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|isbn=B09HTWX47X1529428289|title=Endless ObsessionA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Dai HenleyMartin Walker
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|summary=It's some years since we last caught up with Andy FloodBecause of various property transactions, formerly a DCI in people were searching for the Met grave but now a well-respected private investigatorwhen they found it, it came with three sets of bones. He's married They dated back to Laura, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratory. Flood's daughters, Gemma World War II and Pippait fell to Bruno, have flown the nestChief of Police for St Denis, Pippa to Australia, from where she has very little contact with discover the identities of the family, bodies and Gemma to married lifeestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. SheAs if this isn's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide t enough to worry about, the support she needsDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. FloodIt's business is going well and not just the local autumn rains that was why he felt able have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to turn down release water and St Denis faces the case possibility of Lisa Blacka devastating flood.
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|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou152919640X|title=The StoningSuspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparisonThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolleyJessica Holby, was murdered live on television and sheit seems that there's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumpsonly one suspect. When she He's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso toJessica Holby. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it She's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in protest at their conditionscase of emergencies. Cue the arrival of George Manolis Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a higher rank from the city, ragout to sort everything outHolby. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going Her EpiPen was nowhere to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law.be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.|isbn=1529416973
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|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H0008385068|title=The Mystery of HealingMidnight Feast|author=A P McGrathLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and heIt's midsummer on the physician on duty Dorset coast and guests gather at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populaceThe Manor. The remuneration isnIt't high but the work gives the doctor a feeling of virtue s their opening weekend and hones his skills: Solon splendid celebrations are promised. It''wants'' the warriors to lives all headed up by Francesca Meadows. ItThe Manor was her ancestral home and she's quite a spectacle: converted it into an impressive retreat for the magistri are wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the charge hands architect and when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto work is still ongoing on parts of the lions' manes to make them look more impressivesite. The sagitarii are the archers heat is oppressive and amongst the beastiarii guests are the condemned criminals who enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to fight for their lives with the wild animals. Today, be settled and itwon's the crocodilest be long before a body is found.
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|author=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie BlackallAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Beatryce ProphecyWild East|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=''Stories have joy and surprises Written in them''verse, we are told here. And none more so than in this wondrous is Ronny's story, which feels an instant classic with the freshness a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and the agelessness it has in equal proportionstart at a mostly white school. We start with The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a group of monkstragic event, the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowingand so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upendinga new school, trampling on and biting the poor Brotherskeep himself out of trouble. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach He listens to a homeless girlmusic constantly, one who and has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memoryalways dreamed of being a rapper. Elsewhere sits a King But now, in this new school, his castleteacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, desperate slowly, Ronny begins to find see the girlconnections between rap and poetry, for it is prophesied that a young child can unseat and the throne power of creativity and cause great changecrafting your words. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simple, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=15295008930241645441
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|isbn=B09FFJF8YS1635866847|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)The Lavender Companion|author=Justine Avery Jessica Dunham and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.'' And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{Frontpage|author=Nick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=Locked Out LilyTerry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Lily isIt's strange, or was, or has been, very ill, and to give her parents relief shethe things that make you ''immediately''s been told to stay with her grandma feel that this is the book for a few daysyou. Before I started reading ''The parents need Lavender Companion'', I visited the relief as Lilyauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's baby sibling is just about to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do with. But on tracking back home for word picture of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra a slice of her parents, chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and the babedesserts -but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in-arms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the family back intactbook, even if itwhich I's not m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the family Lily wants – book and all she has I was told to help her make a mess of it. Notes in the task margins are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snakesanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1471194833
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|author=Greg James and Chris SmithRob Keeley|title=The Great Dream RobberyChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=MayaAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's father is a professor who invented an amazing dream machine. But something went wrongball of happy positivity, he understands children, and now he canwrites for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector. The ''Childish Spirits''t wake upseries is one of his greatest achievements. Or at least, thatIt's what Maya has been told. In a rather strange dream one night Maya makes sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a new friend, and discovers that stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the only way to save spirit world throws at her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams , and reality collide...really...and there's everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offsEdward, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=024147051X1783064617
