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|isbnauthor=1509889612Tom Percival|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann CleevesWrong Shoes
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=ItWill's fifty years since life is difficult, in a group multitude of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Islandways. Some of them found He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the Only Connect course transformative wrong shoes because his dad can't work and theydoesn've been coming back t have enough money for a reunion every five years since then. There was a tragedy at even the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide most basic of things like food, and her car was swept away, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with his dad can't work because he lost his job at the group each year as her husband, Kencollege, was one of the original teenagersworking a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Ken now has AlzheimerThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's and life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he's still has a shadow tiny amount of the man he used to behope. Philip Robson now a priest He is good at art, always gets there early as he likes and clings to have some quiet time alone in the chapel. Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much moments of the food: her deli joy when he is famous in drawing, that feel like a light at the areaend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=1473680883Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Skeleton Key|author=Erin KellyA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=''The Golden Bones There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is going to follow me around for the rest one of my lifethem. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to you!''|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061Nell didn't want to go to the reunion to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of ''The Golden Bones''. She'd had no benefit from it - |title=Death in facta Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, it had made her has settled into his rustic life precarious and unbelievably challengingat Little Sky. I'd better explain. ''The Golden Bones'' was There’s perhaps a treasure quest book painted and written by Frank and Cora Churcher. The story revolved around murdered Elinore whose golden and bejewelled bones were hidden around little uncertainty about the country. The clues - some future of them quite tortuous - were disguised his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in the words and pictures together would mean a lot of the book compromise: does Jake give up his off- grid and all relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the parts were discovered except future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the pelvis. As with such quests, some people were obsessive present and putting the future on the theories became more and more outlandishback burner.
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|authorisbn=Holly Webb1786482126|title=The Story of GreenriverJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Silken and Sedge, for all their differences, have Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a lot in commondoorway. Silken is a girl whose father is the Master Builder of what might be the finest beaver lodge on the GreenriverThere was no skull. Unfortunately she is also Was this a kind of runt figure, and as a result is patronisedritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and given the most tokenistic tasks when it comes to fetching wood and shoring the dam upDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. She also stands out for the unique artistic ability to sing. Otters like Sedge singIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but he tooNelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as the son of the lady a result of the holt, has pressure on him to be a bit less feckless and more attentive to classone night they spent together some three months ago. HeHer condition will be obvious before long, after all, will eventually inherit the job not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of keeping the otters safe from the wolf that both animal species fear the most, and from dreaded events like a Dark Springsickness.|isbn=1510109625
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|authorisbn=Anna Kemp and David Wyatt0008551324|title=Into Goblyn WoodThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet HazelIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. For Neither side likes or has any respect for the last nine of her eleven years, she has been stuck as a foundling other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in a horrid, Victorian institution, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servant. She'd arrived at the place at the same time as Pete, prison and theyhe're inseparably good friends now, until a chance for them both s prepared to escape, and enter tell the outside world, does not go to plan. There had always been police where the idea body of a life idyllic in the nearby forestsmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, Goblyn Woodhe promises, is someone big and a tribe of Wild Children, but none of that comes to pass, as Hazel finds herself in it will be worth the care of a professor at the Natural History Museumpolice doing what he wants. But life with him And what he wants is not anything like what she might have expected it to be – and Hazel is determined transferred to return an open prison to serve the Woods, restore her friendship with Pete – remainder of his sentence and to work out just what get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is going on in the forest, both the light it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the shade, other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and the deathly darkanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening...|isbn=1398503835
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|isbn=02419901650008405026|title=Hope to Die A Stranger in the Family (D I FawleyMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Cara HunterJane Casey
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|genre=Crime
