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|author=Freya SampsonJenny Lecoat|title=The Last LibraryBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the thought end of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, occupation. During the main characterwar, June, does put her hair in Jean's father was arrested for listening to a bun, banned radio and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett)soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating mother waiting for years for news of him. As the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw British finally free the book out of Channel islands from the window, because I found I was interested in JuneNazis, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used to be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sickwar is finally over, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home to take care their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of her mum, him. But will the truth come as well as taking on a job as library assistant at relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the local library. radio? And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about what other secrets have been kept throughout the change.occupation?|isbn=183877369X1846976537
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|isbn=00083709821529428289|title=Rock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away A Grave in a converted chapel in Scotland. Her husband, Adam, isn't so keen on the idea. Like AmeliaWoods (A Bruno, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy Chief of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he's hoping to adapt than with her. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the dogs, many of whom have been abused, is never easy. Still - she's won the weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat - and then doing the same thing to come back a couple of days later.}}{{FrontpagePolice Novel)|author=Doug Johnstone|title=The Great SilenceMartin Walker
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|genre=Crime
|summary=For those whoBecause of various property transactions, like me, haven't come across people were searching for the Skelfs beforegrave but when they found it, I'll risk a quick synopsis it came with three sets of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about itbones. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though They dated back to World War II and it sounds as though it ought fell to beBruno, it is merely the surname Chief of a family Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth bodies and instinct, she married establish whether or not a scot and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that crime had been in the family for generationscommitted. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny As if this isn't enough to worry about, 46, is haunted by her stillthe Dordogne River -living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grandnormally tranquil -daughter is about 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 graduate with a first-class physics degree release water and join St Denis faces the academic staff next termpossibility of a devastating flood.|isbn=1913193837
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|isbn=1901514978152919640X|title=There's a Problem With DadThe Suspect|author=Carlos AlbaRob Rinder
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Life is different for George Lovelace The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and he canit seems that there't really understand whys only one suspect. He's always done everything celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he ought must not serve anything containing miso to: steady workerJessica 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, husband and father live television studio - and Brooks served a father who ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was always there for school plays nowhere to be found and sports daysshe was dead within minutes. So why is he never quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why is someone with such a ''good'' mind unable to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breath-taking gaffes? It's almost become a cliche these days to suggest was soon clear that someone who is a little different is 'on the spectrum', but George Lovelace has all the symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: high-functioning autismthis was no accident.
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|authorisbn=Louise Candlish0008385068|title=The HeightsMidnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Ellen doesnIt't expect to see Kieran that days midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. She The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across . The heat is oppressive and amongst the wayguests are enemies as well as friends. There Old scores are lots of things, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London, but this isngoing to be settled and it won't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had be long before a hand in his murderbody is found.|isbn=1471183483
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|isbnauthor=0008421714Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia FeitoWild East
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary FictionTeens|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George MarchWritten in verse, this is Ronny's most successful novel story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed move to either be reading it or had already done soNorwich and start at a mostly white school. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, The move is initiated by Ronny''but isn't this the first time hes mum who is worried for Ronny's based safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a character on you?'' new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. She mentioned that JohannaHe listens to music constantly, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''and has always dreamed of being a rapper. Perhaps But now, in this would not have matterednew school, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore his teacher encourages him to be part of Nantes - ''a weakpoetry writing workshop group and, plainslowly, detestableRonny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchand the power of creativity and crafting your words.''|isbn=0241645441
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|authorisbn=John Boyne1635866847|title=The Echo ChamberLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him sheIt's carrying his childstrange, but then his author wife the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withbook for you. They have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save I visited the worldauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's homeless with out-a picture of-date food, and a fit young lad doing slice of chocolate cake on the gay hustle thinghomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Add (There's a recipe in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his lifethe book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the modern worldmargins are sanctioned. What suggests You get to fold down the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this is bloody funnybook already.|isbn=0857526219
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|isbnauthor=0241989094Rob Keeley|title=The Perfect Life|author=Nuala EllwoodChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=In August 2018 Around here, we meet a young woman called Imogen and she're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three ball of happy positivity, he understands children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. The boys are a bit of a handful which is why she's making this trip on her own. The house would be perfect he writes for themtheir pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.
