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I’m always drawn to books by someone I know, even if only in passing, and my jaw dropped when I read the blurb on the back of this book by Jeff Blackstock, whom I worked with many years ago in the Latin America division at Global Affairs Canada.

This is the true-crime story of how his father, also a diplomat, poisoned Jeff’s mother.

Jeff was only a boy at the time: it took him years to work things out in the face of uncooperative relatives, elusive medical records, and above all, authorities intent on a cover-up.

It has all the…

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The High House by James Stoddard,

The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.

The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.

Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…

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