The Love Academy
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Do you have enough romance in your life? Journalist Kirsty Bailey would have to answer no. She...
Hidden Bodies
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Joe Goldberg is no stranger to hiding bodies. In the past ten years, this thirty-something has...
Be My Enemy
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F**k this for a game of soldiers… For investigative journalist Jack Parlabane, these are...
Graveland
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Someone is assassinating the financial industry's most powerful players—in cold blood and in broad...
Show No Mercy (Black Ops Inc. #1)
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The sexy heroes of Black Ops, Inc., a covert private security team, sizzle in New York Times...
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Journalist Shuichi Fujii receives a letter from convicted killer Junji Sudo. Writing from death row,...
Darkness Falls (Kate Marshall #3)
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Kate Marshall’s investigation into a journalist’s disappearance sends her down an unexpectedly...
Hazel (2934 KP) rated Never Seen Again in Books
Mar 13, 2022
Here we have a twisty and dark thriller with a plot that is complex which although develops quite slowly, it ramps up and quickly becomes a rollercoaster of a ride with lots of tension and action.
The characters are excellent and well developed. The main character, David, is a journalist who starts off with few scruples and, as a consequence, I found he isn't a particularly likeable person ... at the start at least; he does grow on you as the story progresses. He and his sidekicks, Anushka and Norm, make a great team and I wonder if there is more to come from them? I certainly hope so.
Overall, a great read and I my thanks must go to Orion Publishing Group and NetGalley for my copy in return for an honest, unbiased and unedited review.
ClareR (6129 KP) rated Fearless and Free: A Memoir by Josephine Baker in Books
Oct 14, 2025
Born in 1906, mixed race, Josephine made it from St. Louis to New York and then on to Paris - and she was still a teenager. She became famous in Paris for her banana dress in the Danse Sauvage, and she was also a jazz singer and an actress. During WW2 she was a spy, she loved animals, adopted children and donated to many causes.
This memoir ends in 1949, so we don’t get any details about her involvement in the Civil Rights movement, but we do see what happens when she travels home to the US - and it’s not good. Her reception is the complete opposite to the way she’s received in Europe.
When reading this, Josephine’s voice shines through. Her vivacious, fun, tenacious personality is there throughout, which does make up for the non-linear accounts.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book!