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===[[A Treachery Photographer of Spies the Lost by Manda Caroline Scott]]===
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When Inspector Inès Picaut May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There is called to investigate no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the horrific murder back of the photograph. It is a strikingly beautiful elderly ladypicture of her husband, she's puzzled – whilst the identity of the woman Francis. Francis has been erasedmissing for four years. Technically, it's clear that she he has been "missing, believed killed in the same way " but that is not something that traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Twoa young widow can believe. Solving She hangs on the mystery will lead Inès deep into word 'missing', disbelieving the history of this woman – and back to a time when the men and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressorsword killed. As more and more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[A Treachery Photographer of Spies the Lost by Manda Caroline Scott|Full Review]]
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Germany is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the Nazis, but much isn''Murmuration'' follows the lives t. Some of a host of characters from 1863 her is stuck to the present day. From a risqué comic east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have to a fortune tellerbe on the other front, we against the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. Finding out that the war to the birth of Blackpool east isn't working, due to Hitler's tactical ineptitude and its steadily fading glamourinability to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. There The only way to shore things up, and repair the splits, is a hint of mysticism to kill Hitler, and luckily Baron Nicholas is the taleman to do it. He's aristocratic enough, with the mesmerising dance he knows enough people in industry, society and other circles of starlings over 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 pier acting as an anchor throughout "predatory American capitalists" and the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the sea. middle? [[Murmuration The Man Who Killed Hitler by Robert LockAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mercy Seat Just Another Girl on the Road by Elizabeth H WinthropS Kensington]]===
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In an isolated Louisiana town, When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from a farmhouse and a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at group of German deserters who had raped her. Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she got when Farr and Valentine intervened and finished the shadow group off. It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall Jedburgh unit, EDMOND, lead by the eveningMajor Willoughby Nye. Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on her father's dying sun raysmerchant ship and Katrinka had once had a crush on Nye. At midnight, When he will be dead; strapped to offered her a chair and electrocuted for the rape of a white girl, who later committed suicide. He is resigned to job with his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after allunit, love between a black man and a white woman was never going to have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded peopleshe accepted. [[The Mercy Seat Just Another Girl on the Road by Elizabeth H WinthropS Kensington|Full Review]]
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WitchcraftBerlin, 1989. Miriam is in the middle of a city freshly united, with the supernatural Wall newly broken down and the will people able to survive cross at all costs collide liberty for the first time in decades. She is in a story that never shies away from the darker side middle of human naturesuch euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. The land One standard bed-bath, however, is unhappyvery different, when he gasps the old spirits want revenge name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – and famine is kindling she sees for the first time ever a resurgence of the old faithtattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. As fear risesOne bombshell outside, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken rootthen, and two inside. The sacred well And inside her father, Henryk, what is taintedgoing on, its healing waters run red as he has a first-person narrative alternating with blood and strangers are blowing in on her story? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to the real Frieda, a wind of change. young woman that shook him to the core when he was her literature professor? That's right, more bombshells… [[A Gathering of Ghosts The Rabbit Girls by Karen MaitlandAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions The Long Flight Home by Lydia SysonA L Hlad]]===
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On September 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the homes and lives of a remote volcanic island off people on the coast of New Zealandedge. In Epping Forest, Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a family comfort for Susan following the loss of settlers struggle her parents. These pigeons are more than just birds to make such an unforgiving place Susan though – in each one, and especially in Duchess, she sees a distinct personality and forms a homeclose bond. When a ship appearsMeanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to Britain and join the Royal Air Force. Working with the National Pigeon Service, they feel that their wishes have been granted he soon meets Susan and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappearsis tasked with air-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into German-occupied France, where many will not survive. As both settlers and newcomers come together in the search for mission is planned, the childbond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, they uncover farbut when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, far more than they were looking it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a reunion for – discovering dark secrets about both the island Susan and those who inhabit it. Ollie remains… [[Mr Peacock's Possessions The Long Flight Home by Lydia SysonA L Hlad|Full Review]]
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===[[The Story Keeper Brightfall by Anna MazzolaJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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AudreyRobin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, retreating to be more than a monastery – although no-one knows quite what everyone expects of her, escapes from the straightjacket of led him to abandon all that he had built. Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her home. Where every actionfriends start dying, every thought, every yearning Marion is controlled tasked by her father, who only once in his life threw caution Father Tuck to break the wind curse surrounding them and married way beneath him for loveto save their lives. Now Setting off with a soldier, a widower Fey Lord and remarrieda sullen Robin Hood, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is rightshe becomes tangled in a maze of betrayals, what is propercomplicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the bastion of doing what is expected. throne…[[The Story Keeper Brightfall by Anna MazzolaJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[The Butcher's Daughter A Perfect Explanation by Victoria GlendinningEleanor Anstruther]]===
