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|isbnauthor=0760373558Max Boucherat|title=Nordic Knits|author=Sue FlandersThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=I was so delighted by Sue FlandersWe meet Lori on the first evening she' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hats got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, Mittenbabysitter poorly, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didn't need any persuading mother at all to pick up work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her ''Nordic Knits''lonesome. This delivers fortyWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norwaybuilding, Sweden and Icelandcritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. There are But first Lori has a few sweaters or jackets but the majority of patterns are for smaller items such as mittens, glovestiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, hats and bagsthen she finds something even more spooky. All are bright For the server she and cheerful her bestie and very cosynobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482
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|isbnauthor=1916072038Jenny Lecoat|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie CresswellBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=We meet part Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811occupation. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother have travelled in some discomfort waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from their home at Ecklingtonthe Nazis, to and the house in the hollow. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She war is practiced at subterfugefinally over, at concealing, beneath a facade their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of respectability, him. But will the deplorable truth''. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to do come as she a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''. Then we are the informer who told of the birth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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|authorisbn=Matthieu Aikins1529428289|title=The Naked Don't Fear A Grave in the WaterWoods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=It's easy Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear discover the identities of the Water bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't actually fictionenough to worry about, because it reads very much like a wellthe Dordogne River - normally tranquil -paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and flowing at times painful journeyrecord levels. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But it It's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality not just the local autumn rains that allows have caused the reader problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to perfectly envisage release water and St Denis faces the environments and people describedpossibility of a devastating flood.|isbn= B09N9157T6
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger152919640X|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder
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|summary=This is the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander BlixThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, a police officerJessica Holby, was murdered live on television and Emma Ramm, a crime journalistit seems that there's only one suspect. In this book we find that when one of BlixHe's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to contact her superior, BlixJessica Holby. Before she can reach him, however, she is murdered, and BlixShe's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered tooseriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. We then find ourselves Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a few days later with Blix and Rammbusy, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot live television studio - and killed someone, Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and Ramm saw it all happenshe was dead within minutes. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover It was soon clear that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003this was no accident.
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|authorisbn=Daniel Abraham0008385068|title=Age of AshThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley
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|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary= We meet Alys under It's midsummer on the most northerly of OldgateDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's four bridges, all headed up by Francesca Meadows. she has a knife in The Manor was her hand ancestral home and a meeting that she dreads's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Meanwhile Her husband, Owen, was the City of Kithamar architect and work is at a point in the turning still ongoing on parts of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possiblesite. It The heat is the night between the funeral of a Prince oppressive and amongst the coronation of his successorguests are enemies as well as friends. For Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a night the Kithamar body is un-ruledfound.|isbn=0356515427
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|isbnauthor=1529095522Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Interview|author=C M EwanWild East|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Kate Harding Written in verse, this is going for an interview for her dream job Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at Edge Communicationsa mostly white school. It The move is initiated by Ronny's the last interview of the day at one of Londonmum who is worried for Ronny's newest office buildings safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and Edge have fitted keep himself out their part of the building trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be something special. Maggiepart of a poetry writing workshop group and, Kate's recruitment agentslowly, is keen Ronny begins to see that Kate approaches the interview in a good state connections between rap and poetry, and the power of mind: Kate assumes that this is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets the job - creativity and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlycrafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK1635866847|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Lavender Companion|author=Neil LancasterJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Loch Torridon It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this isthe book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'' , I visited the back of beyondauthor's [https: //www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's not even any light pollution which is why it was a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugshomepage. Jimmy McLeish thought I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that he was onto cake viscerally. (There's a nice little earnerrecipe in the book, only which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to find that Macca, make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the man he thought he was working with, is deadcorners of pages. His remains You suspect that smears of butter would never not be founda problem. The delivery is hijacked by Davie and Callum. As the story progresses weI ''loved''ll get to know them quite wellthis book already.
