#Sharon Bolton

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The Neighbour's Secret by Sharon Bolton

Today I'm delighted to share my thoughts on the brand new novel from Sharon Bolton, The Neighbour's Secret. @sharonjbolton @orionbooks #books #bookreview #theneighbourssecret #crimefiction

Today it is my pleasure to share my thoughts on the brand new novel from Sharon Bolton, The Neighbour’s Secret. I was a latecomer to Sharon Bolton’s novels but I’ve loved all that I read and wasn’t going to pass up the opportunity to read this one a touch early. My thanks to the publishers, Orion, for the copy via Netgalley. Here’s what it’s all about: Source: NetgalleyRelease Date: 07 November…

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The Split by Sharon Bolton

The Split by Sharon Bolton

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur Books Date of publication: April 28th, 2020 Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Audiobook, Health, Mental Health, Mental Illness Purchase Links: Kindle | Audible | B&N | AbeBooks | Alibris | Powells | IndieBound | Indigo | BetterWorldBooks Goodreads Synopsis: Tense, gripping and with a twist you…

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It’s always very odd to me when I read criticism of A Song Of Ice And Fire online (by which I mainly mean: on Tumblr) which takes for granted that this is some sort of obsessively dark and edgy and mean-spirited fantasy, because ... that's not what the series is actually like at all?  

I mean, yes, some awful (and graphically described) stuff happens in these books, but this is at heart a deeply optimistic and almost embarrassingly romantic story, full of a very obvious sympathy and tenderness for the unhappy and the hurt and the powerless.  The weird gritty-for-the-sake-of-it books that the series's detractors describe wouldn't have recurring POV characters like Sansa Stark or Tyrion Lannister or Davos Seaworth or Samwell Tarly or Brienne of Tarth.  They certainly wouldn't obviously empathize with and respect these characters to the extent the actual books do.  They wouldn't be so obsessive about the importance of hope and kindness and understanding in an otherwise uncaring world.  Whenever the text suggests the world isn't fair or kind there's always an unspoken "but it should be,and I wish it was". You are clearly not meant to think that characters like Roose Bolton or Twyin Lannister are being held up as role models to emulate!

I mean, maybe the TV show is more like that -- I gave up on the show after only a couple of seasons, it was a terrible adaptation of the source material, even before the final season that everyone apparently hated -- but so much of the open disdain for ASOIAF I come across on here reads like the people writing the posts haven't even read a single one of the books. Yes, the popularity of ASOIAF inspired a lot of "dark" fantasy novels that actually are bleakly nihilistic and seem to revel in their characters meeting pointlessly sad and violent ends, but Martin's books are just not like that.

Yes, lots of the world-building for ASOIAF is patently ridiculous, and yes, key parts of the plot are just cribbed from the War of the Roses (or, rather, from historical novels like Sharon Penman's The Sunne in Splendour)  and yes, Martin has said some very stupid things in interviews while busy not writing the series.  And no, I'm not sure I could actually bring myself to recommend the books to anyone who's not read them before (especially when it's so unlikely that the series will ever be finished, let alone in a satisfying way).  I haven’t reread them myself in years.

But honestly, back when I was a quietly miserable teenager these books really meant a lot to me, in part because they are the opposite of the caricature often discussed online.  Yes, they acknowledged that sometimes the world was awful and unbearable.  It is!  But they also suggested that it was still important to try to be fair and kind and to appreciate the moments when things were better.  They are books about trying to do the right thing even when it’s so hard as to seem impossible and nobody else will even know that you tried, written in a way that takes for granted that “the right thing” is also the just and the optimistic and the quietly heroic thing; that doing the right thing when you afraid is more praiseworthy than never being afraid at all. And it is baffling to me how often I see people talking about them now who don't actually seem to have ever even skimmed them but are still vocally passionate in their hatred of something that, as they describe it, simply doesn't exist.

