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|isbn=17328987311529428289|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese |rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and the like: all the things which most children have in abundance. The Boy's delight was Grave in the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happy. As he grew up and became a ManWoods (A Bruno, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that one Chief of them has a padlock...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09MN1526W|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4Police Novel)|author=Liz MistryMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the third murder in the space of a few weeks and grave but when they've all been because found it, it came with three sets of machetes used on teenagersbones. DS Nikki Parekh They dated back to World War II and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first it fell to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on Bruno, the outskirts Chief of Bradford. Only, this timePolice for St Denis, it's going to be different. The body appears to Nikki to be that discover the identities of her beloved nephew, Haqib, the bodies and she has establish whether or not a very public meltdowncrime had been committed. It As if this isn't Haqib: there are similarities but enough to worry about, the body Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied backgroundflowing at record levels. What it does mean though is It's not just the local autumn rains that Nikki is going have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety release water and depressionSt Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.
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|authorisbn=Ally Wilkes152919640X|title=All the White SpacesThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=In post-WWI EnglandThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For JonathanJessica Holby, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, and the opportunity to was murdered live life as his authentic self on television and true gender, without the disapproval it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and constraints of his parentscontract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. However, Jonathan isn She't the only one fleeing the confines of his past s seriously allergic and the shadow carries an EpiPen in case of the war hangs like emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a funeral shroud over the expedition. Guiltbusy, mistrust and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes live television studio - and they are forced to overwinter on land, Brooks served a menacing presence waits ragout to prey on their darknessHolby. If Jonathan is Her EpiPen was nowhere to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once be found and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tombshe was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.|isbn=1789097835
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0008385068|title=QuicksilverThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=24.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. HeIt's not had midsummer on the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for heDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, their opening weekend and now is starting a career on a needless magazinesplendid celebrations are promised. It's staffall headed up by Francesca Meadows. But when this book starts he IS now The Manor was her ancestral home and she''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', s converted it into an impressive retreat for something – call it unearthly intuitionthe wealthy and famous. Her husband, call it mind-controlOwen, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash was the value of it out of his bank architect and prepare for going work is still ongoing on parts of the lamsite. And all this The heat is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up oppressive and suggest he's of interest to themamongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Helped Old scores are going to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – be settled and it won't be long before a whole lot more besidesbody is found.|isbn=1542019885
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|isbnauthor=0008441618Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah StovellWild East|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didnWritten in verse, this is Ronny't live up s story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to her retired predecessor there could well be 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 house price slump tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in that part a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of the towntrouble. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association He listens to music constantly, and the funds which they raised were has always dreamed of being a considerable benefit to the schoolrapper. There was one difficultyBut now, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable''in this new school, with two membershis teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, in particularslowly, causing problems for Ronny begins to see the head. Laura Spence connections between rap and poetry, and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationpower of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|authorisbn=Sarah Ann Juckes1635866847|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=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://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (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. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|author=Rob Keeley
|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Jasper is a little boy who has some strugglesAround here, and whilst we're never told why exactly, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotionsfans of children's author Rob Keeley. His big sister, Rosie, has been He's a huge support to himball of happy positivity, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging himhe understands children, 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 writes for their businesspleasure and enjoyment, and so it is Rosie he always turns not tolecture or hector. 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 The ''t find Rosie. She hasnChildish Spirits't come home when she said she would, and she isn't answering her phoneseries is one of his greatest achievements. His parents wonIt't speak to him or when they dos a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be righta stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find RosieEdward, a spoiled lordling and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its song, as they do together every Spring.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=13985108901783064617