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|isbnauthor= B09NDJ77LMRob Keeley|title=Me and My Shadow|author=Deborah StoneChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He'What happens when someone is pushed too far s a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and they begin to lose he writes for their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off the shadows of her past pleasure and attempts enjoyment, not to repair decades worth of painlecture or hector.''
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|isbnauthor=1529409659Jenny Valentine|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsUs in the Before and After
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|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating Elk and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongings. She was intrigued by the discovery of Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a picture of her own house: it was an old photograph, taken once in misty conditions and on the back it said 'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was borna lifetime connection. It was before her parents were married. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to find They meet as children one day on a trip out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the country was in lockdowntime. Ruth But then chance brings them back together, and Kate they are restricted to the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and continue with her university teaching duties. The good thing was meeting Zoetragic, the new tenant from next door whom and now they got to know whilst clapping for carersmust work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Helen Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a popular activistteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anyway Unfortunately for Kit, Helen the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is so popular that the United States government one team has made her its Ambassador been retired, eaten, and a new trio of Wokequestors is needed. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the government, including goading from the Shaming Conference token bully of his world and the Permissible Entertainment Committee stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free- ''for indoctrinating zone have in actually managing that, and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how could he possibly hope to have it''. Ouch!succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|isbnauthor=B09D95TRKZSaima Mir|title=The Wedding Murders|author=Sarah LinleyVengeance|rating=43.5
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|summary=Libby Steele I was hoping to get a permanent job with instantly intrigued by the newspaper and premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the case she was covering was her big chancenorth of England run by a Muslim woman. It The fact that it was even more important to her than the celebrity wedding she was to attend the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthew. She was leaving her seven-year-old son, Patrick with her sister, Emma, second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and heading off to it needn't be a grand manor house hotel in the North Yorkshire countrysidehindrance if it's good enough. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter and former member of the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected And that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phonesa problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|isbnauthor=1838226834Stuart Douglas|title=Carried Away With Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Carnival|author=Ed BoxallDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=It was one During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparentsa reservoir. They're there The police seem happy to undo all assign it as an accidental death, but something about the good that parents dowhole thing bothers Lowe, so and he enlists the trips out were always so much funhelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. A young boy was going to They travel across the carnival with his Grandadcountry during their days off filming, who told him: ''It'll be brilliantuncovering more possible murders and, just rememberseemingly, don't let go of my handa 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=1803368209
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|isbn=1529135362B0CYV674G2|title=The Long WeekendSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Gilly MacmillanDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It was a long drive to the weekend retreat seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in Northumbria, right up near the Scottish borders mud and to make it worse the three husbands had all blood - for one reason or another - had to delay making and carrying a knife, comes into the trip until police station shouting that he hasn't killed the Saturday morningman. Jane and Ruth had known each other for A body at the bottom of a long time but Emily was a bit of an outsiderfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. She and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the other two women. The friendship birth of the group went back to school dayshis daughter Samantha. Paul had coached rugby at You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the school where Mark, Toby words 'perverse' and Rob 'John Tanner' were pupilsmade for each other. Mark had married Jane, and Toby is RuthHe's husband. And Rob? Well, Robsleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's deaddetermined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=gareth_steel1787333175|title=Never You Don't Have to be Mad to Work With AnimalsHere|author=Gareth SteelBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=Animals and WildlifePopular Science|summary=I donwas tempted to read 't often begin my reviews with a warning but with 'You Don'Never t Have to be Mad to Work With AnimalsHere'' it seems after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to be appropriateHurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. Stories of a vet 's life have proved popular since 'You Don'All Creatures Great and Smallt Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not moved from physical problems to mental illness and the companion volume you've been work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for. As a TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that humour in this setting but the book laughter is not suitable for younger readers directed at a situation rather than a person and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that he's written it to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals is always delivered with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading empathy and eatingunderstanding.
