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|isbn=17876348841529428289|title=The HerdA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Emily EdwardsMartin Walker|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Our story opens in December 2019Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, before most the Chief of us had even heard Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of Covid or realised that the bodies and establish whether or not we should be vaccinated would come to be a major issuecrime had been committed. WeAs if this isn're in Farley County Courtt enough to worry about, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash Kohlithe Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. As they were best friends until It's not just a few months ago we know the local autumn rains that whatever has happened is major have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and that, regardless St Denis faces the possibility of the outcome, this is not going to work out well for anyonea devastating flood.
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|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs152919640X|title=The Language of FoodSuspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to boil Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an eggEpiPen in case of emergencies. When tasked with writing Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirbybusy, live television studio - and Brooks served a local woman with a troubled home liferagout to Holby. Together, they test, craft, refine Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and reshape the world of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book and changing the face of cookery writing forevershe was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.|isbn=1398502227
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|authorisbn=Louie Stowell0008385068|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley
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|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's May 2019 midsummer on the Dorset coast and Dr Chloe Davis, a medical psychologist, is completing a session with a new patientguests gather at The Manor. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes of getting her through the traumaIt's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. You see, Chloe knows what itIt's like to have a traumatic childhoodall headed up by Francesca Meadows. Her father is Richard Davis, The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the man who murdered six girls some twenty years agowealthy and famous. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to Her husband, Owen, was the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home architect and she and her mother handed it to work is still ongoing on parts of the policesite. Dick Davis The heat is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary oppressive and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for amongst the last twenty yearsguests are enemies as well as friends. Her mother Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is in a care homefound.
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|author=Christopher EdgeAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Escape RoomWild East|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=IWritten in verse, this is Ronny've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which s story, a character or characters 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 being trapped in Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a specific locationtragic event, and have so Ronny finds himself trying to solve problems settle in order to get their way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventurenew town, a new school, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the firstand keep himself out of trouble. Here He listens to music constantly, Ami and four other tweenagershas always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, all in this new school, his teacher encourages him to each other and booked into the game without any be part of their friends, are a team – starting out at the game's main officespoetry writing workshop group and, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastimeslowly, despite Ronny begins to see the ramped-up threat levelsconnections between rap and poetry, change much in and the world power of literature?creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=17880079640241645441
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|isbn=17328987311635866847|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for AdultsLavender Companion|author=Michael Albanese Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxesIt's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldnBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''t believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and I visited the likeauthor's [https: all //www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the things which most children have in abundancehomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. The Boy(There's delight was a recipe in the sense book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of order in his room: it made him feel happy. As he grew up and became a Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxesNotes in the margins are sanctioned. Look carefully at You get to fold down the pictures and you'll see corners of pages. You suspect that one smears of them has butter would not be a padlock.problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|isbnauthor=B09MN1526WRob Keeley|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)|author=Liz MistryChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=ItAround here, we's the third murder in the space re big fans of a few weeks and theychildren've all been because of machetes used on teenagers. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of Bradfords author Rob Keeley. Only, this time, itHe's going to be different. The body appears to Nikki to be that a ball of her beloved nephewhappy positivity, Haqibhe understands children, and she has a very public meltdown. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but the body is clad in designer clothes he writes for their pleasure and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going enjoyment, not to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depressionlecture or hector.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ally Wilkes|title=All the White Spaces|rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, and the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, without the disapproval and constraints The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his parentsgreatest achievements. However, Jonathan isnIt't the only one fleeing the confines s a sequence of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like ghost stories centring on Ellie, a funeral shroud over stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the expedition. Guiltspirit world throws at her, mistrust and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on landEdward, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once spoiled lordling and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=17890978351783064617
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|author=Dean KoontzJenny Valentine|title=Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, 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 when this book starts he IS now ''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 that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being Us in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – Before and a whole lot more besides.|isbn=1542019885}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008441618|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah StovellAfter
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|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary=Jo Fairburn knew Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that she was under intense pressure even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didnchildren one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of get each other's contact details at the towntime. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association But then chance brings them back together, and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the schoolare inseparable. There was one difficulty, Something has happened though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two memberssomething terrible and tragic, in particularand now they must work through their grief, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence 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 educationfriendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|author=Sarah Ann JuckesKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Jasper Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a little boy who has some strugglesteam of warrior, mage and whilst we're never told why exactlyhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacksrace to the exit, and has difficulty dealing perhaps bothering with change the treasure or the big bad and big emotionsthe points they grant you along the way. His big sister, Rosie Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been a huge support to him, talking him down when things were difficultretired, encouraging himeaten, and writing a book with him, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm downnew trio of questors is needed. His parents seem completely caught up in their business Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, and so it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away taken to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, and she isn't answering her phonell enter as a team. His parents won't speak to him or when they do What chance does this friendless, he doesn't understand or take muscle-free-zone have in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be rightactually managing that, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if how could he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen possibly hope to its song, as they do together every Spring.succeed?|isbn=13985108901839945184
