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|isbn=1009473085|title=The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon 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=Ruth HoganMax Boucherat|title=Madame BurovaThe Last Life of Lori Mills
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=This book lets us discover several people We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connectedbabysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. So we have What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then)blanket fort, a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singershe has one main intention, and chiefly, Imeldathat is to log on to Voxminer, the third generation of Madame Burovaworld-building, ''Tarotcritter-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her familycollecting game that is a hit in Lori's sea-front boothworld. The singerBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stallshe finds something even more spooky. We also see For the server she and her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billietampering. Just who is sheWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and who delivered her safe place in the secrets about her to Imeldagame has been doctored – well, and why did it have where is a girl to remain a secret all this timeturn?|isbn=152937331X0008666482
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|author= Jonathan StroudJenny Lecoat|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneBeyond Summerland|rating= 4|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the draconian conformity end of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between occupation. During the Seven Kingdoms of Britainwar, robbing banks Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Brownesoldiers took him away one night, a dark boy with dark powers leaving Jean and a darker pasther mother waiting for years for news of him. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to As the British finally free the mythical Free Isles of Channel islands from the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlifeNazis, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of post-apocalyptic society to reach him. But will the Free Islestruth come as a relief, but or will they be any more accepted there than they are in 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 rest of Britainoccupation?|isbn=14063948151846976537
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|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S1529428289|title=Remy: A book about believing Grave in yourselfthe Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalMartin Walker
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan They dated back to World War II and Brandonit fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, have to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been laughing at Remycommitted. As if this isn't enough to worry about, calling him names because he the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is short and has small eyesflowing at record levels. They are mean but they are It's not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just the local autumn rains that little bit further when have caused the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happenedpossibility of a devastating flood.
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|isbn=B00474HVX4152919640X|title=Phineas ReduxThe Suspect|author=Anthony TrollopeRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=ItThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]only one suspect. Having succeeded in parliament He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and achieved a paying position his contract stated that he fell out with those who provided his income and returned must not serve anything containing miso to Ireland where he married Mary, his childhood sweetheartJessica Holby. He was fortunate to get a job She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into a life case of domesticityemergencies. To bring Finn backEverything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary live television studio - and Phineas emerges in London as a childless widower with Brooks served a legacy from an aunt who died at just the right time ragout to allow the move Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be possiblefound and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0008385068|title=The Other EmilyMidnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5
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|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's midsummer on the western Dorset coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late guests gather at nightThe Manor. HeIt's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, their opening weekend and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recordsplendid celebrations are promised. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the manIt's mind, but to no availall headed up by Francesca Meadows. HeThe Manor was her ancestral home and she's also having a recharge ready converted it into an impressive retreat for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imagewealthy and famous. Her husband, the very embodimentOwen, was the virtual resurrection, architect and work is still ongoing on parts of his lovethe site. What The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a man to do?|isbn=1542019958body is found.
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|author=Charlie CarrollAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The LipWild East|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionTeens|summary=''Melody Janie Rowe'' even the name is evocative of…probably of whatever we want it to be, and maybe that's the point. To me the name sings of English folk music, but even Written in my use of that word Englishverse, I know I'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe this is anti-emmet. |isbn=1529334179}}{{Frontpage|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=The Day the Screens Went Blank|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Stella and her family. TheyRonny're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in togethers story, watching a film – using three different screens young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blankmove to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. And itThe move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's not just their home, but the entire south-western village of Mouseholesafety after a tragic event, and not just that, either, but the whole countryso Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen backnew school, and not what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part keep himself out of their job, and no computer can show its computationstrouble. You might think this is going He listens to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandmamusic constantly, and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has to go down as always dreamed of being a road-trip bookrapper. But not just thatnow, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than thatpoetry writing workshop group and, too – for it's a slapstickslowly, high-dramaRonny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles and the power of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will lovecreativity and crafting your words.|isbn=14711968870241645441
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|isbn=19131935271635866847|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)The Lavender Companion|author=Vanda SymonJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard of It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the murder author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a wealthy slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. His wife had been bound (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and gagged and placed so that she I was forced told to watch make a mess of it. Notes in the murder, with margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the scene being discovered by their son, Declan, when he returned home from an evening outcorners of pages. The subsequent investigation You suspect that smears of butter would prove that John Henderson had been involved in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalbe a problem. His company, Eros Global, manufactured and marketed 'I 'vitamin-type supplements and, well, sexual enhancers, that kind of thing'loved', as Henderson's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedthis book already.
