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|authorisbn=Kia Ahankoob1529428289|title=The Gold Lion and A Grave in the Tournament Woods (A Bruno, Chief of SentinelsPolice Novel)|author=Martin Walker
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|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersBecause of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, each it came with its own strength three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and weakenessit fell to Bruno, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborateChief of Police for St Denis, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to one discover the identities of eight countries led by Myriad's children the bodies and their descendantsestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. But it didn As if this isn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went enough to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding worry about, the cost of war too high, a solution Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is proposedflowing at record levels. Each of It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings release water and become St Denis faces the supreme ruler possibility of Dunivaa devastating flood.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV
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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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|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
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|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
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|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 understands children, and he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not burnto lecture or hector. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present The ''Childish Spirits'and'series is one of his greatest achievements. It' s a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - butspirit world throws at her, unfortunatelyand Edward, not a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a race with Turtlelifetime connection. You might think thatThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's not a fair contest but wait and seecontact details at the time. Things But then chance brings them back together, and they are not always as inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they seem. I'll tell you how it came aboutmust work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|author=Giovanna FletcherKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Walking on SunshineDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary=Mike's wifeMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, Piait seems, who he was with for seventeen yearsis an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his griefcentury-old, so are their best friendsmagical mazes, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' race to followthe exit, knowing that she was dying perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and that the points they would need help to carry on livinggrant you along the way. Whilst some Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips awayteam has been retired, eaten, and Vicky and Zazaa new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, struggling with their grief he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and their own life troublesstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, decide to drop everything muscle-free-zone have in their own livesactually managing that, and go along with him.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=140593560X1839945184
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|isbnauthor=1529393930Saima Mir|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie RochesterVengeance|rating=3.5|genre=CraftsThrillers|summary=I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn'Starting t be a creative business has hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never been easierfelt lost.''|isbn=0861541561}}
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|authorisbn=Freya MarskeB0CYV674G2|title=A Marvellous LightSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into a job in the Civil Service, much to his chagrinpolice station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that A body at the streets bottom of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to swallow himdeath. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, Robin follows Edwin to which coincided with the countryside, where birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the hedgegrows bristle with incantations words 'perverse' and the people shimmer with power'John Tanner' were made for each other. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens He's sleep-deprived to the lives point of all magicians in the British Islesfalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home. |isbn=1529080886
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|isbn=02414804421787333175|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition ScienceYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryPopular Science|summary=Emotionally, I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. I was tempted to read [[How ''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 Love Animals in Hurt}}, a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. PracticallyNHS, I am not a veganhumour and autobiography. It worked for a while apart from the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don''You Don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back Have to animal-based proteinbe Mad. It wasn..''t promised the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the animal kingdom - work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was the ease of being able acceptable to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a few spare momentssituation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|isbnauthor=suppl_staflOnyi Nwabineli|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim StaflundAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=ReferenceGeneral Fiction|summary=SoAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, youthanks to her step-mother Ophelia've finished writing your book s increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and you think the hard work is all done? , basically, monetary gain. You're convinced that all you need to do now Now Anuri is get it published in her twenties and the money will start rolling in? Wrong she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to get her life back, suing her step- and you had a talent for delivering mother to take down the written wordcontent about her. You knew your subject back Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to frontstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Now you're going to have to get to grips with Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the book supply chain, which even parts new focus of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but itOphelia's too difficult to change and no one wants to be the first to tryonline empire. ThenCan she save her sister, when you ''finally'' have a copy of and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the book in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to you.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|isbnauthor=1398706906David Chadwick|title=The Lost|author=Simon BeckettHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyIt's young son, Theo, just about finished himSeptember 1973 in Hicks, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedCalifornia. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and when he woke, Theo had goneLas Vegas both a significant drive away. It cost him his marriage and his homeNot much happens in Hicks. Ten years later he's largely come through it A silver mine and he's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used to be his best friend defence contractor are the main local employers but itotherwise, there's a long time since they've spoken. He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - not much of note other than dive bars and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter QuayJoshua trees. ''There's no one else I can trust''Life is quiet, he saysuntil....|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|author=Amanda MasonTom Percival|title=The Hiding Place|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But there's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect that she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{Frontpage|author=Paul Cleave|title=The Quiet PeopleWrong Shoes
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary= I am not a fan of "the Prologue". Most books are the worse for them. In this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who Will's life is difficult, in a hurrymultitude of ways. He has to hurry is bullied because he has children that 'the wrong shoes', he should not has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't haveenough money for even the most basic of things like food, and when his dad can't work because he hurrieslost his job at the college, when he bundles things was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the back of fact that his car mum and tries to run dad are separated, and then hears sirens behind himWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, which he should not hear because this still has a tiny amount of hope. He is New Zealand good at art, and that clings to the moments of joy when he is not how they do things theredrawing, he takes that feel like a light at the end of a risk. It ends badlylong, dark tunnel.|isbn=19131939421398527122
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|author=Will CarverSylvie Cathrall|title=Psychopaths AnonymousA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Maeve is There are few greater joys than a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted book which lives up to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopathcompelling premise. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she And this is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any one of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornthem.|isbn=19131937560356522776
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|isbn=15294181000008517061|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Martin WalkerStig Abell
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|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=I'm not usually Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a fan lot of short stories compromise: does Jake give up his off- I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories grid and forget relaxing life to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries move in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the temptation to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard to resist future she wants for herself and I'm rather glad that I didn't even try. her daughter? For those new to the series, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who's who moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the background to why Bruno is in St Denisfuture on the back burner.
