The Great Gatsby
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The Furthest Station (Peter Grant, #5.5)
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There have been ghosts on the London Underground, sad, harmless spectres whose presence does little...
Digging Deeper (Elemental Evidence #4)
Bellora Quinn and Sadie Rose Bermingham
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Unearthing the past brings them closer together…and to danger. A maniac is on the loose in...
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Love Always
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This family’s poisoned. They won’t tell you, but they are.’ From a hot, tense Cornwall...
Curtsies & Conspiracies (Finishing School #2)
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Does one need four fully grown foxgloves for decorating a dinner table for six guests? Or is it six...
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Yardie (2018)
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Set in '70s Kingston and '80s Hackney, Yardie centres on the life of a young Jamaican man named D...
Kill With Kindness
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A sadistic killer. An infamous victim. A crime that gets darker and darker… The body of a young...
ClareR (5879 KP) rated The People Before in Books
Feb 5, 2023
Pete and Jess buy a big house in rural Suffolk that needs a lot of work. Overwhelmingly so. Jess is clearly uncomfortable with the house. Pete works in London and Jess is left alone a lot with two children who need a lot of attention. And something clearly happened in London prior to their move that no-one is talking about.
This is a slow burner with characters I loved to dislike. Everything that could go wrong, did. Like Jess, I always felt I was left unbalanced about what was going on. What was going to go wrong next?! One thing after another seems to go wrong in this house. What was Pete up to? What had happened in the house before they had got there?
Honestly, I didn’t read the synopsis to this book before I read it, purely because I’d read and enjoyed The House Guest, Charlotte’s previous book. And I wasn’t disappointed. I’m eager to read whatever she writes next!
Shrines of Gaiety
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1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a...
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The Bandalore (Pitch & Sickle #1)
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1885 London, England Silas Mercer died once. He’d rather not do it again. On his return to the...
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