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|isbn=B003L7TDMU1009473085|title=Phineas FinnThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony TrollopeSeldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.}}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills
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|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Phineas Finn is We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the son of Dr Malachi Finnhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County Clarejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, who sent his son to London to train as a lawyeron her lonesome. Phineas's interest is more What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in making influential friends than in becoming a lawyer blanket fort, she has one main intention, and one of themthat is to log on to Voxminer, Barrington Erlethe world-building, suggests critter-collecting game that he runs for Parliament is a hit in the forthcoming electionLori's world. His father is not But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely in favour of this as members are not remunerated on her own, and it would be up to him to provide financial support for his son as well as funding his electionthen she finds something even more spooky. One of For the doctor's patients is Lord Tulla who controls the borough of Loughshane server she and her bestie and by this stroke nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of luck Finn istampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, eventuallyand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, elected by where is a small margin.girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482
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|author=Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=18385950311846976537}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529428289|title=CrookedA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=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 - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: Honest Criminalityvarious dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of 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 serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Bronwen JohnLucy Foley
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|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The con had seemed like a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by the new Banksy - and they should have made a decent profit from itFrancesca Meadows. The problem Manor was they were too successful: one of her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the marks had bought a few wealthy and then discovered that they were valuelessfamous. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for a simple con and his fatherHer husband, celebrity criminal Harry HolmesOwen, was determined that he the architect and his family could not lose face like thatwork is still ongoing on parts of the site. The grifters were heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to pay. Ashia 'Ash' Cox be settled and Max 'Coloradoit won' Ying needed to t be got out of the country. In the course of bringing this about, Luke Gaines, Ash's foster father, lost his lifelong before a body is found.
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|author=Hayley WebsterAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Luna Rae is Not AloneWild East|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Luna Rae has just moved house. Moving house Written in verse, this is always tricky, but especially when youRonny're ten years olds story, and you miss your a young black fourteen year old home, boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and you and your little sister have to start at a new mostly white school but your mum seems to be out working all the time. Then thereThe move is initiated by Ronny's your dad, mum who doesn't seem like heis worried for Ronny's coping so wellsafety after a tragic event, and so there's no one Ronny finds himself trying to take care settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of things but youtrouble. Everything feels different and strangeHe listens to music constantly, and mysterious, and so Luna finds has always dreamed of being a way of coping is by watchingrapper. She turns detective But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and starts keeping an eye on her new neighbourhoodpoetry, but it turns out she's not and the only one keeping watch!power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=17880060460241645441
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|isbn=B003A6W0FO1635866847|title=Can You Forgive Her?The Lavender Companion|author=Anthony TrollopeJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary FictionLifestyle|summary=On It's strange, the surface 'things that make you 'Can You Forgive Her?'immediately' looks deceptively simple: it's feel that this is the story of one woman and two men who are vying with each other book for her loveyou. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged to her cousinBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and later became engaged to John Grey. When we first meet Alice shethere's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on an extended tour of the continent with George Vavasor and his sister Katehomepage. ItI don's obvious that there's still a great deal of chemistry between John t eat cakes and Alice desserts - and Kate is all for encouraging the relationship as it would tie Alice to herbut I wanted that cake viscerally. George wants Alice but it(There's a matter of recipe in the book, which I''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the original engagement had fallen through because of his infidelity and deceitfulnessmargins are sanctioned. This thread is You get to fold down the story corners of a very complicated love affair and a woman who lacks confidence in her own judgementpages. You might suspect that smears of butter would not like Alice to start with but you will warm to herbe a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|author=Hannah GoldRob Keeley|title=The Last BearChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=AprilAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's father, a scientistball of happy positivity, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with him. They live alone anyway, since April's mother died some time beforeunderstands children, and he feels it will be educational writes for her to experience the island and all its natural beauty. April already has an affinity with nature, their pleasure and she's excited to travel with her fatherenjoyment, thinking of all the fun things they will be able not to experience together on the islandlecture or hector. But when they get there, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his time, and so April is left to explore by herselfgreatest achievements. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Bear IslandEllie, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the Bearspirit world throws at her, and then when she sees he is injuredEdward, to befriend a spoiled lordling and help him.the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=000841128X1783064617
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|isbnauthor=1472276140Jenny Valentine|title=What Will Burn (Inspector McLean)|author=James OswaldUs in the Before and After
