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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1529428289|title=FacelessA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpointsBecause of various property transactions, several troubled people are thrown into were searching for the same story thanks to just one mis-stepgrave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. Set in New ZealandThey dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the first Chief of our characters is BradleyPolice for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing boss, a weighty mortgage, and what he feels is an unappreciative wifecrime had been committed. Then there’s BillyAs if this isn't enough to worry about, a homeless teenage girl who the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes in order to pay for the materials she needsflowing at record levels. And then we It's not just the local autumn rains that have Max, who is also living on caused the streets and who keeps an eye problem: various dams upstream on Billy. He is a shell of a man, barely able another river have had to take any care of himself, release water and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he is now. One night, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress and anxiety, driving down St Denis faces the street looking for a prostitute. He picks up Billy, and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and possibility of a spiral away from the person he thought he was into someone very differentdevastating flood.|isbn=1914585046
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|isbn=1776574028152919640X|title=Bumblebee GrumblebeeThe Suspect|author=David ElliottRob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: itThe nation's for the child who still enjoys board books (erfavourite daytime TV presenter, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that you can there's only one suspect. He'plays celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She'' with words s seriously allergic and make something quite different from each onecarries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. We have the elephant who dons Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a tutu busy, live television studio - and becomes Brooks served a ''balletphant''ragout to Holby. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''she was dead within minutes. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm......It was soon clear that this was no accident.'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX0008385068|title=Death at Friar's InnThe Midnight Feast|author=Rob KeeleyLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Nat Webber It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and Tom Barton were in the finals of the Moots to take place guests gather at The Honourable Society of FriarManor. It's Inntheir opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. For aspiring barristers, moots test the participantsIt' knowledge of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: its all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's a great way of getting invaluable practice converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and of getting yourself noticedfamous. Tom and Nat are from 'a provincial university' Her husband, Owen, was the architect and they're ''almost'' looked down work is still ongoing on because parts of thisthe site. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton heat is oppressive and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance of confidenceamongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesnOld scores are going to be settled and it won't make him feel any betterbe long before a body is found.
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|isbnauthor=1529125944Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=City of the Dead|author=Jonathan KellermanWild East|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=When you drive large vehicles for a livingWritten in verse, youthis is Ronny're careful s story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and it's not just about the way that you drivestart at a mostly white school. You restrict your alcohol intake and if itThe move is initiated by Ronny's a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleep. When youmum who is worried for Ronny're taking s safety after a removals truck through tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 new town, anew school, and keep himself out of trouble.m He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. when the roads are quieter But now, in this new school, even if you have his teacher encourages him to wait up when you get be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to where you're going. And it was going well until see the men hit something in Westwood Villageconnections between rap and poetry, an upmarket neighbourhood and the power of Los Angeles. The man was stark naked creativity and couldn't be identifiedcrafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|authorisbn=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)1635866847|title=I May Be WrongThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre= AutobiographyLifestyle|summary= When It's strange, the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiecethings that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', Ivisited the author'm inclined to think it doesns [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there't really matter how the rest s a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the world responds to your bookhomepage. I know, having read the book in question, don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that Lindeblad would disagree with that thoughtcake viscerally. He knows (and at core so do There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) that it matters very much how Then I started reading the rest book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the world responds 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, because it tells the truth as it is, in the early 21st centuryalready.|isbn=1526644827
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|isbnauthor=B0949Q1DC1Rob Keeley|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)|author=Tim SullivanChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorderAround here, quite probably Aspergerwe're big fans of children's Syndromeauthor Rob Keeley. He can be rude's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, difficult and awkward with people, although it's never intentional. It's just that he thinks differently writes for their pleasure and social niceties simply don't occur enjoyment, not to himlecture or hector. There The ''s a reason why heChildish Spirits's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and itseries is one of his greatest achievements. It's that he has a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the best conviction rate with casesspirit world throws at her, ever. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recogniseand Edward, or welcome being attached to himself) a spoiled lordling and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviour.the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|isbnauthor=1529151600Jenny Valentine|title=Give Unto Others|author=Donna LeonUs in the Before and After
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|genre=Teens
|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, Elk and he should be free to do what he wantsMab are best friends, to go where he wants and with whom he wantsor more than that even, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot their friendship is a once in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassiea lifetime connection. They were half of meet as children one day on a desultory school band, trip out but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music sheunfortunately they don't get each other's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out contact details at the truth? Welltime. But then chance brings them back together, not when Cassie and they are inseparable. Something has gone missing he can't..happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=18009008991471196585
