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|author=Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=15293793851846976537}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529428289|title=The Madness of Crowds A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief Inspector Gamacheof Police Novel)|author=Louise PennyMartin Walker|rating=4.5
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|summary=In the Canadian village Because of Three Pinesvarious property transactions, we're post-pandemic: people were searching for the scars are still there grave but life is starting to get when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to normal. The villagers are beginning World War II and it fell to return Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the Bistro bodies and the Aubergeestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. TheyAs if this isn're visiting each other's homes and having friends and relatives t enough to stayworry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for It's not just the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and she soon proves local autumn rains that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to be around - release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in the village as the Asshole Saintdevastating flood.
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|isbn= B09F4CTKJR152919640X|title= Flights for FreedomThe Suspect|author= Steven BurgauerRob Rinder
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=ItThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's the later stages of World War I celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and the United States has just entered the conflicthis contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up She's seriously allergic and joined the 17 Aero Squadroncarries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be trained in Canadaa busy, the first live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be attached to the RAF found and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combatshe was dead within minutes. But before It was soon clear that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camelthis was no accident.
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|isbn=183885410X0008385068|title=The Dark RemainsMidnight Feast|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinLucy Foley|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Bobby Carter It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was a lawyer her ancestral home and consigliere to one of she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowwealthy and famous. DC Jack Laidlaw Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the CID team charged with site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the investigationguests are enemies as well as friends. I say ''on the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems Old scores are going to be a part of settled and it. He does his own thing, goes his own way and won''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carter's t be long before a body was is found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubs.
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|isbnauthor=1942410255Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael PronkoWild East
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|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=''Zangyo: overtime workWritten in verse, often unpaid'' Itthis is Ronny's the culturestory, isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are really just a statement of the minimum you'll be required young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to do: you'll work more hours move to get the job done Norwich and done to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizukastart at a mostly white school. When he was found dead in front of Senden CentralThe move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's headquarters safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or griefa new town, even from his familya new school, but there was a mild curiosity as and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to whether he'd jumped from the roof music constantly, and has always dreamed of the building or been assisted in his descentbeing a rapper. Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employeeBut now, Mayu Yamasein this new school, had committed suicide some three years earlier. She'd accused Onizuka his teacher encourages him to be part of bullying her a poetry writing workshop group and forcing her , slowly, Ronny begins to work an unreasonable amount see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of overtimecreativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|isbn=02414254251635866847|title=The Man Who Died TwiceLavender Companion|author=Richard OsmanJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letter. It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from 's strange, the Thames and who had never existed but then things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basisbook for you. When she visits the sender of the letter (heBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''s moved into , I visited the Cooperauthor's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it[https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's someone with whom she has a long professional history picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - and who used to be her husbandbut I wanted that cake viscerally. He(There's made a bad mistake - something recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to do with make a mask being removed within mess of it. Notes in the range margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and a few death threatsproblem. HeI ''loved's now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressthis book already.
