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|authorisbn= Kay Chronister1529428289|title= Desert CreaturesA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian FictionCrime|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable Because of various property transactions, people were searching for humanitythe grave but when they found it, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrillit came with three sets of bones. Whether They dated back to World War II and it is a robotic takeoverfell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, a world devoid to discover the identities of water the bodies and establish whether or not a nuclear holocaustcrime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, this genre the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fearsdevastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4. 5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there'Desert Creaturess only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She' by Kay Chronister is s seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a new work of postbusy, live television studio -apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity todayand Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It is a shocking novel was soon clear that still manages to find hopethis was no accident.|isbn=1803364998
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|authorisbn=Christopher Fowler0008385068|title=Word MonkeyThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyThrillers|summary= It's midsummer on the first of August in the middle of a cool wet summer in East AngliaDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. I decided not to swim at the pool in favour of going to my beach hutIt's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The weather closed in, rain arrived, Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and I decided not to do that eitherfamous. When I finished reading this bookHer husband, Owen, I realised it was because (a) I wanted to finish reading this book the architect and (b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shackwork is still ongoing on parts of the site. No spoiler alerts, The heat is oppressive and amongst the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler 'was' – and his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosisguests are enemies as well as friends. There is something very strange about being made Old scores are going to laugh by be settled and it won't be long before a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dying, and you know he actually body is at that point, because he doesfound. He did.|isbn=0857529625
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|isbnauthor=1529077699Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann CleevesWild East
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|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=''ItWritten in verse, this is Ronny's all bloody peculiarstory, isna young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it s mum who is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed worried for about Ronny's safety after a month and then turned uptragic event, naked and deadso Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, in a small boatnew school, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village and keep himself out of Greystone, in Devontrouble. Rosco had the status He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''rapper. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find outBut now, in this new school, he could his teacher encourages him to be more than part of a little bit close with money poetry writing workshop group and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get , slowly, Ronny begins to see the money for his first boat? How did he finance connections between rap and poetry, and the trip?power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR1635866847|title=On the Beach: The Winter VisitorLavender Companion|author=Chris Green Jessica Dunham and Jenny FiondaTerry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at homeIt's strange, bored but warmthe things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', or frozen cold I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and building sand sculptures on there's a snowy beach when picture of a large slab slice of silvery ice drifted onto chocolate cake on the shorelinehomepage. On top of the ice was a polar bearI don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. As (There's a recipe in the ice bumped onto the sandbook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the bear woke book and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit I was all for making told to make a run for mess of it, but Teal knew that . Notes in the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then anothermargins are sanctioned. He obviously needed You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleepproblem. What else would you do?I ''loved'' this book already.
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|author=Claire NorthRob Keeley|title=House of OdysseusChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=54|genre= Literary Fiction Confident Readers|summary= Around here, we're big fans of children'What could matter more than love?'s author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.
