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|isbn=17765743381529428289|title=Leilong's Too Long!A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnMartin Walker
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Every morning LeilongBecause of various property transactions, people were searching for the brontosaurus school busgrave but when they found it, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goesit came with three sets of bones. Children who live at They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the top Chief of tower blocks don't even need Police for St Denis, to go downstairs – they simply climb out discover the identities of the window bodies and slide down his neckestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. It's perfect, As if this isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going enough to school? There worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is a problem, thoughflowing at record levels. Leilong isnIt't happy in s not just the local autumn rains that have caused the cityproblem: he's always having various dams upstream on another river have had to be careful about where he puts his feet release water and – because he's longer than St Denis faces the possibility of a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymoredevastating flood.
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|isbn=303091657X152919640X|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandThe Suspect|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonRob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Boards must act in the best interests of their stakeholders The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and ensure it seems that they are well-managed there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and financially securehis contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which have resulted She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in death or the collapse case of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingemergencies. Where were Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they? Occasionally the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred to turn can be in a blind eyebusy, leaving watchers wondering which was worse live television studio - ignorance or criminalityand Brooks served a ragout to Holby. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip maniashe was dead within minutes. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very littleIt was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|isbn=15293379680008385068|title=In Place of FearThe Midnight Feast|author=Catriona McPhersonLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers|summary=It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - midsummer on the day that the NHS is bornDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. SheIt'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in s their GP surgery opening weekend and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healthsplendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The hardest part of the job will be to persuade people that the services Manor was her ancestral home and she offers really are free and that they don't have to do anything to qualify s converted it into an impressive retreat for themthe wealthy and famous. Some Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insightsite. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Her marriage has never been consummatedOld scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.
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|author=Mark LinganeAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=GalaxyWild East|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary=SparkWritten in verse, who this is an elite pilot with the Space AcademyRonny's story, barely makes it through a battle aliveyoung black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. His co-pilot was not The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so fortunate. Waking from Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a coma that lasted yearsnew school, he remembers little and is in no physical shape keep himself out of trouble. He listens to resume his dutiesmusic constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But Earth is under threat now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and he must. Returned by his superiors , slowly, Ronny begins to see the space stationconnections between rap and poetry, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity - and not just from the alien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itselfpower of creativity and crafting your words. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W0241645441
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|authorisbn=Lissa Evans1635866847|title=WishedThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=When It's strange, the things contrive to force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the neighbourhood spinsterish old woman, Miss Filey, book for a week of half-termyou. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', theyI visited the author're not looking forward to its [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. For one thing, she thinks Wi-Fi is com/ website] and there's a picture of a special brand slice of biscuitchocolate cake on the homepage. They I don't particularly take to Willard either, the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything eat cakes and everywheredesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. But things soon change when they find (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some tiny old birthday candles, difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and manage I was told to work out that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come truea mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. How will things change for a second time when they realise You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that, having used up three smears of them, these should really butter would not be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202Xa problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|author=Justyn EdwardsRob Keeley|title=The Great Fox IllusionChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a contest with a difference. No singingball of happy positivity, no dancinghe understands children, this show is looking and he writes for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks work, their pleasure and who can attempt to win The Great Fox's magical legacy - the secrets to all of his tricks! Flick is determined to winenjoyment, but not because she wants to own the trickslecture or hector. She is interested in just The ''oneChildish Spirits'' trick, the trick that The Great Fox stole from her fatherseries is one of his greatest achievements. And sheIt's hoping if she a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can find that trick then she will be able to bring cope with anything the spirit world throws at her missing father home., and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=15295019461783064617
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|author=Jason RohanJenny Valentine|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access DeniedUs in the Before and After|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Arun Elk and Sam have had little to do with DonnaMab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a girl at their schoolonce in a lifetime connection. But things immediately change at the start of this extended sprint of They meet as children one day on a novel, when she insists Aruntrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's house has become contact details at the attention of plain-clothes coppers time. But then chance brings them back together, and that they should bunk off school to find out whyare inseparable. And thus an unlikely trio of misfit young heroes is formed – Sam is really not Donna's idea of company Something has happened though, but he is the computer buffsomething terrible and tragic, Donna seems to know all the criminal ins and outs and survival skillsnow they must work through their grief, and Arun? Welltheir friendship, it's his lot to find out that all he based his family life on isn't true, and that his father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved in something quite unexpectedtogether. But how can this disparate trio hope to best MI6, kidnappers, people able to keep the truth about themselves secret for decades, and so much more?|isbn=18399433861471196585
