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|authorisbn=Amanda Mason1529428289|title=The Hiding PlaceA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=3.54|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent lifeBecause of various property transactions, Nell Galilee takes her husband 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 stepdaughter it fell to WhitbyBruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by to discover the name identities of Elder Housethe bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. She hopes that it will be As if this isn't enough to worry about, the perfect place to sort things outDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. But there It's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to suspect that she release water and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.}}
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|authorisbn=Paul Cleave152919640X|title=The Quiet PeopleSuspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= I am The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not a fan of "the Prologue"serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. Most books are the worse for them. In this She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case I might make an exceptionof emergencies. We start with Luca Pittman who is Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a hurry. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not havebusy, live television studio - and when he hurries, when he bundles things into the back of his car and tries Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to run and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand be found and that is not how they do things there, he takes a riskshe was dead within minutes. It ends badlywas soon clear that this was no accident.|isbn=1913193942
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|authorisbn=Will Carver0008385068|title=Psychopaths AnonymousThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=34.5
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|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groupsguests gather at The Manor. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing It's their opening weekend and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets.splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows.targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed The Manor was her desire to hear of peopleancestral home and she's misery, converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and targets for her violent behaviourfamous. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does Her husband, Owen, was the architect and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any work is still ongoing on parts of the groups she decides site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, be settled and thus Psychopaths Anonymous it won't be long before a body is bornfound.|isbn=1913193756
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|isbnauthor=1529418100Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin WalkerWild East|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesTeens|summary=IWritten in verse, this is Ronny'm not usually s story, a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to put the book down between stories Norwich and forget to pick it up again - but I am start at a fan of Martin Walkermostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's [[Martin Walkermum who is worried for Ronny's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] safety after a tragic event, and so the temptation Ronny finds himself trying to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to resist music constantly, and I'm rather glad that I didn't even tryhas always dreamed of being a rapper. For those But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the seriesconnections between rap and poetry, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who's who and the background to why Bruno is in St Denispower of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF1635866847|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)The Lavender Companion|author=Jenny O'BrienJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her son. Hunter had diabetes and this was controlled by a pump attached to his stomachIt's strange, so her over-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her to get married and she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was the things that make you ''reallyimmediately'' likefeel that this is the book for you. Her friendBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a night in picture of a posh hotel slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but then he dumped her and she couldnI wanted that cake viscerally. (There't get s a recipe in the money backbook, so Hannah which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was offered told to make a mess of it. Notes in the opportunity margins are sanctioned. You get to go in his placefold down the corners of pages. She You suspect that smears of butter would return home to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missingnot be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|isbnauthor=B09GV3WS1QRob Keeley|title=Without a Trace|author=Jane BettanyChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Life hadnAround here, we're big fans of children't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: shes author Rob Keeley. He'd just come through s a divorce ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and right now it was raining hard. All she wanted was to get back he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to her new home and settle down for a quiet eveninglecture or hector. It wasn The ''Childish Spirits''t going to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed with a knife in series is one of his chestgreatest achievements. She'd no idea who he was.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838774823|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog Problem|author=S J Bennett|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's 2016 and the Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain sequence of ghost stories centring on his waistband. SwimmingEllie, he decides, is the way to go and he a stalwart young girl who can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to be there early one morning and discovered cope with anything the body of Cynthia Harris spirit world throws at the side of the pool. There was broken glass - a crystal tumblerher, by the look at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled out. StillEdward, it was a shock for Sir Simon.spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|isbnauthor=057136358XJenny Valentine|title=April Us in Spain|author=John Banvillethe Before and After
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Teens|summary=Terry Tice was Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a hitman, although he didn't think of himself once in those termsa lifetime connection. He saw what he did They meet as ''children one day on a matter of making things tidytrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. I couldn't resist the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie KondoBut then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. He enjoyed his job Something has happened though, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and had a fine old time''. He 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''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spaintheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|author=Dave Letterfly KnodererKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=SpeedyDungeon Runners: Hurled Through HavocHero Trial
