#BookReview ‘Invitation from a Dictator’ by Rory Clements #crime #thriller #WW2

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In Invitation from a Dictator by Rory Clements, the aforementioned invitation is not for Munich police detective Seb Wolff, but for his girlfriend Hexie. Hexie’s friend Eva Braun has invited her to the Berghof mountain retreat to meet her boyfriend. Meanwhile Seb must ensure the safety of the the former King Edward VIII who is touring Germany with his new wife. So, there’s lots that can go wrong.Munich 1937. Third in the pre-World War Two series featuring Seb Wolff, Invitation from a Dictator is now hitting its pace as characters, setting and context are well-established. Seb is concentrating on being a policeman divorced from politics, which is difficult when he’s working for Nazis. There’s still no wedding for the couple, despite hints from Seb’s mother, but Seb and Hexie are more concerned that there is no baby on the way. Seb’s son Jurgen, just home from Reich Labour Service camp, is showing signs of Nazi indoctrination while his ex Ulrike, Jurgen’s mother, is working in a local bierkeller. And a murder victim has been so disfigured he can’t be identified. Regular characters return, including Seb’s sergeant Hans Winter, who must hold the fort in Munich while Seb follows the royal party around.
Well-documented history is expertly interwoven with fictional characters and situations. Sub-plots are intertwined. The Duke of Windsor has a stalker, a sinister doctor reappears from Hexie’s past while communist group Red Freedom is planning to assassinate the Duke, Duchess and Hitler.
An addictive pageturner with likeable central characters who make you root for them.

Read my reviews of other Sebastian Wolff novels by Rory Clements:-
MUNICH WOLF #1SEBASTIANWOLFF
EVIL IN HIGH PLACES #2SEBASTIANWOLFF

And here are my reviews of the Tom Wilde WW2 thriller series, also by Rory Clements:-
CORPUS #1TOMWILDE
NUCLEUS #2TOMWILDE
NEMESIS #3TOMWILDE
HITLER’S SECRET #4TOMWILDE
A PRINCE AND A SPY #5TOMWILDE
THE MAN IN THE BUNKER #6TOMWILDE
THE ENGLISH FÜHRER #7TOMWILDE
A COLD WIND FROM MOSCOW #8TOMWILDE

If you like this, try:-
‘All The Broken Places’ by John Boyne
‘The Aftermath’ by Rhidian Brook
‘Akin’ by Emma Donghue

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#BookReview ‘The Millionaire Waltz’ by Anthony Quinn #historicalfiction #1920s

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The Millionaire Waltz by Anthony Quinn begins with a proposal. Edie Greenlaw says yes to David Benton-Launer. The trouble is, Evie is an actress and there’s a casting coming up for The Voysey Inheritance. It is 1924 and London is in that transitional Edwardian era when both men and women are changed by the Great War. The men came home expecting to find a woman to marry but in their absence women became empowered, seeking responsibility and careers and independence. Edie and her war hero are betrothed but while David is ready to settle down straight away, Edie prevaricates. His formidable mother frowns and her parents are bemused. David is accommodating. Edie is cast as the lead role in Antony and Cleopatra, the show is a hit, and so the wedding is delayed. And then an old teenage acquaintance re-appears to muddy the waters and confuse Edie’s ideas of what she wants and doesn’t want.
Her performance as Cleopatra is a success but without another role, Edie begins to model fashions for Dickens and Jones. She continues to manage the remodelling and decoration at the house David has bought for their married life, and to have fittings for her wedding dress and trousseau. But as the delays continue, a slight distance grows between the betrothed couple. Edie delights in her friends from the theatre and the troubles of Peter, a doctor, make her determined to help him. Peter is being abused by a gay lover and Edie takes appalling risks in a plan to have the villain arrested.
I have enjoyed every one of Anthony Quinn’s novels I’ve read, each so different from the others, all eloquently written and immersive. I hesitate though to describe this as a thriller, more a romance with a mystery sub-plot.

