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|isbn=07603735311529428289|title=Cozy Knits: 30 HatA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the WorldChief of Police Novel)|author=Sue FlandersMartin Walker|rating=54|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=Just occasionally you encounter a book Because of knitting patterns which seems to meet your every need. Right nowvarious property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it's bitterly cold and we're in the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, hats and mittensit came with three sets of bones. They have dated back to World War II and it fell to look stylishBruno, keep me warm the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and be so cheerful that they make me feel betterestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. If that sounds like a lot As if this isn't enough to askworry about, have a look the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It''Cozy Knits''s not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: it has thirty designs for those necessary items various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and I donSt Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation't think s favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there was 's only one of them which I couldnsuspect. He't see myself wearings celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. We start with She's seriously allergic and carries an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some EpiPen in case of the history of knittingemergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a 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's not essential but it's a nice extrawas soon clear that this was no accident.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon0008385068|title=FacelessThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5
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|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpoints, several troubled people It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are thrown promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the same story thanks to just one mis-stepwealthy and famous. Set in New ZealandHer husband, Owen, was the first architect and work is still ongoing on parts of our characters the site. The heat is Bradley, oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing bossbody is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in verse, a weighty mortgage, and what he feels this is an unappreciative wife. Then there’s BillyRonny's story, a homeless teenage girl young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who is a street artist working as suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a prostitute sometimes in order to pay for the materials she needsmostly white school. And then we have Max, who The move is also living on the streets and initiated by Ronny's mum who keeps an eye on Billy. He is worried for Ronny's safety after a shell of tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a mannew town, barely able to take any care of himselfa new school, and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he is nowkeep himself out of trouble. One nightHe listens to music constantly, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress and anxiety, driving down the street looking for has always dreamed of being a prostituterapper. He picks up BillyBut now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil poetry, and a spiral away from the person he thought he was into someone very differentpower of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=19145850460241645441
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|isbn=17765740281635866847|title=Bumblebee GrumblebeeThe Lavender Companion|author=David ElliottJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: itIt's for strange, the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise things that make you can ''playimmediately'' with words and make something quite different from each onefeel that this is the book for you. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'balletphant', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) com/ website] and then dries off with there's a hair drier becomes picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There'fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is s a recipe in the book, which I''crynoceros'' (think about itm avoiding with some difficulty!!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a ''sm...mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!this book already.
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|author=Rob Keeley
|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were in the finals of the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society Around here, we're big fans of Friarchildren's Innauthor Rob Keeley. For aspiring barristersHe's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, moots test the participantsnot to lecture or hector. The ''Childish Spirits'' knowledge series is one of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: ithis greatest achievements. It's a great way sequence of getting invaluable practice ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and of getting yourself noticedthe first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. Tom and Nat are from 'They meet as children one day on a provincial university' and trip out but unfortunately theydon're t get each other''almost'' looked down on because of thiss contact details at the time. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage now they must work through their grief, and Becca has an abundance of confidence. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any bettertheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbnauthor=1529125944Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=City of the Dead|author=Jonathan KellermanDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=When you drive large vehicles for Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a livingteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you're careful and it's not just about along the way that you drive. You restrict your alcohol intake and if itUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleepnew trio of questors is needed. When youPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 ll enter as ateam.m. when the roads are quieter What chance does this friendless, even if you muscle-free-zone have to wait up when you get to where you're going. And it was going well until the men hit something in Westwood Villageactually managing that, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeles. The man was stark naked and couldn't be identified.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|author=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)Saima Mir|title=I May Be WrongVengeance|rating=3.5|genre= AutobiographyThrillers|summary= When the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think it doesn't really matter how was instantly intrigued by the rest premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the world responds to your booknorth of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in a series I know, having hadn't read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. He knows didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and at core so do Iscreen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that it matters very much how the rest of the world responds wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to this bookspeed, because it tells the truth as it is, in the early 21st centuryand I never felt lost.|isbn=15266448270861541561
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|isbnauthor=B0949Q1DC1Stuart Douglas|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)|author=Tim SullivanLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably AspergerDuring location filming for his 1970's Syndromesitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. He can be rudeThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, difficult and awkward with peoplehe enlists the help of a fellow actor, although it's never intentionalJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. It's just that he thinks differently They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and social niceties simply don't occur , seemingly, a link to himdeath during the Second World War. There's But is there really a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and it's that he has link between the best conviction rate with cases, ever. deaths? His partner And will they manage to uncover who is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviour.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=1529151600B0CYV674G2|title=Give Unto OthersSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Donna LeonDavid Blake|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that Venice has changedhe hasn't killed the man. The ''pandemia'' stripped A body at the city bottom of its tourists for nearly two years and a lot of businesses have closed, most never to reopen. Therefreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's now a cascade of money as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end been stabbed to greeddeath. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the money which is coming their way? Whilst birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when determined to keep going - probably because he was a child. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and she'd like Brunettican's advicet get any sleep at home.
