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|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps1529428289|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Tomas. Happy to work with his father in Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the blacksmith's forgegrave but when they found it, he's almost it came with three sets of the age bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to become a full apprenticeBruno, and help with the new batch Chief of dragonswords is certainly needed. Not that there are any dragonsPolice for St Denis, to discover the identities of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except... Strange signals from within the forge furnace, bodies and establish whether or not a peculiar invite crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to become an apprentice clerk insteadworry about, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the wash, Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that yes dragons do still exist in this world, and that Tom is rare in have caused the ability problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to summon them, share magical attributes, release water and ride with them..St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.|isbn=1839940026
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|isbn=1529346541152919640X|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelThe Suspect|author=Elizabeth GeorgeRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|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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|isbn=B09Q3P283Y0008385068|title=ShadebringerThe Midnight Feast|author=Grayson W HooperLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for It's midsummer on the US Army during the Vietnam WarDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. He It's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the militarytheir opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. If he It's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasnall headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she't got many choices s converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and this onefamous. Her husband, at leastOwen, gets him out was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the rut he's insite. He's good in training The heat is oppressive and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training courseamongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. He Old scores are going to be settled and it won's chuffed with himselft be long before a body is found.
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|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmyAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondWild East
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=There is no mermaid Written in the millpond. That at least verse, this is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be Ronny's story, a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who have had their entire childhoods sold suddenly has to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used move to call homeNorwich and start at a mostly white school. Bess knows there The move is no time initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for friendship Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a hand-to-mouthnew town, a new school, every man for and keep himself kind out of existencetrouble. But despite herself Bess does find a bit He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a kindred spirit rapper. But now, in the slight little Dotthis new school, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads his teacher encourages him to harm, there might be part of a glimmer of companionship in poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in connections between rap and poetry, and the existence power of the mermaid?creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=180090049X0241645441
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|isbn=17856330741635866847|title=Staggering HubrisThe Lavender Companion|author=Josh BerryJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=HumourLifestyle|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politiciansIt's strange, headed by the Prime minister - the things that make you ''primus inter paresimmediately'' (feel that's this is the book for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the . Before I started reading ''primeThe Lavender Companion'' movers are , I visited the special advisers - author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the SPADS homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - who are the driving force behind the governmentbut I wanted that cake viscerally. We are (There's a recipe in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubrisbook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the man who book and I was behind the skilful control told to make a mess of it. Notes in the Covid crisis which was completely contained by margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the end corners of 2020pages. You might suspect that smears of butter would not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watcha problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|isbnauthor=B09MYXSRV4Rob Keeley|title=Otter's CoatChildish Spirits: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith10th anniversary special edition
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=When the world was madeAround here, the animals were given giftswe're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. Bear was given strength so that He's a ball of happy positivity, he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not burnto lecture or hector. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present The ''andChildish Spirits'' the futureseries is one of his greatest achievements. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunatelyIt's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race stalwart young girl who can cope with Turtle. You might think that's not anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a fair contest but wait spoiled lordling and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|author=Giovanna FletcherJenny Valentine|title=Walking on Sunshine|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of Us in the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, Before and go along with him.|isbn=140593560X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529393930|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie RochesterAfter
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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 as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself so badly that she had bled outworking with DCI Harry Nelson. Still, it was a shock for Sir Simon.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=057136358X|title=April in Spain|author=John Banville|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didnIt't think of himself in those terms. He saw what he did s difficult as ''a matter of making things tidy''. I couldnRuth knows, but Nelson doesn't resist the thought , that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed she is pregnant with his job, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to kill child as a lot result of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''one night they spent together some three months ago. 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 knowHer condition will be obvious before long, I really don't think I can. Dave not least because Ruth is an author and an artist. An inspirational speaker and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholic. The son prone to sudden bouts of a Lutheran minister, he's struggled with a controlling father, run away to join the circus (not a metaphor), trained horses, painted caravans, designed and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when the bottle took oversickness.|isbn=B0965V3LLN
