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Fiona finds bones under the patio, but they're just dog bones. She walks around the house again and feels a small tug - a tooth below the floorboards. Fiona can get nothing from the tooth so they salt and burn it - job done!
Task 2 - We don't have a tooth fairy, but we do have a Bonus Fairy! Comment on the Bonus Fairy Lottery Thread with the word 'tooth' to earn +2 points. You may even win some points from the Bonus Fairy.
Link - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Fiona and Mike go to another small town 3 days drive away. A woman has called them because her child's death was ruled to be from natural causes, and she doesn't believe it.
Task 3 - Find a book with the word 'unbelievable' anywhere in the book's blurb.
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Fiona goes to the baby's grave and talks to the baby's bones. The baby thinks in pictures, but Fiona sees a young woman putting lots of blankets on the baby, and the baby getting too hot.
Task 4 - To help Fiona today, find the book cover that this cover piece comes from -
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Fiona is leaving town when she realises she left her phone at the client's house. They arrive to find the client attacking the young woman from the baby's memories.
Task 5 - Find a book with the phrase 'Live fast, die young' in the blurb.
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Fiona and Mike rescue the woman who turns out to be a nanny. Fiona feels responsible as she was the one who told the client about what had happened. She worries about what will happen to her client and her family now.
Task 6 - Today you're looking for a specific book, here are some clues to help you search:
- This book is tagged as an adult mystery/thriller.
- It is the second book in a series and it was first published in 2022.
- The main character is an author, and she's also a single mother with two children.
- She has a nanny to help her, but the nanny is keeping secrets.
- The bottom two thirds of the cover are mainly blue, and the top third features a face wearing sunglasses, and peeking over the blue portion.
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Fiona travels to another town where 3 teens have been washed away in a river during a storm. Fiona and Mike get bikes and ride along the river to see if Fiona can feel any bones.
Task 7 - Maybe the Bonus Fairy can help! Comment on the Bonus Fairy Lottery Thread with the word 'bones' to earn +7 points. You may even win some points from the Bonus Fairy.
Link - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Fiona finds several bones, some human and some animal, and she marks each one with a flag. Then she comes across a recently dead teenager caught under some rocks at the side of the river. The teen is at peace, so Fiona lets the search team know where he is and continues looking.
Task 8 - To help Fiona today, find the book cover that this cover piece comes from -
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Fiona goes miles before she gets another tug. She rides inland a short distance and finds both of the missing girls, one dead and one alive.
Task 9 - Rearrange the following words to spell out five different book titles -
Sing The Fever Sword
Sing The Golden Bird
Code And Compass
The Unburied The Ensnared
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Fiona has to go back to the haunted house (from day 1) - the family are still haunted but she can't find any bones!
Task 10 - The human body has 206 bones, find an edition of any book which has exactly 206 pages.
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Fiona feels like she's failing but Mike reassures her. He kisses her and she's not sure what to feel. They're not related but because of their family ties it still feels a little wrong.
Task 11 - Find a YA book with the words 'forbidden romance' in its blurb.
(words must appear as 'forbidden romance' without anything between them)
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Fiona finds some old dolls in the attic. They don't call to her like bones, but one gives her a funny feeling and she wonders if the doll has real human hair. She salts and burns the doll, and the house finally feels at peace. Fiona feels like she's being watched though.
Task 12 - To help Fiona today you need to find a specific book from these descriptions of it's cover -
* The cover features a girl with dark-coloured skin, wearing an outfit with billowing green skirts, and silver decorations down the chest, around the throat, and on the arms.
* She's wearing a piece of black and gold material over her head, and she's not smiling.
* The background is a dark colour, with a pattern on it in gold and white.
* The title is 6 words long and starts with the word Edit
* The book has previously been a GBR.
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Fiona gets 2 calls and decides to go north first. A teen called Thomas went missing 12 years ago, but his little brother thinks he might have discovered his bones in a deep hole on the side of a hill. Fiona can tell bones are buried there, but she thinks there are 3 sets of remains, not one.
