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|author=Justyn EdwardsTom Percival|title=The Great Fox IllusionWrong Shoes|rating=45
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show Will's life is difficult, in a contest with a differencemultitude of ways. No singing He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', no dancing, this show is looking for magical children! Children who he has the wrong shoes because his dad can understand how magic tricks 't workand doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and who his dad can attempt to win The Great Fox's magical legacy t work 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 secrets to all fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of his tricks! Flick hope. He is determined to wingood at art, but not because she wants and clings to own the tricks. She moments of joy when he is interested in just ''one'' trickdrawing, that feel like a light at the trick that The Great Fox stole from her father. And she's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able to bring her missing father homeend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=15295019461398527122
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|author=Jason RohanSylvie Cathrall|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access DeniedLetter to the Luminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Arun and Sam have had little There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to do with Donna, a girl at their schoolcompelling premise. But things immediately change at the start of And this extended sprint of a novel, when she insists Arun's house has become the attention of plain-clothes coppers and that they should bunk off school to find out why. And thus an unlikely trio of misfit young heroes is formed – Sam is really not Donna's idea one of company, but he is the computer buff, Donna seems to know all the criminal ins and outs and survival skills, and Arun? Well, it's his lot to find out that all he based his family life on isn't true, and that his father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved in something quite unexpectedthem. But how can this disparate trio hope to best MI6, kidnappers, people able to keep the truth about themselves secret for decades, and so much more?|isbn=18399433860356522776
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|isbn=16384852160008517061|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey Death in Life and Law Enforcementa Lonely Place|author=Frederick ReynoldsStig Abell|rating=54|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=''Corruption is not departmentFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, gender or race specifichas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. It has everything to do There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''. The murder of George Floydhis vet girlfriend, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek ChauvinLivia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a fortylot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-four-year-old police officer, grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. future she wants for herself and her daughter? The image of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I'll ever forget and For the protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There was a backlash against moment they’re enjoying life in the police - present and not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by putting the future on the Chauvin brushback burner.
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|isbn=B09DD1QJKJ1786482126|title=The ClubJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Ellery LloydElly Griffiths
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'The party of apartments - when they discovered the year turned into the murder mystery bones of the decadea child beneath a doorway. There was no skull.'' Just off Littlesea, in Essex and Was this a mile ritual killing or so into the Blackwater Estuarymurder? Inevitably, The Manor stood on an islandDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It was now known as Island Home, one of The Home Group's exclusive clubs and the opening weekend was going to be something specialdifficult as Ruth knows, even by Homebut Nelson doesn's standards. Speedboats, helicopters and blacked-out SUVs were converging on the islandt, which was linked to the mainland by a causeway that was inaccessible at high tide. Home's CEO, Ned Groom, she is determined that everything, ''everything'' will be perfect. Home has 5761 members: just 150 pregnant with his child as a result of them have received invites for the weekendone night they spent together some three months ago. Those who have Her condition will be obvious before long, not been invited have not stopped ringing..least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=Melissa Fu 0008551324|title=Peach Blossom Spring The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5|genre=Historical Fiction Crime|summary= I loved It's unusual for anyone from the prelude Hardie family to Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Origins''approach the police. Unfortunately it Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the only truly poetic part police where the body of a book that I expected more frommissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's perspective This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. When their home city And what he wants is set ablaze during to be transferred to an open prison to serve the war with Japan, a young mother (Meilin) remainder of his sentence and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who fleeto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The story follows them on their journey across China, new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and in Renshushe's case eventually even prepared to Americado the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. |isbn=1472277538
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon0008405026|title=Faceless|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpoints, several troubled people are thrown into the same story thanks to just one mis-step. Set in New Zealand, the first of our characters is Bradley, a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing boss, a weighty mortgage, and what he feels is an unappreciative wife. Then there’s Billy, a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes A Stranger in order to pay for the materials she needs. And then we have Max, who is also living on the streets and who keeps an eye on Billy. He is a shell of a man, barely able to take any care of himself, and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he is now. One night, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress and anxiety, driving down the street looking for a prostitute. He picks up Billy, and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and a spiral away from the person he thought he was into someone very different.|isbn=1914585046}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760373531|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the WorldFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Sue FlandersJane Casey