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Saima Mir|title=Red is My HeartVengeance
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|genre=Literary Fiction Thrillers|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in my housethe north of England run by a Muslim woman. And so The fact that it was this one, although the second in a series I could have spelled that more accurately hadn't read didn't stop me – this one was, I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and is, black screen) and white and redit needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideasnever felt lost.|isbn=19135471830861541561
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|isbnauthor=1529135567Stuart Douglas|title=One Step Too Far|author=Lisa GardnerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItDuring location filming for his 1970's five years since sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the stag weekend. Five dead body of them had set out: Tim (a woman on the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Joshedge of a reservoir. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed police seem happy to wander off. The remaining four searched for him in vain and assign it was decided that Timas an accidental death, who was experienced in survival techniquesbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, would go for John Le Breton to helphim investigate matters further. When help didn't come They travel across the remaining three finally made country during their way back days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to towndeath during the Second World War. Scott followed soon after but But is there was no sign of Tim. really a link between the deaths? Every year, Tim's father, Martin, and the four friends have been back And will they manage to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tim.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|authorisbn=Gunnar StaalesenB0CYV674G2|title=Bitter FlowersSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in rehab mud and is now returning to work. Howeverblood - and carrying a knife, comes into the quiet job police station shouting that hehasn's supposedly taken on caretaking someonet killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, and a mystery around a missing womanbeen stabbed to death. Varg finds himself not only investigating theseDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, but also looking into an old, cold case which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an eight year old girl who disappeared one night easy answer but the words 'perverse' and was never found'John Tanner' were made for each other. Somehow, these disparate cases appear He's sleep-deprived to be linked, the point of falling asleep at work but what is the link, and how he's determined to keep going - probably because he can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308X't get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Kia AhankoobBenji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=The Gold Lion This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the Tournament same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of Sentinelsa psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsGeneral Fiction|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, each with its own strength where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and weakeness, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the hope they would complement each other content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and collaborate, creating a dynamic secretly abusing people online and prosperous societyreceiving money from them for doing so. Each power Most importantly, she is contained within a magical ring belonging to one desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of eight countries led by MyriadOphelia's children online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and their descendantsher relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|author=David Chadwick|title=Headload of Napalm|rating=4. But it didn5|genre=Thrillers|summary= It't quite work out like thats September 1973 in Hicks, California. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of them LA and the eight countries went to warLas Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. Having fought themselves into an endless A silver mine and ruinous stalemate and finding a defence contractor are the cost main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of war too highnote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, a solution is proposeduntil.. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva.|isbn=B09MMQJFPVB0D321VJ76
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|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsTom Percival|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet TomasWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. Happy to work with his father in He is bullied because he has 'the blacksmithwrong shoes's forge, hehas the wrong shoes because his dad can's almost t work and doesn'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 age to become college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a full apprentice, building site and help with had an accident. Throw into that mix the new batch of dragonswords is certainly needed. Not fact that there his mum and dad are any dragonsseparated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except..hope. Strange signals from within the forge furnaceHe is good at art, and a peculiar invite clings to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the washmoments of joy when he is drawing, that yes dragons do still exist in this world, and that Tom is rare in feel like a light at the ability to summon themend of a long, share magical attributes, and ride with them..dark tunnel.|isbn=18399400261398527122
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|isbnauthor=1529346541Sylvie Cathrall|title=Something A Letter to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth Georgethe Luminous Deep
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James is at There are few greater joys than a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school system, a representative from the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out book which lives up to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakercompelling premise. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting is an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which And this is causing concern in some communities. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the problem seems to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust one of the people she speaks to and photographsthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=B09Q3P283Y0008517061|title=ShadebringerDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Grayson W HooperStig Abell
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam WarFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. He's not really that invested in There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the fight against Communismfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, nor is he particularly interested Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a career lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices future she wants for herself and this one, at least, gets him out of her daughter? For the rut he's moment they’re enjoying life in. He's good in training the present and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himselfputting the future on the back burner.
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|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy1786482126|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=There is no mermaid Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold site was going to the millhold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments -owners by when they discovered the London workhouse they used to call homebones of a child beneath a doorway. Bess knows there is There was no time for friendship in skull. Was this a hand-to-mouthritual killing or murder? Inevitably, every man for himself kind of existenceDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be she is pregnant with his child as a glimmer result of companionship in the tired-out mill workersone night they spent together some three months ago. But surely that doesn't mean there Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is any truth in the existence prone to sudden bouts of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049Xsickness.
