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|isbnauthor=0008378363Jenny Lecoat|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneBeyond Summerland|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=A husband is about to have his throat cut in his own bedJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. To find out who - During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and why - we need to go back nine days soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and twenty her mother waiting for yearsfor news of him. Mackenzie As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, Robin and Lily met when they all went to the same college in Monroevillewar is finally over, Pennsylvania and twenty years later their hopes rise that they're still the best will finally learn what became of friendshim. When they first met they called themselves But will the Spicier Girls truth come as a nod relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537}}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the famous girl band world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of the dayAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Lily would be Adventure SpiceNow Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie suing her step- well, Mackenzie would be mother to take down the supporting actress in content about her own life. She married OwenAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her college sweetheart PhD, undergoing therapy and they have a daughtersecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, Ariashe is desperately worried about her little sister, whois the new focus of Ophelia's now fifteen-year-oldonline empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbn=B07WWSCGVS1529153298|title=The Lies You ToldList of Suspicious Things|author=Harriet TyceJennie Godfrey

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isnIt't happy about having to start a new schools 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) She's left the school she loved in New York and now shenot what's worrying Miv's going to Ashams in North Londonfamily, though. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as the pupils Women have all been there disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'foreverdisappeared'doesn', they have their established groupst sound quite so frightening. RobinMiv's upset because she's going overheard that her father wants to be an outsidermove the family 'Down South'. And why When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is this happening? Wella frightening, foreign place, over a matter of a few days her parents' marriage fell apartbest avoided. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - and For Miv, the move would mean leaving her motherbest friend, Sadie RoperSharon, has come back and she'll do anything to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barristerprevent that. ThatShe's easier said than done when younot worried about the dangers or that her Mum've been out of the market place s stopped talking - and the country - for more than ten yearsto anyone.

|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Antoine LaurainDaisy Goodwin|titlerating=The Readers Room4.5

|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had The Perfect Passion Company is a great successdating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and it was through operating as an alternative to all the slush pile of unsolicited manuscriptsonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. The three people who work in Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the Readers' Room business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to sift through what get away for a while. Katie is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion coming out of a break up the road – all agreed the book would be with a huge smashbad boyfriend, and so it has provenjumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. But there are several 'howevers' And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to thatcharm. As Katie has no experience inrunning a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, however – Violaine herself and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is not having life all her own waya terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, for she and someone has been involved in delivered a nearreally weird, disturbing coffin-fatal accidentsized object to his home, and starts it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this book coming round bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a comagood person. AndSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, however – despite all urgingBenny, the and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author of the book has never once =Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made themselves known to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the publishers in persontown, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in factequal measure, offered up Hannah finds herself embroiled in a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailyoung boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. What is going to befall ViolaineShe hides away, so that they don't find and kill her memorytoo, her staff – and how much is any of it due then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the hit novel? notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. And just where She soon finds herself in the heck did that come thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from?there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|isbn=19104779740861547438}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.

|isbn=085752612XB0CKD1L5JL|title=Rodham: What if Hillary hadn't Married Bill?Radio Free Olympia|author=Curtis SittenfeldJeffrey Dunn

|summary=I was tempted to read ''Rodham'' Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the success strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the forests of Curtis SittenfeldWashington's ''American Wife''Olympic Peninsula. That book wasn't marketed as being After Bear dies and a portrait of Laura Bush, but the word ''thinly-veiled'' seemed to occur very regularly brief sojourn in reviews. How would ''Rodham'' compare? Unfortunatelyhuman company, there is and armed with only a difference: relatively little was known about Laura Bushpirate radio transmitter, which gave the book Petr goes on a freshness which journey through the first third of ''Rodham'' lacks. We've all heard forest, broadcasting the storiesstrange, read the books - about Hillary wild and particularly about Billrarely heard voices he encounters. It's still an interesting concept, though: how would Hillary have fared if she hadn't subsumed her own ambitions into Bill's career, if she hadn't had to carry the burden of all Bill's baggage and if she hadn't left her own run at the presidency so late? Could she have done better without the Clinton surname?