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|authorisbn=Marcus Sedgwick1787333175|title=WrathYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=TeensPopular Science|summary=Meet FitzI 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=This is Going to Hurt}}, a young Scottish lad full glorious mixture of insight into the workings of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just overthe NHS, humour and he should autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, Mad...'' promised the same elements but he cannot stop himself moved from putting his foot in it when he talks physical problems to his best friend, Cassie. They were half mental illness and the work of a desultory school band, but Cassie psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is acceptable to be looking for humour in this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying setting but the end of the world laughter is already directed at a done deal? Is situation rather than a person and it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't.is always delivered with empathy and understanding..|isbn=1800900899
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|isbnauthor=1635864070Onyi Nwabineli|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah TalleyAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsGeneral Fiction|summary=If youAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia've ever started knitting a pair s increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of socksAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, finished the first one basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and either got bored by the idea of doing the same thing all over again, or started on the second sock she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and lost the first before you finished itto get her life back, this is suing her step-mother to take down the book for youcontent about her. Where Anuri is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you battling alcoholism, failing to knit two socks in onestart her PhD, divide undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them up and have a perfectly finished pair for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of socks. Sounds good? ItOphelia's clever and well-thought-outonline empire.}}{{Frontpage|author=Olivie Blake|title=The Atlas Six|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= Dark, sharp Can she save her sister, and highly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=15290952390861546873
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|isbnauthor=0008384983David Chadwick|title=The Paris Apartment|author=Lucy FoleyHeadload of Napalm
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''Things are not what they seem''. It was a Friday and Jess Hadley was keen to get to her half-brother's flat September 1973 in ParisHicks, California. She'd come across from London on Eurostar, courtesy Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of the money she'd stolen from The Pervert's till LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in the Copacabana Bar in BrightonHicks. It wasn't likely that A silver mine and a defence contractor are the police would be on to her yet main local employers but sheotherwise, there'd like to be somewhere safe s not much of note other than dive bars and with food and drink inside herJoshua trees. Life is quiet, until.. She'd phoned Ben and got the address - 12 Rue des Amants - and he told her that the apartment was on the third floor. She's outside what's obviously a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get in touch with Ben.|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=0760373558Tom Percival|title=Nordic Knits|author=Sue FlandersThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=I was so delighted by Sue FlandersWill' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hats life is difficult, Mittenin a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', Scarf he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and Sock Projects from Around doesn't have enough money for even the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didnmost basic of things like food, and his dad can't need any persuading work because he lost his job at all to pick up her ''Nordic Knits''the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and local traditions from Norwaydad are separated, Sweden and IcelandWill's life seems bleak in every direction. There are And yet, he still has a few sweaters or jackets but tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the majority moments of patterns are for smaller items such as mittensjoy when he is drawing, glovesthat feel like a light at the end of a long, hats and bags. All are bright and cheerful and very cosydark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=1916072038Sylvie Cathrall|title=The House in A Letter to the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie CresswellLuminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Science Fiction|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, There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to the house in the hollowa compelling premise. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She And this is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade one of respectability, the deplorable truth''them. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''. Then we are told of the birth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn=Matthieu Aikins0008517061|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=It's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fictionFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller has settled into his rustic life at timesLittle Sky. This is not by any means There’s perhaps a criticismlittle uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, but rather Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a testament lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided move in with Livia or does Livia move to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the whole way through. But it's written with a haunting present and almost lyrical quality that allows putting the reader to perfectly envisage future on the environments and people describedback burner.|isbn= B09N9157T6
