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|isbn=1838954481152919640X|title=The MisperSuspect|author=Kate LondonRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: thereThe nation's no doubt about that. He favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun murdered live on television and pointing it at DI Kieran Shawseems that there's only one suspect. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system 's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he was found must not guilty of both the murder serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and the manslaughter carries an EpiPen in case of the officeremergencies. And so lives must go onEverything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedywas dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|isbn=10350252990008385068|title=Went to London, Took the DogThe Midnight Feast|author=Nina StibbeLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyThrillers|summary=Nina Stibbe is returning to London for a sabbatical after being away for twenty yearsIt's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. SheIt's been at Victoriatheir opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's smallholding in Leicestershire which isn't all that conducive to writing, as thereheaded up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's always something smallholding happening - as you might expectconverted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The other side of heat is oppressive and amongst the decision was sealed when guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a room became available (courtesy of Deborah Moggach) at a very reasonable rentbody is found.
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|isbnauthor=B0CKD1L5JLAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey DunnWild East|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary= Petr Written in verse, this is an orphanRonny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. Rescued The move is initiated by the strangeRonny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, reclusive Beara new school, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the forests keep himself out of Washington's Olympic Peninsulatrouble. After Bear dies He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a brief sojourn rapper. But now, in human companythis new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through slowly, Ronny begins to see the forestconnections between rap and poetry, broadcasting and the strange, wild power of creativity and rarely heard voices he encounterscrafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|isbn=16358662431635866847|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing HandbookLavender Companion|author=Kristina McGrath Jessica Dunham and Sarah Walworth Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=CraftsLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you 'I quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on a page wasn't enough. Creating a pattern that was correct, clear, concise, and consistent required a great deal of trial and error, patience, and perseverance.immediately'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a knitting pattern feel that this is the book for which she'd paid good moneyyou. Before I started reading ''The first line of Lavender Companion'', I visited the instructions beganauthor's [https: ''Cast off 100 stitches.//www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there'' It was clear that no good could come s a picture of a slice of this - chocolate cake on the instructions didnhomepage. I don't get any better eat cakes and desserts - and but I wanted that cake viscerally. (finally) PayPal obliged with There's a refund when recipe in the seller refused as she couldnbook, which I't afford m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the repaymentbook and I was told to make a mess of it. The pattern looked pretty, but Notes in the creator didn't have margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the basic knowledge and skills to enable her to connect with her knitterscorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. She should have read I ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbookloved''this book already.
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|author=Adam Baron and Benji DaviesRob Keeley|title=Oscar's LionChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=34
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We start incredibly bluntlyAround here, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple we're big fans of times before he has to be ready for schoolchildren's author Rob Keeley. But when he enters his parentsHe' bedrooms a ball of happy positivity, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepishunderstands children, and admitting that he won't be hungry writes for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a problem. And it's wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, their pleasure and so on. OKenjoyment, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=0008596751}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''This story is not for everyoneto lecture or hector.''
