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A city at peace in a world at war. ‘The Stockholm Run’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland and Sweden during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.

This modern photograph shows the Dockmaster's House on the small shipbuilding island of Beckholmen in Stockholm. The house is used as the venue for an important meeting in the book.

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The image shows a small beige house built in classical style. The main block is three bays wide by two storeys high and it has a pediment with an oculus above. There are single window extensions on both sides and a door in the centre. The house is approached via climbing drive beyond a gate and hedge. There are trees on the left. The front cover of 'The Stockholm Run' is shown in the top right corner.

A game of secrets and lies. ‘Bloody Orkney’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland, mainly in Orkney, during World War Two. It uses many real settings.

Although its main focus is Orkney, the central characters also seek to resolve a crisis at Gruinard Bay in Wester Ross, the real-world site of secret biological warfare experiments during the war. This modern view shows Gruinard House and Bay.

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This modern image shows a view from amongst trees over a bay to a shoreline of sand and rocks beyond which is a large white-harled house in the centre of the frame comprising a tower house with a large lower extension to its left. In the background, wooded and rocky slopes climb out of the picture. The front cover of ‘Bloody Orkney’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

Finished reading The Sunbearer Trials and I really liked it! I haven't read YA in ages, but this was a good one. I liked teens behaving like actual teens, I liked that the MC was not a brooding loner but a likable guy with friends, and I absolutely adored all the detail and fun references that went into the world building. It is a colorful, exciting, likable book.
... that ends on a cliffhanger so now I gotta read the next one 😄

Cover of The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas, featuring Theo, the main character, who is a brown-skinned, dark-haired trans boy with quetzal wings.

#7 My favorite so far, The Prospects by K.T. Hoffman.

One of the best sports romances I've ever read; the passion for baseball is as vital as the romantic passion. Gene, a young trans man, has trained himself to be happy that he made it into the minors and not to dream of more. But when he starts to fall for a new colleague, he begins to wonder if it's okay to let himself want. Enjoyable quirky prose and good disability rep too.

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When the hunter becomes the prey. ‘The High Road’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set mainly in central Scotland and the far north-west.

Portpatrick in the Rhins of Galloway is a very long way from where the novel reaches its climax but Callum Anderson visits in the hope of finding his missing cousin; and unwittingly brings death in his wake.

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The image shows a view down onto an enclosed harbour with an inner segment in the bottom left of the frame and an outer segment in the centre right of the frame. A village of mainly white houses and cottages stretches round the far side of the harbour, finishing as the coast climbs to low cliffs in the upper right of the frame, looking right out to sea. There are more buildings in the bottom right and boats are moored in the inner harbour. The front cover of ‘The High Road’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

The siege is over but the war goes on. ‘The Eye of Horus’ is an atmospheric World War Two thriller with settings that move from the Highlands of Scotland via Gibraltar to Malta.

This modern photograph shows the interior of the Xara Palace in Mdina, Malta. Today it is a luxury hotel but in 1943 it served as an RAF officers’ mess. It is visited in the book by Bob Sutherland as he and Monique get to know the island better.

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This modern image shows the interior of the Xara Palace Hotel in Mdina, Malta. A broad corridor with sumptuous red rugs extends out to the middle of the frame. It has light stone walls that extend upwards over two floors to a sloping glass roof. There are tables and rattan chairs at intervals along the sides of the corridor and large displays of green plants. The front cover of ‘The Eye of Horus’ is shown in the top right corner.