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<![CDATA[Shona added 'Silent Killer']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78623826
to: Silent Killer (Paperback)byBeverly Barton
Cathy lost her husband when he was murdered by a killer who set him on fire then left him to burn to his death. It took her a year to overcome his death and spend a year in a mental institution. Now that she is out she goes about regaining the she had. Getting to know her son again, who left to her in-laws to look after when she was getting help. She is also reacquainted with her first love. Just as things were getting better for her another clergyman is murdered in the same way that her husband was and causes the police to realise they are dealing with a serial killer.
One by one clergymen keep getting murdered. Each one covered in gasoline and set alight making Cathy relive her past whilst continuing to rebuild her life with her son and with her new love interest Jack.
How many men have to be murdered before the killer is caught?
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<![CDATA[Shona added '10 Reasons Not to Fall in Love']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78622886
to: 10 Reasons Not to Fall in Love (Paperback)byLinda Green
Jo is a single mum to two year old Alfie his dad Richard walked out on them when Alfie was just one. Now is the time to go back to her dream job part time and begin to return to her life. Unfortunately for her her new boss is also her ex Richard who decided to give her menial and humiliating jobs. Could her life get much worse?
Well lucky for Jo she meets a balloon sculptor who loves Alfie and as time goes on becomes a love interest for Jo. Sounds good but is Jo really ready for a new lover?
Funny and so easy to read. As you read you too fall in love with Dan the balloon man.
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<![CDATA[Shona added 'The Surrogate']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78621920
to: The Surrogate (Paperback)byTania Carver bookshelves: crime,
love
Someone is trying to find themselves a new baby and they will find any means to get it. Finding their prey then capturing it gives them such a buzz, then when eventually claiming their prize, a baby from its mothers womb, it the ultimate goal.
Captivating read which never gives away too many clues leaves you guessing right to the end. Of course like most crim novels there is a token love story added in to keep the book long enough.
Brilliant debut novel and hopefully there will be lots more to come.
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<![CDATA[Shona added 'Too Close to Home']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77575477
to: Too Close to Home (Paperback)byLinwood Barclay
A family are shocked by the murder of their neighbours only to discover that there may have been an awful mistake and that they were in fact the family who should have died leaves them vunerable to future attacks.
The past is dug up only to unearth more secrets which may have resulted in the present days events.
Who is out to kill the family and what secrets are they preventing being dicovered?
Interestinly set out to lure you into the story and to make your own conclusions. Sometimes you are right, sometimes you are well wrong. Until the final few pages you are never quite sure what is going to be the ending. Throughout the book you are given quite suprising twists and turns and the ending is slightly unexpected.
Well worth the read.
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<![CDATA[Shona added 'You Can't Hide']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75905007
to: You Can't Hide (book #5)byKaren Rose
With twists and turns throught out the book you are never quite sure what is coming next. The twists were often unexpected and the plot is not a story which can be guessed unlike some other crime novels.
Rose has created a book which leaves you wanting more and in fact the 500 odd pages of the book does not seem long enough.
A psychiatrist is framed for several murders of her patients. She fights to prove herself innocent when yet another patient is driven to suicide. It is a race against time to find out who is forcing her patients to suicide to ensure that no one else dies and that her character is not torn to tatters.
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<![CDATA[Shona added 'Cringe: Teenage Diaries, Journals, Notes, Letters, Poems, and Abandoned Rock Operas']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73519240
to: Cringe: Teenage Diaries, Journals, Notes, Letters, Poems, and Abandoned Rock Operas (Hardcover)bySarah Brown
This book was a bit of a let down as it was not really as cringe worthy as I thought it would be. It just did not cause as much amusement as I thought that it would be and for that reason alone it was disappointing. I think perhaps this would work better if it had been a collection of famous people's diary excerpts but reading from some people's diaries who you don't know just didn't work for me.
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Shona made a comment in the 50 Books A Year group:
1: A Place Called Here (Paperback) by Cecelia Ahern
2: The Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret Book (Hardcover) by Frank Warren
3: Passive Aggressive Notes: Painfully Polite and Hilariously Hostile Writings... by Kerry Miller
4: If You Could See Me Now (Paperback) by Cecelia Ahern
5: The Bell Jar (Paperback) by Sylvia Plath
6: The Secret Shopper's Revenge (Paperback) by Kate Harrison
7: Change of Heart - A Format (Paperback) by Jodi Picoult
8: Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) by Stephenie Meyer
9: The Gift (Hardcover) by Cecelia Ahern
10: New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) by Stephenie Meyer
11: Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3) by Stephenie Meyer
12: Breaking Dawn (The twilight Saga, Book 4) by Stephenie Meyer
13: Gridlock by Ben Elton
14: Blind Eye by Stuart MacBride
15: Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
16: Who Killed Marilyn Munroe? by Liz Evans
17 : The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
18: Lucky by Alice Sebold
19: Where are you now by Mary Higgins Clark
20: The Fifth Victim by Beverly Barton
21: Fractured by Karin Slaughter
22: Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter
23: A faint cold fear by Karin Slaughter
24: Kisscut by Karin Slaughter
25: Dear Fatty by Dawn French
26: Reunion by Therese Fowler
27: The Smelliest Day At The Zoo by Alan Rusbridger
28: The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards
29: Die for Me by Karen Rose
30: The Game by Mandasue Heller
31: Snatched by Mandasue Heller
32: Kill for Me by Karen Rose
33: Souvenir: A Novel by Therese Fowler
34: Life's Too Short to Frost a Cupcake by Rosie Wilde
35: No Time for Goodbyes by Linwood Barclay
36: The Charmer by Mandasue Heller
37: Halfhead by Stuart B. MacBride
38: Dreamer by Peter James
39: The Office Book: Howlers and Hilarity from the World of Work The Office Book: Howlers and Hilarity from the World of Work by Chloe Rhodes
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<![CDATA[Shona added 'The Office Book: Howlers and Hilarity from the World of Work']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73973488
to: The Office Book: Howlers and Hilarity from the World of Work (Paperback)byChloe Rhodes
It was ok but not nearly as funny as I thought it might be. It makes me dread working in an office if things are really as bad as some of the chapters made out. I did however find it amusing when I read about the woman who was mistreated by her boss, so in revenge, put talc in the bosses car's air vent, so when he switched on the air the talc went over him and his important clients.
Worth a read if you work in an office as I am sure it will give you a laugh and some ideas on how to improve your working day.
Don't bother reading if you actually enjoy working in your office and any notions of time wasting or revenge on bosses makes you cringe.
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<![CDATA[Shona added 'Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21268240
Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices (Paperback)
byJodi Picoult bookshelves: currently-reading
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