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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.''
We know itThe ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a fruit rather than sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a vegetable but stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the fact that so many people get confused just goes to show how versatile the tomato is. Then there are all the different typesspirit world throws at her, not to mention the cultivars - and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't love. I'd argue with her there - I have no affection for the ones you find in the supermarket ''next'' to the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from the ones that have obviously just been grown for profit. PersonallyEdward, I'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those - spoiled lordling and Howard makes good use of these. She's not at all precious if you get the taste.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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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
|rating=4
|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
|rating=4.5
|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 disappearancesLA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. They don't ask too many questions A silver mine and Archie has settled into a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winstondefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, his lock-picking mentor in the ''Merge'there' s not much of note other than dive bars and showing KojoJoshua trees. Life is quiet, the young guardian, around our world of the Bornuntil.... |isbn= B09Z2MTCZDB0D321VJ76
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|author=John Henry PhillipsTom Percival|title=The SearchWrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=HistoryConfident Readers|summary=Archaeology cannot be childWill's playlife is difficult, 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 what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thingmultitude of ways. This book He is a case of bullied because he has 'the latterwrong shoes', as our author promises to locate he has the topic of the titular search. And he really hasnwrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't made it easy have enough money for himself – even the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – ohmost basic of things like food, and ithis dad can's underwatert work because he lost his job at the college, when he cannot dive. Latching was working a cash-in-hand job on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the heroic old manfact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's visit back to Francelife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, our author he still has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandya tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and that he was lucky clings to survive the moments of joy when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim he is to erect drawing, that feel like a memorial to everyone else aboard, light at the vast majority end of whom perisheda long, dark tunnel. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=14721461821398527122
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|author=Fiona LongmuirSylvie Cathrall|title=Looking for EmilyA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Meet Lily. She and her mother have just moved from There are few greater joys than a city book which lives up to a tiny seaside town called Edge, and everyone from said mother to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friendscompelling premise. It turns out that she doesn't have any say in the matter, 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 in a big way. But where does Emily come from? Well, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of the most mundane objects, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming door, in a place calling itself 'The Museum of Emily'. Sam And this is completely unaware one of this 'museum', too, leaving the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behind the intrigue..them.|isbn=18399427540356522776
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|isbn=B09XZMCDVF0008517061|title=Stories: 13 tantalising talesDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Richard F WalkerStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=''A news vendor is crying out the headlines in Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the middle future of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch his life with reality when he tries walking around his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his imagination; a stickler for correct grammar goes back off-grid and relaxing life to move in time with Livia or does Livia move to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the ideal person to have around moment they’re enjoying life in a lawless village; the new boy present and putting the future on the pub football team back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is very useful pregnant with his feetchild as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, and awfully familiar…''not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThis collection of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker |summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has a lot to offer any respect for the eclectic readerother. Tying them together But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the idea that remarkable body of a missing person is buried and strangewho was responsible for her death. This person, even miraculoushe promises, things can happen is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to ordinary peoplebe transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. And that ordinary Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form and tone varies think so this little treasury of short fiction is never boring and youshe're never quite sure s even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's coming nexthappening.
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|isbn=18009012320008405026|title=Stitched UpA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Steve ColeJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyCrime|summary=TwelveIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Hanh wanted Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to be a fashion designerhalt. Life in the rural village where she lived with Now, her family was happymother, Helena, if not prosperousand her father are dead in their bed. Initially, so when it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the smartly-dressed man positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was an opportunity not going to be missed. Some money changed hands an open-and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoishut case is now a complex double murder. Only, Hanh and Kerrigan is convinced that the other girls were not going to work explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a shopworking-class young man, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factoryobsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and beading on the legs? uses Edward to run errands for him. The ones Edward has been in love with the artfullyStanza since their university days -placed rips and distressed seams he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that felt so soft when you touched a relationship had begun between them? Itbut he's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of themkissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Daisy HildyardJo Callaghan|title=EmergencyLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The summary of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the premise.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne When a man is grieving. Traumatised after found crucified on the death top of her sistera hill in Nuneaton, she awakes DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to find strangethe case alongside her sidekick, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volumeAI detective Lock. Her GP It's their first live case together, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nedefew days later, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange Kat is happening to Marianne suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis very high profile case that draws a lot of a kindunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. As Marianne's memories threaten Will they be able to overwhelm hersolve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, Nede offers her release from this cycle out of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.career?|isbn= 086154112X 139851120X
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|authorisbn=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)1399613073|title=Little DrummerMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Part Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of the Oslo Detectives seriesmedical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, this crime story which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a mixture of police procedural perfectionist and thrillera trauma doctor. Beginning with Anjali is the death free spirit of the group and she becomes a young woman in GP. When we first meet them they're at a carpark, that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into a fardrug and alcohol-reaching investigation of murder, fraud, fuelled party and international pharmaceutical dealingsit's going to end in tragedy. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich, We don't know who end up working separately on suffered the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led to Africa as they follow tragedy or the twists and turns of consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the investigationthree friends. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious This time, chasing down the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard to uncover the truth as they it's their teenage children who are sure that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is going oninvolved.|isbn=1914585127
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|isbn=00085414770241636604|title=Clarice BeanThe Trading Game: Scram!A Confession|author=Lauren ChildGary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=It was If you were to bring up an image of a hot summer day right at the beginning city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the summer holidays pin-stripe suit and Clarice Bean his background is the East End, where he was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except for sometimesfamiliar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. And only on rare-sh occasions He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which is hardly evergot him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter''s Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThere are seven members of |summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the Bean family living in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor English country village where she grew up. She's back now because heof a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's wobbly), Mum former mentor and Dad, ClariceCarole's older brotherclose friend, Kurt Arthur Crockleford, is dead and younger brotherthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, Minal Cricketlet her down badly. There's also MarcieEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, who's main claim to fame seems she has not felt able to be that near the man or pursue the profession she steals loved. After the batteries from Clarice's torchsplit, which means that she can't read worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the airing cupboard. Clarice would love to have someone who listened to of herlife, rather than wanting to talk, but the only one who does that is Granny was murdered) and Freya and she lives in New York. The Bean family is ''different''James have now divorced.
