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|authorisbn=Patrice Lawrence1009473085|title=NeedleThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=35|genre=TeensPolitics and Society|summary=BraveSometimes 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?''. Charlene, If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what 'heroine' of really'' happened on certain occasions, then this piece is extremely hard isn't the book for some people to like, characters and readers bothyou. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, sheIf that's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutorwhat you're looking for, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son BlakeI don's old room while het think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at uni10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. Such It's a tempestuous personality may 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 need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the creation most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of one such item is part experts from various fields review the state of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, nation when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... wellthe coalition took over in 2010, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp the changes that occurred and pointy those knitting needles can bethe situation in 2024...|isbn=1800901011
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|author=Jason RohanMax Boucherat|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access DeniedThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=34.5
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|summary=Arun and Sam have had little We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to do with Donnapop in, a girl babysitter poorly, mother at their schoolwork, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. But things immediately change at the start of this extended sprint of What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a novelblanket fort, when she insists Arun's house has become the attention of plain-clothes coppers one main intention, and that they should bunk off school is to log on to find out why. And thus an unlikely trio of misfit young heroes is formed – Sam is really not Donna's idea of companyVoxminer, but he is the computer buffworld-building, Donna seems to know all the criminal ins and outs and survival skills, and Arun? Well, itcritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's his lot to find out world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that all he based his family life on isnthis stormy night doesn't truefind herself entirely on her own, and that his father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved in then she finds something quite unexpectedeven more spooky. But how can this disparate trio hope For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to best MI6enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, kidnappersand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, people able where is a girl to keep the truth about themselves secret for decades, and so much moreturn?|isbn=18399433860008666482
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|isbnauthor=1638485216Jenny Lecoat|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick ReynoldsBeyond Summerland|rating=54|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do Jean lives on Jersey with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''. The murder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police officer, in her mother where they are celebrating the US city end of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the worldoccupation. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but FloydDuring the war, Jean's death father was an exceptionarrested 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. The image of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I'll ever forget As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the protests which followed cannot have been unexpectedwar is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. There But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was a backlash against the police - and not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the Chauvin brush.occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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|isbn=B09DD1QJKJ1529428289|title=The ClubA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Ellery LloydMartin Walker|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=''The party Because of the year turned into the murder mystery of the decade.'' Just off Littleseavarious property transactions, in Essex and a mile or so into people were searching for the Blackwater Estuarygrave but when they found it, The Manor stood on an islandit came with three sets of bones. It was now known as Island Home, one of The Home Group's exclusive clubs They dated back to World War II and the opening weekend was going it fell to be something special, even by Home's standards. SpeedboatsBruno, helicopters and blacked-out SUVs were converging on the islandChief of Police for St Denis, which was linked to discover the mainland by identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a causeway that was inaccessible at high tidecrime had been committed. HomeAs if this isn's CEO, Ned Groomt enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is determined that everything, ''everything'' will be perfectflowing at record levels. Home has 5761 members: It's not just 150 of them the local autumn rains that have received invites for caused the weekend. Those who problem: various dams upstream on another river have not been invited have not stopped ringing..had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.
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|authorisbn=Melissa Fu 152919640X|title=Peach Blossom Spring The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5|genre=Historical Fiction Crime|summary= I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom SpringThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, a short chapter entitled ''Origins'was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of a book He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that I expected more fromhe must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family She's perspectiveseriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. When their home city is set ablaze during the war with Japan Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who fleeragout to Holby. The story follows them on their journey across China, Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and in Renshu's case eventually to Americashe was dead within minutes. |isbn=1472277538It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon0008385068|title=FacelessThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpoints, several troubled people are thrown into It's midsummer on the same story thanks to just one mis-stepDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. Set in New Zealand, the first of our characters is Bradley, a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing boss, a weighty mortgage, It's their opening weekend and what he feels is an unappreciative wifesplendid celebrations are promised. Then there’s Billy, a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes in order to pay for the materials she needsIt's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. And then we have Max, who is also living on The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the streets wealthy and who keeps an eye on Billyfamous. He is a shell of a manHer husband, barely able to take any care of himselfOwen, was the architect and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he work is nowstill ongoing on parts of the site. One night, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress The heat is oppressive and anxiety, driving down amongst the street looking for a prostituteguests are enemies as well as friends. He picks up Billy, and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a spiral away from the person he thought he was into someone very differentbody is found.|isbn=1914585046
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|isbnauthor=0760373531Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World|author=Sue FlandersWild East|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=Just occasionally you encounter Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a book of knitting patterns which seems young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to meet your every needNorwich and start at a mostly white school. Right now, itThe move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's bitterly cold safety after a tragic event, and we're so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socksa new town, scarvesa new school, hats and mittenskeep himself out of trouble. They have He listens to look stylishmusic constantly, keep me warm and be so cheerful that they make me feel betterhas always dreamed of being a rapper. If that sounds like But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a lot poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to asksee the connections between rap and poetry, have a look at ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and I don't think that there was one of them which I couldn't see myself wearing. We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the history power of knitting. It's not essential but it's a nice extracreativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|author=Sally Oliver
|title=The Weight of Loss
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.
