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===[[55 by James Delargy]]===
===[[Toffee by Sarah Crossan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeTeens|CrimeTeens]] ''I am not who I say I am, [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]'' ''and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. ''
Two men enter ''I am a police station, both tell the same story; they were kidnapped and narrowly escaped the clutches of a man who intended girl trying to kill themforget. As they escaped they ran through '' ''She is a graveyard and they were not the first victimwoman trying to remember. The stories match, the evidence is compelling and each man blames the other. Now the question is, who is guilty? [[55 by James Delargy|Full Review]]''
Allison has finally had enough and has run away from home. The burning red weal on her face provides a clue to why. She's on her way to Bude to find Kelly-Anne, who was the first to run away from home, but Kelly-Anne isn't answering her phone. Night is closing in and so Allison takes refuge in a shed in the garden of what looks to be an empty house. But the house isn't empty. Marla lives in it and Marla doesn't remember things very well. She mistakes Allison for her friend, Toffee. And because Allison doesn't much want to be Allison any more and because Marla is so happy to see Toffee - why shouldn't Allison ''become'' Toffee? [[Toffee by Sarah Crossan|Full Review]]<!-- Cercas Bowling -->
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===[[Lord Of All the Dead In The Shadow of Heroes by Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)Nicholas Bowling]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Life as a slave in ancient Rome could be harsh and degrading, but Cadmus has it much easier than most. Taken into the household of the scholar Tullus when he was a baby, his keenness to learn and his excellent memory have made him invaluable to his master, who treats him more like a secretary and perhaps even a member of the family, rather than a despised, barely human creature. [[In The Shadow of Heroes by Nicholas Bowling|Full Review]]
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===[[Super Sons: The PolarShield Project I Know Who You Are by Ridley Pearson and Ile GonzalezAlice Feeney]]===
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ItAimee Sinclair is just on the edge of making it big time as an actor. Right now she's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need sort of a huge flood barrierperson whom you think you know but can't quite remember where from, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprisesbut that's all about to change. But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America That's biggest exodus a little worrying for decades. Superman is helping out, of course – first he was patching up the damsAimee as life has changed for her before and she knows that she's not really Aimee Sinclair, but now heshe's mining Ciara: Aimee is simply the asteroid belt for name she was forced to take when she was snatched as a rare dust thatchild. That's perfect for blocking not at the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inlandfront of her mind though when she comes home one day and finds that her husband, in WyndermereBen Bailey, the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worsehas disappeared. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city Disappeared completely. But it can't possibly have anything to do Along with what looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and the efforts to correct the climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can… considerable funds from their current account [[Super Sons: The PolarShield Project I Know Who You Are by Ridley Pearson and Ile GonzalezAlice Feeney|Full Review]]
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===[[Liberation Square by Gareth Rubin]]===
 
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In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the west. Dividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Liberation Square by Gareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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I should warn you in advance: this may not be the best time for me to review the memoir of a Tory MP. Not only am I a left-of-centre - to put it mildly - voter and so probably have next to no points of political agreement with Nick de Bois, but I, along with everyone else, am currently subject to the debacle of parliament, government and Brexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classes. And yes, opposition parties: I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless.
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Desperate cry into the void over. Sorry about that.===[[Not My Fault by Cath Howe]]===
At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! [[ Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois image:5star.jpg|Full Reviewlink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
''Maya and Rose won't talk to each other. Even though they are sisters. Not since the accident. Maya is turning wild and Rose doesn't know what to do. And now Maya and Rose have to go away together on a week-long school trip. Will the trip fix their sibling bond... or break it for good?'' [[Not My Fault by Cath Howe|Full Review]]<!-- Paige Lupo -->
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===[[Mera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]===
===[[We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  ''In a sealed-off city, [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]a young woman, Lena, is running for her life. She has been sentenced to death and her only way to survive is to trust those she has been brought up to fear - those with magic.'' ''On the other side of the locked gates is a masked lady, Constance, determined to find a way back in. Years ago she escaped before her own powers were discovered. But now she won't hide who she is any longer.''