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|isbnauthor=1529109116Rob Keeley|title=Call Me RedChildish Spirits: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson10th anniversary special edition|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children'I want the image of s author Rob Keeley. He's a British farmer to simply be that ball of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I don't think that is too much happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to asklecture or hector.''
The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''hisChildish Spirits'' family have farmed for generationsseries is one of his greatest achievements. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be a farmer. It's not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love sequence of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jacksonghost stories centring on Ellie, whale scientist' and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the Lake District. She saw a lamb being born spirit world throws at her, andEdward, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a shepherd. With spoiled lordling and the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|isbnauthor=0857527231Jenny Valentine|title=Dog Days|author=Ericka WallerUs in the Before and After
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|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angry. It's eight days since his wifeElk and Mab are best friends, Ellen, died and it's the first time or more than that she's let him down. He's losteven, bereft without her ( he ''needs his wife, like their friendship is a once in a snail needs its shell'')lifetime connection. He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave They meet as children one day on the doorstep, hea trip out but unfortunately they don'd much rather have a good row with someone. Het get each other's particularly angry about contact details at the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she diedtime. She even dared to contradict him when he told her that the dog wasn't staying. Now he's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want But then chance brings them back together, and a load of busybodies who they are trying to interfere in his lifeinseparable. Worst of all is Betty Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, who won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Luckyand now they must work through their grief, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying to escape from and destroy themtheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he didn't live long enough for this to become a problemMeet Kit. After Like most of the people in his deathworld, his wifeit seems, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a very valuable diamond necklace team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and was determined that she would not hand it over race to her husband's executorsthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutelyUnfortunately for Kit, although the precise circumstances only thing he's seen of the giving varied from telling to tellinglatest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Lady Eustace was not a woman Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to whom truth meant the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a great dealteam. All What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that was important , and how could he possibly hope to her now, she maintained, was her son. And, of course, her diamonds.succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|isbnauthor=1529047315Saima Mir|title=The Lamplighters|author=Emma StonexVengeance|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn'A fisherman told him once about the sea having two facest a problem here. You have Vengeance swiftly brings you up to take them both, he said, the good and the badspeed, and I never turn your back on either one of themfelt lost.''|isbn=0861541561}}
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|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Mary H K ChoiDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, 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 stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=YolkYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
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|genre=TeensPopular Science|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student thatI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. She's an all-round messy character; and thatafter enjoying Adam Kay's her charm. Junefirst book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, on a glorious mixture of insight into the other handworkings of the NHS, is a complete contrast humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to Jaynebe Mad... She's a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows it all, promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and has the work of a successful jobpsychiatrist. She constantly criticises Jayne I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for her life choices, and the two have barely kept humour in contact despite living in the same city for this setting but the past two years. This laughter is until June finds out she's sick, directed at a situation rather than a person and Jayne it is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together always delivered with empathy and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identitiesunderstanding.|isbn= 0349003696
