Book Review
Review of books I have read
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Let me say this plainly, since the title might suggest otherwise: The Seventh Echo by James Woodis not a mystery. It is a supernatural novel, and a rather good one, with a strong storyline and a pace that rarely lets you put the book down. Dan is working on the last project of his career,…
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In my banking years, I learnt that the most dangerous entries in any ledger are the ones nobody recorded. Women Who Were Never Asked is an audit of exactly those entries.
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Entrepreneur. It is a heavy word, and Arpana Bhuwania’s The Unscripted Entrepreneur is refreshingly honest about the hard work, failures and hard-won successes behind it.
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A cosy, grown-up mystery set in a town of quiet witches. Renee comes home to rebuild her life, and finds the magic of Hemlock Hollow has been disturbed.
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A post-COVID world where animals rule, and the office politics have survived the humans. My review of Angry Junglee Bosses by Cross.
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A dismembered, decaying body. A high society park. No obvious suspect. My review of Supriya Bansal’s Never Forget the Crows.
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The second Fictional Hearts book sends Brynn through Charlotte’s portal and into a world that seems too good to be true.
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Nine Bollywood movies with twins, from Ram Aur Shyam to Kaminey — double role classics, mistaken identities, and why Hindi cinema cannot let this trope go.
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Avanthika wakes with retrograde amnesia and has to rebuild her life out of other people’s testimony. An identity with no supporting evidence. A psychological thriller read through a risk lens.
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A family moves cities to start again, and a girl alone in a bedroom becomes the cost of it. Jami Worthington’s The Valley is less interested in its killer than in the twenty-five years that follow — and that, mostly, is to its credit.