|author=Anstey HarrisSarah Marsh|title=Where We BelongA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5

|summary= I've always believed that places and buildings absorb what happens within them and reflect it back; this is how we can tell that After a bout of scarlet fever as a sacred space is sacredchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Cate Morris believes Suddenly plunged into a similar thingworld of silence, she believes that ''A house absorbs happiness, it blooms into everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the wallpaper, the wood use of the window framessign language was seen as something only savages do, the bricks: that's how it becomes Ellen is sent to a home.'' She school where she is having these thoughts as she packs up her home. She has taught to leavelip read, but physically restrained from signing. A combination of circumstances means that is not only redundant but also homeless. With nowhere else to goFrom here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called on her late husband's family for helpVisible Speech. Just for At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a few weekscomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=14711738361035401614

|authorisbn=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)B0BC3YTCMR|title=A Life Without EndGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one''This story is not for everyone. It won't be one ' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of the major numbers, but the time her fifteenth birthday when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizonThe Incident happened. And then She was a few of the big 0-numbersvery bright student, and a bit too nerdy if all goes welltruth be told, Iand suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it'll be an OBEs contagious. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if thatIt's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happynot easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he might be said to be living onewould notice her. Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would like tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, which is at least a way of continuing the life of his genes, house and a motive to keep ongoinghe raped her. But how can he get In shock, she even allowed him to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670give her a lift home.

|isbn=B08774SJYN1472263936|title=The Greenbecker GambitFigurine|author=Ben GraffVictoria Hislop

|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family'I suppose s maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the odd fleeting sense Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of loneliness Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a price all truly successful people must pay for our giftssense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. I tell myself As he recovers his senses, he realises that I do so willinglythere is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated. }}

|authorisbn=J Paul HendersonB0BYF82CXT|title=DaisySemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=This is the story of Herod S. Pinkney, a rather unusual (yet somehow charming) man who is ''Bill and Amanda are living in search of a woman called Daisysemi-detached house, whom he first sees stuck in an episode a depressing rut of Judge Judy on television boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and instantly falls very much in love with her! Rod is writing the novel of his quest, guided by an embittered ex-literary agent who is now clearing glasses – move in a pub for a livingnext door. Determined to find and meet DaisyDespite their different outlooks on life, the book takes us through Rod's couples befriend each other and life, introduces us appears to his friendsimprove for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and tells us of what happens in his quest their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for lovetragedy.|isbn=0857303309''

{{Frontpage |isbnauthor=1529123941 Shalini Boland|title=The Silent Treatment |author=Abbie Greaves Bride|rating=4.5 3|genre=General Fiction |summary= When we meet Professor Frank Hobbs Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and his utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, Maggiesuccessful, Frank confident… and so the inevitable proposal is playing chess against his computer, although not very successfullyeagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. MaggieWhen the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, on beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the other handcongregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has just taken some pills - eight absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|isbn=1662507089}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of themSummer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in fact - and before long her, she will collapsewas flattered rather than wary. When Frank rings the emergency services in Oxford It was quite a while before he has a bit made any sort of a problem. He has physical approach to admit her and by that he and Maggie haven't actually spoken for a whiletime she was obsessed by him. How long? WellAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, it's about six months since he spoke to Maggie looking after his interests on the island and he can't really say if it's likely that Maggie has tried to take her own lifein particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.

|author=Camilla BruceAmanda Craig|title=You Let Me InThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary= Eccentric, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has been missing for a year and has been pronounced legally dead by her lawyersFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. Her will instructs her niece There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and nephew to enter her home and find capture it, crafting an image of the key to their inheritance country as it stands in an old manuscript left in her officeone particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: the last story she'll ever tells practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn=1787633179140871468X

|authorisbn= Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed152915118X|title= Yes No Maybe So Pineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= ''We might give it our all Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and crash George are sisters and burnSasha is married to their brother Cord. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for They're Stocktons, dononly Sasha isn't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for a special election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassing, he canStockton by birth so she isn't think of anything worsereadily accepted into the tribe. However The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician asks Cord and decides there is no time Sasha if they'd like the present to conquer his fear of speaking to move into the publicPineapple Street property. Maya is Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through a separationfurniture from Pineapple Street, she has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things so Sasha and her only close friend is permanently busyCord can move straight in. To help occupy her Nominally, her parents offer to buy her they had a car if she agrees choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to go canvassingcall Sasha 'the gold digger'. The pair could possibly be the worst canvassing duo She's living in history, as neither of them really want to be there, but as the campaign goes on they discover ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they care, a lot, about abbreviate it to 'the election - and maybe even about each other?|isbn=1471184668GD'.

|author=Elliot ReedEmily Critchley|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingOne Puzzling Afternoon

|summary=This is the story of a young boyThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, William Tyce, who is being raised apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by his uncle after the death of his Margo's mother and his fatheras 'an older man's abandonment. However, it isnHer parents worried that Richard't told in the usual narrative ways influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. InsteadIn the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the book is made up Isle of glossary entries, written by William, as Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a way of describing certain eventswell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, situations Imogen and emotionsSasha. It runs alphabeticallyLife was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDERthe family home on the Isle of Wight. As I began to read I did find myself thinking Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: 'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used she would never be able to the style, and was instead caught up leave him in Williamcharge's story'. Then Richard left them.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=19115454181914585402|title=Dashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it was. It was a gripping, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.

