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===[[A Dance of Cranes Bunny by Steve BurrowsPeter Lynas and Clare Lindley]]===
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DCI Domenic Jejeune is no longer with Lindy Hey, You might have seen Bunny on the estrangement being of his making, not hersbeach where he lived. He hasnLike many beaches it was full of sand and Bunny didn't explained to her that he is doing this - and leaving for his native Canada - like sand, not least because he thinks that this will keep her safe from it got between his nemesis, Ray Hayes. Lauren Salter has been promoted to sergeant toes and now has her first murder case''scratched''. It looks as though there's an obvious suspect, but Salter isn't so certainWhat he really liked was juicy green grass. Sgt Danny Maik is (unofficially) keeping an eye All the other rabbits lived on Lindy Heythe top of the cliff, whilst Jejeune embarks on where Bunny could see a treacherous journey to rescue his brother, Damian, who has gone missing in one lot of Canada's largest national parkstasty-looking grass. But the cliff was very high. [[A Dance of Cranes Bunny by Steve BurrowsPeter Lynas and Clare Lindley|Full Review]]
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===[[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey Why We Quilt by Joyce Carol OatesThomas Knauer]]===
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Bobby is an angry, damaged man - damage I've often wondered about the story that came from being abandoned patchwork quilting began as a baby in a bus station locker, way for women (and then being thrown from one foster home or detention centre to another, never far from violence or abuse. Eager to succeed as a musician, he arrives in Hollywood to find his dream - but myth would have it soon becomes clear that his paranoid delusions and seething rage will enable a capacity for acts it was always women) to make an extra blanket out of extreme violencematerial which would otherwise go to waste. Unpublished for 40 years, this edition of This undoubtedly ''did''The Triumph happen but when you think about it, you need an awful lot of material to make a quilt and the Spider Monkeytime could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. Like Thomas Knauer I'' comes combined ve come to the conclusion that it began as an art and has largely continued down that same road with a connected novella – ''Love, Careless Love''fluctuations in popularity over the years. [[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey Why We Quilt by Joyce Carol OatesThomas Knauer|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Spell Breather Lying Room by Julie PikeNicci French]]===
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Rayne lives in When we meet Neve Connolly it's pretty obvious that she has something to hide. She crept into the smallhouse after midnight, hidden village of Penderin where she is a somewhat unwilling apprentice to carefully putting her mother, clothes into the spell breather. Not everyone can spell breathe, you have to born with a magic spark washing machine and Rayne wishes she hadncan't been born with one. She's a terrible spell breatherwait to get husband Fletcher and children Mabel, her attempts are always followed by disaster Connor and she positively hates Mam's spell book with it's sharp teeth that suck your blood. When a stranger finds their village one day, Mam must set Rory off on their various ways the next morning when she gets a journey text telling her to come to the great libraryflat. He has a few hours to spare and can't wait to see her. Only, leaving Rayne in when she gets to the village as their chief spell breatherflat she finds Saul Stevenson, but an unfortunate mistake sees Rayne breaking her motherboss and lover, dead on the floor. The hammer that's book and turning everyone in to monsters. She must face her fear travel across the monster-ridden country to find Mam and restore the book to save their villagebeen used on his brain is at his side. [[The Last Spell Breather Lying Room by Julie PikeNicci French|Full Review]]
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===[[I, Cosmo Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Carlie SorosiakPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts]]===
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Cosmo's family Madeleine is a very lucky girl: in crisis. Mom and Dad argue her room she has all a girl could ask for in the timeway of toys, books, games and dollies. Emmaline doesn't quite understand it because sheShe's a very lucky girl in another way too little but : she feels ithas imagination and everything in her room can be used to take her on adventures. And MaxShe spends all day there: Dad thinks that she likes to be alone, who is bigger, does understand it and is terrified by itbut Madeleine's not alone on all the trips she takes. Long ago, when Max We'll find out that yesterday she was just a babytold to tidy her room, Cosmo made a promise but instead of doing that she went to protect Max forever and so he sets about his mission of repairing the family with everything he's got..moon. [[I, Cosmo Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Carlie SorosiakPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|Full Review]]
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===[[The Dutch House by Ann Patchett]]===
