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===[[Gallowstree Lane Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Kate LondonAngela Marsons]]===
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Spencer Someone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's past, starting with the death of her twin when she was just fifteen six years old when he stepped out into a London Street and asked a complete stranger for help. Some of the events, or at least the details of them, begging him are not to let him die. The stranger was an off-duty paramedic public knowledge, but even his skills were insufficient whoever is behind this has a wealth of information and is using it to save Spenceevil intent. Just one of those things you That mightseem bad enough, thinkbut the brutal truth of the matter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreated. TragicStone probably - well, but teenage boys seem to certainly - shouldn't be getting stabbed on the streets case, but who has better knowledge of London all the time. what happened to her than she does? His friend Ryan was with Spence when he was stabbed. It was Ryan who called If her boss can just turn a blind eye to the ambulance on the paramediceffect it's instructionhaving on her for long enough, sobbing as he held the phoneshe can sort it out.. But Ryan wasn't prepared to accept that it was just one of those things. He wanted revenge. Or can she? [[Gallowstree Lane Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Kate LondonAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship Out of the Dark by Ece TemelkuranGregg Hurwitz]]===
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A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in 1997. Evan Smoak is 19 years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question old ''Discuss the factors which led to.trained up, mission ready.And yet untested.'' I agreed that she was right and wasnHe't certain whether it was s in a good or bad thing that we didn't know what foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, which he executes with all 'this' was leading to. I think now the impeccable training that I do knowhis youth belies. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the 'benevolent dictator' Evan Smoak is as rare as hen's teethOrphan X. [[How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship Out of the Dark by Ece TemelkuranGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[A Danger to Herself and Others Watching You by Alyssa SheinmelLisa Jewell]]===
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''They needed someone to blameA 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 I was the only available scapegoatthat he is following her. Their daughter was my best friendMeanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, and develops a fascination with her new neighbour. Playing The man's wife, meanwhile, engages the scapegoat was services of the least I could do under young woman's husband in some work around the circumstanceshouse.Oh, and that teenage boy? He'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell s herson. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She has dined in fancy restaurants's the mother of the girl he's spying on. Plus, explored the most sophisticated corners of man she thinks is out to get her is the globe woman's husband (and lived is also the new headteacher at her daughter's school). Whichever way you look at it, there's a life lot of luxurywatching going on in this book. [[A Danger to Herself and Others Watching You by Alyssa SheinmelLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[When You Read This by Mary Adkins]]===
===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionFantasy|General FictionFantasy]]
Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four This novel is set about a hundred years, during which time Iris left her husband at into the altar on their wedding dayfuture. Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was on making enough money to cover his motherThe world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running left of the branding agency in New York old United States is run from Center City. Women run this world and losing money gambling when it is very proud of having defeated the pressures got too much for himold patriarchy. He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer Men must behave appropriately and died deferentially at the age of thirty threeall times and, if they don't, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. He was surprised too when he discovered And if that Iris had been writing a blog in doesn't work, they're sent to work camps, away from open society, or even worse: expelled to the last six months of her life and her final request of Smith is that he gets wilderness beyond the blog published as a bookCentral Authority's borders. [[When You Read This Fish Seeking Bicycle by Mary AdkinsKate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day We Met Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Roxie CooperJames Atkinson]]===
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This is an epic love story spanning ten James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a workout instructor and he looks the part. He's been actively involved in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a member of 'will they9 Parachute Regiment, won't they'Royal Engineers. Stephanie and Jamie are 'meant He has another qualification which means a lot to beme: he's been on the other side. When they meet on an art course they have an instant There was a time when he was overweight and not particularly strong connection but both are with other people. However, what I loved As a child he was slow to develop. This means that he ''understands'' what it's not a 'typical boy meets girl, falls in love like and lives happily ever afterhe knows how his clients feel: it' story. In fact far from it, without wanting to give too s much away, more helpful than the ending twenty-something who was both refreshingly unexpected born super-fit and achingly poignantwith an attitude problem. [[The Day We Met Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Roxie CooperJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[Good Mood FoodLive Forever Manual: Unlock Science, ethics and companies behind the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well new anti-aging treatments by Charlotte Watts and Natalie SavonaAdrian Cull]]===
