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===[[Never Tell Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Lisa GardnerAngela Marsons]]===
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Evie CarterSomeone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's husband was shot dead in his own home and she was found past, starting with the gun in death of her handstwin when she was six years old. Was Some of the events, or at least the details of them, are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has a domestic dispute which had got out wealth of hand? Was information and is using it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediatelyto evil intent. It That might have been sixteen years agoseem bad enough, but therethe brutal truth of the matter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreated. Stone probably - well, certainly - shouldn's no mistaking t be on the teenager case, but who had accidentally shot and killed has better knowledge of what happened to her than she does? If her father: 'boss can just turn a tragic accidentblind eye to the effect it' everyone saids having on her for long enough, as there was no doubt about the love the two had for each othershe can sort it out... D D had no worries at the time, but just how many gun accidents Or can one woman have - or is Evie about to get away with murder againshe? [[Never Tell Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Lisa GardnerAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[The Midnight Hour Out of the Dark by Benjamin Read and Laura TrinderGregg Hurwitz]]===
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After a big blow-up fight with her mum, Emily is left alone with her dad1997. Her mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didnEvan Smoak is 19 years old 't think her mum even 'trained up, mission ready. And yet untested.'had'He' s in a job) and so she is not quite sure what is going foreign city on. Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her muman officially unofficial mission, and then doesn't come backwhich he executes with all the impeccable training that his youth belies. She heads out to investigate and discovers a strange, secret world called the Midnight Hour, which seems to be London during Victorian times, and Evan Smoak is full of magical beings (and monsters!) 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? Orphan X. [[The Midnight Hour Out of the Dark by Benjamin Read and Laura TrinderGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[Gallowstree Lane Watching You by Kate LondonLisa Jewell]]===
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Spencer was just fifteen years old when 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 that he stepped out into is following her. Meanwhile, a London Street young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, and asked develops a complete stranger for help, begging him not to let him diefascination with her new neighbour. The stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to save Spence. Just one man's wife, meanwhile, engages the services of those things you might, thinkthe young woman's husband in some work around the house. TragicOh, but and that teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on boy? He's her son. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She's the streets mother of London all the time. His friend Ryan was with Spence when girl he was stabbed's spying on. It was Ryan who called Plus, the ambulance on man she thinks is out to get her is the paramedicwoman's instruction, sobbing as he held husband (and is also the phonenew headteacher at her daughter's school). But Ryan wasnWhichever way you look at it, there't prepared to accept that it was just one s a lot of those things. He wanted revengewatching going on in this book. [[Gallowstree Lane Watching You by Kate LondonLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran]]===
===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:HistoryFantasy|HistoryFantasy]]
A little while ago This novel is set about a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in hundred years to come would be discussed into the future. The world has been decimated by A level history students when faced with the question nuclear conflict and what''Discuss s left of the factors which led toold United States is run from Center City.Women run this world and it is very proud of having defeated the old patriarchy..'' I agreed that she was right Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and wasn, if they don't certain whether it was a good or bad thing , are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. And if that we didndoesn't know what all work, they'this' was leading re sent to. I think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better onework camps, away from open society, particularly as or even worse: expelled to the wilderness beyond the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as henCentral Authority's teethborders. [[How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship Fish Seeking Bicycle by Ece TemelkuranKate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[A Danger to Herself and Others Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Alyssa SheinmelJames Atkinson]]===
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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 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to me: he'They needed someone to blame, and I was s been on the only available scapegoatother side. Their daughter There was my best frienda time when he was overweight and not particularly strong. Playing the scapegoat As a child he was the least I could do under the circumstancesslow to develop. This means that he ''understands'' what it's like and he knows how his clients feel: it' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold s much more helpful than the twenty-something who was born mature – or so her parents tell her. She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the most sophisticated corners of the globe super-fit and lived a life of luxurywith an attitude problem. [[A Danger to Herself and Others Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Alyssa SheinmelJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[When You Read This Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Mary AdkinsAdrian Cull]]===