The follow-up to the excellent ''IthacaChildish Spirits'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace series is one of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned homehis greatest achievements. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to IthacaIt's shoresa sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the return of Orestesspirit world throws at her, King of Mycenaeand Edward, a spoiled lordling and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=03565160751783064617
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|isbnauthor=1529427045Jenny Valentine|title=The Girl Us in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin SmirnoffBefore and After
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|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=''Life has Elk and Mab are best friends, or more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskasthat even, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked their friendship is a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow once in coming forwarda lifetime connection. SalanderThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don's niecet get each other's mother is the latest woman in contact details at the area to have vanished without tracetime. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's deathBut then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbnauthor=B0CCCPJJ5BKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew TreeDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at Meet Kit. Like most of the London-based public school where people in his world, it seems, he met Ralph Finns. It was is an unusual relationship as Ralph was avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a boarder team of warrior, mage and had money healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to throw around on a Rolex watchthe exit, vintage wines perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and a state-of-the-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when points they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintancesgrant you along the way. Finns had no intention Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of going the latest race on to Universitythe inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, unlike our storyteller who had and a place at Wolverton College in Wellingfordnew trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the UKgoading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's third most prestigious universityll enter as a team. Before going up What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he took up a loose invitation possibly hope to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|author=Dean KoontzSaima Mir|title=The House at the End of the WorldVengeance|rating=43.5
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|summary=When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly was the second in a small chain of tiny dots series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on the map page and live out your days in peace screen) and solitudeit needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. ThatAnd that wasn's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life t a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrockspeed, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankindI never felt lost.|isbn=16624531590861541561
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|isbnauthor= B0CCCVRSGXStuart Douglas|title=Stories 2|author=Richard F WalkerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary= This is Richard F WalkerDuring location filming for his 1970's second volume sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of short storiesa reservoir. There are thirteen in all The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and I took something from each he enlists the help of them. There isn't a single one that doesn't deserve fellow actor, John Le Breton to be among help him investigate matters further. They travel across the others or brings down the overall quality. It can be tricky to review short stories without giving too much awaycountry during their days off filming, so I'll just pick two to talk about uncovering more possible murders and I think they give , seemingly, a general flavourlink to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|isbn=1787636607B0CYV674G2|title=The TrapSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Catherine Ryan HowardDavid Blake|rating=43.5
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|summary=It's seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a scene replicated all too often in knife, comes into the early hours of police station shouting that he hasn't killed the morningman. Drunken revellers spilling out A body at the bottom of clubs and looking for a way freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to get homedeath. Some are lucky and manage to get one of DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one birth of the outlying villageshis daughter Samantha. The woman all regret You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'taxi problemperverse', particularly in the light of and 'the missing womenJohn Tanner'were made for each other. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phoneHe's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance sleep-deprived to beg the bus driver to let her use his. Therepoint of falling asleep at work but he's no option but determined to start walking keep going - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoesprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=14059571741787333175|title=A Death at the PartyYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Amy StuartBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=From the first page, we know that Nadine WalshI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's party will not end well. The victim - a man - first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort Going to call Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the ambulance he so desperately needsNHS, humour and autobiography. What we don''You Don't know is who Have to be Mad...'' promised the man is or why Nadine prefers same elements but moved from physical problems to have him diemental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I'd better give you did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a little more background so that you can understand what's happeningperson and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|author=Tania UnsworthOnyi Nwabineli|title=Nowhere IslandAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet GilAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Just twelve, he Now Anuri is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – her twenties and find a home for himself. He she is en route slowly trying to regain her confidence and to yet another fostererget her life back, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him suing her step-mother to his futuretake down the content about her. That future seems Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorwaystart her PhD, a place inaccessible undergoing therapy and definitely ignored enough to provide secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for their safety and seclusiondoing so. ThemMost importantly, and a mute girl also finding a home thereshe is desperately worried about her little sister, albeit so much more successfullywho is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combineCan she save her sister, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=18045400800861546873
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|isbnauthor=0008530025David Chadwick|title=Murder in the Family|author=Cara HunterHeadload of Napalm
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was 's September 1973 in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfatherHicks, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London homeCalifornia. He had an injury on the back Hicks is a Mojave desert town of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged a few thousand people with his murder its nearest neighbours of LA and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', Las Vegas both a true-crime showsignificant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence silver mine and to take a defence contractor are the investigation further. More to the pointmain local employers but otherwise, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. Therethere's no dump not much of the whole box set - note other than dive bars and no shortage of cliffhangersJoshua trees. Life is quiet, until... It's compelling viewing.|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|author=Judith EagleTom Percival|title=The Stolen SongbirdWrong Shoes|rating=45
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|summary=CaroWill's motherlife is difficult, in a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care multitude of her sister who is unwellways. So who He is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gambullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', someone Caro he has heard her mother despisesthe wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, she feels frustrated and confused his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and worriedhad an accident. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian ladyseparated, and Will's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there toolife seems bleak in every direction. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mysteryAnd yet, as she discovers he still has a painting tiny amount of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcasehope. He is good at art, and all across London clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a fearsome gang called light at the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising peopleend of a long, dark tunnel. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=05713631481398527122
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|isbnauthor=1529195977Sylvie Cathrall|title=None of this is True|author=Lisa JewellA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, There are in the midst of few greater joys than a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close book which lives up to her tummy and you get the sense that Walter's not too happya compelling premise. He's not used to spending And this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after allone of them.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=18033651100008517061|authortitle=Chuck TingleDeath in a Lonely Place|titleauthor=Camp DamascusStig Abell|rating=3.54|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Love is love; although humans continue to be confused by this sentiment. Gay conversion therapy is ongoingFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The UK government ruled out plans to make it There’s perhaps a crime little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia andher daughter Diana, as moving in the US, nearly 700 000 adults have received it. Although it is both together would mean a secular lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and a religious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, relaxing life to move in his new horror, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the skin of Christian ''pray moment they’re enjoying life in the gay away'' camps to show present and putting the reader future on the horror lurking withinback burner.
