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|isbn=15293465411529428289|title=Something A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=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 HideWorld 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: An Inspector Lynley Novelvarious 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=Elizabeth GeorgeRob Rinder|rating=4.5
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|summary=ItThe nation's late July and Deborah St James is at a meeting with Dominique Shawfavourite daytime TV presenter, Undersecretary for the school systemJessica Holby, a representative from the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didnwas murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He't catch but would later turn out s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakerJessica Holby. It follows on from the success of DeborahShe's book ''London Voices'': the meeting is seriously allergic and carries an exploration of the possibility EpiPen in case of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesemergencies. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be as the problem seems to occur in Nigerian a busy, live television studio - and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and photographsshe was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy0008385068|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondMidnight 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
|rating=4
|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=HorrorCrime|summary=Needing It seemed like an escape from their turbulent lifeopen-and-shut case. A man, Nell Galilee takes her husband covered in mud and blood - and stepdaughter carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to Whitbydeath. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by which coincided with the name birth of Elder Househis daughter Samantha. She hopes that it will You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the perfect place words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to sort things out. But therethe point of falling asleep at work but he's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts determined to suspect that she and her family arenkeep going - probably because he can't alone there…|isbn=1838771964get any sleep at home.}}
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|authorisbn=Paul Cleave1787333175|title=The Quiet PeopleYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
|rating=5
|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary= I am not 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 fan glorious mixture of "insight into the Prologue"workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad. Most books are ..'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the worse work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for them. In humour in this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who setting but the laughter is in directed at a situation rather than a hurryperson and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4. He has 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to hurry because he has children that he should not havethe world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and when he hurries, when he bundles things into the back of his car basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and tries she is slowly trying to run regain her confidence and then hears sirens behind himto get her life back, which he should not hear because this suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is New Zealand battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and that receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is not how they do things theredesperately worried about her little sister, he takes a risk. It ends badlywho is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=19131939420861546873
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|author=Will CarverDavid Chadwick|title=Psychopaths AnonymousHeadload of Napalm|rating=34.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and alsoIt's September 1973 in Hicks, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groupsCalifornia. She Hicks is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targetsLas Vegas both a significant drive away.Not much happens in Hicks..targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's misery, A silver mine and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she doesa defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, and when shethere's unable to find like-minded people in any not much of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, note other than dive bars and thus Psychopaths Anonymous Joshua trees. Life is bornquiet, until....|isbn=1913193756B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=1529418100Tom Percival|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin WalkerThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=IWill'm not usually s life is difficult, in a fan multitude of short stories - I find it all too easy to put ways. He is bullied because he has 'the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walkerwrong shoes's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so , he has the temptation to read wrong shoes because his dad can''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard to resist t work and I'm rather glad that I didndoesn't have enough money for even try. For those new to the seriesmost basic of things like food, thereand his dad can's t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an excellent introduction accident. Throw into that mix the fact that will tell you all you need to know about whohis mum and dad are separated, and Will's who life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the background to why Bruno moments of joy when he is in St Denisdrawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=B09GJW49GFSylvie Cathrall|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)|author=Jenny O'BrienA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her son. Hunter had diabetes and this was controlled by There are few greater joys than a pump attached book which lives up to his stomach, so her over-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her to get married and she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likecompelling premise. Her friend, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for a night in a posh hotel but then he dumped her and she couldn't get the money back, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go in his place. She would return home to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missingAnd this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q0008517061|title=Without Death in a TraceLonely Place|author=Jane BettanyStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a divorce little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and right now it was raining hard. All she wanted was to get back to her new home daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and settle down for a quiet evening. It wasn't going relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to be though: when she went into Little Sky despite her bedroom reservations about whether or not this is the future she found a dead man on wants for herself and her bed with a knife daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in his chest. She'd no idea who he wasthe present and putting the future on the back burner.