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|isbnauthor=1800464495Jenny Valentine|title= 100 Ways Us in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smiththe Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the wombElk and Mab are best friends, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months oldor more than that even, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school their friendship is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skillsonce in a lifetime connection.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives They meet as children one day on a solid foundation when trip out but unfortunately they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we doget each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, in part because so many of us and they are afraid of mathsinseparable. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialtheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbnauthor=1529379385Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise PennyDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=In Meet Kit. Like most of the Canadian village people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Three PinesDungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, we're postmage and healer enter specially prepared, century-pandemic: old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the scars are still there but life is starting to get back to normal. The villagers are beginning to return to treasure or the Bistro big bad and the Aubergepoints they grant you along the way. They're visiting each otherUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's homes seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and having friends and relatives to staya new trio of questors is needed. A young Sudanese woman who Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has been nominated for taken to the goading from the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor token bully of his world and she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a bit like Vincent Gilbertteam. What chance does this friendless, known muscle-free-zone have in the village as the Asshole Saint.actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|isbnauthor= B09F4CTKJRSaima Mir|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven BurgauerVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers|summary=It's I was instantly intrigued by the later stages premise of World War I and this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is north of England run by a young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero SquadronMuslim woman. This company The fact that it was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained second in Canada, the first to be attached to the RAF a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and the first to it needn't be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combata hindrance if it's good enough. But before And that can happenwasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Cameland I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|isbnauthor=183885410XStuart Douglas|title=The Dark Remains|author=William McIlvanney Lowe and Ian RankinLe Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Bobby Carter was a lawyer During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and consigliere to one Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowedge of a reservoir. DC Jack Laidlaw is on The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the CID team charged with whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the investigationhelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. I say ''on They travel across the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to be a part of itdeath during the Second World War. He does his own thing, goes his own way and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers But is there really a link between the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubs.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=1942410255B0CYV674G2|title=Tokyo Zangyo Swanton Morley (Detective HiroshiJohn Tanner)|author=Michael PronkoDavid Blake|rating=43.5
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|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's the cultureseemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are really just covered in mud and blood - and carrying a statement of knife, comes into the minimum youpolice station shouting that he hasn'll be required to do: you'll work more hours to get t killed the job done and done to man. A body at the satisfaction bottom of bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. When a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or grief, even been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his familyhoneymoon, but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from which coincided with the roof birth of the building or been assisted in his descentdaughter Samantha. Gossip revolves around the fact that You would think he left 'd be grateful for an easy answer but the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlierwords 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. SheHe'd accused Onizuka s sleep-deprived to the point of bullying her and forcing her falling asleep at work but he's determined to work an unreasonable amount of overtimekeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=02414254251787333175|title=The Man Who Died TwiceYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Richard OsmanBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=Elizabeth Best I was a little surprised when she received the letter. It came from a man whose body she had helped tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to pull from the Thames and who had never existed but then this Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have Going to deal with on Hurt}}, a regular basis. When she visits glorious mixture of insight into the sender workings of the letter (heNHS, humour and autobiography. 's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that itYou Don's someone with whom she has a long professional history - and who used t Have to be her husbandMad... He's made a bad mistake - something ' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to do with a mask being removed within mental illness and the range work of a CCTV camera on psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a raid, situation rather than a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds person and a few death threats. He's now in hiding it is always delivered with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressempathy and understanding.
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|author=Andrew SharpOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to his employer her step- ismother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, in his mindbasically, the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African countrymonetary gain. Mozzy Now Anuri is earnest in her twenties and dedicated she is slowly trying to his task regain her confidence and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BODto get her life back, suing her step-W safaris but his dream is mother to become take down the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American citycontent about her. Even Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to win a Michelin starstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. He Most importantly, she is thwarted in this ambition by his bossdesperately worried about her little sister, Mr Bin (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzyis the new focus of Ophelia's disapproval for his scruffy waysonline empire. Can she save her sister, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the house.same time?|isbn=B09926MK8H0861546873
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|author=Alex FoulkesDavid Chadwick|title=Rules for VampiresHeadload of Napalm
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....
