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|authorisbn=Jason Rohan152919640X|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access DeniedThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Arun and Sam have had little to do with DonnaThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, a girl at their school. But things immediately change at the start of this extended sprint of a novelJessica Holby, when she insists Arunwas murdered live on television and it seems that there's house has become the attention of plain-clothes coppers and that they should bunk off school to find out whyonly one suspect. And thus an unlikely trio of misfit young heroes is formed – Sam is really not Donna He's idea of company, but he is the computer buff, Donna seems to know all the criminal ins and outs and survival skills, celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and Arun? Well, it's his lot to find out contract stated that all he based his family life on isnmust not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She't true, s seriously allergic and that his father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved carries an EpiPen in something quite unexpectedcase of emergencies. But how Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can this disparate trio hope be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to best MI6, kidnappers, people able Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to keep the truth about themselves secret for decades, be found and so much more?|isbn=1839943386she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|isbn=16384852160008385068|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law EnforcementThe Midnight Feast|author=Frederick ReynoldsLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyThrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It'Corruption is not department, gender or race specifics their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It has everything to do with character. Period's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''s converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. The murder of George Floyd Her husband, a forty-six-year-old black manOwen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police officer, in the US city parts of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exceptionsite. The image of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck heat is not one which I'll ever forget oppressive and amongst the protests which followed cannot have been unexpectedguests are enemies as well as friends. There was a backlash against the police - Old scores are going to be settled and not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were it won''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brusht be long before a body is found.
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|isbnauthor=B09DD1QJKJAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Club|author=Ellery LloydWild East
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|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Written in verse, this is Ronny''The party of the s story, a young black fourteen year turned into the murder mystery of the decade.'' Just off Littlesea, in Essex old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mile or so into the Blackwater Estuary, The Manor stood on an islandmostly white school. It was now known as Island Home, one of The Home Groupmove is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's exclusive clubs safety after a tragic event, and the opening weekend was going so Ronny finds himself trying to be something specialsettle in a new town, a new school, even by Home's standardsand keep himself out of trouble. SpeedboatsHe listens to music constantly, helicopters and blacked-out SUVs were converging on the island, which was linked to the mainland by has always dreamed of being a causeway that was inaccessible at high tiderapper. Home's CEOBut now, Ned Groomin this new school, is determined that everything, ''everything'' will his teacher encourages him to be perfect. Home has 5761 members: just 150 part of them have received invites for a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the weekend. Those who have not been invited have not stopped ringing..power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|authorisbn=Melissa Fu 1635866847|title=Peach Blossom Spring The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=Historical Fiction Lifestyle|summary= I loved It's strange, the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled things that make you ''Originsimmediately''feel that this is the book for you. Unfortunately it is Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the only truly poetic part author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a book slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that I expected more fromcake viscerally. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family (There's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during a recipe in the war book, which I'm avoiding with Japan, a young mother (Meilinsome difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and her four-year-old son (Renshu) I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are among those who fleesanctioned. The story follows them on their journey across China, and in Renshu's case eventually You get to Americafold down the corners of pages. |isbn=1472277538You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|author=Vanda SymonRob Keeley|title=FacelessChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpointsAround here, several troubled people are thrown into the same story thanks to just one mis-stepwe're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. Set in New Zealand, the first He's a ball of our characters is Bradleyhappy positivity, a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing boss, a weighty mortgagehe understands children, and what he feels is an unappreciative wife. Then there’s Billywrites for their pleasure and enjoyment, a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes in order not to pay for the materials she needslecture or hector. And then we have Max, who The ''Childish Spirits'' series is also living on the streets and who keeps an eye on Billyone of his greatest achievements. He is It's a shell sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a man, barely able to take any care of himself, and yet we stalwart young girl who can sense that he was once something more than he is now. One nightcope with anything the spirit world throws at her, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress and anxietyEdward, driving down the street looking for a prostitute. He picks up Billy, spoiled lordling and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and a spiral away from the person he thought he was into someone very different.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=19145850461783064617
