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|isbn=15294096591529428289|title=The Locked Room A Grave in the Woods (Dr Ruth GallowayA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Elly GriffithsMartin Walker|rating=54
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|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongings. She was intrigued by the discovery of a picture Because of her own house: it was an old photographvarious property transactions, taken in misty conditions and on people were searching for the back grave but when they found it said 'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was bornit came with three sets of bones. It was before her parents were married. When she returned They dated back to World War II and it fell to Norfolk she was determined Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to find out what was behind discover the identities of the photograph but Covid intervened bodies and the country was in lockdownestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. Ruth and Kate are restricted As if this isn't enough to worry about, the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate and continue with her university teaching dutiesDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. The good thing was meeting Zoe, It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the new tenant from next door whom they got problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to know whilst clapping for carersrelease water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.
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|isbn=1847941834152919640X|title=Atomic HabitsThe Suspect|author=James ClearRob Rinder
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|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=IThe nation've said this before but there are some books that you seek outs favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, some books was murdered live on television and it seems that you stumble across there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and some books his contract stated that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She''Atomic Habits'' s seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. is Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in the last categorya busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|isbn=B09MSC981W0008385068|title=The Woke IliadMidnight Feast|author=George Boreas|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Helen is a popular activist. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anyway, Helen is so popular that the United States government has made her its Ambassador of Woke. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of the government, including the Shaming Conference and the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''for indoctrinating and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how to have it''. Ouch!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09D95TRKZ|title=The Wedding Murders|author=Sarah LinleyLucy Foley
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|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get a permanent job with It's midsummer on the newspaper Dorset coast and the case she was covering was her big chanceguests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It 's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was even more important to her than the celebrity wedding ancestral home and she was to attend 's converted it into an impressive retreat for the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthewwealthy and famous. She was leaving her seven-year-old sonHer husband, Patrick with her sister, EmmaOwen, was the architect and heading off to a grand manor house hotel in work is still ongoing on parts of the North Yorkshire countrysidesite. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter The heat is oppressive and former member of amongst the rock band was marrying Vicky guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and Libby suspected that the wedding wasnit won't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phonesbe long before a body is found.
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|isbnauthor=1838226834Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed BoxallWild East|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparentsHackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. They The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny're there s safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to undo all the good that parents dosettle in a new town, a new school, so the trips and keep himself out were of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always so much fundreamed of being a rapper. A young boy was going to the carnival with But now, in this new school, his Grandad, who told teacher encourages him: ''It'll to be brilliantpart of a poetry writing workshop group and, just rememberslowly, don't let go Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of my handcreativity and crafting your words.''|isbn=0241645441
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|isbn=15291353621635866847|title=The Long WeekendLavender Companion|author=Gilly MacmillanJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=It was a long drive to the weekend retreat in Northumbria's strange, right up near the Scottish borders and to things that make it worse you ''immediately'' feel that this is the three husbands had all - book for one reason or another - had to delay making you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the trip until the Saturday morningauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Jane com/ website] and Ruth had known each other for there's a long time but Emily was picture of a bit slice of an outsiderchocolate cake on the homepage. She I don't eat cakes and Paul had married only relatively recently 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 she I was ten years younger than the other two womentold to make a mess of it. The friendship of Notes in the group went back to school daysmargins are sanctioned. Paul had coached rugby at You get to fold down the school where Mark, Toby and Rob were pupilscorners of pages. Mark had married Jane, and Toby is Ruth's husbandYou suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. And Rob? Well, RobI ''loved''s deadthis book already.
