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|authorisbn=Lev Parikian 152919640X|title=Light Rains Sometimes FallThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder
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|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary= If you’re a writer yourselfThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, or an aspiring writerJessica Holby, or someone who pretends to write, then you know was murdered live on television and it seems that there are unnumbered types 's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of booksemergencies. Some you read for fun, some for distraction, some for vicarious emotion, some to learn from Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a random way, some for focussed researchbusy, live television studio - and some because they are, broadly speaking, the kind of thing you think you might like Brooks served a ragout to writeHolby. Or, indeed, are actually trying Her EpiPen was nowhere to writebe found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.|isbn=1783966386
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|isbn=07515815770008385068|title=Lying Beside YouThe Midnight Feast|author=Michael RobothamLucy Foley|rating=4.5
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|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthdaysplendid celebrations are promised. Voices told him to do itIt's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. Only two people survived the carnage - Elias, who The Manor was sent to Rampton, her ancestral home and his thirteen-year-old brother, Cyrus, who hid in a shed until she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the police found himwealthy and famous. Twenty years laterHer husband, Cyrus is a forensic psychologist Owen, was the architect and he's been told that his brother work is being released. Can Cyrus forgive the sinner whilst having to live still ongoing on a daily basis with the results parts of the crime? site. Can he bear to have Elias living in The heat is oppressive and amongst the same house? guests are enemies as well as friends. How will his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.
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|isbnauthor=140595115XAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=A Stranger on Board|author=Cameron WardWild East
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Right from the beginningWritten in verse, we know this will not turn out wellis Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. Eight days into the trip to deliver the superyacht ''EscapeThe move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny' s safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to Antiguasettle in a new town, a new school, all 300 tonnes and six decks will be floundering without power in the Atlantickeep himself out of trouble. Those of the crew who are left will be cowering in fear a fellow crew member tries He listens to pick them offmusic constantly, one by one. Some are already dead. They are three days from shore and there is no way has always dreamed of making contactbeing a rapper. But let's go back now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to when all this startedsee the connections between rap and poetry, in Southamptonand the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|isbn=13985086321635866847|title=The Wilderness CureLavender Companion|author=Mo WildeJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It had been on 's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the cards book for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild foodyou. Before I started reading ''The end of NovemberLavender Companion'', particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not I visited the best time to start, in author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a world where slice of chocolate cake on the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit homepage. I don't eat cakes and a pandemicdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Wilde had (There's a few advantages: recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the area around her book and I was told to make a known habitat with a variety mess of terrainsit. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. She had electricity which allowed her You get to run a fridge, freezer and dehydratorfold down the corners of pages. She had You suspect that smears of butter would not be a car - and fuelproblem. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to I ''liveloved'' wild just to live off its producethis book already.
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|isbnauthor=1635864674Rob Keeley|title=Tomato LoveChildish Spirits: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy Howard10th anniversary special edition
|rating=4
|genre=CookeryConfident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children'Think s author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of it as no-whining dininghappy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.''
