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===[[The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z Friends Like These by Kate AtherleySarah Alderson]]===
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I've been knitting for well over sixty yearsLife in London isn’t always glam, following patterns especially if you’re young and underpaid. For Lizzie it’s all a bit of varying complexity with successa balancing act. I've knit Aran sweaters, socks by the dozen and I'm currently knitting blankets for She has a charity nice home but it technically belongs to sellher room-mate’s parents. She works in the entertainment industry, but her job itself is probably not one you’d covet. There hasn't She doesn’t have much spare time, but that’s because she’s been an occasion when I've been stuck and people have often come to ''me'' for help when ''working through some self-improvement. If they've'' been stuckcould only see her now. Would And, well, actually, they can, although there’s a knitter's dictionary really be lot less of any help her to me? I see than there once was surprised by just how . But yes, she doesn’t really have much I got out of time for the past and the people from it. [[The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z Friends Like These by Kate AtherleySarah Alderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Be Your Higher Self Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Samesh RamjattanTorquil MacLeod]]===
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There are It was embarrassing when a leading Malmo business man was kidnapped, particularly as the police didn't know anything about it until the man was discovered afterwards, tied to a lot of self-help books park bench in a cemetery. He was coy about: how much ransom was paid, but itwas sufficient that he's one of d felt the most thriving sections pain of the average bookshopdigital transfers. That would have been bad enough, but it's not always easy a second businessman was snatched soon afterwards and the pressure on Inspector Anita Sundström and her colleagues was to find the book you need. Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in businessman ''Be Your Higher Selfand'', a book which allows us all to make sense of our place in capture the world, as most of us only glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve itkidnappers before they took anyone else. Even with hard work and dedication, obstacles present themselves and it's difficult Worse was to understand why or how they can be overcomecome though when an investigative journalist was found murdered in his flat. Ramjattan offers us a guide to Was one of his victims the spirit worldmurderer, the chakras, karma and reincarnation as well as information or was it someone he was 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 seekto expose? [[Be Your Higher Self Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Samesh RamjattanTorquil MacLeod|Full Review]]
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===[[Black Light Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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Jim is a university student andAs an opening line that must take some beating, as but Vera's telling us the saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seektruth. His father committed suicide when he The first two husbands, Gary and Harry were abusive, but Larry was young a treasure, a keeper, and somehow heit's never really managed difficult to connect with his step-father. His younger brother understand why Vera would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you'd just say that he have killed him, particularly when she was likely to get found out very difficult, but Jim does his best with quickly and for him. Jimnow she's in love prison with a womanmandatory life sentence. Her only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot Vera's not one to let herself be desireda victim. Despite all thatShe's henot keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn's not about to sit back t risk the security of her life in prison for the sake of a fling), but she is keen on getting an education and allow his life to drift: heshe's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends studying for a degree in the pubEnglish Literature. [[Black Light Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Redemptor Domus The Whisperer by Gamelyn ChaseKarin Fossum]]===
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A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school When we first meet Ragna we can't understand what's going on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family . She's talking to Inspector Konrad Sejer and it's obvious that she's being held in the Far Eastcustody because of a crime which she admits she's committed. As the boy travels to the school Only, as we hear about Greta's life it seems that she's more sinned against than sinning. After a botched operation on her vocal chords she can't speak above a family tragedy causes the boy whisper and to add insult to arrive at the school injury she's been left with a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain futurehorrible scar across her throat. Plunged into She's done her best to make a school full go of danger and betrayal, the boy is seen as her life though: she enjoys her work in a trophy by friends shop and enemies alike. With them locked into their scheming and plotting, it comes to the boy to attempt to clean up has learned ways of coping with the pit difficulties of filth that the school has becomecommunicating with people. [[Redemptor Domus The Whisperer by Gamelyn ChaseKarin Fossum|Full Review]]
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===[[The Long Path To Wisdom And So It Begins by Jan-Philipp SendkerRachel Abbott]]===