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character/story inspiration tag

rules: write up a blurb or make a visual collage of the people or characters (from books, TV shows, movies, etc.) that inspired your story and/or OC, either visually, personality wise, or just a general vibe

tagged by @morrigan-sims & @goldenwaves ♥

FROZEN PINES: Strange Trails by Lord Huron with lyrics from Frozen Pines // The Wall by Pink Floyd // The Sixth Sense (1999) // Life is Strange // Supernatural s4ep1 "Lazarus Rising" // lyrics from Kin by Radical Face // a magic 8 ball // It (2017) // Stand By Me (1986) // Lovers of Modena // SYFY article on black holes

CASPER MAYFIELD: Montero by Lil Nas X // French Exit by TV Girl // Troy Bolton from High School Musical // Carmy Berzatto from The Bear // lyrics from Off My Mind by Joe P // Brian O'Conner (+ Mia Toretto) from Fast & Furious

COCO ARIAS: Lyrics from My Own Dance by Kesha // Fiona Gallagher from Shameless // Back to Black by Amy Winehouse // adult film star Angela White // Lyrics from Gimme More by Britney Spears // Who Really Cares by TV Girl // Xena from Xena: Warrior Princess

ELAINE NGUYEN: Fearless by Taylor Swift // the record by boygenius // quote from Lang Leav // lyrics from Seventeen by Sharon Van Etten // Juliet Capulet from Romeo and Juliet // Jackie Taylor from Yellowjackets // lyrics from Let It All Out by COIN

STEVIE DONOVAN: Lyrics from Big Fat Mouth by Arlie // unknown artwork // Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn // lyrics from Space Cadet by The Technicolors // Broken Bells by Broken Bells // Dreamland by Glass Animals // Nomi Marks from Sense8 // climbing by Lucille Clifton

JADA CAREY: Lyrics from Hush by The Marias // quote from Frank Bidart // When the Pawn... by Fiona Apple // Raven Baxter from That's So Raven // Mystery by Jesse Jo Stark // unknown artwork // quote from Margaret Atwood

ALISA MARCIANO: Lyrics from Under Your Skin by Aesthetic Perfection // Carrie White from Carrie // artwork by griefmother // You Forgot It In People by Broken Social Scene // So Tonight That I Might See by Mazzy Star // lyrics from Desire by Meg Myers

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For the writer's questions ask: 14 and 17!

Hope you're having a great day 🥂

14. Do you lend your books to people? Are people scared to borrow books from you? Do you know exactly where all your “lost” books are and which specific friend from school you haven’t seen in twelve years still possesses them? Will you ever get them back?

No :D And people do not ask it from me. At most, the one person who does "borrow" my books is my sister but only because we both love Sharon Bolton's Lacey Flint series.

17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.

Hoooo boy. I was just telling @xinyuehui and @snicker-doodles about the WIPs in the pipeline, but I'll sketch out the basic ones. Am currently writing for Qiubing

Arranged Marriage AU - Empress orders her favourite ministers to kiss :D

Pacific Rim AU - because every fandom needs one and because I and and will forever be a slut for "Do you want to die here, or do you want to die in a Jaeger?"

Qi Ye crossover - husband mix up shenanigans ft. Wuta

Thanks for the asks Rosie! Hope you're having a lovely Wednesday yourself x

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Last listened to: some playlist I found on spotify with the calming and ambient scores from the witcher video games...pffft im a nerd to my core. no srsly its the only thing I can listen to atm while marking assessments. or my dad rock playlist. WAIT NO! LADY GAGA!!! it’s my hype music for the mornings and just kinda puts me in a good mood ig and have a lil fun while I’m at it 💃🪩🕺

reading: .... the witcher series.... but just finished The Pact by Sharon Bolton ‘‘twas v good!

watching: finished... the witcher series..... but also watching what we do in the shadows and rewatching succ from time to time and probs gonna fall back into the hangover movies again as background noise JESSIE LEAVE ME ALONE DONT COME AT MEEEE

current obsession: the witcher 3: wild hunt, soooo the video game.... it’s the only thing that lets me relax and de stress at night :)

tagging: u know the drill- anyone <3

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books to read:

Varför jag inte längre pratar om ras- Reni Eddo-Lodge

The 7 habit of highly effective people - Stephen R Covey

Slav - Anna, Jason Johansson

Döds dömd - Sharon Bolton

The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Because you’ll never meet me - Bloomsbury

Something like happy - Eva Wood

Paris försvunna döttrar - Pam Janoff

Breaking the habit of being yourself - Dr Joe Dispenza

The four agreements - Don Miguel Ruitz

The monk who sold his ferrari - Robin S Sharma

The glided ones - Namina Forna

Pachinko - Lee Minjin

On earth we’re briefly gorgeous - Ocean Voung

In order to live - Park Yeonmin

Twisted love - Anna Huang

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every book i’ve read in 2022

Fiction

House of Hollow - Krystal Sutherland - 3 sisters disappeared when they were children and reappeared a month later ~changed~

⭐️⭐️ - I think the idea of it was really good but not executed as well as it could of been

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This Time Next Year - Sophie Cousens - Quinn and Minnie are born on New Year's Eve, in the same hospital, one minute apart. Their lives may begin together, but their worlds could not be more different. Thirty years later they find themselves together again.