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|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=Just occasionally you encounter It'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 book of knitting patterns which seems to meet your every needhalt. Right nowNow, it's bitterly cold and we're in the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socksher mother, scarvesHelena, hats and mittensher father are dead in their bed. They have to look stylishInitially, keep me warm and be so cheerful that they make me feel better. If that sounds it looks like a lot to ask, have a look at straightforward murder/suicide but there''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items s something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and I don't think that there was one of them which I couldn't see myself wearingher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. We start with What looked as though it was going to be an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of the history of knittingopen-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. ItKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's not essential but itdisappearance: others (such as Derwent's a nice extraboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=17765740280571379877|title=Bumblebee GrumblebeeThe Kellerby Code|author=David ElliottJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=I love a good board book! ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' Edward Jevons is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (erworking-class young man, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' obsessed with words his upper-class friends, Robert and make something quite different from each oneStanza. We have the elephant who dons Robert's a tutu theatre director. He's also self- obsessed, demanding, handsome and becomes a ''balletphant''entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. The buffalo who Edward has had a bath (complete been in love with yellow duck) Stanza since their university days - and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo'he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a Most men in Robert''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a ''sm.......'' OK, letrelationship had begun between them but he's not go there Some people are eating!like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=B09V1NQ5SXJo Callaghan|title=Death at Friar's Inn|author=Rob KeeleyLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the finals of case alongside her sidekick, the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society of FriarAI detective Lock. It's Inntheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. For aspiring barristersBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, moots test the participants' knowledge of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: it's Kat is suddenly struggling with a great way of getting invaluable practice potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of getting yourself noticedunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Tom and Nat are from 'a provincial university' and Will they're ''almost'' looked down on because of this. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance , potentially, out of confidence. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any better.a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=15291259441399613073|title=City of the DeadMoral Injuries|author=Jonathan KellermanChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When you drive large vehicles Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a livingquarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you're careful aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and it's not just about the way that you drivea trauma doctor. You restrict your alcohol intake Anjali is the free spirit of the group and if it's she becomes a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleepGP. When youwe first meet them they're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 a.m. when the roads are quieter, even if you have to wait up when you get to where youdrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it're s goingto end in tragedy. And it was going well until We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the men hit something in Westwood Village, consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeleseerily similar event that will impact the three friends. The man was stark naked and couldnThis time, it't be identifieds their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)0241636604|title=I May Be WrongThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre= Autobiography|summary= When the Dalai Lama adds his words If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your frontispiecemind, Iyou'm inclined re unlikely to think it doesn't really matter how of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the rest of pin-stripe suit and his background is the world responds 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 your bookthe London School of Economics. I know, having read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with that thoughtnumbers which most of us can only envy. He knows (and at core so do I) also realised that it matters very much how the rest of the world responds 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 book, because it tells the truth turned into permanent employment as it is, in the early 21st centurya trader.|isbn=1526644827
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC11035021803|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Tim SullivanC L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably AspergerIt's Syndrometwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. He can be rude, difficult and awkward with people, although itShe's never intentionalback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. ItFreya's just that he thinks differently former mentor and social niceties simply donCarole't occur s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to himsay the least. There's a Arthur was the reason why he's Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and it's that he business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the best conviction rate with cases, everman or pursue the profession she loved. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: After the split, she regards Cross with affection worked in a cafe, met and married James (not an emotion he would recogniseon the rebound from the love of her life, or welcome being attached to himselfwho was murdered) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviourFreya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1529151600AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Give Unto OthersAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Donna LeonBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changed''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. The ''pandemia I've heard it said that ' stripped the city of its tourists for nearly two years and technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a lot few decades of businesses have closed, most never to reopentechnology in my lifetime. ThereI've kept up reasonably well with what's now a cascade advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of money as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end to greedit is - frankly - quite frightening. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all Of course, I could research the possibilities and the money which is coming their way? Whilst heprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters m reading someone hewho knows what they's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was a childre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Elisabetta Foscarini has I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a problem and she'd like Brunetti's adviceway I could understand.
