machinery has been going on for months and itMallory, her son Donald's getting DI Tim Yates down: he can't see where to go nextfiancee. Itwasn's almost a relief when Jack Fovargue, agricultural entrepreneur and local celebrity is assaulted in the street, but no one can understand why Fovargue is so reluctant t that Dandy thought Donald to help the police with their enquiries, or be rather ''young'' at twenty three to press chargesbe contemplating matrimony, particularly when a police officer but that Mallory was rather ''old'' for him at thirty. There was also assaulteda niggling worry because Donald wasn't the sharpest pin in the cushion. Yates is then diverted All the doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross: they might have come to celebrate the investigation which followed the discovery fiftieth birthday of the headless body of a woman in a canal near Lincoln: itLady Lavinia, Mallory's an interesting case mother, but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the downside is that mother rather than the senior investigating officer is DI Michael Robinsondaughter. They're contemporaries but Robinson is bumptious Dandy and inclined Hugh were considering whether or not they should try to put an end to taking credit for other people's effortsthe engagement when the news arrived that Lady Lavinia had been found dead. [[Gentleman Jack A Step So Grave (DI Yates 7Dandy Gilver) by Christina JamesCatriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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===[[A Clean Death Empire of Sand by Adriaan VerheulTasha Suri]]===
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Three very different men meet in the jungle, led there by fateMehr is a girl trapped between two cultures. Davey sees conspiracies everywhere, Oliver seeks answers about the death of his Her father, and Captain Christmas leads a community of armed men, women and children, hidden far comes from justice in the forest. As ruling classes of the three men are brought togetherempire but her mother's people were outcasts, Amrithi nomads who worshipped the events could cause each to lose something spirits of consequence: maybe illusion, maybe conviction, and maybe, just maybethe sands. Caught one night performing these forbidden rites, life itself… [[A Clean Death by Adriaan Verheul|Full Review]] <!-- Dhladhla -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1720812675.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1720812675/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Beyond Thought by Chris Dhladhla]]=== [[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 brought to the world around you that you just can't catch a moment and simply ''be''? Or that attention of the outside world just wonEmperor't stop pressing in upon s most feared mystics, who force her into their service by way of an inner life that you'd like to be more peaceful? arranged marriage. [[Beyond Thought Empire of Sand by Chris DhladhlaTasha Suri|Full Review]]
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