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|authorisbn=Darren Shan1786482126|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=So. Having done Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the impossible and unpicked the lock site was going to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has hold seventy-five 'luxury'grop'' to think aboutapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. But before that Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, soireesDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez It's amusementdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't even know what , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one of those night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is. But he manages prone to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume sudden bouts of this seriessickness. |isbn=B093J9TF73
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|authorisbn= Adrian Tchaikovsky0008551324|title= Shards of EarthThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the moon-sized aliens known as police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the Architectsother. Humanity But Davie Hardie is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architectstruggling in prison and he's reshaping. Then, just when they had prepared to tell the human race on police where the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories body of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try missing person is buried and communicate with the Architects, does not want to be rememberedwho was responsible for her death. But This person, when he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the crew of the salvage ship police doing what he calls home discover wants. And what appears he wants is to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into transferred to an open prison to serve the spotlightremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. As he and his allies bounce from star system Not much to star systemask, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and rich slavers, he slowly begins she's even prepared to realise do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that the real war DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=18484584280008405026|title=Local Woman MissingA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Mary KubicaJane Casey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Eleven It's sixteen years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late since nine-year- againold Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. His wife She was in never found and the habit of going out for investigation ground to a run late at nighthalt. It was the only time she had for herself when she didn't have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a manNow, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappearedmother, seemingly without a traceHelena, leaving and her husband to look after her disabled babyfather are dead in their bed. Ten days laterInitially, it looks like a local woman straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her six-year-old daughter disappearedboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Meredith Dickey What looked as though it was a birth doula and she'd seemed going to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or soan open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Her body was eventually found Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in a seedy motel - it appeared that sheRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughters boss, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for herUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Nicolas Bouvier0571379877|title=The Japanese ChroniclesKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=TravelCrime|summary= It never does to start Edward Jevons is a review of a book working-class young man, obsessed with a quote from the blurbhis upper-class friends, but sometimes itRobert and Stanza. Robert's unavoidablea theatre director. Le Monde reviewed this book He's also self-obsessed, at some pointdemanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with the words Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert'what the old master craftsmen s position would call stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a masterpiece.relationship had begun between them but he'' It s not like most men: Edward is precisely that. A masterpiece in left to stumble upon the sense two of the craft as well as the art of writing. I'm going to hesitate to call it 'travel writing' because this is as much a history of Japan, them kissing in a mythology-primer for the Japanese culture as it is a personal response to living and travelling in the countrydark passageway. |isbn=1906011044
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|author=Genevieve GornichecJo Callaghan|title=The Witch's HeartLeave No Trace
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= A modern and approachable reimagining When a man is found crucified on the top of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides hill in a forest at Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the edge of the nine worldscase alongside her sidekick, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of OdinAI detective Lock. It's wrath. Her attempts to their first live in peacecase together, howeverhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up Kat is suddenly struggling with her literal heart—the one a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses draws a lot of unwanted attention to leave her alonetheir AI Future Policing project. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins Will they be able to fall for Loki's charmssolve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolfpotentially, and another son that's out of a snake.career?|isbn=1789097061139851120X
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|isbn=17885497591399613073|title=The Distant DeadMoral Injuries|author=Lesley ThomsonChristie Watson
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was December 1940 Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out their friendship would keep them inseparable for the evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old sona quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, William, at home with her parentswhich is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for Anjali is the family than free spirit of the shame of illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (group and William's) on she becomes a better footingGP. She was going to When we first meet her wellthem they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going toend in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come and meet her family five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the following weekthree friends. LaterThis time, her body would be found in the bombed-out home where he had taken herit's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=15294072490241636604|title=The Perfect LieTrading Game: A Confession|author=Jo SpainGary 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.
