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Book Review: A Beginner’s Guide To Breaking and Entering by Andrew Hunter Murray

Al is a squatter who lives in people’s houses while they are off on holidays. But not just any houses. High-end real estate. He doesn’t consider himself to be a squatter, but an unofficial house-sitter, and calls himself an interloper. He never steals anything and takes great care not to damage anything. Most people never […]

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Book Review: Where They Lie by Claire Coughlan

It is the 60s in Dublin, 1968 to be exact. Nicoletta Sarto is a junior reporter for the Irish Senitel, keen, ambitious, and wants to try and make it, in what is arguably a ‘man’s world’. Nicoletta gets a break when the bones of Julia Bridges are discovered in a garden on the outskirts of […]

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Book Review: The 24th Hour by James Patterson

The Women’s Murder Club is out celebrating at one of San Fransisco’s top restaurants when a scream breaks out and interrupts the party. Sergeant Lindsay Boxer rushes to the aid of a woman who appears to have been assaulted and promptly makes an assault. Fellow Murder Club member Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano takes on […]

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Book Review: The Trials of Marjorie Crowe by C.S. Robertson

Marjorie Crowe lives alone in a cottage in the woods in Kilgoyne, Scotland. Locals think her a batty old woman, with local gossip putting her at 55 to 70, a divorced, lifelong spinster, librarian, pharmacist or witch. Take your pick. She has a routine, rain or shine, to walk the village, a specific set route […]

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Book Review: A Curtain Twitcher’s Book of Murder by Gay Marris

London in the 1960s in a small leafy suburb. There is no social media, no mobile phones, and to presume what others are doing involves peeking through the net curtains and indulging in some harmless gossip at the shop, butchers or the church fête. This is no different for the residents of Atbara Avenue, who […]

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Book Review: House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. Their legions are sweeping the world, scouring it of superstition, and burning any traces of magic. Leaving scorched land and conquered people in their wake, they won’t stop until everything is Perfect. This war delivers a continual supply of mangled and tortured […]

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Book Review: Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra

A woman living in a remote, old house wakes in the middle of the night to comfort her son and tuck him back into bed. About to return to her own bed, she freezes when she hears movement on the staircase. An old house settling, or movement on the stairs? She waits, and then it […]

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Book Review: Relight My Fire by C.K. McDonnell

Book 4 in The Stranger Times Series My review for this book is simply – read it. Wait, have you read the first three books in the series? If not, then stop, go read them first, then come and read Relight My Fire. You won’t regret it. End of review. If you need more, well, […]

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Book Review: The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini

Tate Kinsella is working as a temp in a banking company in London. It is not her dream job, she wants to be an actor, but has only had one real role, so between auditions, she temps to pay the bills. To be social, she attends the office party, hosted on the 25th floor of […]

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Book Review: The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

Cassie Andrews is working in a bookshop when she receives a book from a favourite customer of hers, just before he passed away in her store. The old man told her many fanciful stories, he was a collector of books, they shared many of the same reading interests, but still Cassie is surprised he gave […]