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===[[How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Ece TemelkuranAngela Marsons]]===
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A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what Someone is recreating every traumatic event in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced Kim Stone's past, starting with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to..death of her twin when she was six years old.'' I agreed that she was right Some of the events, or at least the details of them, are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has a wealth of information and wasn't certain whether is using it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading toevil intent. I think now That might seem bad enough, but the brutal truth of the matter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that I do knowthese dramas can be recreated. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I canStone probably - well, certainly - shouldn't think be on the case, but who has better knowledge of what happened to her than she does? If her boss can just turn a better one, particularly as blind eye to the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as heneffect it's teethhaving on her for long enough, she can sort it out. .. Or can she? [[How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Ece TemelkuranAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[A Danger to Herself and Others Out of the Dark by Alyssa SheinmelGregg Hurwitz]]===
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1997. Evan Smoak is 19 years old ''They needed someone to blametrained up, and I was the only available scapegoatmission ready. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the circumstancesAnd yet untested.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. She has dined He's in fancy restaurantsa foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, explored which he executes with all the most sophisticated corners of the globe and lived a life of luxuryimpeccable training that his youth belies. Evan Smoak is Orphan X. [[A Danger to Herself and Others Out of the Dark by Alyssa SheinmelGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[When Watching You Read This by Mary AdkinsLisa Jewell]]===
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Smith Simonyi A teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the road, a woman is convinced she knows a man in the village and Iris Massey worked together for four yearsthat he is following her. Meanwhile, during which a young woman has moved back home after some time Iris left abroad, and develops a fascination with her husband at the altar on their wedding daynew neighbour. SmithThe man's wife, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was on making enough money to cover his motherengages the services of the young woman's nursing home fees husband in Wisconsinsome work around the house. Oh, running and that teenage boy? He's her son. And the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when woman with the pressures got too much for him. He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at conspiracy theories? She's the age mother of thirty threethe girl he's spying on. He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in Plus, the last six months of man she thinks is out to get her life is the woman's husband (and her final request of Smith is that he gets also the blog published as new headteacher at her daughter's school). Whichever way you look at it, there's a lot of watching going on in this book. [[When Watching You Read This by Mary AdkinsLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day We Met by Roxie Cooper]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's FictionFish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]===
This is an epic love story spanning ten years of 'will they, won't they'. Stephanie and Jamie are 'meant to be'. When they meet on an art course they have an instant strong connection but both are with other people. However, what I loved was that it's not a 'typical boy meets girl, falls in love and lives happily ever after' story. In fact far from it, without wanting to give too much away, the ending was both refreshingly unexpected and achingly poignant[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Day We Met by Roxie Cooper:Category:Fantasy|Full ReviewFantasy]]
This novel is set about a hundred years into the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's left of the old United States is run from Center City. Women run this world and it is very proud of having defeated the old patriarchy. Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don't, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. And if that doesn't work, they're sent to work camps, away from open society, or even worse: expelled to the wilderness beyond the Central Authority's borders. [[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch|Full Review]] <!-- Charlotte Watts and Natalie Savona James Atkinson -->
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===[[Good Mood FoodHome Workout for Beginners: Unlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Charlotte Watts and Natalie SavonaJames Atkinson]]===
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I thought I was getting James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a cookbook: I liked workout instructor and he looks the part. He's been actively involved in the idea of health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a series member of recipes 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which would make means a lot to me feel happy: he's been on the other side. There was a time when he was overweight and not particularly strong. As a child he was slow to develop. For once this isnThis means that he ''understands't a case of 'if it sounds too good to be true, what it probably is' - s like and he knows how his clients feel: it's a case of getting something which could change your life for much more helpful than the better twenty- for good something who was born super- rather than a quick fixfit and with an attitude problem. [[Good Mood FoodHome Workout for Beginners: Unlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Charlotte Watts and Natalie SavonaJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Hanna JamesonAdrian Cull]]===