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|isbn=17765740281635866847|title=Bumblebee GrumblebeeThe Lavender Companion|author=David ElliottJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: itIt's for strange, the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise things that make you can ''playimmediately'' with words and make something quite different from each onefeel that this is the book for you. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'balletphant', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) com/ website] and then dries off with there's a hair drier becomes picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There'fluffalo''. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is s a recipe in the book, which I''crynoceros'' (think about itm avoiding with some difficulty!!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a ''sm...mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!this book already.
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX
|title=Death at Friar's Inn
|author=Rob Keeley
|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were in the finals of the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society Around here, we're big fans of Friarchildren's Innauthor Rob Keeley. For aspiring barristersHe's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, moots test the participantsnot to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' knowledge series is one of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: ithis greatest achievements. It's a great way sequence of getting invaluable practice ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and of getting yourself noticedthe first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us 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. Tom and Nat are from 'They meet as children one day on a provincial university' and trip out but unfortunately theydon're t get each other''almost'' looked down on because of thiss contact details at the time. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage now they must work through their grief, and Becca has an abundance of confidence. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any bettertheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbnauthor=1529125944Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=City of the Dead|author=Jonathan KellermanDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=When you drive large vehicles for Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a livingteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you're careful and it's not just about along the way that you drive. You restrict your alcohol intake and if itUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleepnew trio of questors is needed. When youPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 ll enter as ateam.m. when the roads are quieter What chance does this friendless, even if you muscle-free-zone have to wait up when you get to where you're going. And it was going well until the men hit something in Westwood Villageactually managing that, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeles. The man was stark naked and couldn't be identified.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|author=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)Saima Mir|title=I May Be WrongVengeance|rating=3.5|genre= AutobiographyThrillers|summary= When the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think it doesn't really matter how was instantly intrigued by the rest premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the world responds to your booknorth of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in a series I know, having hadn't read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. He knows didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and at core so do Iscreen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that it matters very much how the rest of the world responds wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to this bookspeed, because it tells the truth as it is, in the early 21st centuryand I never felt lost.|isbn=15266448270861541561
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|isbnauthor=B0949Q1DC1Stuart Douglas|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)|author=Tim SullivanLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably AspergerDuring location filming for his 1970's Syndromesitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. He can be rudeThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, difficult and awkward with peoplehe enlists the help of a fellow actor, although it's never intentionalJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. It's just that he thinks differently They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and social niceties simply don't occur , seemingly, a link to himdeath during the Second World War. There's But is there really a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and it's that he has link between the best conviction rate with cases, ever. deaths? His partner And will they manage to uncover who is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviour.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=1529151600B0CYV674G2|title=Give Unto OthersSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Donna LeonDavid Blake|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses 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 Venice has changedhe hasn't killed the man. The ''pandemia'' stripped A body at the city bottom of its tourists for nearly two years and a lot of businesses have closed, most never to reopen. Therefreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's now a cascade of money as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end been stabbed to greeddeath. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the money which is coming their way? Whilst 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 thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when determined to keep going - probably because he was a child. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and she'd like Brunettican's advicet get any sleep at home.
