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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1529428289|title=QuicksilverA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=2.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yetBecause of various property transactions, people were searching for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But the grave but when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call they found it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go fell to a derelict dinerBruno, find a gold coin worth a fortunethe Chief of Police for St Denis, cash to discover the value identities of it out of his bank the bodies and prepare for going on the lamestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. And all As if this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest heisn's of interest to them. Helped t enough to escapeworry about, he finds his flight the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, flowing at record levels. It's not just the discovery local autumn rains that he is not unique in having some kind have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besidesdevastating flood.|isbn=1542019885
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|isbn=0008441618152919640X|title=Other ParentsThe Suspect|author=Sarah StovellRob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't murdered live up to her retired predecessor on television and it seems that there could well be a house price slump in 's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that part of the townhe must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. The school had She's seriously allergic and carries an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the schoolEpiPen in case of emergencies. There was one difficulty, though Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, can be in particulara busy, causing problems for the headlive television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Laura Spence Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationno accident.
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|authorisbn=Sarah Ann Juckes0008385068|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleMidnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley
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|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Jasper is a little boy who has some struggles, and whilst weIt're never told why exactly, we can see that he has anxiety s midsummer on the Dorset coast and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotionsguests gather at The Manor. His big sister, Rosie, has been a huge support to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, and writing a book with him, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm down. His parents seem completely caught up in It's their business, opening weekend and so it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has splendid celebrations are promised him that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he can It't find Rosies all headed up by Francesca Meadows. She hasn't come The Manor was her ancestral home when she said she would, and she isn't answering her phones converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. His parents won't speak to him or when they do Her husband, he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be rightOwen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the only way he feels he can find any peace site. The heat is if he can find Rosie, oppressive and if they can find amongst the nightingale guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and listen to its song, as they do together every Springit won't be long before a body is found.|isbn=1398510890
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Red is My HeartWild East|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Fiction Teens|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and read so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in my house. And so was this onea new town, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one wasa new school, and iskeep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, black and white and redhas always dreamed of being a rapper. Yes But now, he has an artistic collaborator on in this piecenew school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and I think it's possible , slowly, Ronny begins to say not one page lacks see the connections between rap and poetry, and the influence power of some striking visual ideascreativity and crafting your words.|isbn=19135471830241645441
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|isbn=15291355671635866847|title=One Step Too FarThe Lavender Companion|author=Lisa GardnerJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=It's five years since strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the stag weekendbook for you. Five Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of them had set out: Tim (a slice of chocolate cake on the groom) homepage. I don't eat cakes and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Joshdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and (There's a recipe in the night Scot managed book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to wander offmake a mess of it. The remaining four searched for him Notes in vain and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for helpthe margins are sanctioned. When help didn't come You get to fold down the remaining three finally made their way back to towncorners of pages. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign You suspect that smears of Timbutter would not be a problem. Every year, TimI 's father, Martin, and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for loved'remains' rather than for Timthis book already.
