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Hello from The Bookbag, a site featuring books from all the many walks of literary life - [[:Category:Fiction|fiction]], [[:Category:Biography|biography]], [[:Category:Crime|crime]], [[:Category:Cookery|cookery]] and anything else that takes our fancy. At Bookbag Towers the bookbag sits at the side of the desk. It's the bag we take to the library , the charity shop and the bookshop. Sometimes it holds the latest releases, but at other times there'll be old favourites, books for the children, books for the home. They're sometimes our own books or books from the local library. They're often books sent to us by publishers and we promise to tell you exactly what we think about them. You might not want to read through a full review, so we'll give you a quick review which summarises what we felt about the book and tells you whether or not we think you should buy or borrow it. There are also lots of [[:Category:Interviews|author interviews]], and all sorts of [[:Category:Lists|top tens]] - all of which you can find on our [[features]] page. If you're stuck for something to read, check out the [[Book Recommendations|recommendations]] page.

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===[[All That's Dead (Logan McRae 12) Deadwood Hall by Stuart MacBrideLinda Jones]]===

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It seemed like a good ideaIn late December Dylan Beaumont and his sister Emily were on their way to spend the week before Christmas at their grandfather's house. Logan 'Lazarus' McRae It was back snowing heavily and you could sense that their parents were becoming annoyed at work after a year off sick. He'd been stabbed the bickering in the line back of duty and recovery had been slow: he still had some painthe car. His first case Emily was to be a simple one rather brusque with her nine- just to ease him back into work year- old brother's behaviour, but it turned out to be anything but. Professor Wilson, then that's your prerogative when you're a highgrown-profile anti-independence campaigner has gone missing, apparently abducted from his home, but nothing was left behind except some bloodstainsup eleven year old. In much The snow was getting heavier and the journey longer when Emily opened the same way that Brexit is dividing people south car window just a couple of the border, there's going to be inches. There was a war between the pro- dreadful smell and antiDylan saw a horrible, snake-independence factions in Scotland - and like figure clawing at the police are not above being involvedcar window. [[All That's Dead (Logan McRae 12) Deadwood Hall by Stuart MacBrideLinda Jones|Full Review]]

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===[[The Last Stage A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Louise VossDenzil Meyrick]]===

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If you were looking back to when it began youFew government trade missions arrive by luxury liner, but the cruise ship ''Great Britain'd have to say that it was before 1995. Meredith Vincent (that wasn't her name then) had gone to Greenham Common is berthed in Kinloch harbour and on her seventeenth birthday, dressed as a teddy bear, to protest about nuclear weaponsboard are high-powered international delegates. It was whilst she was there 's hard to avoid the suspicion that she met Samanthait's not ''entirely'' about work as the billionaires, fell head over heels in love with her entrepreneurs and went to live in a squat in Londontheir civil service minders tour the country, leaving behind her A levels, her recently-widowed mother - golfing and her twin brothersightseeing with their entourage of security personnel. It's an event which DCI Daley hopes will pass quickly, Peteparticularly as his formal uniform is far too tight for comfort, to look after her. Samantha was there occasionally but Meredith was drawn into forming a band with the boys from the squat and against all the odds Cohen went on to become a sensation and it wasn't s not long before Meredith was living in one of the crew members and a mansion rather than the squatlocal bird watcher go missing. [[The Last Stage A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Louise VossDenzil Meyrick|Full Review]]

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===[[Wild Child: Growing Up a Nomad The Starlight Watchmaker by Ian MathieLauren James]]===

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For Ian Mathie fans there This is good a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, an unwanted and bad newsrather lonely android, who makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. Ian has come up with the missing link in When one of his clients demands that his narrativebroken watch be mended, the story of Hugo realises there is a very unusual childhood (yesmystery to be solved, the very years that made him the amazing man he became). The bad – well it's hardly news two years later – and is that the book is published posthumouslyonly too ready to help. As alwaysAn exciting journey of discovery unfolds, it's beautifully writtenwhich takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, with many exciting moments. What I most enjoyed was the feeling that many exploring regions of the questions in Ian Mathie's later books are answered in ''Wild Child'' with a satisfying clunk. Seemingly all that's now left in the drawer is unpublishableplanet never before known to exist. [[Wild Child: Growing Up a Nomad The Starlight Watchmaker by Ian MathieLauren James|Full Review]]

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===[[The Body in the Castle Well Cold Granite (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelLogan McRae) by Martin WalkerStuart MacBride]]===

