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|isbn=02419961040241636604|title=Coming to Find YouThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Jane CorryGary Stevenson
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|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father If you were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brotherto bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, Martin, has been convicted you're unlikely to think of their murdersomeone like Gary Stevenson. We first meet Nancy outside A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the courtEast End, after Martin receives a life sentencewhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' There was no posh public school on his CV - she's not but he had been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest London School of her lifeEconomics. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich Stevenson is bright - she inherited five million pounds from her mother extremely bright - and the papers are making the he has a facility with numbers which most of itus can only envy. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''He also realised that most rich bitch'' might not people expect poor people to be printed but is undoubtedly spokenstupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=15294136801035021803|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Martin WalkerC L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and BrunoIt's there twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to see the show with some friendsEnglish country village where she grew up. ItShe's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one back now because of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs a request for help from the scripther beloved aunt, Carole. LuckilyFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, his doctor is there dead and the man is whisked away in a helicoptercircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - Even though they were in business together as he's a senior government employeeantique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man who runs Frenchelon - or pursue the military has stepped inprofession she loved. One daughter lives nearby and anotherAfter the split, who lives she worked in Californiaa cafe, is flying in with some met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holidaylife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1529196388AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The TrialAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Rob RinderBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to by just about everyonecome.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, so I must confess that there was public uproar when he was murdered have been more than a few decades of technology in plain sight at the Old Baileymy lifetime. ThereI've kept up reasonably well with what's just one man in advantageous to me but I'm left with the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and feeling that it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murderall getting away from me. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron Some of Stag Court Chambers and it's Tayloris - frankly -Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent himquite frightening. KnightOf course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameronm reading someone who knows what they's recommendations to re talking about or the contrarylatest 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=Essie FoxSunny Singh|title=The FascinationHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers |summary= The Victorian era Hotel Arcadia is incredibly a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over-romanticised as by a setting for historical fiction (matched onlyterrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, perhapsthere is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, by the Second World War) which has often led hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to more than a few writers mishandling it. There's such a glut of media set in the era that care remotely for the hallmarks we've come to associate with it residents who are familiar to still alive in the point of being clichedhotel, hackneyed even. All this is simply he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. But despite thatcowed by events, something about it still grabs me – and something about this bookkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's description did happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as wellAbhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1914585526086154742X
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|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1529153298|title=Death in Fine ConditionThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=35|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fictionIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, and in particular a series called Sleuth Houndhonestly... ) She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, sometimes 'tweakingthey' themve been murdered, but to add value, in somewhat fraudulent wayshave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. One day Miv's upset because she discovers 's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the background of a photograph on move would mean leaving her drug dealer's living room wallbest friend, and so she sets about discovering where this collection isSharon, and how she can steal it! 'll do anything to prevent that. ItShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's a nextstopped talking -level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when the owner of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947to anyone.
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|isbn=15295079871398524085|title=The Repair Shop Craft BookHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop'Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. It's my goHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely -to programme when I want to be cheered upher husband, Alec, is not. After a hard dayShortly afterwards, thereEtty and Greg, find the body of Greg's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You seefather, Duncan Ackerley, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they holdriver. No expense appears It was an easy assumption for the police to be spared make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the desired resultguilt. Regular viewers know the experts The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and they're all brilliant at explaining wonder about what it is they're doingreally happened. But how did they start?
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|authorisbn=Nicole Jarvis1035906708|title=A Portrait in ShadowDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=''I want all We tend to think of Florence Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to know my name'' Cast out from RomeGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home December 1923 and where only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her future can thrive rather than stagnatefather changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. But as some as When she enters Florentine society was back in Athens - supposedly so that she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the selfcould get appropriate training for her voice -proclaimed guardians of she was raised under the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture made no secret of her preference for centuries and guard it above all else. To themher elder sister, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their societyJackie.|isbn=1803362340
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|isbnauthor=B0BVDC2VWHChristopher Edge|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William FrankBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=The village is isolated Lucas and poor. It's surrounded by his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a Witching Forest. And place that has the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicinesnickname of 'The Black Hole'. The black wood All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the forest provides heat and warmthmovie starts, roofs on homesthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even gallows, if neededimagine. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in But as they lurch from one film genre to the village and that next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the reason Volushkacinema, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated. and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
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|author=Amanda CraigJames Sherwood Metts|title=Three GracesPlanet Storyland
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-Things have been a bit sticky for the-nation novelEarthlings. ThereAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day re paid to do and capture it, crafting an image of the country other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing they were beginning to get used to all this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre technological change and starting to think of contemporary social fiction at this pointother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural Life was pretty much shut down and lived-in, never making them ciphers for along with it, all the many daily social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselvesinteractions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn= 140871468X1736128426