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|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=When Cecily Slater's body was foundElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, she'd already been dead for their friendship is a week - once in a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburghlifetime connection. Heavy rain had washed away most of They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the evidencetime. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, but DI Tony McLeansomething terrible and tragic, demoted and just returned from suspensionnow they must work through their grief, is reluctant to accept that this is nothing more than a careless accident. There were indications that Slater had been savagelyand their friendship, almost ritualistically beaten before the firetogether. But who would hate a ninety-year-old woman to the extent of doing something like that? She was a virtual recluse: who could she have upset to that extent?|isbn=1471196585
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|isbnauthor=000845552XKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Where Ravens Roost|author=Karin NordinDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his fatherworld, Stenarit seems, for more than a decade but when he got is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the rather muddled phone call from him saying that he'd seen sport where a murder in team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the barn on his land he didn't hesitate to drop everything big bad and go to Varsundthe points they grant you along the way. ActuallyUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he'drop everything' rather overstates s seen of the situation. Nygaard was latest race on suspension following the shooting inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of a suspect in the Aubuchon murder enquiryquestors is needed. There had been a complication: Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the Kattegat Killer turned out to be Nils Hedin, Nygaardtoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's best friendll enter as a team. StillWhat chance does this friendless, the tenmuscle-free-hour drive from Gothenburg zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= I was instantly intrigued by the south premise of Sweden to Varsund this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the far north shouldnof 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've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be underestimateda hindrance if it's good enough.And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|isbnauthor=1471187179Stuart Douglas|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel HoreLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Minnie is an During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'ordinaryFloggit and Leggit' girl living an unexciting life in , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a leafy provincial suburbreservoir. The book is set in police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marrywhole thing bothers Lowe, produce children and spend he enlists the rest help of her days looking after her husband and their homea fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. UnfortunatelyThey travel across the country during their days off filming, this isn't what she wants to do at all uncovering more possible murders and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionageseemingly, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting link to infiltrate death during the Communist Party of Great BritainSecond World War. Minnie finds herself torn But is there really a link between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|authorisbn= T L HuchuB0CYV674G2|title= The Library of the DeadSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating= 43.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Ropa Moyo is a ghostalkerIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, using Zimbabwean magic (covered in mud and blood - and carrying a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the dead of Edinburgh for their living relativesman. Ever since she dropped out A body at the bottom of school, shea freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been using it stabbed to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmotherdeath. HoweverDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, there's an evil stalking which coincided with the ruined streets birth of Edinburgh, targeting the cityhis daughter Samantha. You would think he's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search d be grateful for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that easy answer but the world of magic is far bigger words 'perverse' and more dangerous than she ever could've imaginedJohn Tanner' were made for each other. Will she find He's sleep-deprived to the missing children and bring an end point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 1529039452keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|authorisbn=Everina Maxwell1787333175|title=WinterYou Don's Orbitt Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
|rating=5
|genre=Popular Science Fiction|summary= Prince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. HeI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's outgoingfirst book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, carefreea glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past few yearsautobiography. So when an important political alliance is ''You Don't Have to be arranged – one that is supposed Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be chosen looking for humour in this setting but the rolelaughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. Least of all him.|isbn=0356515885
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|isbnauthor=1838952012Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Favour|author=Laura VaughanAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=The rejection by Oxford came as a bit of a shock Anuri spent her childhood on display to Ada Howell: she wasthe world, after allthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, the daughter where she posted every step of the renowned authorAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, Anthony Howellbasically, who'd been to this collegemonetary gain. WellNow Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, she wasn't ''actually'' Howell's daughter: he'd married suing her step-mother after to take down the content about her birth and had then adopted . Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start herPhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so she was 'chosen' rather than just 'made', which was better really. And whilst we're being honestMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, we might as well admit that 'renowned author' might be stretching who is the truth a little: his books degenerated into self-published poetry which Ada couldnnew focus of Ophelia't understands online empire. StillCan she save her sister, Ada had felt entitled and this was why perhaps herself and her godmother's offer had come relationship with her father at such a brilliant the same time.?|isbn=0861546873