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On my travels around We know there's something very strange going on as soon as we join the world, I have a tendency story: we begin by hearing how it's going to end up in any bookshop and that someone must die. But that is selling English-language books, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next person, what I'm really looking s just a hint: for is the time being we'localre with two police persons. Stephanie' – s the cookbook maybesergeant and she has Jason, the maps definitelyprobationer with her in the squad car, but above allStephanie doesn't like where they're heading. The house is stunning, but the last time she was here it was because there was a dead body at the bottom of the stairs to the pool. This time there's been a 999 call with a woman screaming for help: the folk talesomens are not good and when they enter the house they find two tangled, blood-soaked bodies in the bed. If I ever get to BurmaThey both look dead, I wonbut one of them moves - it't need s Evie Clark and she confesses to hunt, I can read before I gokilling her partner. [[The Long Path To Wisdom And So It Begins by Jan-Philipp SendkerRachel Abbott|Full Review]]
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===[[Pebble (Strong Winds series) The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Julia JonesMick Herron]]===
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Liam isn't ''quiteWhen you've done a job for any length of time, the memory, the instincts of it stay with you and they' re impossible to forget. It was the youngest in same with Solomon Dortmund, a large familyretired spy: when he watches a woman making a drop he knows exactly what he doesn't have s seeing and he passes this on John Batchelor, the man charged with looking after the distinction retired spooks. Bachelor has problems of being his own: the baby anymore and closest he doesn't have comes to a home is the ''heft'' back seat of his older brothers car and sisters. Hehe's rather like one of the pebbles on a large shingle beach: part run out of people whose sofas he can commandeer for the mass but easily overlooked as an individualnight. So when The best he starts having problems can do with his sight no one really takes any notice. He doesnSolomon't want s problem is to bother his mother as she's heavily involved in pass it on the Luminal Festival someone else and when he asked his elder step-sister, Anna, if shehope that they'll take him for an eye test, she puts him off. In fairness she's got important exams and Liam's convinced that deal with it/solve the problem/quietly forget about it's just a case of getting spectacles, but Liam's eyes are changing in a rather strange way. [[Pebble (Strong Winds series) The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Julia JonesMick Herron|Full Review]]
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===[[So Many Doors Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Oakley HallLouise Penny]]===
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Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all It came as something of a surprise when Armand Gamache was named as Vliquidator in the estate of a woman he'd never met. Another villager from Three Pines is also a liquidator, but the third is deada stranger to them both. Jack sits in his cell refusing to talk to The mystery deepens when the lawyer tasked with his defence. Starting at will is read: given that the murderous finale, Hall skillfully weaves together deceased was a cleaner it seems unlikely that she would have had the stories millions which she bequests at her disposal. Then a body is found. That's not Gamache's only problem though: one of his key playersprotégées, Amelia Choquet, in a tale of love spanning decades and stateshas been expelled from the police academy for drug dealing, marriages and tragedies. By the time enquiry into the incident which led to his suspension as the head of the Sûreté in Quebec is dragging on and the truth outcome is revealed, V will be dead but who else will lose their life? looking increasingly ominous. [[So Many Doors Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Oakley HallLouise Penny|Full Review]]
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===[[The Fraternity of the EstrangedKnitter's Dictionary: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891Knitting Know-1908 How from A to Z by Brian AndersonKate Atherley]]===
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Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place I've been knitting for 82 well over sixty years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallengedfollowing patterns of varying complexity with success. Between 1891 and 1908 I've knit Aran sweaters, three books on socks by the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter dozen and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock EllisI'm currently knitting blankets for a charity to sell. Exploring the margins of society There hasn't been an occasion when I've been stuck 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 people have often come to the scientific understanding ''me'' for help when ''they've'' been stuck. Would a knitter's dictionary really be of homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading any help to the milestone legalisation me? I was surprised by just how much I got out of same-sex relationships in 1967it. [[The Fraternity of the EstrangedKnitter's Dictionary: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891Knitting Know-1908 How from A to Z by Brian AndersonKate Atherley|Full Review]]
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===[[Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) Be Your Higher Self by Amy Patricia MeadeSamesh Ramjattan]]===
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Tish Tarragon is working towards opening her literary cafeThere are a lot of self-help books about: it's one of the most thriving sections of the average bookshop, Cookinbut it' The Books, when the opportunity s not always easy to cater for find the Library fundraiser comes her waybook you need. ItSamesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self''s , a bit book which allows us all to make sense of a poisoned chalice, our place in more ways than onethe world, as the head most of the library committeeus only glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve it. Even with hard work and dedication, Binnie Broderick is obstacles present themselves and it's difficultto understand why or how they can be overcome. In factRamjattan offers us a guide to the spirit world, when she's poisoned at the meal Tish has cateredchakras, there's no shortage karma and reincarnation as well as information about the age of suspectsAquarius and the ego. It's not a slim book - 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. The town might be heaving a collective sigh of relief (except not in front of the sheriff, obviously) but Tish is worried that 128 pages - so can it provide us with 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. answers we seek? [[Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) Be Your Higher Self by Amy Patricia MeadeSamesh Ramjattan|Full Review]]
