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|author=Andrea Camilleri, Carlo Lucarelli and Giancarlo De Cataldo
|title=Judges
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=I'll confess that it was the name of [[:Category:Andrea Camilleri|Andrea Camilleri]] which brought me to this book. I'm a long-time fan of his Inspector Montalbano series and a recent reading of a spin-off [[Montalbano's First Case by Andrea Camilleri|novella]] had proved to me that the concise nature of his full-length novels was no fluke. In ''Judges'' we had another novella - worth buying for its own sake - and the bonus of two more stories from better-than-decent Italian authors. All that was needed was a glass of wine and a comfortable chair. Did the book live up to expectation?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052977</amazonuk>
}}
 
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|title=The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation
|summary=It's an acknowledged fact amongst the boys of Merrycliffe-on-Sea. Franny B's best friend Alice is the worst girlfriend in the world. She loses interest and dumps them, one at a time, leaving a trail of heartbroken boys and furious girlfriends. But as a friend to fashion-obsessed Franny, she's great. Until she gets bored of schoolboys and decides to set her sights on the lead singer of local band Thee Desperadoes, despite knowing that Franny has been crushing on him for years. Can Alice get the guy, or will Franny finally go for it? And is their friendship strong enough to cope?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411011</amazonuk>
}}
 
{{newreview
|author=Anna Jaquiery
|title=The Lying-Down Room (Commandant Serge Morel)
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=There is a reason why everyone who can leave Paris in August does so: it's swelteringly hot and deeply unpleasant. Commandant Serge Morel and his assistant, Lila Markov don't have the choice and to add to their problems they're short-staffed. The murder of the old woman seemed strange from the beginning: she was frail, inoffensive but she'd apparently been drowned and then laid out with care, garishly made up and adorned with a red wig. The bed sheet was tucked in tightly around her. Why would anyone want to murder her? And why was Fauré's ''Requiem'' playing whilst the murderer worked?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447244419</amazonuk>
}}
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