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Before I read this & the previous one (TBOSAS), I wasn't sure we needed additional books about Snow & Haymitch. Have to say, I was completely wrong as yes, yes we did. Snow's villain origin story was interesting enough but this one about Haymitch Abernathy was just about perfect. It was also good to see Plutarch, Mags, Wiress, & Effie Trinket in their earlier roles.

This is a well-researched, very readable account of the history of the campaigns for female suffrage (voting rights) in the UK. As per the title, it concentrates heavily on the parallel, more militant suffragette movement in the UK & its links to the Pankhurst family in particular.

The author does an excellent job of being balanced towards the subjects - detailing the many good things about the campaigns but also not ignoring areas of weakness,

Autobiography by Marianne Faithfull - best known for a few hit songs & being Mick Jagger's girlfriend sometime in the 60s. Most people in this come across as insufferable bores who think they're erudite & witty because they're always stoned. Talking of insufferable bores - I've never gotten the hype about Dylan. Really can't see what the deal ever was. (continued)

Near the Orkney Islands off the mainland Scottish coast, two divers pay a local to take them out to the area where the HMS Vanguard, a WWI ship which exploded taking almost all those onboard with it, lies. It has been designated a war grave & is therefore off limits to divers, but whilst illegally exploring the wreck one of them uncovers several plates from the ship's mess (canteen) & thinking they could be worth something, he takes 3 of them.

Since their second 'Three Dahlias' case, Rosalind has been staying with her new partner, ex-policeman Jack, Caro has written & published a book about their first case, & Posy can't make her mind up about leading man & possible love interest, Kit. At the premiere of the new Dahlia Lively film, the three women are approached by the makers of a true crime podcast who want the 'Dahlias' to investigate a possible miscarriage of justice. (continued)

The story of the capture of Randall Woodfield, the I-5 serial killer who committed robberies, rapes, & murders along the I-5 corridor in the early 1980s. Woodfield started out as a promising athlete & was drafted by the Green Bay Packers, but it all came tumbling down due to his fixation with young women & misogyny.