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|isbnauthor= B09NDJ77LMJenny Lecoat|title=Me and My Shadow|author=Deborah StoneBeyond Summerland
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|summary= ''What happens when someone is pushed too far and Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they begin to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off are celebrating the shadows end of her past and attempts to repair decades worth of painthe occupation. During the war, Jean'' Rachel is in s father was arrested for listening to a current conversation with her psychiatristbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, who pushes leaving Jean and her to recall her life mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from very young childhood onwards. But Rachel the Nazis, and the war is combative with Doctor Blakefinally over, sometimes even contemptuous their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of herhim. You can see that But will the truth come as a relief, or will it's not an easy therapeutic relationship. Rachel's recall of her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute and unforgiving clarity.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=1846976537
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|isbn=15294096591529428289|title=The Locked Room A Grave in the Woods (Dr Ruth GallowayA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Elly GriffithsMartin Walker|rating=54
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|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongings. She was intrigued by the discovery of a picture Because of her own house: it was an old photographvarious property transactions, taken in misty conditions and on people were searching for the back grave but when they found it said 'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was bornit came with three sets of bones. It was before her parents were married. When she returned They dated back to World War II and it fell to Norfolk she was determined Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to find out what was behind discover the identities of the photograph but Covid intervened bodies and the country was in lockdownestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. Ruth and Kate are restricted As if this isn't enough to worry about, the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate and continue with her university teaching dutiesDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. The good thing was meeting Zoe, It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the new tenant from next door whom they got problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to know whilst clapping for carersrelease water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.
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|isbn=1847941834152919640X|title=Atomic HabitsThe Suspect|author=James ClearRob Rinder
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|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=IThe nation've said this before but there are some books that you seek outs favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, some books was murdered live on television and it seems that you stumble across there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and some books his contract stated that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She''Atomic Habits'' s seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. is Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in the last category.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09MSC981W|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George Boreas|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Helen is a popular activist. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anyway, Helen is so popular that the United States government has made her its Ambassador of Woke. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of the governmentbusy, including the Shaming Conference and the Permissible Entertainment Committee live television studio - ''for indoctrinating and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to have it''be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident. Ouch!
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|isbn=B09D95TRKZ0008385068|title=The Wedding MurdersMidnight Feast|author=Sarah LinleyLucy Foley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get a permanent job with It's midsummer on the newspaper Dorset coast and the case she was covering was her big chanceguests 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 even more important to her than the celebrity wedding ancestral home and she was to attend 's converted it into an impressive retreat for the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthewwealthy and famous. She was leaving her seven-year-old sonHer husband, Patrick with her sister, EmmaOwen, was the architect and heading off to a grand manor house hotel in work is still ongoing on parts of the North Yorkshire countrysidesite. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter The heat is oppressive and former member of amongst the rock band was marrying Vicky guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and Libby suspected that the wedding wasnit won't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phonesbe long before a body is found.
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|isbnauthor=1838226834Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed BoxallWild East|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparentsHackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. They The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny're there s safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to undo all the good that parents dosettle in a new town, a new school, so the trips and keep himself out were of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always so much fundreamed of being a rapper. A young boy was going to the carnival with But now, in this new school, his Grandad, who told teacher encourages him: ''It'll to be brilliantpart of a poetry writing workshop group and, just rememberslowly, don't let go Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of my handcreativity and crafting your words.''|isbn=0241645441
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|isbn=15291353621635866847|title=The Long WeekendLavender Companion|author=Gilly MacmillanJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=It was a long drive to the weekend retreat in Northumbria's strange, right up near the Scottish borders and to things that make it worse you ''immediately'' feel that this is the three husbands had all - book for one reason or another - had to delay making you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the trip until the Saturday morningauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Jane com/ website] and Ruth had known each other for there's a long time but Emily was picture of a bit slice of an outsiderchocolate cake on the homepage. She I don't eat cakes and Paul had married only relatively recently desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and she I was ten years younger than the other two womentold to make a mess of it. The friendship of Notes in the group went back to school daysmargins are sanctioned. Paul had coached rugby at You get to fold down the school where Mark, Toby and Rob were pupilscorners of pages. Mark had married Jane, and Toby is Ruth's husbandYou suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. And Rob? Well, RobI ''loved''s deadthis book already.