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|isbnauthor=1787634884Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Herd|author=Emily EdwardsAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Our story opens in December 2019Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, before most of us had even heard of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come thanks to be a major issue. Weher step-mother Ophelia're in Farley County Courts increasingly popular presence on social media, where Elizabeth she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony influencer deals and Ash Kohli, basically, monetary gain. As they were best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is major slowly trying to regain her confidence and thatto get her life back, regardless of suing her step-mother to take down the outcomecontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, this is not going failing to work out well start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for anyonedoing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|author=Annabel AbbsDavid Chadwick|title=Headload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Language of FoodWrong Shoes
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|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=Eliza Acton Will's life is difficult, in a poet who multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has never had 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery bookmost basic of things like food, she recruits Ann Kirbyand his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a local woman with cash-in-hand job on a troubled home building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's lifeseems bleak in every direction. Together And yet, they testhe still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, craft, refine and reshape clings to the world moments of domestic cookeryjoy when he is drawing, reinventing that feel like a light at the recipe book and changing the face end of cookery writing forevera long, dark tunnel.|isbn=13985022271398527122
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|author=Louie StowellSylvie Cathrall|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide Letter to Being Goodthe Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile and in the physical form of a middle-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother of the two. Loki has There are few greater joys than a month book which lives up to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and to prove it he has to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progresscompelling premise. But Loki And this is the kind one of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to be a walk in the park..them.right?|isbn=14063997520356522776
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|isbn=00084544420008517061|title=A Flicker Death in the Darka Lonely Place|author=Stacy WillinghamStig Abell
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe DavisFormer Metropolitan Police detective, a medical psychologistJake Johnson, is completing a session with a new patienthas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of getting his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her through the trauma. You seedaughter Diana, Chloe knows what it's like as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to have a traumatic childhood. Her father Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is Richard Davis, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and future she wants for herself and her mother handed it to daughter? For the police. Dick Davis is moment they’re enjoying life in the Louisiana State Penitentiary present and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for putting the future on the last twenty years. Her mother is in a care homeback burner.
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|authorisbn=Christopher Edge1786482126|title=Escape RoomThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=I've seen junior variants of Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'Choose Your Own Adventureluxury' format cover escape rooms – apartments - when they discovered the process by which bones of a character or characters start by being trapped in child beneath a specific location, and have to solve problems in order to get their way outdoorway. There was no skull. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen Was this a prose book describing people in such an adventureritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with the regular second person narrative replaced by the firstDCI Harry Nelson. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to each other and booked into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at the game It's main officesdifficult as Ruth knows, where theybut Nelson doesn're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage t, that she is pregnant with such his child as a pastime, despite result of the ramped-up threat levelsone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, change much in the world not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of literature?|isbn=1788007964sickness.
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|isbn=17328987310008551324|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for AdultsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Michael Albanese Neil Lancaster
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|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxesIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. He had a box Neither side likes or has any respect for everything 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 meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! responsible for her death. It began with art suppliesThis person, he promises, stuffed toys is someone big and it will be worth the like: all police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the things which most children have in abundanceremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The Boynew Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's delight was happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happyFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. As he grew up She was never found and became the investigation ground to a Manhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and better boxesher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Look carefully at the pictures What looked as though it was going to be an open-and you'll see that one of them has -shut case is now a padlock.complex double murder. Kerrigan 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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|isbn=B09MN1526W0571379877|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)The Kellerby Code|author=Liz MistryJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's the third murder in the space of a few weeks and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagerstheatre director. DS Nikki Parekh He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first uses Edward to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of Bradfordrun errands for him. Only, this time, itEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's going drunkenly confided how he feels to be differentRobert. The body appears to Nikki to be Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that of her beloved nephew, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdown. It isnrelationship had begun between them but he't Haqibs not like most men: there are similarities but Edward is left to stumble upon the body is clad two of them kissing in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depressiona dark passageway.
