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<metadesc>Book review siteExpert, with books full book reviews from most walks of literary life; fiction, biographynon-fiction, crime, cookery and children's books & self-published books plus author interviews and & top tens.</metadesc><h1 id="mf-title">The Bookbag</h1>Hello from The Bookbag, a site featuring books from all the many walks of literary life - [[:Category:Fiction|fiction]], [[:Category:Biography|biography]], [[:Category:Crime|crime]], [[:Category:Cookery|cookery]] and anything else that takes our fancy. At Bookbag Towers the bookbag sits at the side of the desk. It's the bag we take to the library, the charity shop and the bookshop. Sometimes it holds the latest releases, but at other times there'll be old favourites, books for the children, books for the home. They're sometimes our own books or books from the local library. They're often books sent to us by publishers and we promise to tell you exactly what we think about them. You might not want to read through a full review, so we'll give you a quick review which summarises what we felt about the book and tells you whether or not we think you should buy or borrow it. There are also lots of [[:Category:Interviews|author interviews]], and all sorts of [[:Category:Lists|top tens]] - all of which you can find on our [[features]] page. If you're stuck for something to read, check out the [[Book Recommendations|recommendations]] page.
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|author= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)Onyi Nwabineli|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary General Fiction |summary= Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia''It Would Be Night in Caracas'' illuminates the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuela. It begins with the death s increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Adelaida FalconAnuri's mother childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and chronicles Adelaida's coming she is slowly trying to terms with regain her new solitude in this world confidence and to get her life back, suing her attempts step-mother to escape ittake down the content about her. Danger stalks the shadows Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online andreceiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, in a society where the establishment she is crumblingdesperately worried about her little sister, who can you turn tois the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time? |isbn=00629368670861546873
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|isbnauthor=0349423067David Chadwick|title=The Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances BrodyHeadload of Napalm
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers|summary=From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King’s CrossIt's September 1973 in Hicks, arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent GardenCalifornia. In early March 1929 one of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a man, stripped naked and few thousand people with no means its nearest neighbours of identificationLA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Scotland Yard hit Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a dead end and called on defence contractor are the services main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of Kate Shackleton in the hope that her knowledge note other than dive bars and connections in Yorkshire would give them the lead they neededJoshua trees. Life is quiet, until.. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not come to terms with the fact that she was now a woman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant to give her all the information which the police held.|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=1925820025Tom Percival|title=OnceThe Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, I was Lovedworking a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Belinda LandsberryStig Abell
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=TockFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the toy rabbitfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, is Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a box lot of toys compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the charity shopbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. He realises that heIt's not wanted any moredifficult as Ruth knows, but muses that it wasnNelson doesn't always this way, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'Once''s prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he sayspromises, ''I was loved''is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he tells us wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of all his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the children other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who have loved works with him over the yearsis kept well away from what's happening.
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|authorisbn= Stephen Baxter0008405026|title= World Engines: DestroyerA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= Hundreds of It's sixteen years in since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the futureinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, on a stagnating and almost empty Earthher father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a space shuttle pilot from straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the early days positioning of the 21st century is awoken from the cryogenic sleep he entered after a devastating accidentbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. As he comes What looked as though it was going to terms with this new world, he begins to realise that their history does not match what he remembers be an open- and -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that only he may be able to stop the coming catastrophe destined to destroy the planet. Until he meets a young woman who seems to have a drive of her ownexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and a plan..Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1473223172
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|isbn=14063893310571379877|title=In The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the Key two of Codethem kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Aimee LucidoJo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Emmy When a man is moving with her parents halfway across Americafound crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to follow the case alongside her fathersidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's dreams their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of a big break in his music careerunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. She leaves behind her friends and her school Will they be able to solve the case in Wisconsintime, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and moves to California, knowing only what she has heard in songspotentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4. Her struggle to settle into her new life5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, make friends Laura and feel happy Anjali met on the first day of medical school and confident againtheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is agonisingly told in a way we can all relate bonus when you aim tobe a cardiothoracic surgeon. There are many new opportunities Laura is a perfectionist and setbacks, taking a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the reader on group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a rollercoaster of emotions, but drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it isn's going to end in tragedy. We don't until Emmy joins a coding class using computer language know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that she begins will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to feel she might have bring up an image of a chance city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to feel think of someone like she truly belongsGary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=15294022551035021803|title=A Body in the Bookshop (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Helen CoxC L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Evie Bowes is very conscious It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of the scars on a request for help from her facebeloved aunt, Carole. They were acquired when she was rescued from a car in Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the River Ouse by Inspector Halloranleast. She’d Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been suspected of back to the murder of her boyfriendvillage: Arthur, Owenshe feels, and let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the process of clearing her name profession she and her best friend, Kitt Hartley developed a taste for detectionloved. Kitt developed After the split, she worked in a taste for Inspector Halloran Toocafe, but they’re taking it slowly. Wellmet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, sort of slowlywho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn= Alexandra ChristoAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Into the Crooked PlaceAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 45|genre= TeensScience Fiction|summary= In ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a world thriving few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with black magicthe feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, four young crooks embark on a quest to take I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down their criminal leader after rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they discover 're talking about or the plot behind his dangerous new magiclatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1250318378
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|author=Kathlaine C Gill and D Clark GillSunny Singh|title=Madness Between Light and DarkHotel Arcadia