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|isbn=18387748231786482126|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=S J BennettElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's 2016 and the Queenluxury's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistband. Swimming, he decides, is the way to go and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to be there early one morning and apartments - when they discovered the body bones of Cynthia Harris at the side of the poola child beneath a doorway. There was broken glass - no skull. Was this a crystal tumblerritual killing or murder? Inevitably, by the look at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - and it looked Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she had bled outis pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. StillHer condition will be obvious before long, it was a shock for Sir Simonnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=057136358X0008551324|title=April in Spain|author=John Banville|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Terry Tice was 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 which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spain.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dave Letterfly Knoderer|title=Speedy: Hurled Through Havoc|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=How to summarise the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you know, I really don't think I can. Dave is an author and an artist. An inspirational speaker and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholic. The son of a Lutheran minister, he's struggled with a controlling father, run away to join the circus Devil You Know (not a metaphorD S Max Craigie), trained horses, painted caravans, designed and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when the bottle took over.|isbn=B0965V3LLN}}{{Frontpage|author=Tade Thompson|title=Far From the Light of HeavenNeil Lancaster
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|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Michelle It'Shells 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 struggling in prison and he' Campion s prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is fulfilling buried and who was responsible for her lifelong dream of going to spacedeath. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime This person, bound for the world of Bloodroothe promises, she is someone big and it will essentially be a babysitter for worth the ship's AI captainpolice doing what he wants. However, when she wakes up at And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the end remainder of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered his sentence 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 wouldget an early parole date. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up Not much to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhileask, former astronaut is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and friend of Shellshe's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle even prepared to Bloodroot, halfdo the other thing that Hardie demanded -alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking make certain that DS Max Craigie and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. 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 Keeley0008405026|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Lily loves eating fruit She was never found and vegetablesthe investigation ground to a halt. She likes carrots Now, her mother, broccoliHelena, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up father are dead in their nosesbed. Initially, Lily is keen it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to explain how good they are for you be an open-and how nice to eat-shut case is now a complex double murder. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her Kerrigan is convinced that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow explanation lies in the ground. Jordan saysRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor LilyUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn= B09HHN541V
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|isbn=178607981X0571379877|title=Bad ApplesThe Kellerby Code|author=Will DeanJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up Edward Jevons is 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 working-class young man, obsessed with his upper- class friends, Robert and heard the screams from deep inside the forestStanza. Determining the direction of Robert's a sound isntheatre director. He't easy when you need hearing aids s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way uses Edward to where a woman was holding her coat over the body of a manrun errands for him. HeEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he'd been decapitateds drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. He was Arne Gustav Persson, Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a resident relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of Visbergthem kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Lilja SigurdadottirJo Callaghan|title=Cold As HellLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= In When a red suitcase as man is found crucified on the bottom top of a fissure hill in a lava fieldNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second bodyfound crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. And Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the man who has put her there has just discovered that he is capable case and, potentially, out of killing.a career?|isbn=1913193888139851120X
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|authorisbn=Lucy Hope1399613073|title=FledglingMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decadesOlivia, Laura and now looking imperiously down Anjali met on the village first day of medical school and woods belowtheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. It's an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system Olivia is not as we'd know itruthlessly ambitious, the roof which is retractable, there a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, perfectionist and so ona trauma doctor. At Anjali is the free spirit of the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD group and she becomes a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy, GP. When we first meet them they're at a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch drug and sing opera loudly, alcohol-fuelled party and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going to house someone end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or something elsethe consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, when crashing through Cassieit's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherubtheir teenage children who are involved. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again...|isbn=183994188X
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|isbn=18462767720241636604|title=The End of BiasTrading Game: How We Change Our MindsA Confession|author=Jessica NordellGary Stevenson
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|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=Anyone who is not If you were to bring up an ableimage of a city banker in your mind, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent you're unlikely to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part think of everyday lifesomeone like Gary Stevenson. White men will always come first. The able will come before A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the disabledEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the preserve London School of the white manEconomics. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a part facility with numbers which most of an organisation it's rare us can only envy. He also realised that their views are heardmost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, that their concerns are acknowledgedessentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|authorisbn=Teresa Driscoll1035021803|title=Her Perfect FamilyThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The novel begins by introducing you It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to Gemmathe English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, who at first instance appears to be your average studentArthur Crockleford, faced with is dead and the familiar horrifying realisationcircumstances seem suspicious, at to say the eleventh hourleast. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, that let her graduation outfit is all wrongdown badly. Suddenly Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is she has not who he says he is…'', paving felt able to be near the way for man or pursue the sinister tone that remains throughout profession she loved. After the novel. In split, she worked in a twist of eventscafe, met and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in married James (on the rebound from the midst love of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a comalife, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you readwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1542028752
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|isbn=8409290103AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=If OnlyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Matthew TreeBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to ensure come.'' I've heard it said that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Patrick sent the money regularly and Well, I must confess that there have been more than a correspondence - few decades of sorts - sprang technology in my lifetime. I've kept up between the two although we hear more about reasonably well with what Lowry has 's advantageous to say than Patrick. It wasnme but I't m left with the feeling that Lowry senior didnit't care for his sons all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, it was that he didnI 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't care to have him re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information 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 wayI could understand.
