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|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonJenny Lecoat|title=Julia and the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author=Freya Sampson|title=The Last LibraryBeyond Summerland
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|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 librarywar is finally over, but when she got sick, 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, as well him. But will the truth come as taking on a job as library assistant at the local library. 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 knowrelief, everything in her life is about the change.|isbn=183877369X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008370982|title=Rock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Amelia Wright is forty-two and or will it was raise further questions around what else happened during the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. war? Her husband, Adam, isn't so keen on Who was the idea. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with informer who told the novels he's hoping to adapt than with her. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires Nazis about how her day has been - and working with the dogs, many of whom radio? And what other secrets have been abused, is never easy. Still - she's won kept throughout 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.occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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|authorisbn=Doug Johnstone1529428289|title=The Great SilenceA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin 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
|rating=4.5
|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
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|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
|rating=4.5
|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
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|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
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary= British actress Mia Eliot If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the cusp London School of successEconomics. Great success Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. If the rumours are true He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, award season is going this turned into permanent employment as a 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 treat her well, acknowledging her the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her latestbeloved aunt, critically acclaimed productionCarole. She Freya's former mentor and Carole's going places but soclose friend, unfortunatelyArthur Crockleford, is her partnerdead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. And Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the places he's going take him towards liesvillage: Arthur, she feels, deceit and a pretty young thing let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the form of his new co-starman or pursue the profession she loved. It's After the split, she worked in a good time for Mia to escapecafe, met and pilot season in LA provides just married James (on the rebound from the excuselove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1471189783
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|authorisbn= Christophe MedlerAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=MadrigalAll Tomorrow's Futures: A Closely Guarded SecretFictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Historical Science Fiction|summary= Set against ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the backdrop shape of the English Civil Warthings to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse few decades of technology in the summer of 1642my lifetime. As a loyal servant of I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the King, and Head of the Secret Service, feeling that it is Robert's duty to uncover the details all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the plan possibilities and follow the clues to uncover one of probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the most guarded secrets latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in history—especially since the plot a way I could affect the Kingunderstand.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ
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|author=Tasha SuriSunny Singh|title=The Jasmine ThroneHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyThrillers |summary= On The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the night of her sacred burningterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, Princess Malini defies her brother a wartime photographer and refuses to step on to Abhi, the pyrehotel manager. She is immediately sent As Abhi continues to try to be imprisoned on care remotely for the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people residents who got powers from are still alive in the mysterious deathless waters. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One dayhotel, Malini witnesses he forms a girl kill someone bond with magic. Instead Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of reporting her for such a gruesome crimeroom to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, Malini claims that the girl saved their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her from an attacker keep safe and begs for they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the girl to become her own personal maidservantterrorists.|isbn=0356515648086154742X
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|isbn=B088YWF5BC1529153298|title=The Lies We TellList of Suspicious Things|author=Jane CorryJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent It's 1979 and that she had two brothers and two sistersMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. It seemed to Women have been a loving, stable familydisappearing. When we first meet herWell, they've been murdered, she canbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sleep sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because her son, Freddie, whoshe's nearly sixteen, hasnoverheard that her father wants to move the family 't come home by the time he sort of half-promised heDown South'd be in by. Her husbandWhen you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, Tombest avoided. For Miv, is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but hemove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she's still going ll do anything to be going to work and he needs his sleepprevent that. He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother She's not worried about the dangers or that heher Mum's killed someonestopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=Joseph Knox1398524085|title=True Crime StoryHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Joseph KnoxCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waitssons Niall, has created a new genre with his latest novelPaul and Ollie and her daughter, "True Crime Story"Etty. The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from are all worried but - strangely - her university halls of residencehusband, Alec, is not. Split into four parts Shortly afterwards, the reader is taken through the life Etty and disappearance of Zoe through Greg, find the eyes body of her twin sister, other familyGreg's father, friends and professionalsDuncan Ackerley, such as in the policeriver. The various accounts help It was an easy assumption for the reader get police to know Zoe, or at least make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the Zoe she presented to othersguilt. However, the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and unsure of wonder about what is true or fabricatedreally happened. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703
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