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|isbnauthor=0861541774David 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 Nye silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of Pheasantsnote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76}}{{Frontpage|author=Steve BurrowsTom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=DCI Domenic JejeuneWill's close friend and former colleaguelife is difficult, Danny Maik, has taken in a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Truemanmultitude of ways. Maik was involved in a street brawl - He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he would later maintain that has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was facing working a man armed with cash-in-hand job on a knife - building site and he killed a Ghurkahad an accident. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light Throw into that suggested mix the fact that he might have planned to murder the manhis mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. Now And yet, he could be facing the death penaltystill has a tiny amount of hope. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing He is good at art, and clings to help as any interference from another police force could provoke the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny light at allthe end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|author=Alexander McCall SmithSylvie Cathrall|title=The Perfect Passion CompanyA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is There are few greater joys than a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative book which lives up to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored servicecompelling premise. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie And this is coming out one of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charmthem. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=18469765960356522776
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|isbn=08117717410008517061|title=InstaKnits for BabyDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Melissa LeapmanStig Abell
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|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blanketsFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Some will be quick knits - others are There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of the 'longhis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, cosy afternoons as moving in front together would mean a lot of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete compromise: does Jake give up his off- less than five hours, five grid and relaxing life to ten hours, ten move in with Livia or does Livia move to twenty hours Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and more than twenty hours. her daughter? All For the projects are attractive, modern moment they’re enjoying life in the present and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being pickyputting the future on the back burner.
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1786482126|title=The Bad Weather FriendJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|genre=ParanormalCrime|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his Builders were demolishing an old house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffinin Norwich -sized object the site was going to his home, and ithold seventy-five 'luxury's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is apartments - when they discovered the thing that has trashed his house! bones of a child beneath a doorway. The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luckThere was no skull. He is Was this a nice person. ritual killing or murder? A really nice personInevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friendIt's difficult as Ruth knows, a bad weather friend called Spikebut Nelson doesn't, who has been sent to help him since Benny that she is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being pregnant with his child as a good personresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Spike Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is going prone to take care sudden bouts of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they aresickness.|isbn=1662500491
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|authorisbn=Adam Stower0008551324|title=Murray and BunThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=Confident Readers Crime|summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of approach the twopolice. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a bad magician's catmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bunhe promises, is someone big and it will be worth the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the regular back garden, but into a world remainder of frightening adventure his sentence and whiffsto get an early parole date. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one Not much bigger than Murray was, to be honestask, but heis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's turned up even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and heanyone who works with him is kept well away from what'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249s happening.
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|isbn=B0C47LV1PC0008405026|title=FragilityA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Mosby WoodsJane Casey|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= Can you make It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is s something about the positioning of the question should you make bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it? Or was going to be an open-and-shut case is the question if you did, would it land? The catch now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragilityexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent' is set as the city of Portlands boss, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemicUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=15294317350571379877|title=The Winter VisitorKellerby Code|author=James HenryJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex Edward Jevons is bitingly colda working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprisingRobert and Stanza. HeRobert'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for s a decadetheatre director. The return has come about because heHe's had a letter from his exalso self-wifeobsessed, demanding, saying that she's ill handsome and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear entitled and sent uses Edward to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierrarun errands for him. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice Edward has been in the wondrous library we start by visiting love with him, Stanza since their university days - and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runshe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing Most men in the family. A few short years ago, EliRobert's parents were both lost to the titular race, position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – relationship had begun between them but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope he's not like most men: Edward is left to dare to enter what he most hates, with stumble upon the sole aim the prize two of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his granthem kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=0571382231
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|isbnauthor=178763681XJo Callaghan|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando MurrinLeave No Trace
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took When a teaching job at man is found crucified on the top of a residential cookery school hill in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken armcase alongside her sidekick, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his ownAI detective Lock. The one thing he hadnIt't expected was for someone to turn up deads their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. UnfortunatelyBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, he was the person who discovered the body Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and everyone knows a very high profile case that the police consider that person draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the prime suspect.case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Sarah Marsh1399613073|title=A Sign of Her OwnMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=After Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a bout quarter of scarlet fever as a childcentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, Ellen Lark loses her hearingwhich is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Suddenly plunged into Laura is a world of silence, everything about her life changesperfectionist and a trauma doctor. Living in a time when Anjali is the use free spirit of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a school where she is taught drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to lip read, but physically restrained from signingend in tragedy. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell We don't know who has been teaching suffered the deaf and using a system called Visible Speechtragedy or the consequences. At Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the same three friends. This time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionageit's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1035401614
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|isbn=18038167590241636604|title=The UnravellingTrading Game: A Confession|author=Will GibsonGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionAutobiography|summary=ItIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's 2038 re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and Joe is a bored cop policing jeans replaces the wealthy pin-stripe suit and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with his background is the AI system that now runs everythingEast End, making life easier for manywhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and riots start to spreadinjustice. Finally, Joe gets There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to do some real policing. In the aftermath London School of the rioting global pop star Suki Economics. Stevenson is kidnapped bright - extremely bright - and Joe is assigned he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to bring her homebe stupid. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan It was his ability at what was, essentially, a British superfan and tech nerdcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, is also on the casethis turned into permanent employment as a trader. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?
