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|authorisbn=Freya Marske1529428289|title=A Marvellous LightGrave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the Civil Servicegrave but when they found it, much it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey World War II and learns that it fell to Bruno, the streets Chief of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow himPolice for St Denis, Robin follows Edwin to discover the countryside, where identities of the hedgegrows bristle with incantations bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, the people shimmer with powerDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. There they uncover a sinister plot It's not just the local autumn rains that threatens have caused the lives problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of all magicians in the British Islesa devastating flood. |isbn=1529080886
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|isbn=0241480442152919640X|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition ScienceSuspect|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienRob Rinder
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|genre=CookeryCrime|summary=EmotionallyThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, I am a veganwas murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. Mentally, I am a veganHe's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] She's seriously allergic and was appalled by the way carries an EpiPen in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) foodcase of emergencies. PracticallyEverything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, I am not live television studio - and Brooks served a veganragout to Holby. It worked for a while apart from the odd blip with regard Her EpiPen was nowhere to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based proteinbe found and she was dead within minutes. It wasn't the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food was soon clear that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it this was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare momentsno accident.
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|isbn=suppl_stafl0008385068|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversThe Midnight Feast|author=Kim StaflundLucy Foley
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|genre=ReferenceThrillers|summary=So, youIt's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It've finished writing your book s their opening weekend and you think the hard work is splendid celebrations are promised. It's all done? headed up by Francesca Meadows. YouThe Manor was her ancestral home and she're convinced that all you need to do now is get s converted it published and into an impressive retreat for the money will start rolling in? Wrong wealthy and wrong againfamous. You presumably wrote Her husband, Owen, was the book because you wanted to - architect and you had a talent for delivering work is still ongoing on parts of the written wordsite. You knew your subject back to frontThe heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Now you're Old scores are going to have to get to grips with the book supply chain, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but settled and itwon's too difficult to change and no one wants to t be the first to try. Then, when you ''finally'' have long before a copy of the book in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''body is'' going to be down to youfound.
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|isbnauthor=1398706906Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Lost|author=Simon BeckettWild East|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officerWritten in verse, Jonah Colleythis is Ronny's story, a young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happened. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and when he woke, Theo had gonestart at a mostly white school. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later heThe move is initiated by Ronny's largely come through it and hemum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneyof trouble. Gavin used He listens to be his best friend but it's music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a long time since they've spokenrapper. He's obviously in some difficulty But now - Jonah can hear it , in this new school, his voice - teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and he asks Jonah , slowly, Ronny begins to meet him at Slaughter Quay. ''There's no one else I can trust''see the connections between rap and poetry, he saysand the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|authorisbn=Amanda Mason1635866847|title=The Hiding PlaceLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorLifestyle|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent lifeIt's strange, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter to Whitbythe things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by I visited the name of Elder Houseauthor's [https://www. She hopes that it will be the perfect place to sort things outpinelavenderfarm. But com/ website] and there's something not quite right about Elder Housea picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. The atmosphere is unsettling I don't eat cakes and off – desserts - but 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 before long Nell starts I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that she and her family arensmears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved''t alone there…|isbn=1838771964this book already.}}
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|author=Paul CleaveRob Keeley|title=The Quiet PeopleChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary= I am not a fan Around here, we're big fans of "the Prologue"children's author Rob Keeley. Most books are the worse for them. In this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who is in He's a hurry. He has to hurry because ball of happy positivity, he has understands children that he should not have, and when he hurrieswrites for their pleasure and enjoyment, when he bundles things into the back not to lecture or hector. The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his car and tries to run and then hears sirens behind himgreatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things thereEdward, he takes a risk. It ends badly.spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=19131939421783064617
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|author=Will CarverJenny Valentine|title=Psychopaths AnonymousUs in the Before and After|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously Elk and alsoMab are best friends, curiouslyor more than that even, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She their friendship is also a self-acknowledged psychopathonce in a lifetime connection. Whilst analysing and critiquing They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets..time.targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's misery But then chance brings them back together, and targets for her violent behaviourthey are inseparable. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does Something has happened though, something terrible and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her owntragic, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessionsand now they must work through their grief, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is borntheir friendship, together.|isbn=19131937561471196585
