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The Cream Tea Killer - Judy Leigh

  Description Preorder the BRAND NEW instalment in the Morwenna Mutton Mystery series from USA Today bestseller Judy Leigh perfect for all fans of Richard Osman. Morwenna Mutton should be living the quiet life of a librarian and grandmother in Cornwall’s beautiful Seal Bay – if only dead bodies would stop turning up… After the excitement of her last investigation, amateur sleuth Morwenna is looking forward to things getting back to normal. When local DJ Irina asks to meet however, desperate to share information she has discovered regarding nefarious goings-on, Morwenna can’t resist. But Irina never arrives for their drink – instead her body is washed up on the beach, an apparent victim of an accidental drowning. At once keen wild bather Morwenna knows something is amiss as Irina was a strong swimmer who knew the local conditions well. What had Irina uncovered and who would want her dead? When the local news dubs Irina’s murderer The Cream Tea Killer in honour of Cornwall’s famous d...
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  and why I haven't reviewed as many books this year
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The Fellowship of Puzzle Makers - Samuel Burr

  Description An extraordinary, gloriously uplifting novel about the power of friendship and the puzzling ties that bind us Clayton Stumper might be twenty-six years old, but he dresses like your grandpa and drinks sherry like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists and now finds himself among the last survivors of a fading institution. When the esteemed crossword compiler and main maternal presence in Clayton's life, Pippa Allsbrook, passes away, she bestows her final puzzle on him: a promise to reveal the mystery of his parentage and prepare him for life beyond the walls of the commune. As Clay begins to unpick the clues, he uncovers something even the Fellowship have never been able to solve—and it's a secret that has the potential to change everything. Review I researched this book before buying it in case it was going to be too hard to solve the puzzles. I got my copy on kindle and ...
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Eat Slay Love - Julie Mae Cohen

  Description A friend will help you move on. A  best  friend will help you move his body. Opal, Marina and Lilah are three strangers and have nothing in common. Well, except for the man who's been lying to all of them. And who they are now holding hostage in a basement. From the author of  Bad Men ,  Eat, Slay, Love  is a book about making friends, finding joy, and discovering the woman you really are . . . though, sometimes, becoming your best self involves committing abduction and murder. Review This is the second book by the author I have read and this time rather than a professional killer it has an unimagined killer.  Three woman are all involved with the same man, unbeknown to two of them. When the third one reaches out to alert the other two, they get together with a plan in mind to teach him a lesson. In teaching him a lesson they also form a sisterhood, and end up teaching each other a few life lessons too. With some dark humour it also cover...
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The Blue Hour - Paula Hawkins

  Description AS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 FRONT ROW ‘Utterly compelling.  Could not put it down .’ LIZ NUGENT ‘Really, really, REALLY good.  Highly recommended! ’ MARIAN KEYES 'I LOVED this  art-world-set thriller  with its stately-home  Saltburn vibe .'  DAILY MAIL THE CHILLING AND ADDICTIVE NEW THRILLER FROM THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR . ************** WELCOME TO ERIS - A SCOTTISH TIDAL ISLAND WITH ONLY ONE HOUSE, ONE INHABITANT, ONE WAY OUT. . . A place that is unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day. Once the hideaway of Vanessa, a famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now home to Grace. A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation. But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, Grace receives an unexpected visitor. And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge . . . Review Is this another "The Girl on the Train"?- no. Is it ...
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Invisible Kitties - Yu Yoyo

  Description A whimsical and inventive debut, perfect for fans of  The Guest Cat  and  If Cats Disappeared from the World . A young couple’s daily life is disrupted by their newly adopted cat, who soon initiates them into the wondrous world of felines. Every cat contains multitudes… When a young couple accidentally comes into possession of a playful kitten, their daily routine (and cramped apartment) is turned upside down. Soon they find their existence forever altered. Charting the couple’s ever-evolving relationship with cats – some they live with, others who exist only in their imagination –  Invisible Kitties  is a meditation on the quiet moments of everyday life and a celebration of cats in all their many forms. Review Well, it's certainly different! I found this book too surrealist for my taste. Of course as it is translated from the Japanese I was expecting it to be different to western writing.  At times it is more whimsical and that I was oka...
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Friends of Dorothy - Sandi Toksvig

  Description The funny, wise and brilliant new novel from the star of  QI  and the author of  Between the Stops 'Warm, witty and wise... the perfect balm for these turbulent times'  GRAHAM NORTON After much searching, the happily married young couple, Amber and Stevie think they have found the perfect spot in Grimaldi Square. Despite the rundown pub across the way, the overgrown garden and a decidedly nosy neighbour, number 4 is the house of their dreams. Stevie, a woman who has never left anything to chance, has planned everything so nothing can spoil their happiness. But ... upstairs in their new home, seated on an old red sofa is the woman they bought the place from - eighty-year-old foul-mouthed, straight-talking, wise-cracking Dorothy - who has decided that she's not going anywhere. It turns out that Dorothy will be only the first in a line of life-changing surprises. Friends of Dorothy  is a touching, funny novel about a family that is not biological...
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