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Collateral Series 1

6.4 (5 Ratings) Rate It

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Described as a modern-day state of the nation project which takes place over four days.

Brain Dead (2008)

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An alien infection creates a horrific horde of brain-munching zombies shuffling to the door of a...

Fran Donohoe (856 KP) rated It (2017) in Movies

Sep 12, 2017

It (2017)

2017 | Drama, Horror

7.9

(355 Ratings)

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Good acting and effects (0 more)

Not as scary as billed (0 more)

Nothing like the book

Didn't see what all the hipe was all about , maybe because I grew up in the 70's and 80's it has made me desensitised to modern "horror" films I just found this as blaugh

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Fran Donohoe (856 KP) Sep 17, 2017

It was just a tagline albeit a bad one to use

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Billie Wichkan (118 KP) rated Heartlands (Detective Jessie Blake #1) in Books

May 22, 2019

Call it mothers intuition, but I knew she was dead the moment she was late home. As I listened to her phone ring and ring, thats when I knew for sure. My little girl was gone.
Fifteen-year-old Shannon Ross is missing and her parents are distraught. With her long blonde hair, easy laugh and perfect grades, shes the girl everyone at school wants to be.
Detective Jessie Blake is called to Inverlochty, the missing girls home town in the Scottish Highlands, and finds Shannon was keeping a diary full of friends and neighbors secrets. She knows the kind, outgoing boy whos sleeping with his teacher and the quiet woman whos been having an affair with her best friends husband.
Just as Jessie and her team are beginning to understand Shannons complicated world, her lifeless body is found on an ice-cold river bank on the outskirts of town. And when Jessie tells Shannons family the heart-breaking news, she senses something isnt right. The loving family is beginning to show cracks. Did Shannon know about her fathers alcohol problems and violent past? Why does Shannons mother keep finding excuses to leave the room, when Jessie wants to ask her questions?
As Jessie begins to piece together the final days of Shannons life, her own history comes back to haunt her. Putting aside her personal demons, Jessie vows to do whatever it takes to catch Shannons killer. But what if the killer is ready to strike first?

Totally captivating and addictive read. I loved this book! There are two storylines. One routed in the past about a brutally raped and murdered school girl and her young killers as they face trial and juvenile detention. One in the present, a missing school girl, Shannon, baring all the similarities of the case from the past - or so it seems.
There are a lot of characters introduced and it ca be a bit overwhelming but persevere as the novel is one worth reading.
The plot is very well written in my opinion and it does flow well. The main characters are well written and enjoy them.
Very compelling and suspenseful read.
I look forward to more in the series as it develops and hope to get more backstory on the detective.
Highly recommend!

My thanks to Bookouture and Netgalley for the ARC.