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|isbnauthor=gareth_steelRob Keeley|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth SteelChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=Animals and WildlifeConfident Readers|summary=I donAround here, we't often begin my reviews with a warning but with re big fans of children''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriates author Rob Keeley. Stories of a vetHe's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely enjoyment, not the companion volume you've been looking forto lecture or hector. As a TV show the author would argue that The ''All CreaturesChildish Spirits'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book series is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with himone of his greatest achievements. He says that heIt's written it to inform and provoke thoughta sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals a stalwart young girl who can cope with some uncomfortable anything the spirit world throws at her, and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivityEdward, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading a spoiled lordling and eating.the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|isbnauthor=1787634884Jenny Valentine|title=The Herd|author=Emily EdwardsUs in the Before and After
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|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=Our story opens in December 2019Elk and Mab are best friends, before most of us had even heard of Covid or realised more than that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come to be even, their friendship is a once in a major issuelifetime connection. WeThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don're in Farley County Courtt get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain they are facing Bryony and Ash Kohliinseparable. As they were best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever Something has happened is major though, something terrible and tragic, and thatnow they must work through their grief, regardless of the outcomeand their friendship, this is not going to work out well for anyonetogether.|isbn=1471196585
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|author=Annabel Abbs|title=The Language of Food|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home life. Together, they test, craft, refine and reshape the world of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book Kieran Larwood and changing the face of cookery writing forever.|isbn=1398502227}}{{Frontpage|author=Louie StowellJoe Todd-Stanton|title=LokiDungeon Runners: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodHero Trial|rating=4.5
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|summary=Meet LokiKit. The trickster god has got into trouble again Like most of the people in his world, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – seems, he must be banished. And transformed is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – for Loki is spending the sport where a month both in exile team of warrior, mage and in the physical form of a middlehealer enter specially prepared, century-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parentsold, magical mazes, and Thor has come along as well, race to be the more suaveexit, more popular perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and more successful brother of the twopoints they grant you along the way. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation Unfortunately for Kit, and get his moral compass pointing the right way againonly thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, or elseeaten, and to prove it a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to write the text we read in goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a sentient notebookteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that is able to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progress. But Loki is the kind of god who insists how could he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going possibly hope to be a walk in the park...rightsucceed?|isbn=14063997521839945184
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|isbnauthor=0008454442Saima Mir|title=A Flicker in the Dark|author=Stacy WillinghamVengeance|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis, a medical psychologist, is completing a session with a new patient. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes I was instantly intrigued by the premise of getting her through this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the traumanorth of England run by a Muslim woman. You see, Chloe knows what The fact that it's like to have a traumatic childhood. Her father is Richard Davis, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to was the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away second in a cupboard at home series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and she screen) and her mother handed it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to the police. Dick Davis is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary speed, and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for the last twenty years. Her mother is in a care homeI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|author=Christopher EdgeStuart Douglas|title=Escape RoomLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=IDuring location filming for his 1970've seen junior variants of the s sitcom 'Choose Your Own AdventureFloggit and Leggit' format cover escape rooms – , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the process by which dead body of a character or characters start by being trapped in woman on the edge of a specific location, and have reservoir. The police seem happy to solve problems 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 assign it as an adventureaccidental death, with the regular second person narrative replaced by but something about the first. Herewhole thing bothers Lowe, Ami and four other tweenagershe enlists the help of a fellow actor, all new John Le Breton to each other and booked into help him investigate matters further. They travel across the game without any of country during their friendsdays off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, are a team – starting out at link to death during the game's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerSecond World War. But could watching people engage with such is there really a pastime, despite link between the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literaturedeaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=17880079641803368209
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|isbn=1732898731B0CYV674G2|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for AdultsSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Michael Albanese David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxesIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. He had A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a box for everything and knife, comes into the police station shouting that he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldnhasn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and killed the like: all man. A body at the things which most children have in abundance. The Boybottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's delight was in been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the sense birth of order in his room: it made him feel happydaughter Samantha. As You would think he grew up 'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and became a Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes'John Tanner' were made for each other. Look carefully He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at the pictures and youwork but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can'll see that one of them has a padlock..t get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=B09MN1526W1787333175|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Liz MistryBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=ItI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's the third murder in the space of first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a few weeks and they've all been because glorious mixture of machetes used on teenagers. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst insight into the first to arrive on workings of the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of BradfordNHS, humour and autobiography. Only, this time, it's going 'You Don't Have to be differentMad. The body appears ..'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to Nikki to be that mental illness and the work of her beloved nephew, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdownpsychiatrist. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the body laughter is clad in designer clothes directed at a situation rather than a person and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be on sick leave for some time always delivered with anxiety empathy and depressionunderstanding.
