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|isbn=15293939301529428289|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your BusinessA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Sophie RochesterMartin Walker|rating=54|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=''Starting Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a creative business has never crime had been easiercommitted. As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation''If not nows favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, when?was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He' I know s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that I'm he must not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a businessserve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. ThereShe's a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use seriously allergic and there are a lot carries an EpiPen in case of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as giftsemergencies. Selling would offset the costs, which Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be quite considerable in a busy, live television studio - and it could be fun Brooks served a ragout to do, couldn't it? Holby. But where Her EpiPen was nowhere to start? be found and she was dead within minutes. What do I need to think about? Well, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making a Living''It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|authorisbn=Freya Marske0008385068|title=A Marvellous LightThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in It's midsummer on the Civil Service, much to his chagrinDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. There he meets Edwin Courcey The Manor was her ancestral home and learns that she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the streets of London are threaded with magicwealthy and famous. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him Her husband, Owen, Robin follows Edwin to was the countryside, where architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the hedgegrows bristle with incantations site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the people shimmer with powerguests are enemies as well as friends. There they uncover Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Islesbody is found. |isbn=1529080886
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|isbnauthor=0241480442Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienWild East
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|genre=CookeryTeens|summary=EmotionallyWritten in verse, this is Ronny's story, I am a veganyoung black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. MentallyThe move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, I am a vegan. I read [[How and so Ronny finds himself trying to Love Animals settle in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] new town, a new school, and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) foodkeep himself out of trouble. PracticallyHe listens to music constantly, I am not and has always dreamed of being a veganrapper. It worked for a while apart from the odd blip with regard But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to cheese but then be part of a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to animal-based protein. It wasn't see the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was connections between rap and poetry, and the ease power of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare momentscreativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|isbn=suppl_stafl1635866847|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversThe Lavender Companion|author=Kim StaflundJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=ReferenceLifestyle|summary=SoIt's strange, the things that make you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced immediately'' feel that all you need to do now this is get it published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong againbook for you. You presumably wrote Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the book because you wanted to - author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and you had there's a picture of a talent for delivering slice of chocolate cake on the written wordhomepage. You knew your subject back to frontI don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Now you(There're going to have to get to grips with s a recipe in the book supply chain, which even parts of I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the publishing industry believe book and I was told to be wrong but make a mess of it's too difficult to change and no one wants . Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be the first to trya problem. Then, when you I ''finallyloved'' have a copy of the this book in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to youalready.
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|isbnauthor=1398706906Rob Keeley|title=The Lost|author=Simon BeckettChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=The disappearance Around here, we're big fans of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah Colleychildren's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedauthor Rob Keeley. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and when s a ball of happy positivity, he wokeunderstands children, Theo had gone. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later he's largely come through it writes for their pleasure and heenjoyment, not to lecture or hector. The 's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used to be his best friend but it's a long time since theyChildish Spirits've spoken. He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in series is one of his voice - and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quaygreatest achievements. ''ThereIt's no one else I a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can trust''cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, he says.a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|author=Amanda MasonJenny Valentine|title=The Hiding Place|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder House. She hopes that it will be Us in the perfect place to sort things out. But there's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling Before and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect that she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{Frontpage|author=Paul Cleave|title=The Quiet PeopleAfter
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|genre=CrimeTeens|summary= I am not a fan of "the Prologue". Most books Elk and Mab are the worse for them. In this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a hurrylifetime connection. He has to hurry because he has They meet as children that he should not have, and when he hurries, when he bundles things into one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back of his car and tries to run and then hears sirens behind himtogether, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes a riskare inseparable. It ends badly.|isbn=1913193942}}{{Frontpage|author=Will Carver|title=Psychopaths Anonymous|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic Something has happened though, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing something terrible and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's miserytragic, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she doesnow they must work through their grief, and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her owntheir friendship, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is borntogether.|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
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|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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|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 ''He is not who he says he is…'it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there', 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 What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex whodunit with a list of suspects double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that continues to grow the further you readexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1542028752
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|isbn=84092901030571379877|title=If OnlyThe Kellerby Code|author=Matthew TreeJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=TwentyEdward Jevons is a working-oneclass young man, obsessed with his upper-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his fatherclass friends, cottonRobert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountantobsessed, Mr Patrickdemanding, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat handsome and entitled and thereafter Patrick was uses Edward to send run errands for him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has he's drunkenly confided how he feels to say than PatrickRobert. It wasn Most men in Robert't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he didn't care s not like most men: Edward is left to have him stumble upon the two of them kissing 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 waydark passageway.