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|author=Saima MirOnyi Nwabineli|title=The KhanAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by Anuri spent her childhood on display to the motto be twice as good as men world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and four times as good as white men, basically, monetary gain. This has served Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her well in life back, suing her rise through step-mother to take down the criminal justice system content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and by the time secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is called home for desperately worried about her little sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she who is at the top new focus of her gameOphelia's online empire. Returning to the city of Can she save her birthsister, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past perhaps herself and reconcile her visions for the future relationship with her sense of honour and duty.father at the same time?|isbn=17860790970861546873
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|isbnauthor=0008336830David Chadwick|title=Two Wrongs|author=Mel McGrathHeadload of Napalm
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Sondra was on her way home after work when she saw It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from defence contractor are the Clifton suspension bridgemain local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. She talks to herLife is quiet, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend and flatmateuntil....|isbn= B0D321VJ76}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, Nevis Smithin a multitude of ways. Nevis He is unworldly bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and rather reserved - doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and she his dad can't understand why Satnam hasnwork because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will't shared her problems with hers life seems bleak in every direction. She thought they shared everythingAnd yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. Satnam He is taken good at art, and clings to hospital and Nevis calls her motherthe moments of joy when he is drawing, Honor. They've not been on good terms since that feel like a discovery Nevis made light at the previous summer but right nowend of a long, Nevis needs her motherdark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Sylvie Cathrall|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me There are few greater joys than a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person he's addressing in his second person monologue of a narration, we see him picked book which lives up by his mother's chauffeur, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following day. The mother was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, and feelings of abandonment are still strongcompelling premise. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the lad's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell addressis one of them.|isbn=19398109650356522776
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|authorisbn=Jane Lightbourne0008517061|title= My Cat Called RedDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating= 4|genre=Emerging ReadersCrime|summary= Robin Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has red hairsettled into his rustic life at Little Sky. He hates it, and There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the freckles that go along future of his life with it. He's been bullied his vet girlfriend, Livia and mocked at school because of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean. But red hair is not Robin's only misery in life. He's already lost his dad to a mountaineering accident when lot of compromise: does Jake give up his mum gets ill 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 taken into hospital. She doesn't come home againthe future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.|isbn= 1838216812
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|isbn=B003L7TDMU1786482126|title=Phineas FinnThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Anthony TrollopeElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Phineas Finn is Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the son bones of Dr Malachi Finn, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County Clarechild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, who sent his son to London to train as a lawyerDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. PhineasIt's interest is more in making influential friends than in becoming a lawyer and one of themdifficult as Ruth knows, Barrington Erlebut Nelson doesn't, suggests that he runs for Parliament in the forthcoming election. His father she is not entirely in favour of this as members are not remunerated and it would be up to him to provide financial support for pregnant with his son child as well as funding his electiona result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. One of the doctor's patients Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is Lord Tulla who controls the borough of Loughshane and by this stroke prone to sudden bouts of luck Finn is, eventually, elected by a small marginsickness.
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|isbn=18385950310008551324|title=Crooked: Honest CriminalityThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Bronwen JohnNeil Lancaster
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The con had seemed like a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the new Banksy - and they should have made a decent profit from itpolice. The problem was they were too successful: one Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of the marks had bought a few missing person is buried and then discovered that they were valuelesswho was responsible for her death. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for a simple con and his fatherThis person, celebrity criminal Harry Holmeshe promises, was determined that is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and his family could not lose face like thatto get an early parole date. The grifters were going Not much to pay. ask, is it? Ashia The new Deputy Police Constable doesn'Ash' Cox t think so and Max she'Colorado' Ying needed s even prepared to be got out of do the country. In the course of bringing this about, Luke Gaines, Ashother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's foster father, lost his lifehappening.