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|isbn=15294212841035021803|title=Laying Out the BonesThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Kate WebbC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was one 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwaverequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. In a gullyFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, a human skeleton came to the surface is dead and forensic testing proved the body circumstances seem suspicious, to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earliersay the least. He'd Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been a known drug user and had learning disabilitiesback to the village: Arthur, she feels, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convincedlet her down badly. Geary was a townieEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections she has not felt able to be near the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at man or pursue the timeprofession she loved. Lockyer After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and DC Gemma Broad married James (on the rebound from the love of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you her life, who was murdered) and Freya and me) investigateJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=0571379559AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The House of Broken BricksAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Fiona WilliamsBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=''The House Opening up new ways of Broken Bricksthinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is the story what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of four peopletechnology in my lifetime. Tess HembryI've kept up reasonably well with what's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, advantageous to me but instead, she lives in I'm left with the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, feeling that it's stood the passage all getting away from me. Some of time, storms and floodsit is - frankly - quite frightening. Her husbandOf course, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete I could research the delivery rounds - possibilities and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny the probabilities and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonnyend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's colouring reflects his motherm reading someone who knows what they's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his fatherre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins I needed people I knew I could trust and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nannywho could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=1529425867Sunny Singh|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon MasonHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=In OxfordThe 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, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descentSam, Balliol educated a wartime photographer and always exquisitely dressedAbhi, the hotel manager. D I Ryan WilkinsAs 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, son of Ryan and father keeps on venturing out of Ryan, is not. Heher room to try to capture what's not any of those thingshappened through her photography. He's whiteAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder they both wait to see if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men they will be rescued before they are just different sides of discovered by the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematicterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Mosby Woods1529153298|title=A Whirly Man Loses His TurnThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary= The West isnIt't the dominant force it once wass 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Governments are flailing Women have been disappearing. A war here Well, they've been murdered, a push for climate action therebut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. A feeling Miv's upset because she's overheard that nobody is in actual chargeher father wants to move the family 'Down South'. Imagine then When you're from Yorkshire, there was Down South is a man with precognitionfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Imagine For Miv, the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man move would be valuablemean leaving her best friend, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine thenSharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that this man loses this ability. What would governments do She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1anyone.
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|authorisbn=Alastair Humphreys1398524085|title=LocalHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|genre=Travel Crime|summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the worldCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. And then written about it. For this book he walked Her children, sons Niall, Paul and cycled very close to home Ollie and then wrote about ither daughter, Etty. As he says in his introductionare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, the book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small mapnot. Nature lossShortly afterwards, pollution, land use Etty and accessGreg, agriculturefind the body of Greg's father, the food systemDuncan Ackerley, rewilding…'' One of in the joys of river. It was an easy assumption for the book for me was police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody s little else they can do but get on with their lives and that there are some hard choices aheadwonder about what really happened.|isbn=1785633678
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|isbn=18051418721035906708|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too MuchDiva|author=Rob KeeleyDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|author=Christopher Edge
|title=Black Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled All big movie fans, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacherthey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, Miss Judsonand many, is really a safecrackermany snacks! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail However, Miss Judson and Ben go on as the run. But Al needs them for one last job...'' Goodness memovie starts, they very quickly realise that Miss Judson something about this new film format is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed very different, and they are swept up with a bad into an adventure they couldn'un like Al? We'll find outt even imagine. Luckily for Miss Judson But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret can they figure out what on earth is Ben, going on? Will they ever get back to the son of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some daycinema, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth savingto their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|isbnauthor=0760381267Rachel Greenlaw|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-SantiagoCompass and Blade
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|genre=LifestyleTeens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The most important part call of a garden is the one who enjoys itdeep, the answering beat in my heart.''.