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|isbnauthor=0760373531Jenny Valentine|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf Us in the Before and Sock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue FlandersAfter
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|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=Just occasionally you encounter Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a book of knitting patterns which seems to meet your every needonce in a lifetime connection. Right now, itThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's bitterly cold and we're in contact details at the sandwich filling between two storms: I need sockstime. But then chance brings them back together, scarvesand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, hats something terrible and mittens. They have to look stylishtragic, keep me warm and be so cheerful that now they make me feel better. If that sounds like a lot to askmust work through their grief, have a look at ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and I don't think that there was one of them which I couldn't see myself wearing. We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the history of knitting. It's not essential but it's a nice extratheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbnauthor=1776574028Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David ElliottDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=I love a good board book! Meet Kit. ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is aimed at quite an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a niche market: it's for team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the child who still enjoys board books (erexit, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' perhaps bothering with words the treasure or the big bad and make something quite different from each onethe points they grant you along the way. We have Unfortunately for Kit, the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a only thing he''balletphant''. The buffalo who s seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) been retired, eaten, and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''new trio of questors is needed. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his potty changes world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a ''sm....team...'' OKWhat chance does this friendless, let's not go there Some people are eating!muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|isbnauthor=B09V1NQ5SXSaima Mir|title=Death at Friar's Inn|author=Rob KeeleyVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were in I was instantly intrigued by the finals premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society north of Friar's InnEngland run by a Muslim woman. For aspiring barristers, moots test The fact that it was the participantssecond in a series I hadn't read didn' knowledge of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: itt stop me – I's ve jumped midway into a great way of getting invaluable practice few series before (on page and of getting yourself noticed. Tom screen) and Nat are from it needn't be a provincial universityhindrance if it' and theys good enough. And that wasn're ''almost'' looked down on because of thist a problem here. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and Becca has an abundance of confidence. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any betterI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|isbnauthor=1529125944Stuart Douglas|title=City of Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dead|author=Jonathan KellermanDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=When you drive large vehicles During location filming for a living, youhis 1970's sitcom 're careful Floggit and itLeggit's not just about , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the way that you driveedge of a reservoir. You restrict your alcohol intake The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and if it's he enlists the help of a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleepfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. When you're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head They travel across the country during their days off at 5 filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a.m. when link to death during the roads are quieter, even if you have to wait up when you get to where you're goingSecond World War. And it was going well until But is there really a link between the men hit something in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeles. deaths? The man was stark naked and couldn't be identified.And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has It seemed like an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Asperger's Syndromeopen-and-shut case. He can be rudeA man, difficult covered in mud and awkward with peopleblood - and carrying a knife, although it's never intentional. It's just comes into the police station shouting that he thinks differently and social niceties simply donhasn't occur to himkilled the man. There's A body at the bottom of a reason why freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and it's that he has the best conviction rate with cases, everbeen stabbed to death. His partner DCI John Tanner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with affection (not the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) easy answer but the words 'perverse' and even attempts 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to instil some the point of those missing social niceties into Crossfalling asleep at work but he's behaviourdetermined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=15291516001787333175|title=Give Unto OthersYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Donna LeonBenji Waterhouse
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|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changed. The I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'pandemia'after enjoying Adam Kay' stripped s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the city workings of its tourists for nearly two years the NHS, humour and a lot of businesses have closed, most never autobiography. ''You Don't Have to reopenbe Mad... There's now a cascade of money as life begins again ' promised the same elements but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end moved from physical problems to greedmental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going I did wonder whether it was acceptable to launder all be looking for humour in this setting but the money which laughter is coming their way? Whilst he's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was directed at a child. Elisabetta Foscarini has situation rather than a problem person and it is always delivered with empathy and she'd like Brunetti's adviceunderstanding.
