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|isbn=178607981X1529428289|title=Bad ApplesA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Will DeanMartin 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=Tuva Moodyson The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of the roadmurdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of the car - He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and heard the screams from deep inside the foresthis contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. Determining the direction She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids busy, live television studio - and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way Brooks served a ragout to where a woman was holding her coat over the body of a manHolby. He'd been decapitatedHer EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. He It was soon clear that this was Arne Gustav Persson, a resident of Visbergno accident.
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir0008385068|title=Cold As HellThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary= In a red suitcase as It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the bottom architect and work is still ongoing on parts of a fissure in a lava field, there the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body. And the man who has put her there has just discovered that he is capable of killingfound.|isbn=1913193888
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|author=Lucy HopeAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=FledglingWild East
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=BavariaWritten in verse, 1900. Our scene this is Ronny's story, a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decades, young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods belowstart at a mostly white school. It The move is initiated by Ronny's an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system mum who is not as weworried for Ronny'd know it, the roof is retractable, there is s safety after a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through ittragic event, and so on. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermynew town, a woman who does nothing but quibblenew school, kvetch and sing opera loudlykeep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going to house someone or something elsenew school, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going his teacher encourages him to be part of a completely great poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and wonderful thingpoetry, think again..and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=183994188X0241645441
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|isbn=18462767721635866847|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our MindsLavender Companion|author=Jessica NordellDunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Anyone who It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is not an ablethe book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise I visited the extent to which they suffer from itauthor's [https: it//www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's simply a part picture of a slice of everyday lifechocolate cake on the homepage. White men will always come firstI don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. The able will come before (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the disabledbook and I was told to make a mess of it. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the preserve corners of pages. You suspect that smears of the white manbutter would not be a problem. Even when those who wouldnI ''loved'' this book already.}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Around here, we't pass the medical become a part re big fans of an organisation itchildren's author Rob Keeley. He's rare that a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their views are heardpleasure and enjoyment, that their concerns are acknowledgednot to lecture or hector. The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the receiving end of spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|author=Teresa DriscollJenny Valentine|title=Her Perfect FamilyUs in the Before and After
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.
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|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton
|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?
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|author=Saima Mir
|title=Vengeance
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=The novel begins I was instantly intrigued by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the eleventh hour, north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn'He is not who he says he is…t stop me – I'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In ve jumped midway into a twist of events, few series before (on page and screen) and after it needn't be a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremonyhindrance if it's good enough. With Gemma then in And that wasn't a comaproblem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you readand I never felt lost.|isbn=15420287520861541561
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|isbnauthor=8409290103Stuart Douglas|title=If Only|author=Matthew TreeLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by During location filming for his father1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the young man got dead body of a woman on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him edge of a monthly allowancereservoir. Patrick sent The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the money regularly whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his sonfellow actor, it was that he didn't care John Le Breton to have help him in this investigate matters further. They travel across the country where he might be during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a danger link to his wife and other childrendeath during the Second World War. The alcohol problem was obvious even But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|authorisbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston Swanton Morley (translatorJohn Tanner)|titleauthor=The Rabbit FactorDavid Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet HenriIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. With A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beingsknife, comes into the police station shouting that hehasn's perfect for his job in t killed the man. A body at the insurance company – until they decide bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's not a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone been stabbed to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshoppingdeath. This DCI John Tanner is when he finds just back from his brother has diedhoneymoon, having a heart attack while busy changing which coincided with the birth of his Volvodaughter Samantha. You would think he's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that d be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'everythingperverse' is just an adventure park, and nothing else. 'John Tanner'YouMeFunwere made for each other. He'' is so not what Henri wants s sleep-deprived to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs point of falling asleep at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, work but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – ithe's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive determined to getting a cheap life insurance plan..keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbn=14711793111787333175|title=The UnheardYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Nicci FrenchBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersPopular Science|summary=Tess, a teacher and JasonI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a headmaster, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out glorious mixture of insight into the family home and Jason is now married to Emily. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was workings of the family home NHS, humour and another in the flat she shares with her motherautobiography. It ''seemedYou Don't Have to be Mad...' ' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to be working well until mental illness and the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing work of a woman falling from a tall building and she started swearing, using words she psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was unlikely acceptable to have heard be looking for humour in either home. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems this setting but the laughter is directed at nursery school. Tess turns to a therapist for help, then her doctor situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and finally the police but no one will take what she has to say seriouslyunderstanding.
