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Book Review- The Dry
Title: The Dry Author: Jane Harper Published: Jan 2017 (UK) Pages: 352 Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Rating: 4/5 Luke Hadler turns a gun on his wife and child, then himself. The farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily. If one of their own broke under the strain, well…When Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk returns to Kiewarra for the funerals, he is loath to confront the people who rejected him twenty years earlier. But when his investigative skills are called on, the facts of the Hadler case start to make him doubt this murder-suicide charge.And as Falk probes deeper into the killings, old wounds start bleeding into fresh…
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Book Review- What Remains of Me
Title: What Remains of Me Author: Alison Gaylin Published: Feb 23rd 2016 Pages: 384 Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Rating: 4/5 Nobody’s perfect. Everybody’s got a drawer somewhere with something hidden in it.On June 28, 1980—the hottest night of the year—Kelly Michelle Lund shoots and kills Oscar-nominated director John McFadden at a party in his home. . . . And instantly becomes a media sensation, her chilling smile fodder for national nightmares. For years, speculation swirls over the enigmatic seventeen-year-old’s motives, information she’s refused to share. Convicted of the murder, she loses her youth and her freedom—but keeps her secrets to herself.Thirty years later—and five years after her release from prison—the…
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The Sway- Book Review
Title: The Sway Author: Ruby Knight Published: May 17th 2016 Pages: 230 Series: Classified #1 Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy Rating: 3/5 Her mission is to get close to him for inside information.His mission is to kidnap her for a supernatural militant group.Recruited in her teens for a life of espionage, Julia Caldwell, now 19, is the youngest CIA agent on record. Her mission is simple: get close to Cole Thomas for intel on his father, a known and dangerous weapons dealer. As she grows closer to Cole, something is off. He might not be who she thinks he is. And worse, his mission will put an end to hers.Always believing…
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Book Review- Twenty-Four Shadows
Title: Twenty-Four Shadows Author: Tanya J. Peterson Pages: 394 Genre: Fiction, Psychology, Contemporary Rating: 3/5 In her eye-opening and heartrending fourth novel, award winning author Tanya J. Peterson takes us inside the anguished mind of Isaac Bittman-an average family man whose mysterious and progressively violent mood swings, many of which he cannot remember, begin to unravel the lives of those closest to him. After a series of bizarre encounters, including losing his job and waking up half-dead in the wilds of Idaho, he begins treatment at a revolutionary mental health facility, where the childhood trauma he’s repressed for decades leads to revelations that his personality has splintered into twenty-four shadows,…
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Book Review- Himself
Title: Himself Author: Jess Kidd Pages: 368 Genre: Fiction, Paranormal, Mystery Rating: 5/5 Blending strange kindnesses, casual violence and buried secrets: an unforgettable debut from a dark new voice in Irish fiction When Mahony returns to Mulderrig, a speck of a place on Ireland’s west coast, he brings only his handsome face, a photograph of his long-lost mother and a determination to do battle with the village’s lies. His arrival causes cheeks to flush and arms to fold in disapproval. No one – living or dead – will tell what happened to the teenage mother who abandoned him as a baby, despite Mahony’s certainty that more than one of them…