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|authorisbn=Tade Thompson0008551324|title=Far From the Light of HeavenThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|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 If 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-stripe suit and his background is not an ablethe East End, where he was familiar with violence, white man understands bias in that they may poverty and injustice. There was no longer even recognise posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part London School of everyday lifeEconomics. White men will always come firstStevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. The able will come before the disabledHe also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. JobsIt was his ability at what was, promotionsessentially, higher salaries are the preserve of the white mana card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Even when those who wouldnEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It't pass s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the medical become a part of an organisation itEnglish country village where she grew up. She's rare that their views are heardback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, that their concerns are acknowledgedCarole. ItFreya's former mentor and Carole's personally appalling close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and degrading for the individuals on circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the receiving end of reason why Freya had not been back to the bias but it's village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not just felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the individuals split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who are negatively impactedwas murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Teresa DriscollAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Her Perfect FamilyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=The novel begins by introducing you ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, come.'' I've heard it said that her graduation outfit 'technology' is all wrongwhat happens after you're eighteen. Suddenly Well, Gemma receives an eerie message stating I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what'He is not who he says he is…s advantageous to me but I'', paving m left with the way for the sinister tone feeling that remains throughout the novelit's all getting away from me. In a twist Some of eventsit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the midst of her graduation ceremonylatest conspiracy theorist. With Gemma then I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you readway I could understand.|isbn=1542028752
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|isbnauthor=8409290103Sunny Singh|title=If Only|author=Matthew TreeHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers |summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been sent abroad violently taken over by his fathera terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountantthere is Sam, Mr Patricka wartime photographer and Abhi, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowancehotel manager. Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has As Abhi continues to try to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care remotely for his sonthe residents who are still alive in the hotel, it was that he didn't care forms a bond with Sam who refuses to have him in this country where he might be a danger cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to his wife and other childrencapture what's happened through her photography. The alcohol problem was obvious even 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 Patrick managed to get they are discovered by the young man on his wayterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)1529153298|title=The Rabbit FactorList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths It's 1979 and calculations than it Margaret Thatcher is other human beingsPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, hehonestly...) She's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide henot what's not a team-member, that theyworrying Miv'd prefer everyone to be all open-plans family, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshoppingthough. Women have been disappearing. This is when he finds his brother has died Well, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvothey's radio channelve been murdered, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that but to have 'disappeared'everythingdoesn' is just an adventure park, and nothing elset sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'YouMeFunDown South'. When you' re from Yorkshire, Down South is so not what Henri wants to occupy his minda frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pacemove would mean leaving her best friend, despite some desultory staff ideasSharon, but loans have been made out and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the amount vanished. Fortunately (dangers or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – ither Mum's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive stopped talking - to getting a cheap life insurance plan..anyone.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbn=14711793111398524085|title=The UnheardHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?
|author=Nicci French
|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Tess, a teacher and JasonCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, a headmastersons Niall, have split up: she Paul and Poppy have moved out of the family home Ollie and Jason is now married to Emilyher daughter, Etty. The separation was amicable are all worried but - strangely - they had just drifted aparther husband, Alec, is not. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the family home and another body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the flat she shares with her motherriver. It ''seemed'' was an easy assumption for the police to be working well until the day make that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing of a woman falling from a tall building Duncan had murdered Charlie and she started swearing, using words she was unlikely to have heard in either homethen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Her behaviour deteriorated and The Salter children are not convinced but there were problems at nursery school. Tess turns to a therapist for help, then her doctor 's little else they can do but get on with their lives and finally the police but no one will take wonder about what she has to say seriouslyreally happened.
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|isbn=14711966151035906708|title=IcedDiva|author=Felix FrancisDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Miles Pussett used We tend to be a Steeplechase jockey think of Maria Callas as Greek, but those days are past she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourStates. He When she was back in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf Athens - supposedly so that's highshe could get appropriate training for her voice -class horseracing on she was raised under the frozen lake Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the saddling made no secret of the horses. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore that he'd never go back to it. But when he sees that something suspicious is going on, Miles can't help but look her preference for answersher elder sister, even when it puts him in dangerJackie.
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