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                           Witches' Mountain by Gerald R. Wright. "The more he thought about it, the more he knew that Kate and the mountain would draw him back-especially Kate." Our main character, Rick Jackson was 27 years old, reasonably open-minded, stoic, pragmatic and gregarious., quite a nice chap, in fact. A small, engineering company he had worked for as a salesman had folded but he was fortunate in finding similar work with another small business covering a wide and diverse territory of farms, lumber companies and engineering works. He loved the open country and mountains in their majestic natural beauty and grandeur. Just as well as his work covered the infamous mountain-Witches' Mountain linked to the Salem trials. The novel begins with Rick driving his Mustang through the mountains, it's twilight. The colours around him were spectacular: yellows, oranges and reds-a sight worth seeing and rememb...

 The Wrong Girl by Laura Wilson. "Everything was in a mess. She's been left in this horrible room because she was the wrong girl. She wasn't good enough to be Phoebe or have a mum like Melissa. Of course she wasn't. How could she ever have thought she was?" We can all sympathise with being in the wrong place at the wrong time can't we? But imagine having the wrong life and being the wrong person? Does that make any sense? Once you've worked through the complexities of this plot with these dysfunctional characters that all seem to have fragile egos appearing to be very unstable and grossly unhappy it should make sense. This is typical of Guardian crime reviewer, Laura Wilson and this one is certainly worthy of your time. Wilson reminds us throughout that whatever actions we have taken in the past, they will always come back to haunt us. Guilt unfortunately, may define us, so how do we choose the guilt we can live with and repress it as long a...