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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Madeline is very fond of Grandfather Gilderberry. He's always busy in When we first meet Danny and his workshopelder sister, creating crazy potionsMaeve Conroy, they're both living at The Dutch House with their parents and he always has a smile under the gaze of the portraits of the former owners whose oil paintings still hang on his facethe walls. Madeline's dad thinks he It's a bit bonkers strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is distant and Madeline's mum thinks the same but gives closest Danny seems to come to him a pass because he's old. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry is just great. Particularly on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives goes out with him on a selection of potions and allows her to choose one as a giftSaturday collecting rents from properties the family owns. And he always says Elna Conroy is loving, but absent increasingly often until the point comes when the same thingchildren are told that she will not be returning. In other circumstances this might have affected Maeve and Danny deeply, but their primary relationship is with each other. It's a bond which only death will break. [[Don't Drink the Pink The Dutch House by B C R FeganAnn Patchett|Full Review]]
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===[[The Very Rude Toytoise by Peter Lynas and Andy S Gray]]===
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[[image:4starIt was one of those blissful days in the forest. Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because she wanted to make a cake. Mrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs to build a nest. Mrs Spider was busily spinning a web to catch juicy flies. Mrs Squirrel was piling up acorns. And Mr Bear sat comfortably in a chair, fishing for lunch. What could be better? And then...jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyThe Very Rude Toytoise by Peter Lynas and Andy S Gray|FantasyFull Review]]
''What if you could subtly change the lives of ordinary people around you?'' Jessica Turner was one of the more radical teens to come out of Eastfield. A youth spent hanging out with a close crowd of friends was characterised by Jessica's role as trendsetter, as influencer, as leader. Strangely charismatic, Jessica invited fascination and obsession. Nobody who met her, forgot her. Or the days they spent in the Enclosure, a clearing in Eastfield woods that Jessica felt gave her power. But the group went its separate ways, as adolescent groups do, and her influence faded...[[The Years of Fading Magic by Kenelm Averill|Full Review]] <!-- Paula Daly Peter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster -->
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===[[Clear My Name Recipe for Making a Snowman by Paula DalyPeter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster]]===
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Tess Gilroy works for Innocence UK, Who knew it? You can even get a recipe book which tells you how to make a charity investigating the cases of prisoners who can convince them that theysnowman - and there've been wrongly convicted s no cooking involved! Mum, Dad and the two children are absolutely meticulous though: they're just moving on going to their next case. She's somewhat surprised when Cliveget everything right, even down to doing some mining to get the head of coal for the charityeyes, announces that shesearching through the bits 'll have someone shadowing her. Avriln bobs jar for buttons for the snowman's in her mid twenties coat and rather gauche as well as prone to putting her foot in itpicking out the perfect piece of headgear. One of There's quite a choice available, but the family decide on the reasons they're now going bobble hat, presumably to look at keep the case snowman warm. The moth-eaten pair of Carrie Kamara is that shemittens simply won's female t do and Innocence have never yet taken up the case of a woman: such impressions matterpair with purple and pink stripes are chosen. [[Clear My Name Recipe for Making a Snowman by Paula DalyPeter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster|Full Review]]
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===[[The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With AmazonWar and Love: A Simple Step by Step Guide family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Georgianne Landy-Kordis Melanie Martin]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]], [[:Category:ReferenceHistory|ReferenceHistory]], [[:Category:Self-PublishingBiography|Self PublishingBiography]]
I frequently meet authors who are struggling Melanie Martin read about what happened to be published Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by the traditional houseswhat she discovered, particularly in ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but when I suggest self-publishing they explain then realised that they donher own family't have s stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the big bucks required war years, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to go down that road happen in a country with Author Solutions or Matador or their likeliberal values who were resistant to German occupation. I then ask if they've considered Kindle and Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the answer is inevitably city were convinced that they wouldn't know where would soon be pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to start. I can empathise with escalate in the way that. Despite having used a computer for about thirty yearsit did, running most of my life ''and'' a website on line, I'm still nervous when it comes to starting something new. I like someone to hold my hand but initial protests melted away as I go through it for the first timeorganisers became more circumspect. That was why I was very interested when It''The Simple Act s an atrocity on a vast scale, but made up of tens of thousands of Self Publishing With Amazon'' came across my deskindividual tragedies. Author Georgianne Landy-Kordis doesn't profess to be a computer expert[[War and Love: she's simply someone who has done this many times and sheA family's giving us the benefit testament of her experience anguish, endurance and without any added chitchat. [[The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step by Step Guide devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Georgianne Landy-Kordis Melanie Martin|Full Review]]
