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The Miracles of the Namiya General Store By Keigo Higashino

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store by Keigo Higashino

In this fantasy novel, three young guys seek a temporary hideout in an abandoned general  when their car breaks down after they have committed a robbery at a rich woman’s house. Atsuya, Kohei, and Shota are planning to hide in the general store for the night. An envelope suddenly slides through the store’s mail slot, addressed to the Namiya General Store. The letter ...

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The Nowhere Child By Christian White

The Nowhere Child by Christian White

Winner of the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Nowhere Child by Christian White is an engrossing and compelling read. The Australian writer spins a bizarre yarn of a two-year-old girl spirited away from her home in a small US Kentucky town in 1990 and raised to young adulthood halfway around the globe in  Australia.  The thriller’s narrative switches back between the now and ...

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Bitten By The Reading Bug Again

The Fourth Monkey by J.D. Barker

After reading The Man Who Watched Women by Hjorth & Rosenfeldt in the middle of this month, I seemed to have been bitten by the reading bug again. In the last two weeks, I managed to read 4 more books: Merciless by Mary Burton, A Wicked Snow by Gregg Olsen, The Colour of Law by Mark Gimenez and The Fourth Monkey by J.D. Barker. Merciless by Mary ...

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The Man Who Watched Women By Hjorth & Rosenfeldt

The Man Who Watched Women by Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt

Though I love reading, I have put reading on the back burner for more than seven months. I picked up The Man Who Watched Women by Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt a couple of days ago and was so engrossed by it that I was able to finish the 500 over pages book within a couple of days. It has ...

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Escape From Shangri-La By Michael Morpurgo

Escape From Shangri-La

Escape From Shangri-La is a heartfelt war story from Britain’s best-loved children’s author, Michael Morpurgo. It explores the legacy of strife and loss in World War Two. I have read a few of the author’s novels and they always pull at your heartstrings. Cessie has never seen her grandfather, not even in photos, until the day he turned up on the ...

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A Judgement In Stone By Ruth Rendell

A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell

A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell is widely considered to be one of her greatest works. There are no shocks or surprise twists. And yet it is utterly compelling. A Judgement In Stone opens with this first sentence: ‘Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.’ The brief first chapter then goes on to tell us the ...

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Deep River By Shusaku Endo

Deep River by Shusaku Endo

I have been reading one thriller after another for quite a while so I decided to try something very different for a change. Looking through my vast book collection, I finally chose Deep River by Shusaku Endo. Deep River (深い河, Fukai kawa) is a novel by Shusaku Endo published in 1993. When he died in 1996, only two novels were chosen to be placed ...

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Authors Who Overcame Rejections

J.K. Rowling

A lot of people aspire to be authors but the sad truth is that very few authors actually make a living from writing. Most authors begin by writing only on the side while working at a full time job and most totally give up on their dreams after awhile. It is very tough to remain positive while facing rejections after rejections. The hugely ...

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The Drowning Man by Michael Robotham

The Drowning Man by Michael Robotham

As The Drowning Man by Michael Robotham opens,  DI Vincent Ruiz is clinging to a buoy in the River Thames with gunshot wounds. He has no recollection of the shooting or how he ended up in the river. Many of his colleagues believe he is faking amnesia to cover for being a bent cop. Ruiz has to retrace his steps to find out ...

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Harbour Street By Ann Cleeves

Harbour Street By Ann Cleeves

Detective Joe Ashworth is on his way home with his daughter Jess when, due to very heavy snowfall, the Metro they are travelling on stops at Mardle, outside of Newcastle. The passengers  are asked to disembark and catch a bus. As the other passengers fade into the swirling snow, Jessie notices that an elderly woman hasn’t left the train. Thinking that the woman has fallen asleep, ...

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