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|author=Ally WilkesOnyi Nwabineli|title=All the White SpacesAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=In postAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathansocial media, this adventure represents a chance where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for a fresh start, sponsorships and the opportunity to live life as his authentic self influencer deals and true gender, without the disapproval and constraints of his parents. Howeverbasically, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expeditionmonetary gain. Guilt, mistrust Now Anuri is in her twenties and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and they are forced to overwinter on landget her life back, a menacing presence waits suing her step-mother to prey on their darknesstake down the content about her. If Jonathan Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to make it out of the Arctic winter alivestart her PhD, he will have to face his demons once undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for alldoing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, or risk making who is the barrennew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, icy landscape his tomb.and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=17890978350861546873
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|author=Dean KoontzDavid Chadwick|title=QuicksilverHeadload of Napalm|rating=24.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for heIt's lived September 1973 in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundlingHicks, and now California. Hicks is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes Mojave desert town of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of him that he go to a derelict diner, find LA and Las Vegas both a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lamsignificant drive away. And all this is just Not much happens in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up Hicks. A silver mine and suggest hea defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of interest to themnote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Helped to escape, he finds his flight Life is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in controlquiet, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besidesuntil....|isbn=1542019885B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=0008441618Tom Percival|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah StovellThe Wrong Shoes
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|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the new head most basic of West Burntridge First School: if she didnthings like food, and his dad can't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be work because he lost his job at the college, was working a house price slump cash-in that part of the town. The school -hand job on a building site and had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the schoolaccident. There was one difficultyThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, though - they were and Will''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, s life seems bleak in particularevery direction. And yet, causing problems for the headhe still has a tiny amount of hope. Laura Spence He is good at art, and Kate Monroe objected clings to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but moments of joy when he is drawing, that was just feel like a light at the end of a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationlong, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|author=Sarah Ann JuckesSylvie Cathrall|title=The Hunt for A Letter to the NightingaleLuminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Jasper is a little boy who has some struggles, 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 emotions. His big sister, Rosie, has been a huge support to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, and writing There are few greater joys than 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 which lives up in their business, and so it is Rosie he always turns toa compelling premise. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be right, and the only way he feels he can find any peace And this is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its song, as they do together every Springone of them.|isbn=13985108900356522776
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|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)0008517061|title=Red is My HeartDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=[[:CategoryFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black does Jake give up his off-grid and white and read relaxing life to move in my house. And so was with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is, black the future she wants for herself and white her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator putting the future on this piece, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideasback burner.|isbn=1913547183
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|isbn=15291355671786482126|title=One Step Too FarThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Lisa GardnerElly Griffiths
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|genre=Crime
|summary=ItBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's five years since apartments - when they discovered the stag weekendbones of a child beneath a doorway. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who There was usually called Miggy), Neil and Joshno skull. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander off. Was this a ritual killing or murder? The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that TimInevitably, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for helpDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. When help didnIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't come , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the remaining one night they spent together some three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Timmonths ago. Every yearHer condition will be obvious before long, Tim's father, Martin, and the four friends have been back not least because Ruth is prone to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timsudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen0008551324|title=Bitter FlowersThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5
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|summary=Varg Veum It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint struggling in rehab prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is now returning to workburied and who was responsible for her death. However This person, the quiet job he's supposedly taken on caretaking promises, is someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, big and a mystery around a missing womanit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into And what he wants is to be transferred to an old, cold case open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never foundearly parole date. Somehow, these disparate cases appear Not much to be linkedask, but what is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the link, other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308Xanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|authorisbn=Kia Ahankoob0008405026|title=The Gold Lion and A Stranger in the Tournament of SentinelsFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, each with its own strength and weakenessher mother, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborateHelena, creating a dynamic and prosperous societyher father are dead in their bed. Each power is contained within Initially, it looks like a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriadstraightforward murder/suicide but there's children something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and their descendantsher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. But What looked as though it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went was going to war. Having fought themselves into be an endless open-and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high, -shut case is now a solution complex double murder. Kerrigan is proposed. Each of convinced that the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as sentinelsDerwent's boss, to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of DunivaUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV
