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|authorisbn=Sarah Ann Juckes1529428289|title=The Hunt for A Grave in the NightingaleWoods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Jasper is a little boy who has some strugglesBecause of various property transactions, and whilst we're never told why exactlypeople were searching for the grave but when they found it, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing it came with change and big emotionsthree sets of bones. His big sister, Rosie, has been a huge support They dated back to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, World War II and writing a book with himit fell to Bruno, all about birdsthe Chief of Police for St Denis, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm down. His parents seem completely caught up in their business, discover the identities of the bodies and so it is Rosie he always turns toestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, and she As if this isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak enough to him or when they doworry about, he doesnthe Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems s not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to be right, release water and St Denis faces the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its song, as they do together every Springpossibility of a devastating flood.|isbn=1398510890
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|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)152919640X|title=Red is My HeartThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and white his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and read carries an EpiPen in my housecase of emergencies. And so was this one Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was, nowhere to be found and is, black and white and redshe was dead within minutes. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on It was soon clear that this piece, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideaswas no accident.|isbn=1913547183
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|isbn=15291355670008385068|title=One Step Too FarThe Midnight Feast|author=Lisa GardnerLucy Foley
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It's five years since midsummer on the stag weekendDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil It's their opening weekend and Joshsplendid celebrations are promised. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander offIt's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The remaining four searched for him in vain Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go into an impressive retreat for help. When help didn't come the remaining three finally made their way back to townwealthy and famous. Scott followed soon after but there Her husband, Owen, was no sign the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of Timthe site. Every year, Tim's father, Martin, The heat is oppressive and amongst the four guests are enemies as well as friends have been back . Old scores are going to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that theybe settled and it won're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timt be long before a body is found.
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|author=Gunnar StaalesenAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Bitter FlowersWild East|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Varg Veum Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a Norwegian Private Investigator young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has just finished to move to Norwich and start at a stint in rehab and mostly white school. The move is now returning to work. However, the quiet job heinitiated by Ronny's supposedly taken on caretaking someonemum who is worried for Ronny's house quickly turns into safety after a murder investigationtragic event, and a mystery around a missing woman. Varg so Ronny finds himself not only investigating thesetrying to settle in a new town, but also looking into an olda new school, cold case and keep himself out of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night trouble. He listens to music constantly, and was never foundhas always dreamed of being a rapper. Somehow But now, in this new school, these disparate cases appear his teacher encourages him to be linkedpart of a poetry writing workshop group and, but what is slowly, Ronny begins to see the linkconnections between rap and poetry, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=191319308X0241645441
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|authorisbn=Kia Ahankoob1635866847|title=The Gold Lion Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and the Tournament of SentinelsTerry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsLifestyle|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersIt's strange, each with its own strength and weakenessthe things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', in I visited the hope they would complement each other author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and collaborate, creating there's a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within picture of a magical ring belonging to one slice of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendantschocolate cake on the homepage. But it didn I don't quite work out like eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted thatcake viscerally. Rivalries developed (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Enmities grew out of them and Notes in the eight countries went margins are sanctioned. You get to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding fold down the cost corners of war too high, a solution is proposedpages. Each You suspect that smears of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to butter would not be a single combat tournamentproblem. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV
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|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsRob Keeley|title=Dragon StormChildish Spirits: Tomas and Ironskin10th anniversary special edition
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|summary=Meet TomasAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. Happy to work with his father in the blacksmithHe's forgea ball of happy positivity, he's almost of the age to become a full apprenticeunderstands children, and help with the new batch he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector. The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of dragonswords is certainly neededhis greatest achievements. Not that there are any dragons, It's a sequence of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except... Strange signals from within the forge furnaceghost stories centring on Ellie, and a peculiar invite to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the wash, that yes dragons do still exist in this spirit worldthrows at her, and that Tom is rare in the ability to summon them, share magical attributesEdward, a spoiled lordling and ride with them...the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=18399400261783064617
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|isbnauthor=1529346541Jenny Valentine|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth GeorgeUs in the Before and After
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|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It's late July Elk and Deborah St James is at a meeting with Dominique ShawMab are best friends, Undersecretary for the school systemor more than that even, their friendship is a representative from the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, once in a filmmakerlifetime connection. It follows They meet as children one day on from the success of Deboraha trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's book ''London Voices'': the meeting is an exploration of contact details at the possibility of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiestime. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the problem seems to occur in Nigerian But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks to now they must work through their grief, and photographstheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbnauthor=B09Q3P283YKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W HooperDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|summary=There Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is no mermaid in an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be sport where a friend for her in amongst all team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the other kidsexit, who have had their entire childhoods sold to perhaps bothering with the treasure or the mill-owners by big bad and the London workhouse points they used to call homegrant you along the way. Bess knows there is no time Unfortunately for friendship in a hand-to-mouthKit, every man for himself kind the only thing he's seen of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that life one team has taught her about betrayal been retired, eaten, and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer new trio of companionship in questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the tiredtoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-out mill workers. But surely free-zone have in actually managing that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=180090049X1839945184