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|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=How to summarise Meet Kit. Like most of the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv people in a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you knowworld, it seems, I really don't think I can. Dave he is an author avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and an artist. An inspirational speaker healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and a professional horsemanthe points they grant you along the way. And a recovering alcoholic. The son of a Lutheran minister Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's struggled with seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a controlling fathernew trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, run away he has taken to join the circus (not goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a metaphor)team. What chance does this friendless, trained horsesmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, painted caravans, designed and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when the bottle took over.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=B0965V3LLN1839945184
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|author=Tade ThompsonSaima Mir|title=Far From the Light of HeavenVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream I was instantly intrigued by the premise of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the world north of Bloodroot, she will essentially be England run by a babysitter for the ship's AI captainMuslim woman. However, when she wakes up at The fact that it was the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtimesecond in a series I hadn's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission wont read didn't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin page and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut screen) and friend of Shellit needn't be a hindrance if it's father Lawrence Biz takes good enough. And that wasn't a shuttle problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to Bloodrootspeed, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station LagosI never felt lost. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=03565143230861541561
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|author=Rob KeeleyStuart Douglas|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Lily loves eating fruit During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and vegetablesLeggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. She likes carrots The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, broccolibut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noseshe enlists the help of a fellow actor, Lily is keen John Le Breton to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eathelp him investigate matters further. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with They travel across the teachercountry during their days off filming, who explains that fruits grow on trees uncovering more possible murders and vegetables, like carrotsseemingly, grow in a link to death during the groundSecond World War. Jordan says, "I did try But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn= B09HHN541V1803368209
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|isbn=178607981XB0CYV674G2|title=Bad ApplesSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Will DeanDavid Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered It seemed like an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of the roadopen-and-shut case. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of the car A man, covered in mud and blood - and heard carrying a knife, comes into the screams from deep inside police station shouting that he hasn't killed the forestman. Determining A body at the direction bottom of a sound isnfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he't easy when you need hearing aids and dampness s been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where a woman was holding her coat over just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the body birth of a manhis daughter Samantha. HeYou would think he'd been decapitatedbe grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He was Arne Gustav Persson, a resident 's sleep-deprived to the point of Visbergfalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir1787333175|title=Cold As HellYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary= In 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 Going to Hurt}}, a red suitcase as glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the bottom same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a fissure psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a lava field, there is situation rather than a body. And the man who has put her there has just discovered that he person and it is capable of killingalways delivered with empathy and understanding.|isbn=1913193888
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|author=Lucy HopeOnyi Nwabineli|title=FledglingAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over Anuri spent her childhood on display to the decadesworld, and now looking imperiously down thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on the village and woods below. Itsocial media, where she posted every step of Anuri's an eccentric housechildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, to host eccentricsbasically, so the library shelving system monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is not as we'd know itslowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the roof content about her. Anuri is retractablebattling alcoholism, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through itfailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so on. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy Most importantly, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudlyshe is desperately worried about her little sister, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all is the maintenance new focus of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but itOphelia's also going to house someone or something elseonline empire. Can she save her sister, 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 thing, think again...perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=183994188X0861546873
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|isbnauthor=1846276772David Chadwick|title=The End Headload of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica NordellNapalm
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|genre=Politics and SocietyThrillers|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: itIt's simply September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a part Mojave desert town of everyday lifea few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. White men will always come firstNot much happens in Hicks. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become A silver mine and a part of an organisation it's rare that their views defence contractor are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias main local employers but itotherwise, there's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedmuch of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|author=Teresa DriscollTom Percival|title=Her Perfect FamilyThe Wrong Shoes
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to GemmaWill's life is difficult, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrongin a multitude of ways. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating '' He is not who bullied because he says he is…has 'the wrong shoes', paving he has the way wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the sinister tone most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that remains throughout mix the novelfact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. In And yet, he still has a twist tiny amount of eventshope. He is good at art, and after a change clings to the moments of outfitjoy when he is drawing, Gemma is shot in that feel like a light at the midst end of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a comalong, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you readdark tunnel.|isbn=15420287521398527122