Meet Mera. She's the latest in So, Lena is a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and cryptling - a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the territory's warrior queen, is long dead. Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all, and is low caste individual living in fact trying to get Xebel out from under the cosh city of Atlantean power, for XebelDuke's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to the world of us air-breathing humans, and kill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the quest (and the promised throne) all for herselfForest. But of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it will be to get the job done… [[Mera: Tidebreaker We Are Blood And Thunder by Danielle Paige and Stephen ByrneKesia Lupo|Full Review]]
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===[[Poster Boy Things in Jars by N J CrosskeyJess Kidd]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:ThrillersCrime (Historical)|ThrillersCrime (Historical)]]
I first read 1984 in school, in A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the late seventies when 1984 case is still seemed like struggling with the shame and frustration left by a long previous case, where the child was not found in time in the future. It came and went quickly enoughHardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. Some of us may have breathed This detective is a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. Otherswoman, I thinkand the setting is Victorian London, were out there already working on making sure with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that all he got wrong was era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the bizarre and the datedownright hideous. Crosskey hasnAnd before you't put re more than a date on the nightmarecouple of pages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. If she hadBridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, I suspect it would not be as far in but the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If tobacco she hadsmokes in her pipe (my dear, I suspect it might hardly be in the future at all. A lot of what happens in an utterly ''Poster Boyfast'' thing for a lady to do!) is already happeningmixed with a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. SadlyThe fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the by. FrighteninglyHer housemaid, being seven foot tall, is also somewhat remarkable. In And then, of course, there's the blurbghost. Ruby Doyle, world famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, Christina Racher says "…but keep and it far from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality"'s clear he has a soft spot for the determined young woman. My only response to If he really exists, that is: too late! . [[Poster Boy Things in Jars by N J CrosskeyJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[Critical Incidents Beneath the World, A Sea by Lucie WhitehouseChris Beckett]]===
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When you reach South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a certain stage British police officer, arrives in life the phrase 'going home' when it refers a mysterious forest to your childhood home is best if it means investigate a short and hopefully harmonious visitspate of killings of Duendes. The woman who used to be DCI Robin LyonsThese silent, but was now just Robin Lyons, went home vaguely humanoid creatures - with her thirteenlong limbs and black button eyes -year-old daughter after she was dismissed from the Met. She was going home to the room which she'd had as have a child: she would have strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the bottom bunk subconscious and Elena - Lennie to those who knew her well - would have exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the top bunk. The room was redolent of Duendes, but the time she'd shared closer he gets, the room more he begins to unravel, with her brother Luke - and they weren't good memoriesterrifying results... [[Critical Incidents Beneath the World, A Sea by Lucie WhitehouseChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[A Memory Called Empire Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by Arkady MartineM J Lee]]===
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The problem It really shouldn't have happened. DI Ridpath, conscious that his relationship with Martinehis wife and child is hanging by a thread, is off to collect them at his mother-in-law's fiction debut is that she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing: house for an evening out. she tries to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to be complex and rich and errs Traffic was heavy on the side of making them unpronounceable by most readersM60 (a match at Old Trafford wasn't helping) but it was moving steadily. I can see why she does bothThen a man wearing only a pair of blue boxers dashed out into the traffic, but itbriefly put his hands on Ridpath's car then ran into the path of an articulated lorry. The driver had no chance of stopping and the naked man was killed instantly. Glancing to the hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a disappointment because they're man with a gun. This was now a crime scene and the blocks against which resulting seventeen-mile tail back of traffic would be the brilliance least of the book stumblesRidpath's worries, although no one would let him forget about it in a hurry. [[A Memory Called Empire Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by Arkady MartineM J Lee|Full Review]]
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There is Enid Campbell was a place woman who, on this earth that, at the time face of writingit, is resplendent with lifehad everything. In Leading the spring seals gambol in the river life of an aristocrat – not venturing too farfull of inherited wealth and splendour, for fear of being slashed open on the razor wire the humans have put in placeglamourous locales and high expectations. In the autumnOnly Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they mightuntreated and threatening both Enid and those close to her. After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to her sister for they will spawn and die, if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills £500 – if the landmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing so. This but is a snapshot this an act of greed, or an act of life in desperation? Exploring the DMZtrue story of her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their nameperfect subject for an explosive, moving and it's the world's least welcome wildlife sanctuarybeautifully well written debut. [[When Spring Comes to the DMZ A Perfect Explanation by Uk-Bae LeeEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[M for Mammy 55 by Eleanor O'ReillyJames Delargy]]===