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|author=Marcus SedgwickOnyi Nwabineli|title=WrathAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet FitzAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, a young Scottish lad full where she posted every step of frustration at himselfAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Lockdown Now Anuri is only just over, in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and he should be free to do what he wantsget her life back, suing her step-mother to go where he wants and with whom he wantstake down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks failing to his best friendstart her PhD, Cassieundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. They were half of a desultory school band Most importantly, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of is desperately worried about her eco-warrior parents saying little sister, who is the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind focus of music sheOphelia's dreaming of? Is online empire. Can she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the truthsame time? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=18009008990861546873
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|isbnauthor=1635864070David Chadwick|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah TalleyHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsThrillers|summary=If youIt've ever started knitting s September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a pair Mojave desert town of socks, finished the first one and either got bored by the idea a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of doing the same thing all over again, or started on the second sock LA and lost the first before you finished it, this is the book for youLas Vegas both a significant drive away. Where is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you to knit two socks Not much happens in one, divide them up Hicks. A silver mine and have a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds good? Itdefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's clever not much of note other than dive bars and well-thought-outJoshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|author=Olivie BlakeTom Percival|title=The Atlas SixWrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary= DarkWill's life is difficult, sharpin 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 highly inquisitivedoesn'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, was working 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'The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming 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 Tik-Tok sensationlong, dark tunnel.|isbn=15290952391398527122
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|isbnauthor=0008384983Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Paris Apartment|author=Lucy FoleyA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=''Things There are not what they seem''. It was few greater joys than a Friday and Jess Hadley was keen book which lives up to get to her half-brother's flat in Parisa compelling premise. She'd come across from London on Eurostar, courtesy And this is one of the money she'd stolen from The Pervert's till in the Copacabana Bar in Brighton. It wasn't likely that the police would be on to her yet but she'd like to be somewhere safe and with food and drink inside her. She'd phoned Ben and got the address - 12 Rue des Amants - and he told her that the apartment was on the third floor. She's outside what's obviously a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get in touch with Benthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=07603735580008517061|title=Nordic KnitsDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Sue FlandersStig Abell
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|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I was so delighted by Sue Flanders' [[Cozy Knits: 30 HatFormer Metropolitan Police detective, MittenJake Johnson, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didn't need any persuading has settled into his rustic life at all to pick up her ''Nordic Knits''Little Sky. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and local traditions from Norwayher daughter Diana, Sweden as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and Iceland. There are a few sweaters relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or jackets but not this is the majority of patterns are future she wants for smaller items such as mittens, gloves, hats herself and bags. her daughter? All are bright For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and cheerful and very cosyputting the future on the back burner.
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|isbn=19160720381786482126|title=The House in the Hollow Janus Stone (The Talbot SagaDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Allie CresswellElly Griffiths
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire Builders were demolishing an old house in November 1811. TwentyNorwich -seventhe site was going to hold seventy-yearfive 'luxury' apartments -old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to when they discovered the house in the hollowbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. The two women are angry Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her motherDCI Harry Nelson. It's strengths and weaknesses: difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn''She t, that she is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath pregnant with his child as a facade result of respectability, the deplorable truth''one night they spent together some three months ago. Hester Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is furious about Jocelyn's refusal prone to do as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''. Then we are told sudden bouts of the birth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshiresickness.
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|authorisbn=Matthieu Aikins0008551324|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=It's easy unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to forget at times that The Naked Donapproach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he't Fear s prepared to tell the police where the Water isn't actually fictionbody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, because is someone big and it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at timeswill be worth the police doing what he wants. This And what he wants is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided be transferred to an open prison to accompany serve the remainder of his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast sentence and at times painful journeyto get an early parole date. There are tense moments Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But itshe's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader even prepared to perfectly envisage do the environments other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and people describedanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn= B09N9157T6
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger0008405026|title=Unhinged A Stranger in the Family (Volume 3) (Blix and RammMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5
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|summary=This is It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Ramm, investigation ground to a crime journalisthalt. In this book we find that when one of Blix's colleaguesNow, Kovicher mother, uncovers a connection between several Oslo casesHelena, she tries to contact and her superior, Blixfather are dead in their bed. Before she can reach himInitially, however, she is murdered, and Blixit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's daughter Iselin who shares something about the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered too. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and Ramm, who are being interviewed by positioning of the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What had Kovic discovered? looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. And what did Blix and Ramm uncover Kerrigan is convinced that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Daniel Abraham0571379877|title=Age of AshThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= We meet Alys under the most northerly of OldgateEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's four bridgesalso self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. she Edward has a knife been in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile, the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at love with Stanza since their thinnest university days - and all things are possiblehe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. It 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 night between the funeral two of them kissing in a Prince and the coronation of his successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruleddark passageway.|isbn=0356515427
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|isbnauthor=1529095522Jo Callaghan|title=The Interview|author=C M EwanLeave No Trace
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|genre=Crime
|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's 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 unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?