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|isbnauthor=8409290103Sylvie Cathrall|title=If Only|author=Matthew TreeA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and There are few greater joys than a correspondence - of sorts - sprang book which lives up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patricka compelling premise. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that he didn't care to have him in And this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his wayis one of them.|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)0008517061|title=The Rabbit FactorDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet HenriFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. With There’s perhaps a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for little uncertainty about the future of his life with his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-membervet girlfriend, that they'd prefer everyone to be all open-planLivia and her daughter Diana, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having moving in together would mean a heart attack while busy changing lot of compromise: does Jake give up his Volvo's radio channel, off-grid and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or otherwise) that 'everything' not this is just an adventure park, the future she wants for herself 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 her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out present and putting the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly future on the scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan..back burner.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbn=14711793111786482126|title=The UnheardJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Nicci FrenchElly Griffiths
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Tess, Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a teacher and Jason, child beneath a headmaster, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of the family home and Jason is now married to Emilydoorway. The separation There was amicable - they had just drifted apartno skull. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was the family home and another in the flat she shares Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with her motherDCI Harry Nelson. It 's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn'seemed'' to be working well until the day t, that Poppy came home she is pregnant with his child as a menacing drawing result of a woman falling from a tall building and she started swearing, using words she was unlikely to have heard in either homethe one night they spent together some three months ago. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems at nursery school. Tess turns to a therapist for helpcondition will be obvious before long, then her doctor and finally the police but no one will take what she has not least because Ruth is prone to say seriouslysudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=14711966150008551324|title=IcedThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Felix FrancisNeil Lancaster
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Miles Pussett used It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to be a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down approach the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourpolice. He was Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - thatprison and he's high-class horseracing on prepared to tell the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with police where the saddling body of the horsesa missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. It's seven years since This person, he put horseracing behind him promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he swore that wants. And what he'd never go back wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to itget an early parole date. But when he sees that something suspicious Not much to ask, is going on, Miles canit? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't help but look for answers, think so and she's even when it puts prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him in dangeris kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=147228612X0008405026|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Alan JohnsonJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably havenIt't taken much notice of thems sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. They live quiet, uneventful lives She was never found and stay mostly under the radarinvestigation ground to a halt. In a city like LondonNow, her mother, Helena, that's quite easy - and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himher father are dead in their bed. The highlight of his day 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 Initially, it looks like a date straightforward murder/suicide but he doesnthere't have s something about the positioning of the couragebodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks What looked as though it was going to him be an open-and asks for his help-shut case is now a complex double murder. Before long he finds himself on Kerrigan is convinced that the run from mobstersexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan policeUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Claire McGowan0571379877|title=I Know YouThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns from Edward Jevons is a walk working-class young man, obsessed with the baby, Carsonhis upper-class friends, Robert and comes across three bodies, almost Stanza. Robert's a whole family taken downtheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he'Now:s drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he' Rachel s not like most men: Edward is out for a walk with her dog, Brandy, when she comes across left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a body in the woodsdark passageway.|isbn=1542019974
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|isbnauthor=1529148251Jo Callaghan|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela CoelLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent When a man is found crucified on paper about rapethe top of a hill in Nuneaton, malpractice and povertyDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, yet still compartmentalise? the AI detective Lock. It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from ittheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a certain frame of mind. You're not going to read very high profile case that draws a book lot of essays or a self-help book. You're going unwanted attention to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festivaltheir AI Future Policing project. You might Will they be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' able to solve the words as though you're case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away case and you'll be carried on , potentially, out of a cloud of exquisite writing.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=00084336311399613073|title=Next of KinMoral Injuries|author=Kia AbdullahChristie Watson|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It was Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the sort first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of thing that happened every day, although not to Leila Syeda century. She'd never driven her nephew, MaxOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her in be a paniccardiothoracic surgeon. He was supposed to be taking Max to school but he'd been called into work Laura is a perfectionist and the delay in getting there could lead to financial lossesa trauma doctor. As Anjali is the school was only five minutes out free spirit of Leilathe group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's way, could she drop him off? going to end in tragedy. Of course, she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the back of her carconsequences. On the way Leila took a phone call Twenty- five years later there was panic at her work toowill be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskit's their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova0241636604|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your word for themmind, find us a child that doesnyou't find them irresistibly funnyre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Funny to talk about A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and joke abouthis background is the East End, that iswhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the wrong timeLondon School of Economics. In class, say, when everyone will hear it Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and everyone will laughhe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. At you He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim It was his ability at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmlywhat was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with the familiar humour attachedCitibank. Eventually, explains that tooting is perfectly normalthis turned into permanent employment as a trader. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}}
