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Monday, January 17, 2011
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The Tapestry of Love by Rosy Thornton

Having read and thoroughly enjoyed Crossed Wires I was delighted to find an email from Rosy in my inbox telling me about her new book: The Tapestry of Love.  I jumped at the offer of a review copy and have just spent the last few days roaming the idyllic French countryside with Catherine Parkstone…

We begin our story [...]

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Sunday, October 10, 2010
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2010

The Seas by Samantha Hunt

The narrator of The Seas lives in a remote, alcoholic, cruel seaside town. Her grandfather is a typesetter and floods her mind with strange words and phrases. Awkward and brave, wayward and wilful, she is in love with a war veteran thirteen years her senior. He is returned from Iraq a distracted man, haunted by what he has witnessed on the seas.
Her dead father has told her that she ‘came from the water’. Convinced that she is a mermaid, she is troubled by what the old myths tell her about the doomed nature of love between mortals and mermaids.
What she does to ease the pain of growing up lands her in prison.
What she does to get out is the stuff of legend.

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Saturday, September 25, 2010
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2010

The Dive From Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer

The Dive From Clausen
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Published on: April 8, 2003
ISBN: 0375727132
Number of pages: 432
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Carrie Bell has lived in Wisconsin all her life. She’s had the same best friend, the same good relationship with her mother, the same boyfriend, Mike, now her fiancé, for as long as anyone can remember. It’s with real surprise she finds that, at age twenty-three, her life has begun to feel suffocating. She longs for a change, an upheaval, for a chance to begin again.

That chance is granted to her, terribly, when Mike is injured in an accident. Now Carrie has to question everything she thought she knew about herself and the meaning of home. She must ask: How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strength or of weakness to walk away from someone in need?

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Sunday, August 29, 2010
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2010

The Auschwitz Violin by Maria Angels Anglada

In the winter of 1991 a musician is captivated by a marvelously pitched violin, when he asks how she obtained it the woman reveals the remarkable story behind it’s origin…

The violin is the creation of a luthier named Daniel who was imprisoned at Auschwitz. The luthier and his violin are the subject of a cruel wager that could be the difference between life and death.

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Sunday, August 29, 2010
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2010

The Baker Street Phantom by Fabrice Bourland

It’s the spring of 1932 and Londoners are being terrorised by a series of brutal murders in the English Capital just as the private detective agency of Messrs. Singleton and Trelawney opens its doors in Bloomsbury.

There first client is an extremely worried Lady Arthur Conan Doyle who tells them of mysterious goings on at 221 Baker Street and warns them that mankind is in terrible danger.

The ensuing investigation takes the unlikely heroes into a world of seances and spirits where they are forced to rethink the boundaries between reality and fantasy. The question is of course, can they solve these bloody crimes…?

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Sunday, August 8, 2010
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2010

A Hemorrhaging of Souls by Nicola Furlong

I was drawn into this book from the very first page, and Nicola does a wonderful job of weaving a tale with so many twists and turns, that I didn’t know whodunnit until the last page. I couldn’t even begin to tell you what happened in this book as it is so wonderfully complex, yet simple to follow along as you read it.

The characters are quirky and believable, and it’s always good to throw in a little romantic tension in a “will they won’t they” fashion!

If you have a few hours to spare and you want to escape from the world then download this book to your Kindle and get reading :)

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Sunday, August 8, 2010
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2010

Swallow by Tonya Plank

Swallow is unlike any novel I’ve ever read before, and I loved it from the first sentence to the last. The characters are wonderfully diverse and larger than life. From Sophie herself to her pornographer father, her gay friend who paints male nudes and her fashion maven friend and confidant oh and her banged-up clients that Sophie tries so hard to prove innocent.

Tonk combines laugh out loud humour with more serious issues of family connections, psychological conditions, and the fight to survive in the Big Wide World. It’s a great summer read without the chick lit cutesiness!

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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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2010

Red Flag Warning by Kurt Kamm

Red Flag Warning is a mystery novel with a difference, it’s based around the world of arsonists. The story is told from the viewpoint of various characters: from NiteHeat who developed a love of fire at a very early age, and Fire Captain Jim Kendall who lives and breaths his investigations to Ruffy, the Command and Control supervisor who dreams of joining the fire crew rather than directing them.

Based in California, the arsonist takes advantage of the Santa Ana winds to start devastating fires that destroy countless family homes while the firefighters battle to put a stop to the travelling flames. As NightHeat prowls the darkness looking for the perfect incendiary that will leave its mark, Kendall and his team do all they can to catch the arsonist and put an end to the devastation.

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