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|isbnauthor=1638485216Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Black, White, and Gray All OverDungeon Runners: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick ReynoldsHero Trial|rating=54|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specificMeet Kit. It has everything to do with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''. The murder Like most of George Floydthe people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a forty-six-yearteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvinmagical mazes, a forty-four-year-old police officerand race to the exit, in perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around points they grant you along the worldway. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but FloydUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's death was an exception. The image seen of Chauvin kneeling the latest race on George's neck the inn TV equivalent is not that one which I'll ever forget team has been retired, eaten, and the protests which followed cannot have been unexpecteda new trio of questors is needed. There was a backlash against Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the police - token bully of his world and not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were stumbled into declaring he''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brushll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|isbnauthor=B09DD1QJKJSaima Mir|title=The Club|author=Ellery LloydVengeance|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''The party I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the year turned into the murder mystery north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the decadesecond 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 it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough.And that wasn''t a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}}
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|authorisbn=Melissa Fu B0CYV674G2|title=Peach Blossom Spring Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake
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|genre=Historical Fiction Crime|summary=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 he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to 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' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary= I loved the prelude 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 Peach Blossom SpringHurt}}, a short chapter entitled glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don'Originst Have to be Mad...''promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. Unfortunately I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is the only truly poetic part of directed at a situation rather than a book that I expected more fromperson and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4. Covering Chinese history from 1938 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to 2005 as viewed through one familyher step-mother Ophelia's perspectiveincreasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. When their home city Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is set ablaze during the war with Japanslowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, a young suing her step-mother (Meilin) and to take down the content about her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them on their journey across Chinafor doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, and in Renshuwho is the new focus of Ophelia's case eventually to Americaonline empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=14722775380861546873
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|author=Vanda SymonDavid Chadwick|title=FacelessHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpointsIt's September 1973 in Hicks, several troubled people are thrown into the same story thanks to just one mis-stepCalifornia. Set in New Zealand, the first Hicks is a Mojave desert town of our characters is Bradley, a middle aged man struggling few thousand people with an overbearing boss, its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a weighty mortgage, and what he feels is an unappreciative wifesignificant drive away. Then there’s Billy, a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes Not much happens in order to pay for the materials she needsHicks. And then we have Max, who is also living on the streets A silver mine and who keeps an eye on Billy. He is a shell of a mandefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, barely able to take any care there's not much of himself, note other than dive bars and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he Joshua trees. Life is nowquiet, until.. One night, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress and anxiety, driving down the street looking for a prostitute. He picks up Billy, 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.|isbn=1914585046B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=0760373531Tom Percival|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue FlandersThe Wrong Shoes
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|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=Just occasionally you encounter Will's life is difficult, in a book multitude of knitting patterns which seems to meet your every needways. Right nowHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', ithe has the wrong shoes because his dad can's bitterly cold t work and wedoesn're in t have enough money for even the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socksmost basic of things like food, scarvesand his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, hats was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and mittenshad an accident. They have to look stylishThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, keep me warm and be so cheerful that they make me feel betterWill's life seems bleak in every direction. If that sounds like a lot to askAnd yet, have he still has a look at ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and I don't think that there was one tiny amount of them which I couldn't see myself wearinghope. We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the history end of knitting. It's not essential but it's a nice extralong, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=1776574028Sylvie Cathrall|title=Bumblebee Grumblebee|author=David ElliottA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=I love There are few greater joys than a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills which lives up to have realise that you can ''play'' with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a ''balletphant''. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''compelling premise. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone And this is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''smone of them.......'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX0008517061|title=Death at Friar's Innin a Lonely Place|author=Rob KeeleyStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were in the finals of the Moots to take place Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at The Honourable Society of Friar's InnLittle Sky. For aspiring barristers, moots test There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the participants' knowledge future of several areas of law his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as well as their advocacy skills: it's moving in together would mean a great way lot of getting invaluable practice compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and of getting yourself noticed. her daughter? Tom For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and Nat are from 'a provincial university' and they're ''almost'' looked down putting the future on because of this. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance of confidence. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any betterthe back burner.
