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|authorisbn=1529428289|title=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston A Grave in the Woods (translatorA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|titleauthor=The Rabbit FactorMartin Walker|rating=3.54
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|summary=Meet HenriBecause of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. With a mind so much more focused on maths They dated back to World War II and calculations than it is other human beingsfell to Bruno, he's perfect the Chief of Police for his job in St Denis, to discover the insurance company – until they decide he's identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a team-member, that theycrime had been committed. As if this isn'd prefer everyone t enough to be all openworry about, the Dordogne River -plan, holistic and keen on stupidnormally tranquil -as workshoppingis flowing at record levels. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo It's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is not just an adventure park, and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans local autumn rains that have been made out and caused the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly problem: various dams upstream on the scene another river have had to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, release water and St Denis faces the activities possibility of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan..devastating flood.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbn=1471179311152919640X|title=The UnheardSuspect|author=Nicci FrenchRob Rinder
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=TessThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, a teacher and JasonJessica Holby, a headmaster, have split up: she was murdered live on television and Poppy have moved out of the family home it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and Jason is now married his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to EmilyJessica Holby. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was the family home She's seriously allergic and another carries an EpiPen in the flat she shares with her mothercase of emergencies. It ''Everything seemed'' to as normal - as normal as they can be working well until the day that Poppy came home with in a menacing drawing of busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a woman falling from a tall building and she started swearing, using words she was unlikely ragout to have heard in either homeHolby. Her behaviour deteriorated EpiPen was nowhere to be found and there were problems at nursery schoolshe was dead within minutes. Tess turns to a therapist for help, then her doctor and finally the police but It was soon clear that this was no one will take what she has to say seriouslyaccident.
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|isbn=14711966150008385068|title=IcedThe Midnight Feast|author=Felix FrancisLucy Foley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|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
|rating=4.5
|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
|rating=5
|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
|rating=4
|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
|rating=3.5
|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
|rating=5
|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
|genre=Thrillers
|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
|rating=5
|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
|rating=4.5
|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
|rating=4.5
|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
|rating=3.5
|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 two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the truth top of why Bobby Cartera hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body was found behind one crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of Glasgow's seedier pubsunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=19424102551399613073|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)Moral Injuries|author=Michael PronkoChristie Watson
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=''Zangyo: overtime workOlivia, often unpaid'' It's Laura and Anjali met on the culturefirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are really just is a statement of the minimum bonus when you'll aim to be required to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and done to a trauma doctor. Anjali is the satisfaction free spirit of bullies like Shigeru Onizukathe group and she becomes a GP. When he was found dead in front of Senden Centralwe first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the way of regret tragedy or grief, even from his family, but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the roof of the building or been assisted in his descentconsequences. Gossip revolves around the fact Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that he left the roof at will impact the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlierfriends. SheThis time, it'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtimes their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=02414254250241636604|title=The Man Who Died TwiceTrading Game: A Confession|author=Richard OsmanGary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=1035021803
|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder
|author=C L Miller
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she received the lettergrew up. It came from She's back now because of a man whose body she had helped to pull request for help from the Thames her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and who had never existed but then this Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the sort of conundrum which retired spies have circumstances seem suspicious, to deal with on a regular basissay the least. When she visits Arthur was the sender of reason why Freya had not been back to the letter (he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as no surprise that it's someone with whom antique hunters, she has a long professional history - and who used not felt able to be her husbandnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. He's made After the split, she worked in a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the range love of a CCTV camera on a raidher life, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds who was murdered) and Freya and a few death threats. He's James have now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressdivorced.
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|authorisbn=Andrew SharpAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Chef, the Bird All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and the BlessingStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to his employer - come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' iswhat happens after you're eighteen. Well, in his mind, the head chef I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of a safari business catering to VIP guests technology in an unnamed African countrymy lifetime. Mozzy is earnest and dedicated I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to his task and he puts me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become possibilities and the head chef of a restaurant in London probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or a big American city. Even to win a Michelin starthe latest conspiracy theorist. He is thwarted in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to you I needed people I knew I could trust and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest could deliver information in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the housea way I could understand.|isbn=B09926MK8H
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|author=Alex FoulkesSunny Singh|title=Rules for VampiresHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) The Hotel Arcadia is a Vampireluxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. She drinks blood Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, she sleeps during the daykilling everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to travel around, although not all of them remember try to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Now, on care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the night of her hundredth birthnighthotel, she has he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to go out and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans be cowed by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worseevents, the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master keeps on venturing out of the orphanage come back her room to try to haunt capture what's happened through herphotography. So, not Although they only does Leo have to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of ever talk over the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulphone, she has their friendship grows as Abhi tries to do it all while hiding it from help her family. Did I mention vampires keep safe and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are rules for vampires…discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=147119955X086154742X
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|authorisbn=Tori Bovalino1529153298|title=The Devil Makes ThreeList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Working all summer in her boarding schoolIt's library 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herselfPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly.. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school) She's not what's worrying Miv's headmasterfamily, and a man Tess hatesthough. Women have been disappearing. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request Well, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the booksthey've been murdered, scribbled with but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the ugliest insults she can think offamily 'Down South'. They When you're never meant to reach himfrom Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, of coursebest avoided. Her plan is to get For Miv, the move would mean leaving her anger out like thisbest friend, Sharon, and then take them all off before delivering themshe'll do anything to prevent that. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn She't delivered them for s not worried about the dangers or that herMum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1789098130
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|isbn= B09BG8V3Q61398524085|title= Who Needs NappiesHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' 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. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the latest release body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Averyriver. This series of fun picture books aims It was an easy assumption for the police to take make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the pain out of potty training guilt. The Salter children and replace it with some fun. Itare not convinced but there's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=B098FFFBH91035906708|title=SnowcubDiva|author=Graham FulbrightDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader 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 and was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her friend are producing a competition entry father changed it to 'Callas' to highlight the way make it more manageable in which human beings exploit the animal worldStates. She gets a great deal of support from When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her family: father Pip Harrison, voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her twin, Nick. Kate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putneypreference for her elder sister, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toysJackie.
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