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  ⭐⭐⭐ ⭐  Stars From the Back Cover A detective has a charming client, but there’s a problem. He might be a killer. Quinn is a private detective with scorch marks from her last relationship and a smooth-talking heartbreaker for a client. There’s chemistry between them, but there’s a problem. Ben might have killed his twin brother. He demands to work the case with her, claiming it’s his life on the line. A partner is the last thing Quinn wants. What she wants is to prove him innocent. But she’s finding plenty of evidence he isn’t. Murder at the College by P.H. Turner - Review I received the Review Copy of this book and my thanks to the team of NetGalley, the publisher and the author for the copy. All views expressed in this review are my own and based on my reading of this book. Some of the initial comments were made as I progressed in this book and I have not tried editing them as it expresses my contiguous thoughts as I proceeded with the story. The title of this book is ...

  ⭐⭐⭐ ⭐  Stars From the Back Cover '   The windows on all the skyscrapers are smashed . . . No power, no lights, no people . . . It's a parallel New York of some kind.   ' THE COMING END When Skye Rogers and her twin brother Red move to Manhattan, rumours of a coming global apocalypse are building. But this does not stop the young elite of New York from partying without a care. CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET? And then suddenly Skye is invited to join an exclusive gang known as the Secret Runners of New York. But this is no ordinary clique - they have access to an underground portal that can transport them into the future. And what Skye discovers in the future is horrifying: the rumours about the coming apocalypse are true . . . RUN! AS FAST AS YOU CAN! As society crumbles and Skye and Red race to figure out how to use their knowledge to survive the impending annihilation, they soon discover that the chaotic end of the world is a fine time for revenge . . . The Secret Runners ...

⭐⭐⭐ ⭐   Stars Book released Blurb The gripping new book from the author of The Algorithm Will See You Now . Based on the true-life rationing of kidney dialysis in 1960s America, a medical intern in 1992 Seattle tries to leave his painful past behind, only to uncover a shocking truth of thirty years prior and the lasting, generational harm of hidden secrets... After a co-intern dies by suicide, a grieving Noah Meier commits an accidental error. In a desperate move to save his patient's life, he covertly seeks help from audacious surgical resident Marah Maddox, igniting a bond between them. When the hospital is suspiciously quick to sweep everything under the rug, Noah turns to his late father's journal for guidance and makes a chilling discovery, all while trying to stay out of the crosshairs of abusive Dr. Rankel, keen to make an example of Noah. Worse, Rankel clearly has it out for Marah as the only woman in her program. As the hospital's patriarchal power structures, and ...

  ⭐⭐⭐   Stars Book Released Blurb From Amazon.com bestselling duo Daniele Bonfanti & Valentina Kay comes a new serial novel of wild space adventure! Modifying bees, genetically and cybernetically, did not save Earth from Eco-Singularity. But the surviving few who made it to Ganymede rebooted civilization as the a covenant of humans and bee-colony superorganisms. Captain Petra, a bee colony, helms the starship Endurance—a self-sustaining ecosystem reminiscent of a Mediterranean village (plus photosynthetic hull, greenhouse main deck, and dark energy sails). With her lover, the alien flowering plant-like Wyk, and her daredevil crew, they travel via the ridiculously dangerous icebreaking process, which implies moving as thought through the mind of the Sentient Universe. In the pilot Episode – and standalone novella – “Poiesis” they encounter a derelict, monstrous ship. Petra, Wyk, and two human crewmates board guts of the ship which look like actual guts, cyber-zombies, a mul...

  ⭐⭐⭐ ⭐   Stars Book released Blurb You won't feel a thing… but you'll still be dead. People are dying under mysterious circumstances in the small town of New Haven. And the city’s best hope of uncovering the truth rests with a troubled teen and the girl who can't stand him. Cassie Underwood’s life is shattered when her younger sister dies in a freak car accident. In her grief, Cassie unfairly blames her sister’s constant companion—Taggart McGill—a boy with a sketchy past and abrasive personality. As Cassie attempts to recover from the loss, she struggles to honor her late-sister’s memory by befriending the person she resents most. Things get complicated when Cassie overhears a fellow student asking Taggart to convince the police another death in the accident had nothing to do with the crash at all. Taggart surprisingly agrees and a suspicious Cassie decides to accompany him in his snooping. She soon learns everything she knows about Taggart is wrong… and he has insight int...

  ⭐⭐⭐ ⭐   Stars Blurb Four went in, one came out. It was meant to be their last hurrah. Four friends spend their senior Spring Break of high school hiking the Yosemite forest. Alone for one week where they can prove that, despite their cracked relationships, they’re still a team. And maybe recapture some of the magic that brought them together in the first place. But something went wrong. One by one they’re murdered, until only one survivor emerges from the forest. He says he’s innocent. The evidence says he’s not. Now he’s on trial for the deaths of his friends, fighting for his life and freedom. It doesn’t matter that he loved them fiercely, one as a friend, one as an ex, and one that still tangles his soul. The only thing that matters is his final words weren’t “I love you,” they were “I’m sorry.” Told from past/present perspective, ONLY THE TREES KNOW is a story of untangling friendships: lies, misunderstandings, broken promises, and twisted love. Only The Trees Know Revie...

  ⭐⭐⭐ ⭐   Stars Blurb It is a time of violence as well as calm. Men of peace are spreading the message of the Buddha even as monks are being tortured in the dungeons of Pataliputra. In Magadha, all talk is about the impending war against Kalinga. While King Ashoka plots the movements of his ships and cavalry, Queen Asandhimitra broods over the growing unrest in the kingdom. There is only one man they can both trust to take them through this period of uncertainty and looming the enigmatically named Brahmin, skilful spymaster and custodian of Magadha’s best-kept secrets. Lush with historical detail and unforgettable characters, The Brahmin is an intricately plotted novel that seeks to recreate a near-mythical period in India’s past. The Brahmin I had brought this book (19th June 2018 ) on Amazon after reading the book blurb which sounded both intriguing and interesting. Usually I give historical and period fiction stories a miss unless it is relatively recent; although I've been...