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|isbn=15290776991529428289|title=The Raging Storm A Grave in the Woods (Two RiversA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Ann CleevesMartin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|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't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder
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|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. 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 was soon clear that this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all bloody peculiar, isnheaded up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she't s converted itinto an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Sir?'Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is 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 body is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4.5|genre=TeensWell yes|summary=Written in verse, it this isRonny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for about Ronny's safety after a month and then turned uptragic event, naked and deadso Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, in a small boatnew school, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village and keep himself out of Greystone, in Devontrouble. Rosco had the status He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''rapper. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find outBut now, in this new school, he could his teacher encourages him to be more than part of a little bit close with money poetry writing workshop group and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get , slowly, Ronny begins to see the money for his first boat? How did he finance connections between rap and poetry, and the trip?power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR1635866847|title=On the Beach: The Winter VisitorLavender Companion|author=Chris Green Jessica Dunham and Jenny FiondaTerry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at homeIt's strange, bored but warmthe things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', or frozen cold I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and building sand sculptures on there's a snowy beach when picture of a large slab slice of silvery ice drifted onto chocolate cake on the shorelinehomepage. On top of the ice was a polar bearI don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. As (There's a recipe in the ice bumped onto the sandbook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the bear woke book and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit I was all for making told to make a run for mess of it, but Teal knew that . Notes in the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then anothermargins are sanctioned. He obviously needed You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleepproblem. What else would you do?I ''loved'' this book already.
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|author=Claire NorthRob Keeley|title=House of OdysseusChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=54|genre= Literary Fiction Confident Readers|summary= Around here, we're big fans of children'What could matter more than love?'s author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.
The follow-up to the excellent ''IthacaChildish Spirits'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace series is one of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned homehis greatest achievements. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to IthacaIt's shoresa sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the return of Orestesspirit world throws at her, King of Mycenaeand Edward, a spoiled lordling and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=03565160751783064617
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|isbnauthor=1529427045Jenny Valentine|title=The Girl Us in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin SmirnoffBefore and After
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|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=''Life has Elk and Mab are best friends, or more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskasthat even, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked their friendship is a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow once in coming forwarda lifetime connection. SalanderThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don's niecet get each other's mother is the latest woman in contact details at the area to have vanished without tracetime. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's deathBut then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbnauthor=B0CCCPJJ5BKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew TreeDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at Meet Kit. Like most of the London-based public school where people in his world, it seems, he met Ralph Finns. It was is an unusual relationship as Ralph was avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a boarder team of warrior, mage and had money healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to throw around on a Rolex watchthe exit, vintage wines perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and a state-of-the-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when points they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintancesgrant you along the way. Finns had no intention Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of going the latest race on to Universitythe inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, unlike our storyteller who had and a place at Wolverton College in Wellingfordnew trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the UKgoading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's third most prestigious universityll enter as a team. Before going up What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he took up a loose invitation possibly hope to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|author=Dean KoontzSaima Mir|title=The House at the End of the WorldVengeance|rating=43.5
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|summary=When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly was the second in a small chain of tiny dots series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on the map page and live out your days in peace screen) and solitudeit needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. ThatAnd that wasn's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life t a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrockspeed, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankindI never felt lost.|isbn=16624531590861541561
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|isbnauthor= B0CCCVRSGXStuart Douglas|title=Stories 2|author=Richard F WalkerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary= This is Richard F WalkerDuring location filming for his 1970's second volume sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of short storiesa reservoir. There are thirteen in all The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and I took something from each he enlists the help of them. There isn't a single one that doesn't deserve fellow actor, John Le Breton to be among help him investigate matters further. They travel across the others or brings down the overall quality. It can be tricky to review short stories without giving too much awaycountry during their days off filming, so I'll just pick two to talk about uncovering more possible murders and I think they give , seemingly, a general flavourlink to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=1787636607B0CYV674G2|title=The TrapSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Catherine Ryan HowardDavid Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a scene replicated all too often in knife, comes into the early hours of police station shouting that he hasn't killed the morningman. Drunken revellers spilling out A body at the bottom of clubs and looking for a way freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to get homedeath. Some are lucky and manage to get one of DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one birth of the outlying villageshis daughter Samantha. The woman all regret You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'taxi problemperverse', particularly in the light of and 'the missing womenJohn Tanner'were made for each other. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phoneHe's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance sleep-deprived to beg the bus driver to let her use his. Therepoint of falling asleep at work but he's no option but determined to start walking keep going - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoesprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=14059571741787333175|title=A Death at the PartyYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Amy StuartBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=From the first page, we know that Nadine WalshI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's party will not end well. The victim - a man - first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort Going to call Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the ambulance he so desperately needsNHS, humour and autobiography. What we don''You Don't know is who Have to be Mad...'' promised the man is or why Nadine prefers same elements but moved from physical problems to have him diemental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I'd better give you did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a little more background so that you can understand what's happeningperson and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|author=Tania UnsworthOnyi Nwabineli|title=Nowhere IslandAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet GilAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Just twelve, he Now Anuri is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – her twenties and find a home for himself. He she is en route slowly trying to regain her confidence and to yet another fostererget her life back, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him suing her step-mother to his futuretake down the content about her. That future seems Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorwaystart her PhD, a place inaccessible undergoing therapy and definitely ignored enough to provide secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for their safety and seclusiondoing so. ThemMost importantly, and a mute girl also finding a home thereshe is desperately worried about her little sister, albeit so much more successfullywho is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combineCan she save her sister, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=18045400800861546873
