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|isbn=15290473151009473085|title=The LamplightersConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Emma StonexAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)
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|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it 'A fisherman told him once '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 sea having two facesbook for you. You have to take them bothIf that's what you're looking for, he saidI don't think Anthony Seldon's book, the good and the bad{{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and never turn your back on either one of themshould be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. '' In 1972, fifteen miles off the coast of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in Conservative Effect''is an entirely different beast. It's the frigid pause between Christmas seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and New Year''co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. Jory Martin had taken out This book follows the well-established format: a relief keeperseries of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the weather such changes that ''occurred and the boat [was] rocking and bobbing like a bath toy over situation in 2024.}}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the waveletsfirst evening she'' but they were unable s got the house to herself – no neighbour to get any response from the Maiden Rockpop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. It was broken into What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the next dayworld-building, but there was no sign of the mencritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. The table was set for But first Lori has a meal for two - tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the clocks were stopped at 8.45server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Contact with When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the light had not game has been possible as the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened doctored – well, where is a girl to the men.turn?|isbn=0008666482
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|author=Mary H K ChoiJenny Lecoat|title=YolkBeyond Summerland|rating=54|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student that's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps Jean lives on Jersey with. She's an all-round messy character; and that's her charmmother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. June, on During the other handwar, is a complete contrast to Jayne. SheJean's father was arrested for listening to a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows it allbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and has a successful jobher mother waiting for years for news of him. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices, and As the two have barely kept in contact despite living in British finally free the same city for Channel islands from the past two years. This is until June finds out she's sickNazis, and Jayne the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to truth come together and decide how far they'll go to save each 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's lives – even if it means swapping identities.secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn= 03490036961846976537
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|authorisbn=Saima Mir1529428289|title=The KhanA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white mengrave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system They dated back to World War II and by it fell to Bruno, the time she is called home Chief of Police for her sisterSt Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn's wedding after fifteen years in selft enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil -imposed exile, she is flowing at record levels. It's not just the top of her game. Returning to local autumn rains that have caused the city of her birth, problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to old scars release water and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for St Denis faces the future with her sense possibility of honour and dutya devastating flood.|isbn=1786079097
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|isbn=0008336830152919640X|title=Two WrongsThe Suspect|author=Mel McGrathRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Sondra The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on her way home after work when she saw a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from the Clifton suspension bridgetelevision and it seems that there's only one suspect. She talks to her, He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and Sondra finally persuades Satnam his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to call her best friend and flatmate, Nevis SmithJessica Holby. Nevis is unworldly and rather reserved - She's seriously allergic and she can't understand why Satnam hasn't shared her problems with hercarries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. She thought Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they shared everythingcan be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Satnam is taken Her EpiPen was nowhere to hospital be found and Nevis calls her mother, Honorshe was dead within minutes. They've not been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her motherIt was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|authorisbn=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)0008385068|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me a little conflictedIt's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, It's their opening weekend and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person hesplendid celebrations are promised. It's addressing in his second person monologue of a narration, we see him picked all headed up by his motherFrancesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's chauffeurconverted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother work is buried still ongoing on parts of the following daysite. The mother was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy heat is oppressive and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, and feelings of abandonment amongst the guests are still strongenemies as well as friends. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, Old scores are going to the ladbe settled and it won's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as t be long before a private farewell addressbody is found.|isbn=1939810965
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|author=Jane LightbourneAshley Hickson-Lovence|title= My Cat Called RedWild East|rating= 4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersTeens|summary= Robin has red hair. He hates itWritten in verse, and the freckles that go along with it. Hethis is Ronny's been bullied story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and mocked start at a mostly white school because of it. The move is initiated by Ronny''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But red hair s mum who is not Robinworried for Ronny's only misery safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in lifea new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He's already lost listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his dad teacher encourages him to be part of a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and is taken into hospital. She doesn't come home againcrafting your words.|isbn= 18382168120241645441
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|isbn=B003L7TDMU1635866847|title=Phineas FinnThe Lavender Companion|author=Anthony TrollopeJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary FictionLifestyle|summary=Phineas Finn It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the son of Dr Malachi Finnbook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a successful doctor in Killaloe in County Clare, who sent his son to London to train as picture of a lawyerslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. PhineasI don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's interest is more a recipe in making influential friends than in becoming the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a lawyer and one mess of them, Barrington Erle, suggests that he runs for Parliament it. Notes in the forthcoming electionmargins are sanctioned. His father is not entirely in favour You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of this as members are butter would not remunerated and it would be up to him to provide financial support for his son as well as funding his electiona problem. One of the doctorI ''loved''s patients is Lord Tulla who controls the borough of Loughshane and by this stroke of luck Finn is, eventually, elected by a small marginbook already.