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|isbnauthor=0241989027Jenny Valentine|title=We All Have Our Secrets|author=Jane CorryUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for live-in help as he was failing to cope at Willowmead House on his own. His advert was fairly specific: he was a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke of the ability to cook a good steakElk and Mab are best friends, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fads. The first person who came to the house was Francoiseor more than that even, their friendship is a French woman once in her early twenties, who fit the bill perfectlya lifetime connection. She got the job They meet as children one day on a trip out but Francoise didnunfortunately they don't know about get each other's contact details at the advert: she was there for a completely different reasontime. Emily Gentle is Harold's daughter But then chance brings them back together, and she came to Willowmead House because she was running away from a problem in Londonthey are inseparable. Emily's a midwife Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration now they must work through their grief, and a complaint had been madetheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|author=Ewald Arenz Kieran Larwood and Rachel Ward (translator)Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Tasting Sunlight|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Sally is a teenager who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinic. She just wants space, and for people to stop questioning her, tiptoeing around her, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding her. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss who is in her forties and seems to live alone. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally as she is, giving her a room to sleep in, and the space to just be. As they work together on the farm, a closeness develops between them, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendship.|isbn=1914585143}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=PreposterousDungeon Runners: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryHero Trial
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=''A struggling poetry zineMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a momteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and-pop mobile diner in race to the Northern California redwoodsexit, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the 2004 Olympicsway. Unfortunately for Kit, a womenthe only thing he's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-seen of-the-art S&M dungeonlatest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, a man serving a life sentence in Alabamaeaten, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on and a cheap oil paintingnew trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a sample of he has taken to the goading from the cast token bully of characters his world and settings stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in Preposterous. As you can seeactually managing that, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=B09STS96HS1839945184
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|author=Will BrookerSaima Mir|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellVengeance|rating=3.5|genre=BiographyThrillers|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of I was instantly intrigued by the most successful British authors I've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the thousands north of less successful authors I quite confidently never have readEngland run by a Muslim woman. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. The meeting fact that it was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the words of her latest book she was reciting, and her being second in a series I hadn't read didn'black lace mini-dress with gold brocade't stop me – I' ve jumped midway into a few series before (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attendon page and screen), but pulled Brooker, and it needn't be a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that is Jewellhindrance if it's diverse outputgood enough. Brooker decides heAnd that wasn'd like nothing more than to follow her through t a year in the published author's life, working problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to make a success of the latest titlespeed, and struggling with the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the resultI never felt lost.|isbn=15291360240861541561
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|isbnauthor=1801109265Stuart Douglas|title=The Companion|author=Lesley ThomsonLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a punctual man who was inexplicably never woman on time'' and he was - as usual - late to pick up his son, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'the edge of a reservoir. These were always days which appealed more The police seem happy to James than to Wilbur andassign it as an accidental death, competing for but something about the boy's attentionwhole thing bothers Lowe, his motherand he enlists the help of a fellow actor, Anna, promised John Le Breton to help him a roast dinner when he returnedinvestigate matters further. The dinner would never be servedThey travel across the country during their days off filming, as James uncovering more possible murders and Wilbur are the victims of , seemingly, a double stabbing on link to death during the beachSecond World War. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. She's feeling But is there really a link between the pressure. deaths? You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets tough.And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=152941363XB0CYV674G2|title=To Kill a Troubadour Swanton Morley (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelJohn Tanner)|author=Martin WalkerDavid Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn''Nobody knows what t killed the truth is any moreman.'' Bruno Courrèges is A body at the police chief for St Denis and much bottom of the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jeana freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -Jaques Jalipeau (known as he'JJ')s been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the head birth of detectives his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the départment of the Dordogne. Theywords 're not just policemen - theyperverse're both deeply committed to the well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of France. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it not been John Tanner' were made for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the careach other. Oh, and there was a golf ball too, which didnHe't belong s sleep-deprived to the owner point of the car. A golf bag would be a good place falling asleep at work but he's determined to hide a sniperkeep going - probably because he can's weapont get any sleep at home. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?
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|isbn=02415424051787333175|title=Meredith AloneYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Claire AlexanderBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionPopular Science|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs itI was tempted to read 's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. SheYou Don'd t Have to be Mad to Work Here''like'after enjoying Adam Kay' s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to: in factHurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, she so nearly doeshumour and autobiography. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going You Don't Have to catch her trainbe Mad... Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to leave mental illness and the safety work of her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sensepsychiatrist. In fact I did wonder whether it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does acceptable to be looking for humour in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a charity which supports people person and it is always delivered with problems such as Meredith'sempathy and understanding.