|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadn't come s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from the householderher bed one summer night. A couple of PCs went to make certain that everything She was alright never found and it took quite a while for the elderly householder investigation ground to answer the doora halt. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead intheir bed. In the kitchen Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there was a body on 's something about the floor: positioning of the head had been blown off with a shotgun bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and the corpse was holding a knife in its right handher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Richard Swann told the police that he'd heard sounds of What looked as though it was going to be an intruder open-and had come downstairs to investigate-shut case is now a complex double murder. The ignorant young lout had called him Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'Grandad'' and come at him with a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defences boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn= Kit De Waal0571379877|title= Without Warning and Only SometimesThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 43.5|genre= AutobiographyCrime|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put itEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, “They f*** you upobsessed with his upper-class friends, your mum Robert and dad/ They may not mean toStanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, but they do” Without Warning handsome and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood entitled and the bonds that bind familyuses Edward to run errands for him. This book is a memoir focussing on the author’s formative years as a teenager living Edward has been in a lower class area of Birminghamlove with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Her father is Most men in Robert's position would stay away from St. Kitts in the Caribbean and her mother Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by and marrying a black man. This intersectionality plays a large role in the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due left to her race, her class and her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with care, love, and stumble upon the kind two of anger only them kissing in a child can express to their parentsdark passageway.|isbn=1472284836
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|author=David LagercrantzJo Callaghan|title=Dark MusicLeave No Trace|rating=34
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|summary=How far from the original can When a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at man is found crucified on the heart top of what little investigating is going on, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelength. For onehill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the main focus of case alongside her sidekick, the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MDAI detective Lock. SheIt's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a Chilean in the Stockholm policefew days later, put on Kat is suddenly struggling with a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of old, in potential serial killer and a very high profile case where that draws a referee lot of a junior football match was found stoned unwanted attention to death shortly after the match, and just outside the stadiumtheir AI Future Policing project. Beppe, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic Will they be able to solve the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anythingcase in time, through days and weeks of interrogation. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is a shambles. But or will Kat find herself taken off the case, she can no longer help solve the crime, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it all. Until, that may bepotentially, she manages to stop him in the middle out of an apparent suicide attempt...a career?|isbn=1529413192139851120X
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|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM1399613073|title=The Calculations of Rational MenMoral Injuries|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be wary of the McArthur brothers.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1846976146|title=The Bone Road|author=N E SolomonsChristie Watson
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|summary=Heather BishopOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the former Olympic cyclist, flew to Bosnia to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnon. She even took first day of medical school and their bikes so they could have friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a few days' break in the regioncentury. It was Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a little worrying that he didn't seem exactly pleased bonus when you aim to see her: she even wondered if he had be a woman in the hotel roomcardiothoracic surgeon. Heather had to give up competitive cycling after Laura is a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but her reactions perfectionist and her memory were not up to a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the standard group and she would need to race againbecomes a GP. Sometimes she couldnWhen we first meet them they't be certain about what she had or hadn't done re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and she simply couldnit't cope s going to end in difficult situationstragedy. She didnWe don't entirely trust herselfknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Judith Eagle0241636604|title=The Accidental StowawayTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Patch is If you were to bring up an image of a little girl who has been passed from one relation to anothercity banker in your mind, until it seems that there is nobody left for her to go you're unlikely tothink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Her father died when she A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was very youngfamiliar with violence, poverty and her mother ran awayinjustice. The family lawyer, after consultation with ‘someone’, arranges for her to go to a There was no posh public school in Liverpool, on his CV - but on her arrival there, she gets caught up in an adventure with a little boy called Turo who works on a steamshiphe had been to the London School of Economics. During Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a chase facility with him (when she is both trying numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to get her rollerskate back and running away from the police!) she winds up on the steamship hiding in a lifeboatbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, and before she knows itessentially, the ship has left the docks and she is a card game which got him an accidental stowaway!|isbn=0571363121internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=07603798741035021803|title=Super Easy Knitting for BeginnersThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Carri HammettC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I learned It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to knit in the nineteen-fifties: it wasnEnglish country village where she grew up. She't s back now because of a choicerequest for help from her beloved aunt, it was a requirementCarole. Girls learned to knit Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to embroider and boys did wood and metal worksay the least. My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of criticism and quite a few tears: it Arthur was a long time before I realised that there was pleasure the reason why Freya had not been back to be had in the skillvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Nearly seventy years later it's Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the only thing that keeps my hands at all suppleprofession she loved. The turning point was After the split, she worked in a booklet published by Patons which gave all cafe, met and married James (on the basics rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and some patternsJames have now divorced. I've been looking for something simple to recommend to people who'd like to master the skill. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?
