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|author=John BoyneJenny Lecoat|title=The Echo ChamberBeyond Summerland|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the few television personalities over occupation. During the age of fifty without war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells banned radio and soldiers took him she's carrying his childaway one night, but then his author wife is getting leaving Jean and her kicks with mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withwar is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. They have three children, who are But will the truth come as a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoeverrelief, a girl who hangs or will it raise further questions around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who wants to save told the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing Nazis about the gay hustle thing. Add in a few radio? And what other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you secrets have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is been kept throughout the fact this is bloody funny.occupation?|isbn=08575262191846976537
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|isbn=02419890941529428289|title=The Perfect LifeA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Nuala EllwoodMartin 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.
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|isbn=152919640X
|title=The Suspect
|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|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.
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|isbn=0008385068
|title=The Midnight Feast
|author=Lucy Foley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and sheIt's viewing a house in Goring-midsummer on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie Dorset coast and Barclayguests gather at The Manor. The boys are a bit of a handful which is why sheIt's making this trip on her owntheir opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. The house would be perfect for them. It's the same month but now we're in Wimbledon all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and we encounter the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and living in her sisterfamous. Her husband, Georgie'sOwen, spare room, where shewas 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's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connort be long before a body is found.
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|author=Darren ShanAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Wild East
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten CryptWritten in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny'grop'' s safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to think about. But before thatsettle in a new town, a new school, soireesand keep himself out of trouble. Soirees! Archie, much He listens to Inez's amusementmusic constantly, doesn't even know what one and has always dreamed of those isbeing a rapper. But he manages now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to come through see the fancy party unscathedconnections between rap and poetry, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in and the first volume power of this seriescreativity and crafting your words. |isbn=B093J9TF730241645441
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|isbn=B07GZ81J7C1635866847|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and MendedThe Lavender Companion|author=Peter CottonJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=Meet Fred. Well, actuallyIt's strange, the things that make you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred 'immediately'' feel that this is the book for reasons which will become all too obvious very quicklyyou. But Before Istarted reading ''The Lavender Companion''m getting ahead of myself, I visited the author's [https: I//www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there'd better tell you s a picture of a bit more about Fredslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. Fred is a snake I don't eat cakes and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to himdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. He arrived as (There's a present recipe in a box the book, which I'm avoiding with holes so that he could breathe some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and immediately became part I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the family, margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the extent corners of pages. You suspect that they smears of butter would take Fred out with them when they went out for not be a walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didnI 't have any road sense. Or brakes'loved'' this book already.
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|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaRob Keeley|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isnAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He'ts a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, as any parent will tell younot to lecture or hector. But really, why shouldn The ''Childish Spirits''t it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are smallseries is one of his greatest achievements. Why shouldnIt't potty training be as much fun ass a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, sayand Edward, learning about why the sun a spoiled lordling and the moon take turns in the sky? first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= B098BJZYHH1783064617
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|isbnauthor=1787634493Jenny Valentine|title=All Her Fault|author=Andrea MaraUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that the opportunity would arise for her soneven, Milo, to go on their friendship is a once in a play datelifetime connection. She was concerned that he didnThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't have any friends get each other's contact details at his new schoolthe time. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - But then chance brings them back together, and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little laterthey are inseparable. What could be better? Only Something has happened though, when Marissa arrived at the housesomething terrible and tragic, expecting to meet Jacob's motherand now they must work through their grief, Jenny, the door was answered by Estherand their friendship, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nannytogether.|isbn=1471196585
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|author=Claire NorthKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Notes from the Burning AgeDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or FlemingMeet Kit. However, as with Like most of the best novelspeople in his world, it wears many masks and its most affecting one seems, he is that an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a new team of warrior, mage and timely genrehealer enter specially prepared, clicentury-fiold, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or climate change fictionthe big bad and the points they grant you along the way. North Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's novel tells seen of a world devastated by climate change where humans have the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been forced to start anew retired, eaten, and live alongside nature without any a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the modern goading from the token bully of his world and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming)stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. There is a growing unhappiness with What chance does this limiting worldfriendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims how could he possibly hope to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.succeed?|isbn=03565147571839945184
