Married to Bhutan: How One Woman Got Lost, Said I Do, and Found Bliss
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Tucked away in the eastern end of the Himalayas lies Bhutan - a tiny, landlocked country bordering...
Hippy Dinners: A Memoir of a Rural Childhood
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In 1972 Abbie Ross' cosmopolitan parents move the family from London to rural North Wales,...
The Lie of the Land
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'Terrific, page-turning, slyly funny' India Knight 'As satisfying a novel as I have read in years'...
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The Drowning Sea
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For the first time in her adult life, former Long Island homicide detective Maggie D’arcy is...
It’s about found family, loyalty, love, grief and healing.
Oxnard (Ox) narrates the story about how he meets a young boy who has moved into the house at the bottom of his remote country lane. They form a close friendship very quickly, and the boy (Joe) gives Ox a small stone Wolf as a gift. The true nature of the gift isn’t clear for a few years, and in that time Ox learns just who and what the Bennett family are. He goes from believing he’s stupid and worthless, to being an important, integral member of the Bennett pack - a family of werewolves.
Something terrible happens, and the family fragments in two: whilst one half (including Joe) go off on an arduous adventure, Ox remains behind to protect who is left along with the Bennett territory.
This does get pretty graphically violent, I’ll warn you now, but it’s in context - and these are wolves!
I was utterly beguiled by this story - and I’m glad that I have the next in the series to head to already! I’d like to know how Ox and Joe are getting on as newly mated wolves - and who we’ll learn more about in the next book, Ravensong (I have my suspicions!).
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Helicopter game, RC Helicopter Flight Simulator 3D, is a new a exciting helicopter flying sim game....
Praying For Sleep
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On a savage, storm-lashed night, Michael Hrubek — a dangerously paranoid schizophrenic — escapes...
Billie Wichkan (118 KP) rated From the Shadows in Books
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Sixteen-year-old Robert arrives home late. Without a word to his dad, he goes up to his bedroom. Robert is never seen alive again.
A body is soon found on the coast of the Scottish Highlands. Detective Inspector Monica Kennedy stands by the victim in this starkly beautiful and remote landscape. Instinct tells her the case wont begin and end with this one death.
Meanwhile, Inverness-based social worker Michael Bach is worried about one of his clients whose last correspondence was a single ambiguous text message; Nichol Morgan has been missing for seven days.
As Monica is faced with catching a murderer who has been meticulously watching and waiting, Michael keeps searching for Nichol, desperate to find him before the killer claims another victim.
From the Shadows is the first book in the Detective Inspector Monica Kennedy series by G R Halliday and it is a promising start to what will hopefully be one a successful and long running police procedural series.
The story is set in the Scottish Highlands and uses its' setting well to add atmosphere to the book.
I really enjoyed the story and the twists and turns of the plot.
It's quite a dark story but I liked that and wasn't sure who the killer was until close to the end.
I was thoroughly engrossed whilst reading the book and could not put it down.
Definitely recommended.
Thank you NetGalley and Random House Vintage for a copy of this book.
The Missing Ones
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Hester Thursby has given up using her research skills to trace people who don’t want to be found....
Vanishing Falls
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Celia Lily is rich, beautiful, and admired. She's also missing. And the search for the glamorous...