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===[[The Midnight Hour Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Benjamin Read and Laura TrinderAngela Marsons]]===
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After a big blow-up fight with her mumSomeone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's past, Emily is left alone starting with the death of her dadtwin when she was six years old. Her mum Some of the events, or at least the details of them, are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't think her mum even ''had'' a job) wealth of information and so she is not quite sure what using it to evil intent. That might seem bad enough, but the brutal truth of the matter is going onthat people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreated. Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mumStone probably - well, and then doesncertainly - shouldn't come back. She heads out to investigate and discovers a strange, secret world called be on the Midnight Hourcase, which seems but who has better knowledge of what happened to be London during Victorian times, and is full of magical beings (and monsters!) What were her parents doing herethan she does? And will she be able If her boss can just turn a blind eye to find them and rescue themthe effect it's having on her for long enough, so her life she can sort it out... Or can go back to normalshe? [[The Midnight Hour Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Benjamin Read and Laura TrinderAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[Gallowstree Lane Out of the Dark by Kate LondonGregg Hurwitz]]===
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Spencer was just fifteen 1997. Evan Smoak is 19 years old when he stepped out into a London Street and asked a complete stranger for help''trained up, begging him not to let him diemission ready. The stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to save SpenceAnd yet untested. Just one of those things you might, think. Tragic, but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the streets of London all the time. His friend Ryan was with Spence when he was stabbed. It was Ryan who called the ambulance on the paramedic'' He's instructionin a foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, sobbing as which he held executes with all the phone. But Ryan wasn't prepared to accept impeccable training that it was just one of those thingshis youth belies. He wanted revengeEvan Smoak is Orphan X. [[Gallowstree Lane Out of the Dark by Kate LondonGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship Watching You by Ece TemelkuranLisa Jewell]]===
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A little while ago teenage boy spies on a friend asked me if I thought teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the road, a woman is convinced she knows a man in the village and that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced he is following her. Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, and develops a fascination with her new neighbour. The man's wife, meanwhile, engages the question services of the young woman''Discuss s husband in some work around the factors which led tohouse...'' I agreed that she was right Oh, and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didnteenage boy? He't know what all s her son. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She'this' was leading to. I think now that I do know. We are in danger s the mother of losing democracy and whilst itthe girl he's a flawed system I can't think of a better onespying on. Plus, particularly as the man she thinks is out to get her is the woman'benevolent dictators husband (and is also the new headteacher at her daughter' is as rare as hens school). Whichever way you look at it, there's teetha lot of watching going on in this book. [[How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship Watching You by Ece TemelkuranLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel]]===
===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General FictionFantasy|General FictionFantasy]]
This novel is set about a hundred years into the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what''They needed someone to blame, s left of the old United States is run from Center City. Women run this world and I was it is very proud of having defeated the only available scapegoatold patriarchy. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don't, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under the circumstancescontrol.And if that doesn't work, they' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – re sent to work camps, away from open society, or so her parents tell her. She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored even worse: expelled to the most sophisticated corners of wilderness beyond the globe and lived a life of luxuryCentral Authority's borders. [[A Danger to Herself and Others Fish Seeking Bicycle by Alyssa SheinmelKate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[When You Read This Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Mary AdkinsJames Atkinson]]===
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Smith Simonyi James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a workout instructor and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at he looks the altar on their wedding daypart. Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was on making enough money to cover his motherHe's nursing home fees been actively involved in Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York health and losing money gambling when the pressures got too much fitness arena for himmore than twenty years and he spent nine years as a member of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. He was devastated when Iris developed has another qualification which means a terminal cancer and died at lot to me: he's been on the age of thirty threeother side. He There was surprised too a time when he discovered was overweight and not particularly strong. As a child he was slow to develop. This means that Iris had been writing a blog in the last six months of her life he ''understands'' what it's like and her final request of Smith is that he gets knows how his clients feel: it's much more helpful than the blog published as a booktwenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problem. [[When You Read This Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Mary AdkinsJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day We Met Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Roxie CooperAdrian Cull]]===