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF1786482126|title=Buried Lies The Janus Stone (Gaby Darin Book 5Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Jenny O'BrienElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hannah Thomas Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was having her first night away from her songoing to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Hunter had diabetes and Was this was controlled by a pump attached to his stomach, so her over-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ianritual killing or murder? Inevitably, was pestering her to get married and she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likeDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Her friend, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, LiamIt's difficult as Ruth knows, for a night in a posh hotel but then he dumped her and she couldnNelson doesn't get the money back, so Hannah was offered that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the opportunity to go in his placeone night they spent together some three months ago. She would return home Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missingsudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q0008551324|title=Without a TraceThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jane BettanyNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Life hadnIt't been easy s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for Ruth Prendergast: shethe other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'd just come through s prepared to tell the police where the body of a divorce missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and right now it was raining hardwill be worth the police doing what he wants. All she wanted was And what he wants is to be transferred to get back an open prison to her new home serve the remainder of his sentence and settle down for a quiet eveningto get an early parole date. It wasnNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't going think so and she's even prepared to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with a knife in his chest. Shehim is kept well away from what'd no idea who he wass happening.
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|isbn=18387748230008405026|title=Her Majesty A Stranger in the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=S J BennettJane Casey
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|genre=Crime
|summary=It's 2016 sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting investigation ground to a strain on his waistbandhalt. SwimmingNow, her mother, he decidesHelena, 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 discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at the side of the poolher father are dead in their bed. There was broken glass - Initially, it looks like a crystal tumbler, by straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the look at it - probably one positioning of the young royals being careless - bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and it her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped it was going to be an open-and cut herself so badly that she had bled out-shut case is now a complex double murder. StillKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, it was a shock for Sir SimonUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=057136358X0571379877|title=April in SpainThe Kellerby Code|author=John BanvilleJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Terry Tice was Edward Jevons is a hitmanworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, although he didn't think of himself in those termsRobert and Stanza. He saw what he did as 'Robert's a matter of making things tidy''theatre director. I couldnHe't resist the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his jobs also self-obsessed, demanding, something which occurred handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him when he was . Edward has been in Burma love with the army Stanza since their university days - and he''where s drunkenly confided how he got the chance feels to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''Robert. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldnMost men in Robert't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a swizzle stick - surely relationship had begun between them but he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the benefits two of taking up them kissing in a job in Spaindark passageway.