⭐️⭐️- The main character is literally called Minnie Cooper. Nothing about this book stood out to me

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Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead - 2 parallel narratives, one about the disappeared 20th century aviator, Marian Graves, and the other about a 21st century actress who is starring in a film about Marian

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - I loved this book so much. I 100% recommend it

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Icebreaker - Hannah Grace - Anastasia, a figure skater, and Nate, an ice hockey player end up needing to share an ice rink after an accident

⭐️ - do not even look at this book if you’re under 18. The antagonist in this was just so comically bad and all the other characters are just *too* nice and try hard likeable

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Final Girls - Riley Sager - Quincy, Sam and Lisa all survived massacres and became what the media dubbed final girls. Lisa is found dead in her house and Sam ends up on Quincy’s doorstep, what really happened to Quincy 10 years ago and what is Sam hiding?

⭐️⭐️⭐️ - i didn’t like the ending of this

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What Might Have Been - Holly Miller - This shows the two different paths Lucy could take, in one she decides to move to London and revive her career and in the other she stays in her home town to become an author

⭐️⭐️ - this just didn’t stand out to me and I thought the London love interest was the absolute worst

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The Reading List - Sara Nisha Adams - Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley after losing his wife. Aleisha is working in the local library for the summer when she discovers a note with a list of books on it impulsively she decides to read every book on the list. When Mukesh arrives at the library trying to find a connection with his bookish granddaughter Aleisha passes the list onto him

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - I LOVED this book so much, my favourite read of the year

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The Cuckoo’s Calling - Robert Galbraith - Struggling private detective Comoran Strike is asked to look over a models death after her brother reveals he doesn’t think it was a suicide

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Points off because Strike is described as ugly and having pube like hair but three (3) beautiful women all want to sleep with him? Unrealistic

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The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood - Olive hatches a scheme with grumpy professor Adam to pretend to date so her friend Anh will date Olives ex Jeremy and so that the school won’t think Adam is leaving and they’ll release his frozen funds

⭐️ - I paid 99p for this, it is literally published reylo fanfic

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The Whistling - Rebecca Netley - Elspeth arrives on a remote Scottish island to become a nanny to a young girl who hasn’t spoken in months. The girls silence is not the only mystery on the island. What happened to the girls twin brother and the last nanny? Is the whistling heard at night just the sea or is there something out there?

⭐️⭐️⭐️ - average book average score

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Book Lovers - Emily Henry - Cut throat literary agent Nora agrees to go to Sunshine Falls with her sister Libby to complete a check list of small town tasks but while there she meets a familiar face from the city.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - I really liked this book, a good twist on the small town romance genre.

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The Pact - Sharon Bolton - six friends are looking forward to their futures, until a daredevil game goes horribly wrong, and a woman and two children are killed. 18-year-old Megan takes the blame, leaving the others free to get on with their lives.

⭐️⭐️⭐️ - kind of slow paced. Megan deserved to be more evil

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The Flatshare - Beth O’Leary - Tiffy needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they're crazy, but it's the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy's at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time.

⭐️⭐️ - Kind of cliche and predictable. Does not live up to the hype in my opinion

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Six Stories - Matt Wesolowski - Elusive online journalist Scott King investigates the murder of a teenager at an outward bound centre

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - This is like a true crime podcast but a book, very interesting. I felt the twist at the end was a bit silly

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The Jackman and Evans series - Joy Ellis

⭐️⭐️ - I think these books are really bad but I am obsessed with them because of how stupid they are

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Non fiction and short stories

The mystery of the exploding teeth - Thomas Morris

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The vanishing triangle: the murdered women Ireland forgot - Claire McGowan

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Post mortems - Carla Valentine

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A sincere warning about the entity in your home - Jason Arnopp

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Taken over by something evil from the TV set: a history of Britain’s video nasties controversy and other scary journalism - Jason Arnopp

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Down among the dead men - Michelle Williams

