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|authorisbn=Lauren St John1529428289|title=Finding WonderA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficultBecause of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. Her mum died when she was youngThey dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, and now she finds herself awoken in the middle Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the night by identities of the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy bodies and establish whether or not a lottery ticketcrime had been committed. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didnAs if this isn't think very highly of. But she has no one elseenough to worry about, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable auntthe Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. Things continue It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to get worse for Roo, as when she release water and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in St Denis faces the middle possibility of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169a devastating flood.
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|isbn=1448309743152919640X|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)Suspect|author=Caro RamsayRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of ScotlandThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, five members of a wealthy family are found was murderedlive on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will followhe must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, thatShe's seriously allergic and carries an easy conclusion given that two EpiPen in case of them 'discovered' the bodyemergencies. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to 'shadow' himbe found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|authorisbn= Kay Chronister0008385068|title= Desert CreaturesThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating= 4.5|genre= Dystopian FictionThrillers|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrillIt's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience It's their most existential fearsopening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister s converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many still ongoing on parts of the fears that exist for humanity todaysite. It 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 shocking novel that still manages to find hopebody is found.|isbn=1803364998
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|author=Christopher FowlerAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Word MonkeyWild East|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyTeens|summary= ItWritten in verse, this is Ronny's the first of August in the middle of story, a cool wet summer in East Anglia. I decided not young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to swim Norwich and start at the pool in favour of going to my beach huta mostly white school. The weather closed move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle ina new town, rain arriveda new school, and I decided not to do that eitherkeep himself out of trouble. When I finished reading this bookHe listens to music constantly, I realised it was because (and has always dreamed of being a) I wanted to finish reading this book and (b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shackrapper. No spoiler alertsBut now, in this new school, the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler 'was' – and his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosis. There is something very strange about being made teacher encourages him to laugh by be part of a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dyingpoetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and you know he actually is at that pointpoetry, because he does. He didand the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=08575296250241645441
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|isbn=15290776991635866847|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)Lavender Companion|author=Ann CleevesJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=''It's all bloody peculiarstrange, isnthe things that make you 't it, Sir?'immediately'' Well yes, it feel that this isthe book for you. Jem Rosco blew into Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the local pub one evening in the middle author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and then turned updesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, naked which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and dead, in I was told to make a small boat, anchored mess of it. Notes in Scully Cove close the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the village corners of Greystone, in Devonpages. Rosco had the status You suspect that smears of butter would not be a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''problem. I ''nearlyloved'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open this bookalready. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|isbnauthor=B0CC9W7GLRRob Keeley|title=On the BeachChildish Spirits: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny Fionda10th anniversary special edition|rating=54|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at homeAround here, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab we're big fans of silvery ice drifted onto the shorelinechildren's author Rob Keeley. On top He's a ball of the ice was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sandhappy positivity, he understands children, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit was all he writes for making a run for ittheir pleasure and enjoyment, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed not to be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleeplecture or hector. What else would you do?}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=House of Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?''
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
|genre=Thrillers
|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
|rating=4.5
|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
|rating=4.5
|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 heroIt'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 struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, his name is Ettore someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he lives at The House wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of Beautiful Swallowshis sentence and to get an early parole date. Idyllic as this might soundNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's a bordello even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and Ettoreanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's mother died when he sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was bornnever found and the investigation ground to a halt. He's not been short of mothersNow, her mother, Helena, though - but for someone of his background and her father are dead in late-eighteenth-century Amalfitheir bed. Initially, itlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with something about the preparation positioning of anchovies didn't work out the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boatsher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Ettore What looked as though it was nothing if not resourceful going to be an open- and determined - and it was not long before he had shut case is now a successful business as a guide for visitorscomplex double murder. He was even saving some moneyKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0571379877|title=After DeathThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at Edward Jevons is a top secret biological research facilityworking-class young man, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bioobsessed with his upper-hazard accidentclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Finding himself in Robert's a makeshift mortuarytheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, covered in plasticdemanding, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he recovers his senses, 's drunkenly confided how he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everythingfeels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'Everything''s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}}
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|author=Jamie LittlerJo Callaghan|title=ArkspireLeave No Trace
