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The Defence Book Review

Title: THE DEFENCE – Eddie Flynn #01 Author: Steve Cavanagh ISBN: 9781250082251 Publisher: Orion Books Pages: 325 Source: Private Copy The truth has no place in a courtroom. The truth doesn’t matter in a trial.The only thing that matters is what the prosecution can prove.Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became

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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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