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|isbnauthor=1471196615Onyi Nwabineli|title=Iced|author=Felix FrancisAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Miles Pussett used Anuri spent her childhood on display to be a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Runworld, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. He was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf thanks to her step- thatmother Ophelia's high-class horseracing increasingly popular presence on the frozen lake social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the saddling of the horses, basically, monetary gain. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and he swore that he'd never go to get her life back , suing her step-mother to ittake down the content about her. But when he sees that something suspicious Anuri is going onbattling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, Miles can't help but look undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for answersdoing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, even when it puts him in dangerwho is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|isbnauthor=147228612XDavid Chadwick|title=The Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Alan JohnsonHeadload of Napalm
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=We all know It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven't taken with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much notice of themhappens in Hicks. They live quiet, uneventful lives A silver mine and stay mostly under a defence contractor are the radar. In a city like Londonmain local employers but otherwise, thatthere's quite easy - not much of note other than dive bars and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himJoshua trees. The highlight of his day Life is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work on the train each morning: he'd love to ask her for a date but he doesn't have the couragequiet, until.. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and asks for his help. Before long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan police.|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|author=Claire McGowanTom Percival|title=I Know YouThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can'Then:t work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can' Casey returns from t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a walk with cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the baby, Carsonfact that his mum and dad are separated, and comes across three bodiesWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, almost he still has a whole family taken downtiny amount of hope. ''Now:'' Rachel He is out for a walk with her doggood at art, Brandyand clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, when she comes across that feel like a body in light at the woodsend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=15420199741398527122
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|isbnauthor=1529148251Sylvie Cathrall|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela CoelLetter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of mind. You're not going to read There are few greater joys than a book of essays or a self-help book. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture lives up to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festivala compelling premise. You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud And this is one of exquisite writingthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=00084336310008517061|title=Next of KinDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Kia AbdullahStig Abell|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It was the sort of thing that happened every dayFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, although not to Leila Syedhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She'd never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his fathervet girlfriend, Andrew HansonLivia and her daughter Diana, had rung her as moving in together would mean a panic. He was supposed to be taking Max lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to school but he'd been called into work and the delay move in getting there could lead with Livia or does Livia move to financial losses. As Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the school was only five minutes out of Leila's way, could future she drop him offwants for herself and her daughter? Of course, she could For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into putting the future on the back of her car. On the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskburner.
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|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1786482126|title=Everybody Toots! The Janus Stone (Everybody Potties!Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= TootsBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, trumps, fartsDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Whatever your word for them It's difficult as Ruth knows, find us a child that but Nelson doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that she is. But horribly embarrassing if you let pregnant with his child as a result of the one go at the wrong timenight they spent together some three months ago. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone Her condition will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attachedbe obvious before long, explains that tooting not least because Ruth is perfectly normalprone to sudden bouts of sickness. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}}
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|isbn=17841652630008551324|title=Invite Me InThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Emma CurtisNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Martin CurranIt's wife, Eliza knew that she had unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to be home to make his lunch approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for one othe other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'clock on s prepared to tell the dot, despite police where the fact that she body of a missing person is buried and who was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letresponsible for her death. If she didn't get homeThis person, he promises, there would is someone big and it will be troubleworth the police doing what he wants. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined And what he wants is to a wheelchair, but don't be too quick transferred to be understandingan open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in Elizat think so and she's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about even prepared to leave: he wanted do the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=17847427750008405026|title=A Change of Circumstance Stranger in the Family (Simon SerraillerMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Susan HillJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Drugs hadnIt't really been that much of s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a problem halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of timetheir bed. They still were Initially, to it looks like a great extent, straightforward murder/suicide but Serrailler knew there's something about the positioning of the bodies that something had to be donemakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Children What looked as young as nine were being recruited though it was going to transport the drugs be an open-and the operation running the county lines was tight-shut case is now a complex double murder. A mule might know Kerrigan is convinced that the name explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (although it probably wouldnsuch as Derwent't be the correct ones boss, Una Burt) of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch a few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upare less convinced.
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|isbn=B09FS89KX90571379877|title=Fall On MeThe Kellerby Code|author=Penelope PottsJonny Sweet
|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 and Edward Jevons is a working- three years later class young man, obsessed with his upper- was still working at BBclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's dinera theatre director. Bob He's also self- the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good bossobsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Hollie had moved Edward has been in love with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great Stanza since their university days - and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all s drunkenly confided how he wanted her feels to leave her job at the dinerRobert. Then there was the fact Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he would be violent, both 's not like most men: Edward is left to her and to other peoplestumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=John GwynneJo Callaghan|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=0356514218}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09HTWX47X|title=Endless Obsession|author=Dai HenleyLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly When a DCI in man is found crucified on the Met but now top of a well-respected private investigator. He's married hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to Laurathe case alongside her sidekick, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratoryAI detective Lock. FloodIt's daughters, Gemma and Pippa, have flown the nest, Pippa to Australiatheir first live case together, from where she has having previously been very little contact successful with the family, and Gemma to married lifeseveral cold cases. She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Laura hope a very high profile case that married life will provide the support she needsdraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Flood's business is going well and that was why he felt Will they be able to turn down solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of Lisa Black.a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou1399613073|title=The StoningMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=In Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a town sleazy enough century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, be a teacher has been transported across town at night in cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a shopping trolley, perfectionist and she's been taped to a tree trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and shebecomes a GP. When we first meet them they's had rocks bowled re at her as if she were the worlda drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's tallest cricket stumpsgoing to end in tragedy. When she We don's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident t know who suffered the culprit has come from tragedy or the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home toconsequences. An arson attack on Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that shows will impact the feeling – and three friends. This time, it's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants their teenage children who are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law..involved.|isbn=1529416973
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|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H0241636604|title=The Mystery of HealingTrading Game: A Confession|author=A P McGrathGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Autobiography|summary=We meet Solon If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and heyour mind, you's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement re unlikely to think of the populacesomeone like Gary Stevenson. The remuneration isn't high but A hoodie and jeans replaces the work gives the doctor a feeling of virtue pin-stripe suit and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' background is the warriors to live. It's quite a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to make them look more impressiveinjustice. The sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to fight for their lives with the wild animalsLondon School of Economics. Today, it's the crocodiles.}}{{Frontpage|author=Kate DiCamillo Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and Sophie Blackall|title=The Beatryce Prophecy|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Stories have joy and surprises in them'', we are told here. And none more so than in this wondrous story, which feels an instant classic with the freshness and the agelessness it he has in equal proportion. We start a facility with a group numbers which most of monks, the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, and the demonic goat us can only envy. He also realised that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on and biting the most rich people expect poor Brothers. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach people to a homeless girl, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memorybe stupid. Elsewhere sits a King in It was his castleability at what was, desperate to find the girlessentially, for it is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne and cause great changecard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simpleEventually, amnesiac lass ever prove this turned into permanent employment as a threat to anyone?|isbn=1529500893trader.