|author= T R HendrickLucy Ashe|title= What if They KnewClara and Olivia|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= ItThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's 2025Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Underneath a lodge in Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the Blue Mountain resort in Pennsylvaniainside. And not on stage, is either. Because there's a lot that builds a secret facilitydancer. HereSome things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, Dr Benton attention to detail – and his team are making some critical scientific advances on behalf of the Benefactorthings, their anonymous funder. Alreadythat ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the team have succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place to anotherclassroom. ButA stage presence, unbeknownst to the Benefactora charm, Dr Benton has also coded for another type of teleportation altogether - travel through time. And hea ''joie de vivre''s ready to test. If successfulThe difference between a hard-worker, Benton has and a very specific use for his technology in mindstar.|isbn=17342772110861544080

|author=H G Parry Heather Fawcett|title=The Unlikely Escape Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Uriah HeepFaeries

|summary=Brothers Rob Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and Charley have struggled researched meticulously, to see eye to eye for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in write her life's work, the "normal" world - very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and Charley a man who speaking to faeries, she is blessed not so good with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the real world. After years small village of protecting CharleyHrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, Rob wants nor how to discharge his duties redeem herself and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their handsput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. As literary characters begin Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to appear everywhere, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares CharleyEmily's powers and intends to use them for nefarious gainsfrustration. Rob and Charley must team up to stop the madness - in a battle to win before they, the characters and But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the world reach The End…faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=03565137770356519120

|isbn=16437850361398515388|title=The Wondrous ApothecaryBoy and the Dog|author=Mary E MartinSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.}} {{Frontpage|author=Christopher Bowden|title=Mr Magenta

|summary=Those who have known Alexander Wainwright, the landscape artist famous for his Turner prize-winning ''The Hay WagonChristopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, and Rinaldo, the renowned conceptual artist would say that they're chalk and cheese, if not sworn enemiescarried out by her nephew after she has died. If you've watched the relationship, as has our narrator, art dealer Jamie Helmsworth, you'd have said that they were magnets, drawing The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and repulsing each other in equal measure. Wainwright was at the socially acceptable end a little bit of the artistic continuum, but with Rinaldo, it was all too obvious indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that there was but a fine dividing line between conceptual art nephew Stephen had ever realised and public nuisance. As time has worn on, he's frequently been brought it seems to the attention of the police. On this latest occasion, we see him charged with arson and theft of ''The Hay Wagon''an obligation to find it all out.|isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW

|author=Mary H.K. ChoiJennifer Mason|title=Permanent RecordPartitions of Unity

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Pablo, a college drop-out, is working Here at a New York bodega. He's massively in debtBookbag Towers, he's avoiding his motherwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and he finds his joy unintentional detective in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! Whilst working one evening[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], he's surprised to discover that the girl he is chatting with as he serves is a super-famous pop star when she investigated and, as unlikely as it may seem, they start unravelled a relationshipseries of disappearances. With one character who is trying very hard not to be seen or noticed by anyone and the other who is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over the world, itIn 's an interesting clash as they come together. This isn't just a love story though, and actually itPartitions of Unity's really just Pab's story, about the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smartshe sets her mind to solving a murder...|isbn=0349003459B09LQR9FRF

|author=Daniel KrausWill Carver|title=Blood SugarThe Daves Next Door

|summary=This is a difficult read. And not because of the dark subject matter – that'll Five strangers come later – but because of the way together in which it's told. This might put one moment as a lot of readers off, and suicide bomber prepares to be honest it'd be hard to blame themdetonate his vest on a London tube line. Kraus tells As their fates overlap, the story is told in a distinctive voice unlike any other I've read; an erratic dialect with heavy and frequent slang. The immediate effect is disorientating and distracting, and it takes some time to feel natural. It's a struggle to acclimatise to Jody's voicebackwards order, leading up to get acquainted with his mannerisms, but the story wouldn't be the same without it, and somehow it works. It shouldn't, but it doesfateful moment.|isbn=17890919341914585186}}

|isbnauthor=B07W4MNBSGJennifer Mason|title=Be Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy MumfreyPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|summary=It was coming up to Halloween ''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in 1987 and the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a group state-of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancientthe-art S&M dungeon, but Liz was convinced that ''your entire a man serving a life depends sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on who you marrya cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...''. The only eligible boys were  This is just a sample of the Young Farmers cast of characters and the idea of living settings in a farmhouse and having a couple Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Bothamthis mystery story goes like this. The place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the class.|isbn=B09STS96HS

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