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Book Review: Alice Feeney’s Good Bad Girl is a cleverly-plotted mystery about mother and daughter relationships

Alice Feeney’s Good Bad Girl is a story about mothers and daughters, wrapped up in the mystery of a baby that went missing twenty years ago, an eighteen-year-old who has gone missing in the present, and the murder of someone who isn’t really missed at all. Feeney’s sixth novel is told from the points of…

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Book Review: Religious tensions rule the Languedoc, in Kate Mosse’s epic new historical fiction, The Burning Chambers

France, 1562. The Languedoc region is on the cusp of religious war. Threatened by the spread of Protestantism, the Catholic powers are pushing back against edicts ordering tolerance, by stock piling weapons and torturing suspected Huguenots. Old friends become bitter enemies, secrets are bought and sold, and the region moves ever closer to bloody conflict….

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