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1786482126|title=Unhinged The Janus Stone (Volume 3) (Blix and RammDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the third book in a series bones of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Ramm, child beneath a crime journalistdoorway. In There was no skull. Was this book we find that when one of Blix's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo casesritual killing or murder? Inevitably, she tries to contact her superior, BlixDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Before she can reach himIt's difficult as Ruth knows, howeverbut Nelson doesn't, that she is murdered, and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares pregnant with his child as a result of the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered tooone night they spent together some three months ago. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and RammHer condition will be obvious before long, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service not least because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenRuth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|authorisbn=Daniel Abraham0008551324|title=Age of AshThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= We meet Alys under the most northerly of OldgateIt's four bridges, unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. she Neither side likes or has a knife any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in her hand prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a meeting that she dreadsmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Meanwhile This person, he promises, the City of Kithamar is at a point in someone big and it will be worth the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possiblepolice doing what he wants. It And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the night between the funeral remainder of a Prince his sentence and the coronation of his successorto get an early parole date. For a night Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the Kithamar other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is un-ruledkept well away from what's happening.|isbn=0356515427
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|isbn=15290955220008405026|title=The InterviewA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=C M EwanJane Casey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Kate Harding is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge Communications. It's the last interview of the day at sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one of London's newest office buildings summer night. She was never found and Edge have fitted out their part of the building investigation ground to be something speciala halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Maggie Initially, Kateit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's recruitment agent, is keen to see that Kate approaches something about the interview in a good state positioning of mind: Kate assumes the bodies that this makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is because Maggie will get now a decent bonus if Kate gets complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the job - and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlyexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK0571379877|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Kellerby Code|author=Neil LancasterJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon ''Edward Jevons is'' the back of beyond: therea working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugsa theatre director. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto a nice little earnerHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, only handsome and entitled and uses Edward to find that Macca, run errands for him. the man Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he thought 's drunkenly confided how he was working with, is deadfeels to Robert. His remains Most men in Robert's position would never be found. The delivery stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is hijacked by Davie and Callum. As left to stumble upon the story progresses we'll get to know two of them quite wellkissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor= B09NDJ77LMJo Callaghan|title=Me and My Shadow|author=Deborah StoneLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|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 When a man is found crucified on the discovery top of a picture of hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her own house: it was an old photographsidekick, taken in misty conditions and on the back it said 'dawn 1963AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, some years before Ruth was bornhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. It was before her parents were marriedBut 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 their AI Future Policing project. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined Will they be able to find out what was behind solve the photograph but Covid intervened and the country was case in lockdown. Ruth and Kate are restricted to time, or will Kat find herself taken off the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate case and continue with her university teaching duties. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carers.potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=18479418341399613073|title=Atomic HabitsMoral Injuries|author=James ClearChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary=I've said this before but there are some books that you seek outOlivia, some books that you stumble across Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read their friendship would keep theminseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, like, right now! which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it'Atomic Habits's going to end in tragedy. We don' t know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. is in Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the last categorythree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=B09MSC981W0241636604|title=The Woke IliadTrading Game: A Confession|author=George BoreasGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=Helen is a popular activist. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps If you were to bring up an image of a popular franchise owner? Anywaycity banker in your mind, Helen is so popular that the United States government has made her its Ambassador you're unlikely to think of Wokesomeone like Gary Stevenson. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the governmentEast End, where he was familiar with violence, including the Shaming Conference poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the Permissible Entertainment Committee London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - ''for indoctrinating and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to have it''be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader. Ouch!