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For many years now I thought 've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, it was getting working out OK. Time has passed though and although I'm a cookbook: I liked the idea great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a series few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of recipes which would make balance. It was time to look for a new approach and as so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me feel happythe book I needed. For once this isn't a case of 'if it sounds too good to be trueLive Forever Manual: Science, it probably isethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments' - it's a case of getting something which could change your life for seemed like the better answer to my problems - for good - rather only you get so much more than a quick fixjust 101 tips. [[Good Mood FoodLive Forever Manual: Unlock Science, ethics and companies behind the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well new anti-aging treatments by Charlotte Watts and Natalie SavonaAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last City In The Middle Of The Night by Hanna JamesonCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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Jon Keller January is in a hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the world endsdying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. He has no idea if his family One half is alivescorching sunlight, pure, he has no idea what's going on in the nearest cityblazing heat, or if the nearest city has been obliteratedand totally uninhabitable. Shocked, amid the mass hysteria The other half is pure darkness and exodusice, Jon decides where a creature can freeze to stay at the hotel rather than attempt to get to the airport death in seconds, and hometotally uninhabitable. He's not alone, twenty other people also stay and gradually form In the middle is a small communitybrief twilight that is barely survivable. One dayLife is a knife-edge, stray too close to one side you die, when helping to close to the hotel managerother, Jon finds you die and yet the body of a girl deemed to have been killed before heat from the world ended. The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer sun and finding the truth about what is possibly water from the last community on earthice are necessary for life. Life for the inhabitants of January is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[The Last City In The Middle Of The Night by Hanna JamesonCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[Deviation Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)David Laws]]===
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For those At the time of you who have read books of life in the Nazi camps – my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and this is hatred of course'Brexit'. Not just Brexit, for those but use of you who have not – this can be considered a next stepthe word 'Brexit'. It begins Yes, after allpeople hate the people that instigated it then disappeared, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, /or the people who just can't seem to get their fingers out and you'd not blame her one minutecomplete it, but they also hate the use of the word. This biggest turn-off has made people who have never so much as her career was deemed to be cesstutted in their life slam down their tea-tank cleaner cups in high dudgeon and sewage unblocker by leave the Germansroom until it's safe to return, when all mention of it has subsided. In Munich I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, she stumbles on help but because it too seems to get her to what seems the actual Brexiting in a very protracted manner. Just as we have to be a camp for non-native civilians wade through dirges from Europe to look for workget anywhere, or companyit seems, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then so the next chapter sees her going back into reader of this book has to get through a lot from Europe before the camp next to Dachau once moretitle's theme really arises. Here, at least though, and by then eyebrows the author's delaying tactics are being raisedmuch more forgiveable. [[Deviation Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)David Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[Fast-track the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner The Hidden by Alok Ranjan TripathyMary Chamberlain]]===
[[image:34.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and FinanceLiterary Fiction|Business and FinanceLiterary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
SoWhen Barbara Hummel arrives, what brought me determined to this book? As 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 owner of Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a small business time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a buyer time when he hid something very different. In this story of IT services I should be the senior partner in the relationship with my supplierslove, but I've frequently found myself the junior partner and I've regularly been let down by them. I needed to know where I could improve that relationship loss andbetrayal, by looking at the situation from the supplier's point of view, what steps I needed it remains to take. Alok Tripathy's book looked as though it might provide help and possibly some be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the answers as to how my suppliers could better help me. darkest shadows of war… [[Fast-track the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner The Hidden by Alok Ranjan TripathyMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[Painting Snails by Stephen John Hartley]]===
===[[A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensAutobiography|TeensAutobiography]] 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:Category:Lifestyle|Full ReviewLifestyle]]
It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part time). I found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the book's about. There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. It's autobiography. [[Painting Snails by Stephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[Loved to Bits by Teresa Heapy and Katie Cleminson]]===
===[[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingConfident Readers|For SharingConfident Readers]]