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|isbnauthor=1785633074Saima Mir|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh BerryVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=HumourThrillers|summary=Members I was instantly intrigued by the premise of Parliament like us to believe that this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the country is north of England run by politicians, headed by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the Prime minister - the 'second in a series I hadn'primus inter parest read didn't stop me – I' ve jumped midway into a few series before (that's for those of you who are Eton on page and Oxbridge educatedscreen) but the reality is that the and it needn't be a hindrance if it'prime's good enough. And that wasn' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmentt a problem here. We are in the privileged position of having access Vengeance swiftly brings you up to the memoirs of Rafe Hubrisspeed, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watchand I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|isbnauthor=B09MYXSRV4Stuart Douglas|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise Lowe and Hare|author=Cordellya SmithLe Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When the world was madeDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become dead body of a protector. Water Spider received woman on the edge of a strong web that even fire could not burnreservoir. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the present ''whole thing bothers Lowe, and'' he enlists the futurehelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Rabbit developed intelligence - butThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, unfortunatelyseemingly, not a link to death during the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animalsSecond World War. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in But is there really a race with Turtle. link between the deaths? You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as And will they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|authorisbn=Giovanna FletcherB0CYV674G2|title=Walking on SunshineSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Mike's wifeIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, Piacovered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, who comes into the police station shouting that he was with for seventeen years, has diedhasn't killed the man. And whilst A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he 's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is dealing just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zazadaughter Samantha. But Pia left them all some You would think he'rulesd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' to follow, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to carry on living. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one point of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide falling asleep at work but he's determined to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with himkeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=140593560X
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|isbn=15293939301787333175|title=Making a Living: How You Don't Have to Craft Your Businessbe Mad to Work Here|author=Sophie RochesterBenji Waterhouse
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|genre=CraftsPopular Science|summary=I was tempted to read ''Starting a creative business has never been easier.You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here' 'after enjoying Adam Kay'If not nows first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, when?a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. '' I know that IYou Don'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a businesst Have to be Mad... There's a lot of motivation ' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use mental illness and there are the work of a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as giftspsychiatrist. Selling would offset the costs, which can be quite considerable and I did wonder whether it could was acceptable to be fun to do, couldn't it? But where to start? What do I need to think about? Well, looking for humour in this setting but the first thing anyone who laughter is considering turning directed at a crafting hobby into situation rather than a business should do person and it is to read ''Making a Living''always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|author=Freya MarskeOnyi Nwabineli|title=A Marvellous Light|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens Allow Me to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the countryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles. |isbn=1529080886}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241480442|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienIntroduce Myself
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|genre=CookeryGeneral Fiction|summary=EmotionallyAnuri spent her childhood on display to the 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, basically, I am a veganmonetary gain. MentallyNow Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, I am a vegansuing her step-mother to take down the content about her. I read [[How Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search receiving money from them for (preferably cheap) fooddoing so. PracticallyMost importantly, I am not a vegan. It worked for a while apart from she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm new focus of those events which you hope donOphelia't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based proteins online empire. It wasn't Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|isbnauthor=suppl_staflDavid Chadwick|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim StaflundHeadload of Napalm
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|genre=ReferenceThrillers|summary=SoIt's September 1973 in Hicks, you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work California. Hicks is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now is get it published a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and the money will start rolling Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in? Wrong and wrong againHicks. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - A silver mine and you had a talent for delivering defence contractor are the written word. You knew your subject back to front. Now you're going to have to get to grips with the book supply chainmain local employers but otherwise, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but itthere's too difficult to change not much of note other than dive bars and no one wants to be the first to tryJoshua trees. ThenLife is quiet, when you ''finally'' have a copy of 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 youuntil....|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=1398706906Tom Percival|title=The Lost|author=Simon BeckettWrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyWill's young sonlife is difficult, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedin a multitude of ways. Heis bullied because he has 'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and when his dad can't work because he wokelost his job at the college, Theo was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had gonean accident. It cost him Throw into that mix the fact that his marriage mum and his home. Ten years later he's largely come through it dad are separated, and heWill's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneylife seems bleak in every direction. Gavin used to be his best friend but it's And yet, he still has a long time since they've spokentiny amount of hope. He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he asks Jonah to meet him is drawing, that feel like a light at Slaughter Quay. ''There's no one else I can trust''the end of a long, he saysdark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|author=Amanda MasonSylvie Cathrall|title=The Hiding Place|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter A Letter 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 PeopleLuminous Deep