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This is an epic love story spanning ten For many years of now I'will theyve (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, won't they'it was working out OK. Stephanie Time has passed though and Jamie are although I'meant to be'. When they meet on an art course they have an instant strong connection but both are with other m a great deal fitter and healthier than most peopleof my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. HoweverIt was time to look for a new approach and as so often happens, what the reviewing gods brought me the book I loved was that itneeded. 's not a 'typical boy meets girlLive Forever Manual: Science, falls in love ethics and lives happily ever aftercompanies behind the new anti-aging treatments' story. In fact far from it, without wanting ' seemed like the answer to give too my problems - only you get so much away, the ending was both refreshingly unexpected and achingly poignantmore than just 101 tips. [[The Day We Met Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Roxie CooperAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[Good Mood Food: Unlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well The City In The Middle Of The Night by Charlotte Watts and Natalie SavonaCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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I thought I was getting a cookbook: I liked the idea of January is a series of recipes which would make me feel happydying planet. For once this isnIt wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and ice, where a case of 'if it sounds too good creature can freeze to be truedeath in seconds, it probably and totally uninhabitable. In the middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is' a knife- it's a case of getting something which could change your life for edge, stray too close to one side you die, to close to the other, you die and yet the heat from the sun and the water from the better - ice are necessary for good - rather than a quick fixlife. [[Good Mood Food: Unlock Life for the Power inhabitants of Diet to Think January is long, and hard, and Feel Well arduous, will anything ever change? [[The City In The Middle Of The Night by Charlotte Watts and Natalie SavonaCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Hanna JamesonDavid Laws]]===
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Jon Keller is in a hotel in Switzerland in At the remote countryside when the world ends. He has no idea if his family time of my writing this, there is aliveone thing uniting Britain, he has no idea whatand this is hatred of 'Brexit's going on in the nearest city. Not just Brexit, or if but use of the nearest city has been obliteratedword 'Brexit'. Shocked Yes, amid people hate the mass hysteria people that instigated it then disappeared, and exodus, Jon decides to stay at /or the hotel rather than attempt people who just can't seem to get to their fingers out and complete it, but they also hate the use of the airport 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 home. Heleave the room until it's not alonesafe to return, twenty other people also stay and gradually form when all mention of it has subsided. I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, but because it too seems to get to the actual Brexiting in a small communityvery protracted manner. One day Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, when helping the hotel managerit seems, Jon finds so the body reader of this book has to get through a girl deemed to have been killed lot from Europe before the world endedtitle's theme really arises. The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl Here, at least though, the author's killer and finding the truth about what is possibly the last community on earthdelaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[The Last Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Hanna JamesonDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[Deviation The Hidden by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Mary Chamberlain]]===
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For those of you who have read books of life in When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the Nazi camps mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and of courseare swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on the Channel Islands during World War II, for those of you who have not – this can be considered Dora remembers a next step. It beginstime when she concealed her Jewish identity, after alland Joe, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raidCatholic Priest, and you'd not blame her one minuteremembers a time when he hid something very different. In this story of love, as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner loss and sewage unblocker by the Germans. In Munichbetrayal, she stumbles on help to get her to what seems it remains to be seen whether a camp for non-native civilians to look for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then speck of light can diffuse the next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raised. darkest shadows of war… [[Deviation The Hidden by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Mary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[Fast-track the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner Painting Snails by Alok Ranjan TripathyStephen John Hartley]]===
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SoIt'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 brought me to this book? plant when and where for the best results. As The answer would be something along the owner lines of 'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a small business busker, finally got into medical school and a buyer of IT services is now an A&E consultant (part time). I should be the senior partner found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in the relationship with my suppliersa Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but Ithat isn've frequently found myself t really what the junior partner and Ibook've regularly been let down by thems about. I needed There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to know where I could improve that relationship andbe the real passion of Hartley's life, by looking at but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the situation from impossible the supplierhard way'? Yep - that's point of view, what steps I needed to takethe one. Alok TripathyIt's book looked as though it might provide help and possibly some of the answers as to how my suppliers could better help meautobiography. [[Fast-track the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner Painting Snails by Alok Ranjan TripathyStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[A Curse So Dark and Lonely The Haven: Book 1 by Brigid KemmererSimon Lelic]]===