Read my reviews of these other novels by Anthony Quinn:-
CURTAIN CALL
FREYA
HALF OF THE HUMAN RACE
MOLLY & THE CAPTAIN
OUR FRIENDS IN BERLIN
THE RESCUE MAN
THE STREETS

If you like this, try:-
‘The Doll Factory’ by Elizabeth Macneal
‘The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock’ by Imogen Hermes Gowar
‘The Ballroom’ by Anna Hope

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#BookReview ‘Secrets Typed in Blood’ by Stephen Spotswood @playwrightSteve #crime

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When a string of real-life murders are identical to a crime author’s latest stories, there’s only one detective team the writer can turn to. In Secrets Typed in Blood by Stephen Spotswood, Holly Quick asks the crack New York detectives Lilian Pentecost and Willowjean Parker for help. Third in the Pentecost & Parker post-WW2 1940s detective series, Secrets Typed in Blood is not a straightforward case for New York’s finest. When Miss Quick turns up on the doorstep, Miss P is weakened by side effects caused by her multiple sclerosis and Will is wearing lipstick and a pencil skirt while pretending to be a nine-to-five secretary to investigate a businessman involved in a cold case. Holly is a difficult client to read but her basic story is proven by some nifty research. Pentecost & Parker, unwilling to alert the police to their investigation, employ a private detective to research the three murdered men and identify links to Holly and her crime stories. Darryl Klinghorn does his job efficiently but without results. Until he becomes another victim of the murderer.
Entwined through this story are some attractive and unattractive characters. Miss P’s Scottish housekeeper Mrs Campbell adds her wonderful matter-of-fact analysis to knotty problems. Holly’s caretaker Mr Cosmo is a gem. I also liked the reappearance of Sam Lee Butcher, circus roustabout in the last book of the series Murder Under Her Skin, now a New York morgue orderly and occasional helper to the lady detectives. Worst is Jessup Quincannon, a wealthy man obsessed by murder who runs The Black Museum Club where murderers mingle over cocktails and canapes with his exclusive members. Upstairs is an unofficial museum of murderous artefacts displayed like art including bones, blades, hacksaws and a woman’s skirt, green chintz with golden lilies. Pentecost & Parker have a big problem. Their usual method, to identify the killer by first understanding the victim, isn’t working. Then they start to wonder if Holly is being truthful with them.
Surprising, rich, clever and inventive. The sub-plot about the Olivia Waterhouse case, the reason Will is pretending to be a secretary, left me uninvolved. I wanted to read more about the Holly Quick murders.
Next up is Murder Crossed Her Mind.

Here are my reviews of other books in this series:-
FORTUNE FAVOURS THE DEAD #1PENTECOST&PARKER …and read the #FirstPara of HERE
MURDER UNDER HER SKIN #2PENTECOST&PARKER

If you like this, try:-
‘The Killing Lessons’ by Saul Black
‘Wolf’ by Mo Hayder
‘The Various Haunts of Men’ by Susan Hill #1SIMONSERRAILLER

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#BookReview ‘The Crownless Queen’ by Elizabeth Chadwick @Chadwickauthor #historicalfiction #medieval