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Claudia Muller DS Logan McRae is just back from a year's sick leave after he was an American, studying art history and being mentored attacked by an eminent French art historian a killer. He's just about OK and Resistance war hero he's supposed to be easing himself back into the swing of the job in Limeuil a gentle way - until three-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in Perigorda ditch. She was beautiful, wore designer clothes He'd been missing for some time and it came as no surprise that he was well-liked by everyone. She didn't parade her wealth, or her fatherdead but he's White House connectionsthe first of several child murders. In fact, her closest friend was To add to the complications the police even have a man recently released from prisonbody but no child reported missing. So when she left A serial killer, a lecture saying that she felt illchild killer and abuser, is on the loose in Aberdeen and her body was later found at the bottom of the castle well it seemed press are missing no opportunity to bay for blood. As if that the likeliest explanation was wasn't bad enough there seems to be a leak from within Force Headquarters: a local journalist, Colin Miller, quickly finds out everything that this had been a dreadful accident with the only people to blame being the builders who had left the well unsealed's happening. [[The Body in the Castle Well Cold Granite (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelLogan McRae) by Martin WalkerStuart MacBride|Full Review]]

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===[[The Ungrateful Refugee Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Dina NayeriAngela Marsons]]===

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Here in the West, we see news reports about immigrants on There's a regular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about them. But all of those stories are written by journalists – almost always western, prologue and almost always, no matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to the world and the situations we know that refugees find themselves in. Itwe's rare that we find out the journeys from the refugees themselves – and this re dealing with someone who is a rare opportunity to do thatvery disturbed. The descriptions are horrifying, in this intelligent, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in but worst of all is the middle coldness of a revolution in Iran, fleeing to America as a ten-year-oldthe killer.[[The Ungrateful Refugee Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Dina NayeriAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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===[[Boy in the Well (DI Westphall 2) Exhalation by Douglas LindsayTed Chiang]]===

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The body of a nine-yearOver the past twenty-old boy was found at the bottom of a well which had been sealed for two hundred eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories. These magnificent stories have won twenty- but the boy had only been dead for less than two days and there was no sign of how the body had got into the well. The owners of the property seven major science fiction awards so if you are adamant a science fiction fan it is likely that the well was sealed when they went to open it, but DI Ben Westphall would be entitled to you have his doubts. Belle McIntosh holds already come across some strange views, particularly about of the way that the government is controlling everyone through drugs which are added to the water supply which led to her wanting to reinstate the wellwork by Ted Chiang. Her wifeI cannot speak highly enough of this collection of short stories, Catriona Napierthey are so wide ranging in their themes and so beautifully written, is more moderate, but doesn't seem to have Chiang has written an absolute masterpiece of a lot of knowledge about whatcollection. If you come across Chiang's going on on the fa work before, take this opportunity to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[Boy in the Well (DI Westphall 2) Exhalation by Douglas LindsayTed Chiang|Full Review]]

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Muriel Hinkley was walking her dog when she found the body on a quiet country lane, just south of Exmoor[[image:4star. She didn’t recognise him - no one would for a long time as it was obvious that he’d been the victim of a hit-and-run. He had no face - most of it was smeared on the road and when D I Jan Talantire came to look at the body she realised that there was absolutely nothing on him which would allow for identification. All the labels had been cut out of his clothes and there was no wallet and no phone. Hi was Mister Nobody. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Body in the Mist by Nick Louth:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]

Rose and her brother Rudder have recently escaped from cult-like fundamentalist Christian sect, the Pilgrims, along with their mother. While Mum works endless hours at agency cleaning jobs trying to keep the rent paid on their tiny flat, Rose and Rudder are trying to navigate the worldly world. It's not easy when everything is new and the rigid rules you've always lived by are suddenly missing. [[Rose, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence|Full Review]]<!-- Denise Mina Kate Atkinson -->

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===[[Conviction Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Denise MinaKate Atkinson]]===

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ItI guess that most of us have made the odd impulse purchase but Tracy Waterhouse, security chief at the Merrion Centre in Leeds, blew most people's strange how the worst ideas of days can start in such an ordinary, mundane way. And so it was for Anna McDonald as she sorted impulse purchase out gym kit and packed lunches for her two daughtersof the water one morning. It didn't begin to go wrong until she opened Seeing a known prostitute dragging a toddler through the door to shopping mall whilst cursing at her best friend, Estelle Waterhouse followed the woman and realised that her husband was at the top of bought the stairs, dressed as though girl for a holiday rather than the work clothes she'd been expecting - and he was carrying a suitcase£3000. He and Estelle were leaving together - The difficulty of a purchase like this is knowing what to do next and they were taking AnnaTracy's two daughters humdrum life is replaced with them. There was another problem which neither Hamish nor Estelle knew about. Anna wasn't actually Anna McDonald. She was Sophie Bukaranone of stress, the woman who had been involved in the rape case against fear and an overwhelming love for four footballers-year-old Courtney. [[Conviction Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Denise MinaKate Atkinson|Full Review]]

