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|isbn=15291959770241636604|title=None The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is Truedead and the circumstances 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. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Lisa JewellBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where Opening up new ways of thinking about the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst shape of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst theythings to come.'re not ' I'exactlyve heard it said that 'technology' rowdy, theyis what happens after you're enjoying themselveseighteen. Josie, on the other handWell, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the sense I must confess that Walter's not too happythere have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. HeI've kept up reasonably well with what's not used advantageous to spending this much money on a meal - me but I'm left with the feeling that it is Josie's birthday after allgetting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking 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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|genre=HorrorThrillers |summary=Love The Hotel Arcadia is love; although humans continue to be confused a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by this sentimenta terrorist group. Gay conversion therapy Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is ongoing. The UK government ruled out plans to make it Sam, a crime wartime photographer andAbhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the UShotel, nearly 700 000 adults have received it. Although it is both he forms a secular bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and a religious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, in his new horror, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back the skin keeps on venturing out of Christian her room to try to capture what''pray s happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the gay away'' camps phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to show see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the reader the horror lurking withinterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=18031363831529153298|title=Tin SoldiersThe List of Suspicious Things|author=David ChadwickJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about It's 1979 and nobody Margaret Thatcher is sure exactly Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what took place's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but an act of heroism leading to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and disgrace seems she'll do anything to be prevent that. She's not worried about the consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to his chest, as he always doesanyone.
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|isbn=B0C7J9D21B1398524085|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=A J LewisNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives Charlotte Salter was expected at The House of Beautiful Swallowsher husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Idyllic as this might soundHer children, it's a bordello sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Ettore's mother died when he was bornher daughter, Etty. He's not been short of mothers, though - are all worried but for someone of his background in late-eighteenthstrangely -century Amalfiher husband, it's difficult to obtain decent employmentAlec, is not. The stint working with Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the preparation body of anchovies didnGreg't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boatss father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Ettore It was nothing if not resourceful - an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and determined - and it was not long before then committed suicide when he had a successful business as a guide for visitorscouldn't stand the guilt. He was even saving some moneyThe Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1035906708|title=After DeathDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Michael Mace, Head We tend to think of SecurityMaria Callas as Greek, at a top secret biological research facilitybut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuaryNew York, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – December 1923 and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleaguesmoved to Athens when she was thirteen. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'feel'' everythingto make it more manageable in the States. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymoreWhen 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.|isbn=1662500467}}
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|author=Jamie LittlerChristopher Edge|title=ArkspireBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Two sisters, Juniper Lucas and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, his friends are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader all booked in illicit magicfor a movie marathon at their local cinema, including relics from prior major wars left out in a place that has the Badlandsnickname of 'The Black Hole'. Elodie is intent on getting closer All big movie fans, they're looking forward to power in one lots of the religious districts of Arkspireexciting films, and many, many snacks! However, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of as the Watchermovie starts, the closest to a ruler the district hasthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and one of the five major victors in said earlier warthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Being trained in But as they lurch from one film genre to the magic that only five people next, can use would definitely change the status of they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the whole family. But in finding something oddly magicalcinema, Juniper might just be able and to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…their real lives?|isbn=02415861431839942738
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|author=Thiago de MoraesRachel Greenlaw|title=Old Gods New TricksCompass 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.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought Things have been a young goddess of nuisance. But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, bit sticky for the world changesEarthlings. SuddenlyAI and automation have been proceeding apace, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the schooloften replacing jobs they's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, re paid to do and all other tasks that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake)took time to accomplish. TrixieJust as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, luckilynew ways to spend time, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from usalong came an awful pandemic. And so she begins her epic questLife was pretty much shut down and, to gather all the people that can steal along with it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie all the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and many daily social interactions on which they depend so on known as the trickstersheavily.|isbn=178845295X1736128426
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|author=Alexia CasaleMatthew Tree|title=Sing if you CanWe't Dancell Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead
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|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but thatThere's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle a part of a dance performance me that was going wants to keep this just to change her lifemyself for however long I can. But she comes back fightingThis secret magic of my own, all mine, desperate at last. I just want to avoid enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the pity staresworld, and desperate to get back to lies Silverton; a life thattown under the protection of the Briar's , a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as normal such since she was young, her training as she can possibly managea steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. Meanwhile thereWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's a new (cute!) boy in schoolleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her music A Level performance piece to try to sort outway left, right and just centre, Ellie uncovers the day-rare ability to-day traumas of all communicate with the challenges dead, putting her body continues at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to throw at her another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to navigate. So even though she cando as the Briar witches't dance anymorelegacy, might she be able everything they have sacrificed to sing her way through instead?survive, is under threat.|isbn=05713738011803364548
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|authorisbn=Helen Peters1529900360|title=Friends and TraitorsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=34|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=EnglandIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, WW2Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Two young girls are new at His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the country pile called Stanbrookhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. One is NancyFinally, destined to be in service all her life it seemswas Robin, like the female generations before herDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school She knew that the involvement was something that has been removed there away from bomber flight-pathsthe man she loved needed. The girls are chalk and cheesenext case did look simple, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it sothough. But something is amiss, and first separately and then Two lovers were murdered in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be swimming pool of a rum 'unremote property in Bel Air. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is made of meetings with Germans, married to an extremely rich man and it's not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attackedthe Italian. But surely which of them was the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhandprimary target?|isbn=1788004647
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|isbn=02419961041529395224|title=Coming to Find YouLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Jane CorrySion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Nancy's mother and step-Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse was a GP and her step-brotherRowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside particularly when he considered the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her strain that she's received a 'silent sentence' being on- shecall put on his father's not been found guilty life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of anything but will have to live doing work experience with what happened a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for the rest of her lifehim. Of courseBefore long, ithe was at Liverpool University. It hadn's made worse because Nancy's rich t - she inherited five million pounds from her mother as with so many students - and the papers are making the most of itbeen his dream since he was a child. If anything, he''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not d wanted to be printed but is undoubtedly spokena professional footballer.