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|authorisbn=Sarah Todd TaylorAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Meet Alice Eclair''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. A perfect eye and very careful hands have made her one of Paris's best young cake makers and decorators, making sure her mother's establishment I've heard it said that 'technology' is a classy affairwhat happens after you're eighteen. Not bad for a thirteen year old. OhWell, and a perfect eye and a very careful handler and remote trainer I must confess that there have also made sure she is been more than a very competent young spyfew decades of technology in my lifetime. Her first real mission will be I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to chase a traitor across me but I'm left with the country – working behind feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the scenes on a posh sleeper train to possibilities and the south of France, probabilities and hoping against hope that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents to creep into end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the country from getting into nefarious handslatest conspiracy theorist. But while nobody would have her down as I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a spy, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find the baddy?|isbn=1839940956way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=0760379912Sunny Singh|title=Super Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Quarry BooksHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsThrillers |summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new and usable when I was The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in my twenties. It would be an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but I've never felt completely at home with quiltingterrorist group. I needed something Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knotswartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. ''Super Easy Quilting As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for Beginners'' seemed like the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a good place bond with Sam who refuses to startbe cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. SoAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, how did it stack up?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=086154742X
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|isbn=17883607371529153298|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era List of PostmodernismSuspicious Things|author=Alexander AdamsJennie Godfrey|rating=25|genre= Politics and SocietyGeneral Fiction|summary= Can art ever be apoliticalIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? All art is political because art is I mean, honestly...) She's not made in a vacuumwhat's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. It is made by people Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Antonio Gramsci stated Miv's upset because she's overheard that ‘’Every man… contributes her father wants to modifying move the social environment in which he develops’’family 'Down South'. Therefore When you're from Yorkshire, all art must be politicalDown South is a frightening, foreign place, even implicitlybest avoided. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in For Miv, the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of so She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking -called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believesanyone.
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|isbn=14087121721398524085|title=The Cliff HouseHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Chris BrookmyreNicci French
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Many of them didn't know each others fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, one of them didn't know anybodysons Niall, including Jen, one of them quite possibly hated Paul and Ollie and herdaughter, and two of them definitely hated each otherEtty. What could possibly go wrong?'' That's the roundare all worried but - strangely -up for Jen's hen party which her husband, Alec, is to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barranot. They're all staying in The Cliff HouseShortly afterwards, hosted by LaurenEtty and Greg, and itfind the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the utmost in luxury living but then Jen can afford itriver. She's just sold her muffin business It was an easy assumption for millions but is staying on the police to run it. She's got her doubts about the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting a little strangely of late make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and wouldnthen committed suicide when he couldn't explain to her what stand the email he was hurriedly deleting was aboutguilt. Added to that, heThe Salter children are not convinced but there's just about forced her to bring his sister, Samira, whom Jen's never met, on the trip, little else they can do but get on the grounds that she's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months their lives and desperately needs the breakwonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=17883607021035906708|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised BiographyDiva|author=Edzard ErnstDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=For over forty yearsWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and complementary therapiesonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses to make it more manageable in the Prince's opinions, beliefs and aims against the background of the scientific evidenceStates. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the reputation of Nazi occupation by a man mother who is proud mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of his refusal to apply evidence-basedher preference for her elder sister, logical reasoning to his ambitionsJackie.
