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===[[Frieda Photographer of the Lost by Annabel AbbsCaroline Scott]]===
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Married to English Professor Ernest Weekley, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the confines of married lifepost. There is no letter or note with it. Visiting family in Munich, she becomes captivated by There is nothing written on the ideas back of revolution and free lovethe photograph. Meeting the penniless writer D It is a picture of her husband, Francis.H Francis has been missing for four years. Lawrence Technically, she finds herself drawn into he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something that a passionate affair and a tempestuous relationship, changing young widow can believe. She hangs on the course of both their livesword 'missing', and unleashing a creative outpouring that will change disbelieving the course of literature foreverword killed. [[Frieda Photographer of the Lost by Annabel AbbsCaroline Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[Bellewether The Man Who Killed Hitler by Susanna KearsleyAndre Pronovost]]===
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Flitting between Germany is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the present day and mid 16thcenturyNazis, but much isn''Bellewether'' tells t. Some of her is stuck to the fascinating tale of east fighting the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In Soviets, but some will soon have to be on the present tense aspectsother front, against the Wilde House is being turned Americans coming into a museum the continent to put things right as they see it. Finding out that the war to the east isn't working, due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It Hitler's tactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is told five seasons away from being in Berlin. The only way to shore things up, and repair the perspective of Charleysplits, the museum curatoris to kill Hitler, who and luckily Baron Nicholas is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; a tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wildeman to do it. He's sisteraristocratic enough, Lydiahe knows enough people in industry, society and a French-Canadian lieutenantother circles of power, Jean-Philippe who was sent so once he's succeeded he might be able to live therekeep a German presence in Europe. The perspective of But will he still be able to keep the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia "predatory American capitalists" and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in history, just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself. the middle? [[Bellewether The Man Who Killed Hitler by Susanna KearsleyAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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===[[A Treachery of Spies Just Another Girl on the Road by Manda ScottS Kensington]]===
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When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from a farmhouse and a group of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, German deserters who had raped her. Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she's puzzled – whilst got when Farr and Valentine intervened and finished the identity group off. It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part of the woman has been erasedJedburgh unit, EDMOND, itlead by Major Willoughby Nye. Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on her father's clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – merchant ship and back to Katrinka had once had a time when the men and women of 1940s France were engaged in crush on Nye. When he offered her a desperatejob with his unit, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressorsshe accepted. 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 of Spies Just Another Girl on the Road by Manda ScottS Kensington|Full Review]]
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Berlin, 1989. Miriam is in the middle of a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and people able to cross at liberty for the first time in decades. She is in the middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps the name 'Murmuration'Frieda' follows ' that she does not recognise – and she sees for the lives of first time ever a host of characters from 1863 to the present daytattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. From a risqué comic to a fortune teller One bombshell outside, then, we see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamourtwo inside. There And inside her father, Henryk, what is going on, as he has a hint of mysticism first-person narrative alternating with her story? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to the talereal Frieda, with a young woman that shook him to the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives herecore when he was her literature professor? That's right, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. more bombshells… [[Murmuration The Rabbit Girls by Robert LockAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mercy Seat Long Flight Home by Elizabeth H WinthropA L Hlad]]===
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In an isolated Louisiana townSeptember 1940 - as WWII rages on, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cellbombs rain down on Britain, staring at destroying the shadow homes and lives of a people on the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun raysedge. At midnightIn Epping Forest, he will be dead; strapped to Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a chair and electrocuted comfort for Susan following the rape loss of a white girl, who later committed suicideher parents. He is resigned These pigeons are more than just birds to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after allSusan though – in each one, and especially in Duchess, love between she sees a black man distinct personality and forms a white woman was never going close bond. Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to have a happy ending in a small town filled head to Britain and join the Royal Air Force. Working with the National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and is tasked with smallair-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into German-minded peopleoccupied France, where many will 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 Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[The Mercy Seat Long Flight Home by Elizabeth H WinthropA L Hlad|Full Review]]
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===[[A Gathering of Ghosts Brightfall by Karen MaitlandJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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WitchcraftRobin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, the supernatural and the will retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to survive at abandon all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the darker side of human naturehe had built. The land Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion is unhappy, tasked by Father Tuck to break the old spirits want revenge curse surrounding them and famine is kindling a resurgence of the old faith. As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken rootsave their lives. The sacred well is taintedSetting off with a soldier, its healing waters run red with blood a Fey Lord and strangers are blowing a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in on a wind maze of change. betrayals, complicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the throne…[[A Gathering of Ghosts Brightfall by Karen MaitlandJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions A Perfect Explanation by Lydia SysonEleanor Anstruther]]===