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary= I am not There are few greater joys than a fan of "the Prologue"book which lives up to a compelling premise. Most books are the worse for them. In And this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who is in a hurry. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have, and when he hurries, when he bundles things into the back one of his car and tries to run and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badlythem.|isbn=19131939420356522776
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|authorisbn=Will Carver0008517061|title=Psychopaths Anonymous|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Maeve is Death in a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's 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 of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529418100|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesLonely 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
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|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
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|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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|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 Bloodroota century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, she will essentially which is a bonus when you aim to be a babysitter for the ship's AI captaincardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. However, when she wakes up at Anjali is the end free spirit of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered the group and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her becomes a GP. When we first mission wonmeet them they't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin re at a drug and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut alcohol-fuelled party and friend of Shellit's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle going to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter end in tow, to see why tragedy. We don't know who suffered the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind tragedy or the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosconsequences. What the Twenty-five of them discover on years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodrootthree friends. This time, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Rob Keeley0241636604|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating= 4.5|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary= 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. Lily loves eating fruit A hoodie and vegetables. She likes carrotsjeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, broccoliwhere he was familiar with violence, cabbage poverty and auberginesinjustice. When her friends at There was no posh public school turn up their noses, Lily on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is keen to explain how good they are for you bright - extremely bright - and how nice he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to eatbe stupid. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan It was his ability at what was, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriatedessentially, Lily checks a card game which got him an internship with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the groundCitibank. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her Eventually, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lilythis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn= B09HHN541V
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|isbn=178607981X1035021803|title=Bad ApplesThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Will DeanC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of the road. Wondering if someone needed She's back now because of a request for help she got out of the car - and heard the screams from deep inside the foresther beloved aunt, Carole. Determining the direction of a sound isnFreya't easy when you need hearing aids s former mentor and dampness Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is causing interference but Tuva made her way dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to where a woman say the least. Arthur was holding the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her coat over down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the body of a manor pursue the profession she loved. He'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav PerssonAfter the split, she worked in a resident cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of Visbergher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover
|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''
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 few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|author=Lilja SigurdadottirSunny Singh|title=Cold As HellHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary= In The Hotel Arcadia is a red suitcase as the bottom of a fissure luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a lava fieldterrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a bodywartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. And As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the man hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who has put refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her there has just keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered that he is capable of killingby the terrorists.|isbn=1913193888086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=Lucy Hope1398524085|title=FledglingHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Bavaria, 1900Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house Her children, built bit by bit over the decadessons Niall, Paul and now looking imperiously down on the village Ollie and woods belowher daughter, Etty. It's an eccentric houseare all worried but - strangely - her husband, to host eccentricsAlec, so the library shelving system is not as we'd know it. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the roof is retractablebody of Greg's father, there is a steam-poweredDuncan Ackerley, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so onin the river. At the moment it houses It was an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion easy assumption for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abodeguilt. Oh The Salter children are not convinced but itthere's also going to house someone or something little else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great they can do but get on with their lives and wonderful thing, think againwonder about what really happened...|isbn=183994188X
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|isbn=18462767721035906708|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our MindsDiva|author=Jessica NordellDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and SocietyGeneral Fiction|summary=Anyone who is not an ableWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, white man understands bias but she was born to Greek parents in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. JobsManhattan, promotionsNew York, higher salaries are the preserve of the white manin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Even when those who wouldnHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas't pass to make it more manageable in the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledgedStates. It's personally appalling and degrading When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the individuals on the receiving end Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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