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Smith Simonyi For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and Iris Massey worked together for four yearsthat so far, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding dayit was working out OK. Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was on making enough money to cover his motherTime has passed though and although I's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York m a great deal fitter and losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for himhealthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. He It was devastated when Iris developed time to look for a terminal cancer new approach and died at as so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the age of thirty threebook I needed. He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in ''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the last six months of her life and her final request of Smith is that he gets new anti-aging treatments'' seemed like the blog published as a bookanswer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. [[When You Read This Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Mary AdkinsAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day We Met City In The Middle Of The Night by Roxie CooperCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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This January is an epic love story spanning ten years of 'will they, wona dying planet. It wasn't they'exactly pleasant to begin with. Stephanie One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and Jamie are 'meant to be'totally uninhabitable. When they meet on an art course they have an instant strong connection but both are with The other people. Howeverhalf is pure darkness and ice, what I loved was that it's not where a 'typical boy meets girlcreature can freeze to death in seconds, falls in love and lives happily ever after' storytotally uninhabitable. In fact far from itthe middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is a knife-edge, stray too close to one side you die, without wanting to give too much awayclose to the other, you die and yet the heat from the ending was both refreshingly unexpected sun and achingly poignantthe water from the ice are necessary for life. Life for the inhabitants of January is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[The Day We Met City In The Middle Of The Night by Roxie CooperCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[Good Mood FoodExit Day: Unlock Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well Prime Minister by Charlotte Watts and Natalie SavonaDavid Laws]]===
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I thought I was getting a cookbook: I liked At the idea time of a series my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and this is hatred of 'Brexit'. Not just Brexit, but use of recipes which would make me feel happythe word 'Brexit'. For once this isnYes, people hate the people that instigated it then disappeared, and/or the people who just can't a case seem to get their fingers out and complete it, but they also hate the use of the 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 room until it'if s safe to return, when all mention of it has subsided. I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, but because it sounds too good seems to be trueget to the actual Brexiting in a very protracted manner. Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it probably isseems, so the reader of this book has to get through a lot from Europe before the title' - its theme really arises. Here, at least though, the author's a case of getting something which could change your life for the better - for good - rather than a quick fixdelaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[Good Mood FoodExit Day: Unlock Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well Prime Minister by Charlotte Watts and Natalie SavonaDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Hidden by Hanna JamesonMary Chamberlain]]===
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Jon Keller is in a hotel in Switzerland in When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the remote countryside when the world ends. He has no idea if his family is alive, he mysterious woman whose photograph she has no idea whatfound among her mother's going possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on in the nearest cityChannel Islands during World War II, or if the nearest city has been obliterated. ShockedDora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, amid the mass hysteria and exodusJoe, Jon decides to stay at the hotel rather than attempt to get to the airport and home. He's not alonea Catholic Priest, twenty other people also stay and gradually form remembers a small communitytime when he hid something very different. One dayIn this story of love, when helping the hotel managerloss and betrayal, Jon finds the body of a girl deemed it remains to have been killed before the world ended. The community descends into be seen whether a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and finding speck of light can diffuse the truth about what is possibly the last community on earth. darkest shadows of war… [[The Last Hidden by Hanna JamesonMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[Deviation Painting Snails by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Stephen John Hartley]]===
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For those of 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 who have read books of life in the Nazi camps – 're not going to get advice on what to plant when and of course, where for those the best results. The answer would be something along the lines of you who have not – this can be 'try it and see'. Then I considered a next step. It beginspopular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, after alldid an engineering apprenticeship, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during became a bombing raidbusker, 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'd not blame her one minutell ever glean from ''Casualty'', as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by but that isn't really what the Germansbook's about. In Munich There's a lot about rock & roll, she stumbles on help to get her to what which seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for work, or company, or transport elsewherethe real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either official or otherwise. But then Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the next chapter sees her going back into hard way'? Yep - that's the camp next to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raisedone. It's autobiography. [[Deviation Painting Snails by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Stephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[Fast-track the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner by Alok Ranjan Tripathy]]===
