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|author=Claire NorthJenny Lecoat|title=Notes from the Burning AgeBeyond Summerland
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|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=At its core ''Notes From Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the Burning Agewar, Jean'' by Claire North is s father was arrested for listening to a spy thriller, with as many double crossesbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, interrogations leaving Jean and night time escapes as Le Carre or Flemingher mother waiting for years for news of him. However, as with As the British finally free the Channel islands from the best novelsNazis, it wears many masks and its most affecting one the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a new and timely genre, cli-firelief, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, informer who told the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter Nazis about the cost to radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the Earth.occupation?|isbn=03565147571846976537
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|authorisbn=1529428289|title=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb A Grave in the Woods (translatorA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|titleauthor=Girls Who LieMartin Walker|rating=34|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=You might be forgiven Because of various property transactions, people were searching for thinking that all the dark corners grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowbones. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, They dated back to World War II and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital cityfell to Bruno, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims Chief of Police for the usual small-town feelSt Denis, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with discover the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for identities of the girl back, bodies and establish whether or not a couple of delighted adopterscrime had been committed. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the womanAs if this isn's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six monthst enough to worry about, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her bodyflowing at record levels. Is It's not just the assumption local autumn rains that is so easy for have caused the reader problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to make release water and St Denis faces the right one?|isbn=191319373Xpossibility of a devastating flood.
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|isbn=B0925KS87N152919640X|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)The Suspect|author=Neil LancasterRob Rinder|rating=4.5
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|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to find the grave - Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and it took some finding carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in an overgrown old cemeterya busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was a strange thing for Scotlandsoon clear that this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's premier criminal to do, but Tam was getting old midsummer on the Dorset coast and there were things he wanted to doguests gather at The Manor. Only, his family didnIt't hear from him again after hes their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It'd said that hes all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she'd found s converted it into an impressive retreat for the grave - wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - architect and his three sons began to worrywork is still ongoing on parts of the site. Tam Junior, Frankie The heat is oppressive and Dave wouldn't normally go amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to the police but they werenbe settled and it won't certain where their father had been and they were worriedbe long before a body is found.
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|author=Emily CritchleyAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small FlowersWild East|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary= Written in verse, this is Ronny'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. The Tiny Gestures move is initiated by Ronny'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, a new school, and keep himself out of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of something goodbeing a rapper. I was intrigued by the plot But now, in this new school, liked the design his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the bookconnections between rap and poetry, and thought the author's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promisingpower of creativity and crafting your words. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 19114270910241645441}}
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|authorisbn=Sarah Langan1635866847|title=Good NeighboursThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary= If youIt're of a certain vintages strange, it's hard to read the words things that make you ''Good Neighboursimmediately'' without adding a sing-song feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''thatThe Lavender Companion's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends', I visited the author's [https://www. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and Gertie live there's a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one picture of a slice of 18 households chocolate cake on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlierhomepage. They I don're not quite like all the other families t eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (heThere's an ex rockera recipe in the book, shewhich I's a former beauty queenm avoiding with some difficulty!!) but they've made some friends Then I started reading the book and their kids have settled in, and it's all going ok. Until I was told to make a mess of it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up Notes in the park across margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the waycorners of pages. It You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved''s a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to comethis book already.|isbn=1789098211
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|author=Lisa ThompsonRob Keeley|title=The Small ThingsChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Although Anna has friends at schoolAround here, she feels like she never really fits inwe're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. Her family donHe't have enough money to let her do after school activitiess a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and so she feels like her life at home he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector. The ''Childish Spirits'' series is boring in comparison to theirsone of his greatest achievements. When It's a new girl joins her classsequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the new a stalwart young girl, Ellie, is unwell and so who can't attend school in person. Instead, she joins in cope with anything the class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the challenge of making friends with someone through a robotspirit world throws at her, and is she even interesting enough to be Edward, a good friend to spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie?encounters|isbn=17811296491783064617
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|isbnauthor=0008350388Jenny Valentine|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha UwagbaUs in the Before and After