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|author=V CastroJenny Valentine|title=The Haunting of AlejandraUs in the Before and After|rating=3.5|genre=HorrorTeens|summary=''This was Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a part of her past that had to stop with herlifetime connection. She would be the They meet as children one to confront this.day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other' At some point during her lifes contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, Alejandra lost herselfand they are inseparable. She feels as if she is playing parts for others in her life – her husband Something has happened though, something terrible and her children – without ever giving any thought to her own desirestragic, her own future, her own identity. Day by day she goes and now they must work through quotient motions without anyone seeing that there is something fundamentally wrong. For invisible to all but Alejandratheir grief, there is a darkness threatening to consume her. More and more she is visited by a ghost, a weeping woman in a fraying white gown dripping with watertheir friendship, who leaves distress in her waketogether.|isbn=18033656171471196585
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|author=Richard KadreyKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Pale House DevilDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=HorrorConfident Readers|summary=Ford and Neuland are a couple Meet Kit. Like most ofthe people in his world, wellit seems, guys for hire I guess, though really the way I thought he is an avid fan of them through Dungeon Running – the book was as sport where a couple team of strange detectives! One of them is livingwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, you seemagical mazes, and race to the other is undeadexit, and so one of them kills perhaps bothering with the treasure or the living, big bad and the other kills points they grant you along the undeadway. (Only not each otherUnfortunately for Kit, obviously). Theythe only thing he're s seen of the latest race on a job in New York the inn TV equivalent is that goes badlyone team has been retired, eaten, and so they head out to the West coast to try to lay low for a while and find some other work to keep them goingnew trio of questors is needed. But when a young woman called Tilda hires them Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to kill the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'something' ll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=18033638941839945184
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|author=Helen CooperSaima Mir|title=The Taming of the CatVengeance
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat novel – and in case you're seeing a connection, they live an organised crime syndicate in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names north of cheesesEngland run by a Muslim woman. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for The fact that it was the way his habits donsecond in a series I hadn't match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding read didn't stop me – he displays I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast outwasn't a problem here. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had Vengeance swiftly brings you up to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse communityspeed, though, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distractedand I never felt lost. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=05713760100861541561
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|isbnauthor=B0CDZRGT1MStuart Douglas|title=Super Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C WallfischLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Got Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a minute reservoir. The police seem happy to be amusedassign it as an accidental death, entertainedbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super shortand he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. None is They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more than 300 words. You can read one in possible murders and, seemingly, a flashlink to death during the Second World War.''''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.'' Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give But is there really a flavour of a fully rounded little story if that story is told in fewer than three hundred wordslink between the deaths? Or do you try And will they manage to draw out themes from all the flash fictions in a book of themuncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't a fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collection, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limit. That's about a single page in your average paperback.|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=1732898766B0CYV674G2|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk DragonSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When we first meet Birpus It seemed like an open-and Bulbus they-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn're running for their lives in t killed the Forest of Fine Reputeman. Their greatest fear has come about: A body at the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. Hebottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's right behind thembeen stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, spewing hot, sour milk from which coincided with the birth of his nostrilsdaughter Samantha. (Please donYou would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 't try this at home: it wonJohn Tanner't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered made for them, they escapedeach other. They climbed up He's sleep-deprived to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Crannypoint of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=14722639361787333175|title=The FigurineYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Victoria HislopBenji Waterhouse
|rating=5
|genre=General FictionPopular Science|summary=It I was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first trip book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Greece. She was alone: her motherHurt}}, Greek by birth, had left a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the family home and refused to returnNHS, but Mary humour and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritageautobiography. Her trip ''You Don't Have to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be Mad...'' promised the first of several annual visits. She grew same elements but moved from physical problems to love her grandmother mental illness and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - work of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannisa psychiatrist. He I did wonder whether it was proud of his close connections acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the Junta laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair it is always delivered with empathy and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestorsunderstanding.
