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|author=Olivie BlakeJenny Lecoat|title=The Atlas SixBeyond Summerland
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|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= DarkJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, sharpJean'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 highly inquisitivethe war is finally over, ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a Tik-Tok sensation.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=15290952391846976537
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|isbn=00083849831529428289|title=The Paris Apartment|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''Things are not what they seem''. It was a Friday and Jess Hadley was keen to get to her half-brother's flat A Grave in Paris. She'd come across from London on Eurostarthe Woods (A Bruno, courtesy Chief of the money she'd stolen from The Pervert's till in the Copacabana Bar in Brighton. It wasn't likely that the police would be on to her yet but she'd like to be somewhere safe and with food and drink inside her. She'd phoned Ben and got the address - 12 Rue des Amants - and he told her that the apartment was on the third floor. She's outside what's obviously a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get in touch with Ben.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760373558|title=Nordic KnitsPolice Novel)|author=Sue FlandersMartin Walker
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|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I was so delighted by Sue Flanders' [[Cozy Knits: 30 HatBecause of various property transactions, Mittenpeople were searching for the grave but when they found it, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didn't need any persuading at all to pick up her ''Nordic Knits''it came with three sets of bones. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles They dated back to World War II and local traditions from Norwayit fell to Bruno, Sweden and Iceland. There are a few sweaters or jackets but the majority Chief of patterns are Police for smaller items such as mittensSt Denis, glovesto 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, hats and bagsthe Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. All are bright 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 cheerful and very cosySt Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.
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|isbn=1916072038152919640X|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)Suspect|author=Allie CresswellRob Rinder
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to the house in the hollowJessica Holby. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her motherShe's strengths seriously allergic and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfugecarries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, at concealing, beneath live television studio - and Brooks served a facade of respectability, the deplorable truth''ragout to Holby. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal Her EpiPen was nowhere to do as be found and she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''dead within minutes. Then we are told of the birth of a child and, It was soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshireclear that this was no accident.
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|authorisbn=Matthieu Aikins0008385068|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterMidnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley
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|genre=Politics and SocietyThrillers|summary=It's easy to forget midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at times that The Naked DonManor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It't Fear s all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the Water isn't actually fictionwealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at timeswas the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. This The heat is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journeyfriends. There Old scores are tense moments going to be settled and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But itwon's written with t be long before a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people describedbody is found.|isbn= B09N9157T6
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|author=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas EngerAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)Wild East
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|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=This Written in verse, this is the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander BlixRonny's story, a police officer, young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and Emma Ramm, start at a crime journalistmostly white school. In this book we find that when one of BlixThe move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's colleaguessafety after a tragic event, Kovicand so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, uncovers a connection between several Oslo casesnew school, she tries to contact her superior, Blixand keep himself out of trouble. Before she can reach him, however, she is murderedHe listens to music constantly, and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes has always dreamed of being murdered tooa rapper. We then find ourselves But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a few days later with Blix poetry writing workshop group and Ramm, who are being interviewed by slowly, Ronny begins to see the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot connections between rap and killed someonepoetry, and Ramm saw it all happenthe power of creativity and crafting your words. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=19145850030241645441
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|authorisbn=Daniel Abraham1635866847|title=Age of AshThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=FantasyLifestyle|summary= We meet Alys under the most northerly of OldgateIt's four bridgesstrange, she has a knife in her hand and a meeting the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that she dreadsthis is the book for you. Meanwhile Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the City author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of Kithamar is at a point in the turning slice of years when chocolate cake on the worlds are at their thinnest homepage. I don't eat cakes and all things are possibledesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. It is (There's a recipe in the night between book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the funeral book and I was told to make a mess of a Prince and it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the coronation corners of his successorpages. For You suspect that smears of butter would not be a night the Kithamar is un-ruledproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=0356515427
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|isbnauthor=1529095522Rob Keeley|title=The Interview|author=C M EwanChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Kate Harding is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge CommunicationsAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. ItHe's the last interview a ball of the day at happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector. The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of Londonhis greatest achievements. It's newest office buildings and Edge have fitted out their part a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the building to be something special. Maggiespirit world throws at her, Kate's recruitment agentand Edward, is keen to see that Kate approaches a spoiled lordling and the interview first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in a good state of mind: Kate assumes the Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that this even, their friendship is because Maggie will a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get a decent bonus if Kate gets each other's contact details at the job - time. But then chance brings them back together, and she they are inseparable. Something has to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlyhappened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbnauthor=B097XNMCRKKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Loch Torridon ''Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is'' an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the back sport where a team of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which is why it was warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugsway. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto a nice little earnerUnfortunately for Kit, the only to find thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that Maccaone team has been retired, the man he thought he was working witheaten, and a new trio of questors is deadneeded. His remains would never be foundPossibly 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 a team. The delivery is hijacked by Davie What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and Callum. As the story progresses we'll get how could he possibly hope to know them quite well.succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|isbnauthor= B09NDJ77LMSaima Mir|title=Me and My Shadow|author=Deborah StoneVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary= I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I'What happens when someone is pushed too far ve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and they begin to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if you felt it's good enough. And that no one loved you? And how far would wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you go to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries up to shake off the shadows of her past speed, and attempts to repair decades worth of painI never felt lost.''|isbn=0861541561}}
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|isbn=1529409659B0CYV674G2|title=The Locked Room Swanton Morley (Dr Ruth GallowayJohn Tanner)|author=Elly GriffithsDavid Blake|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mothercarrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn's belongingst killed the man. She was intrigued by A body at the discovery bottom of a picture freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of her own house: it was his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an old photograph, taken in misty conditions easy answer but the words 'perverse' and on the back it said 'dawn 1963John Tanner', some years before Ruth was born. It was before her parents were marriedmade for each other. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined He's sleep-deprived to find out what was behind the photograph point of falling asleep at work but Covid intervened and the country was in lockdown. Ruth and Kate are restricted to the cottage with Ruth attempting he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home school Kate and continue with her university teaching duties. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carers.