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|isbn=17841652631035021803|title=Invite Me InThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Emma CurtisC L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=Martin CurranIt's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the fact that English country village where she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letgrew up. If she didnShe't get homes back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, there would be troubleCarole. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and confined to a wheelchairthe circumstances seem suspicious, but don't be too quick to be understandingsay the least. He Arthur was also a very unpleasant personthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. All this was Even though they were in Eliza's mind when business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she first met Dan Jones who arrivedloved. After the split, unannouncedshe worked in a cafe, at met and married James (on the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted rebound from the lease love of flat 2her life, 42 Linden Road who was murdered) and Freya and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=1784742775AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Susan HillBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Drugs hadn't really been that much 'Opening up new ways of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought thinking about the shape of drugs ops as things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a bit few decades of a waste of timetechnology in my lifetime. They still were, I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to a great extent, me but Serrailler knew I'm left with the feeling that something had to be doneit's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport Of course, I could research the drugs possibilities and the operation running the county lines was tight. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldnprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I't be the correct one) of the person m reading someone who was running him but he certainly wouldnknows what they't know anything re talking about those higher up in or the organisationlatest conspiracy theorist. The police might catch I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upway I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=B09FS89KX9Sunny Singh|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope PottsHotel Arcadia
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's FictionThrillers |summary=Life should have The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been good for Hollie: violently taken over by a terrorist group. She was just going into Hiding from the final year of her veterinary degree terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and - three years later - was still working at BB's dinerAbhi, the hotel manager. Bob - As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the owner - regarded her fondly: residents who are still alive in the hotel, he was forms a good boss. Hollie had moved in bond with her boyfriendSam who refuses to be cowed by events, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most keeps on venturing out of all he wanted her room to try to leave capture what's happened through her job at the dinerphotography. Then there was Although they only ever talk over the fact that he would be violentphone, both their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to other peoplesee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=John Gwynne1529153298|title=The Shadow Of The GodsList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is the first installment of the Bloodsworn SagaPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarokthey've been murdered, when the Gods but to have battled and their bones lie scattered for all 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to seemove the family 'Down South'. This story When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is the ultimate in High Fantasya frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genremove would mean leaving her best friend, with mythical creaturesSharon, archaic language and battles galoreshe'll do anything to prevent that. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters She's not worried about the dangers or that are woven together her Mum's stopped talking - to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battleanyone.|isbn=0356514218
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|isbn=B09HTWX47X1398524085|title=Endless ObsessionHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Dai HenleyNicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's some years since we last caught fiftieth birthday party but never turned up with Andy Flood. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, formerly a DCI in the Met Etty. are all worried but now a well-respected private investigator. He's married to Laurastrangely - her husband, Alec, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratoryis not. Flood's daughtersShortly afterwards, Gemma Etty and PippaGreg, have flown find the nestbody of Greg's father, Pippa to AustraliaDuncan Ackerley, from where she has very little contact with in the family, and Gemma to married liferiver. She's It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy murdered Charlie and Laura hope that married life will provide then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the support she needsguilt. FloodThe Salter children are not convinced but there's business is going well little else they can do but get on with their lives and that was why he felt able to turn down the case of Lisa Blackwonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou1035906708|title=The StoningDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=In a town sleazy enough We tend to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparisonthink of Maria Callas as Greek, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and but she's been taped was born to a tree 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 everyoneGreek parents in Manhattan, including the local copsNew York, 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 – in December 1923 and it's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, moved to sort everything out. 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 populaceAthens when she was thirteen. The remuneration isn't high Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but the work gives the doctor a feeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors her father changed it 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 lionsCallas' manes to make them look it more impressivemanageable in the States. The sagitarii are When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the archers Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight made no secret of her preference for their lives with the wild animals. Todayher elder sister, it's the crocodilesJackie.
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