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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It was a long drive We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to the weekend retreat pop in Northumbria, right up near the Scottish borders babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to make it worse log on to Voxminer, the three husbands had all world- for one reason or another building, critter- had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morningcollecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Jane and Ruth had known each other for But first Lori has a long time but Emily was a bit of an outsider. She and Paul had married only relatively recently tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she was ten years younger than the other two womenfinds something even more spooky. The friendship of For the group went back server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to school daysenter shows signs of tampering. Paul had coached rugby at the school where MarkWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, Toby and Rob were pupils. Mark had married Janeher safe place in the game has been doctored – well, and Toby where is Ruth's husband. And Roba girl to turn? Well, Rob's dead.|isbn=0008666482
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|isbnauthor=gareth_steelJenny Lecoat|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth SteelBeyond Summerland
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|summary=Our story opens in December 2019, before most Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of us had even heard of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come to be a major issuethe occupation. WeDuring the war, Jean're in Farley County Courts father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, where Elizabeth leaving Jean and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash Kohliher mother waiting for years for news of him. As they were best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is major and finally over, their hopes rise that, regardless they will finally learn what became of him. But will the outcometruth come as a relief, this is not going to work out well for anyone.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=1846976537
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|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs1529428289|title=The Language A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of FoodPolice Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=54|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirbygrave but when they found it, a local woman it came with a troubled home lifethree sets of bones. Together They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, they testthe Chief of Police for St Denis, craft, refine and reshape to discover the world identities of domestic cookerythe bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, reinventing the recipe book Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and changing St Denis faces the face possibility of cookery writing forevera devastating flood.|isbn=1398502227
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|authorisbn=Louie Stowell152919640X|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble againnation's favourite daytime TV presenter, so the other gods have decided Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one thing for it – suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must be banishednot serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in the physical form case of a middleemergencies. Everything seemed as normal -school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along normal as well, to they can be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother of the two. Loki has in a month to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or elsebusy, live television studio - and to prove it he has to write the text we read in Brooks served a sentient notebook, that is able ragout to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progressHolby. But Loki is the kind of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going Her EpiPen was nowhere to be a walk in the parkfound and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident..right?|isbn=1406399752
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|isbn=00084544420008385068|title=A Flicker in the DarkThe Midnight Feast|author=Stacy WillinghamLucy Foley|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's May 2019 midsummer on the Dorset coast and Dr Chloe Davis, a medical psychologist, is completing a session with a new patientguests gather at The Manor. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes of getting her through the traumaIt's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. You see, Chloe knows what itIt's like to have a traumatic childhoodall headed up by Francesca Meadows. Her father is Richard Davis, The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the man who murdered six girls some twenty years agowealthy and famous. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to Her husband, Owen, was the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home architect and she and her mother handed it to work is still ongoing on parts of the policesite. Dick Davis The heat is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary oppressive and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for amongst the last twenty yearsguests are enemies as well as friends. Her mother Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is in a care homefound.
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|author=Christopher EdgeAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Escape RoomWild East|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=IWritten in verse, this is Ronny've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which s story, a character or characters young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by being trapped in Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a specific locationtragic event, and have so Ronny finds himself trying to solve problems settle 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 an adventurenew town, a new school, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the firstand keep himself out of trouble. Here He listens to music constantly, Ami and four other tweenagershas always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, all in this new school, his teacher encourages him to each other and booked into the game without any be part of their friends, are a team – starting out at the game's main officespoetry writing workshop group and, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastimeslowly, despite Ronny begins to see the ramped-up threat levelsconnections between rap and poetry, change much in and the world power of literature?creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=17880079640241645441
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|isbn=17328987311635866847|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for AdultsLavender Companion|author=Michael Albanese Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxesIt's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldnBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''t believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and I visited the likeauthor's [https: all //www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the things which most children have in abundancehomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. The Boy(There's delight was a recipe in the sense book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of order in his room: it made him feel happy. As he grew up and became a Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxesNotes in the margins are sanctioned. Look carefully at You get to fold down the pictures and you'll see corners of pages. You suspect that one smears of them has butter would not be a padlock.problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|isbnauthor=B09MN1526WRob Keeley|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)|author=Liz MistryChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=ItAround here, we's the third murder in the space re big fans of a few weeks and theychildren've all been because of machetes used on teenagerss author Rob Keeley. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of Bradford. Only, this time, itHe's going to be different. The body appears to Nikki to be that a ball of her beloved nephewhappy positivity, Haqibhe understands children, and she has a very public meltdown. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but the body is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be on sick leave he writes for some time with anxiety and depression.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ally Wilkes|title=All the White Spaces|rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, their pleasure and the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true genderenjoyment, without the disapproval and constraints of his parents. However, 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 expedition. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, he will have not to face his demons once and for all, lecture or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tombhector.|isbn=1789097835}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since 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 The ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mindChildish Spirits'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out series is one of his bank and prepare for going on the lamgreatest achievements. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest heIt's a sequence of interest to them. Helped to escapeghost stories centring on Ellie, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in controla stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and Edward, a whole lot more besides.spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=15420198851783064617
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|isbnauthor=0008441618Jenny Valentine|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah StovellUs in the Before and After