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|author=Ally WilkesJo Callaghan|title=All the White SpacesLeave No Trace
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|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away When a man is found crucified on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for top of a fresh starthill in Nuneaton, and DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gendercase alongside her sidekick, without the disapproval and constraints of his parentsAI detective Lock. However It's their first live case together, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a funeral shroud over the expedition. Guiltfew days later, mistrust Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to prey on their darknessAI Future Policing project. If Jonathan is Will they be able to make it out of solve the Arctic winter alivecase in time, he or will have to face his demons once Kat find herself taken off the case and for all, or risk making the barrenpotentially, icy landscape his tomb.out of a career?|isbn=1789097835139851120X
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1399613073|title=QuicksilverMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=24.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was quarter of a three-day old foundlingcentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, and now which is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But bonus when this book starts he IS now ''subject you aim to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it be a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a derelict diner, find perfectionist and a gold coin worth a fortune, cash trauma doctor. Anjali is the value free spirit of it out of his bank the group and prepare for going on the lamshe becomes a GP. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and suggest heit's of interest going to themend in tragedy. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the discovery consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besideswill impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1542019885
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|isbn=00084416180241636604|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripeTrading Game: LGBTQ education.}}{{FrontpageA Confession|author=Sarah Ann Juckes|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleGary Stevenson
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|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Jasper is If you were to bring up an image of a little boy who has some strugglescity banker in your mind, and whilst weyou're never told why exactlyunlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, we can see that where he has anxiety and panic attackswas familiar with violence, poverty and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotionsinjustice. His big sister, Rosie, has There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been a huge support to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and writing he has a book facility with him, all about birds, that he numbers which most of us can read when he gets scared to help him calm downonly envy. His parents seem completely caught up in their business, and so it is Rosie he always turns He also realised that most rich people expect poor people tobe stupid. Even though she has gone away to University now It was his ability at what was, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she wouldessentially, and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to a card game which got him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in what they're sayingan internship with Citibank. Nothing seems to be right, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its song Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as they do together every Springa trader.|isbn=1398510890
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|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)1035021803|title=Red is My HeartThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
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|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been black 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 white Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and read in my housethe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. And so Arthur was this onethe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one wasshe feels, and islet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, black and white and redshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Yes After the split, he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceshe worked in a cafe, met and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks married James (on the rebound from the influence love of some striking visual ideasher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1913547183
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|isbn=1529135567AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=One Step Too FarAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Lisa GardnerBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It's five years since the stag weekend. Five 'Opening up new ways of them had set out: Tim (thinking about the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Josh. The first night they had plenty shape of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed things to wander offcome. The remaining four searched for him in vain and '' I've heard it was decided said that Tim'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, who was experienced I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in survival techniques, would go for helpmy lifetime. When help didnI't come ve kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the remaining three finally made their way back to townfeeling that it's all getting away from me. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign Some of Timit is - frankly - quite frightening. Every year, Tim's father, MartinOf course, I could research the possibilities and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timtalking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|author=Gunnar StaalesenSunny Singh|title=Bitter FlowersHotel Arcadia
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|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Varg Veum The Hotel Arcadia is a Norwegian Private Investigator who luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has just finished suddenly been violently taken over by a stint in rehab and is now returning to workterrorist group. However Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, the quiet job he's supposedly taken killing everyone on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into site, there is Sam, a murder investigationwartime photographer and Abhi, and a mystery around a missing womanthe hotel manager. Varg finds himself not only investigating these As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, but also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl he forms a bond with Sam who disappeared one night and was never found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear refuses to be linkedcowed by events, but and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what is 's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the linkphone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and how can Varg possibly unravel they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the truth?terrorists.|isbn=191319308X086154742X
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|authorisbn=Kia Ahankoob1529153298|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament List of SentinelsSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Graphic NovelsGeneral Fiction|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, each with its own strength and weakenessthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate've been murdered, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging but to one of eight countries led by Myriadhave 'disappeared's children and their descendants. But it didndoesn't sound quite work out like so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and her father wants to move the eight countries went to warfamily 'Down South'. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a solution is proposedfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Each of For Miv, the eight countries will send their greatest warriorsmove would mean leaving her best friend, known as sentinelsSharon, and she'll do anything to a single combat tournamentprevent that. The winner will take possession of all She's not worried about the rings and become the supreme ruler of Dunivadangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV
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