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|isbn=1035021803
|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder
|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happy's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's always back now because of a dangerous thing to do when yourequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya're married to a cop but she was hopeful. Theys former mentor and Carole'd been married for six months s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and life was good with a decent apartment by the sea in Newportcircumstances seem suspicious, Long Islandto say the least. The knock on Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the door was insistent and when it was openedvillage: Arthur, Danny's partnershe feels, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officerslet her down badly. Danny took one look Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, turned, walked she has not felt able to be near the open window and jumped to his death from man or pursue the fourth floorprofession she loved. Eighteen months laterAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, Erin would be met and married James (on trial for the rebound from the love of her husband's murderlife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1523092734AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=A WomenAll Tomorrow's Guide to Claiming SpaceFutures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Eliza Van CortBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and againOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)
I've heard it said that 'technology'To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the life what happens after you've always wantedre eighteen.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at Well, I must confess that there have been more than a time when violence against women is much few decades of technology in the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desklifetime. Now - to be clear - this book is not a I'how to disable your attacker ve kept up reasonably well with two simple jabs' manual: itwhat's something far more effective, advantageous to me but discussion at I'm left with the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected'feeling that it's all getting 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've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people m reading someone who donknows what they't need protection, people who claim their own spacere talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. If all women did this, those few men I needed people I knew I could trust and who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big mencould deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|author=Darren ShanSunny Singh|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Hotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=The second trilogy Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our heroan 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 is Sam, Archiea wartime photographer and Abhi, back in London the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the world hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of the Born. It's not been easy, explaining her room to try to his foster parents where hecapture what's been, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his besthappened through her photography.... well Although they only ever talk over the phone, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awaythey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ086154742X
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|isbn=00084445011529153298|title=The Answer to EverythingList of Suspicious Things|author=Luke KennardJennie Godfrey|rating=45
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Life should have been good for EmilyIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) She had a lovely husband's not what's worrying Miv's family, Steven, who was a speech therapistthough. Women have been disappearing. WeWell, they'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak ve been murdered, but to each other and donhave 'disappeared' doesn't even sleep in the same bedsound quite so frightening. It isnMiv't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that s upset because she's sharing a bed with one of overheard that her children as it's the only way father wants to get him to sleep during move the nightfamily 'Down South'. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a handful frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and Emily has a job she'll do anything to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a weekprevent that. TheyShe've s not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: it's a trendy area worried about the dangers or that has been gentrified and ither Mum's run on semistopped talking -communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their ownto anyone.
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|isbn=02419851371398524085|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Cara HunterNicci French
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|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Adam FawleyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the PrincipalAlec, Professor Hilary Reynoldsis not. There had been an accusation Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of sexual assault by a professor on a studentGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what It was an easy assumption for the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before theypolice to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn'd even got t stand the details from the victim? guilt. The problem was that Caleb Morgan '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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was'' the 'victim' born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and the alleged perpetrator only moved to Athens when she was Professor Marina Fisherthirteen. Just Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to complicate matters further, Caleb's 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 is Petra Newsonwho mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, the Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|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 MPcinema, and Professor Fisher is a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big name in Artificial Intelligence. movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! She has an eight-year-old sonHowever, buys her wine by as the case from Berry Brothers & Ruddmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followersthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. When the excrement encounters But as they lurch from one film genre to the ventilation equipmentnext, this can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to be ''very'' public.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H BarkerRachel Greenlaw|title=A Tattoo on my BrainCompass and Blade
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|genre=AutobiographyTeens|summary=Alzheimer's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense 'I can hear the song of selfthe sea. I have been directly affected by this cruel diseaseThe call of the deep, as have manythe answering beat in my heart. Your memories '' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and personality worn away 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 statue over time affected trap to end the wrecking, they capture the elementsisland's leader and Mira's father. It seems Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as if nature wants charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that final victory over you and your dignitylies buried deep in the sea. This is With only nine days to unearth what makes Daniel Gibbsmight save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler' memoir so admirables 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|rating=4. Daniel Gibbs is 5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a neurologist who bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was diagnosed pretty much shut down and, along with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo it, all the many daily social interactions on my Brain''which they depend so heavily.|isbn=11088389361736128426