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Harper's life 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 pretty disastrous at taken to the momentHaven, through no fault a secret underground community based in a network of her ownunderground tunnels that the London above ground knows nothing about. Her mother has cancer and not long Here, children work together to live. Her father has scarpered but not taken his debts with himbattle great evils. And her brother there 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 immediate enemy to find herself kidnapped in the girl's placefight. But even an imaginative girl like Harper couldn't Ollie would have guessed where she was being taken.been the hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued.And Maddy intends to destroy the city. [[A Curse So Dark and Lonely The Haven: Book 1 by Brigid KemmererSimon Lelic|Full Review]]
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===[[Loved to Bits by Teresa Heapy and Katie Cleminson]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingGeneral Fiction|For SharingGeneral Fiction]]
The final novel in Alan Kennedy''Loved s WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Bits'' is the heartwarming story of a boy's love for his bearScotland, providing trade craft spy training. BearIt's adventures with boy take him to all kinds of places stifling and together they fight suffocating and defeat every obstacle put in their way, from the jungle feels as much like a prison to Alex as anything the seaGermans would provide. Inevitably mishaps occur on the way . The loss of an arm, a leg, an ear or an eye are nothing And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to Stripy Ted who shrugs off all injuries with a cheery ''donthat''t worrydisastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the disinformation campaign, I've got and returned to find her missing. A failed mission is one more''thing but no Justine is quite another. But boy loves him just as he is and wonAlex can't hear get Justine out of him being mended. His place, after all, is in Boy's bedhis head. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[Loved to Bits The Things That are Lost by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Louis and Louise Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Julie CohenDouglas Lindsay]]===
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What would you be like, right now, if you'd been born A man walked into a different gender? police station in Estonia. Would it simply be He told a matter tale of geneticshaving been held prisoner, used as a donor for organ harvesting and your life would still have unfolded in the same way? sperm donation. Or would X-rays and medical examination bear out this part of his story, but this man, or the way you had been raised affect who you became in life? man he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years ago. This latest novel His body was identified by Julie Cohen looks at all of the abovehis partner, covering the stories of Louis Emily King and Louise, born on the same day, to the same by his parents, but in one storyline Lou is a boy, - and in then the other a girlbody was buried. Does it really make a differenceSo, the gender box that who is ticked when we arrive in this worldman? We all know that men and women are treated differentlyDI Ben Westphall is sent to Estonia because of his background in MI6, but this story really highlights how things have been in the pastthat brings some baggage with it too. Westphall cannot, how they still arewill not, and prompts you to think about how they could be.get on a plane. His last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[Louis and Louise Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Julie CohenDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[The Closest Thing to Flying A Pinch of Magic by Gill LewisMichelle Harrison]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersTeens|Confident ReadersTeens]] ''No Widdershins girl has ever been able to leave Crowstone. If we do, we'll die by the next sunset. ''
Semira is an Eritraen refugee''A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, living in Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on the UK with her mum isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and Robelthe neighbouring inescapable prison, a man who controls for their moneyentire lives. The middle sister, their foodBetty, has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and their every move in she is determined that nothing and no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that the UKworld has to offer. He threatens them But in setting out to do just that if they don't do what he says, they'll be sent homeshe and her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. One dayFrom their ancestors, Semira finds herself buying an old hat as well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, they have each inherited a market stall, strangely drawn to the bird that decorates the hat. When she takes it home she discovers there is magical object – an old diary hidden inside the hat boxcarpet bag, written by a young girl called Hen over 100 years ago. Semira finds herself caught up in Hen's story, finding in it set of wooden nesting dolls and an escape from her own life that is full antique handheld mirror – all of hunger which are more than meets the eye and loss. She finds that she is challenged by the girl in could possibly be the diary, key to speak up in her own life and fight for her place in the worldtheir problem. [[The Closest Thing to Flying A Pinch of Magic by Gill LewisMichelle Harrison|Full Review]]
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===[[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) Never Tell by Elly GriffithsLisa Gardner]]===
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DCI Harry NelsonEvie Carter's life is complicated. His two oldest daughters are either living away from husband was shot dead in his own home or really should beand she was found with the gun in her hands. His youngest daughter was conceived in Was this a (very) brief affair (let's not call domestic dispute which had got out of hand? Was it a one-night stand: there's more emotion in their relationship) with archaeologist Dr Ruth Gallowaypregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. Michelle, Nelson's wife, knows about Kate and has It might have been very understandingsixteen years ago, but then there's no mistaking the matter of teenager who had accidentally shot and killed her affair with father: 'a black policeman which shetragic accident'd rather not have to discuss with her daughterseveryone said, as there was no doubt about the love the two had for each other. Nelson knows about it and knows that D D had no worries at the baby which Michelle time, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is Evie about to deliver, could be Tim's. That's a lot to cope get away with - and that's before he gets to work. murder again? [[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) Never Tell by Elly GriffithsLisa Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wedding Guest Midnight Hour by Jonathan KellermanBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