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|isbnauthor=gareth_steelRob Keeley|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth SteelChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=Animals and WildlifeConfident Readers|summary=I donAround here, we't often begin my reviews with a warning but with re big fans of children''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriates author Rob Keeley. Stories of a vetHe's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely enjoyment, not the companion volume you've been looking forto lecture or hector. As a TV show the author would argue that The ''All CreaturesChildish Spirits'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book series is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with himone of his greatest achievements. He says that heIt's written it to inform and provoke thoughta sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals a stalwart young girl who can cope with some uncomfortable anything the spirit world throws at her, and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivityEdward, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading a spoiled lordling and eating.the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|isbnauthor=1787634884Jenny Valentine|title=The Herd|author=Emily EdwardsUs in the Before and After
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|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=Our story opens in December 2019Elk and Mab are best friends, before most of us had even heard of Covid or realised more than that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come to be even, their friendship is a once in a major issuelifetime connection. WeThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don're in Farley County Courtt get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain they are facing Bryony and Ash Kohliinseparable. As they were best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever Something has happened is major though, something terrible and tragic, and thatnow they must work through their grief, regardless of the outcomeand their friendship, this is not going to work out well for anyonetogether.|isbn=1471196585
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|author=Annabel Abbs|title=The Language of Food|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home life. Together, they test, craft, refine and reshape the world of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book Kieran Larwood and changing the face of cookery writing forever.|isbn=1398502227}}{{Frontpage|author=Louie StowellJoe Todd-Stanton|title=LokiDungeon Runners: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodHero Trial|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet LokiKit. The trickster god has got into trouble again Like most of the people in his world, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – seems, he must be banished. And transformed is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – for Loki is spending the sport where a month both in exile team of warrior, mage and in the physical form of a middlehealer enter specially prepared, century-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parentsold, magical mazes, and Thor has come along as well, race to be the more suaveexit, more popular perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and more successful brother of the twopoints they grant you along the way. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation Unfortunately for Kit, and get his moral compass pointing the right way againonly thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, or elseeaten, and to prove it a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to write the text we read in goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a sentient notebookteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that is able to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progress. But Loki is the kind of god who insists how could he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going possibly hope to be a walk in the park...rightsucceed?|isbn=14063997521839945184
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|isbnauthor=0008454442Saima Mir|title=A Flicker in the Dark|author=Stacy WillinghamVengeance|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis, a medical psychologist, is completing a session with a new patient. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes I was instantly intrigued by the premise of getting her through this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the traumanorth of England run by a Muslim woman. You see, Chloe knows what The fact that it's like to have a traumatic childhood. Her father is Richard Davis, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to was the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away second in a cupboard at home series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and she screen) and her mother handed it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to the police. Dick Davis is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary speed, and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for the last twenty years. Her mother is in a care homeI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|author=Christopher EdgeStuart Douglas|title=Escape RoomLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=IDuring location filming for his 1970've seen junior variants of the s sitcom 'Choose Your Own AdventureFloggit and Leggit' format cover escape rooms – , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the process by which dead body of a character or characters start by being trapped in woman on the edge of a specific location, and have reservoir. The police seem happy to solve problems in order to get their way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such assign it as an adventureaccidental death, with the regular second person narrative replaced by but something about the first. Herewhole thing bothers Lowe, Ami and four other tweenagershe enlists the help of a fellow actor, all new John Le Breton to each other and booked into help him investigate matters further. They travel across the game without any of country during their friendsdays off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, are a team – starting out at link to death during the game's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerSecond World War. But could watching people engage with such is there really a pastime, despite link between the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literaturedeaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=17880079641803368209
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|isbn=1732898731B0CYV674G2|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for AdultsSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Michael Albanese David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxesIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. He had A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a box for everything and knife, comes into the police station shouting that he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldnhasn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and killed the like: all man. A body at the things which most children have in abundance. The Boybottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's delight was in been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the sense birth of order in his room: it made him feel happydaughter Samantha. As You would think he grew up 'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and became a Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes'John Tanner' were made for each other. Look carefully He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at the pictures and youwork but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can'll see that one of them has a padlock..t get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=B09MN1526W1787333175|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Liz MistryBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=ItI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's the third murder in the space of first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a few weeks and they've all been because glorious mixture of machetes used on teenagers. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst insight into the first to arrive on workings of the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of BradfordNHS, humour and autobiography. Only, this time, it's going 'You Don't Have to be differentMad. The body appears ..'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to Nikki to be that mental illness and the work of her beloved nephew, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdownpsychiatrist. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the body laughter is clad in designer clothes directed at a situation rather than a person and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be on sick leave for some time always delivered with anxiety empathy and depressionunderstanding.