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''Stepsister'' tells the gripping story of CinderellaThere's 'ugly' stepsister, Isabelle. We've been told this fairy-tale over and over again throughout our lives a prologue and we know the characters wellthat we're dealing with someone who is very disturbed. But have you ever wondered what happened to The descriptions are horrifying, but worst of all is the sisters after Cinderella married coldness of the Prince? Or why the sisters disliked her so much? killer. [[Stepsister Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Jennifer DonnellyAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersI Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory]]===

We know that something wrong is happening[[image: a body is being dumped in deep water4. The rower pulls away and rows back to the boat house and then she walks back to Lake Hall5star. As you begin reading you suspect that you know who has been killed and who dumped the body, but be patientjpg|link=Category: all will be revealed before too long. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Nanny by Gilly Macmillan:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]

Gemma has just started her A levels at school. She's a keen student and she has a good, close set of friends. Gemma loves country music and in her spare time she enjoys writing and singing country songs. She's pretty good at it too. Home life is busy - Gemma's brother Michael has a chance at a football career and the whole family, propelled by Gemma's rather over-invested dad, is supporting him with everything they've got. Gemma hasn't had a serious boyfriend yet, so when the handsome Aaron appears and an instant attraction fizzles between them, Gemma is keen to see where romance could lead... [[I Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory|Full Review]]<!-- Weaver Davis -->

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===[[No One Home What's That in Dog Years? by Tim WeaverBen Davis and Julia Christians]]===

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Long after the police George and Gizmo have given up on cold missing persons casesbeen together ever since George was born. Gizmo has always been a fun, David Raker picks them up adventurous dog and tracks them down. Hea loyal friend, but just recently, George has noticed that he's called starting to slow down a particularly disturbing case where little. A visit to the vets leaves George worried that Gizmo might not be around for very much longer, and so he begins to write Gizmo a small village bucket list, of nine people all vanished overnight two years ago. Raker and his associate must delve in to the lives of these people to work out how and why nine people adventures that they can still have gone missingtogether in Gizmo's last days. They But are being threatened they his last days? And who will help George to stop but something about the mystery keeps drawing Raker further in, putting him in personal peril. stay calm when Gizmo is gone? [[No One Home What's That in Dog Years? by Tim WeaverBen Davis and Julia Christians|Full Review]]

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| style=''"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''"|===[[The Passengers Long Flight Home by John MarrsA L Hlad]]===

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In the near futureSeptember 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, self-drive cars are destroying the norm - a convenient homes and easy way lives of transporta people on the edge. HoweverIn Epping Forest, when someone hacks into Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a comfort for Susan following the systems loss of eight self-drive carsher parents. These pigeons are more than just birds to Susan though – in each one, and especially in Duchess, their passengers are set on she sees a distinct personality and forms a fatal collision courseclose bond. As everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeysMeanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to Britain and join the public have to judge who should surviveRoyal Air Force. But Working with the National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and is tasked with every aspect air-dropping hundreds of these passangers being examined by the public homing pigeons into German- occupied France, where many will they turn out to not survive. As the mission is planned, the bond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be what they seem? Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[The Passengers Long Flight Home by John MarrsA L Hlad|Full Review]]

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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[If You Could Go Anywhere Walks In The Wild by Paige ToonPeter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)]]===

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Angie ''An instruction manual for the forest'' is someone who always wanted to travelhow Wohlleben's publisher described the idea for this book, but itand that's taken her 27 years to leave basically what it is – although right at the small mining town in south Australia which has been end the only home she's ever known. She doesn't do things by half though, and once she does feel able author says that it is not intended to go (following be a family death) she leaves not only the town, the state and the countryreference book, but also the continent, and finds herself following in her mother's footsteps and heading to Italyan appetiser. [[If You Could Go Anywhere Walks In The Wild by Paige ToonPeter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[Mayhem in the Archipelago A Nearly Normal Family by Nick GriffithsM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)]]===

[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]