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|authorisbn=Hayley Webster0008405026|title=Luna Rae is Not AloneA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Luna Rae has just moved houseIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Moving house is always trickyNow, her mother, but especially when you're ten years oldHelena, and you miss your old homeher father are dead in their bed. Initially, and you and your little sister have to start it looks like a new school straightforward murder/suicide but your mum seems there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be out an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working all the time-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. Then thereHe's your dadalso self-obsessed, demanding, who doesnhandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he't seem like s drunkenly confided how hefeels to Robert. Most men in Robert's coping so well, and so thereposition would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's no one not like most men: Edward is left to take care stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of things but youa hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Everything feels different and strangeIt's their first live case together, and mysterioushaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and so Luna finds a way very high profile case that draws a lot of coping is by watchingunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. She turns detective Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and starts keeping an eye on her new neighbourhood, but it turns potentially, out she's not the only one keeping watch!of a career?|isbn=1788006046139851120X
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|isbn=B003A6W0FO1399613073|title=Can You Forgive Her?Moral Injuries|author=Anthony TrollopeChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=On Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the surface ''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: it's the story first day of one woman medical school and two men who are vying with each other their friendship would keep them inseparable for her lovea quarter of a century. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to her cousin, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and later became engaged to John Greya trauma doctor. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour Anjali is the free spirit of the continent with George Vavasor group and his sister Kateshe becomes a GP. It's obvious that thereWhen we first meet them they's still re at a great deal of chemistry between John drug and Alice alcohol- fuelled party and Kate is all for encouraging the relationship as it would tie Alice 's going to herend in tragedy. George wants Alice but itWe don's a matter of ''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and t know who suffered the tragedy or the original engagement had fallen through because of his infidelity and deceitfulnessconsequences. This thread is Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the story of a very complicated love affair and a woman who lacks confidence in her own judgementthree friends. You might not like Alice to start with but you will warm to herThis time, it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Hannah Gold0241636604|title=The Last BearTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=April's father, If you were to bring up an image of a scientist, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Islandcity banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and he accepts jeans replaces the job deciding to take pin-stripe suit and his daughter April background is the East End, where he was familiar with himviolence, poverty and injustice. They live alone anyway, since April's mother died some time before, and There was no posh public school on his CV - but he feels it will be educational for her had been to experience the island and all its natural beautyLondon School of Economics. April already Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has an affinity a facility with nature, and she's excited numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to travel with her father, thinking of all the fun things they will be able to experience together on the islandstupid. But when they get thereIt was his ability at what was, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of his timeessentially, and so April is left to explore by herselfa card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear IslandEventually, but one day April thinks she catches this turned into permanent employment as a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find the Bear, and then when she sees he is injured, to befriend and help himtrader.|isbn=000841128X
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|isbn=14722761401035021803|title=What Will Burn (Inspector McLean)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=James OswaldC L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Cecily SlaterIt's body was found, twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where shegrew up. She'd already been dead s back now because of a request for a week - in a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburghhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. Heavy rain had washed away most of the evidenceFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, but DI Tony McLeanArthur Crockleford, demoted is dead and just returned from suspensionthe circumstances seem suspicious, is reluctant to accept that this is nothing more than a careless accidentsay the least. There were indications that Slater Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been savagelyback to the village: Arthur, she feels, almost ritualistically beaten before let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the fireman or pursue the profession she loved. But who would hate After the split, she worked in a ninety-year-old woman to cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the extent love of doing something like that? She her life, who was a virtual recluse: who could she murdered) and Freya and James have upset to that extent?now divorced.
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|isbn=000845552XAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Where Ravens RoostAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Karin NordinBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from his father, Stenar, for more than a decade but when he got the rather muddled phone call from him saying that he'd seen a murder in 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the barn on his land he didn't hesitate to drop everything and go shape of things to Varsundcome. Actually, 'drop everything' rather overstates the situation I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Nygaard was on suspension following the shooting Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of a suspect technology in the Aubuchon murder enquirymy lifetime. There had been a complication: I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the Kattegat Killer turned out to be Nils Hedin, Nygaardfeeling that it's best friendall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. StillOf course, I could research the possibilities and the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg in probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the south of Sweden to Varsund latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in the far north shouldn't be underestimateda way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=1471187179Sunny Singh|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel HoreHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers |summary=Minnie The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a leafy provincial suburbterrorist group. The book is set in Hiding from the 1930s and Minnie terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is expected to live up to her mother's expectations Sam, a wartime photographer and find a nice young man to marryAbhi, produce children and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their homehotel manager. Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants As Abhi continues to do at all and neither does she want try to continue working as a secretary. As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working care remotely for the secret service and effectively living residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a double life - attempting bond with Sam who refuses to infiltrate the Communist Party be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of Great Britainher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her duty keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Partyterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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