Hi guys - hope you are all well. I've finished a middle grade mystery, Our Children in the Shadows, which im hoping to release soon. Does anybody know of any beta readers - or sites/groups who might be able to assist for some honest reviews before my launch day. Any suggestions would be most welcome :D

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‘Buster, who was it?’ she asked. ‘Who was strangled in the bath?’ She gripped his fingers. Portly and bearded like a greedy castaway - that was Buster Mudwhistle. Proud Welshman too. And I much prefer to call him Muddy, as do his friends and a handful of enemies. ‘Heaven is a pork pie and a pint,’ he declared, before swiggin’ his cloudy ale named Musty Shepherd or Bishops Knackers or something along those lines. Then he sank all his teeth in the slab of pastry filled with shoulder and belly – a popular choice amongst patrons of The Crimson Pheasant, which was by far the most charming pub in all of Bennetts Meadow. And, as a matter of fact, the only pub in Bennetts Meadow.

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