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|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Saima Mir|title=Girls Who LieVengeance|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all I was instantly intrigued by the dark corners premise of Iceland have featured this novel – an organised crime syndicate in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowthe north of England run by a Muslim woman. You think, seeing on the map The fact that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from was the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just second in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care few series before her mother had asked for the girl back, (on page and screen) and a couple of delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at needn't be a high level until hindrance if it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the woman's car was found miles away in good enough. And that wasn't a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote placeproblem here. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depressionVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and very little maternal feeling in her bodyI never felt lost. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X0861541561
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|isbnauthor=B0925KS87NStuart Douglas|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the grave - and it took some finding - in an overgrown old cemeteryedge of a reservoir. It was a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal The police seem happy to doassign it as an accidental death, but Tam was getting old something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and there were things he wanted enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to dohelp him investigate matters further. OnlyThey travel across the country during their days off filming, his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found the grave - the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - uncovering more possible murders and his three sons began , seemingly, a link to worrydeath during the Second World War. Tam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go to But is there really a link between the police but deaths? And will they weren't certain where manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their father had been and they were worried.lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|authorisbn=Emily CritchleyB0CYV674G2|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I was intrigued by the plot, liked the design of the book, and thought the author's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} {{FrontpageSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good NeighboursDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= If you're of It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a certain vintageknife, itcomes into the police station shouting that he hasn's hard to read t killed the man. A body at the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding bottom of a singfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -song ''thathe's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''been stabbed to death. Maple Street DCI John Tanner is no Ramsay Streetjust back from his honeymoon, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from which coincided with the Melbourne suburbs. They're one birth of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlierhis daughter Samantha. They're not quite like all the other families (You would think he's d be grateful for an ex rocker, sheeasy answer but the words 's a former beauty queen) but theyperverse've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and it's all going ok. Until it isnJohn Tanner'twere made for each other. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. ItHe's a revolting mess sleep-deprived to the point of dirt and chaos, falling asleep at work but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet he's determined to comekeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1789098211
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|authorisbn=Lisa Thompson1787333175|title=The Small ThingsYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. Her family donI was tempted to read ''You Don't have enough money Have to let her do be Mad to Work Here'' after school activities, and so she feels like her life at home enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is boring in comparison Going to theirs. When Hurt}}, a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the new girlNHS, Ellie, is unwell humour and so canautobiography. ''You Don't attend school in personHave to be Mad... Instead, she joins in with '' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the class by using work of a robotpsychiatrist. Can Anna overcome I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the challenge of making friends with someone through laughter is directed at a situation rather than a robot, person and it is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|isbnauthor=0008350388Onyi Nwabineli|title=We Need Allow Me to Talk About Money|author=Otegha UwagbaIntroduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyGeneral Fiction|summary=Anuri 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'To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirables childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, less hireablebasically, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterpartsmonetary gain...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students Now Anuri is in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came her twenties and she is slowly trying to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven regain her confidence and nine. It was to get her life back, suing her step-mother who came first, with to take down the content about her father joining them later. The family was hard-workingAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, principled undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of receiving money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvestedfrom them for doing so. When Otegha was ten Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the family acquired a carnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. For OteghaCan she save her sister, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a place perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at New College, Oxford.the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|isbnauthor=1787631869David Chadwick|title=The Rising Tide|author=Sam LloydHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Lucy LockeIt's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good and decent life September 1973 in the aftermathHicks, California. She's now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with Billie, Lucy's daughter its nearest neighbours of LA and Fin, the child she had with DanielLas Vegas both a significant drive away. They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner and so-called best friendNot much happens in Hicks. Nick A silver mine and Daniel have a history together from defence contractor are the time they both spent in a children's home main local employers but itotherwise, there's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heartnot much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerneduntil....|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|author=Hannah PeckTom Percival|title=Kate on the CaseThe Wrong Shoes|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet KateWill's life is difficult, although I got the impression she'd rather be in a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at thatmultitude of ways. For Catherine Rodriguez He is Katebullied because he has 'the wrong shoes's idol, he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the author most basic of our heroinethings like food, and his dad can's favourite possessiont work because he lost his job at the college, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Armed with a plucky father, Throw into that mix the fact that bookhis mum and dad are separated, and her talking mouse called RupertWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, she is all equipped to manage he still has a train ride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonkstiny amount of hope. However, this He is a train ride with a differencegood at art, for on board and clings to the moments of joy when he is a greedy-seeming harridan and her catdrawing, that feel like a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from light at the darkness in end of a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist..long, dark tunnel.|isbn=184812970X1398527122
