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|isbn=1529428289|title=A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Lucy Strange Martin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and Pam SmySt Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Mermaid Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in the Millponda busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley
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|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=There is no mermaid in It's midsummer on the millpondDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. That at least is what Bess is telling herself It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. Neither will there be a friend The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for her in amongst all the other kidswealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, who have had their entire childhoods sold to was the mill-owners by architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the London workhouse they used to call homesite. Bess knows there The heat is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind of existenceoppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads Old scores are going to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesnsettled and it won't mean there be long before a body is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049Xfound.
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|isbnauthor=1785633074Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh BerryWild East
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|genre=HumourTeens|summary=Members of Parliament like us Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to believe that the country Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is run by politicians, headed initiated by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (thatRonny's for those of you mum who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the worried for Ronny''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governments safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. We are in the privileged position of having access He listens to the memoirs of Rafe Hubrismusic constantly, the man who was behind the skilful control and has always dreamed of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020being a rapper. You might not know the name But now but he will certainly , in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the man to watchconnections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|isbn=B09MYXSRV41635866847|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareLavender Companion|author=Cordellya SmithJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=When the world was madeIt's strange, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so things that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web make you ''immediately'' feel that even fire could not burnthis is the book for you. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the present 'author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] andthere'' s a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the futurehomepage. Rabbit developed intelligence I don't eat cakes and desserts - butI wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, unfortunately, not which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the ability book and I was told to use make a mess of it well. He liked to trick other animalsNotes in the margins are sanctioned. He was also jealous which was how he came You get to be in a race with Turtlefold down the corners of pages. You might think suspect that's smears of butter would not be a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seemproblem. I'll tell you how it came about'loved'' this book already.
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|author=Giovanna FletcherRob Keeley|title=Walking on SunshineChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary=MikeAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's wifea ball of happy positivity, Piahe understands children, who and he was with writes for seventeen yearstheir pleasure and enjoyment, has diednot to lecture or hector. And whilst he The ''Childish Spirits'' series is dealing with one of his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zazagreatest achievements. But Pia left them all some It'rules' to follows a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out spirit world throws at her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and ZazaEdward, struggling with their grief a spoiled lordling and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with him.the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=140593560X1783064617
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|isbnauthor=1529393930Jenny Valentine|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie RochesterUs in the Before and After
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|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=''Starting a creative business has never been easier.'' ''If not nowElk and Mab are best friends, when?'' I know or more than that I'm not alone even, their friendship is a once in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a businesslifetime connection. ThereThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and there they are a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as giftsinseparable. Selling would offset the costs Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun to donow they must work through their grief, couldn't it? But where to start? What do I need to think about? Welland their friendship, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making a Living''together.|isbn=1471196585
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|author=Freya MarskeKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=A Marvellous LightDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into a job Meet Kit. Like most of the people in the Civil Servicehis world, it seems, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the streets sport where a team of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow himwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, Robin follows Edwin and race to the countrysideexit, where perhaps bothering with the treasure or the hedgegrows bristle with incantations big bad and the people shimmer with powerpoints they grant you along the way. There they uncover Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a sinister plot that threatens new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the lives token bully of all magicians his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in the British Isles. actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=15290808861839945184
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|isbnauthor=0241480442Saima Mir|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=CookeryThrillers|summary=Emotionally, I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled instantly intrigued by the way premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, I am not the north of England run by a veganMuslim woman. It worked for a while apart from The fact that it was the odd blip with regard to cheese but then second in a perfect storm of those events which you hope donseries I hadn't read didn't occur too often in your lifetime tempted stop me back to animal-based protein– I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. It And that wasn't the taste - a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare momentsnever felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|isbnauthor=1398706906Stuart Douglas|title=The Lost|author=Simon BeckettLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyDuring location filming for his 1970's young sonsitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', Theoleading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, just but something about finished himthe whole thing bothers Lowe, particularly as and he blamed himself for what had happened. He'd fallen asleep in enlists the park whilst Theo was playing and when he wokehelp of a fellow actor, Theo had gone. It cost John Le Breton to help him his marriage and his homeinvestigate matters further. Ten years later he's largely come through it They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and he's out with his team when he gets , seemingly, a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneylink to death during the Second World War. Gavin used to be his best friend but it's But is there really a long time since link between the deaths? And will they've spoken. He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and he asks Jonah manage to meet him at Slaughter Quay. ''There's no one else I can trust'', he says.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|authorisbn=Amanda MasonB0CYV674G2|title=The Hiding PlaceSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= I am not a fan of "the Prologue". Most books are the worse for them. In this It seemed like an open-and-shut case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who is A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a hurry. He has to hurry because he has children knife, comes into the police station shouting that he should not have, and when hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he hurries's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, when he bundles things into which coincided with the back birth of his car daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and tries 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to run and then hears sirens behind him, which the point of falling asleep at work but he should not hear 's determined to keep going - probably because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badlycan't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1913193942