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|author=Andrew SharpRob Keeley|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or Around here, we're big fans of children'Leos author Rob Keeley. He' for short) is s a Vampire. She drinks bloodball of happy positivity, she sleeps during the dayhe understands children, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel aroundhe writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, although not all of them remember to come back)lecture or hector. Pretty cool stuff. Now, on the night The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of her hundredth birthnight, she has to go out and hunt her first humanhis greatest achievements. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worse, the ghosts It's a sequence of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt her. Soghost stories centring on Ellie, not only does Leo have to team up a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulspirit world throws at her, she has to do it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? YeahEdward, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=147119955X1783064617
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|author=Tori BovalinoJenny Valentine|title=The Devil Makes ThreeUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5
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|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over once in a hundred books that she has to deliver herselflifetime connection. What makes it worse is They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the man who requested the books: Mr Birchtime. The boarding school's headmaster But then chance brings them back together, and a man Tess hatesthey are inseparable. As a petty act of revenge for making her find Something has happened though, something terrible and deliver such a large requesttragic, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like thisand now they must work through their grief, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would betheir friendship, if someone hadn't delivered them for hertogether.|isbn=17890981301471196585
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|isbnauthor= B09BG8V3Q6Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is Meet Kit. Like most of the latest release people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series sport where a team of fun picture books aims warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to take the pain out of potty training children exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and replace it with some funthe points they grant you along the way. It Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a worthy aimnew trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as any frustrated parent will tell youa team. .What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|isbnauthor=B098FFFBH9Saima Mir|title=Snowcub|author=Graham FulbrightVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight I was instantly intrigued by the way premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in which human beings exploit the animal world. She gets a great deal north of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, England run by a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, NickMuslim woman. Kate runs The fact that it was the family business, second in a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where weseries I hadn't read didn'll meet Rachelt stop me – I's main ve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toysit's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|author= Angharad WalkerStuart Douglas|title= The Ash HouseLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident ReadersCrime|summary= A new boy arrives at 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 edge of a reservoir. The Ash House. He doesn't know his namepolice seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, or why he is there but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he is used to enlists the systemhelp of a fellow actor, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out John Le Breton to teach help him the rules of The Ash Houseinvestigate matters further. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by They travel across the absent Headmaster. All children must remember country during their Niceness days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and complete their chores, working as seemingly, a hive in link to death during the smouldering shadows of The Ash HouseSecond World War. But soon their easy peace is shattered by there really a link between the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same again.?|isbn=19126269771803368209
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|authorisbn=Yancey WilliamsB0CYV674G2|title=Crosshairs of the DevilSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=AwardIt seemed like an open-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and-shut case. A man, despite his strenuous objections covered in mud and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living blood - or imprisonedand carrying a knife, from Eddiecomes into the police station shouting that he hasn's point of view - in room 315 of t killed the man. A body at the Garden bottom of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable companyfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. Nothing DCI John Tanner is going to keep Eddie just back from his stock-in-trade of writing thoughhoneymoon, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and which coincided with the Face birth of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a word, richhis daughter Samantha. There is certainly You would think he'd be grateful for an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British easy answer but way west, beyond the Scillieswords 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. There are troll people on it, and seaHe's sleep-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has deprived to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewegoing - probably because he can's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or nott get any sleep at home.|isbn=1788452372
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|authorisbn=Erling Kagge1787333175|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
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|genre= LifestylePopular Science|summary= Those who have I was tempted to read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology Going to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defenceHurt}}, I will say that as a reader glorious mixture of this type insight into the workings of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why). Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South PoleNHS, the North Pole humour and the summit of Everestautobiography. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn ''You Don't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means Have to walkbe Mad.. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I haven't counted. In small format paperback, each essay did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is only a few pages long. Perhaps then, better thought of as directed at a meditation situation rather than an essaya person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.|isbn=0241357705
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|author=Ian Mark and Louis GhibaultOnyi Nwabineli|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quickAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, for hethanks to her step-mother Ophelia's a slight boyincreasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and although he wants for danger , basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and peril she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sight. That's because Jack's get her life back, suing her step-mother knew all to take down the content about monstersher. Anuri is battling alcoholism, and look what happened failing to start her – she diedPhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Luckily or unluckily then Most importantly, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOLshe is desperately worried about her little sister, Jack will fluke who is the ogrenew focus of Ophelia's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunteronline empire. Can she save her sister, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's namesame time? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=07555019420861546873