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Jon Keller is in a hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the world endsFor many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, it was working out OK. He Time has no idea if his family is alive, he has no idea whatpassed though and although I's going on in the nearest city, or if the nearest city has been obliterated. Shocked, amid the mass hysteria m a great deal fitter and exodus, Jon decides to stay at the hotel rather healthier than attempt to get to the airport and home. He's not alone, twenty other most people also stay and gradually form of my age there were a small communityfew nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. One day, when helping the hotel manager It was time to look for a new approach and as so often happens, Jon finds the body of a girl deemed to have been killed before reviewing gods brought me the world endedbook I needed. The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl ''s killer Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and finding companies behind the truth about what is possibly new anti-aging treatments'' seemed like the last community on earthanswer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. [[The Last Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Hanna JamesonAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[Deviation The City In The Middle Of The Night by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Charlie Jane Anders]]===
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For those of you who have read books of life in the Nazi camps – and of course, for those of you who have not – this can be considered January is a next stepdying planet. It beginswasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, after allpure, blazing heat, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and you'd not blame her one minuteice, as her career was deemed where a creature can freeze to be cess-tank cleaner death in seconds, and sewage unblocker by totally uninhabitable. In the Germansmiddle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. In MunichLife is a knife-edge, she stumbles on help stray too close to get her one side you die, to what seems close to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for workthe other, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then you die and yet the next chapter sees her going back into heat from the camp next to Dachau once more, sun and by then eyebrows the water from the ice are being raisednecessary for life. Life for the inhabitants of January is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[Deviation The City In The Middle Of The Night by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Charlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[Fast-track Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner Prime Minister by Alok Ranjan TripathyDavid Laws]]===
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So, what brought me to this book? As At the owner time of a small business my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and a buyer this is hatred of IT services I should be the senior partner in the relationship with my suppliers'Brexit'. Not just Brexit, but Iuse of the word 'Brexit've frequently found myself . Yes, people hate the junior partner people that instigated it then disappeared, and I/or the people who just can've regularly been let down by them. I needed t seem to know where I could improve that relationship get their fingers out andcomplete it, by looking at but they also hate the use of the situation from word. This biggest turn-off has made people who have never so much as tutted in their life slam down their tea-cups in high dudgeon and leave the supplierroom until it's point safe to return, when all mention of viewit has subsided. I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, what steps I needed but because it too seems to get to takethe actual Brexiting in a very protracted manner. Alok TripathyJust as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it seems, so the reader of this book has to get through a lot from Europe before the title's book looked as theme really arises. Here, at least though it might provide help and possibly some of , the answers as to how my suppliers could better help meauthor's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[Fast-track Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner Prime Minister by Alok Ranjan TripathyDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain]]===
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[[image:4starWhen Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on the Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a time when he hid something very different.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] In this story of love, loss and betrayal, it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… [[:Category:TeensThe Hidden by Mary Chamberlain|TeensFull Review]]
Harper's life is pretty disastrous at the moment, through no fault of her own. Her mother has cancer and not long to live. Her father has scarpered but not taken his debts with him. And her brother is forever getting into trouble. But Harper soldiers on nonetheless, despite coping with her own cerebral palsy. One day, she sees an attempted abduction of young girl and intercedes, only to find herself kidnapped in the girl's place. But even an imaginative girl like Harper couldn't have guessed where she was being taken... [[A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer|Full Review]]   <!-- Teresa Heapy and Katie Cleminson Stephen John Hartley -->
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===[[Loved to Bits Painting Snails by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonStephen John Hartley]]===
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It's very difficult to classify ''Loved to BitsPainting Snails'' is the heartwarming story of a boy: originally I thought that as it's love for his bear. Bearloosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you's adventures with boy take him re not going to get advice on what to all kinds of places plant when and together they fight and defeat every obstacle put in their way, from the jungle to where for the seabest results. Inevitably mishaps occur on The answer would be something along the way lines of 'try it and see'. The loss of Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an armengineering apprenticeship, became a legbusker, finally got into medical school and is now an ear or A&E consultant (part time). I found out that there's an eye are nothing awful lot more to Stripy Ted who shrugs off all injuries with what goes on in a cheery Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from 'don'Casualty'', but that isn't worryreally what the book's about. There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of Hartley's life, Ibut it didn've got one moret actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'. ? But boy loves him just as he is and wonYep - that't hear of him being mendeds the one. His place, after all, is in BoyIt's bedautobiography. [[Loved to Bits Painting Snails by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[Louis and Louise by Julie Cohen]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[The Haven:Category:General Fiction|General FictionBook 1 by Simon Lelic]]===
What would you be like, right now, if you'd been born a different gender? Would it simply be a matter of genetics, and your life would still have unfolded in the same way? Or would the way you had been raised affect who you became in life? This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all of the above, covering the stories of Louis and Louise, born on the same day, to the same parents, but in one storyline Lou is a boy, and in the other a girl. Does it really make a difference, the gender box that is ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that men and women are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been in the past, how they still are, and prompts you to think about how they could be..[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Louis and Louise by Julie Cohen:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