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|author=Darren ShanSylvie Cathrall|title=Archibald Lox and A Letter to the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in the world of the Born. It's not been easy, explaining There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to his foster parents where he's been, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his besta compelling premise.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awayAnd this is one of them.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ0356522776
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|isbn=05713658840008517061|title=My Mess is Death in a Bit of Life: Adventures in AnxietyLonely Place|author=Georgia PritchettStig Abell
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|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=Georgia Pritchett Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has always been anxious, even as a childsettled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She would worry There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the sort future of his life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few with his vet girlfriend, Livia and far between. On a visit to a therapisther daughter Diana, as an adult, when she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down and ''My Mess is moving in together would mean a Bit lot of a Lifecompromise: Adventures in Anxiety'' is the result does Jake give up his off- or so we are given to believe.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Cotter|title=The House on the Edge|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Faith's family home is teetering on the edge of a cliff, literally. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little? And as the house seems to be falling apart, so is Faith's family. Her dad has disappeared, grid and her mum is struggling relaxing life to cope, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith move in charge, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah with Livia or does Livia move to school, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is Little Sky despite her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what he claims reservations about whether or not this is a ghost in the cellar? What should future she do about the house? Can she find a way to raise enough money to fix it? What's happened to wants for herself and her daddaughter? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages to get funding for For the house? She carries moment they’re enjoying life in the weight of all these worries on her constantly, present and she doesn't know how much longer putting the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping future onthe back burner.|isbn=1788008626
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|isbn=00082690411786482126|title=Risk of HarmThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Lucie WhitehouseElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is back Builders were demolishing an old house in her native Birmingham after her lessNorwich - the site was going to hold seventy-thanfive 'luxury' apartments -comfortable departure from when they discovered the Metbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. She might have been reinstated but the whole episode left Was this a nasty taste in her mouth. ritual killing or murder? She was now Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years beforewith DCI Harry Nelson. She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parentIt's home into a rented house difficult as Ruth knows, but thereNelson doesn's still a difficult situation t, that she is pregnant with her brother Luke who has gone out of his way to make life difficult for Robin since she was child as a young childresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. He's married Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to Natalie, now and has a young child but he's still got it in for Robinsudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=17863323880008551324|title=The First Day of SpringDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Nancy TuckerNeil Lancaster
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - 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 struggling in prison and he''The First Day s prepared to tell the police where the body of Spring'' a missing person is buried and who was one such occasionresponsible for her death. The writing This person, he promises, is superb someone big and completely compellingit will be worth the police doing what he wants. The characterisation And what he wants is excellent and to be transferred to an open prison to serve the plot grips you remainder of his sentence and won't let goto get an early parole date. SoNot much to ask, what's the problemis it? Well, the problem is Chrissie, the main character. When we first meet her sheThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn's just eight years old, small for her age t think so and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - a two-year-old boy. She's completely cold about make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized uphappening. There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?
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|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman0008405026|title=The Disappearing ActA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the cusp of successinvestigation ground to a halt. Great success. If the rumours are true Now, award season is going to treat her wellmother, acknowledging Helena, and her for her latestfather are dead in their bed. Initially, critically acclaimed production. Sheit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going places but so, unfortunately, to be an open-and-shut case is her partnernow a complex double murder. And Kerrigan is convinced that the places heexplanation lies in Rosalie's going take him towards lies, deceit and a pretty young thing in the form of his new co-star. Itdisappearance: others (such as Derwent's a good time for Mia to escapeboss, and pilot season in LA provides just the excuseUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1471189783
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|authorisbn= Christophe Medler0571379877|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= Set against the backdrop of the English Civil WarEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, a secret plan (codeobsessed with his upper-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir class friends, Robert Douse in the summer of 1642and Stanza. As Robert's a loyal servant of the Kingtheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and Head of the Secret Service, it is uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's duty position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to uncover stumble upon the details two of the plan and follow the clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets them kissing in history—especially since the plot could affect the Kinga dark passageway.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ
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|author=Tasha SuriJo Callaghan|title=The Jasmine ThroneLeave No Trace
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= On When a man is found crucified on the night top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sacred burningsidekick, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyreAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. She But when there is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that was once filled with draws a community lot of people who got powers from unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the mysterious deathless waters. But now case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the temple is nothing more than an overgrowncase and, decaying ruin. One daypotentially, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead out of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservant.career?|isbn=0356515648139851120X
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|isbn=B088YWF5BC1399613073|title=The Lies We TellMoral Injuries|author=Jane CorryChristie Watson|rating=4.5
