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|isbn=14711966151529428289|title=IcedA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Felix FrancisMartin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered 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. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley
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|summary=Miles Pussett used to be a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourguests gather at The Manor. He was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - thatIt's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake their opening weekend and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the saddling of the horsessplendid celebrations are promised. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and he swore that heshe'd never go back to s converted itinto an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. But when he sees that something suspicious Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going on, Miles canto be settled and it won't help but look for answers, even when it puts him in dangerbe long before a body is found.
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|isbnauthor=147228612XAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Alan JohnsonWild East
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|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=We all know people like Gary NelsonWritten in verse, although we probably haventhis is Ronny't taken much notice of them. They live quiets story, uneventful lives a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and stay start at a mostly under the radarwhite school. In a city like London, thatThe move is initiated by Ronny's quite easy - and even Garymum who is worried for Ronny's three flatmates largely ignore himsafety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. The highlight He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes teacher encourages him to work on the train each morning: he'd love to ask her for be part of a date but he doesn't have the courage. Thenpoetry writing workshop group and, on his homeward commuteslowly, Arina speaks Ronny begins to him see the connections between rap and asks for his help. Before long he finds himself on the run from mobsterspoetry, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan policepower of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|authorisbn=Claire McGowan1635866847|title=I Know YouThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=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'Thens [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don' Casey returns from t eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a walk recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the baby, Carson, book and comes across three bodies, almost I was told to make a whole family taken mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold downthe corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''Now:loved'' Rachel is out for a walk with her dog, Brandy, when she comes across a body in the woodsthis book already.|isbn=1542019974
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|isbnauthor=1529148251Rob Keeley|title=MisfitsChildish Spirits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel10th anniversary special edition|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He'How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rapes a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, malpractice and povertyhe writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from itnot to lecture or hector.''
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|isbnauthor=0008433631Jenny Valentine|title=Next of Kin|author=Kia AbdullahUs in the Before and After
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|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=It was the sort of thing Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that happened every dayeven, although not to Leila Syed. She'd never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her their friendship is a once in a paniclifetime connection. He was supposed to be taking Max to school They meet as children one day on a trip out but heunfortunately they don'd been called into work and t get each other's contact details at the delay in getting there could lead to financial lossestime. As the school was only five minutes out of Leila's wayBut then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, could she drop him off? Of coursesomething terrible and tragic, she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her car. On the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her now they must work toothrough their grief, and their friendship, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at risktogether.|isbn=1471196585
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|author= Justine Avery Kieran Larwood and Naday MeldovaJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= TootsMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, trumpsit seems, farts. Whatever your word for themhe is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about mage and joke abouthealer enter specially prepared, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at century-old, magical mazes, and race to the wrong time. In classexit, say, when everyone will hear it perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and everyone will laugh. At the points they grant youalong the way. Justine Avery Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and gently and calmlya new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, with he has taken to the goading from the familiar humour attachedtoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, explains muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W1839945184}}
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|isbnauthor=1784165263Saima Mir|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma CurtisVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on I was instantly intrigued by the dot, despite premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that she it was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. If she the second in a series I hadn't read didn't get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was stop me – I've jumped midway into a paraplegic few series before (on page and confined to a wheelchair, but donscreen) and it needn't be too quick to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn'you're good at being t a disappointment''problem here. All this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about Vengeance swiftly brings you up to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2speed, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|isbnauthor=1784742775Stuart Douglas|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan HillLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Drugs hadnDuring location filming for his 1970't really been that much of a problem in Lafferton s sitcom 'Floggit and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of drugs ops as a bit woman on the edge of a waste of timereservoir. They still were, The police seem happy to a great extentassign it as an accidental death, but Serrailler knew that something had to be done. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport about the drugs whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the operation running the county lines was tighthelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. A mule might know They travel across the name (although it probably wouldn't be country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the correct one) of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisationSecond World War. The police might catch But is there really a few of link between the runners but deaths? And will they'd never get anywhere near those higher up.manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=B09FS89KX9B0CYV674G2|title=Fall On MeSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Penelope PottsDavid Blake
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|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree It seemed like an open-and - three years later shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - was still working at BBand carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn's dinert killed the man. Bob - A body at the owner bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss's been stabbed to death. Hollie had moved in DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he was great 'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and he was doing well in his career'John Tanner' were made for each other. Hollie wasnHe't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted s sleep-deprived to control her and most the point of all falling asleep at work but he wanted her 's determined to leave her job keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at the diner. Then there was the fact that he would be violent, both to her and to other peoplehome.