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|author=Tom Percival
|title=The Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or Will'Leo' for short) s life is difficult, in a Vampiremultitude of ways. She drinks blood He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', she sleeps during he has the daywrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and she his dad can Grimwalk (turning into 't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back)building site and had an accident. Pretty cool stuff. Now, on Throw into that mix the night of her hundredth birthnight, she has to go out fact that his mum and hunt her first human. Howeverdad are separated, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanageWill's life seems bleak in every direction. Oops! And to make things worseyet, the ghosts he still has a tiny amount of one of the orphans hope. He is good at art, and clings to the evil master moments of the orphanage come back to haunt her. Sojoy when he is drawing, not only does Leo have to team up with that feel like a light at the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost end of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfula long, she has to do it all while hiding it from her familydark tunnel. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X1398527122
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|author=Tori BovalinoSylvie Cathrall|title=The Devil Makes ThreeA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herselfcompelling premise. What makes it worse And this is the man who requested the books: Mr Birchone of them. The boarding school's headmaster|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, and a man Tess hatesJake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. As There’s perhaps a petty act little uncertainty about the future of revenge for making his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her find and deliver such daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a large request, Tess sticks postlot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-it notes on each of the books, scribbled grid and relaxing life to move in with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant Livia or does Livia move to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get Little Sky despite her anger out like reservations about whether or not this, is the future she wants for herself and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for herdaughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.|isbn=1789098130
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|isbn= B09BG8V3Q61786482126|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! The Janus Stone (Everybody Potties!Dr Ruth Galloway)|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadElly Griffiths
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take apartments - when they discovered the pain out bones of potty training children and replace it a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with some funDCI Harry Nelson. It's a worthy aimdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as any frustrated parent will tell youa result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=B098FFFBH90008551324|title=SnowcubThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Graham FulbrightNeil Lancaster
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|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is her schoolstruggling in prison and he's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry prepared to highlight tell the way in which human beings exploit police where the animal worldbody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip HarrisonThis person, a lecturer at Imperial Collegehe promises, London, mother Kate is someone big and her twin, Nickit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Kate runs And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the family businessremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where weit? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'll meet Rachels 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 main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toyshappening.
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|authorisbn= Angharad Walker0008405026|title= The Ash HouseA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersCrime|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesnIt't know his name, or why he is there but he is used to the system, used to different places and different facess sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. He meets Dom who names him Sol She was never found and sets out the investigation ground to teach him the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmasterhalt. All children must remember their Niceness Now, her mother, Helena, and complete her father are dead in their choresbed. Initially, working as it looks like a hive in straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the smouldering shadows positioning of The Ash Housethe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. But soon their easy peace What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is shattered by the arrival of the Doctornow a complex double murder. By Kerrigan is convinced that the end of the storyexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same againUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1912626977
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|authorisbn=Yancey Williams0571379877|title=Crosshairs of the DevilThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=AwardEdward Jevons is a working-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years andclass young man, despite obsessed with his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living upper- or imprisonedclass friends, from EddieRobert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's point of view also self- in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing homeobsessed, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkinsdemanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for palatable companyhim. Nothing is going Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to keep Eddie Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his lifeStanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's worknot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=0986031658}}
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|author=Philip ReeveJo Callaghan|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the DeepLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=In When a word, rich. There man is certainly an abundance found crucified on the top of riches a hill in this story set on a peculiar island called WildseaNuneaton, British but way westDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, beyond the ScilliesAI detective Lock. There are troll people on it It's their first live case together, and sea-witcheshaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and legends a very high profile case that draws a lot of the Dark family that has unwanted attention to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sailAI Future Policing project. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has Will they be able to keep notes of activity from solve the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science case in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitionstime, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up potentially, out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.a career?|isbn=1788452372139851120X
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|authorisbn=Erling Kagge1399613073|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre= LifestyleThrillers|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the number first day of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defence, I will say that as medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a reader quarter of this type of book there a century. Olivia is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased cornersruthlessly ambitious, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about is a bonus when you aim to do as soon as I have finished telling you why)be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Erligg Kagge Laura is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the South Pole, free spirit of the North Pole group and the summit of Everest. He knows she becomes a thing or two about walkingGP. However, this isn When we first meet them they't re at a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means 's going to walk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walkingend in tragedy. There is no 'contents' page and I haven We don't countedknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages long Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Perhaps then This time, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essayit's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=0241357705