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|genre=FantasyThrillers |summary=It's 1912The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, and at New Hope Sanatoriumkilling everyone on site, Christine Agnes Tupper there is fast growing up. Abandoned there by parents who were ashamed of her hunchbackSam, she's nevertheless grown up to an intelligent girl with a good heartwartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. Her encounters with As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the inhabitants of residents who are still alive in the asylum swiftly take her on hotel, he forms a fascinatingbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, thrilling and sometimes terrifying journey keeps on venturing out of self discoveryher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, allowing Agnes their friendship grows as Abhi tries to prove that, even with a twisted spine, help her heart is in keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the right place!terrorists.|isbn=1641110708086154742X
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|isbn=190874572X1529153298|title=Letters from ToveThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Tove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator)Jennie Godfrey
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|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=Back at the beginning of the century It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I went on holiday to Nepalmean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. I met a wonderful Finnish woman and we became sort of friends Women have been disappearing. I can Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't remember if it was on sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that holiday or her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a later one that Paula told me I really had to read Tove Janssonfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. I do know that it was four years later that I finally acquired an English translation of The Summer BookFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that I eagerly awaited the . She''Sort Of'' translations of s not worried about the rest of Janssondangers or that her Mum's work and devoured them as soon as I could get my hands on themstopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=17847427831398524085|title=The Benefit of Hindsight (Simon Serrailler)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Susan HillNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A superficial look would suggest to you that Simon Serrailer has been lucky Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - all things considered strangely - his life her husband, Alec, is as good as it could benot. He's back at work after a long break to recuperate from Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the violent incident which cost him his arm and almost his life. When hebody of Greg's not at work he's spending his time father, Duncan Ackerley, in the cathedral roof drawing the medieval angels which are being restoredriver. There's talk of It was an exhibition of his drawings. Lafferton seems easy assumption for the police to be quite settled as far as crime is concerned until one night make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when two local men open their front door to a couple seeking shelter. Ithe couldn's t stand the usual story of a broken-down car, and a phone which won't make a callguilt. The man Salter children are generous and welcoming and have no suspicions that the couple are simply not convinced but there to plan a robbery. It's a serious error of judgement in the course of this investigation which will throw Simon Serrailler's future into doubtlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=140638853X1035906708|title=Somebody Give This Heart a PenDiva|author=Sophia ThakurDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=AnthologiesGeneral Fiction|summary=Sophia Thakur's debut anthology is a collection We tend to think of poems that are all uniqueMaria Callas as Greek, whether but she was born to Greek parents in relation to their styleManhattan, length or theme. The collection is split into four sectionsNew York, titled 'grow','wait','break'in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'grow againCallas', guiding you through a process which is one of to make it more manageable in the foundations States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the anthology is built on. Each section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of writing, ranging from a quote Nazi occupation by a Nigerian playwright, to African proverbs. This provides a nice introduction to the section before you are immersed into the beautifully written mother who mercilessly exploited her and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put made no secret of her preference for her heart and soul intoelder sister, Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=1910989460Christopher Edge|title=Flember: The Secret Book|author=Jamie SmartBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54
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|summary=A mysterious island. A strange Lucas and mystical power called Flember. A boy-inventor called Devhis friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, who uncovers a long forgotten secretplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. And a giant All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, red robot bear?many snacks! The sleepy village of Eden However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is about very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to descend into hilarious chaos - the next, can disastrous Dev save his brand new best friendthey figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives? Find out in this fully illustrated mad-cap adventure.|isbn=1839942738
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|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.
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|isbnauthor=0241355222James Sherwood Metts|title=Frostheart|author=Jamie LittlerPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Way out in Things have been a bit sticky for the furthest part of the known worldEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, a tiny stronghold exists all on its own, cut off from the rest of human-kin by monsters often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that lurk beneath the Snow Seatook time to accomplish. There, a little boy called Ash waits for the return Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of his parentsother, singing a forbidden lullaby new ways to remind him of them..spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and doing his best to avoid his very, VERY grumpy yeti guardianalong with it, Tobuall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We'll Never Know|rating=4. But life is about 5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to get a whole lot more crazy-adventurous for Ash. When a brave rescue attempt reveals he has amazing magical powers, he's whisked aboard the Frostheartbe different from his father, a sleigh packed full drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of daring explorers being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who could use had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his helpdaydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. But can they help him find his family?|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1913101037A G Slatter|title=The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures Briar Book of Bronte Mettlestone|author=Jaclyn Moriartythe Dead
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|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=Bronte doesn't miss her parents, and she' There's not particularly sad when she learns a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of their terrible fate my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the hands world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of piratesthe Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. And why should Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be? After all, they just dumped born into her on Aunt Isabelle (without even asking if it would be a convenient arrangement family for either party) when generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a babymaelstrom of chaos. They swanned off Reeling from one family secret to have adventuresanother, Ellie must decide who to trust and never once came back determine what to check if their only child was healthy and happydo as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=14012800481529900360|title=Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic NovelGhost Orchid|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris WildgooseJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=TeensCrime|summary=The young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzifelt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and suchlike – reminding him he-shut cases which didn's a billionaire at t need the age help of eighteena psychologist only worked for a while. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy heFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's inherited from his murdered parentspartner, he wants to do charitable deedswho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. But one nightThe next case did look simple, when he speeds off though. Two lovers were murdered in his posh new car in pursuit the swimming pool of a criminal, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning remote property in the home for violent criminals that is Arkham AsylumBel Air. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – He was the Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and murder it's not the ownerItalian. Can he get close to one But which of them and get the truth of their schemes, or will was the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-gooderprimary target?