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|isbnauthor=B0CP95J1CGMatthew Tree|title=Of Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark LinganeWe'll Never Know
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|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary= Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to go to the party but be different from his interest is piqued by the way it arrived. And it seems like father, a good opportunity to get out drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his room artistic passions all failed miserably and away from the online activities he makes a living atwho had endless crises of self confidence. So he makes Tim applied himself to his way therestudies, dodging the buses that make up most of the traffic cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefullyset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1454955546A G Slatter|title=Sugarless|author=Nicole M AvenaThe Briar Book of the Dead
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|genre=LifestyleFantasy|summary=''This isnThere't s a diet bookpart of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. The This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last thing anyone needs is another diet book. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''
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|isbn=15211298861529900360|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)The Ghost Orchid|author=Keith RedfernJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Greg MasonIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's just beginning fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to get ask for his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he chargeshelp on difficult cases. ItHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's t need the help of a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have psychologist only worked for a baby and theywhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware're both delighteds partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Joyce will be more delighted about She knew that the involvement was something that the baby when man she gets past the morning sicknessloved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in-law appears to have killed himselfBel Air. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling He was the heir to make ends meet an Italian shoe empire and her son she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not thrivingthe Italian. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death But which of them was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.primary target?
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|isbn=B0CK3MYJ561529395224|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Ann MacarthurSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
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|genre=Crime
|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's the 1990s close friend and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an oldally, Guy Trueman. He used to have Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a highknife -flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so and he's now set himself up as killed a private investigatorGhurka. 'Shades Initially, he faced a charge of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, manslaughter but where's the life experience evidence came to light that suggested that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked might have planned to look into somethingmurder the man. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossingNow he could be facing the death penalty. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - Domenic Jejeune can't understand what she was doing there - or how she do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could come to fall in front of provoke a train. Gregdiplomatic incident and wouldn's been asked to investigatet help Danny at all.
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|author=Katherine HoweAlexander McCall Smith|title=A True AccountThe Perfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Hannah Masury The Perfect Passion Company is living a dating agency in BostonEdinburgh, having been sent to live with a family who run by Ness and operating as an inn, and being made alternative to work there from all the online apps in providing a young agemore personal, tailored service. When Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she hears there could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to be take a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides trip to Canada to go and watchget away for a while. Enthralled Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death so jumps at the hands of two vicious pirateschance to come home to Edinburgh. She hides away, And so that they don't find and kill her toobegins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, and then bringing us to escape them completely she runs away an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to sea, dressing as a boy 44 Scotland Street and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boyIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. She soon finds herself Katie has no experience in the thick of things when there is running a mutiny on boardbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and from there we are caught up in 's always her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=08615474381846976596
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|authorisbn=Tananarive Due0811771741|title=The ReformatoryInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Historical FictionCrafts|summary= Gracetown, FloridaMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year Some will be quick knits -old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at others are of the Gracetown School for Boys'long, otherwise known as cosy afternoons in front of the Reformatoryfire' variety. It The projects are divided by the time they's a place with a brutal ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and dark reputationmore than twenty hours. But All the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrorsprojects are attractive, haunted by the boys modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations..me being picky.|isbn=1803366532}}
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|isbnauthor=1471180158Dean Koontz|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny ParkesThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for Benny is having a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brickterrifically bad day. Jamie's sonHe loses his job, Bohe loses his fiancee, 'has and his problems'house gets trashed. HeOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's asthmatic and possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the more you readthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrumvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's He is a frequent flier in the local nice person. A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to schoolreally nice person. Missed shifts or So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the need delivery to be away on time his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to pick Bo up help him since Benny is clearly under attack from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrongnefarious forces for being a good person. It was Spike is going to come to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a headwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|author=Harry AllenAdam Stower|title=Children of the SunMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers |summary= Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she Murray is supposed to be a talented singer. Life is hard humble, tidy and food friendly cat, one who is difficult able to come bysleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so Seo his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every eveningthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement not into the meagre rations regular back garden, but into a world of rice frightening adventure and kimchi at homewhiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=18051404930008561249
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|authorisbn=Edel RodriguezB0C47LV1PC|title=Worm: A Cuban American OdysseyFragility|author=Mosby Woods
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|genre=Graphic NovelsLiterary Fiction|summary=WeCan you make a 're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narratorYo birthing person's family weren't in the happiest of places herejoke? And if you could, an uncle refusing to be is the good soldier question should you make it? Or is the country demanded (especially as he question if you did, would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720}}{{Frontpage|author=K P O'Donnell|title=land? The Vital Link (A Spark in catch is that the Ashes)|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she answer for both could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renadawell be. Over half-a-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's legacy, building a world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of a group of salvagers called the Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=B0CKRYFRZM.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838954481|title=The Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was 'Fragility'' is set as the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of restrictions imposed during the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.covid pandemic
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