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Commonwealth Caribbean Family Law: Husband, Wife and Cohabitant

Karen Tesheira

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This important new text is the product of several years of research of the family law of fifteen...

Glimpses of the Sugar Industry: The Art of Garnet Ifill

Brinsley Samaroo and Garnet Ifill

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The sugar industry in Trinidad and Tobago has considerably reduced after over 200 years of...

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RTTMALL, headquartered in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and with over 35 pickup points...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2352 KP) rated Pint of No Return in Books

Jul 8, 2021 (Updated Jul 8, 2021)

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After finding out that her ex-husband was a thrice-married embezzler, Trinidad Jones moved to Upper Sprocket, Oregon. The reason? Her ex left her a storefront, and she is going to open a shake shop there. One afternoon, she finds a neighboring store owner dead in the back of his popcorn shop. The police start to look at Juliette, one of Trinidad’s fellow ex-wives, as the killer. Trinidad doesn’t think that Juliette committed the crime, but can she trust her instincts?

I found myself at once drawn into the book as I struggled to fully get lost in the world. There were small details that we didn’t get right away that kept me from fully getting emmeshed in the story. On the other hand, the characters were wonderful, and those relationships kept drawing me in. The pacing was a little off a couple of times, but it held my interest as I read, and it led to a great climax. The book does a good job of balancing tone. At times, it’s light, but other times it gets serious. The combination makes for a richer book. I appreciated the slight twist on the cozy mystery set up. The ice cream scenes made my drool, and I appreciate the recipe at the end of the book. I can’t wait to revisit these characters when the second in this series comes out.

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Connie: The Life of Learie Constantine

Harry Pearson

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His father was a first-class cricketer, his grandfather was a slave. Born in rural Trinidad in 1901,...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2352 KP) rated Thrown for a Scoop in Books

Jun 18, 2025

Is the Solution to an Old Mystery Here in Town?

Upper Sprocket is celebrating its centennial, and Trinidad Jones has created a special freak shake to celebrate the milestone. But before the celebration kicks off, a stranger wanders into her shake shop. He’s a true crime podcaster trying to track down clues on a fifty-year-old case, and he thinks that Trinidad’s soon to be brother-in-law, Doug, might know something about it. Since Doug isn’t good with strangers, Trinidad tries to warn him only to find that the stranger is dead when she arrives. Despite vowing to stay out of it, she can’t help but try to clear Doug. Can she do it?

I was pleased to see the author was self-publishing a fourth book in the series. It does a good job of updating us on the characters while also kicking the story off. We are treated to a well plotted story that kept me guessing until we reached the logical climax. And the characters are as quirky and charming as always. There were some continuity issues early on that felt like things left over from earlier drafts of the book, but once things really got going, I didn’t notice any more of them. This book will definitely make you crave ice cream, and I am curious what was in the breakfast ice cream that is featured in a fun subplot. Fans of this series will scoop up this book. I know I’m glad I did.

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ClareR (5879 KP) rated River Sing Me Home in Books

Jan 19, 2023

River Sing Me Home

Eleanor Shearer | 2023 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry

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River Sing Me Home was such a moving read on The Pigeonhole.
Set across Barbados, British Guiana and Trinidad in 1834, Rachel is driven to go and find her sold children when slavery is abolished. You would think that she would be free to do so, but when slavery was abolished, slave owners operated an apprentice scheme - which was simply the same terms and conditions as slavery. So Rachel has to be very careful and remain under the radar of slave catchers.
Rachel’s determination to find her children and her joy when she does find them, the brutality and inhumanity of the slave trade, Rachel’s experiences of love and loss, all add up to a really emotional reading experience.
Recommended.