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|author=Cody GoodfellowOnyi Nwabineli|title=VerticalAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= ThereAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's something about tall buildings that just captures my imaginationincreasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Who doesn't love a good view from up high Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, after all? Even suing her step-mother to take down the drabbest office building content about her. Anuri is somewhere I'm intrigued battling alcoholism, failing to get inside if it's 40 stories tallstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. So when I picked up this book – Most importantly, she is desperately worried about people her little sister, who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intriguedis the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn= 18033639910861546873
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|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldDavid Chadwick|title=Finding BearHeadload of Napalm
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldnIt't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auctions September 1973 in Hicks, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his sessionCalifornia. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatementNot much happens in Hicks. A lovely animal - silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each otherwise, there's not much of note otherthan dive bars and Joshua trees. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industryLife is quiet, until. Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse was dead in its stall.|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|author=Sarah WilsonTom Percival|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured worldThe Wrong Shoes|rating=3.5|genre= LifestyleConfident Readers|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line Will's life is the one difficult, in which she asks ''What a multitude of ways. He is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes' I get to love that line so much , he has the wrong shoes because my answer is his dad can't work and doesn'This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky t have enough to be living my one wild money for even the most basic of things like food, and precious life his dad can't work because he lost his job at the way I want tocollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book Throw into that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see mix the fact that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''his mum and dad areseparated, and Will'' living the s life we want – the best life that we could be livingseems bleak in every direction. Her answer is an unequivocal ''noAnd yet, we are not''he still has a tiny amount of hope. Don't care what you're doingHe is good at art, she thinks you (weand clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about that feel like a light at the fact that we are notend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=17856338481398527122
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|isbnauthor=1839948493Sylvie Cathrall|title=A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa UribeLetter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm There are few greater joys than a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I'm going which lives up to sit down and devoura compelling premise. Then I'm going to go back and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World this is one of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since thenthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=14059516800008517061|title=The Safe HouseDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Cameron WardStig Abell
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OKFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, actually she was gently nudged has settled into it by his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her frienddaughter Diana, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property as moving in the Australian outback for together would mean a couple lot of months. After compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the problems future she'd had at work, it seemed like just the break she needed. wants for herself and her daughter? She was no longer a data analyst for For the Metropolitan police moment they’re enjoying life in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of her birth present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in need of Norwich - the space site was going to get over hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the traumatic end bones of her relationship a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with CharlesDCI Harry Nelson. A few weeks in It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticketone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=Rachel Harrison0008551324|title=Bad DollsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=It's been some time since Iunusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he've read any horrors prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. I had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen KingThis person, he promises, borrowing is someone big and it will be worth the books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear remainder of the vampires outside! his sentence and to get an early parole date. Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! Not much to ask, is it? It The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't have those jump scares, think so and I didnshe't have s even prepared to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and I found most of that feeling came from do the fact other thing that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and Hardie demanded - make certain that at least in part, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a new dieting app, going to a hen party DS Max Craigie and a coping anyone who works with griefhim is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1803363932
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|isbn=13941595440008405026|title=Recycling for DummiesA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Sarah WinklerJane Casey
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|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=It''Recycling s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one ton of plastic can save up to 16summer night.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core to landfill, it will take between 6 months She was never found and 2 years the investigation ground to decomposea halt. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII babyNow, her mother, I faced a dilemma: reducingHelena, reusing and recycling is part of my DNAher father are dead in their bed. NEVER throw away anything that might Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there''possibly'' come in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together s something that would serve about the purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test positioning of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming bodies that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and dropping it in the kerbside binher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Yes, I could go searching on the internet What looked as though it was going to be an open- and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was shut case is now a recycling biblecomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'sdisappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Lauren St John0571379877|title=Finding WonderThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was Edward Jevons is a working-class youngman, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy Stanza. Robert's a lottery tickettheatre director. When asked what other family she hasHe's also self-obsessed, she can only name her auntdemanding, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly ofhandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. But she Edward has no one else, been in love with Stanza since their university days - and so off she goes he's drunkenly confided how he feels to live with her unreliable auntRobert. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London Most men in JoniRobert's old campervan, it breaks down in position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the middle two of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1448309743Jo Callaghan|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro RamsayLeave No Trace
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|genre=Crime