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTeens|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirableElk and Mab are best friends, less hireableor more than that even, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students their friendship is a once in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a womanlifetime connection.'' They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other'The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to s contact details at the UK from Kenya when she was five years oldtime. Her sisters were seven But then chance brings them back together, and ninethey are inseparable. It was her mother who came first Something has happened though, with her father joining them later. The family was hard-workingsomething terrible and tragic, principled and determined that now they must work through their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. For Oteghagrief, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a place at New Collegetheir friendship, Oxfordtogether.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbnauthor=1787631869Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Rising Tide|author=Sam LloydDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a good team of warrior, mage and decent life in the aftermath. She's now married to Danielhealer enter specially prepared, who cocentury-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beachold, magical mazes, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point race to the exit, perhaps bothering with Billie, Lucy's daughter the treasure or the big bad and Fin, the child she had with Danielpoints they grant you along the way. They have financial difficultiesUnfortunately for Kit, some caused by Nick Povey, Danielthe only thing he's partner seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and so-called best frienda new trio of questors is needed. Nick Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and Daniel stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have a history together from the time they both spent in a children's home but it's difficult to think actually managing that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|author=Hannah PeckSaima Mir|title=Kate on the CaseVengeance
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Meet Kate, although I got was instantly intrigued by the impression she'd rather be a Catherine premise of this novel – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, and an organised crime syndicate in the author north of our heroine's favourite possession, ''England run by a Muslim woman. The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky father, fact that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for it was the first time second in yonks. However, this is a train ride with series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a difference, for few series before (on board is a greedy-seeming harridan page and her cat, a thief – screen) and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in it needn't be a blink-and-youhindrance if it'll-miss-them styles good enough. ItAnd that wasn's definitely a case for t a new young investigative journalist.problem here.Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=184812970X0861541561
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|author=Darren ShanStuart Douglas|title=Archibald Lox Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The second trilogy in ShanDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit'Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the world dead body of a woman on the Bornedge of a reservoir. It's not been easy, explaining The police seem happy to his foster parents where he's beenassign it as an accidental death, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting but something about Inez the whole thing bothers Lowe, and his other friends in he enlists the Mergehelp of a fellow actor, but Archie has done his bestJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further.... well They travel across the country during their days off filming, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower uncovering more possible murders and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away, seemingly, a link 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=B093H8DPQZ1803368209
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|isbn=0571365884B0CYV674G2|title=My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in AnxietySwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Georgia PritchettDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always been anxiousIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, even as covered in mud and blood - and carrying a child. She would worry about whether knife, comes into the monsters under police station shouting that he hasn't killed the bed were comfortable: it was man. A body at the sort bottom of life where if she had nothing a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far betweendeath. On a visit to a therapistDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, as which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an adult, when she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He'My Mess is a Bit s sleep-deprived to the point of a Life: Adventures in Anxietyfalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can' is the result - or so we are given to believet get any sleep at home.
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|authorisbn=Alex Cotter1787333175|title=The House on the EdgeYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=FaithI was tempted to read ''You Don's family home is teetering on the edge of a cliff, literally. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting t Have to slope a little? And as the house seems be Mad to be falling apart, so is FaithWork Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's family. Her dad has disappeared, and her mum first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is struggling Going to copeHurt}}, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in charge, taking care a glorious mixture of her little brother Noah, taking care insight into the workings of her mumthe NHS, feeding everyone, getting Noah humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to school, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachersbe Mad... Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what he claims is a ghost in '' promised the cellar? What should she do about same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the house? Can she find work of a way to raise enough money to fix psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it? What's happened was acceptable to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages to get funding be looking for humour in this setting but the house? She carries the weight of all these worries on her constantly, laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and she doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping onunderstanding.|isbn=1788008626
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|isbnauthor=0008269041Onyi Nwabineli|title=Risk of Harm|author=Lucie WhitehouseAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is back in Anuri spent her native Birmingham after childhood on display to the world, thanks to her lessstep-than-comfortable departure from the Metmother 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. She might have been reinstated but the whole episode left a nasty taste Now Anuri is in her mouth. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step- then mother to take down the man who had broken content about her heart nearly twenty years before. She Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out little sister, who is the new focus of her parentOphelia's home into a rented house but there's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone out of his way to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young childonline empire. He's married to NatalieCan she save her sister, now and has a young child but he's still got it in for Robin.perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|isbnauthor=1786332388David Chadwick|title=The First Day Headload of Spring|author=Nancy TuckerNapalm
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and It''The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasions September 1973 in Hicks, California. The writing Hicks is superb a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and completely compellingLas Vegas both a significant drive away. The characterisation is excellent Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the plot grips you and won't let go. Somain local employers but otherwise, whatthere's the problem? Well, the problem not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is Chrissiequiet, the main characteruntil.. When we first meet her she's just eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. She's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|author=Catherine SteadmanTom Percival|title=The Disappearing ActWrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= British actress Mia Eliot Will's life is on the cusp difficult, in a multitude of successways. Great success. If He is bullied because he has 'the rumours are truewrong shoes', award season is going to treat her well, acknowledging her he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for her latesteven the most basic of things like food, critically acclaimed production. Sheand his dad can's going places but sot work because he lost his job at the college, unfortunately, is her partnerwas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. And Throw into that mix the places hefact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's going take him towards lieslife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, deceit and he still has a pretty young thing in the form tiny amount of his new co-starhope. It's a He is good time for Mia at art, and clings to escapethe moments of joy when he is drawing, and pilot season in LA provides just that feel like a light at the excuseend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=14711897831398527122
