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Black Klansman – Book Review
What is it about? Ron Stallworth joins as a police cadet, with the intention eventually to be a teacher. However, he becomes the first black police officer in the Colorado Springs Police Department. He wanted to go undercover and got his chance at a nightclub where Stokely Carmichael is giving a speech. Ron had also…
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Class Murder – Book Review
I haven’t read any of Leigh Russell’s books before and received this in my mychroniclebookbox so while it’s number 10 in the series, I gave it a read. I’m glad I did, this is a thoroughly absorbing read with so many possible suspects but you really don’t know whodunnit until the last couple of…
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Something wicked this way comes- Book Review
Something wicked this way comes -Ray Bradbury Published by Gollancz By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes – Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade are the best friends, they run everywhere side by side. Then Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show, the carnival comes to town. What follows is a…
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The Dreamers – Book Review
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Dreamers by Katherine Thompson Walker Published by Scribner Official blurb : The eagerly awaited new novel from the author of The Age of Miracles. Imagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, months… A world where you could…
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Murder at Hawthorne Cottage – Book Review
Murder at Hawthorne Cottage By Betty Rowlands A Melissa Craig novel This is the first novel featuring Melissa Craig. Melissa Craig is a crime novelist and she has moved from London to a quiet Gloucestershire village. She makes friends with her neighbour, Iris, a fabric designing vegetarian and Bruce a local journalist. She has…
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Dark Winter – Book Review
Dark Winter By David Mark Published by Mulholland Books 30 August 2018 This is the first in the DS McAvoy series. Fred Stein is a survivor…..all his crew mates lost their lives, leaving him, alone, alive. Daphne Cotton is a survivor….all her classmates were massacred….leaving her alone, alive Trevor Jefferson is a survivor…..his family…
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Dead End by Rachel Lynch – Book Review
Dead End by Rachel Lynch The third in the Kelly Porter series of books and is set in Ullswater, the Lake District. While it’s the third in a series, it can be read as a stand-alone, as I haven’t read either of the others yet, but it didn’t feel disjointed in any way. At…
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You Let Me In – Book Review
Elle is a successful author, struggling to complete her second book. She has a beautiful house but lives alone and her life is a social media filter. As she goes on a book tour she decides to rent her perfect, Cornwall house out using AirBnB…..but when she returns something doesn’t feel right… There’s a sinister…
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The Crossing Places – Book Review
The Crossing Places By Elly Griffiths This is set in present day Norfolk…a beautiful part of the UK but bleak at times. Ruth Galloway is an archaeologist with a particular interest in bones. she describes her self as almost Forty and overweight, a cat lady with two cats, Sparky and Flint. Harry Nelson is…
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Labyrinth of the Spirits- Book Review
David Sempere and his family, secrets and a bookshop….with Daniel and his deep thoughts of revenge for what had happened to Isabella, his mother. His friend , Fermin is so disjointed in how he speaks and jumps around from subject to subject, he is a comedian and philosopher. Then there’s the resolute Alicia all connected…
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Skellig – Book Review
Skellig By David Almond Classic Children’s fiction I am too old to have read this as a child, but was given this by a friend as a recommendation. Oh what a lovely book…..Michael’s baby sister is ill, very ill and he worries she may die. His family have moved to a new home, a…
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Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
This starts with a carriage driver struggling in the rain and mud to take his passenger home. He’s not even sure if he is still alive. John Lacroix is brought to his family home barely conscious, stinking and wounded. Nell the housekeeper of the empty house, washes him, clothes him and feeds him gently,…
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Toll the Bell for Murder
Toll the Bell for Murder By George Bellairs This was first published in 1959 and is set in the village of Mylecharaine, in the north of the Isle of Man. One night a loud explosion is heard, waking the villagers, then Reverend Lee is ringing the Church Bell, nearly hysterical……the body of the cad,…
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The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton
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