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|author=Jennifer Donnelly

|title=These Shallow Graves

|rating=3.5

|genre=Crime (Historical)

|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my all-time favourite books, ''A Gathering Light'', so I was very excited to read her latest novel and see how it compared. Like ''A Gathering Light'', ''These Shallow Graves'' is a historical novel with a murder mystery at its heart and a feisty heroine who challenges the standards of the day.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=Lloyd Shepherd

|summary=''Death by Misadventure''.' This is the official verdict as to the cause of death of Lady Lavinia Truelove, trampled to death by a notoriously ill-tempered horse, which she foolishly tried to approach in its stall. The horse panicked and reacted badly, resulting in a gruesome and bloody attack, witnessed by two boys from the village. Most people would dismiss the event as a tragic accident, but detective Joe Sandilands suspects that this could be cold-blooded murder. Could his judgement be clouded by the fact that he has a very personal axe to grind with the 'grieving' widower, who has been showing increasing attentiveness to Dorcas, the girl he plans to marry?

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616954086</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Leslie Charteris and John Telfer (narrator)~~

~~|title=Enter the Saint~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=Thrillers~~

|summary=When you think of thrillers written by a man in his early twenties there's a temptation to believe that the books might not be, well, top drawer, but that would be a mistake. The first of ''The Saint'' novels was published in 1928 when Leslie Charteris was just twenty one and this collection of stories is dated 1930. You might expect the rambunctious adventurer we meet, but not the subtleties of the slightly world-weary man of the world, all-knowing about the evils to which men (and women) can sink, but they're all there. Admittedly the Saint is more boisterous and less subtle than he will become - but that speaks more about the later works than this book.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OS74GQU</amazonuk>~~

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