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|authorisbn=Marcus Sedgwick1787333175|title=WrathYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=TeensPopular Science|summary=Meet FitzI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a young Scottish lad full glorious mixture of insight into the workings of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just overthe NHS, humour and he should autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, Mad...'' promised the same elements but he cannot stop himself moved from putting his foot in it when he talks physical problems to his best friend, Cassie. They were half mental illness and the work of a desultory school band, but Cassie psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is acceptable to be looking for humour in this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying setting but the end of the world laughter is already directed at a done deal? Is situation rather than a person and it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't.is always delivered with empathy and understanding..|isbn=1800900899
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|isbnauthor=1635864070Onyi Nwabineli|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah TalleyAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsGeneral Fiction|summary=If youAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia've ever started knitting a pair s increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of socksAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, finished the first one basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and either got bored by the idea of doing the same thing all over again, or started on the second sock she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and lost the first before you finished itto get her life back, this is suing her step-mother to take down the book for youcontent about her. Where Anuri is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you battling alcoholism, failing to knit two socks in onestart her PhD, divide undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them up and have a perfectly finished pair for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of socks. Sounds good? ItOphelia's clever and well-thought-outonline empire.}}{{Frontpage|author=Olivie Blake|title=The Atlas Six|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= Dark, sharp Can she save her sister, and highly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=15290952390861546873
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|isbnauthor=0008384983David Chadwick|title=The Paris Apartment|author=Lucy FoleyHeadload of Napalm
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''Things are not what they seem''. It was a Friday and Jess Hadley was keen to get to her half-brother's flat September 1973 in ParisHicks, California. She'd come across from London on Eurostar, courtesy Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of the money she'd stolen from The Pervert's till LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in the Copacabana Bar in BrightonHicks. It wasn't likely that A silver mine and a defence contractor are the police would be on to her yet main local employers but sheotherwise, there'd like to be somewhere safe s not much of note other than dive bars and with food and drink inside herJoshua trees. Life is quiet, until.. She'd phoned Ben and got the address - 12 Rue des Amants - and he told her that the apartment was on the third floor. She's outside what's obviously a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get in touch with Ben.|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=0760373558Tom Percival|title=Nordic Knits|author=Sue FlandersThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=I was so delighted by Sue FlandersWill' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hats life is difficult, Mittenin a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', Scarf he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and Sock Projects from Around doesn't have enough money for even the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didnmost basic of things like food, and his dad can't need any persuading work because he lost his job at all to pick up her ''Nordic Knits''the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and local traditions from Norwaydad are separated, Sweden and IcelandWill's life seems bleak in every direction. There are And yet, he still has a few sweaters or jackets but tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the majority moments of patterns are for smaller items such as mittensjoy when he is drawing, glovesthat feel like a light at the end of a long, hats and bags. All are bright and cheerful and very cosydark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=1916072038Sylvie Cathrall|title=The House in A Letter to the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie CresswellLuminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Science Fiction|summary=We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to the house in the hollowa compelling premise. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She And this is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade one of respectability, the deplorable truth''themHester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''. Then we are told of the birth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn=Matthieu Aikins0008517061|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=It's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fictionFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller has settled into his rustic life at timesLittle Sky. This is not by any means There’s perhaps a criticismlittle uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, but rather Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a testament lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided move in with Livia or does Livia move to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the whole way through. But it's written with a haunting present and almost lyrical quality that allows putting the reader to perfectly envisage future on the environments and people describedback burner.|isbn= B09N9157T6
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1786482126|title=Unhinged The Janus Stone (Volume 3) (Blix and RammDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the third book in a series bones of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Ramm, child beneath a crime journalistdoorway. In There was no skull. Was this book we find that when one of Blix's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo casesritual killing or murder? Inevitably, she tries to contact her superior, BlixDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Before she can reach himIt's difficult as Ruth knows, howeverbut Nelson doesn't, that she is murdered, and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares pregnant with his child as a result of the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered tooone night they spent together some three months ago. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and RammHer condition will be obvious before long, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service not least because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenRuth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|authorisbn=Daniel Abraham0008551324|title=Age of AshThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= We meet Alys under the most northerly of OldgateIt's four bridges, unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. she Neither side likes or has a knife any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in her hand prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a meeting that she dreadsmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Meanwhile This person, he promises, the City of Kithamar is at a point in someone big and it will be worth the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possiblepolice doing what he wants. It And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the night between the funeral remainder of a Prince his sentence and the coronation of his successorto get an early parole date. For a night Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the Kithamar other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is un-ruledkept well away from what's happening.|isbn=0356515427