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Jenny Valentine|title=Red is My HeartUs in the Before and After|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction Teens|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black Elk and white and read Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in my housea lifetime connection. And so was this They meet as children oneday on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one wasand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and istragic, black and white now they must work through their grief, and red. Yestheir friendship, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideastogether.|isbn=19135471831471196585
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|isbnauthor=1529135567Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=One Step Too Far|author=Lisa GardnerDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It's five years since the stag weekendMeet Kit. Five Like most of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and people in his four groomsmenworld, Scotit seems, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy)he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, Neil mage and Josh. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really healer enter specially prepared, century- old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and in the night Scot managed to wander offpoints they grant you along the way. The remaining four searched Unfortunately for him in vain and it was decided Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that Timone team has been retired, who was experienced in survival techniqueseaten, would go for helpand a new trio of questors is needed. When help didn't come Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign token bully of Timhis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Every yearWhat chance does this friendless, Tim's father, Martinmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and the four friends have been back how could he possibly hope to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tim.succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|author=Gunnar StaalesenSaima Mir|title=Bitter FlowersVengeance
|rating=3.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Varg Veum is I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning to workMuslim woman. However, The fact that it was the quiet job hesecond in a series I hadn's supposedly taken on caretaking someonet read didn't stop me – I's house quickly turns ve jumped midway into a murder investigation, few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a mystery around hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a missing womanproblem here. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an oldVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was I never foundfelt lost. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308X0861541561
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|author=Kia AhankoobStuart Douglas|title=The Gold Lion Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Tournament of SentinelsDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed During location filming for his children with different powers, each with its own strength 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and weakenessLeggit', in leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating dead body of a woman on the edge of a dynamic and prosperous societyreservoir. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging The police seem happy to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. But assign it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and as an accidental death, but something about the eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless whole thing bothers Lowe, and ruinous stalemate and finding he enlists the cost help of war too higha fellow actor, a solution is proposedJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Each of They travel across the eight countries will send country during their greatest warriorsdays off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, known as sentinelsseemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a single combat tournament. The winner link between the deaths? And will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva.they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=B09MMQJFPV1803368209
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|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsB0CYV674G2|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet TomasIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. Happy to work with his father A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the blacksmithpolice station shouting that he hasn's forge, t killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's almost of the age been stabbed to become a full apprenticedeath. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, and help which coincided with the new batch birth of dragonswords is certainly neededhis daughter Samantha. Not that there are any dragons, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except... Strange signals from within You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the forge furnace, words 'perverse' and a peculiar invite to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things 'John Tanner' were made for Tom each other. He's sleep-deprived to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the wash, that yes dragons do still exist in this world, and that Tom is rare in the ability point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with themkeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home...|isbn=1839940026
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|isbn=15293465411787333175|title=Something You Don't Have to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novelbe Mad to Work Here|author=Elizabeth GeorgeBenji Waterhouse
|rating=5
|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=ItI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's late July and Deborah St James first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is at Going to Hurt}}, a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for glorious mixture of insight into the school system, a representative from workings of the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi humour and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakerautobiography. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book 'You Don'London Voices'': the meeting is an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used t Have to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesbe Mad... Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as ' promised the problem seems same elements but moved from physical problems to occur in Nigerian mental illness and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust work of the people she speaks a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to and photographs.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09Q3P283Y|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up be looking for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested humour in this setting but the fight against Communism, nor laughter is he particularly interested in directed at a situation rather than a career in the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually person and it is, always delivered with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the rut he's in. He's good in training empathy and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himselfunderstanding.