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|isbnauthor=B09Y451X9KOnyi Nwabineli|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)|author=Richard F WalkerAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri'Anything can happen at a birthday partys childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, particularly when the birthday boy is the young Lord of the Manormonetary gain. But when an eerie signal Now Anuri is picked up in the early hours, George her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and his new girlfriendto get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the vivacious Lady Antoniacontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, embark on a quest failing to uncover its incredible messagestart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the cat out new focus of the bag and the world goes into a state of panicOphelia's online empire.'' Could it be? Could it? Have aliens reached out Can she save her sister, and contacted Earth? George perhaps herself and Antonia find themselves lifted out of their privileged lives of parties and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into her relationship with her father at the world of advanced science, secret agents.and politicians hungry for power.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|author=Darren ShanDavid Chadwick|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 Headload of Napalm
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|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary= So. WeIt're back to the Merge with the first chapter s September 1973 in the third volume of Darren Shan's saga of Archibald LoxHicks, California. Hicks is a young man who can pick the locks Mojave desert town of portals from our world to another, called the ''Merge''. Since his last adventure, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce on the topic few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of his regular disappearances. They don't ask too many questions LA and Archie has settled into Las Vegas both a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winston, his lock-picking mentor significant drive away. Not much happens in the ''Merge'' Hicks. A silver mine and showing Kojo, a defence contractor are the young guardianmain local employers but otherwise, around our world of the Born. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD}}{{Frontpage|author=John Henry Phillips|title=The Search|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Archaeology cannot be childthere's play, when you're scraping in the dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident whatmuch of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book Life is a case of the latterquiet, as our author promises to locate the topic of the titular searchuntil. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perished. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182B0D321VJ76
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|author=Fiona LongmuirTom Percival|title=Looking for EmilyThe Wrong Shoes
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet LilyWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. She He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and her mother doesn't have just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town called Edgeenough money for even the most basic of things like food, and everyone from said mother to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friends. It turns out that she doesnhis dad can't have any say in work because he lost his job at the mattercollege, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she is unaware her neighbour, Sam, is just about to make herself known, and working a cash-in -hand job on a big waybuilding site and had an accident. But where does Emily come from? Well, Lily used Throw into that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of mix the most mundane objectsfact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in some converted houses behind a most unassuming doorevery direction. And yet, in he still has a place calling itself 'The Museum tiny amount of Emily'hope. Sam He is completely unaware good at art, and clings to the moments of this 'museum'joy when he is drawing, toothat feel like a light at the end of a long, leaving the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behind the intrigue..dark tunnel.|isbn=18399427541398527122
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|isbnauthor=B09XZMCDVFSylvie Cathrall|title=Stories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F Walker|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=''A news vendor is crying out the headlines in the middle of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; a stickler for correct grammar goes back in time Letter to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person to have around in a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team is very useful with his feet, and awfully familiar…'' This collection of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot to offer the eclectic reader. Tying them together is the idea that remarkable and strange, even miraculous, things can happen to ordinary people. And that ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form and tone varies so this little treasury of short fiction is never boring and you're never quite sure what's coming next.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve ColeLuminous Deep
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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyScience Fiction|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be There are few greater joys than a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going book which lives up to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factorycompelling premise. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn=Daisy Hildyard0008517061|title=EmergencyDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The summary of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the premiseFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the death future of her sisterhis life with his vet girlfriend, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of Livia and her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GPdaughter Diana, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as moving in together would mean a physical reaction lot of 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 grief, recommends reservations about whether or not this is the future she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne the present and putting the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itselffuture on the back burner.|isbn= 086154112X
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|authorisbn=1786482126|title=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett The Janus Stone (translatorDr Ruth Galloway)|titleauthor=Little DrummerElly Griffiths|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Part of Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is a mixture of police procedural and thriller. Beginning with site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the death bones of a young woman in child beneath a carpark, that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into doorway. There was no skull. Was this a far-reaching investigation of ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, fraudDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolichbut Nelson doesn't, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich that she is led to Africa pregnant with his child as they follow the twists and turns a result of the investigationone night they spent together some three months ago. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious Her condition will be obvious before long, chasing down the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard not least because Ruth is prone to uncover the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is going onsudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1914585127
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|isbn=00085414770008551324|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Lauren ChildNeil Lancaster
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=It was a hot summer day right at 's unusual for anyone from the beginning of Hardie family to approach the summer holidays and Clarice Bean was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except police. Neither side likes or has any respect for sometimesthe other... And only on rare-sh occasions, which But Davie Hardie is hardly ever.'' There are seven members of the Bean family living struggling in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because prison and he's wobbly), Mum prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and Dadwho was responsible for her death. This person, Clarice's older brotherhe promises, Kurt is someone big and younger brother, Minal Cricketit will be worth the police doing what he wants. There's also Marcie, who's main claim And what he wants is to be transferred to fame seems an open prison to be that she steals serve the batteries from Clarice's torch, which means that she can't read in the airing cupboardremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Clarice would love Not much to have someone who listened to herask, rather than wanting is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to talk, but do the only one who does other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that is Granny DS Max Craigie and she lives in New York. The Bean family anyone who works with him is kept well away from what''different''s happening.