In Latvia We're going to hear this story through the conspirators meet in a rather unpleasant locationviewpoints of three different people: Adam Sandell, his wife, but itUlrika and his daughter Stella. Adam's their plans which matter to them. In Moscow two men delight a pastor in all the uncertainty in the Baltic. In Washington the Undersecretary Church of Sweden and Ulrika is a woman, but the personal pressures on her are the same as the men in Moscow are obliged to sufferlawyer. In Stockholm three members of SÄPOStella is, the Swedish Secret Servicewell, know just difficult. You sense that the time she's always been difficult and there have even been occasions when Ulrika has come for them to make a move. They'd talk let slip that she wishes that Stella was morelike her best friend, but their wives would get difficult Amina Bešic - and thereno one has ever said that if they don't think that the other person is better. We first meet the family on Stella's 18th birthday and we get a rather pleasing tart which mustnsense of Adam't s controlling nature. Permission has to be missedgiven for a glass of wine for Stella at the celebration meal. [[Mayhem in the Archipelago A Nearly Normal Family by Nick GriffithsM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[Watchwords by Philip Neal]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short StoriesConfident Readers|Short StoriesConfident Readers]] This satisfying collection of short stories has a provenance at least as beguiling as the provenance of the antique watches that inspired it.

Philip Neal lost Bonnie is growing up on a watchslightly strange island, living with her grandfather, scavenging for food, and rubbish that has washed up on the beach that she and her grandfather can use to make things. It was a watch he was fond There is some sort of ban against anyone else landing on the island, and had been told was like a 1930s Cartier. Instead lots of mourning its losssuspicion around those who live there, he began to collect vintage watches that resembled it. And that's how he became including a watch collectorgreat fear of anyone who gets sick. An eBay purchase led him to But when Bonnie is on the Antique Watch Company watch repairers in Clerkenwell. The eBay purchase was beach one day and discovers not only an intact boat, but a fakeyoung boy cowering beneath, but rather than turn him in to the friendship that grew between the buyer authorities she takes him home and the repairer of watches was not hides him, smuggling him boiled eggs and blankets in the seed of an idea for a book was bornshed whilst she tries to figure out what to do. [[ Watchwords The House of Light by Philip Neal Julia Green|Full Review]]

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===[[Fall Down Dead (Cooper and Fry) Check Mates by Stephen BoothStewart Foster]]===

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DS Dev Sharma In many ways Felix is delighted - if delight a typical boy in Year 7, enjoying playing games on his PS4 and hanging out with his friend Jake at the weekend. However Felix is the right word to apply to struggling at school. He is not a murder case - problem child but he's got does have a result when the husband of a murder victim is found with the knife, standing over the bodyproblem. His ADHD makes it hard for him to concentrate, he keeps getting into trouble and admitting to the murderhis grades are slipping. DI Ben Cooper When his Mum suggests that he spends more time with his grandfather Felix is concerned with a suspicious death on Kinder Scouthorrified. Ever since Grandma died his Granddad has been grumpy and more eccentric than before. A party of walkers - the New Trespassers Walking Group - got lost All he wants to do is sit in the fog dark and problems arose when one of the party was injuredplay chess. Felix knows that this will be extremely boring. The group split up But sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to find and perhaps Granddad and Felix can help, or at least a mobile signal, but when they're rescued they're one short and the body of Faith Matthew was found at the bottom of Kinder Downfall. It looked like a dreadful accident, but Cooper wasn't happy about the way the body had fallen. Things are not always as they seem - in either caseeach other. [[Fall Down Dead (Cooper and Fry) Check Mates by Stephen BoothStewart Foster|Full Review]]

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===[[Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee Needlemouse by Casey CepJane O'Connor]]===

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Sometimes you begin reading a book We first meet Sylvia Penton on her birthday and before you've got her boss, the Prof, is taking her out to the bottom lunch. This is her favourite day of the first page you know that year, not because it's going her birthday but because of the special time she gets to be brilliantspend with the man she loves. You sense the authorHe's effortless grasp of told her subject matter that he and his wife are going to divorce - Martha is apparently having an affair - and you already know Sylvia is convinced that her use of words is almost surgical in its precisionthe Prof will then declare his love and they can be together. The hands holding you are safe, which considering that this is a book about two subjects where facts are She hasn't fully constructed 'together' in short supplyher own mind - she envisages it as romantic, is somewhat surprising. Our first subject is but her imagination hasn't yet progressed to the sexual part of the Reverend Willie Maxwellrelationship. Over seven years, six people close to There's time though - she's only been the Reverend had died, with Maxwell benefiting substantially from insurance policies which heprof'd taken out on their livess PA for fifteen years. [[Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee Needlemouse by Casey CepJane O'Connor|Full Review]] <!-- Weir Various-->