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|author=Darren ShanJenny Valentine|title=Archibald Lox Us in the Before and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3After|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=So. Having done the impossible Elk and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten CryptMab are best friends, from which the Departed communicate with the Mergeor more than that even, Archie now has their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other'grop'' to think abouts contact details at the time. But before thatthen chance brings them back together, soireesand they are inseparable. Soirees! Archie Something has happened though, much to Inez's amusementsomething terrible and tragic, doesn't even know what one of those is. But he manages to come and now they must work through the fancy party unscathedtheir grief, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtisand their friendship, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this seriestogether. |isbn=B093J9TF73}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.1471196585
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|author= Justine Avery Kieran Larwood and Naday MeldovaJoe Todd-Stanton|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn'tMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, as any parent will tell perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant youalong the way. But really Unfortunately for Kit, why shouldnthe only thing he't it be? We all have s seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to learn about our bodily functions just the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as we have to learn about everything else when we are smalla team. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as What chance does this friendless, saymuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the skyhow could he possibly hope to succeed? |isbn= B098BJZYHH1839945184
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|isbnauthor=1787634493Saima Mir|title=All Her Fault|author=Andrea MaraVengeance|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It had seemed like one I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of those serendipitous events which sometimes happenEngland run by a Muslim woman. Marissa Irvine had been hoping The fact that it was the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on second in a play date. She was concerned that he series I hadn't read didn't have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove it needn't be a little later. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacobhindrance if it's mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didngood enough. And that wasn't know Jenny or Jacoba problem here. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nannyVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|author=Claire NorthStuart Douglas|title=Notes from Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Burning AgeDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=At its core During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit'Notes From , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the Burning Age'' by Claire North is edge of a spy thrillerreservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, with as many double crossesbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, interrogations and night time escapes as he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Carre or FlemingBreton to help him investigate matters further. However, as with They travel across the best novelscountry during their days off filming, it wears many masks uncovering more possible murders and its most affecting one is that of a new and timely genre, cli-fiseemingly, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced link to start anew and live alongside nature without any of death during the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming)Second World War. There But is there really a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, link between the Brotherhood, aims deaths? And will they manage to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=03565147571803368209
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|authorisbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb Swanton Morley (translatorJohn Tanner)|titleauthor=Girls Who LieDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers It seemed like an open-and crime books before now-shut case. You thinkA man, seeing on the map that we're set covered in Akranesmud and blood - and carrying a knife, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from comes into the capital city, police station shouting that this author is clutching at he hasn't killed the few final straws leftman. However just because A body at the book aims for the usual smallbottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -town feel, ithe's not been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date eveningback from his honeymoon, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently which coincided with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the girl back, words 'perverse' and a couple 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives falling asleep at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the womanwork but he's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy postdetermined to keep going -natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her bodyprobably because he can't get any sleep at home. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X
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|isbn=B0925KS87N1787333175|title=Dead ManYou Don's Grave (DS Max Craigie)t Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Neil LancasterBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined I was tempted to find the grave - and it took some finding - in an overgrown old cemetery. It was a strange thing for Scotlandread ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's premier criminal first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to doHurt}}, but Tam was getting old a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and there were things he wanted to doautobiography. Only, his family didn''You Don't hear from him again after heHave to be Mad...'d said that he'd found promised the grave - same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and his three sons began to worrywork of a psychiatrist. Tam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the police but they weren't certain where their father had been laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and they were worriedunderstanding.