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|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up 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. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a council estate in Kent perfectionist and that she had two brothers and two sistersa trauma doctor. It seemed to have been Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a loving, stable familyGP. When we first meet her, she canthem they't sleep because her son, Freddie, whore at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's nearly sixteen, hasngoing to end in tragedy. We don't come home by know who suffered the time he sort of halftragedy or the consequences. Twenty-promised he'd five years later there will be in by. Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house in an eerily similar event that will impact the morning but he's still going to be going to work and he needs his sleepthree friends. He wakesThis time, though, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that heit's killed someonetheir teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Joseph Knox0241636604|title=True Crime StoryThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary= Joseph KnoxIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, known for you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waitsbackground is the East End, has created a new genre where he was familiar with his latest novelviolence, "True Crime Story"poverty and injustice. The story follows There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the disappearance London School of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residenceEconomics. Split into four parts, the reader Stevenson is taken through the life bright - extremely bright - and disappearance he has a facility with numbers which most of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as the policeus can only envy. The various accounts help the reader get He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to know Zoebe stupid. It was his ability at what was, or at least the Zoe she presented to othersessentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. However Eventually, the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricatedthis turned into permanent employment as a trader. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703
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|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1035021803|title=No, No, No!The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=They say the best picture books are It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the simplest onesEnglish country village where she grew up. And nothing could be truer She's back now because of this latest a request for help from Justine Averyher beloved aunt, a Bookbag favouriteCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole'Nos close friend, NoArthur Crockleford, No!'' is based around dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the simplest text imaginableleast. ''No, no Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, no! Okayshe feels, okaylet her down badly. Yes Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, you mayshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved.'' That's it! But, like all After the best picture bookssplit, this tiny snippet of text is she worked in a veritable tardis - so much bigger cafe, met and married James (on the inside that it appears on rebound from the outsidelove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1638820457
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|authorisbn=Monica ConnellAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Against a Peacock SkyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=TravelScience Fiction|summary= Monica Connell went ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. in social anthropologycome. '' I think 've heard it is important to know said that. She went on a grant-supported trip, with a relatively specific objective. She wasn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-la. She wasntechnology' is what happens after you't a mere tourist passing throughre eighteen. She went with Well, I must confess that there have been more than a fundamental aim few decades of learning about these people and how they livedtechnology in my lifetime. She also went, presumably, I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the academic discipline feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of how to find these things outit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, how to organise them in her mind, how to "understand" them in I could research the context of her own paradigms, possibilities and how to keep enough notes the probabilities and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the experience after the eventlatest conspiracy theorist. Fortunately, she also went with a sense of open-ness and curiosity I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a willingness to muck-in, to break her own rules and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled upway I could understand.|isbn=1780600429
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|isbnauthor=1409181669Sunny Singh|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Mariana was convinced The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them bothhas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with Hiding from the death of Tara Hampton terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niecesite, Zoethere is Sam, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend a wartime photographer and she was struggling to copeAbhi, the hotel manager. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having As Abhi continues to go try to Cambridge, but she caught care remotely for the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all residents who are still alive in the more so hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by the death events, and keeps on venturing out of Marianaher room to try to capture what's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierhappened through her photography. Zoe had been Although they only ever talk over the phone, their surrogate daughter after 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 death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Elizaterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|summary=It's April 19531979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, and Adolf Hitlerhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to Londonfamily, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallisthough. Women have been disappearing. For yesWell, they've been murdered, Britain caved in the lead-up but to the World War Two that certainly didnhave 'disappeared' doesn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the mainlandfamily 'Down South'. But this When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is most certainly a different Britainfrightening, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childlessforeign place, the husbandless and the widowsbest avoided. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroineFor Miv, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after allmove would mean leaving her best friend, not every book can be bannedSharon, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before theyshe're stamped ready for reprintll do anything to prevent that. That is She's not worried about the dangers or that her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil HitlerMum's visitstopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=152941198X
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|authorisbn=Louise Beech1398524085|title=This Is How We Are HumanHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother to Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her sondaughter, Sebastian Etty. are all worried but - but she can't give him everything he wantsstrangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Sebastian has decided that it Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's time father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for him the police to have sex. But as an autistic 20 year-old, make thatDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's easier said than donet stand the guilt. And it The Salter children are not convinced but there's starting to cause them both problemslittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. |isbn=1913193713
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