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|isbn=07112662040008405026|title=The Secret Life of BirdsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Jane Casey
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on investigation ground to a daily basishalt. An hour can pass without my noticingNow, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. IInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there've established which species feed from s something about the ground, which pop to positioning of the feeders for a quick snatch of some food bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeableher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It would have been wonderful if, What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a child, Icomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'd had access to a book s disappearance: others (such as Derwent''The Secret Life of Birds''s boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. So – what is it?
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|isbn=17370309420571379877|title=Bag O'GoodiesThe Kellerby Code|author=Jolly Walker BittickJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre= AnthologiesCrime|summary=SometimesEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, you deserve a treat Robert and mine was Jolly Walker BittickStanza. Robert's ''Bag O'Goodies''. I first encountered his writing about a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], a rollicking tale of what happens when five young men find a base for their partyingtheatre director. Right now, I didnHe't want a fulls also self-length novelobsessed, demanding, so I turned handsome and entitled and uses Edward to this anthology of verse and short storiesrun errands for him. Bittick's writing Edward has matured been in love with Stanza since their university days - and so have his charactershe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Well... 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 two of them!kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Caryl Lewis and George ErmosJo Callaghan|title=SeedLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Marty has two parental figures When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in his lifeNuneaton, and they both might be thought of as complete embarrassmentsDCS 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. His grandfather runs an allotment But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and manages a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to stink the entire town out from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetablestheir AI Future Policing project. His mother somehow combines the dual roles of housebound failure and hoarder – while she seems Will they be able to do nothing and hasn't left solve the building case in years she has still managed to fill it to the brim with junk. What Marty's classmates don't know about this they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always lookstime, with his one school uniform built from lost property. We see him as once again or will Kat find herself taken off the council threaten her case and him with eviction, and as he celebrates his birthday with the gift from his grandfather potentially, out of a solitary plant seed.career?|isbn=1529077664139851120X
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|authorisbn=Sophie Cameron1399613073|title=Our Sister, AgainMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora diesOlivia, her family struggle to find Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a way forwardcentury. In particular Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, Isla's mum who can’t seem which is a bonus when you aim to be able to let her daughter goa cardiothoracic surgeon. When Isla passes her mum's details onto Laura is a perfectionist and a support trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she finds online, she thinks becomes a GP. When we first meet them they might be able 're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to helpend in tragedy. But actually, it turns out they are part of an experimental company We don't know who offer suffered the family tragedy or the chance to have Flora back again, in robot formconsequences. But this won't just be a look-a Twenty-like. They use all of Flora's online history, and interviews with family and friends, and through this data they five years later there will recreate Flora as closely as possible. But what be an eerily similar event that will it really mean for impact the familythree friends. This time, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=13985075040241636604|title=Cold ReckoningThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Russ ThomasGary Stevenson
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|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that 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 father committed suicide and for background is the last sixteen years he's been searching for evidence to prove that East End, where he's right. When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoirfamiliar with violence, there was a link back to a cold case from 2002poverty and injustice. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death was no posh public school on his CV - but Adam Tyler senses a link he had been to the case his father was investigating before London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he diedhas a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Above all there's a growing sense He also realised that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going most rich people expect poor people to be brought out stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into the openpermanent employment as a trader. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?