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|author=Gunnar StaalesenRob Keeley|title=Bitter FlowersChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Varg Veum is Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and is now returning enjoyment, not to worklecture or hector. However, the quiet job he The ''Childish Spirits''s supposedly taken on caretaking someoneseries is one of his greatest achievements. It's house quickly turns into a murder investigationsequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, and a mystery around a missing woman. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old stalwart young girl who disappeared one night can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and was never found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but what is the linkEdward, a spoiled lordling and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=191319308X1783064617
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|author=Kia AhankoobJenny Valentine|title=The Gold Lion Us in the Before and the Tournament of SentinelsAfter|rating=45|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersElk and Mab are best friends, each with its own strength and weakenessor more than that even, their friendship is a once in the hope a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they would complement don't get each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendantscontact details at the time. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of then chance brings them back together, and the eight countries went to warthey are inseparable. Having fought themselves into an endless Something has happened though, something terrible and ruinous stalemate tragic, and finding the cost of war too highnow they must work through their grief, a solution is proposed. Each of the eight countries will send and their greatest warriorsfriendship, known as sentinels, to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Dunivatogether.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV1471196585
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|author=Alastair Chisholm Kieran Larwood and Eric DeschampsJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Dragon StormDungeon Runners: Tomas and IronskinHero Trial
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|summary=Meet TomasKit. Happy Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to work the exit, perhaps bothering with his father in the blacksmith's forgetreasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's almost seen of the age to become a full apprenticelatest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and help with the a new batch trio of dragonswords questors is certainly needed. Not that there are any dragons Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except... Strange signals he has taken to the goading from within the forge furnace, token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a peculiar invite to become an apprentice clerk insteadteam. What chance does this friendless, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out muscle-free-zone have in the wash, actually managing that yes dragons do still exist in this world, and that Tom is rare in the ability how could he possibly hope to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with them...succeed?|isbn=18399400261839945184
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|isbnauthor=1529346541Saima Mir|title=Something Vengeance|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|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't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novelspeed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}} {{Frontpage|author=Elizabeth GeorgeStuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
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|summary=ItDuring location filming for his 1970's late July sitcom 'Floggit and Deborah St James is at a meeting with Dominique ShawLeggit', Undersecretary for leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the school system, dead body of a representative from woman on 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, edge of a filmmakerreservoir. It follows on from The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the success of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the meeting is an exploration help of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used a fellow actor, John Le Breton to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitieshelp him investigate matters further. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as They travel across the problem seems country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting death during the trust of Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people she speaks to and photographs.lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=B09Q3P283YB0CYV674G2|title=ShadebringerSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Grayson W HooperDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam WarIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. He's not really that invested A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the fight against Communism, nor is police station shouting that he particularly interested in a career in hasn't killed the militaryman. If A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's honest - which Clyde usually been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner isjust back from his honeymoon, which coincided with himself at least - the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he hasn't got many choices d be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and this one, at least, gets him out of the rut he's inJohn Tanner' were made for each other. He's good in training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. Hesleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's chuffed with himselfdetermined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy1787333175|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold Mad to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is no time for friendship in a hand-Going to-mouthHurt}}, every man for himself kind a glorious mixture of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit insight into the workings of a kindred spirit in the slight little DotNHS, humour and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads autobiography. ''You Don't Have to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workersMad... But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in ' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the existence work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the mermaid?|isbn=180090049Xlaughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|isbnauthor=1785633074Onyi Nwabineli|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh BerryAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=Members of Parliament like us Anuri spent her childhood on display to believe that the country is run by politiciansworld, headed by the Prime minister thanks to her step- the mother Ophelia''primus inter pares'' (thats increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for those of you who are Eton sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and Oxbridge educated) but the reality she is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step- mother to take down the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmentcontent about her. We are in the privileged position of having access Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to the memoirs of Rafe Hubrisstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, the man who was behind is the skilful control new focus of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020Ophelia's online empire. You might not know Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the name now but he will certainly be the man to watch.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|isbnauthor=B09MYXSRV4David Chadwick|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya SmithHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=When the world was madeIt's September 1973 in Hicks, the animals were given giftsCalifornia. Bear was given strength so that he could become Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a protectorfew thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burnNot much happens in Hicks. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''A silver mine and'' a defence contractor are the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - main local employers butotherwise, unfortunately, there's not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick much of note other animalsthan dive bars and Joshua trees. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with TurtleLife is quiet, until. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|author=Giovanna FletcherTom Percival|title=Walking on SunshineThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary=MikeWill's wifelife is difficult, Piain a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is dealing with the wrong shoes because his griefdad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some his dad can'rules' to followt work because he lost his job at the college, knowing that she was dying working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of mix the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one fact that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, his mum and Vicky and Zazadad are separated, struggling with their grief and their own Will's life troublesseems bleak in every direction. And yet, decide he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to drop everything in their own livesthe moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, and go along with himdark tunnel.|isbn=140593560X1398527122
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|isbnauthor=1529393930Sylvie Cathrall|title=Making a Living: How A Letter to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochesterthe Luminous Deep
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|genre=CraftsScience Fiction|summary=''Starting a creative business has never been easier.'' ''If not now, when?'' I know that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. There's a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items are few greater joys than we can sensibly use and there are a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. Selling would offset the costs, book which can be quite considerable and it could be fun to do, couldn't it? But where lives up to start? What do I need to think about? Well, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do compelling premise. And this is to read ''Making a Living''one of them.|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn=Freya Marske0008517061|title=A Marvellous LightDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into a job in the Civil Service, much to his chagrinrustic life at Little Sky. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the streets future of London are threaded his life with magic. Desperate to remove his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a curse that threatens lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the countryside, where future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the hedgegrows bristle with incantations present and putting the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens future on the lives of all magicians in the British Islesback burner. |isbn=1529080886
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|isbn=02414804421786482126|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition ScienceJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienElly Griffiths
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|genre=CookeryCrime|summary=Emotionally, I am Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a vegan. Mentally, I am child beneath a vegandoorway. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and There was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) foodno skull. Practically, I am not Was this a vegan. ritual killing or murder? It worked for a while apart from the odd blip Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based proteinDCI Harry Nelson. It wasn's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't the taste - I know , that I can get plant-based food that tastes just she is pregnant with his child as good as anything plundered from a result of the animal kingdom - it was the ease one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare momentssickness.
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|isbn=suppl_stafl0008551324|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Kim StaflundNeil Lancaster
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|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyIt's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself unusual for what had happenedanyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. He'd fallen asleep Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in the park whilst Theo was playing prison and when he woke, Theo had gone. It cost him his marriage 's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and his homewho was responsible for her death. Ten years later This person, he's largely come through promises, is someone big and it and will be worth the police doing what he's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneywants. Gavin used And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his best friend but sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's a long time since they've spoken. Het think so and she's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and he asks Jonah to meet anyone who works with him at Slaughter Quay. ''Thereis kept well away from what's no one else I can trust'', he sayshappening.
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|authorisbn=Amanda Mason0008405026|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 A Stranger in 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}} {{FrontpageFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Paul Cleave|title=The Quiet PeopleJane Casey
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|summary= I am not a fan of "the Prologue"It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Most books are She was never found and the worse for them. In this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who is in investigation ground to a hurryhalt. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have Now, her mother, Helena, and when he hurriesher father are dead in their bed. Initially, when he bundles things into it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the back positioning of his car the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and tries her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to run be an open-and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is New Zealand and convinced that is not how they do things therethe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, he takes a risk. It ends badlyUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1913193942
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|authorisbn=Will Carver0571379877|title=Psychopaths AnonymousThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Maeve Edward Jevons is a high functioning alcoholicworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, drinking continuously Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's alsoself-obsessed, curiouslydemanding, addicted handsome and entitled and uses Edward to attending numerous AA groupsrun errands for him. She is also a self Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups he's drunkenly confided how he feels to find targetsRobert...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people Most men in Robert's misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and when sheposition would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's unable not like most men: Edward is left to find like-minded people stumble upon the two of them kissing 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 borna dark passageway.|isbn=1913193756
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|isbnauthor=1529418100Jo Callaghan|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin WalkerLeave No Trace