|summary=In the village of Cronchie When a man is found crucified on the West coast top of Scotlanda hill in Nuneaton, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if case alongside her sidekick, the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will followAI detective Lock. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, thatIt's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the bodytheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. The Senior Investigating Office But when there is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappearsa second body found crucified a few days later, DCI Christine Caplan Kat is pulled in suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to 'shadow' himtheir AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn= Kay Chronister1399613073|title= Desert CreaturesMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre= Dystopian FictionThrillers|summary= With Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a world that century. Olivia is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanityruthlessly ambitious, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrillwhich is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Whether it Laura is a robotic takeover, perfectionist and a world devoid trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of water or the group and she becomes a nuclear holocaust, this genre is GP. When we first meet them they're at a way for humans drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to cathartically experience their most existential fearsend in tragedy. We don''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of postt know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-apocalyptic fiction five years later there will be an eerily similar event that aligns many of will impact the fears that exist for humanity todaythree friends. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1803364998
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|authorisbn=Christopher Fowler0241636604|title=Word MonkeyThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary= It's the first of August in the middle If you were to bring up an image of a cool wet summer city banker in East Anglia. I decided not your mind, you're unlikely to swim at the pool in favour think of going to my beach hutsomeone like Gary Stevenson. The weather closed inA hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, rain arrivedwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and I decided not to do that eitherinjustice. When I finished reading this book, I realised it There was because (a) I wanted no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to finish reading this book and (b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shackthe London School of Economics. No spoiler alerts, the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler 'was' – Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and his first chapter tells he has a facility with numbers which most of us about his terminal diagnosiscan only envy. There is something very strange about being made He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to laugh by a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dyingbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, and you know he actually is at that pointessentially, because he doesa card game which got him an internship with Citibank. He didEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=0857529625
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|isbn=15290776991035021803|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Ann CleevesC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=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 request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya'Its former mentor and Carole's all bloody peculiarclose friend, isnArthur Crockleford, is dead and the 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 not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow't it, Sir?s Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''
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|isbnauthor=B0CC9W7GLRSunny Singh|title=On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny FiondaHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on The Hotel Arcadia is a snowy beach when luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shorelineterrorist group. On top of Hiding from the ice was terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a polar bearwartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the ice bumped onto residents who are still alive in the sandhotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the icekeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Kit was all for making a run for itAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed they both wait to see if they will be taken home on rescued before they are discovered by the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleepterrorists. What else would you do?|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Claire North1529153298|title=House The List of OdysseusSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
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|genre= Literary General Fiction |summary= It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'What could matter more than love?s not what's worrying Miv' The follow-up s family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to the excellent have 'disappeared'doesn'Ithacat sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without s overheard that her husband, who sailed father wants to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for move the throne of the Western Islesfamily 'Down South'. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca When you's shoresre from Yorkshire, Queen Penelope Down South is on the brink of a fragile peacefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. One that shatters however with For Miv, the return of Orestesmove would mean leaving her best friend, King of MycenaeSharon, and his sister Elektra, seeking refugeshe'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=0356516075
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|isbn=15294270451398524085|title=The Girl in the Eagle's TalonsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Karin SmirnoffNicci French
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, where the soEtty. are all worried but -farstrangely -untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has her husband, Alec, is not been slow in coming forward. SalanderShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's niece's mother is the latest woman father, Duncan Ackerley, in the area to have vanished without traceriver. It was only with reluctance an easy assumption for the police to make that Salander became her nieceDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's guardian t stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager whothere's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's deathlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B1035906708|title=The Last Person in the WorldDiva|author=Matthew TreeDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship We tend to think of Maria Callas as Ralph Greek, but she was a boarder and had money born to throw around on a Rolex watchGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, vintage wines in December 1923 and a state-of-the-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised only moved to Athens when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintancesshe was thirteen. Finns had no intention of going on Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College make it more manageable in Wellingford, the UK's third most prestigious universityStates. Before going up, he took up When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his homemother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Clouds Manor in West DorsetJackie.
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|author=Dean KoontzChristopher Edge|title=The House at the End of the WorldBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=When you experience overwhelming tragedy Lucas and feel that there is no one on your sidehis friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island a place that sits snugly in a small chain has the nickname of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitude'The Black Hole'. ThatAll big movie fans, they's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life re looking forward to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; lots of exciting films, and all would have been many, many snacks! However, as the aforementioned peace movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and solitude were it not for they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the pesky US Government occupying Ringrocknext, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the neighbouring island cinema, and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.to their real lives?|isbn=16624531591839942738
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