As a fan of the Vera series (Books & TV) I decided to give an earlier series by Ann Cleeves, Inspector Palmer, a go. The earlier books showed a writer dveloping her style, which at that point had not equaled the writing quality of Vera. However, as I've continue to read the Inspector Palmer series I have noted the improvement in style and development of characters that has increased the reading experience. Killjoy (not a great title and it's hard to see where this comes from in terms of the book) is the fourth in the series and, to my mind, the best to date. The story is set around the a small provincial theatre company, which has as its head ex-TV star Gus Lynch. The leading (young) lady goes missing and turns up dead in the boot of Lynch's car. There are a nice group of characters, which includes the leading man (heartthrob to all), Lynch's deputy (and ex-flame of Ramsey's) and her daughter, a CID officer (father of the leading man) and his neurotic wife, the key trustee of the theatre and her husband and the theatre caretaker being the main players who all (of course) seem to have reason to kill her and various skeletons in their respective cupboards. Throw in Ramsey and his sergeant, Hunter, and there is a nice mix for a very enjoyable little novel. Yes. This book should be in your hands, because it changes what we can do with our hands. Outstretched in collaboration, extended as a fence, raised in fists of protest, intertwined with visionary grace. Maybe you will even write on your hand to remember: after reading this book we have new possibilities for what our hands can mean Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Mediocre romantic suspense. I'm getting real tired of heroes and heroines falling in love within a couple of days just because they have good sex. It's called lust people, not love.Connor and Cara weren’t looking her way, rearranging her face to guard Celia’s secrets. PdfFare.com Avery arrives to the spa to meet up with her aunt for a week of pampering, she is instantly worried when she learns that not only has her reservation been canceled, but that Carrie never arrived as scheduled. Avery knows that something is horribly wrong, then John Paul introduces himself and when he learns that Carrie hadn’t arrived he proceeds to tell her that he thinks an assassin may have killed her Aunt, which naturally only makes Avery more determined to find and save her aunt especially when she receives a mysterious call sending her and John Paul on a game of cat and mouse, what a wild ride John Paul and Avery have ahead of them!! Since this is just a pretend murder, the stakes are low. It feels more cozy than suspenseful, but the book does a nice job of injecting some dark atmosphere into the mix, so it's still quite riveting. In fact, I had trouble putting it down and breezed through the whole thing in about two hours.

A Complainer’s Handbook is intended as a companion and follow up text to The Feminist Killjoy Handbook. Rather than being a set of instructions on how to complain, it will explore how making complaints (whether expressed formally or not) can gives us a set of instructions about the world and in particular about institutions and power. To complain about abuses of power is to learn about power. i feel like the book played too much into the role of celia and while some ppl might like that, all i read abt was constant criticizing and how pip wouldn't do things her character did or working out the details of celia's life to prove she wasn’t the killer. she got too eager when she played the game and it was to the point where she forgot abt the other ppl and stopped seeing them as her friends. pip gave off introverted vibes which i usually don’t mind in a book, but in a group setting differs when u choose to be isolated. this might be a personal irk thing for me thoRachel Cooke, The Guardian, 'Non-fiction to look out for in 2023' Funny frank and fearless, this is an inspiring read about grassroots feminist activism and how a group of determined women can change the world. Killjoy is just like its author: warm, wise, witty and wet your pants hilarious. Older activists will recognise the struggles and triumphs she describes with wry smiles and younger ones will find this book is like a pep talk from a supportive older sister telling them they can do it too! An incredible queer theorist . . . The compelling way in which Ahmed uses metaphors to describe structural inequalities evidently strikes a chord with people, from the "vandal", to, most famously, the 'feminist killjoy'. The figure of the 'feminist killjoy' takes a fundamental role in everything Ahmed does; wilful in her disruption of problematic narratives and taking up space unapologetically Sana Ali, Varsity In this third book of the Buchanan-Renard series, we have John Paul Renard, Noah Clayborne and Monk returning from the earlier book, Mercy. Her razor-sharp mind and ability to gather data and decipher evidence has made Avery an expert crime analyst for the FBI. But soon she will have to use every one of her adroit skills on a case that hits painfully close to home.