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|isbn=15294136800861541774|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief Nye of Police Novel)Pheasants|author=Martin WalkerSteve Burrows
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|genre=Crime
|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 BrunoDCI Domenic Jejeune's there close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to see the show meet up with some friendsan old ally, Guy Trueman. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when armed with a knife - and he departs from the scriptkilled a Ghurka. LuckilyInitially, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in he faced a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances charge of survival manslaughter but - as evidence came to light that suggested that he's a senior government employee, might have planned to murder the man who runs Frenchelon - . Now he could be facing the military has stepped indeath penalty. One daughter lives nearby Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her fatherwouldn's friends for a pre-arranged holidayt help Danny at all.
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|isbnauthor=1529196388Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Trial|author=Rob RinderPerfect Passion Company
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Grant Cliveden was The Perfect Passion Company is a hero: dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a policeman who stood trip to Canada to get away for all that was good and honest and looked a while. Katie is coming out of a break up to by just about everyonewith a bad boyfriend, and so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight jumps at the Old Baileychance to come home to Edinburgh. There's just one man in 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 frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in courtIsabel Dalhousie novels, charged but with Cliveden's murdersome new characters who quickly begin to charm. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and itthere's Taylor-Cameron always her very helpful (and his pupilrather handsome) neighbour, Adam GreenWilliam, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn=Essie Fox0811771741|title=The FascinationInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=Historical FictionCrafts|summary= The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led collection of knits from toys to more than a few writers mishandling itblankets. There Some will be quick knits - others are of the 's such a glut long, cosy afternoons in front of media set in the era that fire' variety. The projects are divided by the hallmarks wetime they've come ll take to associate with it are familiar complete - less than five hours, five to the point of being clichedten hours, hackneyed eventen to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All this is simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. But despite thatthe projects are attractive, something about it still grabs me – modern and something useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about this book'social-media-worthy projects' but that's description did as wellme being picky.|isbn=1914585526
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|author=Andrew Cartmel|title=Death in Fine Condition|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a series called Sleuth Hound. She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking' them, to add value, in somewhat fraudulent ways. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in the background of a photograph on her drug dealer's living room wall, and so she sets about discovering where this collection is, and how she can steal it! It's a next-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=1789098947}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529507987Dean Koontz|title=The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionParanormal|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop''Benny is having a terrifically bad day. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered upHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. After Oh, and someone has delivered a hard dayreally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, thereand it's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! You seeThe thing is, Benny is the value very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they holda nice person. A really nice person. No expense appears So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as his house is required a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to achieve the desired resulthelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Regular viewers know the experts Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and theyHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny're all brilliant at explaining what it is s wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they're doingare. But how did they start?|isbn=1662500491
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|author=Nicole JarvisAdam Stower|title=A Portrait in ShadowMurray and Bun
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|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers |summary=''I want all Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of Florence to know my namethe two. But he's a bad magician' Cast out from Romes cat, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find so his favourite bun has been turned into a home hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and where her future the catflap they both use can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from chuck them out, not into the powerful Accademiaregular back garden, the self-proclaimed guardians but into a world of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues frightening adventure and curseswhiffs. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard This time round it above all else. To drops theminto a Viking land, Artemisia where a troll hunter is expected – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and change – has no place amongst them and their society.he'll have to do…|isbn=18033623400008561249
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|isbn=B0BVDC2VWHB0C47LV1PC|title=The Grave ListenersFragility|author=William FrankMosby Woods
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. ItCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s surrounded by a Witching Forest. joke? And if you could, is the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of question should you make it? Or is the forest provides heat and warmthquestion if you did, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. would it land? The fear of being buried alive catch is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is toleratedanswer for both could well be.... no. }}
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|genre=Crime
|summary=It's something of a surprise to find that you're deadFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, particularly when youwhich made Bruce Hopkins're thinking that youreturn all the more surprising. He're actually d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a break with your letter from his ex-wife and children, but saying thatshe's what happened ill and hasn't long to DS Aector McAvoylive. Whilst he was relieved It's hard to find that he was stillfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, officially, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the early hours boot of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, was nota stolen Ford Sierra. 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 Aector.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=0957181167Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk Glorious Race of Brian Lewis|author=Alan MarshallMagical Beasts|rating=54|genre=ArtConfident Readers|summary=There are few positive things which can be said about Eli is a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this timebusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in trying to avoid looking at the evening a problem I found myself looking more closely helper at a couple of pictures on the walls - dessert cafe his gran owns and was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewisruns. I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the print I wanted was ‘not available’family. OhA few short years ago, dear Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe- then 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 – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a few doors down confession from the apartmentgran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - and a framed print the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the picture I wantedonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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|authorisbn=Simon Fox178763681X|title=DeadlockKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a secret place, and join him on the runresidential cookery school in Belgravia. They get together, He didn't really want to but barely begin celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to smell do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the whiff of Southern trains when impression that he'd be at the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express school to Brightonassist Paul, toting who had a tin broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his father own. The one thing he hadn't expected was determined for someone to keep away from his colleaguesturn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the bearer of a whole heap of questionspolice consider that person to be the prime suspect.|isbn=1839944420
