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|author=Hannah WhittenMax Boucherat|title=For the WolfThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man4.|isbn=0356516369}}{{Frontpage|author=M G Leonard|title=Twitch|rating=5
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|summary=Twitch is a boy who loves birdsWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. He keeps pigeons at homeWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, and chickensshe has one main intention, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds that is easy compared to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that of his time is a hit in schoolLori's world. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there is first Lori has a dangerous bank robber tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on the runher own, and it's possible that then she finds something even more spooky. For the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has his secret hide server she and her bestie and that he knows like the back nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of his hand! tampering. Can Twitch solve the mysteryWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and find her safe place in the missing millionsgame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=14063893740008666482
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|isbnauthor=1838853804Jenny Lecoat|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro RamsayBeyond Summerland
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory is Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himselfoccupation. Twenty years later she's back home again and this time During the occasion is no less sad. Shewar, Jean's there father was arrested for listening to say a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dying mother waiting for years for news of anorexiahim. As she diesthe British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but their hopes rise that they will finally learn what did she mean? became of him. There were lots of things, minor and major crueltiesBut will the truth come as a relief, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was will it even a questionraise further questions around what else happened during the war? Was she asking if Megan Who was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding daythe informer who told the Nazis about the radio? The Melvicks might seem to And what other secrets have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of been kept throughout the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a curse. In addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years before. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeraloccupation?|isbn=1846976537
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|isbn=02414001201529428289|title=The Girl Who DiedA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbMartin Walker
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teachercame with three sets of bones. She was thirty years old They dated back to World War II and money was tight. Her friendit fell to Bruno, Sarathe Chief of Police for St Denis, showed her an advert for to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsulacrime had been committed. There were only ten people in As if this isn't enough to worry about, the village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation providedDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. Una was It's not just the only applicant and local autumn rains that have caused the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and, hopefully, save some money over St Denis faces the winter which her contract coveredpossibility of a devastating flood.
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|isbn=1846975719152919640X|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)The Suspect|author=Denzil MeyrickRob Rinder|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We learn The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward placesthere's only one suspect. But thatHe's London, isn't it? celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. WhatShe's happening seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airportbusy, DCI Jim Daley live television studio - and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight awayBrooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon becomes evident though clear that both occupants of this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the plane were dead before take offDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. How could that be? It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The sort of tech which would make that possible isnManor was her ancestral home and she't available to s converted it into an impressive retreat for the paying publicwealthy and famous. And why have Her husband, Owen, was the man no identification architect and work is still ongoing on them - or even labels in their clothes?parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.
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|author=Richard BrookAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeWild East
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|genre=LifestyleTeens|summary= I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my caseWritten in verse, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book IRonny'd have skimmed its story, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to me not just because I was likely move to give it Norwich and start at a favourable review [ ''full disclosure mostly white school. The Bookbagmove is initiated by Ronny's u.mum who is worried for Ronny's.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomlysafety after a tragic event, and so there is Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a predisposition towards expecting new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to like the bookmusic constantly, even if it doesn't and has always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a book I needed poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to readsee the connections between rap and poetry, right nowand the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=18004616820241645441
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|isbn=B095CY7NBN1635866847|title=Autumn CampThe Lavender Companion|author=Barry FowlerJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=It was to be Brian's last camp. Hestrange, the things that make you ''immediately''d founded feel that this is the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since but he was leaving school and the time had come to hand the reins to someone elsebook for you. Before I started reading ''The obvious person was GaryLavender Companion'', whoI visited the author'd always been the fun element s [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of the camps and Brian had said that chocolate cake on this camp, Gary should act as the leader and he'd just be there to observehomepage. The problem with this was that Gary wasnI don't really an organiser, an administrator if you likeeat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. He was (There's a recipe in the entertainerbook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the person who basked in the spotlight book and made things fun - so Brian stepped I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in and did the organisingmargins are sanctioned. He handed You get to fold down the camp over - and then took it backcorners of pages. And Gary determined to have his revengeYou suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. This should have been I ''hisloved'' campthis book already.