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I really enjoyed reading The Royal Rebel, first of the two books about Joan of Kent written by Elizabeth Chadwick, so was eager to read The Crownless Queen. Joan, or Jeanette as Chadwick calls her, is a fascinating character who lived at a time of royal upheaval. England 1360. Jeanette, happily married to her teenage love Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent, fills her days caring for their four children but missing her soldier husband who is on duty in Normandy. When news arrives of Thomas’ death, Jeanette’s stable and contented life is upended, her safety and position threatened. ‘Eventually, the pain withdrew, becoming a dull, cramping ache, and the fog thinned to mist. Tears came and, with them, harsh, choking sobs that left her throat raw and her body exhausted. Reality, however, remained solid. No matter how much she sought oblivion, she was back in the world.’ Prince Edward, the Black Prince, her childhood friend and godfather to her sons, promises to help. Unexpectedly, his help comes as a marriage proposal. Still mourning, she is married again, too soon but the security of her children is assured.
This is an epic tale of a woman at the heart of royalty, the entwining of royalty and politics, foreign diplomacy and wars, set on a foundation of Jeanette’s domestic life. She is a skilled diplomat and politician and, as wife of the heir to the throne, she needs to be. Her husband’s father, King Edward III, has taken a mistress but is quick to complain about his son’s new wife who, he says, ‘Despite her reputation, she is still a golden apple on the tree.’ Those first three words refer to Jeanette’s marriage to Thomas. The King sends his son to France to govern Aquitaine. Chadwick takes the historical fact and the gaps of record, and creates a readable novel I picked up at every opportunity. Edward’s frailty, Jeanette’s awkward relationship with her brother-in-law John Duke of Lancaster (or John of Gaunt, as we know him), the lives of Jeanette’s two sons, Tom and Johan, both squires in noble homes, and Jeanette’s grief, all add layers to this story.
The blurb states that The Crownless Queen can be read as a standalone but I think in order to enjoy all the subtleties, it is best to read The Royal Rebel first.
Jeanette, which is the familiar name by which Joan was addressed by her family and friends, is the sort of character you root for. Her bravery, her sense of justice, her steadfastness. A wonderful blend of detailed family life and motherhood, combined with state politics, court plotting, romance, grief and betrayal.
Excellent.

Here’s my review of the first in this series:-
THE ROYAL REBEL #1JEANETTEOFKENT

If you like this, try:-
‘The Miniaturist’ by Jessie Burton
‘A Good Deliverance’ by Toby Clements
‘Cecily’ by Annie Garthwaite

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#BookReview ‘The Cornish Castle Murder’ by Fiona Leitch #crime #cosycrime

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Jodie Parker and DCI Nathan Withers are getting married at Kervoy Castle hotel but inevitably their weekend of pre-wedding activities is halted by a death. The Cornish Castle Murder by Fiona Leitch is eighth in the Nosey Parker Cornwall-set cosy crime series. Of course when a suspicious death occurs at a wedding where practically every guest is a police officer, there is no shortage of theories and help. There are also unforeseen complications. The wedding weekend is very expensive, prompting a debate about whether the nuptials should be postponed and everyone sent home; or should they stay for the limitless food and entertainment. So everyone stays. Nathan has two best men. Craig, who has flown from America, is acting strangely and having a dramatic personal crisis that can’t be ignored. The hotel is suffering from a spate of petty thefts. And the detective inspector in charge of the murder case is a) an outsider from Exeter; b) an officer Jodie worked with in London a long time ago; and c) determined to investigate the case in her own way without the interference of the police officers on site.
Nathan and Jodie of course ask their own questions, examine the murder scene and gather clues. Jodie’s daughter Daisy and boyfriend Joe are tasked with researching the victim’s social media feeds while Jodie’s oldest friend Tony teams up with her mother Shirley to find out the local gossip in the old-fashioned way, by talking to people. As always there are plenty of laughs, especially from Shirley who is an enthusiastic dancer and outlasts most of the youngsters at the disco. Dog Germaine, who at first is banned from the wedding as the hotel doesn’t allow pets, makes a crucial appearance and a key discovery.
The pace of the story is a little erratic at times and there are almost too many characters who look guilty. My attention strayed for a while, but the story hits its stride again in the last quarter. Leitch writes with an entertaining blend of humour, crime, puzzle-solving and saucy jokes, but is light on the food references this time.

Next in the series is The Cornish Christmas Pantomime Murder.