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|isbnauthor=1448309379Matthew Tree|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=David MarkWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It's something of a surprise Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to find that you're deadbe different from his father, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on a break with your wife drunk and children, but that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoychronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. Whilst he was relieved So Tim applied himself to find that he was stillhis studies, officially, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in the early hours of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aectorachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=0957181167A G Slatter|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk Briar Book of Brian Lewis|author=Alan Marshallthe Dead
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|genre=ArtFantasy|summary='' There are few positive things which can be said about 's a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but part of me that wants to keep this timejust to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, in trying all mine, at last. I just want to avoid looking at enjoy it for a problem I found myself looking more closely at while.'' Within a couple of pictures on remote mountain pass, far away from the walls - and was completely taken by world, lies Silverton; a town under the work protection of Brian Lewis. I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions the Briar's, a family of this book witches who protect the town and the print I wanted was ‘not available’wider world from the Darklands. OhThough she has always wished for magic, dear Ellie Briar is the first non- then witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a few doors down from steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the apartmenttown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, I found a gift shop Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a stack maelstrom of brand new books - chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and a framed print of determine what to do as the picture I wantedBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|authorisbn=Simon Fox1529900360|title=DeadlockThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his shift help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the forcehelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, and then suddenly rings ArchieDelaware's partner, demanding he fetch who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something from a secret place, and join him on that the runman she loved needed. They get togetherThe next case did look simple, but barely begin to smell though. Two lovers were murdered in the whiff swimming pool of Southern trains when a remote property in Bel Air. He was the father heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined married to keep away from his colleagues, an extremely rich man and it's not the bearer Italian. But which of a whole heap of questions.|isbn=1839944420them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Shalini Boland1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Silent BrideSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Alice Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Seth are a match made Rowlands didn't want to follow in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsomehis footsteps, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husbandparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-materialcall put on his father's life. She is all When he was seventeen he could possibly want in took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… vet and so was convinced this was the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and setjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. When the muchIt hadn't -anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming as with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face so many students - been his approaching bridedream since he was a child. If anything, Alicehe's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her d wanted to become his wifebe a professional footballer.|isbn=1662507089
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|authorisbn=Mark Edwards0861541774|title=Keep Her SecretA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Matthew DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and Helena are former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in IcelandSingapore to meet up with an old ally, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first metGuy Trueman. The alienMaik was involved in a street brawl -landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breathhe would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this momenthe killed a Ghurka. Initially, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge he faced a charge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the rockface with just man. Now he could be facing the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death belowpenalty. Convinced she is going Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes help as any interference from another police force could provoke a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, diplomatic incident and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helenawouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=166250893X
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|isbnauthor=B0BYF82CXTAlexander McCall Smith|title=Semi-Detached|author=Deborah StoneThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''Bill The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and Amanda are living operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a semi-detached housemore personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, stuck in as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a depressing rut while. Katie is coming out of boredom and disappointmenta break up with a bad boyfriend, when Terry and Fiona – glamorousso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, successful and very much in bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the couples befriend each other and life appears Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to improve for both pairscharm. But all is not what it seems Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.'there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=17876360030811771741|title=The Girls of SummerInstaKnits for Baby|author=Katie BishopMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary=It was Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the islandfire' variety. Rachel wasnThe projects are divided by the time they't exactly innocent but she wasll take to complete - less than five hours, perhapsfive to ten hours, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started ten to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather twenty hours and more than warytwenty hours. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her All the projects are attractive, modern and by that time she was obsessed by himuseable. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partiedI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.
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|isbnauthor=1529135389Dean Koontz|title=The Fall|author=Gilly MacmillanBad Weather Friend
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|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned homeBenny is having a terrifically bad day. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass BarnHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. TheyOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it'd not been in s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the architect-designed thing that has trashed his house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used ! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted uponthis bad luck. He is a nice person. Some of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they shouldA really nice person. It had all come about through So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a ten-million-pound lottery win good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and they were still getting used to having that sort will certainly take care of moneyBenny's enemies, if he, too. EventuallyBenny, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with and Harper (a wound to his 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=Alan ParksAdam Stower|title=To Die in JuneMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=What first seems like the unfortunateMurray is supposed to be a humble, accidental death of a homeless man on the streetstidy and friendly cat, suddenly starts one who is able to feel like something more sinister as another body is discoveredsleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, and then anotherwhatever takes his fancy next of the two. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoyBut he's a bad magician's cat, but all the more so because his own father is favourite bun has been turned into a down-hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and-the catflap they both use can chuck them out alcoholic, with no fixed abodenot into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and he has been for yearswhiffs. At the same This time as facing these possible murdersround it drops them into a Viking land, Harry where a troll hunter is also dealing with a move to a different police stationexpected – well, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missingone much bigger than Murray was, only no record of the boy having existed can to be found. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story honest, but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?'s turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=18053007840008561249
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|authorisbn=Laura NoakesB0C47LV1PC|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarFragility|author=Mosby Woods
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'Love, I'd readjoke? And if you could, was supposed to be a light and weightless feelingis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, but I had always longed would it land? The catch is that the answer for gravity''both could well be.... no.