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Two sistersWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, Juniper and ElodieDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, born fifteen minutes apartthe AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, are growing to be chalk and cheesehaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. Juniper But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is an eager hunter suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlandsa very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Elodie is intent on getting closer Will they be able to power solve the case in one of time, or will Kat find herself taken off the religious districts case and, potentially, out of Arkspirea career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, perhaps even to become Laura and Anjali met on the child in line to inherit the power first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of the Watchera century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, the closest which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a ruler trauma doctor. Anjali is the district has, and one free spirit of the five major victors group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in said earlier wartragedy. Being trained in We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the magic consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that only five people can use would definitely change will impact the status of the whole familythree friends. But in finding something oddly magicalThis time, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Thiago de Moraes0241636604|title=Old Gods New TricksThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Meet TrixieIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Forever getting into scrapes, larks A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and adventures involving flooding his background is the school aircon East End, where he was familiar with fart powderviolence, she could almost be thought poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a young goddess facility with numbers which most of nuisanceus can only envy. But just when she's being told He also realised that by her one-last-chance-giving headteachermost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, the world changesa card game which got him an internship with Citibank. SuddenlyEventually, practically everything electronic stops working – this turned into permanent employment as a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the town the schoolEnglish country village where she grew up. She's in but the entire planet (apart back now because of a request for help from mobile phonesher beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and all that powers the Internet, just for our convenienceCarole's sake). Trixieclose friend, luckilyArthur Crockleford, realises what has happened – is dead and the ancient Gods have taken circumstances seem suspicious, to say the power of power from usleast. And so Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she begins feels, let her epic questdown badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to gather all be near the people that can steal it back – namely man or pursue the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from profession she loved. After the Godssplit, ie the semi-deitiesshe worked in a cafe, giants, half-gods met and so married James (on known as the trickstersrebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=178845295X
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|authorisbn=Alexia CasaleAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Sing if you CanAll Tomorrow't Dances Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=It's hard enough 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're having to navigate a life-changing disability tooeighteen. Well, but I must confess that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage there have been more than a few decades of technology in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her lifemy lifetime. But she comes back fighting, desperate I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to avoid me but I'm left with the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life feeling thatit's as normal as she can possibly manageall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort outOf course, I could research the possibilities and just the day-to-day traumas of all probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigatelatest conspiracy theorist. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way through instead?|isbn=0571373801I could understand.
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|author=Helen PetersSunny Singh|title=Friends and TraitorsHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like the female generations before her. The other Hotel Arcadia is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been removed there away from bomber flight-pathsviolently taken over by a terrorist group. The girls Hiding from the terrorists who are chalk and cheeserampaging through, killing everyone on site, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something there is amissSam, a wartime photographer and first separately and then in combination they realise Abhi, the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'unhotel manager. Midnight deliveries As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are received under cover of secrecystill alive in the hotel, talk is made of meetings he forms a bond with GermansSam who refuses to be cowed by events, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attackedkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. But surely Although they only ever talk over the girls are wrongphone, 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 upper class could never be so underhand?terrorists.|isbn=1788004647086154742X
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|isbn=02419961041529153298|title=Coming to Find YouThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jane CorryJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=NancyIt's mother 1979 and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murderMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. We first meet Nancy outside the court(A woman? I mean, after Martin receives a life sentencehonestly... ) The barrister tells her that sheShe's received a not what'silent sentences worrying Miv' - shes family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they's not ve been found guilty of anything murdered, but will to have to live with what happened for the rest of her life'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Of course, itMiv's made worse upset because Nancyshe's rich - she inherited five million pounds from overheard that her mother - and father wants to move the papers are making the most of itfamily 'Down South'. When you''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' re from Yorkshire, Down South is one favourite epithet a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She'rich bitchs not worried about the dangers or that her Mum'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spokens stopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=15294136801398524085|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Martin WalkerNicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|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 BrunoCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's there to see the show with some friendsfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. It's Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all been very carefully choreographed worried but goes badly wrong when- strangely - her husband, KerquelinAlec, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the scriptnot. LuckilyShortly afterwards, his doctor is there Etty and Greg, find the man is whisked away body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in a helicopterthe river. A local doctor (It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as then committed suicide when hecouldn's a senior government employee, t stand the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped inguilt. One daughter The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holidaywonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=15291963881035906708|title=The TrialDiva|author=Rob RinderDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Grant Cliveden We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and looked up only moved to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar Athens when he she was murdered in plain sight at the Old Baileythirteen. ThereHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's just one man to make it more manageable in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murderStates. Knight When she was told back in Athens - supposedly so that the best barrister she could get appropriate training for him her voice - she was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guiltyher preference for her elder sister, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contraryJackie.
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