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       Precinct Murder. An Anthology of Short Stories by local writers. "We both saw it happen. It was like time stood still out in the street. For a brief second, which seemed like an hour, everything fell silent. Nothing moved. everything was dead." The Fall Guy by Warren Kent opens dramatically with a naked man falling from the 5th floor of a hotel in New York to his death, watched by two off-duty officers enjoying an appetising Mexican meal and looking forward to a relaxing weekend. Change of plan. Mayhem. Cars piled up. Children screaming: "Within moments, blood had mixed with water to form a red river traversing the tarmac." Atmospheric. Meet the two detectives: Steve Byrne and his partner, Jesse Andrews. Homicide? The victim had checked into this particular hotel every Friday afternoon under the name of Jones and was joined by a woman which lead the detectives into assuming that he was conducting a clandestine affair without his wife's

                Oh Dear Sylvia by Dawn French. "Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, I was once lost but now am found, was blind but now I see." This is French's second novel, ambitious but dark. The writer presents us with multi-narrators who are linked to Silvia, a 60 year old who is in a coma after falling from her balcony. She has sustained a serious head injury and is in a critical condition. The million dollar question is did she fall or was she pushed? Had she been drinking? What was her secret? Why did she reject those she loved? Her family Ed, Cassie, and Jamie have been rejected by Silvia and monologues delivered at the side of her hospital bed reveal the true extent of why she wanted to protect them and in doing so, reject them. Of course, her family remain in total ignorance of this and grow to hate her. They harbour grudges and it creates insecurities. Her son Jamie signs up out of rage and is sent to Afghanistan where he is almost killed. He wr

                              Diana.  Film Review. "Love is a garden. If you can't smell the fragrance, don't come into the garden of love. Somewhere beyond right and wrong there is a garden. I'll meet you there." Rumi. Yet another film panned by the critics both sides of the Atlantic. Remember Grace starring Nicole Kidman? That was hammered too. Diana is biopic only in the sense that it covers some aspects of her final years from 1995-1997 particularly her relationship with the heart surgeon, Hasnat Khan and her humanitarian work. Oliver Hirschbiegel of "Downfall" fame, an incredible film based on Hitler's last days, directed   Diana. Based on Kate Snell's 2001 book: Diana: Her Last Love. The script was written by Stephen Jeffreys. Naomi Watts played the title role alongside the attractive Naveen William Sydney Andrews, a British Indian actor (Sayid Jarrah in the tv series Lost , Kip in The English Patient and Sanjay in the 2