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The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such Enid Campbell was a wealth woman who, on the face of intrigueit, plots and machinationshad everything. The regular cast Leading the life of an aristocrat – full of courtly characters are usually rich inherited wealth and powerfulsplendour, with so many to choose from that the well never seems to run dry glamourous locales and the characters are often those high up in the circles of powerexpectations. Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, or untreated and threatening both Enid and those prepared close to do anything to get thereher. This bookAfter losing custody of her children, howeverEnid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, is totally different. Set in or an act of desperation? Exploring the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes true story of Agnes Peppin, a young, poor woman. As a woman she can either marryher own grandmother, or join a convent. Since Agnes Eleanor Anstruther has disgraced herself then she has no choice at allfound the perfect subject for an explosive, moving and she is sent to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbeybeautifully well-written debut. [[The Butcher's Daughter A Perfect Explanation by Victoria GlendinningEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[Silence in the Desert Equator by David LongridgeAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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As It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the shadow walls of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the Second World War descends upon the planetindignity of white man against Native 'Indian', four people are explored who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a tale of love buffalo hunt, and friendship. Henri, fulfilling a family tradition in joining who hates the Foreign Legionway man – and woman, Bill, arriving of course – can turn against fellow man at Cambridge on the bat of an RAF scholarshipeyelid. But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, Leoand the attendant problems with gold rushes, struggling pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to align his beliefs with those find this book's version of his upbringingUtopia, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. As namely the war ragesEquator, these men are tested like never beforewhere everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with trustrocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravity, loyalty and love leading to decisions where, who knows, things might actually be better. But that affect both their lives equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and those all around them. it… [[Silence in the Desert Equator by David LongridgeAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane SeymourAnna of Kleve, The Haunted Queen of Secrets by Alison Weir]]===
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When it comes to Jane SeymourPoor, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets a raw deal by history, of all the third wife wives of Henry VIII, popular opinion she is the one who is dividedknown for being rejected. Some see her as Anne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard were the sexy ones, Jane the dutiful one who delivered a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing son, Katherine of Aragon clung on to gain favour in the king's eyes. Others view her as a pious crown and God-fearing woman who brought calm and stability into Henry's Katharine Parr clung on to her life following his turbulent marriage to but poor frumpy Anne Boleynof Cleaves just rolled over and moved along. Perhaps both sides are true, to an extent. In ''The Haunted Queen,'' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author and historian Not any more! Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones presents us with a different view of a Queen haunted by this young woman who saw the shadow of a formidable predecessoropportunity to live an independent life and took it. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane SeymourAnna of Kleve, The Haunted Queen of Secrets by Alison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[In Gold's Name Liberation Square by Marcus DalrympleGareth Rubin]]===
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It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the end of the Aztec Empire East, and Americans from the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlerswest. Some thought Dividing the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no godnation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, but he was essentially a decent man, particularly by wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the standards murder of the timehis former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the forceIn doing so, but at the age Jane follows a trail of twenty three he believed corruption that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and leads her right to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from highest levels of the local religions which required human sacrifices. He'd joined the army from a seminary state – and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'd failed soon finds herself desperate to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing stay one step ahead of the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. murderous secret police… [[In Gold's Name Liberation Square by Marcus DalrympleGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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[[image:1785630806191236266X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785630806/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] ''The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about music. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the simplest of places. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. However, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall|Full Review]] <!-- Varese -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0715653008.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0715653008/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the life story of the real-life father of spirit photography, William H. Mumler. His fictional stand-in here is Edward Moody, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his own photography studio in Boston. Moody is dismissive of spiritualism, yet considers himself to be doing a service to the bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the ghost of a departed loved one appears. This involves getting hold of an image of the loved one and superimposing it on the negative being developed, so that it seems to appear hazily in the background. Looking back from today's high-tech perspective, it's hard to see how anyone could have been fooled, but suffering people in desperate situations often want to believe; the same goes for séances. [[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese|Full Review]] <!-- de Lacey Davidson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1506905900.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1506905900191236266X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21