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|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary=Jo Fairburn knew Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that she was under intense pressure even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didnchildren one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of get each other's contact details at the towntime. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association But then chance brings them back together, and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the schoolare inseparable. There was one difficulty, Something has happened though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two memberssomething terrible and tragic, in particularand now they must work through their grief, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationfriendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|author=Sarah Ann JuckesKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Jasper Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a little boy who has some strugglesteam of warrior, mage and whilst we're never told why exactlyhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacksrace to the exit, and has difficulty dealing perhaps bothering with change the treasure or the big bad and big emotionsthe points they grant you along the way. His big sister, Rosie Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been a huge support to him, talking him down when things were difficultretired, encouraging himeaten, and writing a book with him, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm downnew trio of questors is needed. His parents seem completely caught up in their business Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, and so it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away taken to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, and she isn't answering her phonell enter as a team. His parents won't speak to him or when they do What chance does this friendless, he doesn't understand or take muscle-free-zone have in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be rightactually managing that, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if how could he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen possibly hope to its song, as they do together every Spring.succeed?|isbn=13985108901839945184
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Saima Mir|title=Red is My HeartVengeance
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|genre=Literary Fiction Thrillers|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in my housethe north of England run by a Muslim woman. And so The fact that it was this one, although the second in a series I could have spelled that more accurately hadn't read didn't stop me – this one was, I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and is, black screen) and white and redit needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideasnever felt lost.|isbn=19135471830861541561
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|isbnauthor=1529135567Stuart Douglas|title=One Step Too Far|author=Lisa GardnerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItDuring location filming for his 1970's five years since sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the stag weekend. Five dead body of them had set out: Tim (a woman on the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Joshedge of a reservoir. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed police seem happy to wander off. The remaining four searched for him in vain and assign it was decided that Timas an accidental death, who was experienced in survival techniquesbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, would go for John Le Breton to helphim investigate matters further. When help didn't come They travel across the remaining three finally made country during their way back days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to towndeath during the Second World War. Scott followed soon after but But is there was no sign of Tim. really a link between the deaths? Every year, Tim's father, Martin, and the four friends have been back And will they manage to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tim.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|authorisbn=Gunnar StaalesenB0CYV674G2|title=Bitter FlowersSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in rehab mud and is now returning to work. Howeverblood - and carrying a knife, comes into the quiet job police station shouting that hehasn's supposedly taken on caretaking someonet killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, and a mystery around a missing womanbeen stabbed to death. Varg finds himself not only investigating theseDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, but also looking into an old, cold case which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an eight year old girl who disappeared one night easy answer but the words 'perverse' and was never found'John Tanner' were made for each other. Somehow, these disparate cases appear He's sleep-deprived to be linked, the point of falling asleep at work but what is the link, and how he's determined to keep going - probably because he can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308X't get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Kia AhankoobBenji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=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=The Gold Lion This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the Tournament same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of Sentinelsa psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsGeneral Fiction|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, each with its own strength where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and weakeness, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the hope they would complement each other content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and collaborate, creating a dynamic secretly abusing people online and prosperous societyreceiving money from them for doing so. Each power Most importantly, she is contained within a magical ring belonging to one desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of eight countries led by MyriadOphelia's children online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and their descendantsher relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|author=David Chadwick|title=Headload of Napalm|rating=4. But it didn5|genre=Thrillers|summary= It't quite work out like thats September 1973 in Hicks, California. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of them LA and the eight countries went to warLas Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. Having fought themselves into an endless A silver mine and ruinous stalemate and finding a defence contractor are the cost main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of war too highnote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, a solution is proposeduntil.. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva.|isbn=B09MMQJFPVB0D321VJ76
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|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsTom Percival|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45
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|summary=Meet TomasWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. Happy to work with his father in He is bullied because he has 'the blacksmithwrong shoes's forge, hehas the wrong shoes because his dad can's almost t work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the age to become college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a full apprentice, building site and help with had an accident. Throw into that mix the new batch of dragonswords is certainly needed. Not fact that there his mum and dad are any dragonsseparated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except..hope. Strange signals from within the forge furnaceHe is good at art, and a peculiar invite clings to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the washmoments of joy when he is drawing, that yes dragons do still exist in this world, and that Tom is rare in feel like a light at the ability to summon themend of a long, share magical attributes, and ride with them..dark tunnel.|isbn=18399400261398527122
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|isbnauthor=1529346541Sylvie Cathrall|title=Something A Letter to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth Georgethe Luminous Deep
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James is at There are few greater joys than a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for 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 book which lives up to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakercompelling premise. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting is an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which And this is causing concern in some communities. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the problem seems to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust one of the people she speaks to and photographsthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=B09Q3P283Y0008517061|title=ShadebringerDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Grayson W HooperStig Abell
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam WarFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. He's not really that invested in There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the fight against Communismfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, nor is he particularly interested Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a career lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices future she wants for herself and this one, at least, gets him out of her daughter? For the rut he's moment they’re enjoying life in. He's good in training the present and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himselfputting the future on the back burner.