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|authorisbn=John Gwynne1787333175|title=The Shadow Of The GodsYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
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|genre=FantasyPopular Science|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods 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 the first installment Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era workings of the Vikings in the shadow of RagnarokNHS, when the Gods have battled humour and their bones lie scattered for all autobiography. ''You Don't Have to seebe Mad. This story is ..'' promised the ultimate in High Fantasy, same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and John Gwynne certainly does justice the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and battles galore. This it is a thick book, always delivered with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic empathy and gritty world in which our heroes must do battleunderstanding.|isbn=0356514218
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|isbnauthor=B09HTWX47XOnyi Nwabineli|title=Endless Obsession|author=Dai HenleyAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=ItAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's some years since we last caught up with Andy Floodincreasingly popular presence on social media, formerly a DCI in the Met but now a well-respected private investigator. Hewhere she posted every step of Anuri's married to Laurachildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratorymonetary gain. Flood's daughters, Gemma Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and Pippato get her life back, have flown suing her step-mother to take down the nestcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, Pippa failing to Australiastart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from where them for doing so. Most importantly, she has very is desperately worried about her little contact with sister, who is the family, and Gemma to married lifenew focus of Ophelia's online empire. She's had mental problems since Can she was abducted many years ago but Andy save her sister, and Laura hope that married life will provide the support she needs. Flood's business is going well perhaps herself and that was why he felt able to turn down her relationship with her father at the case of Lisa Black.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|author=Peter PapathanasiouDavid Chadwick|title=The StoningHeadload of Napalm|rating=34.5
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|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous It's September 1973 in comparisonHicks, California. Hicks is a teacher has been transported across Mojave desert town at night in of a shopping trolley, few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and she's been taped to Las Vegas both a tree significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including a defence contractor are the main local copsemployers but otherwise, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and itthere's only fair, not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolisquiet, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything outuntil. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...|isbn=1529416973}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H|title=The Mystery of Healing|author=A P McGrath|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and he's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populace. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor a feeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to live. It's quite a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with the wild animals. Today, it's the crocodiles.B0D321VJ76
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|author=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie BlackallTom Percival|title=The Beatryce ProphecyWrong Shoes
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Will''Stories have joy and surprises s life is difficult, in thema multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', we are told here. And none more so than in this wondrous story, which feels an instant classic with he has the freshness wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the agelessness it has in equal proportion. We start with a group most basic of monksthings like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowingcollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the demonic goat fact that loves nothing more than upendinghis mum and dad are separated, trampling on and biting the poor BrothersWill's life seems bleak in every direction. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girl And yet, one who he still has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memorya tiny amount of hope. Elsewhere sits a King in his castle He is good at art, desperate and clings to find the girlmoments of joy when he is drawing, for it is prophesied that feel like a young child can unseat the throne and cause great change. Who foretold that revolution but light at the Order end of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simplelong, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?dark tunnel.|isbn=15295008931398527122
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|isbnauthor=B09FFJF8YSSylvie Cathrall|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate ZhoidikA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is There are few greater joys than 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 which lives up 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 Lily|rating=4compelling premise.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lily is, or was, or has been, very ill, and to give her parents relief she's been told to stay with her grandma for a few days. The parents need the relief as Lily's baby sibling And this 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 one of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parents, and the babe-in-arms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the family back intact, even if it's not the family Lily wants – and all she has to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snakethem.|isbn=14711948330356522776
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|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith0008517061|title=The Great Dream RobberyDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Maya's father is a professor who invented an amazing dream machine. But something went wrongFormer Metropolitan Police detective, and now he can't wake up. Or at leastJake Johnson, that's what Maya has been toldsettled into his rustic life at Little Sky. In There’s perhaps a rather strange dream one night Maya makes little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a new friend, lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and discovers that relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the only way to save future she wants for herself and her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and reality collide...really..putting the future on the back burner.and there's everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051X
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|isbn=18004644951786482126|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of MathsThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Emma SmithElly Griffiths
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in apartments - when they discovered the womb, being aware bones of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months olda child beneath a doorway. There was no skull.'' Did you know Was thisa ritual killing or murder? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement Inevitably, double that of literacy skillsDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It'' I didns difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't know this either! I think most parents are aware , that giving your children she is pregnant with his child as a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when result of the one night they start schoolspent together some three months ago. But do we think the same way about maths Her condition will be obvious before long, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part not least because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialsickness.
