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|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH152919640X|title=The Grave ListenersSuspect|author=William FrankRob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=I The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was the bad company other people got into at schoolmurdered live on television and it seems that there'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. I was disruptive She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in religious education classes because I disputed the existence case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a 'god'ragout to Holby. Where Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was the proof? dead within minutes. In history lessons, it It was soon clear that this was probably worse stillno accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It't so much want to learn about s midsummer on the British armyDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's successes (their opening weekend and occasional failures, but we didnsplendid celebrations are promised. It't dwell on those) in what came to be called s all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first placewealthy and famous. Looking backHer husband, I Owen, was the architect and work is still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked ongoing on parts of the maturity to approach 'site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the problem' politelyguests are enemies as well as friends. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History'Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.
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|isbnauthor=024162343XAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam SangheraWild East|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=I was the bad company other people got into Written in verse, this is 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. I was disruptive The 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 settle in religious education classes because I disputed the existence a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of a 'god'trouble. Where was the proof? In history lessonsHe listens to music constantly, it was probably worse stilland has always dreamed of being a rapper. Not too long after the end of WWIIBut now, in this new school, I didn't so much want his teacher encourages him to learn about the British army's successes (be part of a poetry writing workshop group and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came slowly, Ronny begins to be called 'see the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. Looking backconnections between rap and poetry, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked and the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|authorisbn=Amanda Craig1635866847|title=Three GracesThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary= Few styles It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-a slice of-chocolate cake on thehomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -nation novelbut I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of a recipe in the atmosphere of book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the day book and capture it, crafting an image I was told to make a mess of the country as it stands . Notes in one particular momentthe margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. To say You suspect that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this smears of butter would not be embarrassingly inadequate: shea problem. I ''loved''s practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this pointbook already. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X
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|isbnauthor=1448309379Rob Keeley|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=David MarkChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It's something of a surprise to find that you're deadAround here, particularly when youwe're thinking that you're actually on a break with your wife and big fans of children, but that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoyauthor Rob Keeley. Whilst He's a ball of happy positivity, he was relieved to find that understands children, and he was stillwrites for their pleasure and enjoyment, officially, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoahnot to lecture or hector. The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man whoIt'd dashed from her flat in the early hours s a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with spirit world throws at her car, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aector.Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|isbnauthor=0957181167Jenny Valentine|title=Blue Skies Us in the Before and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian Lewis|author=Alan MarshallAfter
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|genre=ArtTeens|summary=There Elk and Mab are few positive things which can be said about best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a substandard apartment when you’re once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on holiday a trip out but this time, in trying to avoid looking unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls - and was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewistime. I searched online But then chance brings them back together, and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and the print I wanted was ‘not available’. Ohtragic, dear - then a few doors down from the apartmentand now they must work through their grief, I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - and a framed print of the picture I wantedtheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|author=Simon FoxKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=DeadlockDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5
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|summary=Late one night Graham Blake Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is late back from his shift on an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the forcesport where a team of warrior, mage and then suddenly rings Archiehealer enter specially prepared, demanding he fetch something from a secret placecentury-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and join him on the runpoints they grant you along the way. They get togetherUnfortunately for Kit, but barely begin to smell the whiff only thing he's seen of Southern trains when the father latest race on the inn TV equivalent is arrestedthat one team has been retired, leaving Archie on the late express to Brightoneaten, toting and a tin his father was determined new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to keep away the goading from the token bully of his colleagues, world and the bearer of stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a whole heap of questionsteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=18399444201839945184
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|author=Shalini BolandSaima Mir|title=The Silent BrideVengeance|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary= Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted north of England run by Alice and the wedding is planned and seta Muslim woman. When The fact that it was the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day screen) and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Aliceit needn't be a hindrance if it's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar isgood enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, who is waiting for her to become his wifeand I never felt lost.|isbn=16625070890861541561
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|author=Mark EdwardsStuart Douglas|title=Keep Her SecretLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Matthew During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Helena are in IcelandLeggit', rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent a woman on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death belowreservoir. Convinced she is going The police seem happy to dieassign it as an accidental death, Helena must purge herself of but something about the shocking secret she has been keeping whole thing bothers Lowe, and makes he enlists the help of a panickedfellow actor, cryptic declaration John Le Breton to Matthewhelp him investigate matters further. Just moments later They travel across the country during their heroicdays off filming, uncovering more possible murders and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to safety and Matthew uncover who is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=166250893X1803368209
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|isbn=B0BYF82CXTB0CYV674G2|title=Semi-DetachedSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Deborah StoneDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=''Bill It seemed like an open-and Amanda are living in a semi-detached houseshut case. A man, stuck covered in a depressing rut of boredom mud and disappointment, when Terry blood - and Fiona – glamorouscarrying a knife, successful and very much in love – move in next doorcomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. Despite their different outlooks on life, A body at the couples befriend each other and life appears bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to improve for both pairsdeath. But all DCI John Tanner is not what it seemsjust back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated 'John Tanner' were made for tragedyeach other.He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=17876360031787333175|title=The Girls of SummerYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Katie BishopBenji Waterhouse
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|genre=General FictionPopular Science|summary=It I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she workings of the NHS, humour and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the islandautobiography. Rachel wasn''You Don't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started Have to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than warybe Mad... It was quite a while before he made any sort of '' promised the same elements but moved from physical approach problems to her mental illness and by that time she was obsessed by himthe work of a psychiatrist. Alistair worked I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on humour in this setting but the island laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partiedunderstanding.