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|author=Will CarverChristopher Edge|title=The Daves Next DoorBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Five strangers come together Lucas and his friends are all booked in one moment as for a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on movie marathon at their local cinema, a London tube lineplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. As their fates overlap All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the story movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is told in backwards ordervery different, leading and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the fateful moment.next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn= 19145851861839942738}}
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|isbnauthor=1529125790Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Family Remains|author=Lisa JewellCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=In July 2019''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, Jason Mott was mud larking survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the banks wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the River Thames seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when he came across the Council Watch lays a bag of what appeared trap to be human bonesend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu and Saffron Brown Desperate to save him from forensics were there to investigate. The bones were indeed human: death, Mira makes a young woman had been killed by bargain with a blow wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the head many years ago - probably sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as long as twenty-five - but her journey takes her from the bones had not been in watched streets of foreign islands to the river longer than a year. There was no identification but heart of the bag contained vegetationsmuggler's territory, some Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of which was quite unusualher home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|author=Jennifer MasonJames Sherwood Metts|title=Partitions of UnityPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]]automation have been proceeding apace, when she investigated often replacing jobs they're paid to do and unravelled a series of disappearancesother tasks that took time to accomplish. In ''Partitions Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of Unity''other, she sets her mind new ways to solving a murder..spend time, along came an awful pandemic.Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF1736128426
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|author=Fiona Parashar Matthew Tree|title=A Beautiful Way to Coach We'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceLiterary Fiction|summary= So what am I doing reading this book, using this bookTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being audacious enough to review it? Truth is I bought it out exceptional at any of curiosity. I was at an on-line launch for the book his artistic passions all failed miserably and Fiona’s description who had endless crises of her Vision Days appealed to meself confidence. I wanted to see if there were things in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing them to a full day, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted So Tim applied himself to see if I could give myself a Vision Dayhis studies, to bring me away from their vision cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and back to my ownset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=103211603XB0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1913750353A G Slatter|title=Britannica's Word The Briar Book of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue MacyDead
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionFantasy|summary=''BritannicaThere's Word a part of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all me that you need wants to know about keep this brilliant bookjust to myself for however long I can. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz''This secret magic of my own, all mine, tells you how at last. I just want to pronounce enjoy it (for a while.''raz-muh-TAZ Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar'')s, gives you a definition family of witches who protect the town and then includes the word in wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and frequently amusing illustration toopotions. I donWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't think Is cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town've ever encountered s leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a word which uses maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the letter Z four times before!Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|authorisbn=A C Wise1529900360|title=HookedThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It’s It hadn't been twenty-two years since Captain HookLt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, now going by just ‘James’, has been in NeverlandSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Living His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a new life in Londonpsychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, he has never completely escaped his pastwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. But now he senses She knew that the edges of involvement was something that the beast circling around his life in Londonman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, and when suddenly he finds himself face to face though. Two lovers were murdered in the street with Wendy, he knows that swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the line between this world heir to an Italian shoe empire and Neverland she is growing thin. The beast is finally coming married to get him, an extremely rich man and in it's not the process will pull Wendy and her daughter Jane back into their past once againItalian.|isbn=1789096839 But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=17873017451529395224|title=ConfidenceLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Denise MinaSion Rowlands
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|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=WeSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn're back t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the world of podcasters Anna and Fin, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]strain that being on-call put on his father's life. It When he was Anna who'd organised seventeen he took the 'opportunity of doing work experience with a family' holiday: her ex, Hamish, is now with her best friend, Estelle and her children are living with them. Fin (who was married to Estelle) is there too a vet and it was Anna who invited his girlfriend, Sofiaconvinced this was the job for him. It's not Before long before everyone realises that , he was a bad mistakeat Liverpool University. SofiaIt hadn's difficult and t - as with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation so many students - been his dream since he was a lighthousechild. If anything, in a storm - she begins talking about Annahe's past, including her real name and the rape. This was something which Anna had intended d wanted to tell the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess and ten-year-old Lizzie - when the time was right. And this wasn't the right timebe a professional footballer.
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|isbn=178763566X0861541774|title=Listen to MeA Nye of Pheasants|author=Tess GerritsenSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
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|summary=WeDCI Domenic Jejeune're s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Boston Singapore to meet up with Amyan old ally, Guy Trueman. When she set out for university this morning it Maik was involved in a spring day and she wore her new, butterystreet brawl -leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows he would later maintain that they're going to be ruined he was facing a man armed with a knife - and unsafe - in the snow that's now falling. As she crosses the road, he killed a car comes out of nowhere and hits her. It doesn't stopGhurka. Two months later Initially, we're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli, and he faced a keen defender charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the suburb of Revere, north of Boston, where she livesman. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has Now he could be facing the time death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to watch whathelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in t help Danny at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsall.
