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The Helper Book Review

Title: THE HELPER – Callum Doyle #2 Author: David Jackson ISBN: 9780230760486 Publisher: Macmillan Pages: 304 Source: Private Copy ‘I can help you, Cal. I can help you solve the murder of Cindy Mellish.’ A grisly murder in a shabby New York bookstore seems to hold a special significance for Detective Callum Doyle: the victim’s […]

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Little Girls Lost Book Review

Title: LITTLE GIRLS LOST Author: J.A. Kerley ISBN: 9780007343782  Publisher: Harper Collins Pages: 436 Source: Private Copy Children are disappearing in Mobile, Alabama, the latest snatched from her own bedroom. There are no clues – and, as yet, no bodies. Homicide Detective Carson Ryder is called in to investigate the abduction of little LaShelle Shearing,

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Dear Future Me Book Review

Title: DEAR FUTURE ME Author: Deborah O’Connor ISBN: 9781838778118 Publisher: Zaffre Pages: 400 Source: Private Copy In 2003, Mr. Danler’s high school class got an assignment to write letters to their future selves. Twenty years later, they receive them in the mail. Upon opening them, the students are shocked to find that their envelopes contain

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No Safe Place Book Review

Title: NO SAFE PLACE Author: Hannah Brennan ISBN: 9780008778071  Publisher: Harper Collins / Avon Pages: 416 Source: Review copy from the publisher There’s no one more deadly than the killer you know. A man is found brutally stabbed and left for dead. A young woman is killed in a frenzied attack in the middle of

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July in a Nutshell

That’s a Wrap! By the end of July, we usually start to feel a shift in the weather as things slowly begin to warm up. But this year, winter seems determined to overstay its welcome. I’ve spent most of the month tucked away indoors, bundled up in far too many layers — luckily, I had

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Hangman Book Review

Title: HANGMAN Author: Daniel Cole ISBN: 9781409168812 Publisher: Orion Books Pages: 384 Source: Private Copy Meet DCI Emily Baxter, a detective whose life is as complicated as the cases she investigates.A body is found hanging from Brooklyn Bridge, the word ‘BAIT’ carved into the chest.In London a copycat killer strikes, branded with the word ‘PUPPET’,

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The Daughter Book Review

Title: THE DAUGHTER Author: Liz Webb ISBN: 9780749028800  Publisher: Allison and Busby Pages: 380 Source: Private Copy ‘I lean in and whisper the question I have never let myself utter in twenty-three years.‘Dad…did you murder Mum?’Hannah Davidson has a dementia-stricken father, an estranged TV star brother, and a mother whose death opened up hidden fault

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Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave Book Review

Title: Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave Author: Elle Cosimano ISBN: 9781250337344  Publisher: Minotaur Books Pages: 309 Source: Private Copy Finlay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet . . . but at least there’s not a body in her backyard.Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime, Vero, have not always gotten along with Finlay’s elderly neighbor, Mrs. Haggerty,

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