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|isbn=15291259441786482126|title=City of the DeadThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Jonathan KellermanElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When you drive large vehicles for a living, youBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 're careful and itluxury's not just about apartments - when they discovered the way that you drivebones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. You restrict your alcohol intake and if it's Was this a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleepritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. When youIt're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 a.m. when the roads are quieters difficult as Ruth knows, even if you have to wait up when you get to where youbut Nelson doesn're going. And it was going well until the men hit something in Westwood Villaget, an upmarket neighbourhood that she is pregnant with his child as a result of Los Angelesthe one night they spent together some three months ago. The man was stark naked and couldn't Her condition will be identifiedobvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=0008551324|title=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme The Devil You Know (TranslatorD S Max Craigie)|titleauthor=I May Be WrongNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre= AutobiographyCrime|summary= When It's unusual for anyone from the Dalai Lama adds his words Hardie family to your frontispiece, Iapproach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'm inclined s prepared to think it doesn't really matter how tell the police where the rest body of the world responds to your booka missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. I knowThis person, having read he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thoughtpolice doing what he wants. He knows (And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and at core so do I) that it matters very to get an early parole date. Not much how the rest of the world responds to this bookask, because is it tells ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the truth as it other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is, in the early 21st centurykept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1526644827
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC10008405026|title=The Patient A Stranger in the Family (A DS Cross thrillerMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Tim SullivanJane Casey
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|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably AspergerIt's Syndromesixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. He can be rudeShe was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, difficult and awkward with peopleher father are dead in their bed. Initially, although itlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's never intentionalsomething about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It's just that he thinks differently What looked as though it was going to be an open-and social niceties simply don't occur to him-shut case is now a complex double murder. There's a reason why he's Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in BristolRosalie's Major Crime Unit and itdisappearance: others (such as Derwent's that he has the best conviction rate with cases, ever. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recogniseboss, or welcome being attached to himselfUna Burt) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviourare less convinced.
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|isbn=15291516000571379877|title=Give Unto OthersThe Kellerby Code|author=Donna LeonJonny Sweet|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changedEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. The Robert''pandemia'' stripped the city of its tourists for nearly two years and s a lot of businesses have closed, most never to reopentheatre director. ThereHe's now a cascade of money as life begins again but even 125also self-obsessed, demanding,000 deaths have not put an end handsome and entitled and uses Edward to greedrun errands for him. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all the money which is coming Edward has been in love with Stanza since their way? Whilst university days - and he's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone drunkenly confided how he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was a childfeels to Robert. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and she'd like BrunettiMost men in Robert's advice.}}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, relationship had begun between them but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks 's not like most men: Edward is left to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent stumble upon the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one two of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already them kissing in 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? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't..dark passageway.|isbn=1800900899
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|isbnauthor=1635864070Jo Callaghan|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah TalleyLeave No Trace
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|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=If you've ever started knitting When a pair man is found crucified on the top of socksa hill in Nuneaton, finished DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the first one and either got bored by the idea of doing the same thing all over againcase alongside her sidekick, or started on the second sock and lost the AI detective Lock. It's their first before you finished itlive case together, this is the book for youhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. Where But when there is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you to knit two socks in onesecond body found crucified a few days later, divide them up Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and have a perfectly finished pair very high profile case that draws a lot of socksunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Sounds good? It's clever Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and well-thought-out.}}{{Frontpage|author=Olivie Blake|title=The Atlas Six|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= Dark, sharppotentially, and highly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming out of a Tik-Tok sensation.career?|isbn=1529095239139851120X
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|isbn=00083849831399613073|title=The Paris ApartmentMoral Injuries|author=Lucy FoleyChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''Things are not what they seem''Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. It was Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a Friday and Jess Hadley was keen bonus when you aim to get to her half-brother's flat in Parisbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. She'd come across from London on Eurostar, courtesy of the money she'd stolen from The Pervert's till in the Copacabana Bar in BrightonLaura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. It wasn't likely that Anjali is the free spirit of the police would be on to her yet but group and she'd like to be somewhere safe and with food and drink inside herbecomes a GP. SheWhen we first meet them they'd phoned Ben re at a drug and got the address - 12 Rue des Amants alcohol- fuelled party and he told her that the apartment was on the third floor. Sheit's outside what's obviously a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able going to get end in touch with Bentragedy.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760373558|title=Nordic Knits|author=Sue Flanders|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=I was so delighted by Sue Flanders We don' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around t know who suffered the tragedy or the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didn't need any persuading at all to pick up her ''Nordic Knits''consequences. This delivers fortyTwenty-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norway, Sweden and Icelandfive years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. There are a few sweaters or jackets but the majority of patterns are for smaller items such as mittensThis time, gloves, hats and bags. All it's their teenage children who are bright and cheerful and very cosyinvolved.