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|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy1786482126|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=There is no mermaid Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold site was going to the millhold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments -owners by when they discovered the London workhouse they used to call homebones of a child beneath a doorway. Bess knows there is There was no time for friendship in skull. Was this a hand-to-mouthritual killing or murder? Inevitably, every man for himself kind of existenceDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be she is pregnant with his child as a glimmer result of companionship in the tired-out mill workersone night they spent together some three months ago. But surely that doesn't mean there Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is any truth in the existence prone to sudden bouts of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049Xsickness.
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|isbn=17856330740008551324|title=Staggering HubrisThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Josh BerryNeil Lancaster
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|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'' (thatIt's unusual for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but anyone from the reality is that Hardie family to approach the ''prime'' movers are police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmentother. We are But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the privileged position of having access to police where the memoirs body of Rafe Hubris, the man a missing person is buried and who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020responsible for her death. You might not know the name now but This person, he promises, is someone big and it will certainly be worth the man police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to watchbe transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=B09MYXSRV40008405026|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Cordellya SmithJane Casey|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the world was madeinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, the animals were given giftsand her father are dead in their bed. Bear was given strength so Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that he could become a protectormakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Water Spider received What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a strong web that even fire could not burncomplex double murder. Owl had excellent sight so Kerrigan is convinced that he could see the present explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'and'' the futures boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3. Rabbit developed intelligence 5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working- butclass young man, unfortunatelyobsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. not the ability to use it wellRobert's a theatre director. He liked 's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to trick other animalsrun errands for him. He was also jealous which was Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he came feels to be in a race with TurtleRobert. You might think Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward thata relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came aboutdark passageway.
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|author=Giovanna FletcherJo Callaghan|title=Walking on SunshineLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Mike's wifeWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, PiaDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, who he was with for seventeen years, has diedthe AI detective Lock. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are It's their best friendsfirst live case together, Vicky and Zazahaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to followwhen there is a second body found crucified a few days later, knowing that she was dying Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they would need help be able to carry on living. Whilst some of solve the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobecase in time, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky or will Kat find herself taken off the case and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troublespotentially, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with him.out of a career?|isbn=140593560X139851120X
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|isbn=15293939301399613073|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your BusinessMoral Injuries|author=Sophie RochesterChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsThrillers|summary=''Starting Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a creative business has never been easiercentury.'' ''If not now Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when?'' I know that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into you aim to be a businesscardiothoracic surgeon. There's Laura is a perfectionist and a lot trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use the group and there are she becomes a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as giftsGP. Selling would offset the costs, which can be quite considerable When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it could be fun 's going to do, couldnend in tragedy. We don't it? know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. But where to start? Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. What do I need to think about? WellThis time, the first thing anyone it's their teenage children who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making a Living''are involved.
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|authorisbn=Freya Marske0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Marvellous LightConfession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionAutobiography|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into If you were to bring up an image of a job city banker in the Civil Serviceyour mind, much you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his chagrinbackground is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that had been to the streets London School of London are threaded Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with magicnumbers which most of us can only envy. Desperate to remove a curse He also realised that threatens most rich people expect poor people to swallow himbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, Robin follows Edwin to the countrysideessentially, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer a card game which got him an internship with powerCitibank. There they uncover Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Islestrader. |isbn=1529080886
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|isbn=02414804421035021803|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition ScienceAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=CookeryCrime|summary=EmotionallyIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, I am a veganCarole. MentallyFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, I am a veganto say the least. I read [[How Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) foodvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. PracticallyEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, I am she has not a veganfelt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. It After the split, she worked for in a while apart cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm love of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. It wasn't the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it her life, who was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare momentsmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=suppl_staflAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Supply Chain 20/20All Tomorrow's Futures: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversFictions that Disrupt|author=Kim StaflundBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceScience Fiction|summary=So, you've finished writing your book and you think 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the hard work is all done? Youshape of things to come.''re convinced that all you need to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in?
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|isbnauthor=1398706906Sunny Singh|title=The Lost|author=Simon BeckettHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officerHotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, Jonah Colley's young sonthere is Sam, Theoa wartime photographer and Abhi, just about finished himthe hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, particularly as he blamed himself for forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what had 's happenedthrough her photography. He'd fallen asleep in Although they only ever talk over the park whilst Theo was playing phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and when he woke, Theo had gonethey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists. |isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It cost him his marriage 's 1979 and his homeMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly. ..) Ten years later heShe's not what's largely come through it and heworrying Miv's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneyfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Gavin used Well, they've been murdered, but to be his best friend but ithave 'disappeared's a long time since theydoesn've spokent sound quite so frightening. HeMiv's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and he asks Jonah upset because she's overheard that her father wants to meet him at Slaughter Quaymove the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'Therell do anything to prevent that. She's no one else I can trustnot worried about the dangers or that her Mum'', he sayss stopped talking - to anyone.
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