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|isbnauthor=1838595031Rob Keeley|title=CrookedChildish Spirits: Honest Criminality|author=Bronwen John10th anniversary special edition|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=The con had seemed like a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by the new Banksy - and they should have made a decent profit from it. The problem was they were too successful: one Around here, we're big fans of the marks had bought a few and then discovered that they were valuelesschildren's author Rob Keeley. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for He's a simple con and his fatherball of happy positivity, celebrity criminal Harry Holmeshe understands children, was determined that and he writes for their pleasure and his family could enjoyment, not lose face like thatto lecture or hector. The grifters were going to pay. Ashia 'Ash' Cox and Max Childish Spirits'Colorado' Ying needed to be got out series is one of the countryhis greatest achievements. In the course It's a sequence of bringing this aboutghost stories centring on Ellie, Luke Gainesa stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, Ash's foster fatherand Edward, lost his life.a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|author=Hayley WebsterJenny Valentine|title=Luna Rae is Not AloneUs in the Before and After
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.
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|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton
|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Luna Rae has just moved houseMeet Kit. Moving house Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is always trickyan avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, but especially when you're ten years mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and you miss your old homerace to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you and your little sister have to start a new school but your mum seems to be out working all along the timeway. Then there's your dadUnfortunately for Kit, who doesn't seem like the only thing he's coping so wellseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and so there's no one a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to take care the goading from the token bully of things but youhis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Everything feels different and strangeWhat chance does this friendless, and mysteriousmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and so Luna finds a way 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 premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of coping is England run by watchinga Muslim woman. She turns detective 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 starts keeping an eye on her new neighbourhood, but it turns out sheneedn't be a hindrance if it's not the only one keeping watch!good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=17880060460861541561
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|isbnauthor=B003A6W0FOStuart Douglas|title=Can You Forgive Her?|author=Anthony TrollopeLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=On the surface During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Can You Forgive Her?Floggit and Leggit'' looks deceptively simple: it's , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the story dead body of one a woman and two men who are vying with each other for her loveon the edge of a reservoir. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged The police seem happy to her cousinassign it as an accidental death, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and later became engaged he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to John Greyhelp him investigate matters further. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour of They travel across the continent with George Vavasor country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and his sister Kate. It's obvious that there's still , seemingly, a great deal of chemistry between John and Alice - and Kate is all for encouraging the relationship as it would tie Alice link to her. George wants Alice but it's a matter of ''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and death during the original engagement had fallen through because of his infidelity and deceitfulnessSecond World War. This thread But is there really a link between the story of a very complicated love affair and a woman who lacks confidence in her own judgement. deaths? You might not like Alice to start with but you And will warm they manage to her.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|authorisbn=Hannah GoldB0CYV674G2|title=The Last BearSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=April's fatherIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a scientistknife, has comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been given a job on a remote island called Bear Islandstabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, and he accepts which coincided with the job deciding to take birth of his daughter April with himSamantha. They live alone anyway, since AprilYou would think he's mother died some time before, and he feels it will d be educational grateful for her to experience an easy answer but the island words 'perverse' and all its natural beauty'John Tanner' were made for each other. April already has an affinity with nature, and sheHe's excited sleep-deprived to travel with her father, thinking the point of all the fun things they will be able to experience together on the island. But when they get there, her father finds that his falling asleep at work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of his time, and so April is left to explore by herself. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of one, and so she sets out he's determined to find the Bear, and then when she sees keep going - probably because he is injured, to befriend and help himcan't get any sleep at home.|isbn=000841128X
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|isbn=14722761401787333175|title=What Will Burn (Inspector McLean)You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=James OswaldBenji Waterhouse
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|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=When Cecily SlaterI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's body was foundfirst book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, she'd already been dead for a week - in a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburgh. Heavy rain had washed away most glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the evidenceNHS, but DI Tony McLean, demoted humour and just returned from suspension, is reluctant autobiography. ''You Don't Have to accept that this is nothing more than a careless accidentbe Mad... There were indications that Slater had been savagely, almost ritualistically beaten before '' promised the fire. But who would hate a ninety-year-old woman same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the extent work of doing something like that? a psychiatrist. She 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 virtual recluse: who could she have upset to that extent?person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|isbnauthor=000845552XOnyi Nwabineli|title=Where Ravens Roost|author=Karin NordinAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from his fatherAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, Stenar, for more than a decade but when he got the rather muddled phone call from him saying that hethanks to her step-mother Ophelia'd seen a murder in the barn s increasingly popular presence on his land he didnsocial media, where she posted every step of Anuri't hesitate to drop everything s childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and go to Varsund. Actually, 'drop everything' rather overstates the situationbasically, monetary gain. Nygaard was on suspension following the shooting of a suspect 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 Aubuchon murder enquirycontent about her. There had been a complication: the Kattegat Killer turned out Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to be Nils Hedinstart her PhD, Nygaard's best friendundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. StillMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg in the south new focus of Sweden to Varsund in the far north shouldnOphelia't be underestimateds online empire. 