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The Augustts are, like all familiesTwo men enter a police station, both tell the same story; they were kidnapped and narrowly escaped the clutches of a bit complicated. A loving irish family, their love binds man who intended to kill them together – but all express that in very different ways. However, when misfortune strikes the family As they escaped they are forced to work together in order to understand each other again, as with ran through a family as complicated as the Augustts it's graveyard and they were not always what is spoken that makes the most sensefirst victim. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in The stories match, the evidence is compelling and takes chargeeach man blames the other. Full of stern words and common senseNow the question is, she's a force of nature who must try her hardest to hold the family together. is guilty? [[M for Mammy 55 by Eleanor O'ReillyJames Delargy|Full Review]]
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===[[Time Lord Of All the Dead by Javier Cercas and How to Spend It: The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days by James WallmanAnne McLean (translator)]]===
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Most things you can replace, but one of ''Lord Of All the things which you simply canDead''t replace is time. Even though we know this, we fail a journey to use what we have wisely. We have more leisure time, but thatuncover the author's lost ancestor's not how it feels: a high value life and death. Cercas is put on how we spend our working hours, but theresearching for the meaning behind his great uncle's a low value on leisuredeath in the Spanish Civil War. Unfortunately we now know how to work and not how to Manuel Mena, Cercas'great uncle, is the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco'live'': we need to ''learn'' how to spend our leisure time wisely and James Wallman has taken s forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the onerous task centre of teaching us how this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to do thisbe a hero whilst having fought for the wrong side. [[Time Lord Of All the Dead by Javier Cercas and How to Spend It: The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days by James WallmanAnne McLean (translator)|Full Review]]
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Brash and elegant, sophisticatedIt's the near future, controversial and vibrantevery coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the 1889 Worldrising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America's Fair in Paris encompassed biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, of course – first he was patching up the bestdams, but now he's mining the worst and asteroid belt for a rare dust that's perfect for blocking the beautiful solar energy from many countries and culturesmaking further polar ice melt. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their coloniesInland, put on art showsin Wyndermere, dance performancesthe refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. A major bout of food festivals and concerts to stun poisoning is hitting the sensescity. And towering above But it all, can't possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the most popular flood barriers and the most hated monument efforts to French accomplishment and daring – correct the Eiffel Tower. climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can… [[Eiffel's Tower for Young People Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Jill JonnesRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew by Milly Johnson]]===
===[[Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's FictionPolitics and Society|Women's FictionPolitics and Society]] I should warn you in advance: this may not be the best time for me to review the memoir of a Tory MP. Not only am I a left-of-centre - to put it mildly - voter and so probably have next to no points of political agreement with Nick de Bois, but I, along with everyone else, am currently subject to the debacle of parliament, government and Brexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classes. And yes, opposition parties: I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless. Sigh. Desperate cry into the void over. Sorry about that.
I liked this book. Whilst not necessarily a page-turner, this was a thoroughly enjoyable heart-warming read from the Queen of chick lit, Milly Johnson. At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! [[The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew Confessions of a Recovering MP by Milly JohnsonNick de Bois |Full Review]]
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===[[Keep Walking Rhona Beech Mera: Tidebreaker by Kate ToughDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]===
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Life has just hidden behind a corner and stuck a foot out as Rhona Beech came pastMeet Mera. She and Mark had been together 's the latest in a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for nine years and it was beginning to feel ''settled''themselves. Then Mark announced that he'd got Her father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a job hunky man in Canada and he was going whether Rhona wanted to come with him or notan arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the territory's warrior queen, is long dead. The Mera doesn''not'' bit of t fancy the sentence was cosseting or the way it worked out and Rhona was left on her own. Wellfella involved at all, she wasn't completely on her own: she had friends and familyis in fact trying to get Xebel out from under the cosh of Atlantean power, but itfor Xebel's not the same as having that special someone in your life, that someone who makes you part royalty are merely puppets of a coupleAtlantean masters. So Rhona had when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to start againthe world of us air-breathing humans, rejoining a world that bore little resemblance and kill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the one she'd left nine years ago - quest (and there's a lot the promised throne) all for herself. But of difference between being in the middle course, she has no idea what kind of your twenties person she will meet, and how hard it will be to get the middle of your thirties. job done… [[Keep Walking Rhona Beech Mera: Tidebreaker by Kate ToughDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|Full Review]]