Task 13 - To help Fiona, you need to find a specific book, here are some clues to help you search:
* This book is a YA fantasy story, about a girl whose mother was killed by a vampire.
* The book was first published in November 2022.
* The cover features a girl holding a dagger behind her back, and looking back over her shoulder.
* The title is made up of 2 words, the author's name is 2 words, and the book is not part of a series.
* This book has a buddy-read thread present on our group.
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Fiona and Mike go to their next job. A woman's 5-year-old son died accidentally while she was at work, and she wants to say goodbye. Fiona does her best but the child has already passed on. The woman is furious.
Task 14 - Find a book which has the word 'Furious' in the blub.
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Fiona has 3 more jobs, she plans them so that she can get home to see her mother for the first time in 7 years. She's never stopped feeling for her sister Felicity who went missing, but she's never felt even a trace of her.
Task 15 - To help Fiona, find a specific YA book. The first letters from each word in the book's title and author's name (not including the series name) are - S E by W H
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Fiona's next job is bogus, a man tries to claim she's a fake. She tells him there are only sheep bones on his property, but he shouts and swears at her. She leaves with Mike, but the next day they find their car covered in blood. Fiona isn't sure whether she should confront whoever did it or just get out of there. Mike tells her to just leave.
Task 16 - Find a book with the phrase 'Blood for blood. Blood to pay.' in the blurb.
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They go to the next job, another missing person case, Fiona feels rattled by the man and the car. She goes to all the places the person hung out at, but can't find anything.
Task 17 - Rearrange the following words to spell out five different book titles -
The Kingdom Of Stardust
You Want It
Portrait Of The Feared King
Call A Thief
What Fury
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She eventually finds him in a cemetery, dead for 1 year - John Doe. The family go to the police to try and find out what happened. The man was attacked, wallet stolen, and died from a bleed on the brain.
Task 18 - To help Fiona, find a specific YA book. The first letters from each word in the book's title and author's name are - F S by H J
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Fiona again finds the car covered in blood. She still feels like she's being watched. Mike says he'll stay up and keep watch. They kiss again, and Fiona feels more sure, but worries about what their families would say.
Task 19 - Find a book with the phrase 'I watched on the screen of my phone' in the blurb.
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Mike catches the man who called Fiona a fraud dumping blood on the car again. He breaks down and tells them he thinks his stepson murdered his daughter, but they've never found any remains. He has lung cancer and doesn't want to die without knowing what happened to his daughter.
Task 20 - To help Fiona today you need to find a specific book from these descriptions -
* The background of this cover is black.
* The cover features two green banners at the top and bottom. The top banner has a tagline on it, while the bottom banner has the author's name.
* The book's title is written in white letters between the banners and is 4 words long.
* The cover also has bees, keys, a piano keyboard, swirly patterns, and a woman standing in a keyhole shape.
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Fiona agrees to try and help the man, and wanders around his land again. She visits the house where the stepson used to live and feels Phoebe's bones and Phoebe's daughter's bones buried in the garden. The man hadn't even realised his daughter was pregnant.
Task 21 - Today you're looking for a specific book, here are some clues to help you search:
* This book is a YA fantasy romance and was first published in 2022.
* The title has 3 words, and the author's name has 2 words.
* The main character is a princess who is about to be forced into an arranged marriage.
* The cover features a girl in a long dress which seems to be falling into the water that she's standing in.
* This book has a buddy-read thread present on our group.
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Fiona goes back to a previous job (from day 13). The remains have been lifted from the pit. There is one skeleton who died 80 years ago, and two teens who died 12 years ago, one is Thomas, the other a boy who was part of a carnival. Thomas tells her that they were in love, and when one fell the other tried to save him and fell too.
Task 22 - To help Fiona today, find the book cover that this cover piece comes from -
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Fiona has one last job before visiting her mother. Mike tries to talk her out of going home. The job is simple and Mike takes her to dinner, then they're intimate. Fiona wonders if she's doing the right thing.
