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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding= Fred Van Lente"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|title= Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery<!-- Hogan -->|rating= 4-|genrestyle= Humour"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669065.jpg|summarylink= Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walker, a comedic legendhttp://www.amazon. Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washedco.uk/dp/1473669065/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-up has21]]  | style="vertical-been who has fallen far from his early daysalign: top; Zoe, the rising female star with a new stand-up special coming soontext-align: left; Dante, who went from being a kid on the streets "|===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the hardest working road comic in remains of her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the business; OliverParadise hotel, the child-like prop comic who a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can't get any respect from his peers; Janetbe themselves, the insult comic who is past and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her prime; TJas a child, from this place of wonder. With the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Rubyhelp of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the ultra-feminist YouTuber tricky and Blogger uncertain relationship she had with a chip on her shoulder; sometimes cruel and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and asks for your help, what the hell else are you going to say?'distant mother. [[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan|Full Review]] <!-- van LENTE -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1594749744<http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=S Lynn Scott"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=Elizabeth, William==[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star... and Mejpg|link=Category:{{{rating=4.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|genre=Humour]]|summary=Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage childrenComic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, a husband and a job. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the window. ItComic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's not a coincidence looking for both that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the Bard chance of Avon in her bathmaybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. What's she going However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to do? Wellzombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that!in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]]  |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788037006</amazonuk!-- Coulton -->}}{{newreview|author= E G Rodford-|titlestyle= The Surgeon's Case"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: George Kocharyan Mystery 2center;"|[[image:1473669588.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag= 4thebookbag-21]] |genre= Crime |summarystyle=In the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well"vertical-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, a worldalign: top; text-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen align: left;"|===[[Falling Short by his live-in domestic servant, AuroraLex Coulton]]=== [[image:4star. According to Galbraithjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital[[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and relationships. George agrees to look into the theftThe main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, assuming it will be is a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he knowsixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, he's about to enter a world work colleague, and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of deceit and dysfunctionher mother.|amazonuk= This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] <amazonuk!-- van LENTE -->178565005X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toni Jordan-|titlestyle=Our Tiny, Useless Hearts"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=5thebookbag-21]] |genre=Women's Fiction|summarystyle=As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star. Indeedjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], this is definitely not [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a good weekend place of wonder and sanctuary for Janice to be babysitting many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at CarolineSan Diego Comic-Con, he's house. There's the split looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the awkwardness chance of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a startmaybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is well adjusted forced to navigate every dark corner of the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and over her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of him, yesin doing so, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk!-- Curran -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Colin Taylor"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=The Life of a Scilly Sergeant[[image:1683690133.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Travel"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=Meet the Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the author provides Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a handy guide to the etiquette lass of their nametwenty eight. Plucky, their nature penniless and location, etc.) For our more distant readers, they're several chunks of granite rock out in in Regency era London the Atlantic, where Cornwall race is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residents. Theyon to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you're big on tourismll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and big on growing flowers in fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the tropical climate ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is mad, bad enough to turn any car 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 a rust bucket within yearsbe an easy decision... They[[My Lady're so wee, s Choosing by Kitty Curran and so idyllicLarissa Zageris|Full Review]] <!-- Jester -seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presence->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon. But there is – at least two working at any one timeco. And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a welluk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work.21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]  |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|}}===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]==={{newreview[[image:4star.jpg|authorlink=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn ReesCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|title='Twas the Fight Before ChristmasHorror]], [[:Category: A ParodyFantasy|rating=3.5Fasntasy]]|genre=Humour|summary=It's Christmas Eve Michael Holland is a cocky and Mum has arranged everything. All she now has to do is await brash young man who dies and gets made the arrival offer of the relatives his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the food shopping delivery. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to ruin everythingsit on in their flat.