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Archive for August 2024

When The World Went Silent, by Ellie Midwood

Deaf after contracting measles as a child, Mina is a brilliant student but is thrown out of school due to the Nazi rules about disabilities. Luckily she can lipread and is able to get into university, keeping her deafness a secret. But her scientific brain is recognised by the government and she is whisked away […]

The Good Girl’s Guide To Murder, by Holly Jackson (audiobook and TV series)

Andie Bell’s boyfriend killed himself after apparently confessing to committing her murder. Now 5 years later, Pip believes that Sal was innocent and decides to investigate. The Good Girl’s Guide To Murder is a young adult book set in the UK. The audiobook narration was a little uneven. The third person elements were read slowly […]

The Antique Store Detective, by Clare Chase

Bella Winter’s father was a police officer and she has inherited his love of investigating. She is first on the scene when a local man is found dead next to his metal detector and she is convinced the death was murder… The Antique Store Detective is the first book in a new series of amateur […]

The Bookseller of Paris, by Suzanne Kelman

1940, French bookseller Madeline discovers that her late husband had a son in Germany, making the boy half Jewish and in danger under Nazi rule. Meanwhile she is also enlisted by the Resistance to save banned books. 2011, Olivia discovers a photo of her great grandmother with a Nazi and wants to find the truth […]

Poison Memories, by Helen Phifer

Margery Lancaster tried to kill her abusive husband and their baby son. She went to prison and served her sentence but now she is targeted by a killer. The chief suspects are her ex husband and now grown up son. One dies before he can be investigated and the other is missing… Poison Memories is […]