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|isbn=18479418341787333175|title=Atomic HabitsYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=James ClearBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=LifestylePopular Science|summary=Iwas tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here've said this before but there are some books that you seek out' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop a glorious mixture of insight into your life because you really MUST read themthe workings of the NHS, like, right now! humour and autobiography. ''Atomic HabitsYou Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. is I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the last categorylaughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Helen is a popular activist. Or should we call Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her a step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anywaydeals and, basically, Helen monetary gain. Now Anuri is so popular that in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the United States government has made content about her its Ambassador of Woke. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of the government Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, including the Shaming Conference undergoing therapy and the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''for indoctrinating secretly abusing people online and legislating against summer fun receiving money from them for any doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who still knew how to have it'is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Ouch! Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|isbnauthor=B09D95TRKZDavid Chadwick|title=The Wedding Murders|author=Sarah LinleyHeadload of Napalm
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|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a permanent job Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with the newspaper its nearest neighbours of LA and the case she was covering was her big chanceLas Vegas both a significant drive away. It was even more important to her than the celebrity wedding she was to attend the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, MatthewNot much happens in Hicks. She was leaving her seven-year-old son, Patrick with her sister, Emma, A silver mine and heading off to a grand manor house hotel in defence contractor are the North Yorkshire countryside. Daniel Acroydmain local employers but otherwise, television presenter and former member there's not much of the rock band was marrying Vicky note other than dive bars and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phonesJoshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=1838226834Tom Percival|title=Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed BoxallThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=It was one Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparentsways. They He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn're there to undo all t have enough money for even the good that parents domost basic of things like food, so and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the trips out were always so much funcollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. A young boy was going to Throw into that mix the carnival with fact that his Grandadmum and dad are separated, who told him: and Will''It'll be brilliants life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, just rememberhe still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, don't let go and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of my handa long, dark tunnel.''|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=1529135362Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=It was There are few greater joys than a long drive to the weekend retreat in Northumbria, right book which lives up near the Scottish borders and to make it worse 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 a long time but Emily was a bit of an outsidercompelling premise. She and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than the other two women. The friendship And this is one 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 Ruth's husband. And Rob? Well, Rob's deadthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=gareth_steel0008517061|title=Never Work With AnimalsDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Gareth SteelStig Abell
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|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a warning but little uncertainty about the future of his life with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of a his vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great girlfriend, Livia and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realismher daughter Diana, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and - after reading - I agree relaxing life to move in with him. He says that he's written it Livia or does Livia move to inform Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eatingputting the future on the back burner.
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|isbn=17876348841786482126|title=The HerdJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Emily EdwardsElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Our story opens Builders were demolishing an old house in December 2019, before most Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of us had even heard of Covid a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or realised murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that whether or she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not we should be vaccinated would come least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to be a major issueapproach the police. WeNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he're in Farley County Court, s prepared to tell the police where Elizabeth the body of a missing person is buried and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and Ash Kohliit will be worth the police doing what he wants. As they were best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened And what he wants is major to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and thatto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, regardless of is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the outcome, this other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is not going to work out kept well for anyoneaway from what's happening.