Here are my reviews of the first books in the Nosey Parker series:-
THE CORNISH WEDDING MURDER #1NOSEYPARKER
THE CORNISH VILLAGE MURDER #2NOSEYPARKER
THE PERFECT CORNISH MURDER #3NOSEYPARKER
A CORNISH CHRISTMAS MURDER #4NOSEYPARKER
A CORNISH RECIPE FOR MURDER #5NOSEYPARKER
A CORNISH SEASIDE MURDER #6NOSEYPARKER
THE CORNISH CAMPSITE MURDER #7NOSEYPARKER

If you like this, try:-
‘Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet’ by MC Beaton #2AGATHARAISIN
‘Death on Deck’ by Verity Bright #13LADYELEANORSWIFT
‘A Medal for Murder’ by Frances Brody #2KATESHACKLETON

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#BookReview ‘A Meditation on Murder’ by Robert Thorogood #crime

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I started reading the Death in Paradise series by Robert Thorogood out of order, a long time before I read his Marlow Murder Club books. So I’ve gone back to the beginning with A Meditation on Murder. It’s an impossible closed room mystery. Six people go into a room, lockable only from the inside. When the door is opened again, one is dead. This is not just any room though, its a paper-walled meditation cabin at a swanky Caribbean hotel. Aslan Kennedy, co-owner of The Retreat, is dead and his killer admits she did it. Except Julia Higgins can’t have been the killer.
It’s a knotty problem for Detective Inspector Richard Poole who ‘felt as though he had a load of jigsaw pieces, but he couldn’t even begin to put them together because they all came from different jigsaw puzzles.’ Poole is a fish out of water, a process-drive Englishman in suit and lace-ups living in a shack with an inbuilt tree and a resident lizard called Harry. He’s never swum in the sea and isn’t coping well with the Caribbean heat. Inspector Poole is also stubborn, which means he refuses to discount small inconvenient clues such as the drawing pin found in the meditation cabin. He also refuses to accept Julia’s confession.
This is a very funny novel that moves along at a fair clip. I picked it up needing an easy read and read it in 24 hours. Just the job.

Here’s my review of the second in this series:
THE KILLING OF POLLY CARTER #2DEATHINPARADISE

… and other books by the same author:-
THE MARLOW MURDER CLUB #1MARLOWMURDERCLUB
DEATH COMES TO MARLOW #2MARLOWMURDERCLUB
THE QUEEN OF POISONS #3MARLOWMURDERCLUB

If you like this, try:-
‘A Cornish Recipe for Murder’ by Fiona Leitch #5NOSEYPARKER
‘Murder on Board’ by Helena Dixon #10MISSUNDERHAY
‘A Medal for Murder’ by Frances Brody #2KATESHACKLETON

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#BookReview ‘Kingdom Come’ by Toby Clements #historicalfiction #WarsoftheRoses

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The impression of peace and security is transient in 1470. Kingdom Come by Toby Clements is the fourth book in the Kingmaker historical series set during the Wars of the Roses. And such a book it is I didn’t want to put it down. I have developed a fondness for Thomas and Katherine Everingham. The story continues on immediately from the end of the third book, Divided Souls, as King Edward IV is drawn north to deal with rebellion. The Earl of Warwick has switched sides and now backs the old king Henry VI whose wife Margaret of Anjou seeks to enthrone their son Edward of Westminster. King Edward is deposed and forced to flee to Bruges with his loyal retinue including Thomas’s patron, Lord William Hastings. Thomas and Katherine go too with their two children, Rufus and new baby Alice. As they face more impossible decisions, tragedy, poverty and vicious battles, the couple long simply to go home.
Kingdom Come is a page-turning story set in 1470-1471 when the wars see the three York brothers separated and reunited, where the York and Lancaster armies march to and fro across the country to meet in battle again and again, buffeting Thomas and Katherine to and fro entangled in events over which they have no control.
At the heart of this series are three secrets shielded by Thomas and Katherine. One a ledger, hidden for ten years, contains an inconvenient truth that could bring about their own deaths and make the already violent Wars of the Roses explode as kin turns on kin. The proof is ‘bundled tightly in its waxed linen and leather bindings, heavy as any chain, shackling them, inescapably, to the great weight of their pasts.’ The second secret, shrouded in mystery throughout, is seen with a wisp of a hint here and there but is so fleeting it is forgotten in the stories of Thomas and Katherine moving north and south, east and west, in pursuit of safety and the truth. Always, they return home to Marton Hall in Lincolnshire. The third secret, re-emerges in Kingdom Come to drive them from their home into destitution, refugees overseas, then back into battle at Barnet and then Tewkesbury.
Heartily recommended. This is a fine series. I’m crossing my fingers that there will be another Kingmaker installment to take us to the fall of Yorkist rule and the dawn of the Tudors.

