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Study for Obedience

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A very strange book, and one that is so unique it is virtually guaranteed to evoke strong feelings in the reader - as this is a book that will challenge as much as it enthralls. Narrated by a voice that is ageless, unnamed, and only very loosely described as…

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Gull Island

🌟🌟🌟🌟 A slow burn, this gothic-inspired novel is dark, claustrophobic and brimming with fetid secrets. Jude, our middle-aged first-person POV narrator, is as unreliable as they come. Never fully sober, Jude is hallucinatory, and traumatized as she takes a trip down memory lane. On her first solo visit to the…

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Betrayal

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« With plenty of suspects, this intricately-plotted legal thriller kept me engaged right up through the twists and turns and eventual chilling ending. The horrific murder of an entire family, - mom, dad, adult son and teenage daughter - has the Portland, Oregon community reeling. When Robin Lockwood, criminal defense…

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The Lost Cause

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« An earnest, albeit depressing, look at climate change, thirty years down the road, and the political upheaval at play in a world no more divided than what what we have in place today. As tensions rise to the critical point, measures put in place by a β€˜Green New Deal’-…

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Unspeakable Acts

🌟🌟🌟🌟 An interesting and intelligent anthology of essays covering the stories, analysis and commentary of a number of excellent true-crime writers. The authors consider many aspects, including but not limited to the traditional true-crime narrative, as they unpack societal influences and larger issues surrounding crime and its encapsulation in media,…

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Darling Girls

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« Creepy and unsettling, this Australia-based read is part domestic thriller, part mystery, and all dark foreboding as the story weaves an ominous path through the trials of three adolescent foster family charges. As each girl suffers domestic tragedy and is β€œlucky” enough to find herself sequestered in Wild Meadows…

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The Heron’s Cry

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« The second in the North Devon based DI Matthew Venn series, Two Rivers, this is crime writing at its most immersive. As Matthew and his crew work to unpack a series of horrific deaths, the author continues to build on the backdrop of recurring characters - beginning with Venn…

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The Damages

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A complex, challenging and thoroughly mesmerizing read. Rosalind Fisher is eighteen years old, a freshman at a preppy Ontario University. An unlikable character, Rosalind is self-absorbed, shallow, and focused on the single-minded pursuit of the β€˜cool’ kids, who she believes will automatically bolster her own insipid image. And Rosalind…

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The Thursday Murder Club

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« A funny and captivating murder mystery, featuring a quartet of octogenarians who are as charming as they are quick-witted. Companions at the luxurious Coopers Chase Retirement village - Joyce, Elizabeth, Ibrahim and Ron, our main protagonists - enjoy wine, gin and tonics, gossiping, and sunshine as they contemplate life…

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