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|isbnauthor=1529095522Jenny Lecoat|title=The Interview|author=C M EwanBeyond Summerland
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Kate Harding is going for an interview for Jean lives on Jersey with her dream job at Edge Communications. It's mother where they are celebrating the last interview end of the day at one of Londonoccupation. During the war, Jean's newest office buildings father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and Edge have fitted out their part 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 building to be something special. MaggieNazis, Kate's recruitment agentand the war is finally over, is keen to see their hopes rise that Kate approaches they will finally learn what became of him. But will the interview in truth come as a good state of mind: Kate assumes that this is because Maggie relief, or will get a decent bonus if Kate gets it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the job - and she has to admit that life has not radio? And what other secrets have been easy for her recently.kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK1529428289|title=The Blood Tide A Grave in the Woods (DS Max CraigieA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Neil LancasterMartin Walker
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|summary=Loch Torridon 'Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - isflowing at record levels. It'' s not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the back possibility of beyond: a devastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place serve anything containing miso to land illegal deliveries Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of drugsemergencies. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a nice little earnerbusy, only live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to find that Macca, Holby. the man he thought he Her EpiPen was working with, is dead. His remains would never nowhere to be found. The delivery is hijacked by Davie and Callumshe was dead within minutes. As the story progresses we'll get to know them quite wellIt was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|isbn= B09NDJ77LM0008385068|title=Me and My ShadowThe Midnight Feast|author=Deborah StoneLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary= It''What happens when someone is pushed too far and they begin to lose their grip s midsummer 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 the shadows of her past Dorset coast and attempts to repair decades worth of painguests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It' Rachel is in a current conversation with her psychiatrist, who pushes her to recall her life from very young childhood onwardss all headed up by Francesca Meadows. But Rachel is combative with Doctor Blake, sometimes even contemptuous of The Manor was her. You can see that itancestral home and she's not converted it into an easy therapeutic relationshipimpressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Rachel's recall Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of her life the site. The heat is in remarkable detailoppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. She remembers each minor slight Old scores are going to be settled and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute and unforgiving clarityit won't be long before a body is found.
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|isbnauthor=1529409659Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsWild East|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to do some decorating Norwich and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongingsstart at a mostly white school. She was intrigued The move is initiated by the discovery of Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a picture of her own house: it was an old photographtragic event, taken and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in misty conditions a new town, a new school, and on the back it said 'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was bornkeep himself out of trouble. It was before her parents were married. When she returned He listens to Norfolk she was determined to find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened music constantly, and the country was in lockdownhas always dreamed of being a rapper. Ruth But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and Kate are restricted , slowly, Ronny begins to see the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate connections between rap and continue with her university teaching duties. The good thing was meeting Zoepoetry, and the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carerspower of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|isbn=18479418341635866847|title=Atomic HabitsThe Lavender Companion|author=James ClearJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=IIt've said this before but there are some books s strange, the things that make you seek out, some books ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you stumble across . Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and some books there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that drop into your life because you really MUST read themcake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, like, right nowwhich I'm avoiding with some difficulty!! ) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''Atomic Habitsloved'' is in the last categorythis book already.