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|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)Sunny Singh|title=The Rabbit FactorHotel Arcadia
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|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Meet Henri. With The Hotel Arcadia is a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-memberterrorists who are rampaging through, that they'd prefer killing everyone to be all open-planon site, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This there is when he finds his brother has diedSam, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, wartime photographer and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure parkAbhi, and nothing elsethe hotel manager. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants As Abhi continues to try to occupy his mindcare remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, but he perks up forms a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideasbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly keeps on the scene venturing out of her room to try to explain that missing money – itcapture what's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henrihappened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan..terrorists.|isbn=191319387X086154742X
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|isbn=14711793111529153298|title=The UnheardList of Suspicious Things|author=Nicci FrenchJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Tess, a teacher It's 1979 and Jason, a headmaster, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of the family home and Jason Margaret Thatcher is now married to EmilyPrime Minister. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart(A woman? I mean, honestly... ) They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in She's not what was the 's worrying Miv's family home and another in the flat she shares with her mother, though. Women have been disappearing. It Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared'doesn'seemedt sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she' s overheard that her father wants to be working well until move the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing of a woman falling family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a tall building and she started swearingfrightening, foreign place, using words she was unlikely to have heard in either homebest avoided. Her behaviour deteriorated For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and there were problems at nursery schoolshe'll do anything to prevent that. Tess turns to a therapist for help, then She's not worried about the dangers or that her doctor and finally the police but no one will take what she has Mum's stopped talking - to say seriouslyanyone.
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|isbn=14711966151398524085|title=IcedHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Felix FrancisNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Miles Pussett used to be a Steeplechase jockey Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but those days never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling headall worried but -first down the threestrangely -quarter-mile Cresta Runher husband, Alec, occasionally reaching eighty miles an houris not. He was in St Moritz Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the same weekend as White Turf - thatbody of Greg's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with father, Duncan Ackerley, in the saddling of the horsesriver. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he swore that hecouldn'd never go back to itt stand the guilt. But when he sees that something suspicious is going on, Miles The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can't help do but look for answers, even when it puts him in dangerget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=147228612X1035906708|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillDiva|author=Alan JohnsonDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelsontend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, although we probably haven't taken much notice of them. They live quietbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, uneventful lives and stay mostly under the radar. In a city like LondonNew York, that's quite easy - in December 1923 and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her makeup as she goes father changed it to work on the train each morning: he'd love Callas' to ask her for a date but he doesn't have make it more manageable in the courageStates. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and asks When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for his help. Before long he finds himself on her voice - she was raised under the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan police.}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire McGowan|title=I Know You|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns from Nazi occupation by a walk with the baby, Carson, mother who mercilessly exploited her and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down. ''Now:'' Rachel is out made no secret of her preference for a walk with her dogelder sister, Brandy, when she comes across a body in the woodsJackie.|isbn=1542019974
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