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                 The Missing by C.L.Taylor. "He looks so broken, so contrite, so deeply ashamed that my heart twists in my chest. One of my sons is missing and the other is falling apart in front of my eyes. I have never felt so powerless or so impotent in my life." Be prepared to be shaken out of your comfort zone. Fractured families, a spectrum of emotions; fear, anger, guilt and loss. This is serious stuff and this is what Cally Taylor excels at. The plot is chilling and the truth devastating and the characters are believable throughout. No matter how well we think we know our family and friends that can change with discoveries of mind-numbing secrets that could explode in our faces, leaving us scarred for life. Ask Claire Wilkinson. Claire Wilkinson is the main character, narrating most of the account. Taylor informs us: "I wanted to explore what would happen when Claire, a control freak by nature, realized she no longer knew the son she'd nurtured f

               Murder at Channing Ponds Station by Darren Mark Wright. "They're all acting incredibly weird around each other. Do they know something that we don't know? How did we find ourselves in a place where every person that got off the train to come to this random small village is hiding something?" Think of Agatha Christie's Mousetrap or Cluedo and you're almost there! The scene is set in Channing Ponds, an underground station described as being dank and old. "The track doesn't even see the light of day between these hills." It's in the middle of nowhere. Some God-forsaken place. The drama begins with the arrival of a local Constable and a recently arrived London Detective, both perplexed. Why? Nine people have been killed. " This one is beyond our country experience and capabilities."   Unable to speculate on the perpetrator the Constable wished the Detective the best of luck adding: "You're going to ne