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|isbnauthor=0008530025David Chadwick|title=Murder in the Family|author=Cara HunterHeadload of Napalm
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was 's September 1973 in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfatherHicks, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London homeCalifornia. He had an injury on the back Hicks is a Mojave desert town of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged a few thousand people with his murder its nearest neighbours of LA and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', Las Vegas both a true-crime showsignificant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence silver mine and to take a defence contractor are the investigation further. More to the pointmain local employers but otherwise, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. Therethere's no dump not much of the whole box set - note other than dive bars and no shortage of cliffhangersJoshua trees. Life is quiet, until... It's compelling viewing.|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|author=Judith EagleTom Percival|title=The Stolen SongbirdWrong Shoes|rating=45
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=CaroWill's motherlife is difficult, in a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care multitude of her sister who is unwellways. So who He is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gambullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', someone Caro he has heard her mother despisesthe wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, she feels frustrated and confused his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and worriedhad an accident. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian ladyseparated, and Will's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there toolife seems bleak in every direction. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mysteryAnd yet, as she discovers he still has a painting tiny amount of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcasehope. He is good at art, and all across London clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a fearsome gang called light at the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising peopleend of a long, dark tunnel. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=05713631481398527122
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|isbnauthor=1529195977Sylvie Cathrall|title=None of this is True|author=Lisa JewellA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, There are in the midst of few greater joys than a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close book which lives up to her tummy and you get the sense that Walter's not too happya compelling premise. He's not used to spending And this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after allone of them.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=18033651100008517061|authortitle=Chuck TingleDeath in a Lonely Place|titleauthor=Camp DamascusStig Abell|rating=3.54|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Love is love; although humans continue to be confused by this sentiment. Gay conversion therapy is ongoingFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The UK government ruled out plans to make it There’s perhaps a crime little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia andher daughter Diana, as moving in the US, nearly 700 000 adults have received it. Although it is both together would mean a secular lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and a religious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, relaxing life to move in his new horror, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back 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 her daughter? For the skin of Christian ''pray moment they’re enjoying life in the gay away'' camps to show present and putting the reader future on the horror lurking withinback burner.
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|isbn=18031363831786482126|title=Tin SoldiersThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=David ChadwickElly Griffiths
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting Builders were demolishing an old house in Vietnam under something Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a cloudchild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but an act Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the consensusone night they spent together some three months ago. Wat himself Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is keeping his cards close prone to his chest, as he always doessudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=B0C7J9D21B0008551324|title=A Captive in Algiers The Devil You Know (Muhammed Amalfi MysteriesD S Max Craigie)|author=A J LewisNeil Lancaster
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is Ettore struggling in prison and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's prepared to tell the police where the body of a bordello missing person is buried and Ettore's mother died when he who was bornresponsible for her death. He's not been short of mothersThis person, he promises, though - but for is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfisentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's difficult even prepared to obtain decent employment. The stint working with do the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some moneyanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0008405026|title=After DeathA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=35|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bioIt's sixteen years since nine-year-hazard accidentold Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Finding himself in She was never found and the investigation ground to a makeshift mortuaryhalt. Now, covered in plasticher mother, he has a sense that something veryHelena, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his her father are dead friends and former colleaguesin their bed. As he recovers his sensesInitially, he realises that it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there is 's something different about him; he can ''feel'' everythingthe positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=Arkspire|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing What looked as though it was going to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter open-and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie -shut case is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of the Watcher, the closest to now a ruler the district has, and one of the five major victors in said earlier warcomplex double murder. Being trained in the magic Kerrigan is convinced that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. But explanation lies in finding something oddly magicalRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Thiago de Moraes0571379877|title=Old Gods New TricksThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapesEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon obsessed with fart powderhis upper-class friends, she could almost be thought Robert and Stanza. Robert's a young goddess of nuisancetheatre director. But just when sheHe's being told that by her onealso self-last-chance-giving headteacherobsessed, demanding, the world changeshandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a powerEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the schooland he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in but the entire planet (apart Robert's position would stay away from mobile phones, and all Stanza or tell Edward that powers the Internet, just for our conveniencea relationship had begun between them but he's sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the ancient Gods have taken the power two of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form them kissing in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the trickstersa dark passageway.|isbn=178845295X
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|author=Alexia CasaleJo Callaghan|title=Sing if you Can't DanceLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=TeensCrime|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate When a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven man is dealing with after collapsing found crucified on stage in the middle top of a dance performance that was going hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to change the case alongside her lifesidekick, the AI detective Lock. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life thatIt's as normal as she can possibly managetheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Meanwhile But when there's is a second body found crucified a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort outfew days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and just the day-to-day traumas a very high profile case that draws a lot of all the challenges her body continues unwanted attention to throw at her to navigatetheir AI Future Policing project. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she Will they be able to sing her way through insteadsolve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=0571373801139851120X
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|authorisbn=Helen Peters1399613073|title=Friends and TraitorsMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=EnglandOlivia, WW2. Two young girls are new at Laura and Anjali met on the country pile called Stanbrookfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. One Olivia is Nancyruthlessly ambitious, destined which is a bonus when you aim to be in service all her life it seems, like the female generations before hera cardiothoracic surgeon. The other Laura is Sidney, a girl from perfectionist and a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-pathstrauma doctor. The girls are chalk Anjali is the free spirit of the group and cheese, and if she becomes a GP. When we hadnfirst meet them they't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it so's going to end in tragedy. But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'unconsequences. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that, a local Spitfire factory has been attackedwill impact the three friends. But surely the girls This time, it's their teenage children who are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=1788004647involved.
