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=='''29 OCTOBER30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=0349423083B0CYV674G2|title=Death and the Brewery Queen Swanton Morley (Kate Shackleton MysteriesJohn Tanner)|author=Frances BrodyDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing CottageIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives covered in Woodhouse mud and her housekeeperblood - and carrying a knife, Mrs Sugdencomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. SheA body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been approached by William Lofthouse of the Barleycorn Brewery in Mashamstabbed to death. Something DCI John Tanner is going wrong just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his business and daughter Samantha. You would think he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip to Germany before long. James went to see what grateful for an easy answer but the continental brewers were doing words 'perverse' and what changes Barleycorn might need to make. William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit 'John Tanner'toowere made for each other. He'' much or is going s sleep-deprived to bring back a German bride the point of falling asleep at work but he'd like the business s determined to be shipkeep going -shape before his nephew returnsprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1838773169Stuart Douglas|title=Her Majesty Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Queen Investigates: The Windsor Knot|author=S J BennettDress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItDuring location filming for his 1970's early 2016 sitcom 'Floggit and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the Easter Courtedge of a reservoir. She's having a dine The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and sleep at he enlists the request help of Prince Charlesa fellow actor, who's attempting John Le Breton to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projectshelp him investigate matters further. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to They travel across the evening country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and one of the performers brought in , seemingly, a link to play death during the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesSecond World War. The immediate reaction But is that one of there really a link between the guests deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an ex-ambassador to Moscow, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn't bear to go down any of ''those'' roads.before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Caroline ScottSaima Mir|title=When I Come Home Again|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses to give a name, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he is. Eventually, they determine this isn't willful obstinance, he doesn't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being on the road for a long time and being frightened, and some of the faces from the road, but other than that – everything that came before has gone. They need a name for the forms and so they call him Adam and, because he was found in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galilee. A fanciful name for a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he is, where he is or how he got there.|isbn=1471192172}} =='''1 NOVEMBER'''== {{Frontpage|author= Susi Holliday |title= The Last Resort Vengeance|rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}}=='''5 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R Black|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There I was a furious storm going on and she'd already refused instantly intrigued by the offer premise of help from one man this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a big vehicleMuslim woman. We'll see - but no one else will know - The fact that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into it was the car and driven off. There has been no sign of her - or her body - second in the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and shea series I hadn's not going to be stopped.}} ==t read didn't stop me – I''12 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1472255917|title=The Roots of Evil ve jumped midway into a few series before (Bob Skinneron page and screen)|author=Quintin Jardine|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=On New Yearand it needn's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at the golf club with his wife, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner and the man with whom she shares a house, Dominic Jackson. Jackson would t be better-known to the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but he's reformed and the new name reflects a new man. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse and are dropped home not long into the new year. Skinner's tempted to let the phone ring but knows that he cannot: hindrance if it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene in the centre of Edinburghgood enough. SkinnerAnd that wasn's not technically with the police now - he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experience.}}{{Frontpage|author= Claire McGowan|title=The Push|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at t a prenatal classproblem here. It's NCT ''style'', but not the proper NCT. This bit is important, but Vengeance swiftly brings you have up to wait a little to see why. This being Londonspeed, such a class attracts a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is it's their first baby. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down patand I never felt lost.|isbn=15420199900861541561
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|author=Roxanne BouchardKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Coral BrideDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - a female fisherwoman, making her living Meet Kit. Like most of the people in a man's his world. When her lobster trawler , it seems, he is found drifting off an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the coast sport where a team of Quebecwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, Detective Morales is called in magical mazes, and race to come the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and head the investigationpoints they grant you along the way. Although Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister inn TV equivalent is going onthat one team has been retired, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendaseaten, fishing histories and secret family feudsa new trio of questors is needed. At the same time as trying to run his investigationPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he also has taken to the goading from the token bully of his grown up sonworld and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, Sebastien arriving at his doormuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, weighed down with personal problems that and how could he is unable to talk possibly hope to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficulties.succeed?|isbn=19131933221839945184
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|isbnauthor=1838887334Jenny Valentine|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)|author=Angela MarsonsUs in the Before and After|rating=45|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=DI Kim Stone Elk and DS Jim Bryant were on Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their way back from Diversity Awareness training. The need for coffee overtook Stone - the course had been friendship is a complete waste of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude to everyone. It was once in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight of a little girl clutching a teddy bear in the absence of her motherlifetime connection. Stone and Bryant didnThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't realise get each other's contact details at the extent to which this case was going to occupy their minds as the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours latertime. Her neck had been broken But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and it had all the hallmarks of a quicknow they must work through their grief, functional killand their friendship, but who would do that to a young mother out shopping with her child?together.|isbn=1471196585
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=='''26 NOVEMBER13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=18387700461635866847|title=Body LanguageThe Lavender Companion|author=A K TurnerJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk to the dead, she also hears what they have to say to herbook for you. ItBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion's not something she's inclined to share with people as she, I visited the author's pretty certain about what their reaction will be[https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Shecom/ website] and there's certainly not going to share it with the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer a picture of a genuine Barbour jacket slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and old Harroviandesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. He(There's very conscious of his position a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and isn't even inclined I was told to ask for the view make a mess of it. Notes in the anatomical pathology technicians despite margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the fact that they have a lot more experience than him and he has only a limited amount corners of time to spend on each bodypages. That will prove to You suspect that smears of butter would not be a mistakeproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''7 JANUARY 20214 JULY'''==
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|author= Deborah O'ConnorMax Boucherat|title= The CaptiveLast Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Hannah knows We meet Lori on the cagefirst evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, intimatelyjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. It lurks What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the corner of world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her eyeown, and then she finds something even more spooky. Soon, it will For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be occupiedable to enter shows signs of tampering. Then what? What if he speaks to When malevolent eyes spark up on her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts phone screen, and her? What if she hurts himsafe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=18387726500008666482
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|author=Helen FisherJenny Lecoat|title=Space HopperBeyond Summerland|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Faye lost Jean lives on Jersey with her mum when she was very youngmother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. She During the war, Jean's father was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from arrested for listening to a cold that got worsebanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and although they were kind and very good to her she mother waiting for years for news of course missed her mum enormouslyhim. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to As the British finally free the Channel islands from the 70's and her mumNazis, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to her. The time travelling, however, war is neither easy nor safefinally over, and Faye fears their hopes rise that her husband won't believe they will finally learn what's happening and so lies to became of him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to But will the past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's deathtruth come as a relief, or will it change her own future forever to attempt itraise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=14711886631846976537
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