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|author=Shalini BolandSarah Marsh|title=The Silent BrideA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Alice and Seth are After a bout of scarlet fever as a match made in heavenchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. He is Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-materialabout her life changes. She is all he could possibly want Living in a wife; beautiful, successfultime when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, confident… and so the inevitable proposal Ellen is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding sent to a school where she is planned and settaught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. When the much-anticipated day arrivesFrom here, Alice is walked down she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the aisle by her father, beaming with pride deaf and excitement as she surveys using a system called Visible Speech. At the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bridesame time, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar Bell isworking on other inventions and ideas, who is waiting for her to become his wifeand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=16625070891035401614
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|authorisbn=Mark Edwards1803816759|title=Keep Her SecretThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= Matthew It's 2038 and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of Joe is a bored cop policing the lava fields wealthy and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of a ravine gives way adventure and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and a 500 foot drop riots start to certain death belowspread. Convinced she is going Finally, Joe gets to die, Helena must purge herself do some real policing. In the aftermath of the shocking secret she has been keeping rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration Joe is assigned to Matthewbring her home. Just moments later their heroicJoe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and frankly very well preparedtech nerd, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helenaalso on the case.|isbn=166250893XWhat went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?
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|isbn=B0BYF82CXT1529421284|title=Semi-DetachedLaying Out the Bones|author=Deborah StoneKate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=''Bill and Amanda are living It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a semi-detached househeatwave. In a gully, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom human skeleton came to the surface and disappointmentforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, when Terry who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and Fiona – glamoroushad learning disabilities, successful and very much in love – move in next doorso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Despite their different outlooks Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on life, Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the couples befriend each suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and life appears DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, you and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedyme) investigate.''
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|isbn=17876360030571379559|title=The Girls House of SummerBroken Bricks|author=Katie BishopFiona Williams
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=It was ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived lives in the house on the islandriverbank, built of broken bricks. Rachel wasnInsubstantial as it might look, it't exactly innocent but she wass stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, perhapsRichard, naivestruggles to grow his vegetables, so when thirtyto complete the delivery rounds -four-year-old Alistair Wright started and to take an interest bring in her, she was flattered rather than warysufficient money. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her They have twin boys - Sonny and by that time she was obsessed by himMax, the rainbow twins. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his interests on the island father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partiedthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.
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|isbn=15291353891529425867|title=The FallLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Gilly MacmillanSimon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned homeIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. There was no sign Raymond Wilkins is of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted uponalways exquisitely dressed. Some D I Ryan Wilkins, son of them fought with each other Ryan and didn't work as reliably as they shouldfather of Ryan, is not. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort He's not any of money, toothose things. EventuallyHe's white, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with originated from a wound to trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his headwardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alan Parks|title=To Die They're usually in June|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then anotherlime green or acid yellow. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is You might wonder if you're being introduced to a down-and-out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been police procedural written for yearslaughs. At the same time as facing these possible murdersWell, Harry is also dealing with a move to a you're not. The two men are just different police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record sides of the boy having existed can be foundsame policing coin. Something feels wrong - not just with Sometimes the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.
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|author=Laura NoakesMosby Woods|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
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|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima UnfortunateThe West isn't the dominant force it once was. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice Nobody in the home she lives in West is for the girls quite sure how to just be named by mend this or even if mending it is the number they correspond to best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in the ledgeractual charge. Imagine then, and they're all Unfortunates – young people there was a man with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly uponprecognition. But Cosima bears Imagine the tag as strategic advantage in this asset; a surname because nothing else seems to man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be known about where she came fromvaluable, as right? Perhaps the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family most valuable asset in the outside worldhistory. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoonImagine then, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, and what does that body entail? And could get it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link withback?|isbn=0008579059B0C9SNG8R1
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