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It was After a bridesmaid who found the victim's body in a rather disreputable toilet at the wedding venuebig blow-up fight with her mum, Emily is left alone with her dad. She Her mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't know who think her mum even ''had'' a job) and so she was and neither did the bride or groomis not quite sure what is going on. The bride wasn't particularly worried about the dead girl, but she was furious that someone had set out Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to disrupt find her wedding. Baby (yesmum, that was what people called Brearley) didnand then doesn't come across as being particularly likeableback. She heads out to investigate and discovers a strange, despite secret world called the fact that she said that everyone liked herMidnight Hour, which seems to be London during Victorian times, and is full of magical beings (and monsters!) What were her groom, Garrett didn't inspire confidence either. Lt Milo Sturgis was the senior investigating officer parents doing here? And will she be able to find them and he called on the help of his friendrescue them, psychologist Dr Alex Delaware. so her life can go back to normal? [[The Wedding Guest Midnight Hour by Jonathan KellermanBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Wide Open Gallowstree Lane by Douglas KennedyKate London]]===
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Douglas Kennedy's ''The Great Wide Open'' has been described as epic by Spencer was just about everyone, fifteen years old when he stepped out into a London Street and it often feels as though that was the intention. Though the novel often feels like asked a pastiche of the great American novel – epic in scope, preoccupied with matters of money and literaturecomplete stranger for help, fixated with New York – it often feels more like Kennedy is trying begging him not to reverselet him die. The stranger was an off-engineer the concept altogetherduty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to save Spence. Initially Just one of those things you might, the novel presents itself as an intimate study of family dramathink. Tragic, in but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the latter half streets of London all the novel it smoothly turns to examining time. His friend Ryan was with Spence when he was stabbed. It was Ryan who called the turn of American society since ambulance on the 70sparamedic's instruction, and sobbing as he held the rapid rise of the hyper-capitalist neoliberal values phone. But Ryan wasn't prepared to accept 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 was just 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 themthose things. He wanted revenge. [[The Great Wide Open Gallowstree Lane by Douglas KennedyKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[It Should Have Been Me How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Susan WilkinsEce Temelkuran]]===
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ItA 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 seventeen years since DC Jo Boden's sister, Sarah, was murdered and her life since has been lived in Discuss the shadow of what happenedfactors which led to... '' Jo I agreed that she was only eleven at the time right and her parentswasn' marriage broke up in the aftermath: her brother Carl opted to go and live with his father but Jo stayed with her mother who t certain whether it was mentally frail and not coping with everyday life. She wasna good or bad thing that we didn't pleased when Jo decided know what all 'this' was leading to join the police, but the job satisfies Jo. She's passed her sergeant's exams but I think now that I do know. We are in the Met these days danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a case flawed system I can't think of dead men's shoes and no a better one seems inclined to make way for , particularly as the younger generation. Still, being a detective 'benevolent dictator' is better than being a PC and when the opportunity to go undercover comes up, Jo grabs itas rare as hen's teeth. [[It Should Have Been Me How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Susan WilkinsEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[The Resurrection of Jesus A Danger to Herself and Others by Yancey WilliamsAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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In March 1990 two police officers entered Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. 'They left with thirteen famous paintings by Rembrandtneeded someone to blame, Degas and VermeerI was the only available scapegoat. The frames remain empty to this day: whilst there might have been rumours about Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the whereabouts of scapegoat was the paintings, even promises that least I could do under the case circumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was about to be solved, the paintings are still missingborn mature – or so her parents tell her. Yancey Williams She has a theory, which he delaborates on dined in his novel ''The Resurrection of Jesus'', and whilst his suspects might seem unlikelyfancy restaurants, who's to say that he's wrong? Forget explored the assertions that it was down to most sophisticated corners of the Mafia globe and meet Jésus Ángel Escobar and Hiram Johnny Walker Quicksilverlived a life of luxury. [[The Resurrection of Jesus A Danger to Herself and Others by Yancey WilliamsAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) When You Read This by David MarkMary Adkins]]===
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It all began almost innocently: DS Aector McAvoy was told by a concerned stranger that she Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her son had regularly seen an old woman who lived in a nearby cottage but she hadn't been for a few dayshusband at the altar on their wedding day. Perhaps McAvoy could check that she Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was alright? No - she wouldnon making enough money to cover his mother't go with hims nursing home fees in Wisconsin, but she'd tell running the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him where the house was. And so McAvoy went, only to find the windows open on He was devastated when Iris developed a freezing cold day - terminal cancer and inside an old lady was in her bath encased in icedied at the age of thirty three. It ''might'' have He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a tragic accident, but McAvoy suspected murder - blog in the last six months of her life and her final request of Smith is that he thought that someone had watched gets the woman dieblog published as a book. [[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) When You Read This by David MarkMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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