Read my reviews of the other books in this series:-
WINTER PILGRIMS #1KINGMAKER
BROKEN FAITH #2KINGMAKER
DIVIDED SOULS #3KINGMAKER

And also by Toby Clements:-
A GOOD DELIVERANCE

If you like this, try:-
‘The Players’ by Minette Walters
‘The Key in the Lock’ by Beth Underdown
‘Plague Land’ by SD Sykes #1OSWALDDELACY

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#BookReview ‘A Medal for Murder’ by Frances Brody @FrancesBrody #cosycrime

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I started reading the Kate Shackleton series of 1920s detective novels in the wrong order, so I’ve gone back to the beginning. A Medal for Murder is the second Kate book by Frances Brody. With flashbacks to the 1899 Boer War, it adds layer upon layer to the puzzles faced by Kate. 1922. Harrogate is a genteel city, a night at the theatre, a visit to a friend. But Kate Shackleton’s visit to her director friend doesn’t go to plan when on the last night of the play, a wealthy local businessman is found dead, a dagger in his chest.
Drawn to the spa town as part of an investigation into robbery at a Leeds pawn shop, Kate finds herself instead following clues to find the murderer. Everyone in Harrogate seems polite, helpful, thoughtful, concerned about the murder, ready to help. But are they really being helpful or trying to distract the investigation? Kate, who has stayed the night with her theatre producer friend Meriel, is asked for help from another source. Meriel’s landlord, elderly Captain Wolfendale, has received a ransom note. His grand-daughter Lucy, a budding actress, has been kidnapped. The note warns not to alert the police and so the captain asks for Kate’s help. As Kate’s three unrelated cases – theft, murder, kidnap – keep overlapping, she begins to wonder if everyone is acting a role. Is anyone telling her the truth? Where is Lucy, has she been kidnapped or is she hiding from someone. And why is the captain’s war experience significant?
A Medal for Murder starts slowly and builds the tension gradually. But the twist, when it comes, will take your breath away. I didn’t see it coming at all. Brody has a wonderful talent for misleading the reader, laying false clues and real ones, that keep you guessing for so long. Kate Shackleton is a very likeable protagonist, an independent woman making her own life post-Great War, shaped by her wartime experiences. Now a professional detective, Kate must consider the moral question: is a thief always a thief, or can there be mitigating factors that excuse or explain guilt? Harrogate, a beautiful spa town, is a worthy character in its own right.
Next in the series is Murder in the Afternoon.

Read my reviews of these other Kate Shackleton novels:-
DYING IN THE WOOL #1KATESHACKLETON … read the #FirstPara HERE.
A DEATH IN THE DALES #7KATESHACKLETON
A SNAPSHOT OF MURDER #10KATESHACKLETON
DEATH AND THE BREWERY QUEEN #12KATESHACKLETON
A MANSION FOR MURDER #13KATESHACKLETON

If you like this, try:-
‘The Various Haunts of Men’ by Susan Hill #1SIMONSERRAILLER
‘A Rising Man’ by Abir Mukherjee #1WYNDHAM&BANERJEE
‘Murder Under her Skin’ by Steven Spotswood #2PENTECOST&PARKER

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#BookReview ‘The Fourth Queen’ by Nicola Cornick @NicolaCornick #historical #timeslip #Tudor