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|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WRob Keeley|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Helen is a popular activistAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. Or should we call her He's a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anywayball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, Helen not to lecture or hector. The ''Childish Spirits'' series is so popular that the United States government has made her its Ambassador one of Wokehis greatest achievements. Helen runs all sorts It's a sequence of initiatives ghost stories centring on behalf of Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the governmentspirit world throws at her, and Edward, including the Shaming Conference a spoiled lordling and the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''for indoctrinating and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how to have it''. Ouch!first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|isbnauthor=B09D95TRKZJenny Valentine|title=The Wedding Murders|author=Sarah LinleyUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get a permanent job with the newspaper Elk and the case she was covering was her big chance. It was even Mab are best friends, or more important to her than the celebrity wedding she was to attend the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriendthat even, Matthewtheir friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. She was leaving her seven-year-old son, Patrick with her sister, Emma, and heading off to They meet as children one day on a grand manor house hotel in trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the North Yorkshire countrysidetime. Daniel AcroydBut then chance brings them back together, television presenter and former member of the rock band was marrying Vicky they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phonestheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbnauthor=1838226834Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed BoxallDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=It was one Meet Kit. Like most of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: the people in his world, it seems, he is an outing 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, perhaps bothering with our grandparentsthe treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. They Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he're there to undo all s seen of the latest race on the good inn TV equivalent is that parents doone team has been retired, so the trips out were always so much funeaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. A young boy was going Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the carnival with goading from the token bully of his Grandad, who told him: ''Itworld and stumbled into declaring he'll be brilliantenter as a team. What chance does this friendless, just remembermuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, don't let go of my hand.''and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|isbnauthor=1529135362Saima Mir|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanVengeance|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It I was a long drive to instantly intrigued by the weekend retreat premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in Northumbria, right up near the Scottish borders and to make north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it worse was the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morning. Jane and Ruth had known each other for second in a long time but Emily was series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a bit of an outsider. She few series before (on page and Paul had married only relatively recently screen) and she was ten years younger than the other two women. The friendship of the group went back to school days. Paul had coached rugby at the school where Mark, Toby and Rob were pupils. Mark had married Jane, and Toby is Ruthit needn't be a hindrance if it's husbandgood enough. And Rob? Wellthat wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, Rob's deadand I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|isbnauthor=gareth_steelStuart Douglas|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth SteelLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of a vetDuring location filming for his 1970's life have proved popular since sitcom ''All Creatures Great Floggit and SmallLeggit'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the companion volume you've been looking for. As dead body of a TV show woman on the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realismedge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that but something about the book is not suitable for younger readers whole thing bothers Lowe, and - after reading - I agree with he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help himinvestigate matters further. He says that he's written it to inform They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vetsseemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although But is there are occasions when you would be best choosing really a link between reading and eating.the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=1787634884B0CYV674G2|title=The HerdSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Emily EdwardsDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Our story opens It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in December 2019mud and blood - and carrying a knife, before most comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of us had even heard of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come to be a major issue. Wefreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he're in Farley County Court, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash Kohlis been stabbed to death. As they were best friends until DCI John Tanner is just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened is major and thatback from his honeymoon, regardless which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the outcome, this is not going words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work out well for anyonebut he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs1787333175|title=The Language of FoodYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
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|genre=Historical FictionPopular Science|summary=Eliza Acton I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a poet who has never had glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the slightest inclination NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to boil an eggbe Mad.. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home life. Together, they test, craft, refine '' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and reshape the world work of domestic cookery, reinventing a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the recipe book laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and changing the face of cookery writing foreverunderstanding.|isbn=1398502227
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|author=Louie StowellOnyi Nwabineli|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide Allow Me to Being GoodIntroduce Myself
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble againAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, so the other gods have decided therethanks to her step-mother Ophelia's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile and in the physical form increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of a middle-school kid here on Earth. HeAnuri's guarded by a giant childhood for sponsorships and a god in disguise as his parents, influencer deals and Thor has come along as well, to be the more suavebasically, more popular monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and more successful brother of the two. Loki has a month she is slowly trying to redeem his reputation, regain her confidence and to get his moral compass pointing the right way againher life back, or else, and to prove it he has suing her step-mother to write take down the text we read in a sentient notebookcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, that is able failing to cry foul of his liesstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and judge his progressreceiving money from them for doing so. But Loki Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the kind new focus of god who insists he can do anythingOphelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to be a walk in and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the park...rightsame time?|isbn=14063997520861546873