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|author=Keith GrayDavid Chadwick|title=The ClimbersHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Sully is the best tree climber in the village. He has whatIt's known amongst the kids as 'reach'September 1973 in Hicks, California. But what happens when Hicks is a new kid shows up in Mojave desert town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees a few thousand people with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, its nearest neighbours of LA and not only that, that his chance to name the final, unnamed big tree Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the park by being the first to conquer itmain local employers but otherwise, might be snatched from his handsthere's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friendLife is quiet, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so?until....|isbn=1781129991B0D321VJ76
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|author=Emma CarrollTom Percival|title=The Week at World's EndWrong Shoes|rating=45
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=First, the title. We're in WorldWill's End Closelife is difficult, in a mediocre set multitude of housesways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with he has the family dog wrong shoes because his dad can't work and with doesn't have enough money for even the boy over most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the road. But we could also be at World's Endcollege, because something taking was working a cash-in-hand job on a great chunk of the fun away is building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats his mum and dad are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshoreseparated, and not much else is able to make the newsWill's life seems bleak in every direction. That said And yet, Vie he still has news a tiny amount of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shedhope. Anna has He is good at art, in no short timeand clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, taken that feel like a strong interest in light at the American airforce base behind the Closeend of a long, said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed to leave, and implied her life was at riskdark tunnel. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=05713644381398527122
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|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonSylvie Cathrall|title=Julia and A Letter to the SharkLuminous Deep|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|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 There are few greater joys than 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, book which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind lives up to hunt the elusive Greenland sharka compelling premise. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company this is one nightof them.|isbn=15101077890356522776
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|authorisbn=Freya Sampson0008517061|title=The Last LibraryDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=I am always Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little nervous to start a story uncertainty about a library, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought future of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main character, June, does put her hair in a bun, and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett)his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the book out of the windowdaughter Diana, because I found I was interested as moving in June, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used to be together would mean a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave lot of compromise: does Jake give up on going his off-grid and relaxing life to University and stayed at home move in with Livia or does Livia move to take care of Little Sky despite her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at reservations about whether or not this is the local library. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, future she is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, wants for herself and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in her life is about the changepresent and putting the future on the back burner.|isbn=183877369X
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|isbn=00083709821786482126|title=Rock Paper ScissorsThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Alice FeeneyElly Griffiths
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|genre=Crime
|summary=For those who, like me, haven't come across Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the Skelfs before, Isite was going to hold seventy-five 'll risk a quick synopsis of wholuxury's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing apartments - when they discovered the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it is merely the surname bones of a family of undertakerschild beneath a doorway. Undertakers and private investigators There was no skull. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, she married a scot and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with a black Swedish police officerDCI Harry Nelson. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny It's difficult as Ruth knows, 46but Nelson doesn't, that she is haunted by her still-living husband – pregnant with his child as a violent escaped prisonerresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. And grand-daughter Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is about prone to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next termsudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1913193837
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|isbn=19015149780008551324|title=There's a Problem With DadThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Carlos AlbaNeil Lancaster
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Life 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 different for George Lovelace struggling in prison and he can't really understand why. He's always done everything he ought prepared to: steady worker, husband tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and father - and a father who was always there responsible for school plays and sports daysher death. So why This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he never quite in tune with those around him? wants. Why does And what he upset people? Why wants is someone with such a ''good'' mind unable to progress at work or be transferred to relate an open prison to serve the remainder of his colleaguessentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? Why does he make The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so many breath-taking gaffes? Itand she's almost become a cliche these days even prepared to suggest do the other thing that someone Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is a little different is 'on the spectrum', but George Lovelace has all the symptoms of Aspergerkept well away from what's Syndrome: high-functioning autismhappening.
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|authorisbn=Louise Candlish0008405026|title=The HeightsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Ellen doesnIt't expect to see Kieran that days sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She's on site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in was never found and the investigation ground to a building across the wayhalt. There are lots of things Now, lots of peopleher mother, you might see when you look out across LondonHelena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but this isnthere't one Ellen expected s something about the positioning of the bodies that day or in fact any other daymakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, What looked as though it was going to be an open-and Ellen knows this for -shut case is now a factcomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, because she had a hand in his murderUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1471183483
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|isbn=00084217140571379877|title=Mrs MarchThe Kellerby Code|author=Virginia FeitoJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George MarchEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's most successful novel to datea theatre director. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to either be reading it or had already done sorun errands for him. 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, Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he''but isn't this the first time s drunkenly confided how hefeels to Robert. Most men in Robert's based position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character relationship had begun between them but he'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would s not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the whore two of Nantes - ''them kissing in a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchdark passageway.''