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|isbn=18031363831786482126|title=Tin SoldiersThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=David ChadwickElly Griffiths
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting Builders were demolishing an old house in Vietnam under something Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a cloudchild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but an act Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the consensusone night they spent together some three months ago. Wat himself Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is keeping his cards close prone to his chest, as he always doessudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=B0C7J9D21B0008551324|title=A Captive in Algiers The Devil You Know (Muhammed Amalfi MysteriesD S Max Craigie)|author=A J LewisNeil Lancaster
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=When we first meet our heroIt's unusual 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's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, his name is Ettore someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he lives at The House wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of Beautiful Swallowshis sentence and to get an early parole date. Idyllic as this might soundNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's a bordello even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and Ettoreanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's mother died when he sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was bornnever found and the investigation ground to a halt. He's not been short of mothersNow, her mother, Helena, though - but for someone of his background and her father are dead in late-eighteenth-century Amalfitheir bed. Initially, itlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with something about the preparation positioning of anchovies didn't work out the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boatsher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Ettore What looked as though it was nothing if not resourceful going to be an open- and determined - and it was not long before he had shut case is now a successful business as a guide for visitorscomplex double murder. He was even saving some moneyKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0571379877|title=After DeathThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at Edward Jevons is a top secret biological research facilityworking-class young man, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bioobsessed with his upper-hazard accidentclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Finding himself in Robert's a makeshift mortuarytheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, covered in plasticdemanding, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he recovers his senses, 's drunkenly confided how he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everythingfeels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'Everything''s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}}
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|author=Jamie LittlerJo Callaghan|title=ArkspireLeave No Trace
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie When a man is intent found crucified on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts top of Arkspirea hill in Nuneaton, perhaps even DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to become the child in line to inherit case alongside her sidekick, the power of the WatcherAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, the closest to having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a ruler the district hasfew days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the magic a very high profile case that only five people can use would definitely change the status draws a lot of the whole familyunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just Will they be able to gain some power of her own – for goodsolve the case in time, or for verywill Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, very bad…out of a career?|isbn=0241586143139851120X
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|authorisbn=Thiago de Moraes1399613073|title=Old Gods New TricksMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
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|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapesOlivia, larks Laura and adventures involving flooding Anjali met on the first day of medical school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a young goddess quarter of nuisancea century. But just Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changesyou aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – Laura is a perfectionist and a power-out, even trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of electric cars, hits not just the town the schoolgroup and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and all that powers the Internet, just for our convenienceit's sake)going to end in tragedy. Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – We don't know who suffered the ancient Gods have taken tragedy or the power of power from usconsequences. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that can steal it back – namely will impact the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Godsthree friends. This time, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the trickstersit's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=178845295X
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|authorisbn=Alexia Casale0241636604|title=Sing if you Can't DanceThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=TeensAutobiography|summary=It's hard enough If you were to navigate bring up an image of a city banker in your teenage years without suddenly finding that mind, you're having unlikely to navigate a lifethink of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-changing disability too, but that's what Ven stripe suit and his background is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that East End, where he was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity staresfamiliar with violence, poverty and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manageinjustice. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in There was no posh public school, her music A Level performance piece on his CV - but he had been to try to sort out, and just the dayLondon School of Economics. Stevenson is bright -toextremely bright -day traumas and he has a facility with numbers which most of all the challenges her body continues us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to throw be stupid. It was his ability at her to navigatewhat was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. So even though she can't dance anymoreEventually, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=0571373801this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|authorisbn=Helen Peters1035021803|title=Friends and TraitorsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=England, WW2. Two young girls are new at It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country pile called Stanbrookvillage where she grew up. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all She's back now because of a request for help from her life it seemsbeloved aunt, like the female generations before herCarole. The other Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is Sidneydead and the circumstances seem suspicious, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-pathsto say the least. The girls are chalk and cheeseArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it solet her down badly. But something is amissEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, and first separately and then in combination they realise she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'unprofession she loved. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecyAfter the split, talk is made of meetings with Germansshe worked in a cafe, met and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely married James (on the rebound from the girls are wronglove of her life, who was murdered) and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=1788004647Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=0241996104AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Coming to Find YouAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Jane CorryBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of their murderthings to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. We first meet Nancy outside the courtWell, after Martin receives I must confess that there have been more than a life sentencefew decades of technology in my lifetime. The barrister tells her that sheI's received a 'silent sentence' - sheve kept up reasonably well with what's not been found guilty of anything advantageous to me but will have to live I'm left with what happened for the rest feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of her lifeit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, itI could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's made worse because Nancym reading someone who knows what they's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and re talking about or the papers are making the most of itlatest conspiracy theorist. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet I needed people I knew I could trust and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spokenwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=1529413680Sunny Singh|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season The Hotel Arcadia is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English a luxury hotel in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friendsan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs Hiding from the script. Luckilyterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in Sam, a helicopter. A local doctor (wartime photographer and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employeeAbhi, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped inhotel manager. One daughter lives nearby and another, As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who lives are still alive in Californiathe hotel, is flying in he forms a bond with some Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her fatherroom to try to capture what's friends for a pre-arranged holidayhappened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, 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=15291963881529153298|title=The TrialList of Suspicious Things|author=Rob RinderJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good It's 1979 and honest and looked up to by just about everyoneMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Baileyhonestly... ) ThereShe's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and itnot what's worrying Miv's not too long before Knight appears in courtfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, charged with Clivedenbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's murderupset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Knight was told that For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers friend, Sharon, and itshe's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent himll do anything to prevent that. KnightShe's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameronworried about the dangers or that her Mum's recommendations stopped talking - to the contraryanyone.
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|authorisbn=Essie Fox1398524085|title=The FascinationHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= The Victorian era Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched onlynot. Shortly afterwards, perhapsEtty and Greg, by find the Second World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. Therebody of Greg's such a glut of media set father, Duncan Ackerley, in the era that the hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to the point of being cliched, hackneyed evenriver. All this is simply to illustrate that it would be It was an easy thing assumption for the police to do poorly. But despite make that, something about it still grabs me – Duncan had murdered Charlie and something about this bookthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's description did as welllittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1914585526
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|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1035906708|title=Death in Fine ConditionDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fictionWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and in particular a series called Sleuth Houndonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. She spends Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit, sometimes father changed it to 'tweakingCallas' them, to add value, make it more manageable in somewhat fraudulent waysthe States. One day When she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them was back in the background of a photograph on her drug dealer's living room wall, and Athens - supposedly so that she sets about discovering where this collection is, and how could get appropriate training for her voice - she can steal it! It's was raised under the Nazi occupation by a next-level step in mother who mercilessly exploited her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when the owner made no secret of the collection comes looking her preference for their books?|isbn=1789098947her elder sister, Jackie.
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