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=1471187179David Chadwick|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel HoreHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers|summary=Minnie is an It'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life s September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a leafy provincial suburbfew thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. The book is set Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mothermain local employers but otherwise, there's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the rest not much of her days looking after her husband note other than dive bars and their homeJoshua trees. UnfortunatelyLife is quiet, this isn't what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretaryuntil.. As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|author= T L HuchuTom Percival|title= The Library of the DeadWrong Shoes|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Ropa Moyo Will's life is a ghostalkerdifficult, using Zimbabwean magic (and in a bit multitude of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the dead of Edinburgh wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out even the most basic of schoolthings like food, sheand his dad can's been using it to support not only herselft work because he lost his job at the college, but her younger sister was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and her aging grandmotherhad an accident. However, there's an evil stalking Throw into that mix the ruined streets of Edinburghfact that his mum and dad are separated, targeting the cityand Will's childrenlife seems bleak in every direction. Soon And yet, Ropa is pulled into the search for he still has a missing boy at the request tiny amount of his dead motherhope. She will end up discovering an occult library He is good at art, and realise that clings to the world moments of magic joy when he is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find drawing, that feel like a light at the missing children and bring an end to this evilof a long, or will it claim her too?dark tunnel.|isbn= 15290394521398527122
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|author=Everina MaxwellSylvie Cathrall|title=Winter's OrbitA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary= Prince Kiem is There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a famous political disappointment. He's outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past few yearscompelling premise. So when an important political alliance is to be arranged – one that And this is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the role. Least of all himthem.|isbn=03565158850356522776
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|isbn=18389520120008517061|title=The FavourDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Laura VaughanStig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The rejection by Oxford came as a bit of a shock to Ada Howell: she wasFormer Metropolitan Police detective, after allJake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the daughter future of the renowned author, Anthony Howellhis life with his vet girlfriend, who'd been to this college. Well, she wasn't ''actually'' Howell's daughter: he'd married her mother after her birth Livia and had then adopted herdaughter Diana, so she was 'chosen' rather than just 'made', which was better really. And whilst we're being honest, we might as well admit that 'renowned author' might be stretching the truth moving in together would mean a littlelot of compromise: does Jake give up his books degenerated into selfoff-published poetry which Ada couldn't understand. Still, Ada had felt entitled grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this was why is the future she wants for herself and her godmother's offer had come at such a brilliant timedaughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.
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|authorisbn=C A Sacha1786482126|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has a plan Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to increase his already startling wealth and ensure his legacy: to bring the worldhold seventy-five 'luxury's first emissionapartments -free car to market and dominate productionwhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. The secret development project to enable Was thisa ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, Bucephalusbut Nelson doesn't, that she is already underway and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into pregnant with his child as a second term to help him carry it outresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Montgomery Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is also looking for a legacy and one that does not involve his controlling mother and her foundation, so grabs onto Finnegan's Feed Africa programme with both hands..prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1800461976
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|authorisbn=Martin Venning0008551324|title=The Primary ObjectiveDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=24.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Sometimes a book starts off slowly, but eventually draws you in It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to caring about approach the characters or simply wanting to know what happens nextpolice. Sometimes it doesn'tNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. The basic premise But Davie Hardie is a good one – a clandestine organisation, operating as a charity, but funded by various governments around the world struggling in prison and partially (maybe, Ihe'm not sure) under s prepared to tell the police where the auspices body of the UNa missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, with is someone big and it will be worth the primary objective of keeping the peace, by any means possiblepolice doing what he wants. Diplomacy And what he wants is always to be transferred to an open prison to serve the first option remainder of his sentence and sometimes one that needs to be carried out by third partiesget an early parole date. Not much to ask, but for situations when is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains a callHardie demanded -on list of field operatives, ex-military, medics, scientists or make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone else who works with a taste for adventure and willing to risk their life for the sake of ithim is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1800461100
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|authorisbn=Francesca Simon and Steve May0008405026|title=Two Terrible VikingsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=Emerging ReadersCrime|summary=In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and Whack, who are eager the investigation ground to be the very worst Vikings ever! a halt. Nothing can stop their mad maraudingNow, as they cause havoc at a birthday partyher mother, chaos whilst tracking a trollHelena, and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with her father are dead in their friends! bed. They get up to all kinds Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of mischief the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and naughty behaviour, along with their wolfher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-cub Biteyand-Biteyshut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and their crazy cast of friendsUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=0571349498
