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Blacklands by Belinda Bauer
This is not a book I would have chosen off a book shelf. I was not familiar with the author’s work but it was book of the month at the book group I go to in the village library. Belinda Bauer won the Crime Writer’s Association 2010 Gold Dagger Award for Blacklands and this debut novel, Blacklands seems to …
Torment of Others by Val McDermid
Val McDermid is a Scottish author who read English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, England. She was accepted at 17, one of the youngest undergraduates they have ever taken on, and the first from a Scottish state school. It should therefore come as no surprise that she is an excellent writer. This story was very well …
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