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|author= Christophe MedlerSylvie Cathrall|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretLetter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=Historical Science Fiction|summary= Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642compelling premise. As a loyal servant of the King, and Head of the Secret Service, it And this is Robert's duty to uncover the details of the plan and follow the clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the Kingthem.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ0356522776
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|authorisbn=Tasha Suri0008517061|title=The Jasmine ThroneDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= On Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the night future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her sacred burningdaughter Diana, Princess Malini defies her brother as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and refuses relaxing life to step on move in with Livia or does Livia move to the pyre. She Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the mysterious deathless waters. But now moment they’re enjoying life in the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that present and putting the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for future on the girl to become her own personal maidservantback burner.|isbn=0356515648
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|isbn=B088YWF5BC1786482126|title=The Lies We TellJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Jane CorryElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on 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 council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sistersdoorway. There was no skull. It seemed to have been Was this a lovingritual killing or murder? Inevitably, stable familyDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. When we first meet her, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, whoIt's nearly sixteendifficult as Ruth knows, hasnbut Nelson doesn't come home by , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in byone night they spent together some three months ago. Her husband, Tomcondition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's still going prone to be going to work and he needs his sleep. He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someonesudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=Joseph Knox0008551324|title=True Crime StoryThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Joseph Knox, known It's unusual for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story". The story follows any respect for the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residenceother. Split into four parts, the reader But Davie Hardie is taken through struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the life and disappearance of Zoe through police where the eyes body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her twin sisterdeath. This person, other familyhe promises, friends is someone big and professionals, such as it will be worth the policedoing what he wants. The various accounts help And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the reader remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to know Zoeask, or at least the Zoe is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she presented 's even prepared to others. However, do the twists other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of anyone who works with him is kept well away from what is true or fabricated's happening. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703
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|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova0008405026|title=No, No, No!A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favouriteher bed one summer night. ''No, No, No!'' is based around She was never found and the simplest text imaginableinvestigation ground to a halt. ''No Now, noher mother, no! OkayHelena, okayand her father are dead in their bed. Yes Initially, you may.'' Thatit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's it! But, like all something about the best picture books, this tiny snippet positioning of text the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that it appears on the outsideexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1638820457
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|authorisbn=Monica Connell0571379877|title=Against a Peacock SkyThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=TravelCrime|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I think it Edward Jevons is important to know that. She went on a grantworking-supported tripclass young man, obsessed with a relatively specific objective. She wasn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangrihis upper-laclass friends, Robert and Stanza. She wasn Robert't s a mere tourist passing throughtheatre director. She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they lived. She He's also wentself-obsessed, presumablydemanding, with the academic discipline of how to find these things out, how to organise them in her mind, how to "understand" them in the context of her own paradigms, and how to keep enough notes handsome and files entitled and photos uses Edward to help her create some greater sense of the experience after the eventrun errands for him. Fortunately, she also went Edward has been in love with a sense of openStanza since their university days -ness and curiosity and a willingness he's drunkenly confided how he feels to muck-Robert. Most men in, to break her own rules and Robert's 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 truly connect with stumble upon the people two of the village where she hauled upthem kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1780600429
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|isbnauthor=1409181669Jo Callaghan|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesLeave No Trace|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on case alongside her sidekick, the Paradise nature reserve in CambridgeAI detective Lock. She'd been brutally stabbed and MarianaIt's niecetheir first live case together, Zoe, had telephoned her in distresshaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. Tara had been her best friend But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and she was struggling a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to copetheir AI Future Policing project. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having Will they be able to go to Cambridgesolve the case in time, but she caught or will Kat find herself taken off the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana case and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastianpotentially, in out of a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Maisie Chan1399613073|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Danny is eleven years oldOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and what he really, really loves to do is drawtheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. He creates fantastical comicsOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the wordswhich is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Danny's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, Laura is a perfectionist and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! trauma doctor. At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw in secret Anjali is the free spirit of the group and in peaceshe becomes a GP. But then one day his parents tell him When we first meet them they have 're at a surprise for him, drug and alcohol-fuelled party and this surprise turns out it's going to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with them, and end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she an eerily similar event that will also be sleeping on the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around impact the townthree friends. Poor DannyThis time, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi..it's their teenage children who are involved.how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X