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|isbn=15290955220008405026|title=The InterviewA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=C M EwanJane Casey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Kate Harding is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge Communications. It's the last interview of the day at sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one of London's newest office buildings summer night. She was never found and Edge have fitted out their part of the building investigation ground to be something speciala halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Maggie Initially, Kateit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's recruitment agent, is keen to see that Kate approaches something about the interview in a good state positioning of mind: Kate assumes the bodies that this makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is because Maggie will get now a decent bonus if Kate gets complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the job - and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlyexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK0571379877|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Kellerby Code|author=Neil LancasterJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon ''Edward Jevons is'' the back of beyond: therea working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugsa theatre director. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto a nice little earnerHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, only handsome and entitled and uses Edward to find that Macca, run errands for him. the man Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he thought 's drunkenly confided how he was working with, is deadfeels to Robert. His remains Most men in Robert's position would never be found. The delivery stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is hijacked by Davie and Callum. As left to stumble upon the story progresses we'll get to know two of them quite wellkissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor= B09NDJ77LMJo Callaghan|title=Me and My Shadow|author=Deborah StoneLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= ''What happens when someone When a man is pushed too far and they begin to lose their grip found crucified on reality? How would you cope if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off the shadows of case alongside her past and attempts to repair decades worth of painsidekick, the AI detective Lock. It'' Rachel is in a current conversation with her psychiatrists their first live case together, who pushes her to recall her life from having previously been very young childhood onwardssuccessful with several cold cases. But Rachel when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is combative suddenly struggling with Doctor Blake, sometimes even contemptuous of her. You can see a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that it's not an easy therapeutic relationship. Rachel's recall draws a lot of her life is in remarkable detailunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. She remembers each minor slight and each major betrayal Will they be able to solve the case in perfect detail with absolute time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and unforgiving clarity., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=15294096591399613073|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)Moral Injuries|author=Elly GriffithsChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating Olivia, Laura and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongings. She was intrigued by Anjali met on the discovery first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a picture quarter of her own house: it was an old photographa century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, taken in misty conditions which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and on the back it said 'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was borna trauma doctor. It was before her parents were marriedAnjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When she returned we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to Norfolk she was determined to find out what was behind end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the photograph but Covid intervened and tragedy or the country was in lockdownconsequences. Ruth and Kate are restricted to Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate and continue with her university teaching dutiesthree friends. The good thing was meeting ZoeThis time, the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carersit's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=18479418340241636604|title=Atomic HabitsThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=James ClearGary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=I've said this before but there are some books that If you seek outwere to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, some books that you stumble across 're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themjeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, likewhere he was familiar with violence, right now! poverty and injustice. ''Atomic Habits'' There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is in the last categorybright - 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=B09MSC981W1035021803|title=The Woke IliadAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=George BoreasC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Helen is It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a popular activistrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anyway Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, Helen is so popular that dead and the United States government circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has made her its Ambassador of Wokenot felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on behalf the rebound from the love of the governmenther life, including the Shaming Conference who was murdered) and the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''for indoctrinating Freya and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how to James have it''now divorced. Ouch!
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|isbn=B09D95TRKZAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Wedding MurdersAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Sarah LinleyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Libby Steele was hoping ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to get a permanent job with the newspaper and the case she was covering was her big chancecome.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. It was even Well, I must confess that there have been more important to her than the celebrity wedding she was a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to attend me but I'm left with the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthewfeeling that it's all getting away from me. She was leaving her sevenSome of it is -yearfrankly -old son, Patrick with her sister, Emma, and heading off to a grand manor house hotel in the North Yorkshire countrysidequite frightening. Daniel AcroydOf course, television presenter I could research the possibilities and former member of the rock band was marrying Vicky probabilities and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't ''quiteend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos re talking about or phonesthe latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=1838226834Sunny Singh|title=Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed BoxallHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an outing with our grandparentsunnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. They're Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there to undo all the good that parents dois Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, so the trips out were always so much funhotel manager. A young boy was going As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the carnival residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with his Grandad, Sam who told him: ''It'll refuses to be brilliantcowed by events, just rememberand keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, don't let go of my handtheir friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.''|isbn=086154742X
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