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Review: 📚 Murder by Design is a clever little mystery that revels in the shadows of its inspirations 📚

Edison Bixby is wealthy, handsome, and, due to a traumatic brain injury, impulsively rude. He’s also a brilliant insurance investigator who solves baffling crimes by figuring out how the design of the man-made world around us makes them possible. Enter Wally Nash: a struggling actor hired to keep Bixby from offending everyone he meets.

Their first case together looks like a simple accident. Caroline Crowley took a nasty fall down a staircase at a shopping mall in front of dozens of witnesses. Video clearly shows the deadly misstep. But Bixby is certain she was murdered by design, subtly manipulated into causing her own demise. The mall itself made the crime intentional, if not inevitable.

Now Bixby must prove his outrageous theory before a very cunning killer gets others on his hit list to murder themselves, too. Continue reading Review: 📚 Murder by Design is a clever little mystery that revels in the shadows of its inspirations 📚

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Review: 📚 Extinction is devilishly delightful if struggling to push the series forward 📚

VAMPS: After dealing with his rival, Pusher, and escaping the clutches of treacherous Prime Minister, John Windsor, Vamps and his last remaining friend, Mass, set out with the mysterious Aymun. A man who came from the gate that imploded on Oxford Street. The demons have destroyed civilisation, but Vamps isn’t going to take that lying down.
GUY GRANGER: Guy is finally about to reach the shores of England with the faithful crew of the Hatchet. Will he finally find his children, Alice and Kyle? Or will he find a land of death? And can he trust his second in command, ambitious Lieutenant Tosco? Crossing the Atlantic was tough, but what lies ahead will be worse.
RICHARD HONEYWELL: After failing to save his wife, Richard now must keep his son, Dillon, safe at all costs. His new companions at the Slough Echo seem trustworthy, but how long until the demon that took his wife, Skillface, attacks again?
RICK BASTION: After reuniting with his brother and friends, what has become of fading pop star, Rick Bastion? Continue reading Review: 📚 Extinction is devilishly delightful if struggling to push the series forward 📚

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Review: 📚 The Last Thing He Told Me bucks the genre’s traditional trends to tell a thrilling tale around identity and family 📚

IT WAS THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME: PROTECT HER

Before Own Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his new wife, Hannah: protect her. Hannah knows exactly who Owen needs her to protect – his teenage daughter, Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. And who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.

As her desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, his boss is arrested for fraud and the police start questioning her, Hannah realises that her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey might hold the key to discovering Owen’s true identity, and why he disappeared. Together they set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realise that their lives will never be the same again… Continue reading Review: 📚 The Last Thing He Told Me bucks the genre’s traditional trends to tell a thrilling tale around identity and family 📚

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Review: 📚 Blood Beast & Demon Apocalypse form a killer one-two punch 📚

Grubbs Grady has firmly placed his skirmishes with the monstrous Demonata in the past, resolute in his convictions to live out the rest of his very abnormal life as normally as he possibly can. The past, however, is a tricky mistress, and as warring forces tear him apart from the inside for control, Grady’s fear blinds him to the sinister apocalypse on the horizon.

If it’s already too late, what is there to fight for? Continue reading Review: 📚 Blood Beast & Demon Apocalypse form a killer one-two punch 📚

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Review: 📚 Bec blasts us back to the past to deliver some bloody revelations 📚

As demonic Fomorii ravage their land, Bec and a band of warrior companions leave their devastated home to answer a plea for help. An orphaned priestess-in-training, Bec hopes the journey will help her solve the mysteries of her birth…
…but fighting demons has a steep price… Continue reading Review: 📚 Bec blasts us back to the past to deliver some bloody revelations 📚

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