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Lenard (726 KP) rated The Kid Detective (2020) in Movies

Mar 2, 2021

The Kid Detective (2020)

2020 | Comedy, Mystery

5.5

(2 Ratings)

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Did you ever wonder what happened to Encyclopedia Brown after puberty? This film tries to explain one path his life could have taken. Abe Applebaum still runs a detective agency out of an office set up for him when his treehouse office was vandalized. His life fell apart when his friend and secretary went missing, and the town did not use his skills to solve the crime. He turned to drugs and alcohol and has no concept of time. His parents still bankroll his detecting career, but are about to cut him off. Now, a teenage girl wants to hire him to solve the murder of his boyfriend even though he has never worked an actual crime before. Can Abe return to the top of his game after years of sleazy private investigating private lives?

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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Pride Mates (Shifters Unbound #1) in Books

Nov 9, 2020

Pride Mates (Shifters Unbound #1)

Jennifer Ashley | 2010 | Fiction & Poetry, Paranormal, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy

8.0

(1 Ratings)

Book Rating

181 of 200 Book Pride Mates ( shifters Unbound book 1) By Jennifer Ashley 

Defense attorney Kim Fraser has to venture into the dark and dangerous Shiftertown to get answers for a client accused of murder, but the secrets she learns from the enticing lips of Liam Morrissey might just get her killed if the lion shifter doesn't claim her for his mate. 

This had been in my Tbr pile for so long and I finally got round to it. So glad I did! Having those shifters all collared up is pretty brutal! I enjoyed her take on shifter life it had a strong story and strong characters. I’m looking forward to seeing the new little shifter and finding how they all develop with the change in leadership! Definitely one for shifter lovers!!

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Erika (17788 KP) rated We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence in Books

Feb 6, 2021

I'm not going to lie, I hardcore DNF this book after suffering through 30-ish%. It was advertised as being about a murder at Harvard, and that it may have been a professor. That sounded so interesting.
But no, I got a semi-autobiographical book about the paranoid, slightly-off her rocker author. She re-enrolls at Harvard, takes said professor's classes and tries to solve the case.
Surprisingly, that's not this book's biggest problem. The biggest issue with this book, other than being boring AF, is that this case was solved with longer overdue DNA testing... and completely proved the author's theory wrong. However, even though this book was published after, she still continues on her crusade. It was odd that they went ahead and published it, since it was all incorrect, incoherent babbling.

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Jackjack (877 KP) rated Peppermint (2018) in Movies

Oct 28, 2020

Peppermint (2018)

2018 | Action, Drama, Thriller

6.8

(24 Ratings)

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Amazing!

I have been waiting years to watch this and finally got round too it!!!

Brilliant story with a sad start and action packed ending!

For a mother her happy place in life is with her family, but with the cartel having everyone in their pockets life and justice isn't always easy. A bad choice made on the dads behalf signing the death on his family, how ever the brilliant Jennifer garner survived and has trouble bringing her familys murder to a logical fair ending. In this action packed film you see raw emotions and how far a mother with go to get the ending she waited 5 years to fight for. With no one helping her it's down to her to go back and clean out all the trash!

This is a must see!!!

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Dean (6925 KP) rated Black and Blue (2019) in Movies

Jan 25, 2021

Black and Blue (2019)

2019 | Action, Crime, Drama

6.5

(6 Ratings)

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Decent crime thriller

One of the films I missed as it didn't get a long release at the cinema in the UK. Naomie Harris plays a rookie cop in a rundown area of New Orleans. With corrupt cops and gangs working together in the supply of drugs. Soon she is hunted by both through the neighborhood after capturing a murder by the corrupt cops on her bodycam.
Overall it was an enjoyable watch, a little slow at the start and middle section. It had quite a low budget feel to it despite some big cast names. Worth a watch but far from the better films with a similar plotline. @21 Bridges (2019) is one example that had more action.

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The Sexy Brutale

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Heather Cranmer (2721 KP) created a post

May 23, 2020

Historical romance fans are in luck because I have the first part of the prologue from Camille Di Maio's latest book THE FIRST EMMA on my blog. Stop by, and check it out. Then enter the #GIVEAWAY to #win your own #signed copy of the book!

https://alltheupsandowns.blogspot.com/2020/05/book-blog-tour-and-giveaway-first-emma.html

**BOOK SYNOPSIS**
The First Emma is the true story of Emma Koehler. Whose tycoon husband Otto was killed in a crime-of-the-century murder by one of his two mistresses – both also named Emma – and her unlikely rise as CEO of a brewing empire during Prohibition. When a chance to tell her story to a young teetotaler arises, a tale unfolds of love, war, beer, and the power of women.