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S S Saywack is the author of the Mary Finch Mysteries – Mary Finch and the Thief to be released soon, to be followed by Mary Finch and the Grey Lady, and Mary Finch and the Spy. After a career as a Graphic Designer, then an art teacher, he took to writing short stories, flash fiction and novels for middle-grade readers. He has a love of history - Victorian England and the early twentieth century – and is an avid reader. He lives in the East End of London, a place well suited for his creation, Mary Finch, to explore and to have her adventures.

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	Mary Finch and the Thief (Mary Finch Mystery, #1) 4.78 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inglestone Manor 4.89 avg rating — 61 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House on the Hill 4.53 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mary Finch and the Grey Lady 4.92 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mary Finch and the Spy (Mary Finch Mystery, #3) 4.80 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When the fog comes: An English Ghost Story 4.66 avg rating — 35 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perdita, the Witch and the Toyshop 4.71 avg rating — 24 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mary Finch: Runaway it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mary Finch Endgame (Mary Finch Mystery, #4) 4.85 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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S.S. Saywack rated a book it was amazing Mysterious Tales of the Unexplained, Volume 4 by Patricia Miller	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Four hugely enjoyable, easy-to-read, short stories featuring amateur detectives and mystery deaths and old house hauntings. I felt more that they were for a younger audience and that they would make delightful reads for a Middle-Grade reader. The las ...more
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Assassins of Mexico: A Mystery Detective Thriller Series: 6 (Luke Ryder). I’ve read several of John Bluck’s Luke Ryder series, and all have been good. So, it’s come as no surprise to find this one is as good as the others. Some unsavoury characters r ...more
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I was sent an advanced copy to read and provide an honest review. I was surprised by the book, firstly because for a YA book it was very hard-hitting, covering a multitude of difficult themes without pulling its punches. That was, to say the least, v ...more
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An engrossing read, Across The Silver Seas presents an emotional account of emigrants leaving Britain bound for New Zealand during the 1870s. Centred around the lives of Bess and Richard Morgan (brother and sister), leaving the poverty and lack of op ...more
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S.S. Saywack rated a book it was amazing Murder Most Bookish: A gripping cozy English crime mystery full of twists (The Chiltern Hills Mysteries Book 1) by Anthea Fraser (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A most enjoyable first book in a new series(?) I hope so. Rona Parish, a writer, is asked to compile a biography on a troubled (dead) author - Theo Harvey. Slowly, through the eyes of others, we learn about Theo, and, as expected, he’s not all he appe ...more
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I’ve been reading the River View Mysteries out of sequence, but since each is a standalone, that doesn’t matter. Set in the UK, Sutton-on-Wye, makes it an interesting read for me as I love detective stories set in the country where I live. It is a ve ...more
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S.S. Saywack rated a book it was amazing Prairie Leveretts: A plains pioneer biography (Leveretts in the New World Book 4) by Thomas Leverett	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
It is a great pleasure to discover yet more about the Leveretts (having read several books about the author’s ancestors), and this one I found quite touching. It charts the family from just before the mid-eighteenth century to the turn of the ninetee ...more
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S.S. Saywack rated a book it was amazing Damned & Denied by Josephine Wrightson (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A well-paced, exciting paranormal fantasy of humans, demons and, not surprisingly, Lucifer (or the ‘Boss’), sensual in places, savage in others. There’s a love story here. The book draws from other works of Josephine Wrightson’s but can be read as a ...more
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The latest cosy mystery takes on a Christmas theme, and we are given three mysteries as a present. Hayley Bennett/Moon and her ghostly companions take on a murder at an official gathering, then later the sad case of a ghostly child, and lastly a curs ...more
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“Empty houses are never truly empty. They retain their memories and slowly release them to those that would listen.”
― S.S. Saywack, When the fog comes: An English Ghost Story

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