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|isbnauthor=1635864070Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah TalleyDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=If you've ever started knitting Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a pair team of sockswarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, finished the first one and either got bored by race to the idea of doing exit, perhaps bothering with the same thing all over again, treasure or started on the second sock big bad and lost the first before points they grant you finished italong the way. Unfortunately for Kit, this is the book for you. Where only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley one team has developed a system that allows you to knit two socks in onebeen retired, eaten, divide them up and have a perfectly finished pair new trio of socksquestors is needed. Sounds good? It Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's clever and wellll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-thoughtfree-out.zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|author=Olivie BlakeSaima Mir|title=The Atlas SixVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary= Dark, sharp, I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and highly inquisitive, it needn't be a hindrance if it'The Atlas Sixs good enough. And that wasn'' makes its publishing debut after becoming t a Tik-Tok sensationproblem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=15290952390861541561
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|isbnauthor=0008384983Stuart Douglas|title=The Paris Apartment|author=Lucy FoleyLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Things are not what they seem''. It was a Friday Floggit and Jess Hadley was keen to get to her half-brotherLeggit's flat in Paris. She'd come , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across from London the dead body of a woman on Eurostar, courtesy the edge of the money she'd stolen from The Pervert's till in the Copacabana Bar in Brightona reservoir. It wasn't likely that the The police would be on seem happy to her yet assign it as an accidental death, but she'd like something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to be somewhere safe and with food and drink inside herhelp him investigate matters further. She'd phoned Ben and got They travel across the address - 12 Rue des Amants - country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and he told her that the apartment was on , seemingly, a link to death during the third floorSecond World War. She's outside what's obviously But is there really a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able link between the deaths? And will they manage to get in touch with Ben.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=0760373558B0CYV674G2|title=Nordic KnitsSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Sue FlandersDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I was so delighted by Sue Flanders' [[Cozy Knits: 30 HatIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, Mittencovered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around comes into the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] police station shouting that I didnhe hasn't need any persuading killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at all Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to pick up her death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse'Nordic Knitsand 'John Tanner'were made for each other. This delivers fortyHe's sleep-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norway, Sweden and Iceland. There are a few sweaters or jackets but deprived to the majority point of patterns are for smaller items such as mittens, gloves, hats and bags. All are bright and cheerful and very cosyfalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=19160720381787333175|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Allie CresswellBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionPopular Science|summary=We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to the house in the hollow. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her motherWork Here's strengths and weaknesses: 'after enjoying Adam Kay'She s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is practiced at subterfugeGoing to Hurt}}, at concealing, beneath a facade glorious mixture of respectabilityinsight into the workings of the NHS, the deplorable truthhumour and autobiography. ''. Hester is furious about JocelynYou Don's refusal t Have to do as she was asked, which has precipitated be Mad...''this violent promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and unexpected removal''the work of a psychiatrist. Then we are told of I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the birth of laughter is directed at a situation rather than a child person and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame it is always delivered with empathy and isolation in Yorkshireunderstanding.
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|author=Matthieu AikinsOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=Politics and SocietyGeneral Fiction|summary=ItAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's easy increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fictionget her life back, because it reads very much like a wellsuing her step-paced thriller at timesmother to take down the content about her. This Anuri is not by any means a criticismbattling alcoholism, but rather a testament failing to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journeythem for doing so. There are tense moments and gripping accounts Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But itOphelia's written online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage her father at the environments and people described.same time?|isbn= B09N9157T60861546873
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|author=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas EngerDavid Chadwick|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)Headload of Napalm
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=This It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is the third book in a series Mojave desert town of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Emma Ramm, Las Vegas both a crime journalistsignificant drive away. In this book we find that when one of Blix's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries to contact her superior, BlixNot much happens in Hicks. Before she can reach him, however, she is murdered, A silver mine and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered too. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and Ramm, who defence contractor are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and killed someoneJoshua trees. Life is quiet, and Ramm saw it all happenuntil.... What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003B0D321VJ76
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|author=Daniel AbrahamTom Percival|title=Age of AshThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary= We meet Alys under the most northerly of OldgateWill's four bridgeslife is difficult, she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreadsmultitude of ways. Meanwhile 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 City most basic of Kithamar is things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a point cash-in -hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the turning of years when the worlds fact that his mum and dad are at their thinnest separated, and all things are possibleWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. It He is good at art, and clings to the night between the funeral moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a Prince and light at the coronation end of his successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruledlong, dark tunnel.|isbn=03565154271398527122
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|isbnauthor=1529095522Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Interview|author=C M EwanA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Kate Harding is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge Communications. It's the last interview of the day at one of London's newest office buildings and Edge have fitted out their part of the building There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to be something speciala compelling premise. Maggie, Kate's recruitment agent, And this is keen to see that Kate approaches the interview in a good state one of mind: Kate assumes that this is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets the job - and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlythem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK0008517061|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Neil LancasterStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon ''is'' the back of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugsFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto There’s perhaps a nice little earner, only to find that Macca, uncertainty about the man he thought he was working future of his life withhis vet girlfriend, is dead. His remains Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would never be found. The delivery mean a 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 hijacked by Davie the future she wants for herself and Callum. her daughter? As For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the story progresses we'll get to know them quite wellfuture on the back burner.