When Ollie and Nancy, the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are abducted in the middle of the night, things take a dangerous turn. Rescued by Dodge, Ollie is taken to the Haven, a secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels that the London above ground knows nothing about. Here, children work together to battle great evils. And there is an immediate enemy to fight. Ollie would have been the hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued. And Maddy intends to destroy the city. [[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic|Full Review]] <!-- Lewis Kennedy -->
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===[[The Closest Thing to Flying by Gill Lewis]]===
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Semira is an Eritraen refugee, living The final novel in the UK with her mum Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and Robelbanished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a man who controls their money, their food, and their every move in prison to Alex as anything the UKGermans would provide. He threatens them that if they donAnd where is Justine? Alex hasn't do what seen her since he says, theywent to ''that''ll be sent home. One daydisastrous meeting with John Cabot, Semira finds herself buying an old hat on a market stallinstigator of the disinformation campaign, strangely drawn and returned to the bird that decorates the hatfind her missing. When she takes it home she discovers there A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is an old diary hidden inside the hat box, written by a young girl called Hen over 100 years agoquite another. Semira finds herself caught up in HenAlex can's story, finding in it an escape from her own life that is full t get Justine out of hunger and losshis head. She finds that Has she is challenged by left the girl in the diary, to speak up in her own life and fight for her place in the world. service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[The Closest Thing to Flying Things That are Lost by Gill LewisAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[The Stone Circle Song of the Dead (Dr Ruth GallowayDI Westphall) by Elly GriffithsDouglas Lindsay]]===
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DCI Harry Nelson's life is complicatedA man walked into a police station in Estonia. His two oldest daughters are either living away from home or really should be. His youngest daughter was conceived in He told a (very) brief affair (let's not call it tale of having been held prisoner, used as a one-night stand: there's more emotion in their relationship) with archaeologist Dr Ruth Gallowaydonor for organ harvesting and sperm donation. Michelle, Nelson's wife, knows about Kate X-rays and has been very understandingmedical examination bear out this part of his story, but then there's this man, or the matter of her affair with a black policeman which she'd rather not have to discuss with her daughtersman he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years ago. Nelson knows about it His body was identified by his partner, Emily King and by his parents - and knows that then the baby which Michelle body was buried. So, who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is about sent to deliverEstonia because of his background in MI6, could be Tim'sbut that brings some baggage with it too. That's Westphall cannot, will not, get on a lot to cope with - and that's before he gets to workplane. His last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[The Stone Circle Song of the Dead (Dr Ruth GallowayDI Westphall) by Elly GriffithsDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wedding Guest A Pinch of Magic by Jonathan KellermanMichelle Harrison]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image:4''No Widdershins girl has ever been able to leave Crowstone.5starIf we do, we'll die by the next sunset.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]''
It was a bridesmaid who found the victim's body in a rather disreputable toilet at the wedding venue. She didn't know A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who she was have lived on the isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and neither did the bride or groomneighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire lives. The bride wasn't particularly worried about the dead girlmiddle sister, Betty, but has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and she was furious is determined that nothing and no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that someone had set the world has to offer. But in setting out to disrupt do just that, she and her weddingsisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. Baby (yesFrom their ancestors, that was what people called Brearley) didn't come across as being particularly likeablewell as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, despite the fact that she said that everyone liked herthey have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, a set of wooden nesting dolls and her groom, Garrett didn't inspire confidence either. Lt Milo Sturgis was an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the senior investigating officer eye and he called on could possibly be the help of his friend, psychologist Dr Alex Delawarekey to their problem. [[The Wedding Guest A Pinch of Magic by Jonathan KellermanMichelle Harrison|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Wide Open Never Tell by Douglas KennedyLisa Gardner]]===
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Douglas KennedyEvie Carter's ''The Great Wide Open'' has been described as epic by just about everyone, husband was shot dead in his own home and it often feels as though that she was found with the intentiongun in her hands. Though the novel often feels like Was this a pastiche of the great American novel – epic in scope, preoccupied with matters domestic dispute which had got out of money and literature, fixated with New York – hand? Was it often feels more like Kennedy is trying to reverse-engineer the concept altogetherpregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. Initially It might have been sixteen years ago, but there's no mistaking the novel presents itself teenager who had accidentally shot and killed her father: 'a tragic accident' everyone said, as an intimate study of family drama, in there was no doubt about the latter half of love the novel it smoothly turns to examining the turn of American society since two had for each other. D D had no worries at the 70stime, and the rapid rise of the hyper-capitalist neoliberal values that but just how many gun accidents can one woman have dominated the west since the election of Ronald Reagan. Though it takes place over a twenty-year period between the 70s and the 90s, it notably always keeps one an eye on the present day (Trump, of course, makes an inevitable and slightly incongruous cameo) such that what happens links subtly into current affairs without ever explicitly referencing them. or is Evie about to get away with murder again? [[The Great Wide Open Never Tell by Douglas KennedyLisa Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[It Should Have Been Me The Midnight Hour by Susan WilkinsBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