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|isbnauthor=194812467XRob Keeley|title=The Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hillAround here, they see a we're big barn with a sign outsidefans of children's author Rob Keeley. ItHe's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cowsball of happy positivity, he understands children, goats and chickens, he writes for their pleasure and even some mice. Excitedenjoyment, Kirelle and Sam go shoppingnot to lecture or hector.
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|isbnauthor=0008404925Jenny Valentine|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane CaseyUs in the Before and After
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|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a surpriselifetime connection. After all, it was her cross-examination of the 'victim' which saved him from They meet as children one day on a lengthy prison sentence. He'd been accused of stalking the woman trip out but it didnunfortunately they don't take long to establish that - if anything - it was get each other's contact details at the other way aroundtime. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster But then chance brings them back together, and then she came to see him as a threat they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and was forced to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance now they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous manmust work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbnauthor=0008395594Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Both of You|author=Adele ParksDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it all: great husband seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Thenhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, one Mondaymagical mazes, she went and race to work and never came home. Markthe exit, Oli perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and Seb are shatteredthe points they grant you along the way. WellUnfortunately for Kit, Mark and Seb are but Olithe only thing he's sixteen seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and at the stage where he thinks boredom a new trio of questors is his best lookneeded. He's been a bit off with Leigh Possibly very unfortunately indeed for a while but she put it down Kit, he has taken to him growing up the goading from the token bully of his world and starting to become independent. Sebstumbled into declaring he's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hardll enter as a team. Then Daan JanssenWhat chance does this friendless, a wealthy Dutch businessmanmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without trace.and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|isbnauthor=1473685745Saima Mir|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie MarshVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionThrillers|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an angry exchange - well, Simon organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simonthe second in a series I hadn's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasnt read didn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - thatstop me – I's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it'au fait'' with your medical acronymss good enough. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadnAnd that wasn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days oldproblem here. SoVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're drivingand I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|author=Louie StowellStuart Douglas|title=OtherlandLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Myra During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loudLeggit', bright and hates rulesleading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, while Rohan is very politebut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, serious and worries about he enlists the tiniest thingshelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Their only connection? Being born They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer's day. And so, every year their families get together seemingly, a link to celebrate death during the two's birthday/deathdaySecond World War. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa is taken by there really a link between the fairy queen, deaths? And will they must journey manage to the Otherland, a magical realm full of fairies, vampires, dragons, and Gods. It's going to be the worst night of uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives.?|isbn=17880004631803368209
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|isbn=walker14B0CYV674G2|title=The Coldest Case Swanton Morley (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelJohn Tanner)|author=Martin WalkerDavid Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies police station shouting that chief of police Bruno Courreges had he hasn't killed the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty yearsman. The A body at the bottom of a young male was found in the woods but freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he was never identified and his killer never brought 's been stabbed to justicedeath. What if an artist could recreate the face DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the skull and the resulting publicity birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be used to identify grateful for an easy answer but the young man? J-J calls the skull words 'Oscarperverse' and has a picture on his door: 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he sees it every time 's determined to keep going - probably because he leaves his office: he doesncan't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justiceget any sleep at home.