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===[[Just Another Girl on the Road Snowflake, AZ by S KensingtonMarcus Sedgwick]]===
[[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Literary Fiction|Historical Literary Fiction]]
When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from This is a deep, interesting read unlike any book I've read in quite some time. The novel's story follows a young man named Ash in the process of joining a farmhouse and community of sick people in the curiously named town of Snowflake, Arizona. These people are sick, but it's not a group sickness you've heard of German deserters who had raped her. Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she got when Farr Instead, they're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, static electricity, and Valentine intervened radiation – and finished their only ''cure'' is to stay in the group off. It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part of town away from the Jedburgh unit, EDMOND, lead by Major Willoughby Nyereal world. Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on her fatherThough it's merchant ship and Katrinka had once had about a crush on Nyereal place, the people in it are fictional. When he offered her It really is a job with his unitplace apart, she acceptedquite literally cut off from the outside world – people are even required to decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated. [[Just Another Girl on the Road Snowflake, AZ by S KensingtonMarcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]
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===[[Rose, Interrupted Brightfall by Patrice LawrenceJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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Robin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, and retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he had built. Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to break the curse surrounding them and to save their lives. Setting off with a soldier, a Fey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in a maze of betrayals, complicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the throne…[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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]] <!-- David Edwards Hewitt -->
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===[[Something to Tell You The Nightjar by David EdwardsDeborah Hewitt]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Dystopian Literary Fiction]]
Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. Bert was Sam's boss at CERN, but this never seemed to affect the way that the families got on. Bert's wife, Natalia, was Russian The Nightjar'' is an unusual and seriously richexciting story. Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a box on her doorstep one morning and Joshher life begins to unravel, went to a private boarding schoolfast. From that very moment, but at weekends they were great friends her life is flooded with Sam's two childrenmagic, loss, Liam expectation and Hannahparticularly, betrayal. Sam's wifeAs everything around her shifts, Brionyall that she knows, was head of product research at Nestlé. Life was good for all eight of themthat she thinks she knows, until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted that the rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the earth had risen exponentiallymust change. It's enough of a problem for Sam and Bert to drag the head of CERNWho can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, Prof Ralph Moyeur, out of a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily. can she even trust herself? [[Something to Tell You The Nightjar by David EdwardsDeborah Hewitt|Full Review]]
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===[[American Royals by Katharine McGee]]===
===[[You're the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino: Poems for the Present by Don Behrend]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:AnthologiesGeneral Fiction|AnthologiesGeneral Fiction]]  ''You're the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino'' begins with ''A Modern Love Story'': ''You’re the froth on my soy cappuccino''<br>''You’re the spread on my paleo toast''<br>''You’re the nose of my GM-free Pinot''<br>''You’re organic, my love. You’re the most!''<br>
Ha! How can you not laugh at this gently mocking take Two and a half centuries ago, America won the Revolutionary War and General George Washington was offered the crown. Today, the House of Washington still sit on love the thrown with Princess Beatrice next in line. Beatrice's whole life has been building up to her ruling the hipster world? United States and the time for her reign is imminent. [[You're the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino: Poems for the Present American Royals by Don BehrendKatharine McGee|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mitten Handbook: Knitting Recipes to Make Your Own Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Mary Scott HuffNicola Monaghan]]===