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===[[Heartlands (D I Jessie Blake) Poster Boy by Kerry WattsN J Crosskey]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeDystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|CrimeThrillers]]
The story had begun some twenty years earlier I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when two boys raped 1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. It came and killed Sophie Nichollwent quickly enough. Jack Mackay was - on the face Some of it - from us may have breathed a decent familysigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. Others, I think, but were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the ringleaderdate. Daniel Simpson was a follower, but he still raped Sophie and he could have stopped what happened but didnCrosskey hasn'tput a date on the nightmare. Sophie's body was found If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in a shallow grave by an enthusiastic cocker spaniel a few days later and the boys were arrestedfuture are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, tried and sentenced to five years I suspect it might hardly be in a young offenders institutionthe future at all. There were those who thought that the sentence was too lenient, even for fifteen-year-old boys and SophieA lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy''s elder brother, Tom, was one of theseis already happening. He wasn't going Sadly. Frighteningly. In the blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to let the matter restturn its fiction into reality". My only response to that is: too late! [[Heartlands (D I Jessie Blake) Poster Boy by Kerry WattsN J Crosskey|Full Review]]
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===[[Critical Incidents by Lucie Whitehouse]]===
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[[imageWhen you reach a certain stage in life the phrase 'going home' when it refers to your childhood home is best if it means a short and hopefully harmonious visit. The woman who used to be DCI Robin Lyons, but was now just Robin Lyons, went home with her thirteen-year-old daughter after she was dismissed from the Met. She was going home to the room which she'd had as a child:4she would have the bottom bunk and Elena - Lennie to those who knew her well - would have the top bunk.5star The room was redolent of the time she'd shared the room with her brother Luke - and they weren't good memories.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersCritical Incidents by Lucie Whitehouse|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
 Athan Wilde earns some money to supplement his family's meagre income by working for Mr Chen who is both mentor and friend. Mr Chen's wonderful imagination and sense of the future has led him to create some fantastic inventions for making life easier and work less back breaking. His latest endeavour is something on an entirely different level, however - it's a.... ''flying machine''! Imagine that! [[The Boy Who Flew by Fleur Hitchcock|Full Review]] <!-- David Hewson Martine -->
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===[[The Savage Shore A Memory Called Empire by David HewsonArkady Martine]]===
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Reggio, The problem with Martine's fiction debut is that she makes the two commonest errors in Calabria. SF writing: It's a strange place, closer she tries to Africa than Rome as Emmanuel kept reminding himself. He was an illegal immigrant be too clever and like most of his kind he was simply looking for a way she wants her fictional languages to earn a decent living with a little dignity. Back in Nigeria he was an independent man be complex and rich and now he is no better than the monkey who sits in a cage errs on the bar he tends. The area is ruled side of making them unpronounceable by the Mafiamost readers. Further afield there are the Camorra and the Cosa NostraI can see why she does both, but here it's the a disappointment because they'Ndrangheta and re the local boss is known as Lo Spettro - blocks against which the ghost - as he's rarely seen, but he's one brilliance of the Bergamotti clan, but even that's not their real namebook stumbles. [[The Savage Shore A Memory Called Empire by David HewsonArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[No Way Out When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Cara HunterUk-Bae Lee]]===
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It was There is a place on this earth that, at the end time of writing, is resplendent with life. In the Christmas holidays and Felix House spring seals gambol in an elite area the river – not venturing too far, for fear of Oxford was being slashed open on firethe razor wire the humans have put in place. Two children were dragged from In the inferno: oneautumn, a toddlersalmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they might, for they will spawn and die, was pronounced dead at if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the scene and hills – if the other, landmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing so. This is a boy on the cusp snapshot of his teens, died life in hospital some days later. But where were the parents? Were their bodies in what remained of the house and which was being steadily clearedDMZ, or had they left the children at home alone? For DI Adam Fawley it's one of his most disturbing cases. He's still not got over demilitarized zone between the death of ''his'' son two countries with Korea in their name, and thereit's every sign that his marriage is on the rocks. For his team itworld's just a heartbreaking, exhausting caseleast welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[No Way Out When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Cara HunterUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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