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|isbn=15293793850008551324|title=The Madness of Crowds Devil You Know (Chief Inspector GamacheD S Max Craigie)|author=Louise PennyNeil Lancaster
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|genre=Crime
|summary=In the Canadian village of Three Pines, weIt're post-pandemic: s unusual for anyone from the scars are still there but life is starting Hardie family to get back to normalapproach the police. The villagers are beginning to return Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the Bistro body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the Aubergepolice doing what he wants. They're visiting each other's homes And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and having friends and relatives to stayget an early parole date. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize Not much to ask, is one such visitor it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she soon proves 's even prepared to do the other thing that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around Hardie demanded - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in the village as the Asshole Saintmake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn= B09F4CTKJR0008405026|title= Flights for FreedomA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author= Steven BurgauerJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=It's the later stages of World War I sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the United States has just entered the conflictinvestigation ground to a halt. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up Now, her mother, Helena, and joined the 17 Aero Squadronher father are dead in their bed. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the first to be attached to positioning of the RAF bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and the first her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be sent into the skies to fight an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the Germans explanation lies in active combat. But before that can happenRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith CamelUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=183885410X0571379877|title=The Dark RemainsKellerby Code|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinJonny Sweet
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Bobby Carter was Edward Jevons is a lawyer working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and consigliere to one of the major crime families in nineteen seventies GlasgowStanza. DC Jack Laidlaw is on the CID team charged with the investigationRobert's a theatre director. I say He''on the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to be a part of itrun errands for him. He does his own thing, goes his own way Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert'The Dark Remainss position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'' uncovers s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the truth two of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubsthem kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1942410255Jo Callaghan|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael PronkoLeave No Trace|rating=4.5
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|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's When a man is found crucified on the culturetop of a hill in Nuneaton, isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are really just a statement of the minimum you'll be required DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to case alongside her sidekick, the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru OnizukaAI detective Lock. When he was found dead in front of Senden CentralIt's headquarters in Tokyo their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there was nothing in the way of regret or griefis a second body found crucified a few days later, even from his family, but there was Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a mild curiosity as lot of unwanted attention to whether he'd jumped from the roof of the building or been assisted in his descenttheir AI Future Policing project. Gossip revolves around Will they be able to solve the fact that he left case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the roof at the exact same spot that an employeecase and, Mayu Yamasepotentially, had committed suicide some three years earlier. She'd accused Onizuka out of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtime.a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=02414254251399613073|title=The Man Who Died TwiceMoral Injuries|author=Richard OsmanChristie Watson
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Elizabeth Best was Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a little surprised bonus when she received the letteryou aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. It came from Laura is a man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames perfectionist and who had never existed but then this a trauma doctor. Anjali is the sort free spirit of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on the group and she becomes a regular basisGP. When she visits the sender of the letter (hewe first meet them they's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's someone with whom she has a long professional history - and who used going to be her husbandend in tragedy. HeWe don's made a bad mistake t know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty- something to do with a mask being removed within five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the range of a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and a few death threatsthree friends. HeThis time, it's now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, their teenage children who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressare involved.