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|isbn=15293828231529431735|title=The Last PassengerWinter Visitor|author=Will DeanJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers It'Cazs February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Petereturn all the more surprising. TheyHe're off d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''decade. CazThe return has come about because he's sisterhad a letter from his ex-wife, Gemma, reckons saying that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasnshe't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket s ill and she doesnhasn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They've not been a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementialive. It's going hard to be goodfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, isn't stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is ita warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|author=Lex CroucherAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was Eli is a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestlybusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, it lifted my spirits and in the evening a most delightful wayhelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you seeEli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in love with Bridget (the kingdomfamily. A few short years ago, Eli's only female knight) parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe- something that Art discovers from her private diariestrotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. And then This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant alliesbad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, creating Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the subterfuge sole aim the prize of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentsmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=15266517930571382231
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|authorisbn=Emily Critchley178763681X|title=One Puzzling AfternoonKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
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|summary=84 year old Edie has lived Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in the same small town for almost her whole life, Belgravia. He didn't really want to but now she is facing celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a move as her son wants to move to another house way of getting both men and bring Edie women to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memorydo what he wanted. However, Edie is tormented by Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the memory of her childhood friend, Lucyschool to assist Paul, who went missing over 60 years agohad a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened problems - are all that time agohis own. After The one thing he hadn'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she t expected was the last time she saw her, she starts for someone to find pockets of memories coming back to herturn up dead. And yet as she remembers Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the past, she is forgetting more body and more in her day everyone knows that the police consider that person to day lifebe the prime suspect. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250
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|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)Sarah Marsh|title=Thirty Days A Sign of DarknessHer Own
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|genre=Thrillers General Fiction|summary=Hannah presents After a bout of scarlet fever as an unlikeablea child, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsEllen Lark loses her hearing. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way Suddenly plunged into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fictionsilence, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could writeeverything about her life changes. Cue Living in a time when the bet that use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she cannot live up is taught to that accusationlip read, but physically restrained from signing. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to IcelandFrom here, where she is put ends up for in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a wintry month away from it allsystem called Visible Speech. Just At the same time, Bell is working on the point of despairing – about her writingother inventions and ideas, about the people and the lack Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…espionage.|isbn=19145856151035401614
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|isbn=18045456001803816759|title=The MonkUnravelling|author=Tim SullivanWill Gibson|rating=54|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=The body in the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditch. He'd been savagely beaten. It's 2038 and Joe is a while before D S George Cross bored cop policing the wealthy and the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominicpeaceful New York City. He'd been missing Joe longs for a few days bit of adventure and certainly hadn't asked permission to leave his abbeyget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. As But then something goes horribly wrong with the team gradually unpick the monk's past it becomes clear AI system that he'd been well-loved as an investment bankernow runs everything, making life easier for many, brotherand riots start to spread. Finally, neighbour Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and friendJoe is assigned to bring her home. HeJoe isn'd t the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also been very wealthy but had given on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder himhacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?
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|authorisbn=Lauren Bravo1529421284|title=PrelovedLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary= Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a big number that starts with gully, a four human skeleton came to the surface and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-fortyforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Having He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a mid-life crisistownie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Catharsis is key Lockyer and Gwen has decided now is DC Gemma Broad of the time Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to take back her life'|isbn=1398510629you and me) investigate.
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|authorisbn=Cath Howe0571379559|title=My Life on FireThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
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|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Ren's family home 'The House of Broken Bricks'' is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everythingthe story of four people. She doesnTess Hembry't have any of her clothess roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboardbut instead, and now she is living at her grandmother's lives in the house where they can't touch anythingon the riverbank, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eatbuilt of broken bricks. When she goes back to school she discovers that Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes passage of their livestime, to display things that are important to them storms and show who they are as a personfloods. But Ren has nothing Her husband, Richard, struggles to put in a boxgrow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and so she finds herself starting to steal thingsbring in sufficient money. Small thingsThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, things the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that people might not really missthey're related, not much less twins and there's an assumption when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds Max is out what with his mother that she is doing?|isbn=1839942835's his nanny.
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|isbn=00085170101529425867|title=Death Under a Little SkyLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Stig AbellSimon Mason|rating=4.5
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|summary=The marriage had run its courseIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadnHe't ended in miscarriages but no one else was involved - certainly s not on Jakeany of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's side not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and he didntrackies. They't think there was re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for Faye eitherlaughs. They were still polite to each other and wished each other well - but didnWell, you't wish to remain marriedre not. The perfect solution arrived in two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the form of a legacy from Jakecombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's Uncle Arthurproblematic. He}}{{Frontpage|author=Mosby Woods|title=A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= The West isn'd been left t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a secluded property push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the hamlet strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - and enough money to live there without circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the need most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to work.get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1
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