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|isbnauthor=1529418100Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin WalkerDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=I'm not usually Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a fan team of short stories warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century- I find it all too easy old, magical mazes, and race to put the book down between stories exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walkerthe points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so seen of the latest race on the temptation 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 read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard to resist the goading from the token bully of his world and Istumbled into declaring he'm rather glad that I didn't even tryll enter as a team. For those new to the seriesWhat chance does this friendless, there's an excellent introduction muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that will tell you all you need to know about who's who , and the background how could he possibly hope to why Bruno is in St Denis.succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|isbnauthor=B09GJW49GFSaima Mir|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)|author=Jenny O'BrienVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Hannah Thomas I was having her first night away from her son. Hunter had diabetes and instantly intrigued by the premise of this was controlled novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a pump attached to his stomach, so her over-protectiveness Muslim woman. The fact that it was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her to get married the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and she thought it would needn't be a hindrance if it's good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likeenough. Her friend, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for a night in a posh hotel but then he dumped her and she couldnAnd that wasn't get the money back, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go in his placea problem here. She would return home Vengeance swiftly brings you up to find Ian dead speed, and five-year-old Hunter missingI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|isbnauthor=B09GV3WS1QStuart Douglas|title=Without a Trace|author=Jane BettanyLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Life hadnDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: sheFloggit and Leggit'd just come through , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a divorce and right now it was raining hardreservoir. All she wanted was The police seem happy to get back assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to her new home help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and settle down for , seemingly, a quiet eveninglink to death during the Second World War. It wasn't going to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found But is there really a dead man on her bed with a knife in his chest. link between the deaths? She'd no idea And will they manage to uncover who he was.is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=1838774823B0CYV674G2|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=S J BennettDavid Blake|rating=3.5
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|summary=It's 2016 seemed like an open-and the Queen's Private Secretary-shut case. A man, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret covered in mud and blood - and too little exercise is putting carrying a strain on his waistband. Swimming, he decidesknife, is comes into the way to go and police station shouting that he can use hasn't killed the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to be there early one morning and discovered man. A body at the body bottom of Cynthia Harris a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the side birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the poolwords 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. There was broken glass He's sleep- a crystal tumbler, by deprived to the look point of falling asleep at it work but he's determined to keep going - 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. Still, it was a shock for Sir Simonbecause he can't get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=057136358X1787333175|title=April in SpainYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=John BanvilleBenji Waterhouse
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Popular Science|summary=Terry Tice I was a hitman, although he didntempted to read 't think of himself in those terms. He saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy''. I couldnYou Don't resist the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred Have to be Mad to him when he was in Burma with the army Work Here''after enjoying Adam Kay'where he got the chance s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to kill Hurt}}, a lot glorious mixture of insight into the little yellow fellows workings of the NHS, humour and had a fine old timeautobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad... He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the purpose work of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? psychiatrist. It I did wonder whether it was after Percy's death that he saw acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the benefits of taking up laughter is directed at a situation rather than a job in Spainperson and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|author=Dave Letterfly KnodererOnyi Nwabineli|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=How Anuri spent her childhood on display to summarise the life world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Dave Letterfly Knodererv Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in a pithy sentence her twenties and she is slowly trying to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you knowregain her confidence and to get her life back, I really don't think I cansuing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Dave Anuri is an author battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and an artist. An inspirational speaker secretly abusing people online and a professional horsemanreceiving money from them for doing so. And a recovering alcoholic. The son Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of a Lutheran minister, heOphelia's struggled with a controlling fatheronline empire. Can she save her sister, run away to join the circus (not a metaphor), trained horses, painted caravans, designed and painted theatre sets, perhaps herself and hit rock bottom when her relationship with her father at the bottle took over.same time?|isbn=B0965V3LLN0861546873
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|author=Tade ThompsonDavid Chadwick|title=Far From the Light Headload of HeavenNapalm
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|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=Michelle It'Shell' Campion s September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is fulfilling her lifelong dream a Mojave desert town of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the world a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of Bloodroot, she will essentially be LA and Las Vegas both a babysitter for the ship's AI captainsignificant drive away. However, when she wakes up at the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it wouldNot much happens in Hicks. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin A silver mine and his android partner Salvo a defence contractor are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhilemain local employers but otherwise, former astronaut and friend of Shellthere's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosuntil.... What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323B0D321VJ76
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|author=Rob KeeleyTom Percival|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!The Wrong Shoes|rating= 45|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. Lily loves eating fruit He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccolidoesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends his dad can't work because he lost his job at school turn up their nosesthe college, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and how nice to eathad an accident. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her Throw into that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with mix the teacher, who explains fact that fruits grow on trees his mum and vegetablesdad are separated, like carrots, grow and Will's life seems bleak in the groundevery direction. Jordan says And yet, "I did try he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to tell herthe moments of joy when he is drawing, Miss!" and everyone laughs that feel like a light at poor Lilythe end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn= B09HHN541V1398527122