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|author=John BoyneJo Callaghan|title=The Echo ChamberLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He When a man is self-defined as "one found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the few television personalities over case alongside her sidekick, the age of fifty without a criminal record"AI detective Lock. He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she It's carrying his childtheir first live case together, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her having previously been very successful withseveral cold cases. They have three children, who are But when there is a second body found crucified a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoeverfew days later, a girl who hangs around Kat is suddenly struggling with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world's homeless with out-of-date food, potential serial killer and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in very high profile case that draws a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections lot of unwanted attention to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the modern world. What suggests case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the farcical approach even morecase and, howeverpotentially, is the fact this is bloody funny.out of a career?|isbn=0857526219139851120X
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|isbn=02419890941399613073|title=The Perfect LifeMoral Injuries|author=Nuala EllwoodChristie Watson|rating=4.5
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|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen Olivia, Laura and she's viewing a house in Goring-Anjali met on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie first day of medical school and Barclay. The boys are their friendship would keep them inseparable for a bit quarter of a handful century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is why she's making this trip on her owna bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. The house would be perfect for themLaura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. It's Anjali is the free spirit of the same month but now group and she becomes a GP. When wefirst meet them they're in Wimbledon at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and we encounter the same young woman, only this time sheit's job hunting and living going to end in her sister, Georgietragedy. We don's, spare roomt know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, where sheit's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connortheir teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Darren Shan0241636604|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon RepellThe Trading Game: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=SoIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Having done A hoodie and jeans replaces the impossible pin-stripe suit and unpicked the lock to his background is the Forgotten CryptEast End, from which the Departed communicate where he was familiar with the Mergeviolence, Archie now has ''grop'' to think aboutpoverty and injustice. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to Inez's amusement, doesn't even know what one the London School of those Economics. Stevenson isbright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. But he manages He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to come through the fancy party unscathedbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, even after a card game which got him an uncomfortable encounter internship with KurtisCitibank. Eventually, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this seriesturned into permanent employment as a trader. |isbn=B093J9TF73
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|isbn=B07GZ81J7C1035021803|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and MendedThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Peter CottonC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Meet Fred. Well, actually, youIt're going s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quicklythe English country village where she grew up. But IShe'm getting ahead s back now because of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fredrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Fred Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is a snake dead and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going the circumstances seem suspicious, to warm say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to himthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. He arrived Even though they were in business together as a present antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a box with holes so that he could breathe cafe, met and immediately became part married James (on the rebound from the love of the familyher life, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that who was where the problem started. Fred didn't murdered) and Freya and James have any road sense. Or brakesnow divorced.
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|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Everybody Pees! All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Everybody Potties!Editors)|rating=45|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. But really Well, why shouldnI 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 me but I't m left with the feeling that it be? We 's all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are smallgetting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Why shouldn Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning m reading someone who knows what they're talking about why or the sun latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and the moon take turns who could deliver information in the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHHa way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=1787634493Sunny Singh|title=All Her Fault|author=Andrea MaraHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happenThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that Hiding from the opportunity would arise for her sonterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, Milothere is Sam, to go on a play datewartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. She was concerned that As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he didn't have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb forms a bond with his classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What could Sam who refuses to be better? Onlycowed by events, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to meet Jacobcapture what's mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacobhappened through her photography. The Although they only ever talk over the phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nanny, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Claire North1529153298|title=Notes from the Burning AgeThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=At its core It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'Notes From the Burning Ages not what's worrying Miv' by Claire North is a spy thrillers family, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Flemingthough. Women have been disappearing. However Well, as with the best novelsthey've been murdered, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of a new and timely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fictionbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. North Miv's upset because she's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced overheard that her father wants to start anew and live alongside nature without any of move the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuelsfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There Down South is a growing unhappiness with this limiting worldfrightening, and one groupforeign place, best avoided. For Miv, the Brotherhoodmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, aims and she'll do anything to master these processes no matter prevent that. She's not worried about the cost dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to the Earthanyone.|isbn=0356514757
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|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)1398524085|title=Girls Who LieHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=35|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. You thinkHer children, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranessons Niall, Paul and Ollie and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital cityher daughter, that this author is clutching at the few final straws leftEtty. However just because the book aims for the usual smallare all worried but - strangely -town feelher husband, Alec, it's is not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date eveningShortly afterwards, Etty and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with Greg, find the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, and a couple body of delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the womanGreg's car was found miles away in a second placefather, and now, after six monthsDuncan Ackerley, in the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote placeriver. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the It was an easy assumption that is so easy for the reader police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the right one?|isbn=191319373Xguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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