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On Enid Campbell was a remote volcanic island off woman who, on the coast face of New Zealandit, a family had everything. Leading the life of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appearsaristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, they feel that their wishes have been granted glamourous locales and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappearsexpectations. As Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both settlers Enid and newcomers come together in the search those close to her. After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the childtrue story of her own grandmother, they uncover farEleanor Anstruther has found the perfect subject for an explosive, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island moving and those who inhabit itbeautifully well-written debut. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions A Perfect Explanation by Lydia SysonEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[The Story Keeper Equator by Anna Mazzola]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Audrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the straightjacket of her home. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once in his life threw caution to the wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a widower Antonin Varenne and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expected. [[The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola|Full ReviewSam Taylor (translator)]] <!-- Glendinning -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0715652915.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0715652915/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth of intrigue, plots and machinations. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, with so many to choose from It strikes me that the nobody can speak well never seems to run dry and of the characters are often those high up in Wild West outside the circles walls of power, or those prepared a theme park. Our agent to do anything to get there. This booksee how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, however, is totally different. Set in who bristles at the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes indignity of Agnes Peppinwhite man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a youngbuffalo hunt, poor and who hates the way man – and woman. As a woman she , of course – can either marry, or join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice turn against fellow man at all, and she is sent to join the nuns bat of Shaftesbury Abbeyan eyelid. [[The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning|Full Review]] <!-- Longridge -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1788034503.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788034503/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Silence in But this book is about so much more than the Desert by David Longridge]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]1870s USA, [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] As and the shadow of the Second World War descends upon the planetattendant problems with gold rushes, four people are explored in a tale of love pioneer spirits and friendshipracial genocide. Henri He finds himself trying to find this book's version of Utopia, fulfilling a family tradition in joining namely the Foreign LegionEquator, Billwhere everything is upside down, arriving at Cambridge people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling the ground to align his beliefs with those of his upbringingcounter the anti-gravity, and Elisabethwhere, crossing continents who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and changing names are all brought together by strife there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and turmoil. As the war rages, these men are tested like never before, with trust, loyalty Latin America between him and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives 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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===[[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall]]===
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''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[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall:Category: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]] <!-- Varese Clark -->
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===[[In The Spirit Photographer Full Light of the Sun by Jon Michael VareseClare Clark]]===
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Jon Michael VareseIn 1930's debut novel was inspired by the life story of the real-life father of spirit photographyBerlin, William Hthree people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandal. Mumler. His fictional standEmmeline, a wayward young student, Julius, an anxious middle-in here is Edward Moodyaged art expert, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his own photography studio in Boston. Moody is dismissive of spiritualismRachmann, yet considers himself to be doing a service to mysterious art dealer, live in the bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the ghost surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a departed loved one appears. This involves getting hold of an image true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise of the loved one Hitler and superimposing it on the negative being developedNazis, so that it seems to appear hazily in the background. Looking back from today's high-tech perspective, it's hard discovery of the art allows these characters to see how anyone could have been fooledexplore authenticity, but suffering people in desperate situations often want to believe; the same goes for séancesvanity and self-delusion. [[In The Spirit Photographer Full Light of the Sun by Jon Michael VareseClare Clark|Full Review]]
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===[[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan]]===
===[[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Literary Fiction|Historical Literary 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. [[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]] <!-- Daniel Peltz -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1912083779.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912083779/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're Deep in the company Tuscan countryside of Molly Cavendish who is a partfifteenth-time guide at the Museo di Santa Mariacentury Italy, which is what the ruins of the Chiesa - Onoria survives a chapel - have now becomemassacre that destroys her family and home. Crowds flock to see its centrepieceAlone in the forest, she meets a renaissance fresco with band of soldiers who, believing her to be a history which grabs the attention of young boy train and develop her – and old. Molly uses the history determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to entertain avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the touristsway, but there's more too it than she knowsmeets ex-soldier Celavini, particularly as the whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family history of , Celavini must revisit the building is also the history of the Vannini familypast he shares with Onoria, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is hope that they can lay the director ghosts of the museumtheir shared history to rest before it's too late... [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Phoenix of Florence by Daniel PeltzPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary Deviation by Lucy WorsleyLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles For those of you who have read books of life in the famous story Nazi camps – and of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyncourse, his divorce from Katherine for those of Aragonyou who have not – this can be considered a next step. It begins, Anne's execution for adulteryafter all, with someone escaping Dachau and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of fleeing her work assignment during a male heir. This timebombing raid, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henryand you's young daughterd not blame her one minute, Mary. Mary's hopes of as her family staying together are crushed by the divorce career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and she is treated terribly sewage unblocker by a father under the influence of the Boleyn factionGermans. Lady Mary follows In Munich, she stumbles on help to get her through these awful years and you can't help but root to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the little girl stuck in next chapter sees her going back into the middle of these tumultuous eventscamp next to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raised. [[Lady Mary Deviation by Lucy WorsleyLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing The Count of 9 by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisErle Stanley Gardner]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical 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:FantasyCrime|FantasyCrime]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
In eighteenth century London, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with ''The Count of 9'' is a hardboiled detective story written in the Fowler family - and charged with protecting a mysterious child1950s. Fast forward to It revolves around the London detective duo of 2015, Donald Lam and Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve the sisters are still waiting - with no way theft of knowing if the boy is alive or dead. Far away, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal life, but also forces them to keep a secret for two hundred yearspriceless Bornean artefacts. As those years pass byHowever, those who were granted immortality find that it's far from a blessing their case quickly turns into something darker - with true darkness emerging in the absence of deathan impossible murder. [[The Parentations Count of 9 by Kate MayfieldErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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