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|isbn= B09NDJ77LM1786482126|title=Me and My Shadow|author=Deborah The Janus Stone|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= ''What happens when someone is pushed too far and they begin to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off the shadows of her past and attempts to repair decades worth of pain.'' Rachel is in a current conversation with her psychiatrist, who pushes her to recall her life from very young childhood onwards. But Rachel is combative with Doctor Blake, sometimes even contemptuous of her. You can see that it's not an easy therapeutic relationship. Rachel's recall of her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute and unforgiving clarity.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529409659|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)
|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen going to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her motherhold seventy-five 'luxury's belongings. She was intrigued by apartments - when they discovered the discovery bones of a picture of her own house: it was an old photograph, taken in misty conditions and on the back it said 'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was bornchild beneath a doorway. It There was before her parents were marriedno skull. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and the country was in lockdown. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth and Kate are restricted to the cottage Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth attempting to home school Kate and continue knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with her university teaching dutieshis child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. The good thing was meeting ZoeHer condition will be obvious before long, the new tenant from next door whom they got not least because Ruth is prone to know whilst clapping for carerssudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=18479418340008551324|title=Atomic HabitsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=James ClearNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=IIt've said this before but there are some books that you seek outs 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 struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, some books that you stumble across is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, like, right now! is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'Atomic Habitss 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'' is in the last categorys happening.
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|isbn=B09MSC981W0008405026|title=The Woke IliadA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=George BoreasJane Casey|rating=45|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Helen is It'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 popular activisthalt. Or should we call Now, her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anywaymother, Helena, Helen is so popular that the United States government has made and her its Ambassador of Wokefather are dead in their bed. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the government, including the Shaming Conference bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and the Permissible Entertainment Committee her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open- ''for indoctrinating and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how to have it-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. Ouch!
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|isbn=B09D95TRKZ0571379877|title=The Wedding MurdersKellerby Code|author=Sarah LinleyJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get Edward Jevons is a permanent job working-class young man, obsessed with the newspaper his upper-class friends, Robert and the case she was covering was her big chanceStanza. It was even more important to her than the celebrity wedding she was to attend the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, MatthewRobert's a theatre director. She was leaving her sevenHe's also self-year-old sonobsessed, Patrick with her sister, Emmademanding, handsome and entitled and heading off uses Edward to a grand manor house hotel in the North Yorkshire countrysiderun errands for him. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and former member of the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that the wedding wasnhe't 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'quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phoness not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1838226834Jo Callaghan|title=Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed BoxallLeave No Trace
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing 's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with our grandparentsseveral cold cases. They're But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much funtheir AI Future Policing project. A young boy was going Will they be able to solve the carnival with his Grandadcase in time, who told him: ''It'll be brilliantor will Kat find herself taken off the case and, just rememberpotentially, don't let go out of my hand.''a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=15291353621399613073|title=The Long WeekendMoral Injuries|author=Gilly MacmillanChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It was a long drive to the weekend retreat in NorthumbriaOlivia, right up near Laura and Anjali met on the Scottish borders first day of medical school and to make it worse the three husbands had all - their friendship would keep them inseparable for one reason or another - had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morninga quarter of a century. Jane and Ruth had known each other for Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a long time but Emily was bonus when you aim to be a bit of an outsidercardiothoracic surgeon. She Laura is a perfectionist and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than the other two womena trauma doctor. The friendship Anjali is the free spirit of the group went back to school daysand she becomes a GP. Paul had coached rugby When we first meet them they're at the school where Mark, Toby a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and Rob were pupilsit's going to end in tragedy. Mark had married Jane, and Toby is RuthWe don's husbandt know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. And Rob? Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. WellThis time, Robit's deadtheir teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=gareth_steel0241636604|title=Never Work With AnimalsThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gareth SteelGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeAutobiography|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with If you were to bring up an image of a warning but with city banker in your mind, you''Never Work With Animals'' it seems re unlikely to be appropriatethink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Stories of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' his background is definitely not the companion volume you've East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been looking for. As a TV show to the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmesLondon School of Economics. Gareth Steel says that the book Stevenson is not suitable for younger readers and bright - after reading extremely bright - I agree and he has a facility with himnumbers which most of us can only envy. He says also realised that he's written it most rich people expect poor people to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vetsbe stupid. It deals was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivityCitibank. Eventually, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eatingthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=17876348841035021803|title=The HerdAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Emily EdwardsC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Our story opens in December 2019, before most 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 us had even heard of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come to be a major issuerequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. WeFreya're in Farley County Courts former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, where Elizabeth is dead and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash Kohlithe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. As Even though they were best friends until just in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a few months ago we know that whatever has happened is major cafe, met and that, regardless married James (on the rebound from the love of the outcomeher life, this is not going to work out well for anyonewho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Annabel AbbsAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Language of FoodAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Historical Science Fiction|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the slightest inclination shape of things to boil an eggcome. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a local woman few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with a troubled home lifewhat's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Together Of course, they test, craft, refine I could research the possibilities and reshape the world of domestic cookery, reinventing probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the recipe book latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and changing the face of cookery writing foreverwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1398502227
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|author=Louie StowellSunny Singh|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki Hotel Arcadia is spending a month both luxury hotel in exile and in the physical form of an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a middle-school kid here on Earthterrorist group. He's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, and Thor has come along as wellkilling everyone on site, to be the more suavethere is Sam, more popular a wartime photographer and more successful brother of Abhi, the twohotel manager. Loki has a month As Abhi continues to try to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the right way againhotel, or elsehe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to prove it he has try to write capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the text we read in a sentient notebookphone, that is able their friendship grows as Abhi tries to cry foul of his lies, help her keep safe and judge his progress. But Loki is the kind of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going they both wait to see if they will be a walk in rescued before they are discovered by the park..terrorists.right?|isbn=1406399752086154742X
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|isbn=00084544421529153298|title=A Flicker in the DarkThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Stacy WillinghamJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=It's May 2019 1979 and Dr Chloe Davis, a medical psychologist, Margaret Thatcher is completing a session with a new patientPrime Minister. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes of getting her through the trauma(A woman? I mean, honestly... ) You see, Chloe knows She's not what it's like to worrying Miv's family, though. Women have a traumatic childhoodbeen disappearing. Her father is Richard DavisWell, the man who they've been murdered six girls some twenty years ago, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and Miv's upset because she and 's overheard that her mother handed it father wants to move the policefamily 'Down South'. Dick Davis When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is in a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the Louisiana State Penitentiary move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and Chloie has had nothing she'll do anything to do with him for the last twenty yearsprevent that. Her mother is in a care homeShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=Christopher Edge1398524085|title=Escape RoomHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=35|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=ICharlotte Salter was expected at her husband've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific locations fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and have to solve problems in order to get their way outOllie and her daughter, Etty. What I've are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, with find the regular second person narrative replaced by body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the firstriver. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new It was an easy assumption for the police to each other make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and booked into then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the game without any of their friends, guilt. The Salter children are a team – starting out at the gamenot convinced but there's main offices, where they're told little else they can do but get on with their lives and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerwonder about what really happened. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964
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|isbn=17328987311035906708|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for AdultsDiva|author=Michael Albanese Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=There We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was a Boy who loved boxesthirteen. He had a box for everything and he Her original surname was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldnKalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and the like: all to make it more manageable in the things which most children have in abundanceStates. The Boy's delight When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happy. As he grew up and became Nazi occupation by a Man, his life became more complicated mother who mercilessly exploited her and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that one made no secret of them has a padlock..her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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