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|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmyOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=There is no mermaid in Anuri spent her childhood on display to the millpondworld, 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, monetary gain. That at least Now Anuri is what Bess in her twenties and she is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her in amongst all the other kidslife back, who have had their entire childhoods sold suing her step-mother to take down the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homecontent about her. Bess knows there Anuri is no time for friendship in a hand-battling alcoholism, failing to-mouthstart her PhD, every man undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for himself kind of existencedoing so. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot Most importantly, and despite everything that life has taught she is desperately worried about her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harmlittle sister, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there who is any truth in the existence new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the mermaidsame time?|isbn=180090049X0861546873
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|isbnauthor=1785633074David Chadwick|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh BerryHeadload of Napalm
|rating=4.5
|genre=HumourThrillers|summary=Members It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of Parliament like us to believe that LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the country is run by politiciansmain local employers but otherwise, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (thatthere's for those not much of you who are Eton note other than dive bars and Oxbridge educated) but the reality Joshua trees. Life is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmentquiet, until.. We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, 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 watch.|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=B09MYXSRV4Tom Percival|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya SmithWrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=When the world was madeWill's life is difficult, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become in a protectormultitude of ways. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that He is bullied because he could see has 'the present wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work anddoesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can' t work because he lost his job at the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - butcollege, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be working a cash-in -hand job on a race with Turtlebuilding site and had an accident. You might think Throw into that mix the fact thathis mum and dad are separated, and Will's not a fair contest but wait and seelife seems bleak in every direction. Things are not always as they seemAnd yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. I'll tell you how it came aboutHe is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|author=Giovanna FletcherSylvie Cathrall|title=Walking on Sunshine|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help A Letter 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 of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with him.|isbn=140593560X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529393930|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie RochesterLuminous Deep
|rating=5
|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
|rating=4
|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
|rating=4.5
|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
|rating=4.5
|genre=ReferenceCrime|summary=So, youIt've finished writing your book and you think s unusual for anyone from the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need Hardie family to do now is get it published and approach the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong againpolice. You presumably wrote Neither side likes or has any respect for the book because you wanted other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to - tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and you had a talent who was responsible for delivering the written wordher death. You knew your subject back to frontThis person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. Now you're going And what he wants is to have be transferred to get an open prison to grips with serve the book supply chain, which even parts remainder of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change his sentence and no one wants to be the first to tryget an early parole date. ThenNot much to ask, when you is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'finally'' have a copy of s even prepared to do the book in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to sell it other thing that Hardie demanded - because it ''make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him iskept well away from what'' going to be down to yous happening.
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|isbn=13987069060008405026|title=The LostA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Simon BeckettJane Casey|rating=45
|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 for what had happenedsixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo She was playing never found and when he woke, Theo had gonethe investigation ground to a halt. It cost him his marriage Now, her mother, Helena, and his homeher father are dead in their bed. Ten years later he's largely come through Initially, it and helooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's out with his team when he gets a phone call from something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Gavin McKinneyMaeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Gavin used What looked as though it was going to be his best friend but it's an open-and-shut case is now a long time since they've spokencomplex double murder. HeKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quay. ''Theredisappearance: others (such as Derwent's no one else I can trust''boss, he saysUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Amanda Mason0571379877|title=The Hiding PlaceKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent lifeEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, Nell Galilee takes her husband handsome and stepdaughter entitled and uses Edward to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder Houserun errands for him. She hopes that it will be the perfect place Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to sort things outRobert. But there Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere like most men: Edward is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts left to suspect that she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}
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|author=Paul CleaveJo Callaghan|title=The Quiet PeopleLeave No Trace|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary= I am not When a fan man is found crucified on the top of "a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Prologue". Most books are case alongside her sidekick, the worse for themAI detective Lock. In this It's their first live case I might make an exceptiontogether, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. We start But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with Luca Pittman who is in a hurrypotential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. He has Will they be able to hurry because he has children that he should not havesolve the case in time, and when he hurries, when he bundles things into or will Kat find herself taken off the back of his car case 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 therepotentially, he takes out of a risk. It ends badly.career?|isbn=1913193942139851120X