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|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=I'm not usually When a fan man is found crucified on the top of short stories - I find it all too easy a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to put the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so case alongside her sidekick, the temptation to read ''BrunoAI detective Lock. It's Challenge'' was hard to resist their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and I'm rather glad a very high profile case that I didn't even trydraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. For those new Will they be able to solve the seriescase in time, there's an excellent introduction that or will tell you all you need to know about who's who Kat find herself taken off the case and the background to why Bruno is in St Denis., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF1399613073|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)Moral Injuries|author=Jenny O'BrienChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first night away from her sonday of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Hunter had diabetes and this was controlled by Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a pump attached bonus when you aim 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'' likecardiothoracic surgeon. Her friend, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for Laura is a night in perfectionist and a posh hotel but then he dumped her trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she couldnbecomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't get know who suffered the money back, so Hannah was offered tragedy or the opportunity to go in his placeconsequences. She would return home to find Ian dead and Twenty-five-year-old Hunter missingyears later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q0241636604|title=Without a TraceThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Jane BettanyGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Life hadnIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through a divorce re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and right now it his background is the East End, where he was raining hardfamiliar with violence, poverty and injustice. All she wanted There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to get back to her new home the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and settle down for he has a quiet eveningfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. It wasn't going He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a dead man on her bed card game which got him an internship with a knife in his chestCitibank. She'd no idea who he wasEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=18387748231035021803|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=S J BennettC L Miller|rating=3.5
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|summary=It's 2016 and twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the QueenEnglish country village where she grew up. She's Private Secretaryback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistbandCarole. SwimmingFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, he decidesArthur Crockleford, is the way to go dead and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came circumstances seem suspicious, to be there early one morning and discovered say the body of Cynthia Harris at least. Arthur was the side of reason why Freya had not been back to the poolvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. There was broken glass - a crystal tumblerEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, by she has not felt able to be near the look at it - probably one of man or pursue the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that profession she had bled outloved. StillAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, it who was a shock for Sir Simonmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=057136358XAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=April in SpainAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=John BanvilleBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Science Fiction|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think of himself in those terms. He saw what he did as ''a matter Opening up new ways of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist thinking about the thought that he was an extreme version shape of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance things to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''come. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spain.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dave Letterfly Knoderer|title=Speedy: Hurled Through Havoc|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=How to summarise the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you know, I really don't think I can.
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|author=Tade ThompsonSunny Singh|title=Far From the Light of HeavenHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers |summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion The Hotel Arcadia is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to spacea luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. As first officer aboard Hiding from the sleeper ship Ragtimeterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, bound for the world of Bloodrootthere is Sam, she will essentially be a babysitter for wartime photographer and Abhi, the ship's AI captainhotel manager. However, when she wakes up at As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and residents who are still alive in the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsivehotel, she begins he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodrootcowed by events, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up keeps on venturing out of her room to try to discover exactly capture what went wrong on 's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the Ragtime. Meanwhilephone, former astronaut their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, they both wait to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosterrorists. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323086154742X
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|authorisbn=Rob Keeley1529153298|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 45|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary= It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? Lily loves eating fruit and vegetablesI mean, honestly... ) She likes carrots's not what's worrying Miv's family, broccoli, cabbage and auberginesthough. Women have been disappearing. When her friends at school turn up their noses Well, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice 've been murdered, but to eathave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells Miv's upset because she's overheard that her that carrots grow on treesfather wants to move the family 'Down South'. Infuriated When you're from Yorkshire, Lily checks with the teacherDown South is a frightening, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetablesforeign place, like carrotsbest avoided. For Miv, grow in the ground. Jordan saysmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, "I did try and she'll do anything to tell prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor LilyMum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn= B09HHN541V
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|isbn=178607981X1398524085|title=Bad ApplesHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Will DeanNicci French|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson Charlotte Salter was driving expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up 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 Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and heard Greg, find the screams from deep inside body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the forestriver. Determining It was an easy assumption for the direction of a sound isnpolice to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't easy when you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where a woman was holding her coat over stand the body of a manguilt. HeThe Salter children are not convinced but there'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Persson, a resident of Visbergs little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir1035906708|title=Cold As HellDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary= In a red suitcase We tend to think of Maria Callas as the bottom of a fissure Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in a lava fieldManhattan, New York, there is a bodyin December 1923 and 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 States. And When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the man Nazi occupation by a mother who has put mercilessly exploited her there has just discovered that he is capable and made no secret of killingher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=1913193888
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