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|author=Dave Letterfly KnodererJo Callaghan|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocLeave No Trace
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|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=How to summarise When a man is found crucified on the life top of Dave Letterfly Knodererv a hill in a pithy sentence Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you knowthe case alongside her sidekick, I really donthe AI detective Lock. It't think I cans their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Dave But when there is an author and an artist. An inspirational speaker and a professional horseman. And second body found crucified a recovering alcoholic. The son of a Lutheran ministerfew days later, he's struggled Kat is suddenly struggling with a controlling father, run away potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to join solve the circus (not a metaphor)case in time, trained horsesor will Kat find herself taken off the case and, painted caravanspotentially, designed and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when the bottle took over.out of a career?|isbn=B0965V3LLN139851120X
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|authorisbn=Tade Thompson1399613073|title=Far From the Light of HeavenMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
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|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for the world a quarter of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's AI captaincentury. However Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when she wakes up at the end of her trip you aim to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it woulda cardiothoracic surgeon. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut Laura is a perfectionist and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagostrauma doctor. What Anjali is the five free spirit of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating= 4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Lily loves eating fruit group and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and auberginesshe becomes a GP. When her friends we first meet them they're at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and how nice it's going to eatend in tragedy. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, We don't know who tells her that carrots grow on treessuffered the tragedy or the consequences. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in will impact the groundthree friends. Jordan says This time, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lilyit's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn= B09HHN541V
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|isbn=178607981X0241636604|title=Bad ApplesThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Will DeanGary Stevenson
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|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving If you were to bring up an image of a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of the roadsomeone like Gary Stevenson. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of A hoodie and jeans replaces the car pin- stripe suit and heard his background is the screams from deep inside the forestEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Determining There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the direction London School of a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where he has a woman was holding her coat over the body facility with numbers which most of a manus can only envy. He'd been decapitatedalso realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. He It was his ability at what was Arne Gustav Persson, essentially, a resident of Visbergcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir1035021803|title=Cold As HellThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= In a red suitcase as It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the bottom English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a fissure in a lava fieldrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, there is a bodydead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. And Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the man who has put village: Arthur, she feels, let her there down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has just discovered that he is capable not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of killingher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1913193888
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|authorisbn=Lucy HopeAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=FledglingAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Bavaria, 1900''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. Our scene '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the few decades, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods belowof technology in my lifetime. It I've kept up reasonably well with what's an eccentric house, advantageous to host eccentrics, so me but I'm left with the library shelving system is not as wefeeling that it'd know s all getting away from me. Some of it, the roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, handfrankly -operated lift system cut through itquite frightening. Of course, and so on. At I could research the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD possibilities and a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch probabilities and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who has to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but itknows what they's also going to house someone re talking about or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherubthe latest conspiracy theorist. And if you think such I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again..way I could understand.|isbn=183994188X
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|isbnauthor=1846276772Sunny Singh|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica NordellHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyThrillers |summary=Anyone who The Hotel Arcadia is not a luxury hotel in an able, white man understands bias in unnamed city that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply has suddenly been violently taken over by a part of everyday lifeterrorist group. White men will always come first. The able will come before Hiding from the disabled. Jobsterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, promotionsa wartime photographer and Abhi, higher salaries are the preserve of the white manhotel manager. Even when those As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who wouldn't pass are still alive in the medical become hotel, he forms a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heardbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals keeps on the receiving end venturing out of the bias but ither room to try to capture what's not just happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the individuals who 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 negatively impacteddiscovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Teresa Driscoll1529153298|title=Her Perfect FamilyThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to GemmaIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, who at first instance appears to be your average studenthonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, faced with the familiar horrifying realisationthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, at the eleventh hourthey've been murdered, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating but to have 'disappeared'doesn'He is not who he says he is…t sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she', paving the way for the sinister tone s overheard that remains throughout her father wants to move the novelfamily 'Down South'. In When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a twist of eventsfrightening, foreign place, and after a change of outfitbest avoided. For Miv, Gemma is shot in the midst of move would mean leaving her graduation ceremonybest friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects She's not worried about the dangers or that continues her Mum's stopped talking - to grow the further you readanyone.|isbn=1542028752
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|isbn=84092901031398524085|title=If OnlyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Matthew TreeNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Literary 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, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.}}{{Frontpage|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title=The Rabbit Factor|rating=3.5
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|summary=Meet HenriCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. With a mind so much more focused on maths Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and calculations than it is other human beingsher daughter, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone to be Etty. are all openworried but -plan, holistic and keen on stupidstrangely -as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has diedher husband, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channelAlec, and has left Henri everythingis not. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park Shortly afterwards, Etty and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mindGreg, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in find the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pacebody of Greg's father, despite some desultory staff ideasDuncan Ackerley, but loans have been made out and in the amount vanishedriver. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on It was an easy assumption for the scene police to explain make that missing money – itDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and t stand the activities of these guys guilt. The Salter children are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan..convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbn=14711793111035906708|title=The UnheardDiva|author=Nicci FrenchDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=TessWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, a teacher and Jasonbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, a headmasterNew York, have split up: she in December 1923 and Poppy have only moved out of the family home and Jason is now married to Emily. The separation Athens when she was amicable - they had just drifted apartthirteen. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what Her original surname was the family home and another in the flat she shares with Kalogeropoulos but her mother. It ''seemedfather changed it to 'Callas' to be working well until make it more manageable in the day States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing of a woman falling from a tall building and she started swearing, using words could get appropriate training for her voice - she was unlikely to have heard in either home. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems at nursery school. Tess turns to raised under the Nazi occupation by a therapist for help, then mother who mercilessly exploited her doctor and finally the police but made no one will take what she has to say seriouslysecret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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