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|author=Ally WilkesOnyi Nwabineli|title=All the White SpacesAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=In postAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathansocial media, this adventure represents a chance where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for a fresh start, sponsorships and the opportunity to live life as his authentic self influencer deals and true gender, without the disapproval and constraints of his parents. Howeverbasically, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expeditionmonetary gain. Guilt, mistrust Now Anuri is in her twenties and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and they are forced to overwinter on landget her life back, a menacing presence waits suing her step-mother to prey on their darknesstake down the content about her. If Jonathan Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to make it out of the Arctic winter alivestart her PhD, he will have to face his demons once undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for alldoing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, or risk making who is the barrennew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, icy landscape his tomb.and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=17890978350861546873
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|author=Dean KoontzDavid Chadwick|title=QuicksilverHeadload of Napalm|rating=24.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for heIt's lived September 1973 in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundlingHicks, and now California. Hicks is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes Mojave desert town of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of him that he go to a derelict diner, find LA and Las Vegas both a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lamsignificant drive away. And all this is just Not much happens in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up Hicks. A silver mine and suggest hea defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of interest to themnote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Helped to escape, he finds his flight Life is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in controlquiet, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besidesuntil....|isbn=1542019885B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=0008441618Tom Percival|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah StovellThe Wrong Shoes
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|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. 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 for even the new head most basic of West Burntridge First School: if she didnthings like food, and his dad can't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be work because he lost his job at the college, was working a house price slump cash-in -hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that part mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of the townhope. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the funds which they raised were end of a considerable benefit long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the schoolLuminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. There was And this is one difficultyof them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable''Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with two membershis vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in particular, causing problems with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the head. Laura Spence moment they’re enjoying life in the present and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions putting the future on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationback burner.
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|authorisbn=Sarah Ann Juckes1786482126|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Jasper is a little boy who has some struggles, and whilst we're never told why exactly, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotions. His big sister, Rosie, has been a huge support to him, talking him down when things Builders were difficult, encouraging him, and writing a book with him, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm down. His parents seem completely caught up demolishing an old house in their business, and so it is Rosie he always turns Norwich - the site was going to. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when he needs herthey discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. But now he can't find Rosie There was no skull. She hasn't come home when she said she would Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and she isn't answering her phoneDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. His parents won It't speak to him or when they dos difficult as Ruth knows, he but Nelson doesn't understand or take in what , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they're sayingspent together some three months ago. Nothing seems to Her condition will be rightobvious before long, and the only way he feels he can find any peace not least because Ruth is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen prone to its song, as they do together every Springsudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1398510890
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|authorisbn=0008551324|title=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken The Devil You Know (translatorD S Max Craigie)|titleauthor=Red is My HeartNeil Lancaster|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and white he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and read in my housewho was responsible for her death. And so was this one This person, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one washe promises, and is, black someone big and white and redit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Yes, And what he has wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an artistic collaborator on this pieceearly parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and I think itshe's possible even prepared to say not one page lacks do the influence of some striking visual ideasother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1913547183
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|isbn=15291355670008405026|title=One Step Too FarA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Lisa GardnerJane Casey|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's five sixteen years since the stag weekendnine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who She was usually called Miggy), Neil never found and Josh. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed investigation ground to wander offa halt. The remaining four searched for him in vain Now, her mother, Helena, and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced her father are dead in survival techniques, would go for help. When help didn't come the remaining three finally made their way back to townbed. Scott followed soon after Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there was no sign 's something about the positioning of Timthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Every year, Tim's father, Martin, What looked as though it was going to be an open-and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do -shut case is now acknowledge a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that theythe explanation lies in Rosalie're looking for s disappearance: others (such as Derwent'remains' rather than for Tims boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen0571379877|title=Bitter FlowersThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Varg Veum Edward Jevons is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and is now returning to workStanza. However, the quiet job he Robert's supposedly taken on caretaking someonea theatre director. He's house quickly turns into a murder investigationalso self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and a mystery around a missing womanuses Edward to run errands for him. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and was never foundhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked, Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but what he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308Xtwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Kia AhankoobJo Callaghan|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsLeave No Trace