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|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)Jo Callaghan|title=The Rabbit FactorLeave No Trace|rating=3.54
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|summary=Meet Henri. With When a mind so much more focused man is found crucified on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not top of a team-memberhill in Nuneaton, that they'd prefer everyone DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to be all open-planthe case alongside her sidekick, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshoppingthe AI detective Lock. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo It's radio channeltheir first live case together, and has left Henri everythinghaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' But when there is just an adventure parka second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and nothing elsea very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants Will they be able to occupy his mindsolve the case in time, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in or will Kat find herself taken off the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pacecase and, despite some desultory staff ideaspotentially, 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 – 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...career?|isbn=191319387X139851120X
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|isbn=14711793111399613073|title=The UnheardMoral Injuries|author=Nicci FrenchChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
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|summary=TessOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a teacher and Jason, quarter of a headmastercentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of the family home and Jason which is now married a bonus when you aim to Emilybe a cardiothoracic surgeon. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apartLaura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was Anjali is the free spirit of the family home group and another in the flat she shares with her motherbecomes a GP. It When we first meet them they''seemed'' to be working well until the day that Poppy came home with re at a menacing drawing of a woman falling from a tall building drug and alcohol-fuelled party and she started swearing, using words she was unlikely it's going to have heard end in either hometragedy. Her behaviour deteriorated and We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there were problems at nursery schoolwill be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Tess turns to a therapist for helpThis time, then her doctor and finally the police but no one will take what she has to say seriouslyit's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=14711966150241636604|title=IcedThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Felix FrancisGary Stevenson
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|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Miles Pussett used If you were to be bring up an image of a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past 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 he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down background is the three-quarter-mile Cresta RunEast End, where he was familiar with violence, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourpoverty and injustice. He There was in St Moritz no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the same weekend as White Turf London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - that's highextremely bright -class horseracing on the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping has a facility with the saddling numbers which most of the horsesus can only envy. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore He also realised that he'd never go back most rich people expect poor people to itbe stupid. But when he sees that something suspicious is going onIt was his ability at what was, Miles can't help but look for answersessentially, even when it puts a card game which got him in dangeran internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=147228612X1035021803|title=The Late Train Antique Hunter's Guide to Gipsy HillMurder|author=Alan JohnsonC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably havenIt't taken much notice of thems twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. They live quietShe's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, uneventful lives and stay mostly under the radarCarole. In a city like London, thatFreya's quite easy - former mentor and even GaryCarole's three flatmates largely ignore himclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her makeup down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she goes has not felt able to work on be near the train each morning: he'd love to ask her for a date but he doesn't have man or pursue the courageprofession she loved. Then After the split, on his homeward commuteshe worked in a cafe, Arina speaks to him met and asks for his help. Before long he finds himself married James (on the run rebound from mobstersthe love of her life, Russian secret agents who was murdered) and Freya and the Metropolitan policeJames have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Claire McGowanAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=I Know YouAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=''Then:Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' Casey returns from a walk with the baby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down.
I've heard it said that 'Now:technology'is what happens after you' Rachel is out for re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a walk few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with her dogwhat's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, Brandy, when she comes across I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a body in the woodsway I could understand.|isbn=1542019974
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|isbnauthor=1529148251Sunny Singh|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela CoelHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyThrillers |summary=''How am I able to be so transparent 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 terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on paper about rapesite, malpractice there is Sam, a wartime photographer and povertyAbhi, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from ithotel manager.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need As Abhi continues to try to be care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a certain frame bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of mind. You're not going her room to read a book of essays or a self-help book. You're going try to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coelcapture what's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festivalhappened through her photography. You might be ''reading'' Although they only ever talk over the book but you need phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to ''listen'' help her keep safe and they both wait to the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness see if they will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writingrescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=00084336311529153298|title=Next The List of KinSuspicious Things|author=Kia AbdullahJennie Godfrey
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=It was the sort of thing that happened every day's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, although not to Leila Syedhonestly... ) She'd never driven her nephews not what's worrying Miv's family, Max, to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her in a panicthough. Women have been disappearing. He was supposed to be taking Max to school but heWell, they'd ve been called into work and the delay in getting there could lead murdered, but to financial losseshave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. As the school was only five minutes out of LeilaMiv's way, could upset because she drop him off? 's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. Of courseWhen you're from Yorkshire, she could and Down South is a sleeping Max was duly strapped into frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the back of move would mean leaving her carbest friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. On She's not worried about the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at dangers or that her work too, with a problem which could put a multiMum's stopped talking -million-pound contract at riskto anyone.
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|summary=Martin CurranCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's wifefiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dotsons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, despite the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letEtty. If she didn't get homeare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, there would be troubleis not. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic Shortly afterwards, Etty and confined to a wheelchairGreg, but donfind the body of Greg't be too quick to be understandings father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. He It was also a very unpleasant person: an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment'couldn't stand the guilt. All this was in ElizaThe Salter children are not convinced but there's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availablewhat really happened.
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|isbn=17847427751035906708|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)Diva|author=Susan HillDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Drugs hadn't really been that much of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought We tend to think of drugs ops Maria Callas as a bit of a waste of time. They still wereGreek, but she was born to a great extentGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, but Serrailler knew that something had in December 1923 and only moved to be doneAthens when she was thirteen. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport the drugs and the operation running the county lines Her original surname was tight. A mule might know the name (although Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it probably wouldnto 'Callas't be to make it more manageable in the correct one) of the person who States. When she was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the organisation. The police might catch Nazi occupation by a few mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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