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Review: Alaina Claiborne (British Agent #1) by M.K. McClintock

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As a young girl, Alaina Claiborne witnesses a the murder of her parents…..an event that she doesn’t fully understand.

At ten years old, Alaina remains in her parents estate with her guardians, her aunt Charlotte and her uncle Sebastiaan.

As she grows older, she only minutely remembers the murders and she only finds comfort when riding her horses.

One afternoon she is out for a ride, she stops at her favorite spot on the lake by her property.

There she runs into her new neighbor, Tristan Sheffield. She is frustrated that this man has intruded on her favorite spot but yet she is oddly intrigued by him.

He is handsome to be sure, and arrogant but friendly enough. Suddenly he starts turning up at at her house and spending a great deal of time with her. What Alaina doesn’t know is her life is in serious danger.

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Review: The Canterbury Sisters by Kim Wright

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Che’s life is literally hitting rock bottom. Her mom just died and her long time boyfriend just dumped her via letter for another woman. Right now her life absolutely, positively, sucks.

On the same day that she receives the break up letter, she also receives her mother’s ashes with a last request from her mom….take her ashes to Canterbury.

Che had forgotten that she promised to take her mother to Canterbury, it was a trip they both planned to take together but never did. So now her mother’s last wish is that they take that trip together.

Right now seems like as good of a time as any since se can’t stand the thought of facing her now ex when he comes to clean out their apartment so she boards the first flight to England. Instead of taking a train directly to Canterbury from London, Che’s mom wanted them to do a pilgrimage and follow the Canterbury trail which is a 60 mile walk from London.

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Review: Dead Cert by Dick Francis

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Horses and murder in the English countryside…..how can I resist a book like that?

Jockey, Alan York, is riding in a steeplechase race when his long time friend, Bill Davidson, takes a terrible fall over the last fence.

Alan finishes the race in first place and rushes back to check on his friend. Bill is quickly taken to the hospital but it is too late, he is dead. Alan examine the fence where Bill went down and discovers the remains of a wire, indicating that the fall was anything but an accident.

The dark world of horse racing and bookmaking is one that Alan is familiar with. He knows the dangers of ‘stopping’ a horse intentionally during a race, he knows that the horse racing world is full of unsavory characters but he also knows that his best friend Bill, would never enter into anything dishonest which makes his death even more of a mystery.

As Alan digs deeper into Bill’s death, he puts himself in great danger…..what happened to Bill could easily happen to Alan and it would look just like an accident.

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Review: Aunt Dimity and the Summer King (Aunt Dimity Mystery #20) by Nancy Atherton

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Lori Shepherd loves everything about her quaint town of Finch in the Cotswold country of England.

It’s here that she is raising her twin boys and new baby daughter Bess along side her husband, Bill.

Finch is you typical country town full of country events like the church bake sale and the dog trials. Everyone knows everyone and that also means that everyone knows your business.

Since Lori had her baby, she has been out of the loop on all the town gossip but she has noticed that two Finch cottages are still for sale after months on the market and she just can’t understand why.

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Review: Longbourn by Jo Baker

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Reader beware…..if you love Jane Austen and are looking for something that will give you a new ‘perspective’ about the Bennet sisters, keep on looking.

Sure this novel includes the Bennet sisters and follows the traditional Pride and Prejudice story but that’s about it.

Jo Baker remakes the classic story of Pride and Prejudice from the perspective of the below stairs staff but yet it’s a story all its own and noting close to the Austen classic.

Sarah has been a maid at Longbourn since she was a child. She cleans the chamber pots, scrubs the laundry, polishes the floor and of course waits on the Bennet sisters.

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