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|isbn=19160720380241636604|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)Trading Game: A Confession|author=Allie CresswellGary Stevenson
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|genre=Historical FictionAutobiography|summary=We meet part If you were to bring up an image of the Talbot family a city banker in Yorkshire in November 1811your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Twenty-seven-yearA hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-old Jocelyn Talbot stripe suit and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklingtonhis background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the house in the hollowLondon School of Economics. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn Stevenson is well aware of her mother's strengths bright - extremely bright - and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath he has a facade facility with numbers which most of respectability, the deplorable truth''us can only envy. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to do as she be stupid. It was his ability at what was asked, essentially, a card game which has precipitated ''got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this violent and unexpected removal''. Then we are told of the birth of turned into permanent employment as a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshiretrader.
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|authorisbn=Matthieu Aikins1035021803|title=The Naked DonAntique Hunter't Fear the Waters Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=It's easy twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isnEnglish country village where she grew up. She't actually fiction, s back now because it reads very much like of a well-paced thriller at timesrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. This Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is not by any means a criticismdead and the circumstances seem suspicious, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to accompany his friend the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journeyantique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge After the whole way through. But it's written with split, she worked in a haunting cafe, met and almost lyrical quality that allows married James (on the reader to perfectly envisage rebound from the environments love of her life, who was murdered) and people describedFreya and James have now divorced.|isbn= B09N9157T6
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas EngerAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Blix and RammEditors)|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=This is ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the third book in a series shape of stories featuring Alexander Blixthings to come.'' 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 police officer, and Emma Ramm, a crime journalistfew decades of technology in my lifetime. In this book we find I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that when one of Blixit's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries to contact her superior, Blixall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Before she can reach him, however, she is murderedOf course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and Blixend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's daughter Iselin m reading someone who shares knows what they're talking about or the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered toolatest conspiracy theorist. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix I needed people I knew I could trust and Ramm, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happencould deliver information in a way I could understand. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|author=Daniel AbrahamSunny Singh|title=Age of AshHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyThrillers |summary= We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has The Hotel Arcadia is a knife luxury hotel in her hand and an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a meeting that she dreadsterrorist group. Meanwhile Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, the City of Kithamar killing everyone on site, there is at Sam, a point in wartime photographer and Abhi, the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possiblehotel manager. It is As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the night between residents who are still alive in the funeral of hotel, he forms a Prince bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and the coronation keeps on venturing out of his successorher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. For a night Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the Kithamar is un-ruledterrorists.|isbn=0356515427086154742X
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|isbn=15290955221529153298|title=The InterviewList of Suspicious Things|author=C M EwanJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Kate Harding It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge CommunicationsPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... It) She's not what's the last interview of the day at one of Londonworrying Miv's newest office buildings and Edge family, though. Women have fitted out their part of the building to be something specialbeen disappearing. Maggie Well, Katethey's recruitment agentve been murdered, is keen but to see have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that Kate approaches her father wants to move the interview in a good state of mind: Kate assumes that this family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the job - move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she has 'll do anything to admit prevent that life has . She's not been easy for worried about the dangers or that her recentlyMum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK1398524085|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Neil LancasterNicci French|rating=45
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|summary=Loch Torridon 'Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is'' not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the back body of beyond: thereGreg's not even any light pollution which is why it was father, Duncan Ackerley, in the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugsriver. Jimmy McLeish thought that he It was onto a nice little earner, only an easy assumption for the police to find make that Macca, Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the man he thought he was working with, is dead. His remains would never be foundguilt. The delivery is hijacked by Davie and Callum. As the story progresses weSalter children are not convinced but there'll s little else they can do but get to know them quite wellon with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn= B09NDJ77LM1035906708|title=Me and My ShadowDiva|author=Deborah StoneDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary= ''What happens when someone is pushed too far and they begin We tend 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 think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she tries was born to shake off the shadows of her past Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and attempts only moved to repair decades worth of painAthens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' Rachel is to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a current conversation with her psychiatrist, mother who pushes mercilessly exploited her to recall her life from very young childhood onwards. But Rachel is combative with Doctor Blake, sometimes even contemptuous and made no secret of her. You can see that it's not an easy therapeutic relationship. Rachel's recall of preference for her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute and unforgiving clarityelder sister, Jackie.
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