Task 23 - To help Fiona, find a specific YA book. The first letters from each word in the book's title and author's name (not including the series name) are - G by M S
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Mike again tries to talk her out of going home, but she needs to talk to her mother and clear the air. They head home.
Task 24 - Today you're looking for a specific book, here are some clues to help you search:
* The cover of this book is shades of pink and purple.
* A girl's profile is silhouetted against a pink moon, and the title is written inside.
* There are dark vines at the bottom of the cover, and silhouettes of girls dancing.
* The author's name is written in white across the top of the cover and includes a hyphen (-).
* This book has a buddy-read thread present on our group.
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They arrive but Mike seems twitchy and nervous. Fiona talks to her mother who still blames Fiona for Felicity's disappearance.
Task 25 - Find 3 books which have the word 'blame(s)' in the blurb, which also have a buddy read thread on our group.
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Fiona breaks down and wanders around the grounds of her aunt's house. Mike tries to comfort her but she wants to be alone. He continues trying to get her to turn around, but Fiona is starting to get a strange feeling.
Task 26 -
Song Of The Tumbling Puppets
Come Down In Comfort
Art of The Wanderer
The Feeling Of Food Lives
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Fiona can barely breathe, the feeling is turning into something that she both wants and doesn't want to feel. Is she really feeling her sister's bones?
Task 27 - To help Fiona today, find the book cover that this cover piece comes from -
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She finds the place where Felicity is buried, and places her hands to the ground as tears drip from her cheeks. Felicity has been waiting for her to come, waiting for years. She fell from a tree and hit her head, but that wasn't what killed her, she was buried alive.
Task 28 - Today you're looking for a specific book, here are some clues to help you search:
* The cover of this book is shades of blue, with black silhouettes.
* The story is set in Australia, where explorers are exploring a newly found cave system.
* The main character is male and paralysingly claustrophobic.
* The book was first published in April 2019.
* This book is an adult horror/sci-fi story.
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Fiona asks Mike what happened, he tells her that he taught Felicity to climb trees, but he wasn't paying attention and she slipped and fell. He buried her because he thought it was his fault she was dead. He's been trying to make it up to Fiona for the last 7 years, by driving her around and protecting her. He's sorry, and he loves her.
Task 29 - To help Fiona today you need to find a specific book from these descriptions of its cover -
* The background on this cover is made up of bricks.
* The cover features two identical girls standing back to back, one wearing a black dress and one wearing a red dress.
* The title, author's name, and a tagline are written in red. The tagline includes the word 'love'.
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Fiona doesn't know what to do, Felicity is at peace now, and Mike doesn't know what he did, it could have been any of them watching her when she fell, what would be gained by destroying Mike's life more than it has already been destroyed by guilt? But he's been lying to her for 7 years, she's been wondering for 7 years, she's been hoping and dreading the feel of Felicity's bones for 7 years! He's deceived her in the worst way! Should she forgive?
Task 30 - Simply message me and tell me (Yes or No) - should Fiona forgive Mike?
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Knowing what happened to Felicity is both a blessing and a curse, Fiona feels like she can breathe again, but she also feels tormented by the knowledge of Mike's part in Felicity's death, and once again grieves for the loss of her sister.
After a lot of thinking, and after taking into account Felicity's feelings, Fiona decides to forgive Mike. She knows he panicked and made a poor decision, but he's proved to her how sorry he is and how bad he feels by devoting his life to her for the last 7 years. She can't bring herself to tell him the truth, that Felicity died as a result of being buried alive, and she tells him that in time, she can forgive him. She realises that now that Felicity has been found, her life could be very different, but she feels like she needs to continue her work in order to give other people the closure that she has now found.
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Fiona and Mike get a call from a woman who claims her house is haunted - she wants Fiona to get rid of the ghost.
Task 1 - Find a book with the word 'Haunt' in the title (haunting/haunted are okay too).