Lead Review (The Big Chill)

• Book: The Big Chill
• Location: Scotland
• Author: Doug Johnstone

"EDINBURGH SPOTLIGHT REVIEW The Big Chill by Dough Johnstone No. 2 in ‘The Skelfs’ Series Running private-investigator and funeral-home businesses means..."

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Sepulchre Street (Lead Review)

• Book: Sepulchre Street
• Location: London
• Author: Martin Edwards

"The Rachel Savernake books reinvent Golden Age tropes in various ways and the author lays out any clues that the reader..."

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Lead Review (There’s Been A Little Incident)

• Book: There’s Been A Little Incident
• Location: Dublin, Ireland
• Author: Alice Ryan

"A unique family story, with Irish heart and humour, which ultimately tackles some of life’s bigger issues. Molly Black has left..."

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Lead Review (The White Circle)

• Book: The White Circle
• Location: Baden-Württemberg
• Author: Jamie Bulloch (Translator), Oliver Bottini

"This is a crisply told, fast moving story that can be read as a standalone, but it might be a richer..."

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Lead Review (The Half Moon)

• Book: The Half Moon
• Location: New York State
• Author: Mary Beth Keane

"An engrossing novel of ordinary lives and a novel that will appeal to readers who are keen on Mary Lawson and..."

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Lead Review (Wild Thorns)

• Book: Wild Thorns
• Location: Nablus, West Bank
• Author: Elizabeth Fernea, Sahar Khalifeh, Trevor Le Gassick (Translator)

"This story is set in 1972  was first published in 1976 and tells the story of Usama al-Karmi, who has been..."

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Lead Review (the Ice Swimmer)

• Book: The Ice Swimmer
• Location: Oslo
• Author: Kjell Ola Dahl

"The Ice Swimmer is the sixth in Dahl’s Oslo Detective series and starts off with a chilling chase through the city’s..."

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Excellent Book

• Book: The Shadows of Seville
• Location: Seville
• Author: David Canford

"This was a good story and well written. It is set in the Spanish Civil War and is historically accurate. Highly..."

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Lead Review (Half Swimmer)

• Book: Half Swimmer
• Location: Berlin, Germany
• Author: Jo Heinrich (Translator), Katja Oskamp

"The stories are set in and around Berlin, forming snapshot vignettes of Tanja’s life. She is a teen, developing into a..."

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Lead Review (Frank and Red)

• Book: Frank and Red
• Location: North London
• Author: Matt Coyne

"Red (otherwise known as Leonard), age 6, moves in to the house next door to Frank. Red’s mum is separated from..."

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