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|isbn=17856330740008551324|title=Staggering HubrisThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Josh BerryNeil Lancaster
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|genre=HumourCrime|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (thatIt's unusual for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but anyone from the reality is that Hardie family to approach the ''prime'' movers are police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmentother. We are But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the privileged position of having access to police where the memoirs body of Rafe Hubris, the man a missing person is buried and who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020responsible for her death. You might not know the name now but This person, he promises, is someone big and it will certainly be worth the man police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to watchbe transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=B09MYXSRV40008405026|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Cordellya SmithJane Casey|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When the world was made, the animals were given giftsIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Bear She was given strength so that he could become never found and the investigation ground to a protectorhalt. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burnNow, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Owl had excellent sight so Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that he could see the present ''makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and'' the futureher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use What looked as though it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came going to be in an open-and-shut case is now a race with Turtlecomplex double murder. You might think Kerrigan is convinced thatthe explanation lies in Rosalie's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always disappearance: others (such as they seem. IDerwent'll tell you how it came abouts boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Giovanna Fletcher0571379877|title=Walking on SunshineThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen yearsEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, has died. And whilst he is dealing obsessed with his grief, so are their best upper-class friends, Vicky Robert and ZazaStanza. But Pia left them all some Robert'ruless a theatre director. He' to follows also self-obsessed, demanding, knowing that she was dying handsome and entitled and that they would need help uses Edward to carry on livingrun errands for him. 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 Edward has been in love with Stanza since their grief university days - and their own life troubles, decide he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to drop everything stumble upon the two of them kissing in their own lives, and go along with hima dark passageway.|isbn=140593560X
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Robin Blyth When a man is nudged into found crucified on the top of a job hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Civil Servicecase alongside her sidekick, much to his chagrinthe AI detective Lock. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with magicseveral cold cases. Desperate to remove But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a curse very high profile case that threatens draws a lot of unwanted attention to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the countrysidecase in time, where or will Kat find herself taken off the hedgegrows bristle with incantations case and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover , potentially, out of a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles. career?|isbn=1529080886139851120X
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|isbn=02414804421399613073|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition ScienceMoral Injuries|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=CookeryThrillers|summary=EmotionallyOlivia, I am Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a vegancentury. MentallyOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, I am which is a bonus when you aim to be a vegancardiothoracic surgeon. I read [[How to Love Animals in Laura is a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] perfectionist and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) fooda trauma doctor. Practically, I am not Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a veganGP. It worked for When we first meet them they're at a while apart from the odd blip with regard drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often end in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based proteintragedy. It wasnWe don't know who suffered the tragedy or the taste - I know that I can get plantconsequences. Twenty-based food five years later there will be an eerily similar event that tastes just as good as anything plundered from will impact the animal kingdom - three friends. This time, it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=suppl_stafl0241636604|title=Supply Chain 20/20The Trading Game: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversConfession|author=Kim StaflundGary Stevenson
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|genre=ReferenceAutobiography|summary=So, If you've finished writing were to bring up an image of a city banker in your book and mind, you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need unlikely to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong againthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. You presumably wrote A hoodie and jeans replaces the book because you wanted to pin- stripe suit and you had a talent for delivering his background is the written wordEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. You knew your subject back There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to frontthe London School of Economics. Now you're going to have to get to grips Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with the book supply chain, numbers which even parts most of the publishing industry believe us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and no one wants to be the first to trystupid. ThenIt was his ability at what was, essentially, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book in your handscard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to youthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=13987069061035021803|title=The LostAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Simon BeckettC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The disappearance 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 Metropolitan police firearms officera request for help from her beloved aunt, Jonah ColleyCarole. Freya's young sonformer mentor and Carole's close friend, TheoArthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, just about finished himshe feels, particularly let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as he blamed himself for what had happenedantique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. He'd fallen asleep After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the park whilst Theo love of her life, who was playing murdered) and when he woke, Theo had gone. It cost him his marriage Freya and his homeJames have now divorced. Ten years later he}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's largely Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come through .'' I've heard it and hesaid that 'technology' is what happens after you's out with his team when he gets re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneyfew decades of technology in my lifetime. Gavin used I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to be his best friend me but I'm left with the feeling that it's a long time since they've spokenall getting away from me. He's obviously in some difficulty now Some of it is - Jonah can hear it in his voice frankly - and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quayquite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they'There's no one else re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I can could trust'', he saysand who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|author=Amanda MasonSunny Singh|title=The Hiding PlaceHotel Arcadia
|rating=3.5
|genre=HorrorThrillers |summary=Needing The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an escape unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from their turbulent lifethe terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, Nell Galilee takes her husband a wartime photographer and stepdaughter Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to Whitbycare remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, where they rent he forms a cliffside holiday cottage bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by the name events, and keeps on venturing out of Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place her room to try to sort things out. But therecapture what's something not quite right about Elder Househappened through her photography. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – Although 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 long Nell starts to suspect that she and her family aren't alone there…they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1838771964086154742X}}
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|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Paul CleaveJennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=The Quiet PeopleHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary= I am not a fan of "the Prologue"Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. Most books are the worse for them. In this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is in a hurrynot. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have Shortly afterwards, Etty and when he hurriesGreg, when he bundles things into find the back body of his car and tries Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to run make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then hears sirens behind him, which committed suicide when he should couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how convinced but there's little else they can do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badlybut get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1913193942
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|authorisbn=Will Carver1035906708|title=Psychopaths AnonymousDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholicWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, drinking continuously and alsobut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, curiouslyNew York, addicted in December 1923 and only moved to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps Athens when she is mainly using the groups to find targetswas thirteen...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her desire father changed it to hear of people's misery, and targets Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her violent behaviour. Yet voice - she also seems to be searching for others was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who think as she does, mercilessly exploited her and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any made no secret of the groups she decides to set up her ownpreference for her elder sister, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornJackie.|isbn=1913193756
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