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|isbn=18387748231529428289|title=Her Majesty A Grave in the Queen Investigates: Woods (A Three Dog ProblemBruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=S J BennettMartin Walker|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's 2016 and Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the Queen's Private Secretarygrave but when they found it, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistbandit came with three sets of bones. Swimming, he decides, is the way They dated back to go World War II and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came it fell to be there early one morning and discovered Bruno, the body Chief of Cynthia Harris at Police for St Denis, to discover the side identities of the poolbodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. There was broken glass - a crystal tumblerAs if this isn't enough to worry about, by the look Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at it - probably one of record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris problem: various dams upstream on another river have had slipped to release water and cut herself so badly that she had bled out. Still, it was St Denis faces the possibility of a shock for Sir Simondevastating flood.
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|isbn=057136358X152919640X|title=April in SpainThe Suspect|author=John BanvilleRob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Terry Tice The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was a hitman, although he didnmurdered live on television and it seems that there't think of himself in those termss only one suspect. He saw what 's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he did as ''a matter of making things tidy''must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. I couldnShe't resist the thought that he was s seriously allergic and carries an extreme version EpiPen in case of Marie Kondoemergencies. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him when he was Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows busy, live television studio - and had Brooks served a fine old time''ragout to Holby. He Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? dead within minutes. It was after Percy's death soon clear that he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spainthis was no accident.
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|authorisbn=Dave Letterfly Knoderer0008385068|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyThrillers|summary=How to summarise It's midsummer on the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you know, I really don't think I can. Dave is an author Dorset coast and an artistguests gather at The Manor. An inspirational speaker It's their opening weekend and a professional horsemansplendid celebrations are promised. And a recovering alcoholic It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The son of a Lutheran minister, heManor was her ancestral home and she's struggled with a controlling father, run away to join converted it into an impressive retreat for the circus (not a metaphor)wealthy and famous. Her husband, trained horsesOwen, painted caravans, designed was the architect and painted theatre sets, work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and hit rock bottom when amongst the bottle took overguests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.|isbn=B0965V3LLN
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|author=Tade ThompsonAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Far From the Light of HeavenWild East
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|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion Written in verse, this is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the shipRonny's AI captain. Howeverstory, when she wakes up at the end of her trip a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to find dozens of her passengers butchered Norwich and the Ragtimestart at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's AI almost non-responsivesafety after a tragic event, she begins and so Ronny finds himself trying to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodrootsettle in a new town, a new school, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up keep himself out of trouble. He listens to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhilemusic constantly, former astronaut and friend has always dreamed of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes being a shuttle rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to Bloodrootbe part of a poetry writing workshop group and, half-alien daughter in towslowly, Ronny begins to see why the Ragtime has gone quietconnections between rap and poetry, leaving behind and the politicking power of creativity and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagoscrafting your words. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=03565143230241645441
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|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at It's strange, the side of things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the roadbook for you. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the car - author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and heard the screams from deep inside there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the foresthomepage. Determining the direction of a sound isnI don't easy when you need hearing aids eat cakes and dampness is causing interference desserts - but Tuva made her way I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to where make a woman was holding her coat over mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the body corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a manproblem. HeI ''loved''d been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Persson, a resident of Visbergthis book already.
