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Release Date: May 3, 2016 Publisher: Harlequin (MIRA) Format: Kindle Pages: 336 pages Genre: Fiction Buy: Kindle | Paperback | Hardcover Synopsis: Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater vest, waters his fern, Frederica, and heads out to his garden. But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam's death, something changes. Sorting through Miriam's possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he's never seen before. What follows is a surprising and unforgettable odyssey that takes Arthur from London to Paris and as far as India in an epic quest to find out the truth about his wife's secret life before they met—a journey that leads him to find hope, healing and self-discovery in the most unexpected places. Review: I loved this book. If you'll excuse the pun it was very charming.  ...

Title:   The Farm by Tom Rob Smith Publisher:  Grand Central Publishing 368 pages Genre: Thriller I received an e-galley of this book from the publisher through netgalley.com in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis:  If you refuse to believe me, I will no longer consider you my son. Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother...she's not well , his father tells him.  She's been imagining things - terrible, terrible things . She's had a psychotic breakdown, and been committed to a mental hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls:  Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad... I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow. Caught between his parents, and unsure of who to believe or trust, Daniel becomes his mother's unwilling judge and jury as she tells him an urgent tale of secrets, of lies, of ...