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Title: The Burning Girls Author: C.J. Tudor ISBN: 9780241371312 Publisher: Penguin Random House Pages: 384 Source: Private Copy 500 years ago: eight martyrs were burnt to death 30 years ago: two teenagers vanished without trace Two months ago: the vicar committed suicide Welcome, too Chapel Croft. For Reverend Jack Brooks and teenage daughter Flo it’s […]
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Author: Jonathan Kellerman Date Read: 15 May 2011 Official Summary A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broad daylight. Two women are butchered after closing time in a small-town beauty parlor. These and other bizarre acts of cruelty and
Title: City Problems Author: Steve Goble ISBN: 9781608094431 Publisher: Oceanview Publishers Pages: 336 Source: ARC from NetGalley A moment of violence—a snap judgement—a life changed to the core Ed Runyon bolted from the NYPD after a runaway teen case fell through the cracks and turned into a nightmarish murder. Now, he’s learned to bury the
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By Jonathan Kellerman Date Read: 18 March 2011 Official Summary The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message about something “real dead . . . buried in your marsh.” The eco-volunteer on the other end of the phone thinks it’s a prank, but when a young woman’s body turns up in L.A.’s
Title: Mud and Glass Author: Laura E Goodin ISBN: 9781922200860 Publisher: Odyssey Books Pages: 306 Source: Review copy from Henry Roi PR Life is fairly workaday for Dr Celeste Carlucci, a professor at Krasnia’s finest university until her best friend and colleague Pace involves Celeste in her research. Before long, Celeste is being shot at
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By Jonathan Kellerman Date Read: 06 January 2011 Official Summary Who killed the killer? In his brilliant and startling new novel, Jonathan Kellerman, perennial bestselling author and premier proprietor of the psychological thriller, gives a sharp and timely twist to homicide’s central question. Someone has murdered euthanasia champion Dr Eldon Mate–a self-styled Dr Death responsible
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By Jonathan Kellerman Date Read: 13 March 2011 Official Summary A resourceful runaway alone in the wilds of Los Angeles, twelve-year-old Billy Straight suddenly witnesses a brutal stabbing in Griffith Park. Fleeing into the night, Billy cannot shake the horrific memory of the savage violence, nor the pursuit of a cold-blooded killer. For wherever Billy
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By Stephen King Date Read: 15 June 2011 Official Summary Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds
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By George Orwell Date Read: 17 August 2014 Official Summary A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged
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By: Brian K. Henry Moody sixteen-year-old barista Devin Mulwray is doing his best to ignore bizarre manifestations at his job in the chilly Northern California town of Arcata. Already teased about his recurrent ‘phase-outs’, the last thing he needs is to get pegged as a guy who sees ghosts. It doesn’t help his state of
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