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• One Blood by Graeme Kent
  |title=One Blood ...ter Conchita has assumed reluctant control of a mission with three elderly sisters living there who are rather set in their ways, to say the least. Then a bod
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• Broken Angels by Graham Masterton
  ...[The Heavens Rise by Christopher Rice]]. We also have a review of [[Blood Sisters by Graham Masterton]].
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• Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport
  |title=Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses ...andra herself, sadly proved their undoing. Then we are introduced to four sisters from an earlier generation, the daughters of the Grand Duke and Duchess of
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• The Nine Day Queen by Ella March Chase
  ...d, for history knows her as Lady Jane Grey; a name that will be written in blood. ...ey Sisters'' which seems a better title as it's narrated by the three Grey sisters and half of it is set after Jane's execution. (It starts with her beheadin
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• The Second Duchess by Elizabeth Loupas
  ...cters are given depth and complexity, particularly Alfonso’s two unmarried sisters, who are malicious and scheming. I also liked the way that Barbara and Alfo For more crime, mystery and intrigue in renaissance Italy, try [[A Name in Blood by Matt Rees]]. We also have a review of Loupas's [[The Red Lily Crown by E
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• A Nye of Pheasants by Steve Burrows
  ...ting is what's keeping the business afloat. The bad relations between the sisters didn't just revolve around the value of the protein from the pheasants as c
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• Singing to the Dead by Caro Ramsay
  ...ack to remind myself which mother belonged to which boy. A pair of warring sisters also had me confused for the first few chapters in which they appear. On t ...ottish crime fiction seek out Grace Monroe's [[Blood Lines by Grace Monroe|Blood Lines]] which will appeal to armchair detectives.
  5 KB (892 words) - 11:33, 11 March 2018
• The Echo Chamber by Luke Williams
  ...g. She remembers what it was like in the womb, the pumping of her mother's blood, the different tones of her father's voice telling her stories, and the cla If this book appeals then you might like to try [[On Black Sisters' Street by Chika Unigwe]] or [[Shadow of a Thief by Celine Ibe]].
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• The Heart Specialist by Claire Holden Rothman
  ...the genes. If that's the case it's skipped younger sister Laure. The two sisters are very different. Laure is a gentle and pretty girl but her health is ra
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• Tides of War by Stella Tillyard
  ...lst the women become firm friends and show that, even in the 19th century, sisters were indeed doing it for themselves. Where Kitty is concerned, she sets ou ...re interesting than I can!) and the initial experiments that would lead to blood group discovery, each fact embroidered into the fabric of the story so it's
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• All Their Minds In Tandem by David Sanger
  The three sisters that Emerson stays with are each different providing us with different view ...the backstories and current revelations we travel through gritty, violent, blood, sadness, smiles and searing beauty. Indeed this is a very subtle sci-fi t
  4 KB (623 words) - 12:26, 19 September 2020
• Orphans of the Tide by Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)
  ...covered boy emerges from the cut Ellie made, asking where his brothers and sisters are. It also evokes quite a bit of gothic horror, with all of the gothic ar
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• In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
  ...is generally less than grateful for the fact. The relationship between the sisters is skillfully drawn and there was never a point when I thought that it was ...vers, the living proof that some men have a brain and a penis but lack the blood supply to run both at the same time. The character is just a little too sup
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• Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe
  ...that can treat the subject matter – which would probably make a feminist's blood boil – with a light-hearted honesty and truthfulness. It's all about the ...ers. Once again this is underscored by the only very mildly naïve pair of sisters, and is only reinforced by the level of humour throughout. Just as this is
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• Widowland by C J Carey
  ...know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a d .... Until they grudgingly got mentioned I thought we'd never see the Mitford sisters here, lest it trigger their heirs' lawyers, and we're told how the press wo
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• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel by Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith and Tony Lee
  ...how easy it was to thrust thrusting young fighters into things, and spread blood and gore all over proceedings. Call me biased, though, but I think it suff Not only that, but all the confusions are intact. The copious Bennet sisters look too similar, the houses and balls just run into each other, and I for
  5 KB (799 words) - 10:19, 22 September 2020
• Man Booker Prize 2011
  |title=The Sisters Brothers |title=Half-Blood Blues
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• The Black Guard (The Long War) by AJ Smith
  ...this is merely a portent of greater troubles ahead. One of the evil Seven Sisters is seen accompanying the Red Knights so if there is a secret agenda it's no ...st-timers, we recommend [[The Grim Company by Luke Scull]] or [[Promise of Blood (Powder Mage Trilogy) by Brian McClellan]].
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• The Silver Blade by Sally Gardner
  ...entirely from human bones, a man with the hand of skeleton, and the 'Seven Sisters Macabre', automatons pieced together from the corpses of a murderer's most ...goes to the opposite extreme of portraying all the peasantry as ignorant, blood-thirsty and greedy. Doubtless many of them were, but certainly not all. I t
  5 KB (887 words) - 15:40, 25 February 2018
• Blood Sisters by Graham Masterton
  |title=Blood Sisters
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