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The Fake Wife Review... #Mystery #Fiction

In between dodging the weather and finally finishing those bonsai shelves, I managed to finish reading another brilliant book, The Fake Wife by Sharon Bolton. You’re not who you say you are. But neither is she. Olive Anderson has accepted that tonight she’ll be dining alone, without her husband. So when a beautiful stranger appears at Olive’s dinner table, telling the waiter she’s her wife,…

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EN FÖRSTKLASSIG DECKARE - SHARON BOLTON: NOW YOU SEE ME

Sharon Bolton (1960-): Now you see Me Utgiven 2012 432 sidor Corgi Books För många år sedan läste jag Sharon Boltons utmärkta deckare En mörk och förvriden flod. Sedan dess har jag tänkt på att läsa mer av henne. Och nu, äntligen får jag säga efter avslutad läsning, blev det av. En resa till London inspirerade mig till att läsa en deckare som utspelar sig där och valet föll på Now you see me. Det…

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WWW Wednesday: November 23rd, 2022

WWW Wednesday: November 23rd, 2022

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? Personal: Thursday—Nothing too much happened. I started watching Love and Anarchy (a Swedish series) on Netflix. It is hilarious but also VERY raunchy. A lot of sex going on in this…

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Alredered Remembers Sharon Bolton, English author of mystery fiction who has also been published under the name S.J. Bolton. Her latest novel is Daisy In Chains, on her birthday.

"On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does."

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What are your favorite books?

Ooo… this one’s a toughie.

Off the top of my head, I am a big fan of the Lacey Flint series by Sharon J. Bolton (her books are just an auto buy for me when I see them in the bookstore), but my favourite books of all time are the Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones. I have been collecting them since I was 10 and I’ve reread every single book in my collection numerous times through the years and it is because of these books that sparked my desire to write. I still feel like the world lost something wonderful when Diana Wynne Jones passed. They hold a very special place in my heart.

On that vein, I think I own every edition of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman out there. So.

For this sake I also have to say the very controversial statement of Ghibli fucking ruined Howl’s Moving Castle. HOW DO YOU FUCK OVER SOMETHING SO PERFECT AS IS. That’s one of my most precious books and that story DID NOT NEED ANY CHANGING OR “FIXING” MIYAZAKI FUCKING RETIRE ALREADY. SOPHIE HATTER WAS PERFECT AS IS. fucking ruined a good character is what they’d done. It is because of this that I have never and will never watch a Ghibli project idc if this makes me sound insane.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is something I read when I was 19 and I can remember just setting it down when I finished and I stared at my bedroom wall for a good hour just trying to process.

Another book that was an unexpected pleasure is The Memory Painter by Gwendolyn Womack. Til this day I cannot listen to Florence and The Machine’s Queen of Peace without thinking about how I had it on repeat while I was reading this book.

I have two quotes from Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman tattooed on me and frankly speaking, I think I left my heart somewhere in Northern Italy in the 80s.

There’s also something magically poignant and bittersweet about Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi and When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr, and the point in my life when I read them. I think these books shaped a part of how I viewed certain things about the world.

As for graphic novels, my heart will always belong to Batman’s Court of Owls run. That was an experience and one day I’ll pluck up enough courage to own the omnibus that I’ve been eyeing since I was in Uni.

In terms of web novels, I’m big on Married to a Salted Fish Thrice (cried like a baby and I honestly have been haunted by the experience; 10/10 recommend), Loneliness (also cried; the smut was very good 👍🏼), Special Fondness (my heart twisted so good), After I Married the Disabled Tyrant (bear with me I know the title is a bit tetchy but it’s good! I promise!)

Can’t have a list of Recs without Lord Seventh, Golden Stage, Sha Po Lang, 2Ha, and SVSSS. There’s a reason why people love these.

There’s probably a lot more that I haven’t mentioned haha

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The Evangelical Crack-Up (w/ Tim Alberta) | Beg To Differ\C

COMMENTARY:

Here/'s the thing: all those people at Bulwark were ideologically joined at the hip to Rush Limpdick.  And Rush Limbaugh was not just ideologically spawned by William F. Bukley: Rush is one of Buckley's legion of Ditto Heads Buckley was a god to Limbaugh and all the rant wing radio stations with their constant barrage of, if not spiritually toxic, Fascist sophistry and Nazification disinfromation, His job was to sow moral confusion, I mean, the difference between William F, Buckley and Ayn Rand is that Buckley knew he was spewing disinformation. His particular genius was that he was perfctly charming and intellectually engaging, doint it.