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|authorisbn=Helen Fisher0571379877|title=Space HopperThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very Edward Jevons is a working-class young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worseman, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormouslyStanza. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70Robert's and her mum, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to hera theatre director. The time travelling, howeverHe's also self-obsessed, is neither easy nor safedemanding, handsome and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening entitled and so lies uses Edward to run errands for him instead. The lies grow more tangled, Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and Faye begins to wonder if ithe's safe for her drunkenly confided how he feels to return one last time to the pastRobert. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mumMost men in Robert's death, position would stay away from Stanza or will it change her own future forever tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1787477800Jo Callaghan|title=The Night Hawks (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsLeave No Trace|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists and they're out When a man is found crucified on Blakeney Point where they suspect that there's treasure to be found. Unfortunately, the youngest top of the group, twenty-one-year-old Troy Evansa hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the body of a man floating on case alongside her sidekick, the incoming tideAI detective Lock. After pulling it ashoreIt's their first live case together, they call the policehaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. DCI Nelson thinks But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that it's probably the body of an asylum seeker but there's no evidence draws a lot of any activity unwanted attention to be had from the coastguardtheir AI Future Policing project. The dead man turns out Will they be able to be Jem Taylorsolve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a North Norfolk man recently released from prison.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=15293786481399613073|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)Moral Injuries|author=Mick HerronChristie Watson
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|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Someone is killing secret service agentsOlivia, past Laura and present, from Anjali met on the Slough House teamfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Jackson Lamb can't understand itOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Well, what he actually can't understand Laura is why, having seen them, anyone would bothera perfectionist and a trauma doctor. But Anjali is the deaths are mounting up free spirit of the group and something needs to be doneshe becomes a GP. After all ''when things went awry on Spook Street, When we first meet them they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'' Over re at Regenta drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of a Novichok poisoning going to end in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatchedtragedy. It isnWe don't just know who suffered the message that was sent: she's also delighted that she managed to fund tragedy or the operation off the booksconsequences. Some private money was brought inTwenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. She wonThis time, it't always be so jubilant about thiss their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=18387734280241636604|title=The Art of DeathTrading Game: A Confession|author=David FennellGary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=1035021803
|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder
|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was an art installation of 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidEnglish country village where she grew up. Only this time itShe's not back now because of a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy Perrinrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel TippingCarole. The installation Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the work of @nonymouscircumstances seem suspicious, underground artist and extreme version of Banksy. He's made a macabre promise: more will followto say the least. In fact, we've already met Arthur was the artist although reason why Freya had not by name: he's been in back to the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebookvillage: Arthur, Maki-e fountain penshe feels, MacBook Air and iPhonelet her down badly. Elaine Kelly is there with her sonEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, Jordan, and she's explaining has not felt able to her best friend, Jackie Morris about be near the state of her marriage. Actually, it doesn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite man or pursue the foundation profession she's appliedloved. Chau Ho is behind After the counter. There's someone onlinesplit, CassandraHshe worked in a cafe, that met and married James (on the artist has his eye onrebound from the love of her life, toowho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1471191303AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The InvisibleAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Tom PercivalBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=This is ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the story shape of Isobel, a little girl who made a big differencethings to come. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on:'
I've heard it said that 'Ice curled across the inside technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of the window and crept up the corner of the bedposttechnology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what' The family didns advantageous to me but I't go to m left with the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happyfeeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Then Of course, I could research the day came when they couldn't afford possibilities and the rent for the house probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they had to move to the far side of 're talking about or the citylatest conspiracy theorist. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely I needed people I knew I could trust and Isobel felt invisiblewho could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=178089905XSunny Singh|title=Serpentine|author=Jonathan KellermanHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been dreaming about: violently taken over by a death terrorist group. Hiding from thirty-six years ago and the daughter of the woman terrorists who died wanted some answers. She had money are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and money translated into clout and so Abhi, the problem was dropped onto Milo's toeshotel manager. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a car which went off a cliff bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on Mulholland Drive and burst into flames. It turned venturing out that she wasn't actually married of her room to try to the man with whom shecapture what'd left s happened through her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man and he took out adoption papers for Ellie - and she took his namephotography. Ellie was three when Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her mother left her with Dr Barker keep safe and she has nothing of her but one photograph of her mother and father and a necklace made of serpentinethey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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