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===[[Precept: A Novel The Boy in a Turban by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonJoseph Hucknall]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker father, who is publishing the British edition of ''Narrative'', Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure and a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connell[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonCategory:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
You might not think that Georgian London contained many black people. But it contained more than you think. You may have heard of Francis Barber, the black African slave who became the friend of lexicographer Samuel Johnson and was a beneficiary of his will. ''The Boy in a Turban'' tells the story of a fictional black character, James, in Georgian London. James, then Quaccoe, is brought to the capital from a Jamaican plantation by a ship captain who wanted a servant for his two daughters. [[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall|Full Review]] <!-- Daniel Peltz Clark -->
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===[[In The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Full Light of the Sun by Daniel PeltzClare Clark]]===
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria weIn 1930're in the company of Molly Cavendish who is s Berlin, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandal. Emmeline, a partwayward young student, Julius, an anxious middle-time guide at aged art expert, and Rachmann, a mysterious art dealer, live in the Museo di Santa Mariapolitically turbulent Weimar Berlin, which is what and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the ruins surprise discovery of the Chiesa thirty- a chapel - have now becometwo previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, Based on a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs true story and unfolding through the attention subsequent rise of young Hitler and old. Molly uses the history to entertain the tourists, but there's more too it than she knowsNazis, particularly as the history discovery of the building is also the history of the Vannini familyart allows these characters to explore authenticity, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago vanity and one of whose descendants is the director of the museumself-delusion. [[In The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Full Light of the Sun by Daniel PeltzClare Clark|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary The Phoenix of Florence by Lucy WorsleyPhilip Kazan]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of a male heir. This time, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Mary. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly by a father under the influence of the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous events. [[Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley|Full Review]] <!-- Curran -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Literary Fiction|Historical Literary Fiction]] You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]<!-- Mayfield -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1786072424.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786072424/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Parentations by Kate Mayfield]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
In eighteenth Deep in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth-century LondonItaly, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family - and charged with protecting a mysterious childhome. Fast forward to Alone in the London forest, she meets a band of 2015soldiers who, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and the sisters are still waiting - with no determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the way of knowing if the boy is alive or dead. Far away, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal lifeshe meets ex-soldier Celavini, but also forces them whose journey to keep a secret for Florence sees him investigating two hundred yearsbrutal murders. As those years pass byhe digs further and uncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoria, those who were granted immortality find in the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history to rest before it's far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging in the absence of deathtoo late... [[The Parentations Phoenix of Florence by Kate MayfieldPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Deviation by David LawsLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain For those of you who have read books of life in publicthe Nazi camps – and of course, for those of you know who have not – this can be considered a full one-line in a ''Beyond the Fringe'' sketch, where he says he has a piece of paper from Hitlernext step. I then proceeded to prove it was a paper bagIt begins, in factafter all, by blowing it up with someone escaping Dachau and immediately bursting it. That is what that paper was to many – the indicator of fleeing her work assignment during a lot of hot airbombing raid, and only leading to an unwelcome noiseyou'd not blame her one minute, when WW2 actually struck anyway. Certainly, not everyone as her career was keen on his appeasement with the Nazis, deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and this book opens with sewage unblocker by the first-person reportage of one such manGermans. In Munich, keen she stumbles on showing proof help to get her to what seems to Chamberlain that he should not sign the Sudetenland away. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving be a grandcamp for non-daughternative civilians to look for work, Emmaor company, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominyor transport elsewhere, to pick either official or otherwise. But then the last, barest threads of next chapter sees her going back into the story up and see just what did happen camp next to him. OhDachau once more, and her help has just come out of prison… by then eyebrows are being raised. [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Deviation by David LawsLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin The Count of 9 by Snorri KristjanssonErle Stanley Gardner]]===
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Unnthor Reginsson ''The Count of 9'' is a hardboiled detective story written in the 1950s. It revolves around the uncrowned king detective duo of Donald Lam and Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve the valley; retired Viking farmer and rumoured owner theft of a large hoard of goldpriceless Bornean artefacts. He is gathering his clanHowever, a grand reunion after ten years of absence. It is time for strengthening family bonds, feasting, telling tall tales and remembering shared historytheir case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. [[Kin The Count of 9 by Snorri KristjanssonErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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