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|authorisbn=Will Carver1787333175|title=Psychopaths AnonymousYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersPopular Science|summary=Maeve 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 high functioning alcoholicglorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, drinking continuously humour and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groupsautobiography. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups ''You Don't Have to find targetsbe Mad...targets for sexual encounters, targets '' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to feed her desire to hear mental illness and the work of people's misery, and targets for her violent behavioura psychiatrist. Yet she also seems I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be searching looking for others who think as she does, and when she's unable to find like-minded people humour in any of this setting but the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and thus Psychopaths Anonymous it is bornalways delivered with empathy and understanding.|isbn=1913193756
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|isbnauthor=1529418100Onyi Nwabineli|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin WalkerAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=I'm not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy Anuri spent her childhood on display to put the book down between stories and forget world, thanks to pick it up again her step- but I am a fan of Martin Walkermother Ophelia's [[Martin Walkerincreasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the temptation content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard to resist start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and I'm rather glad that I didn't even tryreceiving money from them for doing so. For those new to the seriesMost importantly, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know she is desperately worried about her little sister, whois the new focus of Ophelia's who online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the background to why Bruno is in St Denis.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|isbnauthor=B09GJW49GFDavid Chadwick|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)|author=Jenny O'BrienHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her sonIt's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hunter had diabetes and this was controlled by Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a pump attached to his stomach, so her over-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her to get married few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and she thought it would be Las Vegas both a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likesignificant drive away. Her friend, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for a night Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a posh hotel defence contractor are the main local employers but then he dumped her otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and she couldn't get the money backJoshua trees. Life is quiet, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go in his placeuntil... She would return home to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missing.|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=ItWill's 2016 and the Queen's Private Secretarylife is difficult, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting in a strain on his waistbandmultitude of ways. SwimmingHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he decides, is has the way to go and he wrong shoes because his dad can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to be there early one morning 't work and discovered doesn't have enough money for even the body most basic of Cynthia Harris things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the side of the pool. There college, was broken glass - working a crystal tumbler, by the look at it cash- probably one of the young royals being careless in- hand job on a building site and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and cut herself so badly that she had bled outdad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. StillHe is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, it was that feel like a light at the end of a shock for Sir Simonlong, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=057136358XSylvie Cathrall|title=April in Spain|author=John BanvilleA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Science Fiction|summary=Terry Tice was There are few greater joys than a hitman, although he didn't think of himself in those terms. He saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, something book which occurred lives up to him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''compelling premise. 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 And this is one of taking up a job in Spainthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn=Dave Letterfly Knoderer0008517061|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=How to summarise the Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a pithy sentence to kick off a review little uncertainty about the future of his memoir? Do you knowlife with his vet girlfriend, I really don't think I can. Dave is an author and an artist. An inspirational speaker Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholic. The son lot of a Lutheran minister, he's struggled compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with a controlling father, run away Livia or does Livia move to join Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the circus (not a metaphor), trained horses, painted caravans, designed future she wants for herself and painted theatre sets, her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and hit rock bottom when putting the future on the bottle took overback burner.|isbn=B0965V3LLN
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|authorisbn=Tade Thompson1786482126|title=Far From the Light of HeavenThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Michelle Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'Shellluxury' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for apartments - when they discovered the world bones of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's AI captainchild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. However Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, when she wakes up at the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the RagtimeDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's AI almost non-responsivedifficult as Ruth knows, she begins to realise that her first mission wonbut Nelson doesn't be going as smoothly as , that she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and is pregnant with his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on child as a result of the Ragtimeone night they spent together some three months ago. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy sudden bouts of Space Station Lagossickness. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323
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|authorisbn=Rob Keeley0008551324|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She Neither side likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and auberginesor has any respect for the other. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily But Davie Hardie is keen struggling in prison and he's prepared to explain how good they are for you tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells was responsible for her that carrots grow on treesdeath. Infuriated This person, Lily checks with the teacherhe promises, who explains that fruits grow on trees is someone big and vegetables, like carrots, grow in it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the groundremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Jordan says Not much to ask, "I did try is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to tell her, Miss!" do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and everyone laughs at poor Lilyanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn= B09HHN541V
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|isbn=178607981X0008405026|title=Bad ApplesA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Will DeanJane Casey|rating=4.5
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|summary=Tuva Moodyson It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was driving up never found and the investigation ground to a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of the roadhalt. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of the car - Now, her mother, Helena, and heard the screams from deep inside the foresther father are dead in their bed. Determining Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the direction positioning of a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to where be an open-and-shut case is now a woman was holding her coat over the body of a mancomplex double murder. HeKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Perssons disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, a resident of VisbergUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir0571379877|title=Cold As HellThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= In Edward Jevons is a red suitcase as the bottom of working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a fissure in a lava fieldtheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, there is a bodyhandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. And the man who Edward has put her there has just discovered been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he'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 's not like most men: Edward is capable left to stumble upon the two of killingthem kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1913193888