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|author=C A SachaDavid Chadwick|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has a plan to increase his already startling wealth and ensure his legacy: to bring the worldIt's first emission-free car to market and dominate productionSeptember 1973 in Hicks, California. The secret development project to enable this, Bucephalus, Hicks is already underway a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into Las Vegas both a second term to help him carry it outsignificant drive away. Montgomery is also looking for Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a legacy and one that does defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's not involve his controlling mother much of note other than dive bars and her foundationJoshua trees. Life is quiet, so grabs onto Finnegan's Feed Africa programme with both handsuntil....|isbn=1800461976B0D321VJ76
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|author=Martin VenningTom Percival|title=The Primary ObjectiveWrong Shoes|rating=25|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Sometimes a book starts off slowlyWill's life is difficult, but eventually draws you in to caring about the characters or simply wanting to know what happens nexta multitude of ways. Sometimes it He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't. The have enough money for even the most basic premise is of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a good one – cash-in-hand job on a clandestine organisation, operating as a charity, but funded by various governments around building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the world fact that his mum and partially (maybedad are separated, Iand Will'm not sure) under the auspices of the UNs life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, with the primary objective he still has a tiny amount of keeping the peace, by any means possiblehope. Diplomacy He is always the first option good at art, and sometimes one that needs clings to be carried out by third partiesthe moments of joy when he is drawing, but for situations when that looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains feel like a call-on list light at the end of field operatives, ex-militarya long, medics, scientists or anyone else with a taste for adventure and willing to risk their life for the sake of itdark tunnel.|isbn=18004611001398527122
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|author=Francesca Simon and Steve MaySylvie Cathrall|title=Two Terrible VikingsA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=Emerging ReadersScience Fiction|summary=In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who There are eager to be the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at few greater joys than a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a troll, and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get book which lives up to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and their crazy cast a compelling premise. And this is one of friendsthem.|isbn=05713494980356522776
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|authorisbn=Helen Fisher0008517061|title=Space HopperDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=3.54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very youngFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from There’s perhaps a cold that got worse, and although they were kind and very good to her she little uncertainty about the future of course missed her mum enormously. So whenhis life with his vet girlfriend, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70's Livia and her mumdaughter Diana, she revels as moving in the chance to create some memories together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and get relaxing life to know the woman who meant so much move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her. The time travelling, however, reservations about whether or not this is neither easy nor safe, the future she wants for herself and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies to him instead. daughter? The lies grow more tangled, For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to putting the future on the pastback burner. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663
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|isbn=17874778001786482126|title=The Night Hawks Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)
|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists and theyBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that thereluxury's treasure to be found. Unfortunately, the youngest of the group, twentyapartments -one-year-old Troy Evans, finds when they discovered the body bones of a man floating on the incoming tidechild beneath a doorway. After pulling it ashore, they call the police. DCI Nelson thinks that it's probably the body of an asylum seeker but there's There was no evidence of any activity to be had from the coastguardskull. The dead man turns out to be Jem Taylor, Was this a North Norfolk man recently released from prison.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529378648|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick Herron|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Someone is ritual killing secret service agentsor murder? Inevitably, past and present, from the Slough House teamDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Jackson Lamb canIt't understand it. Wells difficult as Ruth knows, what he actually canbut Nelson doesn't understand , that she is why, having seen them, anyone would bother. But pregnant with his child as a result of the deaths are mounting up and something needs to be done. After all ''when things went awry on Spook Street, one night they generally went the full Chris Graylingspent together some three months ago.'' Over at Regent's ParkHer condition will be obvious before long, Diana Taverner not least because Ruth is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator prone to sudden bouts of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatched. It isn't just the message that was sent: she's also delighted that she managed to fund the operation off the books. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about thissickness.
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|isbn=18387734280008551324|title=The Art of DeathDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=David FennellNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was an art installation of 's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidpolice. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are Neither side likes or has any respect for the bodies of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tippingother. The installation But Davie Hardie is the work of @nonymous, underground artist struggling in prison and extreme version of Banksy. Hehe's made prepared to tell the police where the body of a macabre promise: more will followmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. In factThis person, we've already met the artist although not by name: he's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebookpromises, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air is someone big and iPhoneit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Elaine Kelly And what he wants is there with her son, Jordan, and she's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris about be transferred to an open prison to serve the state remainder of her marriagehis sentence and to get an early parole date. ActuallyNot much to ask, is it ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't take a lot of explaining: Frankthink so and she's attentions are obvious on her face despite even prepared to do the foundation she's applied. Chau Ho other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is behind the counter. Therekept well away from what's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, toohappening.