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===[[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) Black Light by Catriona McPhersonLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)General Fiction|Crime (Historical)General Fiction]]
Dandy Gilver Jim is a university student and family had made , as the arduous journey saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to Wester Ross, but Dandy had mixed feelings even when they arrivedseek. They were there to meet the family of Mallory, her son DonaldHis father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's fianceenever really managed to connect with his step-father. It wasnHis younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you't d just say that Dandy thought Donald to be rather ''young'' at twenty three to be contemplating matrimonyhe was very difficult, but that Mallory was rather ''old'' Jim does his best with and for him at thirty. There was also a niggling worry because Donald wasnJim't the sharpest pin s in the cushion. All the doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecrosslove with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why: they might have come to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of Lady Lavinialooks, Mallory's motherthe attitude, but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the mother rather than (lack of) conversational ability and the daughterclothing all leave a lot to be desired. Dandy and Hugh were considering whether or Despite all that's he's not they should try about to put an end sit back and allow his life to drift: he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the engagement when the news arrived that Lady Lavinia had been found deadpub. [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) Black Light by Catriona McPhersonLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Empire of Sand Redemptor Domus by Tasha SuriGamelyn Chase]]===
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Mehr is a girl trapped between two culturesA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the Far East. Her father comes from As the ruling classes of boy travels to the empire but her mother's people were outcastsschool, Amrithi nomads who worshipped a family tragedy causes the spirits boy to arrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. Plunged into a school full of danger and betrayal, the sandsboy is seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. Caught one night performing these forbidden ritesWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, Mehr is brought it comes to the boy to attempt to clean up the attention pit of filth that the Emperor's most feared mystics, who force her into their service by way of an arranged marriageschool has become. [[Empire of Sand Redemptor Domus by Tasha SuriGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[Alternative Medicine The Long Path To Wisdom by Laura SolomonJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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Laura Solomon's publisher describes On my travels around the short stories world, I have a tendency to end up in ''Alternative Medicine'' as ''black comedy with a twist of surrealism''. I'm rather glad any bookshop that is selling English-language books, and while I didn't see this until ''after'' I'd finished reading buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next person, what 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 looking for is not the 'local'too'' black and – the cookbook maybe, the maps definitely, but above all: the surrealism is gentle and perhaps best described as a twist or flick of reality when you were least expecting itfolk tales. Your comfort zones are going If I ever get to Burma, I won't need to be invaded in the nicest possible wayhunt, I can read before I go. [[Alternative Medicine The Long Path To Wisdom by Laura SolomonJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[The Count of 9 Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Erle Stanley GardnerJulia Jones]]===
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Liam isn't 'The Count of 9'quite'' is the youngest in a hardboiled detective story written in large family: he doesn't have the distinction of being the baby anymore and he doesn't have the 1950s''heft'' of his older brothers and sisters. It revolves around He's rather like one of the detective duo pebbles on a large shingle beach: part of Donald Lam and Bertha Cool the mass but easily overlooked as they attempt an individual. So when he starts having problems with his sight no one really takes any notice. He doesn't want to solve bother his mother as she's heavily involved in the theft of priceless Bornean artefacts. HoweverLuminal Festival and when he asked his elder step-sister, Anna, their case quickly turns into something darker - if she'll take him for an impossible murdereye 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. [[The Count of 9 Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Erle Stanley GardnerJulia Jones|Full Review]]
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===[[Every Colour of You So Many Doors by Amelia MandevilleOakley Hall]]===