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|isbn=07278505471035021803|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=David MarkC L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnIt't even had time for breakfast when s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the call came throughEnglish country village where she grew up. A body had been found in the roots She's back now because of a fallen tree at Brantinghamrequest for help from her beloved aunt, near HullCarole. When he gets to the scene, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imagined. A young manFreya's former mentor and Carole's corpse close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is entangled with dead and the roots of a newly-fallen tree – circumstances seem suspicious, to say the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesleast. It would seem that this Arthur was done whilst the man was still alivereason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. McAvoy makes a promise Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the victim: I will find answers. You will know justiceprofession she loved. But justice always comes at After the split, she worked in a cost cafe, met and this time married James (on the rebound from the cost might be to McAvoy's own familylove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia FreireAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous''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 delightfew decades of technology in my lifetime. I will agree 've kept up reasonably well with the first – tremendous is no understatement – what's advantageous to me but I'a delightm left with the feeling that it' s all getting away from me. Some of it is perhaps using - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the expression in a way possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm not familiar withreading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I have to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the little needed people I knew I have read (could trust and who could deliver information in translation, a way I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismcould understand. |isbn=0861541901
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|author= Ann Sei LinSunny Singh|title= Rebel SkiesHotel Arcadia|rating= 3.5|genre= TeensThrillers |summary= Kurara The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has spent her entire life as suddenly been violently taken over by a servant on terrorist group. Hiding from the Midoriterrorists who are rampaging through, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Howeverkilling everyone on site, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she there is Sam, a Crafter like himwartime photographer and Abhi, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empirehotel manager. He asks her As Abhi continues to come with him, try to leave care remotely for the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say residents who are still alive in the matterhotel, because the Midori is destroyed he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigamievents, and she is forced keeps on venturing out of her room to try to flee out into the worldcapture what's happened through her photography. She joins Himura aboard Although they only ever talk over the Orihimephone, a sky-ship whose express purpose is their friendship grows as Abhi tries to hunt down shikigami, help her keep safe and a whole world of adventure awaits her…they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1406399590086154742X
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|authorisbn=Patrice Lawrence1529153298|title=NeedleThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=35|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=BraveIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Charlene (A woman? I mean, the honestly...) She's not what'heroines worrying Miv' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to likes family, characters and readers boththough. Women have been disappearing. Kicked out of multiple homes and schoolsWell, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in overheard that her son Blakefather wants to move the family 's old room while heDown South's at uni. Such When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanketfrightening, foreign place, you might perhaps thinkbest avoided. For Miv, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot heremove would mean leaving her best friend, as Charlene is a wonder knitterSharon, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people ll do anything to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorantprevent that. And then... well, what exactly happens is She's not for me worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can beanyone...|isbn=1800901011
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|isbn=14059409801398524085|title=The BirdcageHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Eve ChaseNicci French|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's the 7th of January 2019 fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and we know that a body has been pulled out of the sea at Zennor in Cornwallher daughter, Etty. We don't know whose body it are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, isnot. Four days earlierShortly afterwards, FloraEtty and Greg, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at find the request body of their Greg's father, Charlie FinchDuncan Ackerley, a famous artistin the river. The girls are actually ''half''-sisters and their dates of birth are embarrassingly close. Finch It was known an easy assumption for his fecundity, if not for his fidelity. Itthe police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years ago, at the time of t stand the total eclipse, something happenedguilt. Kat and Flora were obviously involved The Salter children are not convinced but Lauren was a victim and itthere's left her very wary of her sisterslittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=17876349061035906708|title=No Less the DevilDiva|author=Stuart MacBrideDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=We're tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in Oldcastle December 1923 and Malcolm is in troubleonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. HeHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's Callas' to make it more manageable in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young peoplethe States. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she's Allegra Deancould get appropriate training for her voice -Edwards) she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and Hugomade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm }}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peoplemovie marathon at their local cinema, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so place that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepinghas the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. It wonAll big movie fans, they't be long before re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the police movie starts, they very quickly realise that Malcolm was something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one of their own: not many other people are film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on cinema, and to their backs.real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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