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|author=Emily CritchleyOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small FlowersAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all Anuri spent her childhood on display to the hallmarks world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of something goodAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. I was intrigued by Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the plotcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, liked the design of the bookfailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and thought receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the authornew focus of Ophelia's work sounded interestingonline empire. From Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong heresame time?|isbn= 19114270910861546873}}
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|author=Sarah LanganDavid Chadwick|title=Good NeighboursHeadload of Napalm
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= If youIt're of a certain vintages September 1973 in Hicks, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''California. Maple Street Hicks is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Gertie live Las Vegas both a world apart from the Melbourne suburbssignificant drive away. They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a year earlier. They're not quite like all defence contractor are the other families (he's an ex rockermain local employers but otherwise, shethere's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends not much of note other than dive bars and their kids have settled inJoshua trees. Life is quiet, and it's all going okuntil. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211B0D321VJ76
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|author=Lisa ThompsonTom Percival|title=The Small ThingsWrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Although Anna has friends at schoolWill's life is difficult, she feels like she never really fits ina multitude of ways. Her family don He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money to let her do after school activitiesfor even the most basic of things like food, and so she feels like her life his dad can't work because he lost his job at home is boring the college, was working a cash-in comparison to theirs-hand job on a building site and had an accident. When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are complicated because the new girlseparated, Ellie, is unwell and so canWill't attend school s life seems bleak in personevery direction. Instead And yet, she joins in with he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the class by using moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a robot. Can Anna overcome light at the challenge end of making friends with someone through a robotlong, and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?dark tunnel.|isbn=17811296491398527122
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|isbnauthor=0008350388Sylvie Cathrall|title=We Need A Letter to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagbathe Luminous Deep
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|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable There are few greater joys than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by which lives up to a womancompelling premise.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although And this did not translate into a shortage is one of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a place at New College, Oxfordthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=17876318690008517061|title=The Rising TideDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Sam LloydStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Lucy Locke's early Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life hadn't been easy but she'd built at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a good little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and decent life her daughter Diana, as moving in the aftermath. She's now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locketogether would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, grid and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point relaxing life to move in with Billie, Lucy's daughter and Fin, Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the child future she had with Daniel. They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner wants for herself and so-called best friend. her daughter? Nick For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and Daniel have a history together from putting the future on the time they both spent in a children's home but it's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concernedback burner.
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|authorisbn=Hannah Peck1786482126|title=Kate on the CaseThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Kate, although I got Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the impression shesite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'd rather be apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at thatdoorway. There was no skull. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idolWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and the author of our heroineDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's favourite possessiondifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky fathert, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage pregnant with his child as a train ride to result of the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonksone night they spent together some three months ago. HoweverHer condition will be obvious before long, this not least because Ruth is a train ride with a difference, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalistprone to sudden bouts of sickness...|isbn=184812970X
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|authorisbn=Darren Shan0008551324|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The second trilogy in ShanIt's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in unusual for anyone from the world of Hardie family to approach the Bornpolice. It Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's not been easy, explaining prepared to his foster parents tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he's beenpromises, or slipping back into ordinary life is someone big and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in 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 Merge, but Archie has done remainder of his bestsentence and to get an early parole date.... well Not much to ask, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Benis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's clock tower even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and except for fiddling anyone who works with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak him is kept well awayfrom what's happening.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ
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|isbn=05713658840008405026|title=My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures A Stranger in Anxietythe Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Georgia PritchettJane Casey|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a childIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was never found and the sort of life where if she had nothing investigation ground to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far betweena halt. On a visit to a therapistNow, her mother, as an adultHelena, and her father are dead in their bed. when she was completely unable to speak Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about what was wrong with the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was suggested that she should write it down going to be an open-and ''My Mess -shut case is now a Bit of a Life: Adventures complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in AnxietyRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent' is the result - or so we s boss, Una Burt) are given to believeless convinced.
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|authorisbn=Alex Cotter0571379877|title=The House on the EdgeKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Faith's family home Edward Jevons is teetering on the edge of a cliffworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, literallyRobert and Stanza. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope Robert's a little? And as the house seems to be falling apart, so is Faiththeatre director. He's family. Her dad has disappearedalso self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and her mum is struggling uses Edward to cope, barely leaving her bedrun errands for him. So that leaves Faith Edward has been in charge, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah to school, love with Stanza since their university days - and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what 's drunkenly confided how he claims is a ghost feels to Robert. Most men in the cellar? What should she do about the house? Can she find a way to raise enough money to fix it? WhatRobert's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'll come back if she manages s not like most men: Edward is left to get funding for stumble upon the house? She carries the weight two of all these worries on her constantly, and she doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping onthem kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1788008626