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|isbn=B09D95TRKZ1035021803|title=The Wedding MurdersAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Sarah LinleyC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Libby Steele was hoping It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to get a permanent job with the newspaper and the case English country village where she was covering was grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her big chancebeloved aunt, Carole. It was even more important Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to her than say the celebrity wedding she least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to attend the following day with village: Arthur, she feels, let her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthewdown badly. She was leaving her seven-year-old sonEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, Patrick with her sister, Emma, and heading off she has not felt able to a grand manor house hotel in be near the man or pursue the North Yorkshire countrysideprofession she loved. Daniel AcroydAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, television presenter met and former member married James (on the rebound from the love of the rock band her life, who was marrying Vicky murdered) and Freya and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phonesJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=1838226834AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Carried Away With the CarnivalAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Ed BoxallBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=It was one ''Opening up new ways of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparentsthinking about the shape of things to come. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:'
I've heard it said that 'Ittechnology'll be brilliantis what happens after you're eighteen. Well, just remember, donI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it't let go s all getting away from me. Some of my handit is - frankly - quite 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're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=1529135362Sunny Singh|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It was The Hotel Arcadia is a long drive to the weekend retreat luxury hotel in Northumbria, right up near the Scottish borders and to make it worse the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morningan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Jane and Ruth had known each other for Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a long time but Emily was a bit of an outsider. She wartime photographer and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than Abhi, the other two womenhotel manager. The friendship of As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the group went back to school days. Paul had coached rugby at residents who are still alive in the school where Markhotel, Toby and Rob were pupils. Mark had married Janehe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and Toby is Ruthkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's husbandhappened through her photography. And Rob? WellAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, Rob's deadtheir friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=gareth_steel1529153298|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories The List of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that he's written it to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787634884|title=The HerdSuspicious Things|author=Emily EdwardsJennie Godfrey
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|summary=Our story opens in December 2019It'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, before most of us had even heard of Covid or realised they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come her father wants to be a major issuemove the family 'Down South'. WeWhen you're in Farley County Courtfrom Yorkshire, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash KohliDown South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. As they were For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened is major friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that, regardless of . She's not worried about the outcome, this is not going dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to work out well for anyone.
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|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs1398524085|title=The Language of FoodHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never had the slightest inclination to boil an eggturned up. When tasked with writing a cookery book Her children, sons Niall, she recruits Ann KirbyPaul and Ollie and her daughter, a local woman with a troubled home lifeEtty. Togetherare all worried but - strangely - her husband, they testAlec, craftis not. Shortly afterwards, refine Etty and reshape Greg, find the world body of domestic cookeryGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, reinventing in the river. It was an easy assumption for the recipe book police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and changing then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the face of cookery writing foreverguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1398502227
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|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1035906708|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|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 is spending a month both in exile and in the physical form We tend to think of a middle-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise Maria Callas as his parents, and Thor has come along as wellGreek, but she was born to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother of the two. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the right way againGreek parents in Manhattan, or elseNew York, and to prove it he has to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul of his lies, December 1923 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 only moved to be a walk in the park...right?|isbn=1406399752}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008454442|title=A Flicker in the Dark|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis, a medical psychologist, is completing a session with a new patientAthens when she was thirteen. Lacey is suffering mentally Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but Chloe has hopes of getting her through the trauma. You see, Chloe knows what father changed itto 'Callas'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 the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed make it to the police. Dick Davis is more manageable in the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for the last twenty yearsStates. Her mother is When she was back in a care home.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Escape Room|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I'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 location, and have to solve problems in order to Athens - supposedly so that she could get their way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one appropriate training for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with her voice - she was raised under the regular second person narrative replaced Nazi occupation by the first. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to each other a mother who mercilessly exploited her and booked into the game without any made no secret of their friendsher preference for her elder sister, are a team – starting out at the game's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerJackie. 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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