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|isbnauthor=1529135389Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Fall|author=Gilly MacmillanAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Nicole Booth had Anuri spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing childhood on display to the stateworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of-the-art music system installed in The Glass BarnAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. They'd not been Now Anuri is in the architecther twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used mother to all take down the high-tech systems Tom had insisted uponcontent about her. Some of Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they shouldfor doing so. It had all come Most importantly, she is desperately worried about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort her little sister, who is the new focus of money, tooOphelia's online empire. EventuallyCan she save her sister, Nicole found Tom dead in and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the swimming pool with a wound to his head.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|author=Alan ParksDavid Chadwick|title=To Die in JuneHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discoveredIt's September 1973 in Hicks, and then anotherCalifornia. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father Hicks is a down-and-out alcoholic, Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with no fixed abode, its nearest neighbours of LA and he has been for yearsLas Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. At A silver mine and a defence contractor are the same time as facing these possible murdersmain local employers but otherwise, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and the arrival there 's not much of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missingnote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, only no record of the boy having existed can be founduntil.... Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784B0D321VJ76
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|author=Laura NoakesTom Percival|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45
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|summary=Meet Number One. Or ratherWill's life is difficult, Cosima Unfortunatein a multitude of ways. Or ratherHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', just Cos to her friends. The practice in he has the home she lives in is wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledgermost basic of things like food, and theyhis dad can're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilitiest work because he lost his job at the college, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly uponwas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. But Cosima bears Throw into that mix the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmatefact that his mum and dad are separated, and unique Will's life seems bleak in having no known family in the outside worldevery direction. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoonAnd yet, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – he still has a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institutetiny amount of hope. But whyHe is good at art, and what does clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to feel like a light at the past she has so little link with?end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=00085790591398527122
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|author=Thomas D LeeSylvie Cathrall|title=Perilous TimesA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=35|genre= FantasyScience Fiction|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set in the near-distant future, in There are few greater joys than a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs book which lives up to a hero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little remainscompelling premise. What no one expected was that And this is one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the callthem.|isbn=03565185230356522776
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|authorisbn=Madelaine Lucas0008517061|title=Thirst for SaltDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= ''LoveFormer Metropolitan Police detective, I'd readJake Johnson, was supposed to be has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a light little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and weightless feelingher daughter Diana, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from as moving in together would mean a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the yearlot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-long relationship that once defined grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her. Overlaid with later wisdom, reservations about whether or not this is the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years future she wants for herself and her senior from its inception – daughter? For the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end moment they’re enjoying life in the summer after. Set against present and putting the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details future on the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocablyback burner.|isbn=0861546490
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|isbn=15293828231786482126|title=The Last PassengerJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Will DeanElly Griffiths
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'Cazluxury') is middleapartments -aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Petewhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. They're off on Was this a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. CazIt's sisterdifficult as Ruth knows, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she Nelson doesn't know whether , that she's relieved or disappointedis pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. They've not been a couple for that long and the trip Her condition will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhileobvious before long, Gemma not least because Ruth is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementiaprone to sudden bouts of sickness. It's going to be good, isn't it?
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|authorisbn=Lex Croucher0008551324|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Who knew that what I really needed It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But honestly, it lifted my spirits Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a most delightful waymissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! GwenThis person, you seehe promises, is in love with Bridget (someone big and it will be worth the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diariespolice doing what he wants. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the subterfuge remainder of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentshis sentence and to get an early parole date. But as their impending wedding draws ever closerNot much to ask, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=1526651793do 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 happening.