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|isbnauthor=1635862353Matthew Tree|title=The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel CorryWe'll Never Know
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|genre=CraftsLiterary Fiction|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe it, mainly because I'd always thought that you'd need Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more equipment than the average home was likely to be able to contain but I was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - different from his father, a small fire destroyed some drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of her shoes. One pair his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had come apart and she could see how the sandal was constructedendless crises of self confidence. Then she realised that she couldn't afford So Tim applied himself to replace all her shoes. Could she combine these two facts to create a new his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few people her first pair and they all either wanted to know how to do it - or if she'd make them a pair. A new career was bornset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1787332098A G Slatter|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry ManceThe Briar Book of the Dead
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|genre=Politics and SocietyFantasy|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so onThere's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions This secret magic of wild animals stay out theremy own, ''somewhereall mine,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough seriesat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''
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|authorisbn=Ananda Devi1529900360|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Adam FawleyIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, called there by Jancis Appleby Sturgis was reluctant to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynoldsask for his help on difficult cases. There had been an accusation His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of sexual assault by a professor on psychologist only worked for a studentwhile. When Fawley arrived he Finally, it was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before theyRobin, Delaware'd even got the details from s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the victim? The problem involvement was something that Caleb Morgan ''was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisherman she loved needed. Just to complicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, the local MPThe next case did look simple, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligencethough. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by Two lovers were murdered in the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 swimming pool of a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followersremote property in Bel Air. When He was the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is going married to be an extremely rich man and it''very'' publics not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=07535583781529395224|title=EffortlessLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: Make It Easier to Do What MattersThe Secret Life of a Vet|author=Greg McKeownSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleAnimals and Wildlife|summary=''The marginal return of working harder was, in fact, negative.'' That's what happened to Patrick McGinnisSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. ItHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn's no exaggeration t want to say follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that he devoted being on-call put on his father's life to the company he worked for, struggling through, even when . When he was ill, only to find that seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was working for a bankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health vet and his was convinced this was the job had little valuefor him. He made a bargain with God; if he survivedBefore long, he would make some changeswas at Liverpool University. He did survive and came through stronger It hadn't - as with so many students - and richerbeen his dream since he was a child. There is, you seeIf anything, he'd wanted to be a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost breakprofessional footballer.''
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|isbn=14711814050861541774|title=NighthawkingA Nye of Pheasants|author=Russ ThomasSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
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|summary=SheffieldDCI Domenic Jejeune's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Roadclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, if you'd like has taken a short holiday in Singapore to visit) are meet up with an oasis of calm old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in what's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was disrupted when the body of facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a young woman was discoveredGhurka. It had obviously been buried in one Initially, he faced a charge of the beds manslaughter but who would have started evidence came to dig her up? It had been in the earth for months and could light that suggested that he might have been undiscovered for years. The police need planned to establish who stabbed her - and who left murder the two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyesman. DCI Diane Jordan is Now he could be facing the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbanideath penalty. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that heanother police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's not fully recovered from his injuriest help Danny at all.
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|author= Jennifer Saint Alexander McCall Smith|title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. |isbn=1472273869}} {{Frontpage|author=Gianna Pollero and Sarah Horne|title=Monster DoughnutsThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappearedThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, Grace run by Ness and Danni have been left operating as an alternative to run all the family bakeryonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. But Grace needs Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a rather unusual reasonwhile...even though she's only ten years old, she Katie is coming out of a monster hunter! Monsters have break up with a very sweet toothbad boyfriend, and Grace uses a number of methods so jumps at the chance to come home to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, or tricking them into eating a sweet treat that will, ultimately, be their demiseEdinburgh. One dayAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, thoughbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harristhanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a weakness for doughnuts business, or in match-making, but doesnNess has full confidence in her abilities, and there't seem to explode as the other monsters dos always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, and so things start to get very strange…lend a hand…|isbn=18481294321846976596
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|isbn=09956478950811771741|title=Sadie and the Sea DogsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceMelissa Leapman|rating=3.54|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=SadieMelissa Leapman's mother always said that she was ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doingcollection of knits from toys to blankets. She lives by Some will be quick knits - others are of the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered long, cosy afternoons in front of the gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum'fire'variety. Her imagination was fired. SheThe projects are divided by the time they'd love ll take to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and went back regularlymore than twenty hours. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's All the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches projects are on show) attractive, modern and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shoutuseable. When she woke (hard floors donI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure social-media-worthy projects' but that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure's me being picky.