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|isbnauthor=178607981XSylvie Cathrall|title=Bad Apples|author=Will DeanA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of the road. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of the car - and heard the screams from deep inside the forestcompelling premise. Determining the direction of a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids and dampness And this is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where a woman was holding her coat over the body one of a man. He'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Persson, a resident of Visbergthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir0008517061|title=Cold As HellDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=Crime
|summary= In Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a red suitcase as little uncertainty about the bottom future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a fissure lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in a lava field, there with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is a body. And the man who has put future she wants for herself and her there has just discovered that he is capable of killingdaughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.|isbn=1913193888
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|authorisbn=Lucy Hope1786482126|title=FledglingThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop Builders were demolishing an old house, built bit by bit over in Norwich - the decades, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. Itsite was going to hold seventy-five 's an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as weluxury'd know it, the roof is retractable, there is a steamapartments -powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so on. At when they discovered the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby bones of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, child beneath a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of doorway. There was no skull. Was this bizarre machine-like abodea ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Oh but it It's also going to house someone or something elsedifficult as Ruth knows, when crashing through Cassiebut Nelson doesn's bedroom window one stormy day t, that she is pregnant with his child as a cherubresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. And if you think such a heavenly arrival Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is going prone to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think againsudden bouts of sickness...|isbn=183994188X
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|isbn=18462767720008551324|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our MindsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jessica NordellNeil Lancaster
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|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Anyone who It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is not an able, white man understands bias struggling in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: itprison and he's simply prepared to tell the police where the body of a part of everyday lifemissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. White men This person, he promises, is someone big and it will always come firstbe worth the police doing what he wants. The able will come before And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the disabledremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. JobsNot much to ask, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. is it? Even when those who wouldnThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation itthink so and she's rare even prepared to do the other thing that their views are heard, Hardie demanded - make certain that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling DS Max Craigie and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but itanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedhappening.
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|authorisbn=Teresa Driscoll0008405026|title=Her Perfect A Stranger in the Family(Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The novel begins by introducing you It'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 Gemmaa halt. Now, who at first instance appears to be your average studenther mother, faced with the familiar horrifying realisationHelena, at the eleventh hour, that and her graduation outfit is all wrongfather are dead in their bed. Suddenly Initially, Gemma receives an eerie message stating it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there''He is not who he says he is…'', paving s something about the way for positioning of the sinister tone bodies that remains throughout the novel. In a twist of events, makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremonyboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues What looked as though it was going to grow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752}}{{Frontpage|isbn=8409290103|title=If Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Twentybe an open-oneand-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 shut case is now a monthly allowancecomplex double murder. Patrick sent Kerrigan is convinced that the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasnexplanation lies in Rosalie't that Lowry senior didns disappearance: others (such as Derwent't care for his sons boss, it was that he didn't care to have him in 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 wayUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)0571379877|title=The Rabbit FactorKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it Edward Jevons is other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a teamworking-memberclass young man, that they'd prefer everyone to be all openobsessed with his upper-planclass friends, holistic Robert and keen on stupid-as workshoppingStanza. This is when he finds his brother has died, having Robert's a heart attack while busy changing his Volvotheatre director. He's radio channelalso self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, entitled and nothing elseuses Edward to run errands for him. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes Edward has been in the finances – it runs at a steady moneylove with Stanza since their university days -moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanishedhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Fortunately ( Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain tell Edward that missing money – ita relationship had begun between them but he's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the activities two of these guys are not conducive to getting them kissing in a cheap life insurance plan..dark passageway.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbnauthor=1471179311Jo Callaghan|title=The Unheard|author=Nicci FrenchLeave No Trace|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Tess, When a teacher and Jason, man is found crucified on the top of a headmasterhill in Nuneaton, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to 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 case alongside her bedroom in what was the family home and another in sidekick, the flat she shares with her motherAI detective Lock. It ''seemed'' to be working well until the day that Poppy came home s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a menacing drawing of second body found crucified a woman falling from few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a tall building potential serial killer and she started swearing, using words she was unlikely a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to have heard in either hometheir AI Future Policing project. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems at nursery school. Tess turns Will they be able to a therapist for helpsolve the case in time, then her doctor or will Kat find herself taken off the case and finally the police but no one will take what she has to say seriously., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=14711966151399613073|title=IcedMoral Injuries|author=Felix FrancisChristie Watson