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I love mittens - they're so convenient and much easier It was more than a little bit of a surprise to get onto Dr Sian Love (and offthe rest of the relatives) cold hands than when her uncle Bobby left her his home - a pair former pub called The Loggerheads in the Narrow Marsh area of fiddly glovesNottingham. TheyThen it was a shock when she found two bodies in the cellar before she're not something you regularly see d even got settled in shops, so I knew that if I wanted new pairs I would have - and managed to knit them myselfbreak a bone in her foot in the course of making the discovery. WellThey'd been there for some time, actuallybut who - exactly - were the man and the woman, thatwrapped in each other's my rationalisation of arms? Having spent ten years on the situation: in truth I love knitting mittens. They have just enough technique to make them satisfyingMurder Squad, plenty of quick work and ending up as a pair of warm mittens in a few days. PatternsDCI she knows what's going to happen next, though - where do you but she's not prepared for quite how personal it's all going to get them from? . [[The Mitten Handbook: Knitting Recipes to Make Your Own Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Mary Scott HuffNicola Monaghan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Rage of Dragons Some Places More Than Others by Evan WinterRenee Watson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] 
[[imageAmara's twelfth birthday is coming up and she wants nothing more for it than a trip to New York to meet her father's side of the family. But her father hasn't spoken to Amara's grandfather for many years - Amara doesn't know why - and both her parents are resistant to the idea. But Amara is nothing if not persistent and a school family history project provides her with the perfect wedge. Eventually, her parents give in and off she goes... with a secret mission from her mother:5starto bring her father and Grandpa Earl back together again.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasySome Places More Than Others by Renee Watson|FantasyFull Review]]
Every so often, as a reader, a book comes along that is utter and complete perfection<!-- Graves -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:194927201X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. This book is one uk/dp/194927201X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Lakes of thoseMars by Merritt Graves]]=== [[image:4.5star. Utter and complete perfectionjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Aaron Sheridan doesn't want to live anymore. Winter has created an absolute masterpiece of a novelHis entire family is dead by his own hand, set killed in the fantasy land of Uhmlaba the reader is instantly thrown into war, a battle for survival for the Omehi peopleshuttle crash. Fleeing their homeland, they have Unable to fight to remain on deal with the only scrap of land they can reach. The culture of the Omehi people is rich and deep but not perfectguilt, not sanctimonious. They have villains, they have faults, they are he signs up for the invaders after all, but Winter creates a realistic and honest portrayal of Fleet expecting a people desperate fatal deployment to survivethe Rim War, to save themselves and but instead ends up at their culture for future generationsmost prestigious command school, Corinth Station... [[The Rage Lakes of Dragons Mars by Evan WinterMerritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[I, Cosmo Coming of Age by Carlie SorosiakDanny Ryan]]===
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Cosmo's family is in crisis. Mom 'He began writing novels and Dad argue all poetry at the time. Emmaline doesn't quite understand it because she's too little age of twelve, but she feels it. And Max, who is bigger, does understand it and is terrified by it. Long ago, when Max was just to take him a babyfurther forty-eight years to realise that he wasn’t very good at either. Consistently unpublished for all that time, Cosmo made he remains a promise to protect Max forever and so he sets about his mission shining example of repairing the family with everything he's gothope over experience... ''  ''This a memoir from someone you have never heard of - but will feel like you have.'' [[I, Cosmo Coming of Age by Carlie SorosiakDanny Ryan|Full Review]] <!-- Linda Jones Maxwell N Andrews -->
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In late December Dylan Beaumont and his sister Emily were The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put on their way a par with comments about Marmite. You're supposed to spend love it or hate it and I'm halfway between, and likewise the week before Christmas at their grandfather's houseold adage is halfway true. It was snowing heavily From the cover of this I had a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and you could sense that their parents were becoming annoyed at the bickering in the back attractive artwork of the caran attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. Emily That was rather brusque only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, with her ninetheir non-year-old brother's behaviourstandard spelling, but then thatas if texts of scripture in this book's your prerogative when you're a grown-up eleven year oldworld predated our standardised literacy. The snow But why was getting heavier I two chapters in and the journey longer when Emily opened the car window just a couple of inches. There was a dreadful smell finding more and more characters, both human and animal, and more and Dylan saw a horriblemore flashbacks, snake-like figure clawing at the car window. and no proof that this was what I'd bought in for? [[Deadwood Hall Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Linda JonesMaxwell N Andrews|Full Review]]