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|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps0571379877|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Tomas. Happy to work Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his father in the blacksmith's forgeupper-class friends, heRobert and Stanza. Robert's almost of the age to become a full apprentice, and help with the new batch of dragonswords is certainly neededtheatre director. Not that there are any dragons He's also self-obsessed, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except... Strange signals from within the forge furnacedemanding, handsome and entitled and a peculiar invite uses Edward to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things run errands for Tom him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to puzzle over – until it all comes out Robert. Most men in the wash, Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that yes dragons do still exist in this world, and that Tom a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is rare in left to stumble upon the ability to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with two of themkissing in a dark passageway...|isbn=1839940026
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|isbnauthor=1529346541Jo Callaghan|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth GeorgeLeave No Trace|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James When a man is at found crucified on the top of a meeting with Dominique Shawhill in Nuneaton, Undersecretary for DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the school systemcase alongside her sidekick, a representative from the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakerAI detective Lock. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting 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 an exploration of the possibility suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of the idea behind the book being used unwanted attention to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiestheir AI Future Policing project. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could Will they be as able to solve the problem seems to occur case in Nigerian time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust , potentially, out of the people she speaks to and photographs.a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=B09Q3P283Y1399613073|title=ShadebringerMoral Injuries|author=Grayson W HooperChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for the US Army during the Vietnam Wara quarter of a century. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, nor which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is he particularly interested in a career in perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the militarygroup and she becomes a GP. If he When we first meet them they's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself re at least a drug and alcohol- he hasn't got many choices fuelled party and this one, at least, gets him out of the rut heit's going to end intragedy. He We don's good in training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training courset know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. He This time, it's chuffed with himselftheir teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy0241636604|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=There is no mermaid If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the millpond. That at least pin-stripe suit and his background is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kidsEast End, who have where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had their entire childhoods sold been to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homeSchool of Economics. Bess knows there Stevenson is no time for friendship in bright - extremely bright - and he has a hand-facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to-mouthbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, every man for himself kind of existencea card game which got him an internship with Citibank. But despite herself Bess does find Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a bit trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 kindred spirit in the slight little Dotrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and how befriending people only leads the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to harmthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, there might she has not felt able to be a glimmer of companionship in near the man or pursue the tired-out mill workersprofession she loved. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the existence love of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049Xher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1785633074AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Staggering HubrisAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Josh BerryBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=HumourScience Fiction|summary=Members ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of Parliament like us things to believe come.'' I've heard it said that the country 'technology' is run by politicianswhat happens after you're eighteen. Well, headed by the Prime minister - the I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what'primus inter paress advantageous to me but I'' (m left with the feeling thatit's for those all getting away from me. Some of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality it is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS frankly - who are the driving force behind the governmentquite frightening. We are in Of course, I could research the privileged position of having access to possibilities and the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by knows what they're talking about or the end of 2020latest conspiracy theorist. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watchI needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=B09MYXSRV4Sunny Singh|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya SmithHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that he could become has suddenly been violently taken over by a protectorterrorist group. Water Spider received Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''wartime photographer and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - butAbhi, unfortunately, not the ability to use it wellhotel manager. He liked As Abhi continues to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came try to be care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a race bond with Turtle. You might think thatSam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's not a fair contest but wait and seehappened through her photography. Things are not always Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they seem. I'll tell you how it came aboutboth wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Giovanna Fletcher1529153298|title=Walking on SunshineThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=MikeIt's wife1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Piahonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, who he was with for seventeen yearsthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his griefthey've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so are their best friends, Vicky and Zazafrightening. But Pia left them all some Miv'ruless upset because she' s overheard that her father wants to followmove the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on livingforeign place, best avoided. Whilst some of For Miv, the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out move would mean leaving her wardrobebest friend, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips awaySharon, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with himanyone.|isbn=140593560X
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|isbn=15293939301398524085|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your BusinessHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Sophie RochesterNicci French
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|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Starting a creative business has s fiftieth birthday party but never been easierturned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty.'' ''If are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not now. Shortly afterwards, when?Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg'' I know s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that IDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a businesst stand the guilt. ThereThe Salter children are not convinced but there's a lot little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of motivation Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and there are a lot of people who have been delighted only moved to accept what I make as giftsAthens when she was thirteen. Selling would offset the costs, which can be quite considerable and Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it could be fun to do, couldn't Callas' to make it? more manageable in the States. But where to start? What do I need to think about? Well, When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the first thing anyone Nazi occupation by a mother who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making a Living''mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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