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|isbnauthor=0008269041Jo Callaghan|title=Risk of Harm|author=Lucie WhitehouseLeave No Trace|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Robin Lyons When a man is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from found crucified on the Met. She might have been reinstated but the whole episode left top of a nasty taste hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her mouth. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then sidekick, the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years beforeAI detective Lock. She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parentIt's home into their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a rented house but there's still second body found crucified a difficult situation few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with her brother Luke who has gone out a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of his way unwanted attention to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young childtheir AI Future Policing project. He's married Will they be able to Nataliesolve the case in time, now or will Kat find herself taken off the case and has , potentially, out of a young child but he's still got it in for Robin.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=17863323881399613073|title=The First Day of SpringMoral Injuries|author=Nancy TuckerChristie Watson
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|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and ''The First Day their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of Spring'' was one such occasiona century. The writing Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is superb and completely compellinga bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. The characterisation Laura is excellent a perfectionist and the plot grips you and won't let goa trauma doctor. So, what's Anjali is the problem? Well, free spirit of the problem is Chrissie, the main charactergroup and she becomes a GP. When we first meet her shethem they's just eight years old, small for her age re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and she readily tells us that sheit's just killed someone - a two-year-old boygoing to end in tragedy. SheWe don's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized upt know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. There's a clue Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in will impact the book: when will Steven come backthree friends. This time, she wonders? Hasnit't he been dead for long enough?s their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman0241636604|title=The Disappearing ActTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on the cusp If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of successsomeone like Gary Stevenson. Great success. If A hoodie and jeans replaces the rumours are true, award season pin-stripe suit and his background is going to treat her wellthe East End, acknowledging her for her latestwhere he was familiar with violence, critically acclaimed productionpoverty and injustice. She's going places There was no posh public school on his CV - but so, unfortunately, he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is her partner. And the places bright - extremely bright - and he's going take him towards lies, deceit and has a pretty young thing in the form facility with numbers which most of his new co-starus can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It's was his ability at what was, essentially, a good time for Mia to escapecard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, and pilot season in LA provides just the excusethis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=1471189783
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|authorisbn= Christophe Medler1035021803|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= Set against It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the backdrop English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of the English Civil Wara request for help from her beloved aunt, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642Carole. As a loyal servant of the King Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and Head of the Secret Servicecircumstances seem suspicious, it is Robert's duty to uncover say the details of least. Arthur was the plan and follow reason why Freya had not been back to the clues village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to uncover one of be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the most guarded secrets split, she worked in history—especially since a cafe, met and married James (on the plot could affect rebound from the Kinglove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ
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|authorisbn=Tasha SuriAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Jasmine ThroneAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary= On ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the night shape of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on things to the pyrecome. She '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is immediately sent what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to be imprisoned on me but I'm left with the Hirana: an ancient temple feeling that was once filled with a community of people who got powers it's all getting away from the mysterious deathless watersme. But now the temple Some of it is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin- frankly - quite frightening. One day Of course, Malini witnesses a girl kill I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone with magicwho knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Instead of reporting her for such I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservantway I could understand.|isbn=0356515648
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|isbnauthor=B088YWF5BCSunny Singh|title=The Lies We Tell|author=Jane CorryHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on The Hotel Arcadia is a council estate luxury hotel in Kent and an unnamed city that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed to have has suddenly been violently taken over by a loving, stable familyterrorist group. When we first meet herHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, she can't sleep because her sonkilling everyone on site, Freddiethere is Sam, who's nearly sixteena wartime photographer and Abhi, hasn't come home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in byhotel manager. Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the morning but hotel, he's still going forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be going cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to work and he needs his sleeptry to capture what's happened through her photography. He wakesAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, though, when Freddie does come in their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someonethey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Joseph Knox1529153298|title=True Crime StoryThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= Joseph KnoxIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waitsthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, has created a new genre with his latest novelthey've been murdered, "True Crime Story"but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. The story follows Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the disappearance of Zoe Nolan family 'Down South'. When you're from her university halls of residenceYorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Split into four parts For Miv, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of move would mean leaving her twin sisterbest friend, other familySharon, friends and professionals, such as the police. The various accounts help the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented 'll do anything to othersprevent that. However, She's not worried about the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true dangers or fabricatedthat her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703
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|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1398524085|title=No, No, No!|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. ''No, No, No!'' is based around the simplest text imaginable. ''No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may.'' That's it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|isbn=1638820457}}{{FrontpageHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Monica Connell|title=Against a Peacock SkyNicci French
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|genre=TravelCrime|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for Charlotte Salter was expected at her Phhusband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up.D Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. in social anthropology. I think it is important to know that. She went on a grantare all worried but - strangely -supported tripher husband, Alec, with a relatively specific objective. She wasn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-la. She wasn't a mere tourist passing throughis not. She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these people Shortly afterwards, Etty and how they lived. She also wentGreg, presumably, with find the academic discipline body of how to find these things outGreg's father, how to organise them in her mindDuncan Ackerley, how to "understand" them in the context of her own paradigms, and how river. It was an easy assumption for the police to keep enough notes make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the experience after the eventguilt. Fortunately, she also went The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with a sense of open-ness their lives and curiosity and a willingness to muck-in, to break her own rules and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled upwonder about what really happened.|isbn=1780600429
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