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|author=Kristen O'NealDean Koontz|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=TeensParanormal|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme diseaseBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''he loses his fiancee, an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnessesand his house gets trashed. They talk about their troubles and help each other out Oh, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for someone has delivered a whilereally weird, Priya becomes concerned. She decides disturbing coffin-sized object to steal her parents' car his home, and drive to Brigidit's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house ! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to check up on herdeserve all this bad luck. But what she doesn't expect to find there He is a werewolf in the basement – and nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that werewolf the delivery to be the girl she his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been talking sent to online help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for the past few monthsbeing a good person. Spike is going to take care 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 are.|isbn=16836923491662500491
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|author=Mercedes HelnweinAdam Stower|title=SlingshotMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers |summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself Murray is supposed to being lonely. As be a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" familyhumble, tidy and friendly cat, she one who is used able to not being sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a priority in peoplebad magician's lives. But when she defends cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a random boy in her class with her slingshothyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, her simple existence is changed for goodbut into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. No longer can she spend her This time writing novels in solituderound it drops them into a Viking land, for her life now has where a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.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=152905818X0008561249
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|isbn=B005FM76AAB0C47LV1PC|title=The Duke's ChildrenFragility|author=Anthony TrollopeMosby Woods|rating=4.5
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|summary=The story opens to probably Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser question should you make it? Or is dead. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omniumquestion if you did, would it land? The catch is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling - at that the same time - to adjust to answer for both could well be.... no longer being prime minister, or even in office. He seeks to protect and guide his three adult children, which is easier said than done when none of them wishes to ''beFragility'' guided. Silverbridge (his elder sonis set as the city of Portland, actually called PlantagenetOregon, but always known by his title) and Gerald are destined cautiously begins to be sent down emerge from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run up gambling debts, occasionally in eye-watering sums. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - and wishes to marry - Frank Tregear, the penniless son of a poor squire, which restrictions imposed during the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about to learn that parents do not always get their way.covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Goldy Moldavsky1529431735|title=The Last GirlWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Rachel Chavez It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the new girl at Manchester Prepmore surprising. A school filled to He'd been exiled on the brim with the richest children in the city – Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and Rachel doesnhasn't belonglong to live. She It's not richhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, she has no ties stripped to his underwear and sent to some royal family a watery grave in Serbia, and most of all, she spends the majority boot of her spare time watching horror movies as a source of comfortstolen Ford Sierra. She struggles to find anyone to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie style, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a masked figure keeps showing up problem closer to the pranks, and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too late.|isbn=0755501527home?
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|author=Polly BartonAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Fifty SoundsThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary= Where do I start? I could Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with where Barton herself startshim, with and in the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for evening a while helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by nowruns. I may get Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there later this year, but I am not hopefulis a generation missing in the family. And like Barton A few short years ago, I donEli't know s parents were both lost to the answer titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings world in respect the company of a magical beast. This has made the question in race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the first essayeatery leads to a confession from gran, which Eli knows his only hope is on to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the sound ''giro' '' end – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have only thing to introduce yourself''possibly save his gran.|isbn=19130975010571382231
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|authorisbn=Lucy Holland178763681X|title=SistersongKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for most of us, are Chef Paul Delamare took a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and teaching job at a fresh perspectiveresidential cookery school in Belgravia. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning He didn't really want to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece way of storytelling getting both men and I was captivated from beginning women to end.|isbn=1529039037}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529124255|title=The Whispers|author=Heidi Perks|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=We know straight away that there's going to be a bodydo what he wanted. ItPaul 's on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near the town of Clearwater and itsomehow's new year's day. To understand what happened wegot the impression that he're going d be at the school to have to go back to the previous September. Grace Goodwin has assist Paul, who had a soft Australian accent - she's lived there since her teens and nowbroken arm, in her mid-thirties, shebut it didn's returned to her home town to livet turn out that way. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and she The teaching - and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in the lovely apartment she's found. Grace's best friend, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater and she has an eightproblems -year-old child tooare all his own. EthanThe one thing he hadn's in the class Matilda will be joiningt expected was for someone to turn up dead. It's perfect!}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Sultoon|title=The Source|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military baseUnfortunately, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food he was the person who discovered the body and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation everyone knows that the police consider that person to army parties, things start to look a little less bleakbe the prime suspect...|isbn=1913193594
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