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Few government trade missions arrive by luxury linerBerlin, but the cruise ship ''Great Britain'' 1989. Miriam is berthed in Kinloch harbour the middle of a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and on board are high-powered international delegatespeople able to cross at liberty for the first time in decades. It's hard to avoid She is in the suspicion that middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's not apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps the name ''entirelyFrieda'' about work as the billionaires, entrepreneurs that she does not recognise – and their civil service minders tour she sees for the country, golfing and sightseeing with their entourage of security personnelfirst time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. It's an event which DCI Daley hopes will pass quicklyOne bombshell outside, particularly as his formal uniform is far too tight for comfortthen, but it's not long before one of the crew members and a local bird watcher go missingtwo inside... [[A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) The Rabbit Girls by Denzil MeyrickAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[The Starlight Watchmaker A Winter Book by Lauren JamesTove Jansson]]===
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This is a dyslexia-friendlyTove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells written in the tale 1940s and later becoming television characters of Hugothe simplicity, an unwanted naivety and rather lonely androidsheer 'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, who makes simple stories, simple goodness. What is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she was a living serious writer…that she wrote for himself mending time-travel watches. When one of his clients demands adults as well as children…and that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is she had a mystery to be solved, feeling for the natural world and is the simple life that not only too ready to help. An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the planet never before known to existworld might be. [[The Starlight Watchmaker A Winter Book by Lauren JamesTove Jansson|Full Review]]
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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[Cold Granite (Logan McRae) The Collective by Stuart MacBrideLindsey Whitlock]]===
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DS Logan McRae is just back from a year's sick leave after he was attacked by a killer'Illinois Territory, Collective Homesteads of America. He's just about OK and he's supposed Some people live in sunken houses, buried into hillsides to be easing himself back into the swing disguise how large their property is at times of the job in a gentle way - until three-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditchausterity. He'd been missing Others are called Foresters, for some time they live and it came as no surprise that he was dead but he's work in trees. When the first of several child murders. To add to small area the complications Foresters live in is placed under compulsory purchase, the police even have residents are given a body but no child reported missingpitiful amount to clear out before they get manfully cleared out. A serial killerOur hero, a child killer and abuserElwyn, is on has just left the loose in Aberdeen and trees for the press are missing no opportunity Hills, to bay for blood. As if that wasnlive with an uncle and learn their ways – he't bad enough there seems s just of age to be a leak from within Force Headquarters: a local journalistdecide things for himself, Colin Miller, quickly finds out everything that's happeningand he has decided to see how the other half lives... [[Cold Granite (Logan McRae) The Collective by Stuart MacBrideLindsey Whitlock|Full Review]]
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ThereGermany is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the Nazis, but much isn't. Some of her is stuck to the east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have to be on the other front, against the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. Finding out that the war to the east isn't working, due to Hitler's a prologue tactical ineptitude and we know that we're dealing with someone who inability to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is very disturbedfive seasons away from being in Berlin. The descriptions are horrifyingonly way to shore things up, and repair the splits, is to kill Hitler, but worst of all and luckily the Baron Nicholas is the coldness man to do it. He's aristocratic enough, he knows enough people in industry, society and other circles of power, so once he's succeeded he might be able to keep a German presence in Europe. But will he still be able to keep the capitalists and communists from meeting in the killer. middle? [[Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) The Man Who Killed Hitler by Angela MarsonsAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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