Buckley was a journalist He knew all the rules of journalism and could fashion his editorial position, which basically anticipated Stephen Miller as the Reinhard Heydrich of the January 6 Committee to Install Trump. Remember, the insurgency I describe in the comments Tim Alberta's session at the Barbershop and Binning road Beauty Parlor podcast with Michael Steele the politics and religion of January 6 began as collateral agendas and  converged behind Grover Norquist after the election of Clinton that became the Contract With America and, from there, the criminal invasion of Ira and elected the David Koresh of the January 6 majority in the house, And all these guys at Bulwark were up to their eyeballs in Limpdick's agenda,, And Limbaugh was basically the Orracle of the John Birch Society, which is to say, Buckley's political strategy for the Nazification of America, All those neo-cons who helped who helped flog the  infvasion of Iraq are now trying to blame it on the Jesus Fras, Believe me, it was a collaborative effort, One of the objectives of the John Birch Society is to transform American into an out-law nation in the name of Free Market hegemony, The Project for the New American Century was a Fascist addendum to Buckley''s Sharon Statement as a manifesto for Hegemony as the critical path of America. Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan, John Bolton, that howling  "Freedom Fries" cabal that thought Toby Keith's attempt to cancel the Chick's career for being outspoken Texas women has helped crste the legacy of the woman with a life  threatening pregnancy was denied ,

It is important for these newly woke Conservatives understand that they helped create Trump. That waswhat the game plan was all along, The fact they didn't get the memo, or didn't believe the memo or wrote the memo and are now trying to pretend it was Jerry Falwell make them useful idiots to, at the moment, Steve bannon, the John Galt of the Trump campaign, Bannon probably won't be linked to Jeffrey Epstein because they were funning in different, mostly exclusive. circles and the corc;es Bannon and Trump wre running in is with the Nazification Oligarchs who are the same existential threat to the constitutional authority of the Kremlin that Trump and January 6 is to the US Constitution, ,. Connect the dots with this commentary and Hedrick Smith's "Who Stole the American Dream". I was not aware of the Powell Memo, but it connects dots with the Buckley  plot that I had already connected. And the dots you can connect from the Powell Memo is the US Chamber of Commerce to Steve Bannon and the attempt by Chinese agents  of global Nazification to hijack the Umbrella Democracy movement. Until 2016, the US Chamber  of Commerce had been an agency of the John Birch Society, but they had a collective Come to Jesus moment with the election of Trump, The US Chamber of Commerce did a Mike Pence before the fact to ensure the integrity of the 2020 election, They are unsung heroes of the 2020 Election on the side of wo ever won.

he good news is that Michael Steel  is one of the last of the Jack Jemp Republicans left standing, along with Mitt Romney, and he is already working, along with Nicole Wallace, in restoring the Party of Lincoln  as the dominate coalition of the GOP and neutralize the Nazification Buckley's social engineering in time for the GOP Presidential Convention this summer by being the grass roots write in candicate for Presidnet and conducting a primary process to select his female running mate, It is important Biden win this election for Biblical reasons associated with c capitalism, but my intent is  put hin on a path for a jump ball with Harris in 2028, Michael is more woke than Hillary Conton, or Barack and Michele Obama. He's been a woke Jack Kemp  Republican  his entire life. Abraham Lincoln was woke. Michael Steel is the Second Coming of Abraham Lincoln  the the future of GOP, And American Democracy.

The neo=con's of Bullworks need to acknowledge the evil of Nazification in their lives like Nicole Wallace and then  repent of  past by turning all that energy and imagination into backing Michael Steele and the Dark House candidate on the Party of Lincoln Coalition on the New Federalism ticket and a promise to install the Trump International Hotel  brand on the moon by 2028 to celebrate Trump's

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Sacrifice by Sharon Bolton @AuthorSJBolton @TransworldBooks

Book Description: ONLY THE MOORLAND HIDES THE MACABRE…Consultant surgeon Tora Hamilton has moved to remote Shetland to be with her husband. She moved to have a family….Not for this . . . In the peat soil near her new home she uncovers a perfectly preserved woman’s body. Runic symbols are carved into her skin. Her heart has been cut out.And as Tora begins to ask questions around the island, she…