''Loved to Bits'' is When Ollie and Nancy, the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are abducted in the heartwarming story middle of the night, things take a boy's love for his beardangerous turn. Bear's adventures with boy take him to all kinds of places and together they fight and defeat every obstacle put in their wayRescued by Dodge, from the jungle Ollie is taken to the sea. Inevitably mishaps occur on Haven, a secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels that the way London above ground knows nothing about. The loss of an armHere, a leg, an ear or children work together to battle great evils. And there is an eye are nothing immediate enemy to Stripy Ted who shrugs off all injuries with a cheery ''don't worry, I've got one more''fight. But boy loves him just as Ollie would have been the hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he is and won't hear of him being mendednot been rescued. His place, after all, is in Boy's bedAnd Maddy intends to destroy the city. [[Loved to Bits The Haven: Book 1 by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonSimon Lelic|Full Review]]
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===[[Louis and Louise by Julie Cohen]]===
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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:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral Fiction]]
The final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to Alex as anything the Germans would provide. And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the disinformation campaign, and returned to find her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. Alex can't get Justine out of his head. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy|Full Review]] <!-- Lewis Douglas Lindsay -->
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===[[The Closest Thing to Flying Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Gill LewisDouglas Lindsay]]===
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Semira is an Eritraen refugee, living in the UK with her mum and Robel, A man walked into a man who controls their money, their food, and their every move police station in the UKEstonia. He threatens them that if they don't do what he saystold a tale of having been held prisoner, they'll be sent homeused as a donor for organ harvesting and sperm donation. One dayX-rays and medical examination bear out this part of his story, Semira finds herself buying an old hat on a market stallbut this man, strangely drawn to or the bird that decorates the hatman he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years ago. When she takes it home she discovers there is an old diary hidden inside the hat boxHis body was identified by his partner, written Emily King and by a young girl called Hen over 100 years agohis parents - and then the body was buried. Semira finds herself caught up So, who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent to Estonia because of his background in Hen's storyMI6, finding in but that brings some baggage with it an escape from her own life that is full of hunger and losstoo. She finds that she is challenged by the girl in the diaryWestphall cannot, will not, to speak up in her own life and fight get on a plane. His last experience of flight was more than enough for her place in the worldone lifetime. [[The Closest Thing to Flying Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Gill LewisDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) A Pinch of Magic by Elly GriffithsMichelle Harrison]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
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DCI Harry Nelson's life is complicated. His two oldest daughters are either living away from home or really should be. His youngest daughter was conceived in a (very) brief affair (let's not call it a one-night stand: thereA Pinch of Magic''s more emotion in follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on the isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the neighbouring inescapable prison, for their relationship) with archaeologist Dr Ruth Gallowayentire lives. MichelleThe middle sister, Nelson's wifeBetty, knows about Kate has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and she is determined that nothing and no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that the world has been very understandingto offer. But in setting out to do just that, but then there's the matter of she and her affair with sisters discover a black policeman deadly curse which she'd rather not has haunted their family for generations. From their ancestors, as well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, they have to discuss with her daughters. Nelson knows about it each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, a set of wooden nesting dolls and knows that an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the baby which Michelle is about to deliver, eye and could possibly be Tim's. That's a lot the key to cope with - and that's before he gets to worktheir problem. [[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) A Pinch of Magic by Elly GriffithsMichelle Harrison|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wedding Guest Never Tell by Jonathan KellermanLisa Gardner]]===
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It was a bridesmaid who found the victimEvie Carter's body husband was shot dead in a rather disreputable toilet at the wedding venue. She didn't know who his own home and she was and neither did found with the bride or groomgun in her hands. The bride wasn't particularly worried about the dead girl, but she was furious that someone Was this a domestic dispute which had set got out to disrupt her weddingof hand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. Baby (yesIt might have been sixteen years ago, that was what people called Brearley) didnbut there't come across as being particularly likeable, despite s no mistaking the fact that she said that everyone liked her, teenager who had accidentally shot and killed her groomfather: 'a tragic accident' everyone said, Garrett didn't inspire confidence either. Lt Milo Sturgis as there was no doubt about the senior investigating officer and he called on love the two had for each other. D D had no worries at the help of his friendtime, psychologist Dr Alex Delaware. but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is Evie about to get away with murder again? [[The Wedding Guest Never Tell by Jonathan KellermanLisa Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Wide Open Midnight Hour by Douglas KennedyBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