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|isbnauthor=0008395632Alexander McCall Smith|title=One Last Secret|author=Adele ParksThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Natalya The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an escortalternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. WellNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, her name's not ''actually'' Natalya: that's her professional name but it as Ness is planning to take a nod trip to her Serbian heritageCanada to get away for a while. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora Dziewulski, usually known as Dora Wulski. If you're thinking Katie is coming out of 'escort' as being a polite description of break up with a prostitutebad boyfriend, run by a pimp, who's turning tricks and so jumps at the chance to come home to fund a drug habit, forget itEdinburgh. Dora is a professional in all senses of the word. She has And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an agentEdinburgh we already love, Elspeth, who takes 30% of her income thanks to 44 Scotland Street and deals with the payments Isabel Dalhousie novels, but checks out the clients with some new characters who quickly begin to see that Dora is going to be safecharm. Dora describes herself as Katie has no experience in running a selfbusiness, or in match-employed clairvoyant to Her Majestymaking, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's Revenue always her very helpful (and Customs. rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn=David Solomons0811771741|title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=Gavin is being followedMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, seemingly constantly, by cosy afternoons in front of the new (very annoying) girl at schoolfire' variety. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl storyThe projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. Because in this instance, All the girl in question is Nikiprojects are attractive, modern and she is a galactic princess (no, really, she is!) useable. So what will Gavin do I perhaps show my age when he becomes embroiled in a situation where, potentially, Earth and everyone on it will be blown to smithereens, all because of Niki?|isbn=0857639935I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.
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|author=Alex CotterDean Koontz|title=The Mermaid CallBad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids don't existBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. But she also knows they have Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to exist – at least in his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the public eyevery last person to deserve all this bad luck. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – He is a far northern English resort – without themnice person. A hundred years and change agoreally nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaidsa bad weather friend called Spike, but were forced to return who has been sent to help out with the Great War efforthim since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. They also showed female emancipationSpike is going to take care of Benny, which helped create the townand will certainly take care of Benny's tourism industryenemies, if he, Benny, now faded and falling apart but once a feminist success story. Alice, Harper (a girl waitress slash Private Investigator who stumbles finds herself roped into VivienBenny's gran's tourist shop one day, knows she certainly wants mermaids to exist – she thinks her family's black sheep died searching for them, or else was just too successful in her huntwild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. When the shy, doubting Thomasina that is Vivien collides with the exuberant, gung-ho Alice, what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they find?|isbn=18399419011662500491
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|isbnauthor=1739805100Adam Stower|title=Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of war|author=Andrew MarchMurray and Bun
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|genre=BiographyConfident Readers |summary= ''Loving the Enemy'' tells the quite extraordinary story of author Andrew March's grandparentsMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went is able to Dresden to teach in the early days sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the Nazi regime in the 1930stwo. Fred But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a sensitive hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and thoughtful manthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, had some vague ideas but into a world of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the frightening adventure and whiffs. This time. Fred's attempts round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful be honest, but he did make friendships 's turned up and connections that lasted for a lifetime. he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=B0B575J99NB0C47LV1PC|title=Beneath the PorticoesFragility|author=Brooke AdamsMosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at Can you make a prestigious girl's school in York. It was 'Yo birthing person'comfortable'' but she longed joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for something more in lifeboth could well be.. She.. no. 'd 'Fragility'still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and now was is set as the time city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to make a change. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for emerge from the professoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interview, she was offered the position and it wasn't long before she was exploring restrictions imposed during the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.covid pandemic
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|isbn=15291258981529431735|title=Godmersham ParkThe Winter Visitor|author=Gill HornbyJames Henry|rating=54|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentlemanIt's dutyFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at which made Bruce Hopkins' return allthe more surprising. He'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up d been exiled on the position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny AustenCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. She The return has come about because he's had no experience of teaching but this was a case of necessity. Until the death of her motherletter from his ex-wife, Anne had a comfortable life saying that she's ill and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the householdhasn't long to live. When her mother diedIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, her father cast her off stripped to his underwear and would have nothing more sent to do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity a watery grave in the boot of £35 a yearstolen Ford Sierra. Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.}}Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?