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|authorisbn=Will Carver1399613073|title=Psychopaths AnonymousMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholicOlivia, drinking continuously Laura and alsoAnjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, curiously, addicted which is a bonus when you aim to attending numerous AA groupsbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. She Laura is also a self-acknowledged psychopathperfectionist and a trauma doctor. Whilst analysing Anjali is the free spirit of the group and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targetsbecomes a GP...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people When we first meet them they's misery, re at a drug and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, alcohol-fuelled party and when sheit's unable going to find likeend in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-minded people in any of five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the groups she decides to set up her ownthree friends. This time, hoping to encounter others it's their teenage children who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornare involved.|isbn=1913193756
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|isbn=15294181000241636604|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Martin WalkerGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesAutobiography|summary=IIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you'm not usually a fan re unlikely to think of short stories someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin- I find it all too easy to put stripe suit and his background is the book down between stories East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and forget injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to pick it up again the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - but I am and he has a fan facility with numbers which most of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' be stupid. It was his ability at what was hard to resist and I'm rather glad that I didn't even try, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. For those new to the seriesEventually, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who's who and the background to why Bruno is in St Denisthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF1035021803|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Jenny O'BrienC L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her sonbeloved aunt, Carole. Hunter had diabetes Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and this the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was controlled by a pump attached the reason why Freya had not been back to his stomachthe village: Arthur, so her over-protectiveness was understandableshe feels, but let her fiancedown badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, Ian, was pestering her she has not felt able to get married and be near the man or pursue the profession she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likeloved. Her friendAfter the split, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for a night she worked in a posh hotel but then he dumped her cafe, met and she couldn't get married James (on the rebound from the money backlove of her life, so Hannah who was offered the opportunity to go in his place. She would return home to find Ian dead murdered) and Freya and five-year-old Hunter missingJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=B09GV3WS1QAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Without a TraceAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Jane BettanyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come through a divorce and right now .'' I've heard it was raining hardsaid that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. All she wanted was to get back to her new home and settle down for Well, I must confess that there have been more than a quiet eveningfew decades of technology in my lifetime. It wasnI've kept up reasonably well with what't going s advantageous to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed me but I'm left with a knife in his chestthe feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. SheOf 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'd no idea re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who he wascould deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=1838774823Sunny Singh|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog Problem|author=S J BennettHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=It's 2016 and the Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting suddenly been violently taken over by a strain on his waistbandterrorist group. SwimmingHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, he decideskilling everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the way hotel manager. As Abhi continues to go and he can use try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the Buckingham Palace pool which is how hotel, he came forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be there early one morning cowed by events, and discovered the body keeps on venturing out of Cynthia Harris at the side of the poolher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. There was broken glass - a crystal tumblerAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the look at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled out. Still, it was a shock for Sir Simonterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=057136358X1529153298|title=April in SpainThe List of Suspicious Things|author=John BanvilleJennie Godfrey
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|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Terry Tice was a hitmanIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, although he didn't think of himself in those termshonestly... ) He saw She's not what he did as 's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they'a matter of making things tidyve been murdered, but to have 'disappeared'. I couldndoesn't resist the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondosound quite so frightening. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army Miv's upset because she'where he got the chance s overheard that her father wants to kill a lot of move the little yellow fellows and had a fine old timefamily 'Down South'. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldnWhen you't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of re from Yorkshire, Down South is a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she''morning''? ll do anything to prevent that. It was after PercyShe's death not worried about the dangers or that he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spainher Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=Dave Letterfly Knoderer1398524085|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyCrime|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 donCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband't think I cans fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Dave is an author Her children, sons Niall, Paul and an artist. An inspirational speaker Ollie and a professional horsemanher daughter, Etty. And a recovering alcoholicare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. The son Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of a Lutheran minister, heGreg's struggled with a controlling father, run away Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to join make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the circus (guilt. The Salter children are not a metaphor), trained horses, painted caravans, designed convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when the bottle took overwonder about what really happened.|isbn=B0965V3LLN
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|authorisbn=Tade Thompson1035906708|title=Far From the Light of HeavenDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going We tend to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the world think of BloodrootMaria Callas as Greek, but she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's AI captain. Howeverwas born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she wakes up at the end of was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her trip father changed it to find dozens of her passengers butchered and 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the Ragtime's AI almost nonStates. When she was back in Athens -responsive, supposedly so that she begins to realise that could get appropriate training for her first mission won't be going as smoothly as voice - she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on was raised under the Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes Nazi occupation by a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking mother who mercilessly exploited her and bureaucracy made no secret of Space Station Lagos. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just her preference for Bloodroother elder sister, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323Jackie.
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