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|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersa man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, each with its own strength and weakenessDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous societyAI detective Lock. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad It's children and their descendantsfirst live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But it didn't quite work out like when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out draws a lot of them and the eight countries went unwanted attention to wartheir AI Future Policing project. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding Will they be able to solve the cost of war too highcase in time, a solution is proposed. Each of or will Kat find herself taken off the eight countries will send their greatest warriorscase and, known as sentinelspotentially, to out of a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva.career?|isbn=B09MMQJFPV139851120X
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|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps1399613073|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Meet Tomas. Happy to work with his father in Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the blacksmith's forge, he's almost first day of the age to become medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a full apprentice, and help with the new batch quarter of dragonswords a century. Olivia is certainly needed. Not that there are any dragonsruthlessly ambitious, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except.which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Strange signals from within Anjali is the free spirit of the forge furnace, group and she becomes a peculiar invite GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the wash, consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that yes dragons do still exist in this world, and that Tom is rare in will impact the ability to summon themthree friends. This time, share magical attributes, and ride with them.it's their teenage children who are involved..|isbn=1839940026
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|isbn=15293465410241636604|title=Something to HideThe Trading Game: An Inspector Lynley NovelA Confession|author=Elizabeth GeorgeGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=ItIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's late July re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and Deborah St James his background is at a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school systemEast End, a representative from the NHSwhere he was familiar with violence, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi poverty and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakerinjustice. It follows There was no posh public school on from his CV - but he had been to the success London School of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting Economics. Stevenson is an exploration bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to highlight be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an area which is causing concern in some communitiesinternship with Citibank. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as the problem seems to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks to and photographsa trader.
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|isbn=B09Q3P283Y1035021803|title=ShadebringerThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Grayson W HooperC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Clyde Robbins signs It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He She's not really that invested in the fight against Communismback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the militaryCarole. If he Freya's former mentor and Carole's honest - which Clyde usually close friend, Arthur Crockleford, isdead and the circumstances seem suspicious, with himself at to say the least - he hasn't got many choices and this one. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, at leastlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, gets him out of she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the rut he's inprofession she loved. He's good After the split, she worked in training a cafe, met and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himselfmarried James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam SmyAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=There is no mermaid in ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the millpondshape of things to come. That at least '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what Bess is telling herselfhappens after you're eighteen. Neither will Well, I must confess that there be have been more than a friend for her few decades of technology in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homefeeling that it's all getting away from me. Bess knows there Some of it is no time for friendship in a hand-tofrankly -mouthquite frightening. Of course, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in I could research the possibilities and the slight little Dot, probabilities and despite everything that life has taught her end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about betrayal or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be who could deliver information in a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workersway I could understand. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X
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|isbnauthor=1785633074Sunny Singh|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh BerryHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=HumourThrillers |summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that the country is run by politicians, headed has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you terrorists who are Eton rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Oxbridge educated) but Abhi, the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the SPADS - residents who are the driving force behind the government. We are still alive in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubrishotel, the man he forms a bond with Sam who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained refuses to be cowed by the end events, and keeps on venturing out of 2020her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. You might not know Although they only ever talk over the name now but he phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will certainly be rescued before they are discovered by the man to watchterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=B09MYXSRV41529153298|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareList of Suspicious Things|author=Cordellya SmithJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=When the world was madeIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, the animals were given giftshonestly. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. ) Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present She's not what'ands worrying Miv'' the futures family, though. Women have been disappearing. Rabbit developed intelligence - butWell, unfortunatelythey've been murdered, not the ability but to use it wellhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. He liked Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to trick other animalsmove the family 'Down South'. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a race with Turtlefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. You might think For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. Iworried about the dangers or that her Mum'll tell you how it came abouts stopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=Giovanna Fletcher1398524085|title=Walking on SunshineHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=MikeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's wifefiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, Piasons Niall, who he was with for seventeen yearsPaul and Ollie and her daughter, has diedEtty. And whilst he are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is dealing with his griefnot. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, so are their best friendsDuncan Ackerley, Vicky and Zazain the river. But Pia left them all some 'rules' It was an easy assumption for the police to follow, knowing make that she was dying Duncan had murdered Charlie and that then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they would need help to carry can do but get on living. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with himwonder about what really happened.|isbn=140593560X
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