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|authorisbn=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault0241636604|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Meet JackIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless A hoodie and nimble jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and quickhis background is the East End, for where he's a slight boywas familiar with violence, poverty and although injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses had been to let him out the London School of his sightEconomics. That's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and look what happened he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to her – she diedbe stupid. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten It was his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOLability at what was, Jack will fluke the ogre's deathessentially, a dwarfish wizard-type will make card game which got him an apprentice monster hunterinternship with Citibank. Eventually, and he'll be given this turned into permanent employment as a book that tells him all he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact withtrader. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=0755501942
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|authorisbn=Keith Gray1035021803|title=The ClimbersAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Sully is the best tree climber in It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country villagewhere she grew up. He has what She's known amongst the kids as back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya'reachs former mentor and Carole'. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kids close friend, called NottinghamArthur Crockleford, who clambers up some of is dead and the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatenedcircumstances seem suspicious, and to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not only that, that his chance been back to name the finalvillage: Arthur, unnamed big tree she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the park by being man or pursue the first to conquer itprofession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, might be snatched met and married James (on the rebound from his hands. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all the love of his friendsher life, to do so?|isbn=1781129991who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Emma CarrollAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Week at WorldAll Tomorrow's EndFutures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=First, ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the titleshape of things to come. We'' 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 few decades of technology in Worldmy lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's End Close, a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie advantageous to her friends) finds fun only me but I'm left with the family dog and with the boy over the road. But we could also be at Worldfeeling that it's End, because something taking a great chunk of the fun all getting away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking offfrom me. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk Some of nuclear missiles offshore, and not much else it is able to make the news- frankly - quite frightening. That said Of course, Vie has news of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna has, in no short time, taken a strong interest in I could research the American airforce base behind possibilities and the Close, said sheprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they'd locate something she wanted re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and leave, failed to leave, and implied her life was at riskwho could deliver information in a way I could understand. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=0571364438
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|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonSunny Singh|title=Julia and the SharkHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been packed off with her parents and their cat violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a summerwartime photographer and Abhi, in the far NE of the Scottish islandshotel manager. Here 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 Vikingscowed by events, that kind and keeps on venturing out of Scottish islandher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Dad is going to be automating Although they only ever talk over the lanternphone, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her career in algae behind keep safe and they both wait to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she see if they will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one nightrescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1510107789086154742X
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|authorisbn=Freya Sampson1529153298|title=The Last LibraryList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I am always a little nervous to start a story about a librarymean, since I am a librarianhonestly... I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought of the incoming cardigan-wearing) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, hair in a bunthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, cat-owningthey've been murdered, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main character, June, does put her hair in a bun, and but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends 's overheard that her evenings eating father wants to move the same Chinese takeaway meal once family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the book out of the windowfrightening, because I found I was interested in Juneforeign place, and why she lived as she didbest avoided. Her mum used to be a librarian at For Miv, the village librarymove would mean leaving her best friend, but when she got sickSharon, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home she'll do anything to take care of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at the local libraryprevent that. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mum She's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading not worried about the dangers or that her mumMum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the changestopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=183877369X
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|isbn=00083709821398524085|title=Rock Paper ScissorsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Alice FeeneyNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Her husband, Adam, isn't so keen on the idea. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he's hoping to adapt than with her. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the dogs, many of whom have been abused, is never easy. Still - she's won the weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat - and then doing the same thing to come back a couple of days later.}}{{Frontpage|author=Doug Johnstone|title=The Great Silence|rating=4
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|summary=For those whoCharlotte 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, like meAlec, haven't come across is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis body of whoGreg's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creaturefather, though it sounds as though it ought to beDuncan Ackerley, it is merely in the surname of a family of undertakersriver. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is It was an easy assumption for the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married a scot and ended up helping police to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm make that Duncan had been in murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the family for generationsguilt. Recently widowed The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is wonder about to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next termwhat really happened.|isbn=1913193837
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|isbn=19015149781035906708|title=There's a Problem With DadDiva|author=Carlos AlbaDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Life is different for George Lovelace and he can't really understand why. He's always done everything he ought We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to: steady workerGreek parents in Manhattan, husband New York, in December 1923 and father - and a father who only moved to Athens when she was always there for school plays and sports daysthirteen. So why is he never quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why is someone with such a 'Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'goodCallas'' mind unable to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breath-taking gaffes? it more manageable in the States. It's almost become a cliche these days to suggest that someone who is a little different is 'on the spectrum', but George Lovelace has all the symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: highWhen she was back in Athens -functioning autism.}}{{Frontpage|author=Louise Candlish|title=The Heights|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran supposedly so that day. She's on site, visiting a client she could get appropriate training for a lighting consultation when her voice - she spies him in was raised under the Nazi occupation by a building across the way. There are lots of things, lots mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of people, you might see when you look out across London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, and Ellen knows this her preference for a facther elder sister, because she had a hand in his murderJackie.|isbn=1471183483
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