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|author=Lucy HopeJo Callaghan|title=FledglingLeave No Trace|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene When a man is found crucified on the top of a most peculiar hilltop househill in Nuneaton, built bit by bit over DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the decadescase alongside her sidekick, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods belowAI detective Lock. It's an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as we'd know it, the roof is retractabletheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a steam-poweredsecond body found crucified a few days later, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so on. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier Kat is suddenly struggling with PTSD a potential serial killer and a passion for very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudlycase in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassiepotentially, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance out of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again...career?|isbn=183994188X139851120X
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|isbn=18462767721399613073|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our MindsMoral Injuries|author=Jessica NordellChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to GemmaOlivia, who at Laura and Anjali met on the first instance appears day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is all wronga perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He Anjali is not who he says he is…'', paving the way for free spirit of the sinister tone that remains throughout the novelgroup and she becomes a GP. In When we first meet them they're at a twist of events, drug and alcohol-fuelled party and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the midst of her graduation ceremonytragedy or the consequences. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that continues to grow will impact the further you readthree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1542028752
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|isbn=84092901030241636604|title=If OnlyThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Matthew TreeGary Stevenson
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|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=TwentyIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by stripe suit and his fatherbackground is the East End, cotton-broker AO Lowry: where he asked his accountantwas familiar with violence, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat poverty and thereafter Patrick injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to send him a monthly allowancethe London School of Economics. Patrick sent the money regularly Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a correspondence - facility with numbers which most of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to say than Patrickbe stupid. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for was his sonability at what was, it was that he didn't care to have essentially, a card game which got him in an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this country where he might be turned into permanent employment as a danger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his waytrader.
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|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)1035021803|title=The Rabbit FactorAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, heIt's perfect for his job in twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the insurance company – until they decide heEnglish country village where she grew up. She's not back now because of a team-memberrequest for help from her beloved aunt, that theyCarole. Freya'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic s former mentor and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his VolvoCarole's radio channelclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and has left Henri everythingthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, and nothing elselet her down badly. ''YouMeFun'' is so Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not what Henri wants felt able to occupy his mindbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes she worked in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideascafe, but loans have been made out met and the amount vanished. Fortunately married James (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 rebound from the activities love of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap her life insurance plan.., who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbn=1471179311AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The UnheardAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Nicci FrenchBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Tess, a teacher and Jason, a headmaster, have split ''Opening up: she and Poppy have moved out new ways of thinking about the family home and Jason is now married shape of things to Emilycome. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was the family home and another Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in the flat she shares with her mothermy lifetime. It I've kept up reasonably well with what'seemeds advantageous to me but I'' to be working well until m left with the day feeling that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing of a woman falling it's all getting away from a tall building and she started swearing, using words she was unlikely to have heard in either homeme. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems at nursery schoolSome of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Tess turns to a therapist for helpOf course, then her doctor I could research the possibilities and finally the police but no one will take probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what she has to say seriouslythey're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=1471196615Sunny Singh|title=Iced|author=Felix FrancisHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Miles Pussett used to be The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a Steeplechase jockey but those days terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are past rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down Abhi, the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourhotel manager. He was As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - that's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake and against his better judgement hotel, he gets talked into helping forms a bond with the saddling Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of the horses. Ither room to try to capture what's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore that he'd never go back to ithappened through her photography. But when he sees that something suspicious is going onAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, Miles can't their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help but look for answers, even when it puts him in dangerher keep 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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|isbn=147228612X1529153298|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillList of Suspicious Things|author=Alan JohnsonJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably havenIt't taken much notice of thems 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. They live quiet(A woman? I mean, uneventful lives and stay mostly under the radarhonestly... ) In a city like London, thatShe's not what's quite easy - and even Garyworrying Miv's three flatmates largely ignore himfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes Well, they've been murdered, but to work on the train each morning: hehave 'disappeared'd love to ask her for a date but he doesn't have sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the couragefamily 'Down South'. Then When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, on his homeward commuteforeign place, Arina speaks to him and asks for his helpbest avoided. Before long he finds himself on For Miv, the run from mobstersmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, Russian secret agents and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the Metropolitan policedangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=Claire McGowan1398524085|title=I Know YouHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the babys fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, Carsonsons Niall, Paul and comes across three bodiesOllie and her daughter, almost a whole family taken downEtty. ''Now:'' Rachel are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is out for a walk with her dognot. Shortly afterwards, BrandyEtty and Greg, when she comes across a find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the woodsriver. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1542019974
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|isbn=15291482511035906708|title=Misfits: A Personal ManifestoDiva|author=Michaela CoelDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyGeneral Fiction|summary=''How am I able We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to be so transparent on paper about rapeGreek parents in Manhattan, malpractice and povertyNew York, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of mind. You're not going December 1923 and only moved to read a book of essays or a self-help bookAthens when she was thirteen. You're going to read writing which Her original surname was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''reading'' the book Kalogeropoulos but you need her father changed it to ''listen'Callas' to the words as though you're make it more manageable in the lecture theatreStates. The disjointedness will fade away When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and you'll be carried on a cloud made no secret of exquisite writingher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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