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|isbn=1399613073
|title=Moral Injuries
|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Kate Harding Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge Communicationsa bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. It's Anjali is the last interview free spirit of the day group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at one of Londona drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's newest office buildings and Edge have fitted out their part of going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the building to consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be something specialan eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Maggie This time, Kateit's recruitment agenttheir 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 bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is keen 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 see that Kate approaches the interview in a good state London School of mind: Kate assumes that this Economics. Stevenson is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets the job bright - extremely bright - and she he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlybe 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=B097XNMCRK1035021803|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Neil LancasterC L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=Loch Torridon It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'is'' the s back now because of beyond: therea request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's not even any light pollution which close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is why it was dead and the perfect place circumstances seem suspicious, to land illegal deliveries of drugssay the least. Jimmy McLeish thought that he Arthur was onto a nice little earner, only the reason why Freya had not been back to find that Maccathe village: Arthur, the man he thought he was working withshe feels, is deadlet her down badly. His remains would never Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be foundnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. The delivery is hijacked by Davie After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and Callum. As married James (on the rebound from the story progresses we'll get to know them quite welllove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn= B09NDJ77LMAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Me and My ShadowAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Deborah StoneBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary= ''What happens when someone is pushed too far and they begin to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off Opening up new ways of thinking about the shadows shape of her past and attempts things to repair decades worth of paincome.''
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|isbnauthor=1529409659Sunny Singh|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongingsThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. She was intrigued by Hiding from the discovery of terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a picture of her own house: it was an old photographwartime photographer and Abhi, taken in misty conditions and on the back it said 'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was born. It was before her parents were marriedhotel manager. When she returned As Abhi continues to Norfolk she was determined try to find out what was behind care remotely for the photograph but Covid intervened and the country was residents who are still alive in lockdown. Ruth and Kate are restricted to the cottage hotel, he forms a bond with Ruth attempting Sam who refuses to home school Kate be cowed by events, and continue with keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her university teaching dutiesphotography. The good thing was meeting ZoeAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, the new tenant from next door whom their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they got both wait to know whilst clapping for carerssee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=18479418341529153298|title=Atomic HabitsThe List of Suspicious Things|author=James ClearJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? Imean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've said this before been murdered, but there are some books to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you seek out're from Yorkshire, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themDown South is a frightening, likeforeign place, right now! best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She'Atomic Habitss not worried about the dangers or that her Mum'' is in the last categorys stopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=B09MSC981W1398524085|title=The Woke IliadHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=George BoreasNicci French|rating=45|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Helen is a popular activistCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Or should we call Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anywaydaughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, Helen is so popular that the United States government has made her its Ambassador of Wokenot. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of the government Shortly afterwards, including the Shaming Conference Etty and Greg, find the Permissible Entertainment Committee - 'body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for indoctrinating the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how to have itthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. Ouch!
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|isbn=B09D95TRKZ1035906708|title=The Wedding MurdersDiva|author=Sarah LinleyDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Libby Steele We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was hoping born to get a permanent job with the newspaper Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and the case only moved to Athens when she was covering was her big chancethirteen. It Her original surname was even more important to Kalogeropoulos but her than the celebrity wedding she was father changed it to attend the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthew. She was leaving her seven-year-old son, Patrick with her sister, Emma, and heading off 'Callas' to a grand manor house hotel make it more manageable in the North Yorkshire countrysideStates. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter and former member of the rock band When she was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected back in Athens - supposedly so that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as highshe could get appropriate training for her voice -profile as had been suggested as there she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no ban on photos or phonessecret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=1838226834Christopher Edge|title=Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed BoxallBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=It was one Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents'The Black Hole'. They All big movie fans, they're there looking forward to undo all lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the good movie starts, they very quickly realise that parents dosomething about this new film format is very different, so and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the trips next, can they figure out were always so much fun. what on earth is going on? A young boy was going Will they ever get back to the carnival with his Grandadcinema, who told him:and to their real lives? ''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of my hand.''|isbn=1839942738
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