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|authorisbn= Martha Leigh1787333175|title= Invisible Ink: A Family MemoirYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating= 5|genre= BiographyPopular Science|summary= Martha Leigh begins her I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book talking about a childhood spent in a slightly eccentric{{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Her father is a Cambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits glorious mixture of insight into the complete correspondence workings of the philosopher Jean-Jacques RousseauNHS, his lifehumour and autobiography. ''You Don's workt Have to be Mad.. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in '' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the practicalities work of lifea psychiatrist. There is love I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the house but also darker undercurrents that laughter is directed at a situation rather than a child does not fully understand but knows person and it is therealways delivered with empathy and understanding.|isbn=1800460384
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|author=Darren ShanOnyi Nwabineli|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Allow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock Anuri spent her childhood on display to the Forgotten Cryptworld, from which the Departed communicate with the Mergethanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Archie now has ''grop'where she posted every step of Anuri' s childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to think take down the content abouther. But before that Anuri is battling alcoholism, soireesfailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Soirees! Archie Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, much to Inezwho is the new focus of Ophelia's amusement, doesn't even know what one of those isonline empire. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed Can she save her sister, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance and perhaps herself and her relationship with Inez was crushed in her father at the first volume of this series. same time?|isbn=B093J9TF730861546873
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|author= Adrian TchaikovskyDavid Chadwick|title= Shards Headload of EarthNapalm|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionThrillers|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architectIt's reshaping. ThenSeptember 1973 in Hicks, just when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanishedCalifornia. And so, the memories Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, LA and humanity begins to fracture Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with defence contractor are the Architectsmain local employers but otherwise, does there's not want to be rememberedmuch of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. ButLife is quiet, when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlightuntil.... As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=1848458428Tom Percival|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary KubicaThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Eleven years agoWill's life is difficult, in a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - againmultitude of ways. His wife was in He is bullied because he has 'the habit of going out for a run late at night. It was wrong shoes', he has the only time she had for herself when she didnwrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful enough money for even the unquestioning affection most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he gave herlost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappearedThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband to look after her disabled babyand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. Ten days laterAnd yet, he still has a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappearedtiny amount of hope. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula He is good at art, and she'd seemed clings to be under some strain for the last couple moments of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in joy when he is drawing, that feel like a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left light at the end of a note saying that her daughterlong, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for herdark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|author=Nicolas BouvierSylvie Cathrall|title=The Japanese ChroniclesA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=TravelScience Fiction|summary= It never does to start a review of There are few greater joys than a book with a quote from the blurb, but sometimes it's unavoidable. Le Monde reviewed this book, at some point, with the words ''what the old master craftsmen would call which lives up to a masterpiece.'' It is precisely thatcompelling premise. A masterpiece in the sense of the craft as well as the art of writing. I'm going to hesitate to call it 'travel writing' because And this is as much a history one of Japan, a mythology-primer for the Japanese culture as it is a personal response to living and travelling in the countrythem. |isbn=19060110440356522776
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|authorisbn=Genevieve Gornichec0008517061|title=The Witch's HeartDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named AngrbodaFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She hides in There’s perhaps a forest at little uncertainty about the edge future of the nine worldshis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, remembering nothing as moving in together would mean a lot of her past compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live move in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before reservations about whether or not this is the future she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall wants for Loki's charms, herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, present and another son that's a snakeputting the future on the back burner.|isbn=1789097061
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|isbn=17885497591786482126|title=The Distant DeadJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Lesley ThomsonElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was December 1940 and twenty-four-yeargoing to hold seventy-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening five 'with her friend Idaluxury' leaving her threeapartments -year-old son, Williamwhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, at home Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with her parentsDCI Harry Nelson. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the family than the shame of illegitimacyIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and WilliamNelson doesn's) on t, that she is pregnant with his child as a better footingresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. She was going to meet her well-to-do fiancéHer condition will be obvious before long, hoping not least because Ruth is prone to persuade him to come and meet her family the following week. Later, her body would be found in the bombed-out home where he had taken hersudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=15294072490008551324|title=The Perfect LieDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jo SpainNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happy's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. She Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: thathe's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married prepared to tell the police where the body of a cop but she missing person is buried and who was hopefulresponsible for her death. They'd been married for six months This person, he promises, is someone big and life was good with a decent apartment by it will be worth the sea in Newport, Long Islandpolice doing what he wants. The knock on And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the door was insistent remainder of his sentence and when to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it was opened, Danny? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officers. Danny took one look, turned, walked even prepared to do the open window other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and jumped to his death anyone who works with him is kept well away from the fourth floor. Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husbandwhat's murderhappening.
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|isbn=15230927340008405026|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming SpaceStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Eliza Van CortJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=It''She brings a hugs sixteen years since nine-kickyear-thunderclap that every woman needs in old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her lifebed one summer night. Again She was never found and again and againthe investigation ground to a halt.'' (Alma Derricks Now, her mother, former CMOHelena, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravelyher father are dead in their bed. It is to live the life youInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there've always wanted.'' Sometimes s something about the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in positioning of the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my deskbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Now - What looked as though it was going to be clear an open- this book and-shut case is not now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manuals disappearance: itothers (such as Derwent's something far more effectiveboss, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they Una Burt) are big menless convinced.