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|authorisbn=Emily Critchley0008405026|title=One Puzzling AfternoonA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
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|summary=84 It's sixteen years since nine-year -old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house bed one summer night. She was never found and bring Edie the investigation ground to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memorya halt. HoweverNow, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friendmother, LucyHelena, who went missing over 60 years agoand her father are dead in their bed. Initially, and the worry that it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be 's something about the thing that reveals positioning of the truth of what happened all bodies that time agomakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just What looked as she though it was the last time she saw her, she starts going to find pockets of memories coming back to herbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. And yet as she remembers Kerrigan is convinced that the past, she is forgetting more and more explanation lies in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about LucyRosalie's disappearance before her move: others (such as Derwent's boss, and before her memories Una Burt) are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)0571379877|title=Thirty Days of DarknessThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
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|genre=Crime
|summary=The body in the woods near Bristol was Edward Jevons is a nasty shock working- a monk strapped to a chair class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and dumped in Stanza. Robert's a ditchtheatre director. He'd been savagely beaten. It's a while before D S George Cross also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominicuses Edward to run errands for him. He'd Edward has been missing for a few in love with Stanza since their university days - and certainly hadnhe't asked permission s drunkenly confided how he feels to leave his abbeyRobert. As the team gradually unpick the monkMost men in Robert's past it becomes clear position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'd been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and friends not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway. He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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|author=Lauren BravoJo Callaghan|title=PrelovedLeave No Trace
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|genre=Crime
|summary=The marriage had run its courseWhen 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 might have been different if the pregnancies hadn't ended in miscarriages but no one else was involved - certainly not on Jake's side and he didn't think there was for Faye eithertheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. They were still polite to each other But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and wished each other well - but didn't wish a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to remain marriedtheir AI Future Policing project. The perfect solution arrived Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the form case and, potentially, out of a legacy from Jake's Uncle Arthur. He'd been left a secluded property in the hamlet of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - and enough money to live there without the need to work.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Jennifer Saint1399613073|title=AtalantaMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name first day of the goddess. It was medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for the sake a quarter of my namea century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, toowhich is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born Laura is a daughter rather than perfectionist and a son, Atalanta trauma doctor. Anjali is raised under the protective eye free spirit of the goddess Athemis group and fashioned into she becomes a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventureGP. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemiswe first meet them they' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is re at a whirlwind of challenges drug and discovery alcohol-fuelled party and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: s going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that if she marrieswill impact the three friends. This time, it will be her undoing's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1472292154
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|isbn=152915118X0241636604|title=Pineapple StreetThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Jenny JacksonGary Stevenson
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|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you''Pineapple Street'' is the story re unlikely to think of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgianasomeone like Gary Stevenson. Darley A hoodie and George are sisters jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and Sasha his background is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarchEast End, Tildawhere he was familiar with violence, asks Cord poverty and Sasha if they'd like injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to move into the Pineapple Street propertyLondon School of Economics. Tilda Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, he has a street or so away, facility with numbers which they ownmost of us can only envy. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight inHe also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. NominallyIt was his ability at what was, essentially, they had a choice but that wasn't the realitycard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=00085512781035021803|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Neil LancasterC L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the bottom of Fyrish, English country village where she'd been doing her traininggrew up. She'd been a bit s back now because of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - and it now looks as though she could be heading request for the national squadhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. ThatFreya's former mentor and Carole's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seeclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at say the age of twelveleast. She Arthur was rescued when the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she was carrying a kilo of drugs and three years later has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she's happy with her foster familyloved. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sisterAfter the split, Melodi is she worked in a children's home in Tirana - cafe, met and anyone could get to married James (on the rebound from the love of herlife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Emily TeshAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Some Desperate GloryAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''While Earth's children live, Opening up new ways of thinking about the enemy shall fear usshape of things to come.''
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|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although 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.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=08615440561529153298|title=Twin TruthsThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jacqueline SutherlandJennie Godfrey
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Belle and DavidIt's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) KitShe's been at Bristol and Jessnot what's worrying Miv's in Exeterfamily, though. It's not only the first time Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been away from their parents for any length of time - murdered, but theyto have 'disappeared' doesn've also been apart from each othert sound quite so frightening. Belle canMiv's upset because she't wait s overheard that her father wants to have them all to herself for move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a whilefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Then Kit rings up - can For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want ll do anything to upset Kitprevent that. IvoShe's apparently 'older': henot worried about the dangers or that her Mum's twentystopped talking -four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroomanyone.
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|isbn=17856334571398524085|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric CarHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Clive WilkinsonNicci French
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|genre=TravelCrime|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travelCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. As he neared his eightieth birthday Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the idea body of exploring Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the edges of England in river. It was an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday easy assumption for Clive the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and his wife, Joan, shouldnthen committed suicide when he couldn't it?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.
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|authorisbn=Frederic Seager1035906708|title= Jesus, the Man and the Myth: A Jewish Reading of the New TestamentDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre= Spirituality and ReligionGeneral Fiction|summary= We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. I When she was brought up back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a family where religion played little or mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no partsecret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side }}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and Welsh Methodist on his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the othernickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, nobody really discussed religion and many, many snacks! However, as the adults around me ranged movie starts, they very quickly realise that 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 lapsed one film genre to agnostic the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to atheist. Other than the odd church wedding or baptism or the school nativity playcinema, I didn't think too much about faith or what people did or didn't believe.and to their real lives?|isbn=B092BWWG9Y1839942738
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