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|isbn=0711266204AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Secret Life of BirdsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Moira Butterfield Benjamin Greenaway and Vivian Mineker Stephen Oram (illustratorEditors)
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|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the vast numbers shape of birds which visit our garden on a daily basisthings to come. An hour can pass without my noticing. '' I've established which species feed from the groundheard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, which pop to the feeders for I must confess that there have been more than a quick snatch few decades of some food and who settles technology in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeablemy lifetime. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access ve kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to a book such as me but I'm left with the feeling that it'The Secret Life s all getting away from me. Some of Birdsit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. So – what is it?I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=1737030942Sunny Singh|title=Bag O'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker BittickHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre= AnthologiesThrillers |summary=Sometimes, you deserve The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''terrorist group. I first encountered his writing about a year agoHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]there is Sam, a rollicking tale of what happens when five young men find a base for their partyingwartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. Right nowAs Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, I didn't want he forms a full-length novelbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, so I turned and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to this anthology of verse and short stories. Bittickcapture what's writing has matured - and so have his charactershappened through her photography. WellAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists... most of them!|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Caryl Lewis and George Ermos1529153298|title=SeedThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his lifeIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, and they both might be thought of as complete embarrassmentshonestly... His grandfather runs an allotment) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, and manages to stink the entire town out from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetablesthough. Women have been disappearing. His mother somehow combines the dual roles of housebound failure and hoarder – while she seems Well, they've been murdered, but to do nothing and hasnhave 'disappeared' doesn't left the building in years sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she has still managed to fill it 's overheard that her father wants to move the brim with junkfamily 'Down South'. What Marty When you's classmates don't know about this they can draw lines to re from how poor Marty always looksYorkshire, with his one school uniform built from lost propertyDown South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. We see him as once again For Miv, the council threaten move would mean leaving her and him with evictionbest friend, Sharon, and as he celebrates his birthday with she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the gift from his grandfather of a solitary plant seeddangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1529077664
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|authorisbn=Sophie Cameron1398524085|title=Our Sister, AgainHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=After IslaCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's older sister Flora diesfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, her family struggle to find a way forward. In particularsons Niall, Isla's mum who can’t seem to be able to let Paul and Ollie and her daughter go, Etty. When Isla passes are all worried but - strangely - her mumhusband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's details onto a support group she finds onlinefather, she thinks they might be able to helpDuncan Ackerley, in the river. But actually, it turns out they are part of It was an experimental company who offer easy assumption for the family the chance police to have Flora back again, in robot form. But this wonmake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't just be a look-a-likestand the guilt. They use all of Flora The Salter children are not convinced but there's online history, and interviews little else they can do but get on with family their lives and friends, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possible. But wonder about what will it really mean for the family, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916happened.
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|isbn=13985075041035906708|title=Cold ReckoningDiva|author=Russ ThomasDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for the last sixteen years he's been searching for evidence We tend to prove that he's right. When a frozen body think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was found born to Greek parents in Damflask ReservoirManhattan, there New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was a link back thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to a cold case from 2002. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard TylerCallas's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to make it more manageable in the case his father States. When she was investigating before he died. Above all there's a growing sense back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the criminality Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the openher preference for her elder sister, Jackie. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?
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|isbnauthor=0727850547Christopher Edge|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)|author=David MarkBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadn't even had time Lucas and his friends are all booked in for breakfast when the call came through. A body had been found in the roots of a fallen tree movie marathon at Brantinghamtheir local cinema, near Hulla place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. When he gets to the sceneAll big movie fans, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imagined. A young manthey's corpse is entangled with the roots re looking forward to lots of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – exciting films, and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyes. many, many snacks! It would seem However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this was done whilst the man was still alivenew film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. McAvoy makes a promise But as they lurch from one film genre to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at a cost and this time the cost might be to McAvoy's own family.}}{{Frontpage|author=Natalia Garcia Freire|title=This World Does Not Belong To Us|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Early comments next, can they figure out what on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous earth is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using the expression in a way I'm not familiar with. going on? I have Will they ever get back to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the little I have read (in translationcinema, I don't read Spanish) there does seem and to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism. their real lives?|isbn=08615419011839942738
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