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Slightly Concerned About This Book (My Review of Black Snow by Malcolm Stacey) #TuesdayBookBlog

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I gave Black Snow 3* out of 5* Book Description: When Richard Black and his two children move to Wales. a storm of concentrated evil is unleashed on the seaside town of Tenby. Brutal killings lead to even worse outrages. Soon a macabre torrent of violence threatens to destroy hundreds of innocent lives. As the snow falls, a mild-mannered vicar, a retired journalist and a tour guide must save the town. While an impossibly difficult woman with a mysterious past is also working on it. But Richard Black is no ordinary villain while his unearthly followers are even stranger. Now it will take a miracle to save Tenby from Britain's worst peacetime tragedy. Set against the eerie background of the secret in a Victorian poem, a forbidding mansion, a dark museum, a forgotten crypt, secret passes, hidden treasure, a sinister graveyard, wild woods an uncanny mist and violent death, Black Snow is a towering tale of relentless suspense you will never forget. My Review: I have hes

My Review of None so Blind (The Harry Probert-Lloyd Mysteries) by Alis Hawkins #TuesdayBookBlog

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Book Description: West Wales, 1850. When an old tree root is dug up, the remains of a young woman are found. Harry Probert-Lloyd, a barrister forced home from London by encroaching blindness, has been dreading this discovery. He knows exactly whose bones they are.  Working with his clerk, John Davies, Harry is determined to expose the guilty. But the investigation turns up more questions than answers. Questions that centre around three names. Rebecca, the faceless leader of an angry mob who terrorise those they hate. Nathaniel Howell, a rabble-rousing chapel minister preaching a revolutionary gospel. And David Thomas, an ominous name with echoes from Harry's past.  Is it Rebecca who is intent on ending Harry and John's enquiry? Why did Nathaniel Howell disappear when Rebecca's insurrection was at its height? And can Harry keep the secrets of his own past safely buried?  The search for the truth will prove costly. But will Harry and John be the ones to pay the h