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So[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] When Ollie and Nancy, the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are abducted in the middle of the night, what brought me things take a dangerous turn. Rescued by Dodge, Ollie is taken to this book? As the owner of Haven, a small business and secret underground community based in a buyer network of IT services I should be underground tunnels that the senior partner in the relationship with my suppliersLondon above ground knows nothing about. Here, but I've frequently found myself the junior partner and I've regularly been let down by themchildren work together to battle great evils. I needed And there is an immediate enemy to know where I could improve that relationship and, by looking at the situation from fight. Ollie would have been the supplier's point hundredth victim of view, what steps I needed Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued. And Maddy intends to take. Alok Tripathy's book looked as though it might provide help and possibly some of destroy the answers as to how my suppliers could better help mecity. [[Fast-track the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner The Haven: Book 1 by Alok Ranjan TripathySimon Lelic|Full Review]]
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===[[A Curse So Dark and Lonely The Things That are Lost by Brigid KemmererAlan Kennedy]]===
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HarperThe final novel in Alan Kennedy's life is pretty disastrous at the momentWW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, through no fault of her ownproviding trade craft spy training. Her mother has cancer It's stifling and suffocating and not long feels as much like a prison to live. Her father has scarpered but not taken his debts with himAlex as anything the Germans would provide. And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her brother is forever getting into trouble. But Harper soldiers on nonetheless, despite coping since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with her own cerebral palsy. One dayJohn Cabot, she sees an attempted abduction instigator of young girl the disinformation campaign, and intercedes, only returned to find herself kidnapped in the girl's placeher missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. But even an imaginative girl like Harper couldnAlex can't have guessed where get Justine out of his head. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she was being taken... even still alive? [[A Curse So Dark and Lonely The Things That are Lost by Brigid KemmererAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Loved to Bits Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonDouglas Lindsay]]===
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''Loved to Bits'' is the heartwarming story A man walked into a police station in Estonia. He told a tale of having been held prisoner, used as a boy's love donor for his organ harvesting and sperm donation. X-rays and medical examination bear. Bear's adventures with boy take him to all kinds out this part of places and together they fight and defeat every obstacle put in their wayhis story, but this man, from or the jungle to the seaman he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years ago. Inevitably mishaps occur on His body was identified by his partner, Emily King and by his parents - and then the way body was buried. The loss of an arm, a legSo, an ear or an eye are nothing to Stripy Ted who shrugs off all injuries with a cheery ''don't worry, I've got one more''. is this man? But boy loves him just as he DI Ben Westphall is and won't hear sent to Estonia because of him being mendedhis background in MI6, but that brings some baggage with it too. His placeWestphall cannot, after allwill not, is in Boy's bedget on a plane. His last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[Loved to Bits Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[Louis and Louise A Pinch of Magic by Julie CohenMichelle Harrison]]===
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What would you be like, right now, if you'd 'No Widdershins girl has ever 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, able to the same parents, but in one storyline Lou is a boy, and in the other a girlleave Crowstone. Does it really make a differenceIf we do, 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 'll die by the past, how they still are, and prompts you to think about how they could benext sunset... [[Louis and Louise by Julie Cohen|Full Review]]''
''A Pinch of Magic'' 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 entire lives. The middle sister, Betty, 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 to offer. But in setting out to do just that, she and her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. From their ancestors, as well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, they have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, a set of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the eye and could possibly be the key to their problem. [[A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison|Full Review]] <!-- Lewis Lisa Gardner -->
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===[[The Closest Thing to Flying Never Tell by Gill LewisLisa Gardner]]===
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Semira is an Eritraen refugee, living Evie Carter's husband was shot dead in his own home and she was found with the UK with gun in her mum and Robel, hands. Was this a man who controls their money, their food, and their every move in the UKdomestic dispute which had got out of hand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. He threatens them that if they donIt might have been sixteen years ago, but there't do what he says, theys no mistaking the teenager who had accidentally shot and killed her father: 'll be sent home. One day, Semira finds herself buying an old hat on a market stalltragic accident' everyone said, strangely drawn to as there was no doubt about the bird that decorates love the hattwo had for each other. When she takes it home she discovers there is an old diary hidden inside D D had no worries at the hat boxtime, written by a young girl called Hen over 100 years ago. Semira finds herself caught up in Hen's story, finding in it an escape from her own life that is full of hunger and loss. She finds that she but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is challenged by the girl in the diary, Evie about to speak up in her own life and fight for her place in the world. get away with murder again? [[The Closest Thing to Flying Never Tell by Gill LewisLisa Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) Midnight Hour by Elly GriffithsBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