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|summary=Miles Pussett used to be a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past Olivia, Laura and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-Anjali met on the first down the three-day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter-mile Cresta Runof a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourwhich is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. He was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - that's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake Laura is a perfectionist and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with a trauma doctor. Anjali is the saddling free spirit of the horsesgroup and she becomes a GP. ItWhen we first meet them they's seven years since he put horseracing behind him re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and he swore that heit'd never go back s going to itend in tragedy. But when he sees that something suspicious is going on, Miles canWe don't help but look for answersknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, even when it puts him in danger's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=147228612X0241636604|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillTrading Game: A Confession|author=Alan JohnsonGary Stevenson
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|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=We all know people like Gary NelsonIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, although we probably havenyou't taken much notice re unlikely to think of themsomeone like Gary Stevenson. They live quiet, uneventful lives A hoodie and stay mostly under jeans replaces the radar. In a city like Londonpin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, that's quite easy - poverty and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himinjustice. The highlight of There was no posh public school on his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes CV - but he had been to work on the train each morning: London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he'd love has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to ask her for a date but he doesn't have the couragebe stupid. Then It was his ability at what was, on his homeward commuteessentially, Arina speaks to a card game which got him and asks for his helpan internship with Citibank. Before long he finds himself on the run from mobstersEventually, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan policethis turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|authorisbn=Claire McGowan1035021803|title=I Know YouThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'Then:s back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole' Casey returns from a walk with the babys close friend, CarsonArthur Crockleford, is dead and comes across three bodiesthe circumstances seem suspicious, almost a whole family taken downto say the least. ''Now Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village:'' Rachel is out for a walk with Arthur, she feels, let her dogdown badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, Brandyshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, when she comes across worked in a body in cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the woodslove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1542019974
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|isbn=1529148251AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=MisfitsAll Tomorrow's Futures: A Personal ManifestoFictions that Disrupt|author=Michaela CoelBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper Opening up new ways of thinking about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from itshape of things to come.''
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|isbnauthor=0008433631Sunny Singh|title=Next of Kin|author=Kia AbdullahHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It was the sort of thing The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that happened every day, although not to Leila Syedhas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. She'd never driven her nephewHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, Maxkilling everyone on site, to school before but his fatherthere is Sam, Andrew Hansona wartime photographer and Abhi, had rung her in a panicthe hotel manager. He was supposed As Abhi continues to be taking Max try to school but he'd been called into work and care remotely for the delay residents who are still alive in getting there could lead the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to financial losses. As the school was only five minutes be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of Leilaher room to try to capture what's way, could she drop him off? Of course, she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of happened through her carphotography. On Although they only ever talk over the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at , their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her work too, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskkeep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1529153298|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesnIt't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about s 1979 and joke about, that Margaret Thatcher isPrime Minister. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time (A woman? I mean, honestly. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery) She's latest entry in her not what's worrying Miv'Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmlys family, with the familiar humour attachedthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: they've been murdered, but to have 'Everybody Tootsdisappeared'doesn'!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1784165263|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma Curtis|rating=4t sound quite so frightening.5|genre=Crime|summary=Martin Curran Miv's wife, Eliza knew that upset because she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the fact s overheard that she was actually painting one of their properties prior her father wants to it being letmove the family 'Down South'. If she didnWhen you't get homere from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, there would be troublebest avoided. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and confined to a wheelchair, but donshe't be too quick ll do anything to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''prevent that. All this was in ElizaShe's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was not worried about to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to get in before it was advertised as being availableanyone.
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|isbn=17847427751398524085|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Susan HillNicci French
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|summary=Drugs hadnCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband't really been that much of a problem in Lafferton s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of timeher daughter, Etty. They still wereare all worried but - strangely - her husband, to a great extentAlec, but Serrailler knew that something had to be doneis not. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport the drugs Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the operation running body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the county lines river. It was tight. A mule might know an easy assumption for the name (although it probably wouldn't be the correct one) of the person who was running him but police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he certainly wouldncouldn't know anything about those higher up in stand the organisationguilt. The police might catch a few of the runners Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they'd never can do but get anywhere near those higher upon with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=B09FS89KX91035906708|title=Fall On MeDiva|author=Penelope PottsDaisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. She Her original surname was just going into the final year of Kalogeropoulos but her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BBfather changed it to 'Callas's dinerto make it more manageable in the States. Bob When she was back in Athens - the owner supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - regarded her fondly: he she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, 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 who mercilessly exploited her and most made no secret of all he wanted her to leave preference for her job at the diner. Then there was the fact that he would be violentelder sister, both to her and to other peopleJackie.
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