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Zoe believes in adding life Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to years all as well as years to life. Her world, like her nameV, is bursting dead. Jack sits in his cell refusing to talk to the lawyer tasked with life and colourhis defence. She is Starting at the sort of girl who would sing a rainbow if she could. Tristan (or ''Tree'' as she calls him) is murderous finale, Hall skillfully weaves together the opposite. Fresh out stories of hospital following a prolonged stay his key players, in a psychiatric unittale of love spanning decades and states, he sees a world as a grey placemarriages and tragedies. By the time the truth is revealed, V will be dead but who else will lose their life? [[Every Colour of You So Many Doors by Amelia MandevilleOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Case (Bob Skinner) The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Quintin JardineBrian Anderson]]===
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Bob Skinner left Originally passed in 1885, the police service law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in Scotland when it was amalgamated into one unitplace for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. He didn't believe in it then Between 1891 and he doesn't now and many serving officers would agree with him1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. He might be retired but he's hardly idleThey were written by two homosexual men: he's contracted to spend one day a week working for a media groupEdward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, but usually gives moreas well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. His family - six children now - is important to him. There's Exploring the occasional private commission, although he stops short margins of calling himself a private investigatorsociety and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but he's just been presented with a problem which it's difficult barely talked about in the UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to refuse. It's not the problem that's scientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the difficulty - it's the person who is asking struggle for help. Sir James Proud was Skinner's predecessor as Chief Constable recognition and he's been approached by a blogger who feels that he has evidence that Proud was involved equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in a famous murder for which a man was convicted1967. He subsequently committed suicide whilst [[The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in prison England, 1891- and went to his death denying that he was guilty. [[Cold Case (Bob Skinner) 1908 by Quintin JardineBrian Anderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Her Final Confession Cookin' The Books (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Lisa ReganAmy Patricia Meade]]===
[[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
Detective Josie Quinn Tish Tarragon is no longer Chief of Policeworking towards opening her literary cafe, Cookin' The Books, but in many ways thatwhen the opportunity to cater for the Library fundraiser comes her way. It's something a bit of a reliefpoisoned chalice, in more ways than one, although it does mean that she doesn't quite have as the head of the autonomy that she hadlibrary committee, Binnie Broderick is difficult. It also means that In fact, when she's poisoned at the other detectives have a habit meal Tish has catered, there's no shortage of calling her 'boss'suspects. It's the autonomy bit not just that strikes home though when she has feels herself to watch be superior (she's a fellow officer being arrested for a cold-blooded murderDarlington, you see), but what other conclusion can you come to when the officer that she actively goes missing, her vehicle and phone are off the radar and there's the body out of a young man in her driveway? way to make life difficult for anyone she encounters. Josie Quinn can't believe that Gretchen - the woman she brought onto the Denton police force - could The town might be guilty heaving a collective sigh of relief (except not in front of such a crimethe sheriff, obviously) but Tish is worried that the fact that Binnie died face down in a meal she and Noah Fraley are 'd prepared might mean that people will not going be all that keen to have much time come to prove that Gretchen is innocent, and Gretchen doesnher cafe once it't seem inclined to help thems opened. [[Her Final Confession Cookin' The Books (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Lisa ReganAmy Patricia Meade|Full Review]]
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===[[The Woods Murder A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Roy LewisCatriona McPherson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]]
[[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:3they 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:CrimeA Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|CrimeFull Review]]
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 Suri -->
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===[[Murder at the Manor Hotel (Melissa Craig 4) Empire of Sand by Betty RowlandsTasha Suri]]===
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Melissa Craig should have been getting on with writing her latest mystery novel but she'd been sidetracked into working on the script for Mehr is a pantomimegirl trapped between two cultures. It wasn't a traditional panto, but a spoof for Her father comes from the birthday party ruling classes of a local millionaire, to be held on Halloween. Itthe empire but her mother's got all people were outcasts, Amrithi nomads who worshipped the hallmarks spirits of a mystery ''and'' a pantomime and it looks as though cast and audience are all in for a good time with the rehearsals being held in a luxury hotelsands. WellCaught one night performing these forbidden rites, they were until one member Mehr is brought to the attention of the cast turns up dead in the cellar at the bottom of a steep flight Emperor's most feared mystics, who force her into their service by way of stairsan arranged marriage. What was he doing there and why is the hotel manager acting so strangely? [[Murder at the Manor Hotel (Melissa Craig 4) Empire of Sand by Betty RowlandsTasha Suri|Full Review]]
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