#BookReview ‘The Pinnacle’ by Abir Mukherjee @radiomukhers #thriller #India

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‘This was India. They did democracy different here.’ The Pinnacle by Abir Mukherjee starts at a fast pace and races to the last page. Having just finished a long detailed historical novel, this speed made me feel as if I’d overdosed on caffeine. But I stuck with it because I’m a big fan of Mukherjee’s Raj-era crime series. The Pinnacle is set now in Mumbai, it’s a million miles from 1919 Calcutta. Two wealthy actors, American husband and Bollywood star wife, live a beautiful life in a luxury apartment with soaring views across the city. But reality is different from the image. George Abercrombie wakes on the sofa after a drunken night out to find his wife Sweety Sahota dead in their bed. His servant Amit isn’t answering his phone, their maid wants to make breakfast for her mistress and Sweety’s American PA will arrive at any moment. George panics. What follows is like the Winston Wolf scene in Pulp Fiction.
The Pinnacle is a rollercoaster puzzle ride of politicians, gangsters, blackmail, extreme wealth, extreme poverty and misogyny. We see the action from three viewpoints, George, manservant Amit and PA Gemma. But who do we believe, are we seeing the truth or a curated reality. George and Sweety, after all, are actors. Who killed Sweety? Who is the blackmailer and why? Where is Sweety’s jewellery and laptop? Who did she visit earlier in the evening of her death? Who has most to lose, and who is the boss of the boss of the boss? I guessed quite early and then doubted my first instinct.
In the Wyndham & Banerjee books, Mukherjee focusses on the hypocrisy and arrogance of India’s colonial occupiers, in The Pinnacle the same behaviour is seen amongst the rich. None of the characters are likeable but perhaps my favourite – simply for her name and her zebra sofas – is Roxanne Bunglewalla, daughter of the Pinnacle’s owner. When George enters Roxanne’s penthouse for the first time, he thinks, ‘Roxanne Bunglewalla’s place was best viewed through sunglasses, ideally with the lights off, seeing as it was decked out in more gold than the US Olympics team and Jay-Z put together. It was like King Midas had come to Mumbai, got hammered with Louis XIV and then both of them decided to enter the interior design business for a bet.’ Mukherjee is a master of the funny one-liners.
Fast-paced, good fun. At times the pace was so quick I lost track of things, but Mukherjee is in control of the story throughout and I soon picked up the thread again. I read it quickly in two days.

Here are my reviews of the Raj-era Wyndham & Banerjee crime series, also by Abir Mukherjee:-
A RISING MAN #1WYNDHAM&BANERJEE
A NECESSARY EVIL #2WYNDHAM&BANERJEE
SMOKE AND ASHES #3WYNDHAM&BANERJEE
DEATH IN THE EAST #4WYNDHAM&BANERJEE
THE SHADOWS OF MEN #5WYNDHAM&BANERJEE
THE BURNING GROUNDS #6WYNDHAM&BANERJEE

If you like this, try:-
‘Before the Fall’ by Noah Hawley
‘Gone Girl’ by Gillian Flynn
‘Beautiful Ugly’ by Alice Feeney

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SANDRA DANBY'S BOOK REVIEWS

Sharing thoughts on the books I read, new authors, favourite authors, classics re-visisted

#BookReview ‘Invitation from a Dictator’ by Rory Clements #crime #thriller #WW2

#BookReview ‘The Millionaire Waltz’ by Anthony Quinn #historicalfiction #1920s

#BookReview ‘Secrets Typed in Blood’ by Stephen Spotswood @playwrightSteve #crime

#BookReview ‘The Crownless Queen’ by Elizabeth Chadwick @Chadwickauthor #historicalfiction #medieval

#BookReview ‘The Cornish Castle Murder’ by Fiona Leitch #crime #cosycrime

#BookReview ‘A Meditation on Murder’ by Robert Thorogood #crime

#BookReview ‘Kingdom Come’ by Toby Clements #historicalfiction #WarsoftheRoses

#BookReview ‘A Medal for Murder’ by Frances Brody @FrancesBrody #cosycrime

#BookReview ‘The Fourth Queen’ by Nicola Cornick @NicolaCornick #historical #timeslip #Tudor

#BookReview ‘The Pinnacle’ by Abir Mukherjee @radiomukhers #thriller #India

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