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|isbnauthor=0008454442David Chadwick|title=A Flicker in the Dark|author=Stacy WillinghamHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe DavisSeptember 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a medical psychologist, is completing Mojave desert town of a session few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a new patientsignificant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. Lacey is suffering mentally A silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but Chloe has hopes of getting her through the trauma. You seeotherwise, Chloe knows what itthere's like to have a traumatic childhoodnot much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Her father Life is Richard Davisquiet, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years agountil. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed it to the police. Dick Davis is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for the last twenty years. Her mother is in a care home.|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|author=Christopher EdgeTom Percival|title=Escape RoomThe Wrong Shoes|rating=35
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|summary=IWill've seen junior variants s life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'Choose Your Own Adventure, he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can' format cover escape rooms – t work because he lost his job at the process by which college, was working a character or characters start by being trapped cash-in -hand job on a specific locationbuilding site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and have to solve problems Will's life seems bleak in order to get their way outevery direction. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen And yet, he still has a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the firsttiny amount of hope. Here He is good at art, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new clings to each other and booked into the game without any moments of their friendsjoy when he is drawing, are that feel like a team – starting out light at the game's main officesend of a long, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerdark tunnel. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=17880079641398527122
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|isbnauthor=1732898731Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxes. He had are few greater joys than a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and the like: all the things book which most children have in abundance. The Boy's delight was in the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happy. As he grew lives up and became to a Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt with compelling premise. And this by getting bigger and better boxes. Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that is one of them has a padlock...|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=B09MN1526W0008517061|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Liz MistryStig Abell
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|genre=Crime
|summary=It's the third murder in the space of a few weeks and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagersFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts future of Bradford. Onlyhis life with his vet girlfriend, this timeLivia and her daughter Diana, it's going as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to be different. The body appears move in with Livia or does Livia move to Nikki to be that of Little Sky despite her beloved nephew, Haqib, reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and she has a very public meltdown. her daughter? It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but For the body is clad moment they’re enjoying life in designer clothes the present and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be putting the future on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depressionthe back burner.
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|authorisbn=Ally Wilkes1786482126|title=All the White SpacesThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=In postBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randallsite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. For Jonathan, There was no skull. Was this adventure represents a chance for a fresh startritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and the opportunity to live life Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as his authentic self and true genderRuth knows, without the disapproval and constraints of his parents. However, Jonathan isnbut Nelson doesn't the only one fleeing the confines of , that she is pregnant with his past and the shadow child as a result of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expeditionone night they spent together some three months ago. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land Her condition will be obvious before long, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan not least because Ruth is prone to make it out sudden bouts of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tombsickness.|isbn=1789097835
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0008551324|title=QuicksilverThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. HeIt's not had unusual for anyone from the chance Hardie family to get to be a mercurial character yet, approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for he's lived the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in a nun-run orphanage since prison and he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject prepared to sudden or unpredictable changes tell the police where the body of mood or mind'', a missing person is buried and who was responsible for something – call it unearthly intuitionher death. This person, call it mind-controlhe promises, call is someone big and it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he go wants is to be transferred to an open prison to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash serve the value of it out remainder of his bank sentence and prepare for going on the lamto get an early parole date. And all this Not much to ask, is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and suggest heshe's of interest even prepared to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by do the other instances of thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besideskept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1542019885
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|isbn=00084416180008405026|title=Other ParentsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Sarah StovellJane Casey
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|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didnIt't live up to s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the townbed one summer night. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association She was never found and the funds which they raised were investigation ground to a considerable benefit to the schoolhalt. There was one difficultyNow, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable''her mother, with two membersHelena, and her father are dead in particular, causing problems for the headtheir bed. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to JoInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's restrictions on something about the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Ann Juckes|title=The Hunt for positioning of the Nightingale|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jasper is a little boy who has some struggles, and whilst we're never told why exactly, we can see bodies that he has anxiety makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotionsher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. His big sister, Rosie, has been a huge support What looked as though it was going to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, be an open-and writing -shut case is now a book with him, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm downcomplex double murder. His parents seem completely caught up in their business, and so it Kerrigan is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him convinced that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he canthe explanation lies in Rosalie't find Rosie. She hasns disappearance: others (such as Derwent't come home when she said she would, and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be right, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its songs boss, as they do together every SpringUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1398510890
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|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)0571379877|title=Red is My HeartThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
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|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and white and read in my houseStanza. Robert's a theatre director. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was He's also self-obsessed, and isdemanding, black handsome and white entitled and reduses Edward to run errands for him. Yes, he Edward has an artistic collaborator on this piece, been in love with Stanza since their university days - and I think ithe's possible drunkenly confided how he feels to say Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not one page lacks like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the influence two of some striking visual ideasthem kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1913547183