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|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs0008405026|title=The Language of FoodA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never had found and the slightest inclination investigation ground to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home lifehalt. Together Now, they testher mother, craftHelena, refine and reshape her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the world positioning of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and changing her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the face of cookery writing foreverexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1398502227
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|authorisbn=Louie Stowell0571379877|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet LokiEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there Robert'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 of a middle-school kid here on Earththeatre director. He's guarded by a giant also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and a god in disguise as his parents, entitled and Thor has come along as well, uses Edward to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother of the tworun errands for him. Loki Edward has a month to redeem his reputation, been in love with Stanza since their university days - and get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and to prove it he has 's drunkenly confided how he feels to write the text we read Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a sentient notebook, that relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is able left to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progress. But Loki is stumble upon the kind two of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for them kissing in a month is going to be a walk in the parkdark passageway...right?|isbn=1406399752
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|isbnauthor=0008454442Jo Callaghan|title=A Flicker in the Dark|author=Stacy WillinghamLeave No Trace
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis, When a medical psychologist, man is completing found crucified on the top of a session with a new patient. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes of getting hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her through sidekick, the traumaAI detective Lock. You see, Chloe knows what itIt's like to have a traumatic childhoodtheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Her father But when there is Richard Davisa second body found crucified a few days later, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in Kat is suddenly struggling with a cupboard at home potential serial killer and she and her mother handed it a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to the policetheir AI Future Policing project. Dick Davis is Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the Louisiana State Penitentiary case and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for the last twenty years. Her mother is in , potentially, out of a care home.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Christopher Edge1399613073|title=Escape RoomMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=I've seen junior variants Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – free spirit of the process by which group and she becomes a character or characters start by being trapped in GP. When we first meet them they're at a specific location, drug and alcohol-fuelled party and have it's going to solve problems end in order to get their way outtragedy. What I We don've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with t know who suffered the regular second person narrative replaced by tragedy or the firstconsequences. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to each other and booked into Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the game without any of their three friends. This time, are a team – starting out at the gameit's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer teenage children who are a world-changerinvolved. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964
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|isbn=17328987310241636604|title=The Boy Who Loved BoxesTrading Game: A Children's Book for AdultsConfession|author=Michael Albanese Gary Stevenson
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|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=There was If you were to bring up an image of a Boy who loved boxescity banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. He had a box for everything A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began familiar with art suppliesviolence, stuffed toys poverty and the like: all the things which most children have in abundanceinjustice. The Boy's delight There was in no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the sense London School of order in his room: it made him feel happyEconomics. As Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he grew up and became has a Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt facility with this by getting bigger and better boxesnumbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. Look carefully It was his ability at the pictures and you'll see that one of them has what was, essentially, a padlock.card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=B09MN1526W1035021803|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Liz MistryC L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the third murder in the space of a few weeks and theyEnglish country village where she grew up. She've all been s back now because of machetes used on teenagersa request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. DS Nikki Parekh Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first circumstances seem suspicious, to arrive on say the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of Bradfordleast. OnlyArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, this timeshe feels, it's going to be differentlet her down badly. The body appears to Nikki Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be that of her beloved nephew, Haqib, and near the man or pursue the profession she has a very public meltdownloved. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but After the body is clad split, she worked in designer clothes a cafe, met and comes married James (on the rebound from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and depressionJames have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Ally WilkesAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All the White SpacesTomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=HorrorScience Fiction|summary=In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the famous Australis Randallshape of things to come. For Jonathan'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, this adventure represents I must confess that there have been more than a chance for a fresh start, and the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, without the disapproval and constraints few decades of his parentstechnology in my lifetime. However, Jonathan isn I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I't m left with the only one fleeing the confines feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expeditionit is - frankly - quite frightening. Guilt Of course, mistrust I could research the possibilities and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they are forced to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. If Jonathan is to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once I needed people I knew I could trust and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tombwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1789097835
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|author=Dean KoontzSunny Singh|title=QuicksilverHotel Arcadia|rating=23.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Quinn QuicksilverThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. He's not had Hiding from the chance to get to be a mercurial character yetterrorists who are rampaging through, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundlingkilling everyone on site, and now there is starting Sam, a career on a needless magazine's staffwartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject As Abhi continues to try to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', care remotely for something – call it unearthly intuitionthe residents who are still alive in the hotel, call it mind-control, call it he forms a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go bond with Sam who refuses to a derelict dinerbe cowed by events, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going keeps on the lam. And all this is just in time for two venturing out of those typical Men in Black types her room to try to turn up and suggest hecapture what's of interest happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to them. Helped help her keep safe and they both wait to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by other instances of 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 besidesterrorists.|isbn=1542019885086154742X
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|isbn=00084416181529153298|title=Other ParentsThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Sarah StovellJennie Godfrey
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|genre=Women's General Fiction|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 her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the towns 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school(A woman? I mean, honestly... ) There was one difficultyShe's not what's worrying Miv's family, though - . Women have been disappearing. Well, they were 've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn'devastatingly shockablet sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, with two membersDown South is a frightening, in particularforeign place, causing problems for the headbest avoided. Laura Spence For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and Kate Monroe objected she'll do anything to Joprevent that. She's restrictions on not worried about the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but dangers or that was just a warmher Mum's stopped talking -up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationto anyone.
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|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's five years since the stag weekendfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and his four groomsmenher daughter, ScotEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy)Alec, Neil and Joshis not. The first night they had plenty Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of alcohol - too much really - and Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the night Scot managed to wander offriver. The remaining four searched It was an easy assumption for him in vain the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. When help didnthen committed suicide when he couldn't come stand the remaining three finally made their way back to townguilt. Scott followed soon after The Salter children are not convinced but there was no sign of Tim. Every year, Tim's father, Martin, and the four friends have been back to continue the search although little else they can do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timbut get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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