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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets Return to Wonderland by Alison WeirVarious Authors]]===

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PoorIn following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years ago, frumpy Anne when the first book she was in [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of Cleaves always gets a raw deal by historyage]], of all I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-the wives -sake-of Henry VIII she is -it did not gel, and I don't remember loving it more as a child. But I would suggest I am the one who is known perfect audience for being rejectedthis book. Anne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard were I had every chance to enjoy these short stories that come at the sexy onescore from a tangent, Jane that show the dutiful one who delivered a son, Katherine benefits of Aragon clung on to her crown and Katharine Parr clung on to her life but poor frumpy Anne of Cleaves just rolled over and moved alongthe oblique glance. Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with a different view of this young woman who saw the opportunity I've always preferred coming to live an independent life author's output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, and took it's the same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a hunch, for obvious reasons). For another thing, there was every reason to expect some kind of greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, surely pieces written with that love in mind could only provide for success after success? [[Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets Return to Wonderland by Alison WeirVarious Authors|Full Review]]

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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[Tick Tock Rumblestar (The Unmapped Chronicles) by Mel SherrattAbi Elphinstone]]===

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We're in Stoke on Trent. A group Rumblestar follows the haphazard adventures of young women who study at Dunwood Academy are running the crossanxious 11-country course. One of them year- Lauren Ansell - stops behind old Casper Tock who timetables his every movement, makes countless to tie her shoelace do lists and is murdered, to hounded by wealthy bullies with the shock absurdly humorous and devastation appropriate names of her friendsCandida Cashmere Jumps and Leopold Splattercash. Twins Courtney and Caitlin PiggottHe stumbles across a magic portal by accident just like Lucy of Narnia fame, Sophie Bishop meets a feisty girl troubled by her past and Teagan Cole cling together for support - or do do as much as they can given that their parents are understandably reluctant to let them out of their sightis plunged into a perilous quest. One of In a kingdom where the parents is journalist Simon Cole, boyfriend dark mythological forces of DS Grace Allendale, who is charged with investigating Midnights threaten the murder under weather Marvels (equated here to the guidance miracle of DI Nick Carter. It's a struggle to keep their professional lives separatenature) conjured by magical creatures, only unlikely heroes can battle against evil. [[Tick Tock Rumblestar (The Unmapped Chronicles]) by Mel SherrattAbi Elphinstone|Full Review]]

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===[[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeTeens|CrimeTeens]]

There are times when two people come together and the whole is greater than the sum of the parts as in the case ofJason likes chess. He's pretty good at it too - a level eight on his computer programme, say, Morecambe and Wisewith level ten being Grand Master level. Sometimes two people come together and we get ''Folie à DeuxHe's also good at systems, having contributed to the relational database that has streamlined his school' - a shared psychotic disorder which produces devastating consequencess administration. One of the prime examples Jason's school, Easingdale Comprehensive, is Ian Brady very big on technology and Myra Hindleyits head, Mr Johnston, is keen to involve his pupils wherever they show promise. But - ISo Jason'm getting ahead of myself as our story started s friends have also helped out. Liz is great with hardware and helped with a suicidethe school's card reader system. A middle-aged woman had been gulled out of £75,000 by Becky has a man called Patrick Jenkins, but once he had the money he disappeared flair for software and ghosted his former loverhas recommended lots of curriculum-enhancing apps. She threw herself in front of And Bill is a tube traintalented programmer... [[Their Little Secret The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Mark BillinghamRay Filby|Full Review]]

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===[[Nocturna Stone Cold Heart by Maya MotayneCaz Frear]]===

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A thief without DC Cat Kinsella is back at the Met after a face, a prince who secondment to the London Mayor's Office: the hours were good but the job was never meant boring. She's grateful to be kingback with the old team - her partner DS Luigi Parnell, Finn boss DCI Kate Steele and Alfie collide, as if thrown together by fate, DC Rénee Akwa. She's still not prepared to bring say anything about a series the identity of catastrophes and set her boyfriend: the knowledge that she's in motion a relationship with Aiden Doyle, the release brother of a darkness that seeks murder victim and moreover a murder with which her father might have had some involvement could finish her career. Kinsella and Parnell are called to consume all the goodness and magic in discovery of the world. These body of a young woman: Naomi Lockhart was Australian, just twenty-two unlikely allies must try to put their own personal battles behind them years old and join forces to stop the evil from destroying everything they hold dearher body was discovered by her flat mate, Kieran Drake, an ex-offender. [[Nocturna Stone Cold Heart by Maya MotayneCaz Frear|Full Review]]