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|isbn=B09FFJF8YS1035021803|title=You CanThe Antique Hunter't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)s Guide to Murder|author=Justine Avery and Kate ZhoidikC L Miller
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=It''For s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You CanEnglish country village where she grew up. She't Wear Panties!" is s back now because of a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty priderequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya'' And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girls former mentor and Carole's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dogclose friend, her catArthur Crockleford, her stuffed rabbit is dead and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowerscircumstances seem suspicious, nor the fish, nor to say the birdsleast. 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=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lily is, or Arthur was, or has the reason why Freya had not beenback to the village: Arthur, very illshe feels, and to give let her parents relief she's been told to stay with her grandma for a few daysdown badly. The parents need the relief Even though they were in business together as Lily's baby sibling is just about antique hunters, she has not felt able to be born – a child Lily swears near the man or pursue the profession she hates already and wants nothing to do withloved. But on tracking back home for word of her parents (and her plush toy so After the split, she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parentsworked in a cafe, met and married James (on the babe-in-arms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get rebound from the family back intactlove of her life, even if it's not the family Lily wants – who was murdered) and all she has to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse Freya and SnakeJames have now divorced.|isbn=1471194833
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|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris SmithAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Great Dream RobberyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Maya's father is a professor who invented an amazing dream machine. But something went wrong, and now he can't wake Opening up. Or at least, that's what Maya has been told. In a rather strange dream one night Maya makes a new friend, and discovers that ways of thinking about the only way to save 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-offs, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800464495|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love shape of Maths|author=Emma Smith|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Babies seem things to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months oldcome.''
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|isbnauthor=1529379385Sunny Singh|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise PennyHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=In 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 Canadian village of Three Pinesterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, we're post-pandemic: the scars are still there but life is starting to get back to normalSam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. The villagers are beginning As Abhi continues to return try to care remotely for the Bistro residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and the Auberge. They're visiting each otherkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's homes and having friends and relatives to stayhappened through her photography. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for Although they only ever talk over the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people they both wait to see if they will be around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in rescued before they are discovered by the village as the Asshole Saintterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn= B09F4CTKJR1529153298|title= Flights for FreedomThe List of Suspicious Things|author= Steven BurgauerJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=It's the later stages of World War 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I and 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 upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the United States has just entered the conflictfamily 'Down South'. Petrol Petronus When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadronfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. This company was For Miv, the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canadamove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, the first to be attached to the RAF and the first she'll do anything to be sent into the skies to fight prevent that. She's not worried about the Germans in active combat. But before dangers or that can happen, Petrol has her Mum's stopped talking - to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camelanyone.
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|isbn=183885410X1398524085|title=The Dark RemainsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinNicci French|rating=3.5
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|summary=Bobby Carter Charlotte Salter was a lawyer and consigliere to one of the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. DC Jack Laidlaw is on the CID team charged with the investigationHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. I say ''on the team'' are all worried but Laidlaw never really seems to be a part of it- strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. He does his own thingShortly afterwards, goes his own way Etty and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers Greg, find the truth body of why Bobby CarterGreg's body father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was found behind one of Glasgowan easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's seedier pubslittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=19424102551035906708|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)Diva|author=Michael PronkoDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=''Zangyo: overtime workWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, often unpaid'' It's the cultureNew York, isn't in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it? The hours for which youto 're paid are really just a statement of the minimum youCallas'll be required to do: you'll work make it more hours to get the job done and done to manageable in the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru OnizukaStates. When he she was found dead back in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was nothing in raised under the way of regret or grief, even from his family, but there was Nazi occupation by a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the roof of the building or been assisted in his descent. Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlier. She'd accused Onizuka mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of bullying her and forcing preference for her to work an unreasonable amount of overtimeelder sister, Jackie.
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