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Douglas KennedyAfter a big blow-up fight with her mum, Emily is left alone with her dad. Her mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn's t think her mum even ''The Great Wide Openhad'' has been described as epic by just about everyone, a job) and it often feels as though that was the intentionso she is not quite sure what is going on. Though the novel often feels like a pastiche of the great American novel – epic in scope Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mum, preoccupied with matters of money and literature, fixated with New York – it often feels more like Kennedy is trying then doesn't come back. She heads out to reverse-engineer the concept altogether. Initiallyinvestigate and discovers a strange, secret world called the novel presents itself as an intimate study of family dramaMidnight Hour, in the latter half of the novel it smoothly turns which seems to examining the turn of American society since the 70sbe London during Victorian times, and the rapid rise is full of the hyper-capitalist neoliberal values that 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 magical beings (Trump, of course, makes an inevitable and slightly incongruous cameomonsters!) such that what happens links subtly into current affairs without ever explicitly referencing What were her parents doing here? And will she be able to find them and rescue them. , so her life can go back to normal? [[The Great Wide Open Midnight Hour by Douglas KennedyBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[It Should Have Been Me Gallowstree Lane by Susan WilkinsKate London]]===
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It's seventeen Spencer was just fifteen years since DC Jo Boden's sisterold when he stepped out into a London Street and asked a complete stranger for help, begging him not to let him die. The stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to save Spence. Just one of those things you might, Sarahthink. Tragic, was murdered and her life since has been lived in but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the shadow streets of what happenedLondon all the time. Jo His friend Ryan was only eleven at the time and her parents' marriage broke up in the aftermath: her brother Carl opted to go and live with his father but Jo stayed with her mother who Spence when he was mentally frail and not coping with everyday lifestabbed. She wasnIt was Ryan who called the ambulance on the paramedic't pleased when Jo decided to join the polices instruction, but sobbing as he held the job satisfies Jophone. SheBut Ryan wasn's passed her sergeant's exams but in the Met these days t prepared to accept that it's a case was just one of dead men's shoes and no one seems inclined to make way for the younger generationthose things. Still, being a detective is better than being a PC and when the opportunity to go undercover comes up, Jo grabs itHe wanted revenge. [[It Should Have Been Me Gallowstree Lane by Susan WilkinsKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Lose a Country: The Resurrection of Jesus 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Yancey WilliamsEce Temelkuran]]===
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In March 1990 two police officers entered BostonA little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question 's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum'Discuss the factors which led to... '' They left with thirteen famous paintings by Rembrandt, Degas I agreed that she was right and Vermeerwasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. The frames remain empty to this day: whilst there might have been rumours about the whereabouts of the paintings, even promises I think now that the case was about to be solved, the paintings are still missingI do know. Yancey Williams has a theory, which he delaborates on We are in his novel danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can'The Resurrection t think of Jesus'a better one, particularly as the ', and whilst his suspects might seem unlikely, whobenevolent dictator's to say that heis as rare as hen's wrong? Forget the assertions that it was down to the Mafia and meet Jésus Ángel Escobar and Hiram Johnny Walker Quicksilverteeth. [[How to Lose a Country: The Resurrection of Jesus 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Yancey WilliamsEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) A Danger to Herself and Others by David MarkAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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It all began almost innocently: DS Aector McAvoy was told by a concerned stranger that she and her son had regularly seen an old woman who lived in a nearby cottage but she hadn't been for a few days. Perhaps McAvoy could check that she was alright? No - she wouldn't go with himThey needed someone to blame, but she'd tell him where and I was the house only available scapegoat. Their daughter wasmy best friend. And so McAvoy went, only to find Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the windows open on a freezing cold day - and inside an circumstances.'' Seventeen year old lady Hannah Gold was in born mature – or so her parents tell her bath encased . She has dined in ice. It ''might'' have been a tragic accidentfancy restaurants, but McAvoy suspected murder - explored the most sophisticated corners of the globe and he thought that someone had watched the woman dielived a life of luxury. [[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) A Danger to Herself and Others by David MarkAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[To Catch a Killer When You Read This by Emma KavanaghMary Adkins]]===
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If you're a detective Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on a murder squad one of the first things you learn is detachmenttheir wedding day. You develop a distance from Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the victim: it allows you do do your job with branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the minimum amount of emotionpressures got too much for him. That's relatively easy He was devastated when you encounter your victim when they're already dead but DS Alice Parr met Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the woman they would need to call Jane Doe when she was alive, albeit only justage of thirty three. She He was being tended by an off-duty paramedic who was struggling to cope with the fact surprised too when he discovered that the woman's throat Iris had been cut and she'd been stabbed several times. The attack had been called writing a blog in by a dog walker the last six months of her life and Alice had been walking to work when her final request of Smith is that he gets the call came over her Airwave radioblog published as a book. [[To Catch a Killer When You Read This by Emma KavanaghMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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