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DCI Harry Nelson's life After a big blow-up fight with her mum, Emily is complicatedleft alone with her dad. His two oldest daughters are either living Her mum has gone away from home or really should be. His youngest daughter was conceived in a on some strange job (very) brief affair (leteven though Emily didn't think her mum even ''had''s not call it a one-night stand: there's more emotion in their relationshipjob) with archaeologist Dr Ruth Gallowayand so she is not quite sure what is going on. Michelle, Nelson's wifeThings turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mum, knows about Kate and has been very understanding, but then there's the matter of her affair with a black policeman which shedoesn'd rather not have to discuss with her daughterst come back. Nelson knows about it She heads out to investigate and knows that discovers a strange, secret world called the baby Midnight Hour, which Michelle is about seems to deliverbe London during Victorian times, could and is full of magical beings (and monsters!) What were her parents doing here? And will she be Tim's. That's a lot able to cope with - find them and that's before he gets rescue them, so her life can go back to work. normal? [[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) Midnight Hour by Elly GriffithsBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wedding Guest Gallowstree Lane by Jonathan KellermanKate London]]===
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It Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a bridesmaid who found the victim's body in London Street and asked a rather disreputable toilet at the wedding venuecomplete stranger for help, begging him not to let him die. She didn't know who she The stranger was and neither did the bride or grooman off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to save Spence. Just one of those things you might, think. The bride wasn't particularly worried about the dead girlTragic, but she teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the streets of London all the time. His friend Ryan was furious that someone had set out to disrupt her weddingwith Spence when he was stabbed. Baby (yes, that It was what people Ryan who called Brearley) didnthe ambulance on the paramedic't come across s instruction, sobbing as being particularly likeable, despite he held the fact that she said that everyone liked her, and her groom, Garrett didnphone. But Ryan wasn't inspire confidence either. Lt Milo Sturgis prepared to accept that it was the senior investigating officer and he called on the help just one of his friend, psychologist Dr Alex Delawarethose things. He wanted revenge. [[The Wedding Guest Gallowstree Lane by Jonathan KellermanKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Lose a Country: The Great Wide Open 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Douglas KennedyEce Temelkuran]]===
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Douglas KennedyA 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 'Discuss the factors which led to...'The Great Wide Open' I agreed that she was right and wasn' has been described as epic by just about everyone, and t certain whether it often feels as though was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was the intentionleading to. I think now that I do know. Though the novel often feels like a pastiche of the great American novel – epic We are in scope, preoccupied with matters danger of money losing democracy and literature, fixated with New York – whilst it often feels more like Kennedy is trying to reverse-engineer the concept altogether. Initially, the novel presents itself as an intimate study of family drama, in the latter half of the novel it smoothly turns to examining the turn of American society since the 70s, and the rapid rise of the hyper-capitalist neoliberal values that have dominated the west since the election 's a flawed system I can't think of Ronald Reagan. Though it takes place over a twenty-year period between the 70s and the 90sbetter one, it notably always keeps one an eye on particularly as 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'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth. [[How to Lose a Country: The Great Wide Open 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Douglas KennedyEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[It Should Have Been Me A Danger to Herself and Others by Susan WilkinsAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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It's seventeen years since DC Jo Boden's sister, SarahThey needed someone to blame, and I was murdered and her life since has been lived in the shadow of what happenedonly available scapegoat. Jo Their daughter was only eleven at my best friend. Playing 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 scapegoat was mentally frail and not coping with everyday life. She wasn't pleased when Jo decided to join the police, but least I could do under the job satisfies Jocircumstances. She's passed ' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her sergeant's exams but . She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the Met these days it's a case most sophisticated corners of dead men's shoes the globe and no one seems inclined to make way for the younger generation. Still, being lived a detective is better than being a PC and when the opportunity to go undercover comes up, Jo grabs itlife of luxury. [[It Should Have Been Me A Danger to Herself and Others by Susan WilkinsAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[The Resurrection of Jesus When You Read This by Yancey WilliamsMary Adkins]]===
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In March 1990 two police officers entered Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumSmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. They left with thirteen famous paintings by RembrandtSmith, meanwhile, Degas and Vermeer. The frames remain empty to this day: whilst there might have been rumours about the whereabouts of the paintingsrelied on Iris, even promises that the case but his attention was about on making enough money to be solvedcover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the paintings are still missingpressures got too much for him. Yancey Williams has He was devastated when Iris developed a theory, which terminal cancer and died at the age of thirty three. He was surprised too when he delaborates on discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in his novel ''The Resurrection the last six months of Jesus'', her life and whilst his suspects might seem unlikely, who's to say her final request of Smith is that he's wrong? Forget gets the assertions that it was down to the Mafia and meet Jésus Ángel Escobar and Hiram Johnny Walker Quicksilverblog published as a book. [[The Resurrection of Jesus When You Read This by Yancey WilliamsMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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