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|authorisbn=Terry Miles0241636604|title=RabbitsThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=Science FictionAutobiography|summary=Welcome If you were to the world bring up an image of The Game. Or should that be the gamea city banker in your mind, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. Ityou's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and re unlikely to the average person no obvious entry pointthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. A bit like hoodie and jeans replaces the game of life then. Yes, this pin-stripe suit and his background is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracyEast End, the computer gamewhere he was familiar with violence, the hack from the darkest of webspoverty and injustice. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and There was no posh public school on his bezzies are trying CV - but he had been to be historians the London School of the game, Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and have studied amongst many things the he has a facility with numbers which most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very shortus can only envy. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the He also realised that most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwiserich people expect poor people to be stupid. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out It was his ability at what the game is doingwas, if it's even being playedessentially, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the a card gamewhich got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, and playing it, is this turned into permanent employment as a very thin one indeedtrader...|isbn=1529016932
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|authorisbn=C J Carey1035021803|title=WidowlandThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It's April 1953twenty 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's former mentor and Adolf HitlerCarole's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to Londonclose friend, parading around a bitArthur Crockleford, is dead and watching over the sanctioned return circumstances seem suspicious, to say the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallisleast. For yes, Britain caved in Arthur was the lead-up reason why Freya had not been back to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know itvillage: Arthur, and we are now a protectorate – wellshe feels, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''let her down badly. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purposeEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down not felt able to be near the childless, man or pursue the husbandless and the widowsprofession she loved. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with After the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after allsplit, not every book can be bannedshe worked in a cafe, met and not every story excised immediately married James (on the rebound from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is love of her joblife, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visitwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=152941198X
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|authorisbn=Louise BeechAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=This Is How We Are HumanAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=Veronica ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a devoted single mother few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to her son, Sebastian - me but she canI't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided m left with the feeling that it's time for him to have sexall getting away from me. But as an autistic 20 yearSome of it is -oldfrankly - quite frightening. Of course, thatI could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they's easier said than donere talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. And it's starting to cause them both problems I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand. |isbn=1913193713
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|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LSunny Singh|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker BittickHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionThrillers |summary=Meet BosnerThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, orthere is Sam, to give him his full titlea wartime photographer and Abhi, Petty Officer Third Class Bosnerthe hotel manager. We never really find out if As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he has forms a first name: there's merely a hint that he had the nickname 'Secretary' at one point. He's simply Bosner bond with Sam who refuses to one be cowed by events, and all. When we first encounter him hekeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helos, as they were called) at a naval establishmenthappened through her photography. The hours could be long and he was often working nights but at Although they only ever talk over the age of twenty-onephone, there was always a way their friendship grows as Abhi tries to work some fun (think drinking help her keep safe and eating) into his daythey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Hannah Whitten1529153298|title=For the WolfThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
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|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=In RedIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, the first daughter becomes queenthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, and the second daughter becomes a sacrificebut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. To Red Miv's misfortune, upset because she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on 's overheard that her back, Red knows what father wants to expect: within move the woods is a wolffamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, and he Down South is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrificefrightening, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be releasedforeign place, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories gobest avoided. But when Red enters For Miv, the woodsmove would mean leaving her best friend, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hourSharon, and she finds 'll do anything to prevent that the legends are lies. The wolf is She's not a monster—heworried about the dangers or that her Mum's a manstopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=0356516369
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|authorisbn=M G Leonard1398524085|title=TwitchHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Una Charlotte Salter was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since expected at her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then shehusband'd given s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up her medical studies and retrained as a teacher. She was thirty years old Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and money was tighther daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Her friendShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, SaraDuncan Ackerley, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsulariver. There were only ten people in the village but a teacher It was required an easy assumption for two children: a salary would be paid the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and accommodation providedthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Una was the only applicant The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract coveredwonder about what really happened.
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