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|isbnauthor=1529135567Jo Callaghan|title=One Step Too Far|author=Lisa GardnerLeave No Trace|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's five years since When a man is found crucified on the stag weekend. Five top of them had set out: Tim (a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy)case alongside her sidekick, Neil and Josh. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander offAI detective Lock. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. When help didnIt't come the remaining three finally made s their way back to townfirst live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Scott followed soon after but But when there was no sign 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 draws a lot of Timunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Every yearWill they be able to solve the case in time, Tim's fatheror will Kat find herself taken off the case and, Martinpotentially, and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tim.out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1399613073|title=Bitter FlowersMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Varg Veum is Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished quarter of a stint in rehab and century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is now returning a bonus when you aim to workbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. However, the quiet job he's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into Laura is a murder investigation, perfectionist and a mystery around a missing womantrauma doctor. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case Anjali is the free spirit of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night the group and was never foundshe becomes a GP. Somehow, these disparate cases appear When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be linked, but what is an eerily similar event that will impact the linkthree friends. This time, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308Xit's their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Kia Ahankoob0241636604|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsAutobiography|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, each with its own strength you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and weakeness, in jeans replaces the hope they would complement each other pin-stripe suit and collaboratehis background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, creating a dynamic poverty and prosperous societyinjustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Each power Stevenson is contained within bright - extremely bright - and he has a magical ring belonging to one facility with numbers which most of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendantsus can only envy. But it didn't quite work out like He also realised that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went most rich people expect poor people to warbe stupid. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high It was his ability at what was, essentially, a solution is proposedcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors Eventually, known this turned into permanent employment as sentinels, to a single combat tournamenttrader. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV
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|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps1035021803|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Tomas. Happy It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to work with his father in the blacksmithEnglish country village where she grew up. She's forgeback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, heCarole. Freya's almost of the age to become a full apprenticeformer mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and help with the new batch of dragonswords is certainly needed. Not that there are any dragonscircumstances seem suspicious, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except..to say the least. Strange signals from within Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the forge furnacevillage: Arthur, she feels, and a peculiar invite to become an apprentice clerk insteadlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, are things for Tom she has not felt able to puzzle over – until it all comes out in be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the washsplit, that yes dragons do still exist she worked in this worlda cafe, met and that Tom is rare in married James (on the rebound from the ability to summon them, share magical attributeslove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and ride with themJames have now divorced...|isbn=1839940026
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|isbn=1529346541AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Something to HideAll Tomorrow's Futures: An Inspector Lynley NovelFictions that Disrupt|author=Elizabeth GeorgeBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James is at a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the school system, a representative from the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out shape of things to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakercome. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book ' I'London Voicesve heard it said that 'technology': the meeting is an exploration what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern technology in some communitiesmy lifetime. DeborahI've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's uncertain about all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite how successful she frightening. Of course, I could be as research the problem seems to occur in Nigerian possibilities and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust 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 latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people she speaks to I knew I could trust and photographswho could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=B09Q3P283YSunny Singh|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W HooperHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyThrillers |summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for 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 US Army during terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the Vietnam Warhotel manager. He's not really that invested As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the fight against Communismhotel, nor is he particularly interested in forms a career in the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually isbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him keeps on venturing out of the rut heher room to try to capture what's inhappened through her photography. He's good in training Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himselfthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy1529153298|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=There It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is no mermaid in the millpondPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... That at least is ) She's not what Bess is telling herself's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids Well, they've been murdered, who but to have had their entire childhoods sold 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homefamily 'Down South'. Bess knows there When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouthfrightening, foreign place, every man for himself kind of existencebest avoided. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in For Miv, the slight little Dotmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and despite everything she'll do anything to prevent that life has taught her . She's not worried about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tireddangers or that her Mum's stopped talking -out mill workersto anyone. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X
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|isbn=17856330741398524085|title=Staggering HubrisHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Josh BerryNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=HumourCrime|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (thatCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's for those of you who fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are Eton and Oxbridge educated) all worried but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS strangely - who are the driving force behind the governmenther husband, Alec, is not. We are in Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the privileged position body of having access to the memoirs of Rafe HubrisGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the man who river. It was behind an easy assumption for the skilful control of police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020guilt. You might The Salter children are not know the name now convinced but there's little else they can do but he will certainly be the man to watchget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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