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|isbn=16384852161529428289|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey Grave in Life and Law Enforcementthe Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Frederick ReynoldsMartin Walker|rating=54|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn''Corruption t enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is not department, gender or race specificflowing at record levels. It has everything 's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to do with characterrelease water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood. Period.''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder''One more body just wouldn't matter''|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The murder of George Floydnation's favourite daytime TV presenter, a forty-six-year-old black manJessica Holby, was murdered live on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police officer, in the US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the worldtelevision and it seems that there's only one suspect. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but FloydHe's death was an exceptioncelebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. The image of Chauvin kneeling on GeorgeShe's neck is not one which I'll ever forget seriously allergic and the protests which followed cannot have been unexpectedcarries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. There was Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a backlash against the police busy, live television studio - and not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brushBrooks 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=B09DD1QJKJ0008385068|title=The ClubMidnight Feast|author=Ellery LloydLucy Foley
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|summary=It''s midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The party of the year turned into the murder mystery of the decadeManor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It' Just off Littlesea, in Essex s all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and a mile or so she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the Blackwater Estuarywealthy and famous. Her husband, The Manor stood Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on an islandparts of the site. It was now known as Island Home, one of The Home Group's exclusive clubs heat is oppressive and amongst the opening weekend was guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be something specialsettled and it won't be long before a body is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in verse, even by Homethis is Ronny's standards. Speedboatsstory, helicopters a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and blacked-out SUVs were converging on the island, which was linked to the mainland by start at a causeway that was inaccessible at high tidemostly white school. HomeThe move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's CEOsafety after a tragic event, Ned Groomand so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, is determined that everythinga new school, ''everything'' will be perfectand keep himself out of trouble. Home He listens to music constantly, and has 5761 members: just 150 always dreamed of them have received invites for the weekendbeing a rapper. Those who have not been invited have not stopped ringing..But 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 poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|authorisbn=Melissa Fu 1635866847|title=Peach Blossom Spring The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=Historical Fiction Lifestyle|summary= I loved It's strange, the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled things that make you ''Originsimmediately''feel that this is the book for you. Unfortunately it is Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the only truly poetic part author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a book slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that I expected more fromcake viscerally. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family (There's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during a recipe in the war book, which I'm avoiding with Japan, a young mother (Meilinsome difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and her four-year-old son (Renshu) I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are among those who fleesanctioned. The story follows them on their journey across China, and in Renshu's case eventually You get to Americafold down the corners of pages. |isbn=1472277538You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|author=Vanda SymonRob Keeley|title=FacelessChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpointsAround here, several troubled people are thrown into the same story thanks to just one mis-stepwe're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. Set in New Zealand, the first He's a ball of our characters is Bradleyhappy positivity, a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing boss, a weighty mortgagehe understands children, and what he feels is an unappreciative wife. Then there’s Billywrites for their pleasure and enjoyment, a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes in order not to pay for the materials she needslecture or hector. And then we have Max, who The ''Childish Spirits'' series is also living on the streets and who keeps an eye on Billyone of his greatest achievements. He is It's a shell sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a man, barely able to take any care of himself, and yet we stalwart young girl who can sense that he was once something more than he is now. One nightcope with anything the spirit world throws at her, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress and anxietyEdward, driving down the street looking for a prostitute. He picks up Billy, spoiled lordling and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and a spiral away from the person he thought he was into someone very different.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=19145850461783064617
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|isbnauthor=0760373531Jenny Valentine|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf Us in the Before and Sock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue FlandersAfter
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|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=Just occasionally you encounter Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a book of knitting patterns which seems to meet your every needonce in a lifetime connection. Right now, itThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's bitterly cold and we're in contact details at the sandwich filling between two storms: I need sockstime. But then chance brings them back together, scarvesand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, hats something terrible and mittens. They have to look stylishtragic, keep me warm and be so cheerful that now they make me feel better. If that sounds like a lot to askmust work through their grief, have a look at ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and I don't think that there was one of them which I couldn't see myself wearing. We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the history of knitting. It's not essential but it's a nice extratheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbnauthor=1776574028Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David ElliottDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=I love a good board book! Meet Kit. ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is aimed at quite an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a niche market: it's for team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the child who still enjoys board books (erexit, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' perhaps bothering with words the treasure or the big bad and make something quite different from each onethe points they grant you along the way. We have Unfortunately for Kit, the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a only thing he''balletphant''. The buffalo who s seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) been retired, eaten, and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''new trio of questors is needed. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his potty changes world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a ''sm....team...'' OKWhat chance does this friendless, let's not go there Some people are eating!muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|isbnauthor=B09V1NQ5SXSaima Mir|title=Death at Friar's Inn|author=Rob KeeleyVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were in I was instantly intrigued by the finals premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society north of Friar's InnEngland run by a Muslim woman. For aspiring barristers, moots test The fact that it was the participantssecond in a series I hadn't read didn' knowledge of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: itt stop me – I's ve jumped midway into a great way of getting invaluable practice few series before (on page and of getting yourself noticed. Tom screen) and Nat are from it needn't be a provincial universityhindrance if it' and theys good enough. And that wasn're ''almost'' looked down on because of thist a problem here. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and Becca has an abundance of confidence. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any betterI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|isbnauthor=1529125944Stuart Douglas|title=City of Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dead|author=Jonathan KellermanDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles During location filming for a living, youhis 1970's sitcom 're careful Floggit and itLeggit's not just about , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the way that you driveedge of a reservoir. You restrict your alcohol intake The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and if it's he enlists the help of a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleepfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. When you're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head They travel across the country during their days off at 5 filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a.m. when link to death during the roads are quieter, even if you have to wait up when you get to where you're goingSecond World War. And it was going well until But is there really a link between the men hit something in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeles. deaths? The man was stark naked and couldn't be identified.And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has It seemed like an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Asperger's Syndromeopen-and-shut case. He can be rudeA man, difficult covered in mud and awkward with peopleblood - and carrying a knife, although it's never intentional. It's just comes into the police station shouting that he thinks differently and social niceties simply donhasn't occur to himkilled the man. There's A body at the bottom of a reason why freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and it's that he has the best conviction rate with cases, everbeen stabbed to death. His partner DCI John Tanner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with affection (not the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) easy answer but the words 'perverse' and even attempts 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to instil some the point of those missing social niceties into Crossfalling asleep at work but he's behaviourdetermined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=15291516001787333175|title=Give Unto OthersYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Donna LeonBenji Waterhouse
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|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changed. The I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'pandemia'after enjoying Adam Kay' stripped s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the city workings of its tourists for nearly two years the NHS, humour and a lot of businesses have closed, most never autobiography. ''You Don't Have to reopenbe Mad... There's now a cascade of money as life begins again ' promised the same elements but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end moved from physical problems to greedmental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going I did wonder whether it was acceptable to launder all be looking for humour in this setting but the money which laughter is coming their way? Whilst he's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was directed at a child. Elisabetta Foscarini has situation rather than a problem person and it is always delivered with empathy and she'd like Brunetti's adviceunderstanding.
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|author=Marcus SedgwickOnyi Nwabineli|title=WrathAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet FitzAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, a young Scottish lad full thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of frustration at himselfAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Lockdown Now Anuri is only just over, in her twenties and he should be free she is slowly trying to do what he wants, to go where he wants regain her confidence and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school bandget her life back, 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 suing her ecostep-warrior parents saying mother to take down the end of the world content about her. Anuri is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Wellbattling alcoholism, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=1800900899}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635864070|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah Talley|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=If you've ever started knitting a pair of socksfailing to start her PhD, finished the first one undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and either got bored by the idea of receiving money from them for doing the same thing all over againso. Most importantly, or started on the second sock and lost the first before you finished itshe is desperately worried about her little sister, this who is the book for you. Where is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you to knit two socks in one, divide them up and have a perfectly finished pair 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
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|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 AnimalsThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Gareth SteelJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Animals and WildlifeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I donmean, honestly...) She't often begin my reviews with a warning but with s not what's worrying Miv'Never Work With Animalss family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they'' it seems ve been murdered, but to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's life have proved popular since 'disappeared'All Creatures Great and Smalldoesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv' but s upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Never Work With AnimalsDown South'. When you' re from Yorkshire, Down South is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking fora frightening, foreign place, best avoided. As a TV show For Miv, the author move would argue that ''All Creatures'mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she' lacked realism, as ll do other similar programmesanything to prevent that. Gareth Steel says that She's not worried about the book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says dangers or that heher Mum's written it stopped talking - 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 eatinganyone.
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|isbn=17876348841398524085|title=The HerdHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Emily EdwardsNicci French
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Our story opens in December 2019Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, before most of us had even heard of Covid or realised that whether or is not we should be vaccinated would come to be a major issue. WeShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg're s father, Duncan Ackerley, in Farley County Court, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash Kohlithe river. As they were best friends until just a few months ago we know It was an easy assumption for the police to make that whatever has happened is major Duncan had murdered Charlie and that, regardless of then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the outcome, this is guilt. The Salter children are not going to work out well for anyoneconvinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs1035906708|title=The Language of FoodDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination We tend to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery bookthink of Maria Callas as Greek, but she recruits Ann Kirbywas born to Greek parents in Manhattan, a local woman with a troubled home life. TogetherNew York, they test, craft, refine in December 1923 and reshape only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the world of domestic cookery, reinventing States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the recipe book Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and changing the face made no secret of cookery writing foreverher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=1398502227
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