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|isbn=14711913030008405026|title=The InvisibleA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Tom PercivalJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=This is It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the story of Isobel, investigation ground to a little girl who made a big differencehalt. Isobel lived with Now, her parents mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldnstraightforward murder/suicide but there't afford to put s something about the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside positioning of the window bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and crept up the corner of the bedposther boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious.'' The family didn't go What looked as though it was going to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other be an open-and they were happy-shut case is now a complex double murder. Then Kerrigan is convinced that the day came when they couldnexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was colds boss, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisibleUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=178089905X0571379877|title=SerpentineThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonathan KellermanJonny Sweet|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: Edward Jevons is a death from thirtyworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-six years ago class friends, Robert and the daughter of the woman who died wanted some answersStanza. She had money and money translated into clout and so the problem was dropped onto MiloRobert's toes. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died in a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flamestheatre director. It turned out that she wasnHe't actually married to the man with whom she'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barkers also self-obsessed, optometristdemanding, was a good man handsome and entitled and he took out adoption papers uses Edward to run errands for Ellie him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and she took his namehe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Ellie was three when her mother 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 like most men: Edward is left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing to stumble upon the two of her but one photograph of her mother and father and them kissing in a necklace made of serpentinedark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=0008379300Jo Callaghan|title=The Shadow Man|author=Helen FieldsLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Fergus Ariss When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in his late thirties and he knows that he's dying. His body is giving up on himNuneaton, his internal organs beginning DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to putrify but before he dies he wants a wifethe case alongside her sidekick, a child and a brotherthe AI detective Lock. HeIt's their first live case together, having previously been on the lookout for the perfect people and he's made certain preparationsvery successful with several cold cases. The flat where the family will live But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is prepared and even windows suddenly struggling with curtains, a potential serial killer and pictures in frames have been painted onto the wallsa very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Angela Fernycroft was Will they be able to be his wife. Her husbandsolve the case in time, Cal, had or will Kat find herself taken off the children - a boy of seven case and a girl of five, away for the weekend. Unfortunatelypotentially, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela dies.out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=B08NZ4LV2R1399613073|title=Dark Memories (DS Nikki Parekh 3)Moral Injuries|author=Liz MistryChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Peggy Dyson was in her sixties Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and hadn't worn welltheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. She was Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a drug addict and was living under the arches in Forster Square Station in Bradfordcardiothoracic surgeon. Her killer thought that he was probably doing her Laura is a perfectionist and a favour by putting her out of her miserytrauma doctor. DS Nikki Parekh Anjali is the free spirit of the group and DC Sajid Malik are on the caseshe becomes a GP. Nikki canWhen we first meet them they't quite understand why shere at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's been sent an anonymous letter with a press report of the deathgoing to end in tragedy. It had been impossible to make any progress in We don't know who suffered the case and tragedy or the note seemed to taunt the policeconsequences. Then another note arrived with a report of a seemingly unconnected death in CambridgeTwenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. The third death - in the street where Nikki lived as a child - brought another communicationThis time, with a further clue under the victim - and Nikki was sure that there was something personal in the caseit's their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Anna Carey0241636604|title=This is Not the Jess ShowThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=TeensAutobiography|summary=Jess is If you were to bring up an image of a normal 90city banker in your mind, you's teenage girl, just trying re unlikely to navigate think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the usual stresses of schoolpin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, and boyswhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and parent troublesinjustice. But strange things seem There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to be happening in her small town, with a mystery flu keeping lots the London School of people indoors, Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a strange metal device, facility with an apple on it, that slips out numbers which most of her friend's bag, but us can only envy. He also realised that her friends just won't talk most rich people expect poor people to her aboutbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Jess feels like she might be hearing voices Eventually, and her sister (who is very ill) seems to be responding to her in strange ways sometimesthis turned into permanent employment as a trader. Is there something going on beneath the surface of Jess' life?|isbn=1683691970
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|isbn=B08LKT7HSR1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena DixonC L Miller
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|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In December 1933 It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the remains English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of Elowed Underhay were discovered in a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the cellar of circumstances seem suspicious, to say the Glass Bottle Public Houseleast. Ezekiel Hamett Arthur was sought in connection with the murder of Elowed and his half-brotherreason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, Denzil Hammettshe feels, whose body was also discoveredlet her down badly. Kitty Underhay's long search for her motherEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, who disappeared in June 1916 was overshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Now After the split, she's determined that worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the man responsible for love of her murder will be brought to justicelife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1782227741AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Little Gold TedAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha Benjamin Greenaway and Sasha SathaStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. It's quite a deep puddle and the water ' I've heard it said that 'technology' is swirlingwhat happens after you're eighteen. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down Well, I must confess that there have been more than a drain on the side few decades of the streettechnology in my lifetime. Finding himself down in the sewer, Ted starts to panic. I've kept up reasonably well with what'OH HELP ME PLEASEs advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it' he cries s all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who plucks him out of knows what they're talking about or the dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket batlatest conspiracy theorist. Reg is a kind soul I needed people I knew I could trust and he dries Ted off and warms him up with who could deliver information in a nice bowl of brothway I could understand.
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|author=Rob KeeleySunny Singh|title=The Treasure in the TowerHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary= Rob Keeley The Hotel Arcadia is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read a new adventure luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from Rob - his stories combine fast pace and lots of actionthe terrorists who are rampaging through, an easy to read stylekilling everyone on site, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalriesthere is Sam, a wartime photographer and always a good dollop of naughty humour. They're all present hereAbhi, in ''The Treasure in the Tower''hotel manager. The chance purchase of a book during a school trip sparks As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the whole adventure. Who can follow residents who are still alive in the clues best hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and find keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the treasure? Jessphone, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her money and tech gadgets keep safe and willingness they both wait to cheat?see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1800461321086154742X
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