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|authorisbn=Ally Wilkes1529428289|title=All A Grave in the White SpacesWoods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
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|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=In post-WWI EnglandBecause of various property transactions, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by people were searching for the famous Australis Randallgrave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, They dated back to World War II and the opportunity it fell to live life as his authentic self and true genderBruno, without the disapproval and constraints Chief of his parents. HoweverPolice for St Denis, Jonathan isn't to discover the only one fleeing identities of the confines of his past bodies and the shadow of the war hangs like establish whether or not a funeral shroud over the expeditioncrime had been committed. Guilt As if this isn't enough to worry about, mistrust and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darknessDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. If Jonathan is to make it out of It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the Arctic winter alive, he will problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to face his demons once release water and for all, or risk making St Denis faces the barren, icy landscape his tombpossibility of a devastating flood.|isbn=1789097835
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz152919640X|title=QuicksilverThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. HeThe nation's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yetfavourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, murdered live on television and now is starting a career on a needless magazineit seems that there's staffonly one suspect. But when this book starts he IS now He''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he go must not serve anything containing miso to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just carries an EpiPen in time for two case of those typical Men emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in Black types to turn up a busy, live television studio - and suggest he's of interest Brooks served a ragout to themHolby. Helped Her EpiPen was nowhere to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besidesthis was no accident.|isbn=1542019885
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|isbn=00084416180008385068|title=Other ParentsThe Midnight Feast|author=Sarah StovellLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionThrillers|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as It's midsummer on the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didnDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It't live s all headed up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the townby Francesca Meadows. The school had Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an active Parent Teacher Association impressive retreat for the wealthy and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the schoolfamous. There was one difficultyHer husband, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable''Owen, with two members, in particular, causing problems for was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the headsite. Laura Spence The heat is oppressive and Kate Monroe objected amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to Jobe settled and it won's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just t be long before a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationbody is found.
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|author=Sarah Ann JuckesAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleWild East
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|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Jasper Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a little young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has some struggles, to move to Norwich and whilst westart at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny're never told why exactlys mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotions. His big sister, Rosie, has been so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a huge support to him, talking him down when things were difficultnew town, 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 their businessnew school, and so it is Rosie he always turns tokeep himself out of trouble. Even though she has gone away He listens to University nowmusic constantly, she and has promised him that she will still be there when he needs heralways dreamed of being a rapper. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to in this new school, his teacher encourages him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be rightpart of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosiepoetry, and if they can find the nightingale power of creativity and listen to its song, as they do together every Springcrafting your words.|isbn=13985108900241645441
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|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)1635866847|title=Red is My HeartThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Fiction Lifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [[https:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]//www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] books have always been black and white there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and read in my house. And so was this one, although desserts - but I could have spelled wanted that more accurately – this one was, and is, black and white and redcake viscerally. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I think was told to make a mess of it's possible . Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to say not one page lacks fold down the influence corners of pages. You suspect that smears of some striking visual ideasbutter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1913547183
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|isbnauthor=1529135567Rob Keeley|title=One Step Too Far|author=Lisa GardnerChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=ItAround here, we're big fans of children's five years since the stag weekendauthor Rob Keeley. Five He's a ball of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmenhappy positivity, Scothe understands children, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Josh. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - he writes for their pleasure and in the night Scot managed enjoyment, not to wander offlecture or hector. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. When help didn't come the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign 'Childish Spirits'' series is one of Timhis greatest achievements. Every year, TimIt's fathera sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, Martinand Edward, a spoiled lordling and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tim.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|author=Gunnar StaalesenJenny Valentine|title=Bitter FlowersUs in the Before and After|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Varg Veum Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished once in a stint in rehab and is now returning to worklifetime connection. However, the quiet job he They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don's supposedly taken on caretaking someonet get each other's house quickly turns into a murder investigationcontact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and a mystery around a missing womanthey are inseparable. Varg finds himself not only investigating these Something has happened though, but also looking into an oldsomething terrible and tragic, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never found. Somehownow they must work through their grief, these disparate cases appear to be linkedand their friendship, but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?together.|isbn=191319308X1471196585