[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk!-- Stibbe -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Ryan North"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=Romeo and/or Juliet|rating=3[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.5jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed, read onhttps://www. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of options en route to hitting the bottleamazon. Likewise, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of juncturesco. And to what resultuk/gp/product/0241309824? Well, happy marriage and a kid called Ben, because the leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her). |amazonukie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>0241309824]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Gervase Phinn"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title= The Virgin Mary's Got Nits|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour|summary= [[An Almost Perfect Christmas in our house is by Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the time we tend of traditional trauma. You only have to get think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on a plane and head the downstairs loo to either sun or snowdefrost overnight, anywhere and if that is far, far away from failed the madness at home, last minute dashes hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to the shops on Christmas Evemake sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hoursget too friendly with it to want to eat it. But I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was younger, back when it was magicalthough, and back when you knew exactly what the season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas partiesis of course also a time of great boons. This book is an anthology It's cash in hand for a lot of those momentsplump people who can hire red suits and beards, and it took me right back was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to the wonder of Christmas aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400, and as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of the year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] </amazonuk!-- Doescher -->}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley-|titlestyle= Shoot|rating= 4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|genreleft|link= Crimehttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]  |summarystyle= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with us. The result is that what is billed as "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[William Shakespeare''an Fs the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4.X5star. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being more to come has the poignancy of beingjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], if not the last of [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, in a short linegalaxy far away, certainly one there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of a fewmachinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. F.X. Shepherd – he doesnYou may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken''t like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technicallybut here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, a columnist. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing a weekly column for anotherpeople keeping it in the family til it hurts. I And if you need further encouragement, don't know much about journalism, but Iforget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much re on to part seven – surely making this over twice as a rule…which explains why Shepherdgood… [[William Shakespeare's soapthe Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] <!-washed-foulGoss --mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuff. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gray Jolliffe-|titlestyle=The First Ever Christmas"width: And Who to Blame10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600.jpg|left|ratinglink=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=51785942719]] |genre=Humour|summarystyle=If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like Christmas"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: it's my least favourite time A Collection of year Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and whilst some people count down to the day itself, I look forward to that point when I can say that it's all over for another yearRussell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star. Itjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's all too commercialised for me, with a coating of faux religion. IRhymes and Verse|Children've never found it in the least funny - that iss Rhymes and Verse]], until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmas[[: And Who's Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to Blame''. Amazinglyhand out each year, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, but I'm a convert were he to keep in touch with even half of his skills as companions? He would certainly need a cartoonist (if not to few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the idea life of Christmas) after reading this collection a Time Lord and that of some of Christmas-themed cartoons from his archivefriends and enemies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Pugh|title=Pugh's New Year's Resolutions|rating=4As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready.5|genre=Humour|summary=If thereAnd if you's re working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one thing that's for certaingift season ahead, it's that well my advice is pretty much the world is changingsame. [[Doctor Who: Now We're dating online, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundant, Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and when we're shopping we just tell a website where and when it can be delivered, and how much leeway they have to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring usRussell T Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Ingram -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie. But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – we're supposed to use a smart watch to tell us if we're moving or not, we have to keep up jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Conversations with the latest fadsKammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], and we're supposed to prick our ears up and take note when the proverbial 'they' change their minds about what we're supposed to eat.[[:Category:Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk>}}Humour]]{{newreview|author= Luke Rhinehart|title= Invasion|rating= 4It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie.5|genre= Humour |summary=SuperYou see, Annie knows something which has been self-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And they've come evident to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one dayme for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of food!, and he and his family quickly come to love the playful alienwalk! or play!. But when Louie starts using their computer You do require extensive training to hack into government and corporate networksbecome fluent, stealing millions from banks but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to others, they realise that Louie teach you and his friends mean troubleall you have to do is listen. As Billy Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and his family begin a roller coaster ride the pair have allowed us to share some of fame and fortune, as well as a ranking high on the FBI's most wanted list, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, and must be eliminatedtheir conversations. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity of the American political, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be don't play games[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] <!-- Harris -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image: they make warHarris_Glass. jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1785651757<http://amazonuk>}}www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] {{newreview|authorstyle=Rod Green"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=Only Fools and Horses: ==[[The Peckham Archives|ratingBreaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]===4|genre=Entertainment [[image:3star.jpg|summarylink=We are in Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and stabbed yards from his Camden flat. As the world of one of boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the country's most famous and wellinside scoop, tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a missing tape, harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003. Yeselection, there have been specials sincedistraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, and more repeats to clog up gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the BBC schedules than is really pukka, but very few people failed to succumb to its charms at one wrong time or another. I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception We follow this host of ''that'' drop through the open bar hatchensemble characters in a bleak, and ''that'' chandelier scene, but this is much more meatykaleidoscopic satire of modern media. [[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] <!-- LENTE -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lente_10. Purporting to be the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela House, the documents here were passed from pillar to post, from one council worker in a department with a clumsy acronym to another, from them to the police – and now here they are being published for their social history worthjpg|link=http://www.amazon. 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Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on Each fits neatly into one of the set of ''Melrose Placearchetypal comic stereotypes: Steve,'' to losing her mother at the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, the rising female star with a young agenew stand-up special coming soon; Dante, who went from being a kid on the streets to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe trip, to not being cute enough to make it the hardest working road comic in Hollywoodthe business; Oliver, these essays tell the story of one young womanchild-like prop comic who can's journey t get any respect from accidental fame to relative obscurityhis peers; Janet, the insult comic who is past her prime; TJ, but also illuminate the nightly variety show host with a universal struggle: learning to accept yourself, reputation for harassing his female colleagues and figuring out who you are guest acts; Ruby, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and where you belong. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tony Stuart|title= Writing Lines|rating= 4William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire.5|genre=Humour|summary= George Gordon Wentworth (1946-2011) lived a humdrum life. He was a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent and kept a copious diary of his quotidian existence. Most of what he recorded was dross. HoweverOf course, amongst all the utterly uninteresting tailings nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of his life there were some nuggets light and grains to catch the attention. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotesasks for your help, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us what the best of Wentworth – comedy gold. From losing all the pupils in his charge on a school trip hell else are you going to being arrested on suspicion of terrorism; from waking up in bed between the married couple the morning after their wedding, to destroying a ski run; from appearing fullsay?'' [[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] <!-frontal naked in a sheep-farmers' gazette to triggering an airScott --sea rescue; Wentworth was, blinkered and befuddled, the subject – of these and so many more unlikely but highly amusing events.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634441</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Graham Fulbright-|titlestyle=Driving Mad"width: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Club10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|ratinglink=3http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in the White House and I've recently had to reapply for my driving licence having achieved a venerable age==[[Elizabeth, William... When I started driving the roads were kinder, more forgiving places - or put another way, the idiots were fewer and further betweenMe by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4. I don't know how long Graham Fulbright has been driving, but he certainly knows his motoring morons and in ''Driving Mad'' he brings us a fictional sample of their eccentricities5star. Well, I'm pretty certain that they're fictional - but these days you never know...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk>jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}}Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]{{newreview|author=Mario Giordano|title=Auntie Poldi Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and a job. Then comes the Sicilian Lions|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed day when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with ordinariness flies out of the intention of drinking herself to deathwindow. She could, It's not a coincidence that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and the Bard of course, have done this Avon in Germany, but her bath. What's she felt going to do? Well, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that a sea view was essential! [[Elizabeth, William... Once there, new friends, family already resident on the island and the corpse of a young man, his face blown off Me by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaning. For a while she was a suspect, but that (and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the caseS Lynn Scott|Full Review]] <!-- Rodford -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rodford_Surgeon. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnershipjpg|link=http://www.amazon. 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SheAddenbrooke's irritableHospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Aurora. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her According to some startling discoveries - and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusionGalbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital. George agrees to look into the fate of Abby and Gretchen theft, assuming it will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship enough to beat the devil?relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter a world of deceit and dysfunction. 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