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|isbn=B07W4MNBSG1529395224|title=Be Careful Who You MarryLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Lizzy MumfreySion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was coming up a GP and Rowlands didn't want to Halloween follow in 1987 and a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing his footsteps, particularly when they were fifty. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father''your entire s life depends on who you marry''. The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and When he was seventeen he took the idea opportunity of living in doing work experience with a farmhouse and having family friend who was a couple of children called Will vet and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry convinced this was the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Bothamjob for him. The place to start their search Before long, he was obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekendat Liverpool University. There was just one problem It hadn't - there were too as with so many Elizabeths in the classstudents - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.
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|authorisbn=Michael J Malone0861541774|title=In The Absence A Nye of MiraclesPheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=John DochertyDCI Domenic Jejeune's mother close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has been taken into a nursing home following short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a massive stroke. It is thought unlikely street brawl - he would later maintain that she will ever be able to live independently againhe was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Faced with having Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to sell the family home in order light that suggested that he might have planned to pay for her nursing care, Docherty starts murder the clear outman. In Now he could be facing the attic he finds a childhood picture of himself, holding a toddler – a toddler he knows nothing aboutdeath penalty. He also finds Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a blood-stained shoediplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=191237479X
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|isbnauthor=0692853545Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Things We Do|author=Kay PfaltzPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=It's 2015 and Dr Eleanor Hartley The Perfect Passion Company is a prison psychologist at the state penitentiary dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and she knows that her next patient is not going operating as an alternative to be easyall the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. 'Jane Doe' Ness has been convicted of asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the murder of two men - one business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a police officerwhile. She pleaded guilty Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and since then has been silent: even her identity is in doubtso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. She was carrying identification as Jane Dunlap when she was arrestedAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but it's been proved with some new characters who quickly begin to be falsecharm. There seem to be Katie has no family experience in running a business, or friends who are missing in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her. Eleanorabilities, and there's task is to get Jane talkingalways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to find out why lend a seemingly normal young woman would murder two men.hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn=Patti Smith0811771741|title=Year of the MonkeyInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
|rating=4
|genre=BiographyCrafts|summary=On the coast of Santa Cruz, Patti Smith enters the lunar year of the monkey - one packed with mischief, sorrow, and unexpected moments. In a strangerMelissa Leapman's words, ''Anything is possible: after all, itInstaKnits for Baby''s gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the year 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the monkey'fire'variety. As Smith wanders The projects are divided by the coast of Santa Cruz in solitudetime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss ten to twenty hours and aging more than twenty hours. All the projects are faced head onattractive, as it the shifting political waters in Americamodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky. |isbn=1526614758
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|author=Margaret AtwoodDean Koontz|title=The TestamentsBad Weather Friend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dystopian FictionParanormal|summary= Finally! Almost forty years on, we have Benny is having a sequel to terrifically bad day. [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. I don't want Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to tell you too much about the plot because his home, and it's a novel possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is entirely plot driven, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. Suffice A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to say that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years laterhis house is a new friend, fifteen years after Offred gets into a vanbad weather friend called Spike, not knowing what who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will happen next. Itcertainly take care of Benny's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydiaenemies, who is secretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnesif he, a girl brought up in Gilead with the expectation she will marry a commander; DaisyBenny, and Harper (a rebellious teenage girl in Canada waitress slash Private Investigator who knows of Gilead only from school lessons and its Pearl Girl missionaries finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who occasionally call into the store owned by her parents..exactly they are.|isbn=17847423251662500491
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|author=Anne BodenAdam Stower|title=The Money RevolutionMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre= Business and FinanceConfident Readers |summary= Money Murray is changing. It might not supposed to be in the ways you think. We’re not suddenly getting a 3p or £3 coin (humble, tidy and have you ever even found a country that offers anything different friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the 1two. But he's a bad magician's cat, 2, 5 model?) We’re getting so his favourite bun has been turned into a lot more digital with paymentshyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, which seems to suit most people apart from charity collectors and the homeless on catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the streetregular back garden, but although this book has the subtitle that includes the word ‘’digital’’into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, it’s not really about this either. Instead it’s about the ‘’management’’ of your financesto be honest, but he's turned up and how he'll have to take control.do…|isbn=17896606100008561249
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