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|author=Lilja SigurdadottirRob Keeley|title=Cold As HellChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary= In Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a red suitcase as the bottom ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector. The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a fissure in sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a lava fieldstalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, there is a body. And spoiled lordling and the man who has put her there has just discovered that he is capable of killing.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=19131938881783064617
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|author=Lucy HopeJenny Valentine|title=FledglingUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=BavariaElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, 1900. Our scene their friendship is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decades, and now looking imperiously down once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on the village and woods below. Ita trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so contact details at the library shelving system is not as we'd know it, the roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through ittime. But then chance brings them back together, and so onthey are inseparable. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy Something has happened though, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch something terrible and sing opera loudlytragic, and the dying grandma to our heroinenow they must work through their grief, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thingtheir friendship, think again..together.|isbn=183994188X1471196585
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|isbnauthor=1846276772Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The End of BiasDungeon Runners: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica NordellHero Trial|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary=Anyone who Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise avid fan of Dungeon Running – the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply sport where a part team of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the disabled. Jobsexit, promotions, higher salaries are perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the preserve of points they grant you along the white manway. Even when those who wouldn't pass Unfortunately for Kit, the medical become a part of an organisation itonly thing he's rare seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that their views are heardone team has been retired, that their concerns are acknowledgedeaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. It's personally appalling and degrading Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the individuals on goading from the receiving end token bully of the bias but ithis world and stumbled into declaring he's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedll 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?|isbn=1839945184
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|author=Teresa DriscollSaima Mir|title=Her Perfect FamilyVengeance|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
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|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
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|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
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|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
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|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
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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 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 to her and 's not like most men: Edward is left to other people.}}{{Frontpage|author=John Gwynne|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 stumble upon the era two of the Vikings them kissing 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 battledark passageway.|isbn=0356514218
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|isbnauthor=B09HTWX47XJo Callaghan|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 century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a town sleazy enough 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 t know who suffered the town gossip everyone, including tragedy or the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from 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 fairtheir teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary 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 general opinionEast End, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditionswhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Cue There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the arrival London School of George Manolis, Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a higher rank from the city, facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to sort everything outbe stupid. Because such It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an aggrievedinternship with Citibank. Eventually, insular community is really going to welcome this turned into permanent employment as a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the lawtrader...|isbn=1529416973
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|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H1035021803|title=The Mystery of HealingAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=A P McGrathC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the second century of the common era and heEnglish country village where she grew up. She's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on back now because of a request for the amusement of the populacehelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. The remuneration isnFreya't high but the work gives the doctor a feeling of virtue s former mentor and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'Carole' s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the warriors circumstances seem suspicious, to livesay the least. It's quite a spectacle: Arthur was the magistri are reason why Freya had not been back to the charge hands and when we first see themvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they're sprinkling gold dust onto were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the lions' manes to make them look more impressiveprofession she loved. The sagitarii are After the archers split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the beastiarii are rebound from the condemned criminals love of her life, who are going to fight for their lives with the wild animals. Today, it's the crocodileswas murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie BlackallAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Beatryce ProphecyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=''Stories have joy and surprises in themOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology'is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, we are told here. And none I must confess that there have been more so than a few decades of technology in this wondrous story, which feels an instant classic my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the freshness and the agelessness feeling that it has in equal proportion's all getting away from me. We start with a group Some of monksit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, possibilities and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on probabilities and biting end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the poor Brotherslatest conspiracy theorist. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girl, one I needed people I knew I could trust and who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King could deliver information in his castle, desperate to find the girl, for it is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne and cause great changeway I could understand. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simple, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=1529500893
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|isbnauthor=B09FFJF8YSSunny Singh|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate ZhoidikHotel Arcadia
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|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=''For 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 bigterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, grownup girls out thereis Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the potty masters hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in trainingthe hotel, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is he forms a cry (the big-girl kind!) bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.'' And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girlher room to try to capture what's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following happened through her around photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as she proudly explains Abhi tries to help her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit keep safe and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birdsterrorists. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!|isbn=086154742X}}
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|authorisbn=Nick Lake and Emily Gravett1529153298|title=Locked Out LilyThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Lily It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher isPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, or washonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, or has though. Women have beendisappearing. Well, very illthey've been murdered, and but to give her parents relief have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's been told overheard that her father wants to stay with her grandma for a few daysmove the family 'Down South'. The parents need the relief as Lily When you's baby sibling re from Yorkshire, Down South is just about to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do withfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. But on tracking back home for word of For Miv, the move would mean leaving her parents (best friend, Sharon, and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parents, and the babe-in-arms, already installed'll do anything to prevent that. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the family back intact, even if it She's not worried about the family Lily wants – and all she has to help dangers or that her in the task are some Mum's stopped talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snake- to anyone.|isbn=1471194833
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|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith1398524085|title=The Great Dream RobberyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=MayaCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's father 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 a professor who invented an amazing dream machinenot. But something went wrong Shortly afterwards, Etty and now he can't wake up. Or at leastGreg, thatfind the body of Greg's what Maya has been toldfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. In a rather strange dream one night Maya makes a new friend, and discovers that It was an easy assumption for the only way police to save her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and reality collidethen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt...really...and The Salter children are not convinced but there's everything from llamas little else they can do but get on with their lives and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051Xwonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=18004644951035906708|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of MathsDiva|author=Emma SmithDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=Children's Non-General Fiction|summary=''Babies seem We tend to be think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes to Greek parents in the wombManhattan, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months oldNew York, in December 1923 and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months oldonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skillsmake it more manageable in the States.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start When she was back in literacy Athens - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - gives children she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about mathsmother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most 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 beneficialJackie.
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