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|isbn=02419961040241636604|title=Coming to Find YouThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Jane CorryGary Stevenson
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|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father If you were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brotherto bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, Martin, has been convicted you're unlikely to think of their murdersomeone like Gary Stevenson. We first meet Nancy outside A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the courtEast End, after Martin receives a life sentencewhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' There was no posh public school on his CV - she's not but he had been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest London School of her lifeEconomics. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich Stevenson is bright - she inherited five million pounds from her mother extremely bright - and the papers are making the he has a facility with numbers which most of itus can only envy. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''He also realised that most rich bitch'' might not people expect poor people to be printed but is undoubtedly spokenstupid. 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.
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|isbn=15294136801035021803|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Martin WalkerC L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and BrunoIt's there twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to see the show with some friendsEnglish country village where she grew up. ItShe's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one back now because of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs a request for help from the scripther beloved aunt, Carole. LuckilyFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, his doctor is there dead and the man is whisked away in a helicoptercircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - Even though they were in business together as he's a senior government employeeantique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man who runs Frenchelon - or pursue the military has stepped inprofession she loved. One daughter lives nearby and anotherAfter the split, who lives she worked in Californiaa cafe, is flying in with some met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holidaylife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1529196388AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The TrialAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Rob RinderBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to by just about everyonecome.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, so I must confess that there was public uproar when he was murdered have been more than a few decades of technology in plain sight at the Old Baileymy lifetime. ThereI've kept up reasonably well with what's just one man in advantageous to me but I'm left with the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and feeling that it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murderall getting away from me. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron Some of Stag Court Chambers and it's Tayloris - frankly -Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent himquite frightening. KnightOf course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameronm reading someone who knows what they's recommendations to re talking about or the contrarylatest 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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|author=Essie FoxSunny Singh|title=The FascinationHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers |summary= The Victorian era Hotel Arcadia is incredibly a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over-romanticised as by a setting for historical fiction (matched onlyterrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, perhapsthere is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, by the Second World War) which has often led hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to more than a few writers mishandling it. There's such a glut of media set in the era that care remotely for the hallmarks we've come to associate with it residents who are familiar to still alive in the point of being clichedhotel, hackneyed even. All this is simply he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. But despite thatcowed by events, something about it still grabs me – and something about this bookkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's description did happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as wellAbhi 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=1914585526086154742X
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|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1529153298|title=Death in Fine ConditionThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=35|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fictionIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, and in particular a series called Sleuth Houndhonestly... ) She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, sometimes 'tweakingthey' themve been murdered, but to add value, in somewhat fraudulent wayshave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. One day Miv's upset because she discovers 's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the background of a photograph on move would mean leaving her drug dealer's living room wallbest friend, and so she sets about discovering where this collection isSharon, and how she can steal it! 'll do anything to prevent that. ItShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's a nextstopped talking -level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when the owner of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947to anyone.
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|isbn=15295079871398524085|title=The Repair Shop Craft BookHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop'Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. It's my goHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely -to programme when I want to be cheered upher husband, Alec, is not. After a hard dayShortly afterwards, thereEtty and Greg, find the body of Greg's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You seefather, Duncan Ackerley, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they holdriver. No expense appears It was an easy assumption for the police to be spared make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the desired resultguilt. Regular viewers know the experts The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and they're all brilliant at explaining wonder about what it is they're doingreally happened. But how did they start?
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|authorisbn=Nicole Jarvis1035906708|title=A Portrait in ShadowDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=''I want all We tend to think of Florence Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to know my name'' Cast out from RomeGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home December 1923 and where only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her future can thrive rather than stagnatefather changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. But as some as When she enters Florentine society was back in Athens - supposedly so that she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the selfcould get appropriate training for her voice -proclaimed guardians of she was raised under the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture made no secret of her preference for centuries and guard it above all else. To themher elder sister, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their societyJackie.|isbn=1803362340
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