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|authorisbn=Andrew Sharp0241636604|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy If you were to his employer - is, bring up an image of a city banker in his your mind, the head chef you're unlikely to think of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African countrysomeone like Gary Stevenson. Mozzy A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is earnest the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and dedicated to injustice. There was no posh public school on his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BODCV -W safaris but his dream is he had been to become the head chef London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a restaurant in London or a big American cityfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Even He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to win a Michelin starbe stupid. He is thwarted in this ambition by It was his bossability at what was, Mr Bin (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy waysessentially, his uninterest in his guests and - shocka card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, horror - his allowing of bush animals this turned into the housepermanent employment as a trader.|isbn=B09926MK8H
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|authorisbn=Alex Foulkes1035021803|title=Rules for VampiresThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or It'Leos twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She' s back now because of a request for short) is a Vampirehelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. She drinks blood Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, she sleeps during the dayArthur Crockleford, is dead and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel aroundthe circumstances seem suspicious, although not all of them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuffsay the least. Now, on Arthur was the night of her hundredth birthnight, she has reason why Freya had not been back to go out and hunt her first human. Howeverthe village: Arthur, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worsefeels, the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt let herdown badly. So Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not only does Leo have felt able to team up with be near the friendly ghost Minna to stop man or pursue the ghost of profession she loved. After the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulsplit, she has to do it all while hiding it worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her familylife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X
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|authorisbn=Tori BovalinoAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Devil Makes ThreeAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library is 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has shape of things to deliver herselfcome. What makes '' I've heard it worse said that 'technology' is the man who requested the books: Mr Birchwhat happens after you're eighteen. The boarding school's headmaster Well, and I must confess that there have been more than a man Tess hatesfew decades of technology in my lifetime. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the ugliest insults she can think feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some ofit is - frankly - quite frightening. They're never meant to reach him, of Of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, I could research the possibilities and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone hadnwho knows what they't delivered them for herre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1789098130
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|isbnauthor= B09BG8V3Q6Sunny Singh|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' 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 latest release in terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Averyhotel manager. This series of fun picture books aims As Abhi continues to try to take care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the pain hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. Ither room to try to capture what's a worthy aimhappened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as any frustrated parent Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will tell you. be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=B098FFFBH91529153298|title=SnowcubThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Graham FulbrightJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is her schoolPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's animal rights project leader and upset because she and 's overheard that her friend are producing a competition entry father wants to highlight move the way in which human beings exploit the animal worldfamily 'Down South'. She gets a great deal of support When you're from her family: father Pip HarrisonYorkshire, Down South is a lecturer at Imperial Collegefrightening, Londonforeign place, mother Kate and her twin, Nickbest avoided. Kate runs For Miv, the family businessmove would mean leaving her best friend, a toy shop called Cornucopia in PutneySharon, which is where weand she'll meet Racheldo anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toysstopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn= Angharad Walker1398524085|title= The Ash HouseHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersCrime|summary= A new boy arrives Charlotte Salter was expected at The Ash Househer husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. He doesn't know his name Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, or why he is there Etty. are all worried but he - strangely - her husband, Alec, is used to the systemnot. Shortly afterwards, used to different places Etty and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him Greg, find the rules body of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their choresGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash Houseriver. But soon their It was an easy peace is shattered by assumption for the arrival of police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the Doctorguilt. By the end of the story, The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same againwonder about what really happened.|isbn=1912626977
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|authorisbn=Yancey Williams1035906708|title=Crosshairs of the DevilDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in years andManhattan, New York, despite his strenuous objections in December 1923 and thanks only moved to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from EddieAthens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's point of view - to make it more manageable in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable companyStates. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock When she was back in Athens -insupposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice -trade she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of writing though, so here, her preference for his readersher elder sister, are his wanderings through his life's workJackie.|isbn=0986031658
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