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|authorisbn=Darren Shan0571379877|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with our herohis upper-class friends, Archie, back in London in the world of the BornRobert and Stanza. It Robert's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where hea theatre director. He's beenalso self-obsessed, demanding, or slipping back into ordinary life handsome and forgetting about Inez entitled and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has done his bestbeen in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston Most men in Big BenRobert's clock tower and except for fiddling with position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that sneaky master lock a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awaya dark passageway.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ
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|isbnauthor=0008444501Jo Callaghan|title=The Answer to Everything|author=Luke KennardLeave No Trace
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Life should have been good for Emily. She had When a man is found crucified on the top of a lovely husbandhill in Nuneaton, StevenDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, who was a speech therapist. We'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other and don't even sleep in the same bedAI detective Lock. It isn't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that she's sharing a bed their first live case together, having previously been very successful with one of her children as it's the only way to get him to sleep during the nightseveral cold cases. Arthur But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and Emily has very high profile case that draws a job lot of unwanted attention to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a weektheir AI Future Policing project. They've not long moved into a new home Will they be able to solve the case in Criterion Gardens: it's time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a trendy area that has been gentrified and it's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=02419851371399613073|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)Moral Injuries|author=Cara HunterChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the firstday of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, called there by Jancis Appleby which is a bonus when you aim to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynoldsbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by Laura is a professor on perfectionist and a studenttrauma doctor. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was Anjali is the alleged perpetrator doing in free spirit of the room before group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they'd even got the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it''was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fishers going to end in tragedy. Just to complicate matters further, CalebWe don's mother is Petra Newson, t know who suffered the tragedy or the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name in Artificial Intelligenceconsequences. She has Twenty-five years later there will be an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by eerily similar event that will impact the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followersthree friends. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipmentThis time, this is going to be it''very'' publics their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Tattoo on my BrainConfession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=34.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=AlzheimerIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is a disease that slowly wears away your identity the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and sense of selfinjustice. I have There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been directly affected by this cruel disease, as have manyto the London School of Economics. Your memories Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and personality worn away like he has a statue over time affected the elementsfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. It seems as if nature wants He also realised that final victory over you and your dignitymost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. This is It was his ability at what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirablewas, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Daniel Gibbs is Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''trader.|isbn=1108838936
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|isbn=16358623531035021803|title=The Sandalmaking WorkshopAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Rachel CorryC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldnIt't really believe it, mainly because I'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the average home was likely to be able to contain but I was intriguedEnglish country village where she grew up. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - She's back now because of a small fire destroyed some of request for help from her shoesbeloved aunt, Carole. One pair had come apart Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and she could see how the sandal was constructedcircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Then Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she realised that she couldn't afford to replace all feels, let her shoesdown badly. Could Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she combine these two facts has not felt able to create a new and worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few people her first pair and they all either wanted to know how to do it - be near the man or if pursue the profession she'd make them a pairloved. A new career After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was bornmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1787332098AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped WorldAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Henry ManceBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=''When we do think Opening up new ways of thinking about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions the shape of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough seriesthings to come.''
I was going to argue've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. I meanWell, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meatmust confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild 've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but then I realised 'm left with the feeling that I was quibbling for the sake it's all getting away from me. Some of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals is - frankly - and I consider myself an animal loverquite frightening. If Of course, I had to choose between could research the company of humans possibilities and the company of animals, probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I would probably choose 'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the animalslatest conspiracy theorist. I insisted that needed people I knew I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but could trust and who could deliver information in a way I was initially reluctantcould understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. I eat cheeseHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, eggsthere is Sam, chicken a wartime photographer and fish Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and I needed keeps on venturing out of her room to try to either do so without guilt or change my choicescapture what's happened through her photography. I suspected that making Although they only ever talk over the decision would not phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be comfortablerescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Ananda Devi1529153298|title=Eve Out The List of Her RuinsSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=At It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not even 200 pageswhat's worrying Miv's family, Eve Out of Her Ruins is one of the shortest books Ithough. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've read in a long whilebeen murdered, but itto have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's one of upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the most dramaticfamily 'Down South'. It When you's also told in re from Yorkshire, Down South is a way that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing and pulls very few punchesfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the descriptions stark move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and unromanticshe'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=0993009344
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