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It's seventeen years since DC Jo Boden's sisterAfter a big blow-up fight with her mum, Sarah, was murdered and Emily is left alone with her life since has been lived in the shadow of what happeneddad. Jo was only eleven at the time and Her mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't think her parentsmum even ''had'' marriage broke up in the aftermath: her brother Carl opted to go and live with his father but Jo stayed with her mother who was mentally frail a job) and so she is not coping with everyday lifequite sure what is going on. She wasn't pleased Things turn even stranger still when Jo decided her dad goes off to join the policefind her mum, but the job satisfies Joand then doesn't come back. She's passed her sergeant's exams but in heads out to investigate and discovers a strange, secret world called the Met these days it's a case of dead men's shoes and no one Midnight Hour, which seems inclined to make way for the younger generation. Stillbe London during Victorian times, being a detective and is better than being a PC full of magical beings (and when the opportunity monsters!) What were her parents doing here? And will she be able to find them and rescue them, so her life can go undercover comes up, Jo grabs it. back to normal? [[It Should Have Been Me The Midnight Hour by Susan WilkinsBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[The Resurrection of Jesus Gallowstree Lane by Yancey WilliamsKate London]]===
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In March 1990 two police officers entered Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. They left with thirteen famous paintings by RembrandtSpencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a London Street and asked a complete stranger for help, Degas and Vermeerbegging him not to let him die. The frames remain empty stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to this day: whilst there save Spence. Just one of those things you might have been rumours about the whereabouts of the paintings, even promises that the case was about think. Tragic, but teenage boys seem to be solved, getting stabbed on the streets of London all the paintings are still missingtime. Yancey Williams has a theory, which His friend Ryan was with Spence when he delaborates was stabbed. It was Ryan who called the ambulance on in his novel ''The Resurrection of Jesus'the paramedic's instruction, and whilst his suspects might seem unlikely, whosobbing as he held the phone. But Ryan wasn's t prepared to say that he's wrong? Forget the assertions accept that it was down to the Mafia and meet Jésus Ángel Escobar and Hiram Johnny Walker Quicksilverjust one of those things. He wanted revenge. [[The Resurrection of Jesus Gallowstree Lane by Yancey WilliamsKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by David MarkEce Temelkuran]]===
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It all began almost innocently: DS Aector McAvoy was told by A little while ago a concerned stranger friend asked me if I thought that she and her son had regularly seen an old woman who lived we were living through what in a nearby cottage but she hadnyears to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''t been for a few daysDiscuss the factors which led to... '' Perhaps McAvoy could check I agreed that she was alright? No - she wouldnright and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't go with him, but sheknow what all 'this'd tell him where the house wasleading to. And so McAvoy went, only to find the windows open on a freezing cold day - and inside an old lady was in her bath encased in iceI think now that I do know. It We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can'might'' have been t think of a tragic accidentbetter one, but McAvoy suspected murder - and he thought that someone had watched particularly as the woman die'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth. [[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by David MarkEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[To Catch a Killer A Danger to Herself and Others by Emma KavanaghAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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If you're a detective on a murder squad one of 'They needed someone to blame, and I was the first things you learn is detachmentonly available scapegoat. You develop a distance from Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the victim: it allows you least I could do do your job with under the minimum amount of emotioncircumstances. That's relatively easy when you encounter your victim when they're already dead but DS Alice Parr met the woman they would need to call Jane Doe when she Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was alive, albeit only justborn mature – or so her parents tell her. She was being tended by an off-duty paramedic who was struggling to cope with has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the fact that most sophisticated corners of the woman's throat had been cut globe and she'd been stabbed several times. The attack had been called in by lived a dog walker and Alice had been walking to work when the call came over her Airwave radiolife of luxury. [[To Catch a Killer A Danger to Herself and Others by Emma KavanaghAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[When You Read This by Mary Adkins]]===
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[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  It's two Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years since Suzanne hit rock bottom, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. She Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's had extensive therapy nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. He was devastated when Iris developed a stint with a lovely foster family. And now she's eighteen terminal cancer and must leave died at the Looked After systemage of thirty three. Suzanne is apprehensive but excited. She's found herself He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a job, a bedsit has been rented, and she's about to return to Brighton, blog in the only place she's ever felt truly at home, and to Caddy last six months of her life and Rosie, her two best friendsfinal request of Smith is that he gets the blog published as a book. [[Fierce Fragile Hearts When You Read This by Sara BarnardMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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