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|author=Marcus SedgwickSunny Singh|title=WrathHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=TeensThrillers |summary=Meet Fitz, The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himselfterrorist group. Lockdown Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is only just overSam, a wartime photographer and he should be free Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to do what he wantscare remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, to go where he wants and forms a bond with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks Sam who refuses to his best friendbe cowed by events, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one and keeps on venturing out of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music sheroom to try to capture what's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the truth? Wellphone, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't..their 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=1800900899086154742X
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|isbn=16358640701529153298|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1The List of Suspicious Things|author=Safiyyah TalleyJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=CraftsGeneral Fiction|summary=If youIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've ever started knitting a pair of socksbeen murdered, finished but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the first one and either got bored by the idea of doing the same thing all over again, or started on the second sock and lost the first before family 'Down South'. When you finished it're from Yorkshire, this Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the book for you. Where is it that single socks go move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system prevent that allows you to knit two socks in one, divide them up and have a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds good? It She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's clever and wellstopped talking -thought-outto anyone.
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|authorisbn=Olivie Blake1398524085|title=The Atlas SixHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= DarkCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sharpsons Niall, Paul and Ollie and highly inquisitiveher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Atlas SixSalter children are not convinced but there'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensations little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1529095239
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|isbn=00083849831035906708|title=The Paris ApartmentDiva|author=Lucy FoleyDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=''Things are not what they seem''. It We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was a Friday born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and Jess Hadley only moved to Athens when she was keen to get to her half-brother's flat in Paristhirteen. She'd come across from London on Eurostar, courtesy of the money sheHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'd stolen from The PervertCallas's till to make it more manageable in the Copacabana Bar in BrightonStates. It wasn't likely When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that the police would be on to her yet but she'd like to be somewhere safe and with food and drink inside could get appropriate training for her. She'd phoned Ben and got the address voice - 12 Rue des Amants - and he told her that the apartment she was on raised under the third floor. She's outside what's obviously Nazi occupation by a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get in touch with Benmother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=0760373558Christopher Edge|title=Nordic Knits|author=Sue FlandersBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=I was so delighted by Sue FlandersLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hat. All big movie fans, Mittenthey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around many, many snacks! However, as the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] movie starts, they very quickly realise that I didnsomething about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't need any persuading at all to pick up her ''Nordic Knits''even imagine. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions But as they lurch from Norwayone film genre to the next, Sweden and Iceland. can they figure out what on earth is going on? There are a few sweaters or jackets but Will they ever get back to the majority of patterns are for smaller items such as mittens, glovescinema, hats and bags. All are bright and cheerful and very cosy.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|isbnauthor=1916072038Rachel Greenlaw|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie CresswellCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionTeens|summary=We meet part ''I can hear the song of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811sea. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at EcklingtonThe call of the deep, to the house answering beat in the hollowmy heart. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, the deplorable truth''.
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|author=Matthieu AikinsJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterPlanet Storyland
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|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary=ItThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's easy re paid to forget at times do and other tasks that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at timestook time to accomplish. This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament Just as they were beginning to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided get used to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast all this technological change and at times painful journeystarting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. There are tense moments Life was pretty much shut down and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But , along with it's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows , all the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people describedmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn= B09N9157T61736128426
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|author=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas EngerMatthew Tree|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)We'll Never Know
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|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=This is the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander BlixTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a police officer, drunk and Emma Ramm, a crime journalist. In this book we find that when one chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of Blix's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries to contact her superior, Blix. Before she can reach him, however, she is murdered, his artistic passions all failed miserably and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered toohad endless crises of self confidence. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and Ramm, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someoneSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and Ramm saw it all happenset himself high but achievable ambitions. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=Daniel AbrahamA G Slatter|title=Age The Briar Book of Ashthe Dead|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary= We meet Alys '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the most northerly protection of Oldgatethe Briar's four bridges, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has a knife in always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her hand family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a meeting that she dreadssteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. MeanwhileWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the City of Kithamar is at a point in Briar Witch, the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest town's leader, and all things are possibleEllie takes her place beside her. It is As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the night between dead, putting her at the funeral heart of a Prince and the coronation maelstrom of his successorchaos. For a night Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Kithamar Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is un-ruledunder threat.|isbn=03565154271803364548
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|isbn=15290955221529900360|title=The InterviewGhost Orchid|author=C M EwanJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Kate Harding is going It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for an interview his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for her dream job at Edge Communicationsa while. It Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the last interview man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the day at one of Londonheir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's newest office buildings and Edge have fitted out their part not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the building Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to be something special. Maggiefollow in his footsteps, Kateparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's recruitment agent, is keen to see that Kate approaches life. When he was seventeen he took the interview in opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a good state of mind: Kate assumes that vet and was convinced this is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - and she has as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlybe a professional footballer.