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|author=Kia AhankoobKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his children with different powersworld, each with its own strength and weakenessit seems, in he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the hope they would complement each other sport where a team of warrior, mage and collaboratehealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging race to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and their descendantsthe points they grant you along the way. But it didn Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out s seen of them and the eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding latest race on the cost of war too highinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a solution new trio of questors is proposedneeded. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become goading from the supreme ruler token bully of Dunivahis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=B09MMQJFPV1839945184
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|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsSaima Mir|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Meet Tomas. Happy to work with his father I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the blacksmith's forge, he's almost north of the age to become England run by a full apprentice, and help with the new batch of dragonswords is certainly neededMuslim woman. Not The fact that there are any dragons, of course it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – they vanished centuries ago. Except... Strange signals from within the forge furnace, I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a peculiar invite to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until hindrance if it all comes out in the wash, 's good enough. And that yes dragons do still exist in this world, and that Tom is rare in the ability wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to summon them, share magical attributesspeed, and ride with them..I never felt lost.|isbn=18399400260861541561
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|isbnauthor=1529346541Stuart Douglas|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth GeorgeLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|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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|genre=Crime
|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)
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)Science Fiction|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of himself in those termsthings to come. He saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy I've heard it said that 'technology'is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I couldn't resist the thought must confess that he was an extreme version there have been more than a few decades of Marie Kondotechnology in my lifetime. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to him when he was in Burma me but I'm left with the army feeling that it''where he got s all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the chance to kill a lot of possibilities and the little yellow fellows probabilities and had a fine old timeend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - I needed people I knew I could trust and who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles could deliver information in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spainway I could understand.
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|author=Dave Letterfly KnodererSunny Singh|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=AutobiographyThrillers |summary=How to summarise the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you knowterrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, I really don't think I can. Dave there is an author Sam, a wartime photographer and an artistAbhi, the hotel manager. An inspirational speaker and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholic. The son of a Lutheran minister As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he's struggled forms a bond with a controlling fatherSam who refuses to be cowed by events, run away and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to join capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the circus (not a metaphor)phone, trained horses, painted caravans, designed their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the bottle took overterrorists.|isbn=B0965V3LLN086154742X
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|authorisbn=Tade Thompson1529153298|title=Far From the Light The List of HeavenSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=Michelle It'Shell' Campion s 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to spacePrime Minister. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime (A woman? I mean, bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the shiphonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's AI captainfamily, though. However Women have been disappearing. Well, when she wakes up at the end of her trip they've been murdered, but to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtimehave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's AI almost non-responsive, upset because she begins to realise 's overheard that her first mission wonfather wants to move the family 'Down South't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. When you're from Yorkshire, Down on BloodrootSouth is a frightening, foreign place, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtimebest avoided. Meanwhile For Miv, former astronaut and the move would mean leaving her best friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in towSharon, and she'll do anything to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosprevent that. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications She's not just for Bloodroot, but potentially worried about the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=Rob Keeley1398524085|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrotsHer children, broccolisons Niall, cabbage Paul and auberginesOllie and her daughter, Etty. When are all worried but - strangely - her friends at school turn up their noseshusband, Alec, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eatnot. One day Shortly afterwards, poor Lily gets tricked by JordanEtty and Greg, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with find the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetablesbody of Greg's father, like carrotsDuncan Ackerley, grow in the groundriver. Jordan says, "I did try It was an easy assumption for the police to tell her, Miss!" make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and everyone laughs at poor Lilywonder about what really happened.|isbn= B09HHN541V
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|isbn=178607981X1035906708|title=Bad ApplesDiva|author=Will DeanDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Tuva Moodyson We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the roadStates. Wondering if someone needed help When she got out of the car was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - and heard the screams from deep inside the forest. Determining she was raised under the direction of Nazi occupation by a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids mother who mercilessly exploited her and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made no secret of her way to where a woman was holding preference for her coat over the body of a man. He'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Perssonelder sister, a resident of VisbergJackie.
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