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK0861541774|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Neil LancasterSteve Burrows
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Loch Torridon ''is'' the back of beyond: thereDCI Domenic Jejeune's not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to land illegal deliveries of drugsmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Jimmy McLeish thought Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was onto facing a nice little earnerman armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, only he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to find light that Macca, suggested that he might have planned to murder the man he thought he was working with, is dead. His remains would never Now he could be foundfacing the death penalty. The delivery is hijacked by Davie Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and Callum. As the story progresses wewouldn'll get to know them quite wellt help Danny at all.
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|isbnauthor= B09NDJ77LMAlexander McCall Smith|title=Me and My Shadow|author=Deborah StoneThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= ''What happens when someone The Perfect Passion Company is pushed too far a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and they begin to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go to be happy? Accompany Rachel operating as she tries an alternative to shake off all the shadows of online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her past younger cousin Katie if she could come and attempts look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to repair decades worth of painCanada to get away for a while.'' Rachel Katie is in coming out of a current conversation break up with her psychiatrista bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who pushes her quickly begin to recall her life from very young childhood onwardscharm. But Rachel is combative with Doctor Blake Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, sometimes even contemptuous of but Ness has full confidence in her. You can see that itabilities, and there's not an easy therapeutic relationship. Rachel's recall of always her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight very helpful (and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute and unforgiving clarity.rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=15294096590811771741|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Elly GriffithsMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her motherMelissa Leapman's belongings''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. She was intrigued by Some will be quick knits - others are of the discovery of a picture of her own house: it was an old photograph'long, taken cosy afternoons in misty conditions and on front of the back it said fire'dawn 1963variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, some years before Ruth was born. It was before her parents were married. When she returned five to Norfolk she was determined ten hours, ten to find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened twenty hours and the country was in lockdownmore than twenty hours. Ruth and Kate All the projects are restricted to the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate attractive, modern and continue with her university teaching dutiesuseable. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carersI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.
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|isbnauthor=1847941834Dean Koontz|title=Atomic Habits|author=James ClearThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=LifestyleParanormal|summary=I've said this before but there are some books that you seek outBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you someone has delivered a really MUST read themweird, likedisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, right nowand it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! ''Atomic Habits'' The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is in a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the last categorydelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WAdam Stower|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George Boreas|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Helen is a popular activist. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anyway, Helen is so popular that the United States government has made her its Ambassador of Woke. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of the government, including the Shaming Conference and the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''for indoctrinating Murray and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how to have it''. Ouch!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09D95TRKZ|title=The Wedding Murders|author=Sarah LinleyBun
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=Libby Steele was hoping Murray is supposed to get be a permanent job with the newspaper humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the case she was covering was her big chancetwo. It was even more important to her than But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the celebrity wedding she was to attend catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriendregular back garden, Matthewbut into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. She was leaving her seven-year-old sonThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, Patrick with her sisterwhere a troll hunter is expected – well, Emmaone much bigger than Murray was, and heading off to a grand manor house hotel in the North Yorkshire countryside. Daniel Acroydbe honest, television presenter but he's turned up and former member of the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that the wedding wasnhe't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phones.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=1838226834B0C47LV1PC|title=Carried Away With the CarnivalFragility|author=Ed BoxallMosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. TheyCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''re there to undo all joke? And if you could, is the good question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that parents do, so the trips out were always so much funanswer for both could well be.... no. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:
''ItFragility'll be brilliant' is set as the city of Portland, just rememberOregon, don't let go of my hand.''cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|isbn=1529431735
|title=The Winter Visitor
|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?