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<metadesc>Book review siteExpert, with books full book reviews from most walks of literary life; fiction, biographynon-fiction, crime, cookery and children's books & self-published books plus author interviews and & top tens.</metadesc><h1 id="mf-title">The Bookbag</h1>Hello from The Bookbag, a site featuring books from all the many walks of literary life - [[:Category:Fiction|fiction]], [[:Category:Biography|biography]], [[:Category:Crime|crime]], [[:Category:Cookery|cookery]] and anything else that takes our fancy. At Bookbag Towers the bookbag sits at the side of the desk. It's the bag we take to the library, the charity shop and the bookshop. Sometimes it holds the latest releases, but at other times there'll be old favourites, books for the children, books for the home. They're sometimes our own books or books from the local library. They're often books sent to us by publishers and we promise to tell you exactly what we think about them. You might not want to read through a full review, so we'll give you a quick review which summarises what we felt about the book and tells you whether or not we think you should buy or borrow it. There are also lots of [[:Category:Interviews|author interviews]], and all sorts of [[:Category:Lists|top tens]] - all of which you can find on our [[features]] page. If you're stuck for something to read, check out the [[Book Recommendations|recommendations]] page.
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|author=Sara HollandSylvie Cathrall|title=HavenfallA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary= Maddie Morrow is supposed There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to spending the summer with her Grandma Ellen. But after a visit to her mother in prison, Maddie wants nothing more than to go to Havenfall to see her uncle, Marcuscompelling premise. It's the only place she feels truly at home. Maddie's father, understandably, is not keen on Maddie spending time with her mother's family - because the crime Maddie's mum And this is languishing on death row for committing is the murder one of Maddie's brother..them.|isbn=1547603798 0356522776
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|authorisbn=Baye Hartshorne0008517061|title=Ghosted: The Treason House TrilogyDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary='Julia Crawley Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has lost her job on ''Celebrity'' magazine and so she decides to cut her losses and return home to settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the village future of Monmouth Cove on the Jersey Shorehis life with his vet girlfriend, hoping to return to Livia and her harder hitting journalistic roots via local news. She'll be staying with her grandmother daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- a woman always ready grid and relaxing life to help younger relatives move in need of a hand. There's only one problem with that: creepy Uncle Dex, who doesn't always keep his hands Livia or does Livia move to himselfLittle Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.|isbn= B0829CP5BM}}
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|isbn=06486848061786482126|title=Clara Colby: The International SuffragistJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=John HollidayElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=The path of Clara Dorothy BewickBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's life was probably determined apartments - when her family emigrated to they discovered the USAbones of a child beneath a doorway. At the time she There was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailmentno skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, she wasn't allowed to sail Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with her parents and three brothersDCI Harry Nelson. InsteadIt's difficult as Ruth knows, she remained with her grandparentsbut Nelson doesn't, who doted on her and saw that she received is pregnant with his child as a good education, both in and out result of school. She was the only child in the household and her childhood was gloriousone night they spent together some three months ago. By contrastHer condition will be obvious before long, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of the United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakeningsickness.
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|authorisbn=Kathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick0008551324|title=Nine Ways to Empower TweensThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'9 Ways s prepared to Empower Tweens'' tell the police where the body of a missing person is a self-help book buried and who was responsible for tweensher death. This person, he promises, setting out to show them vital #lifeskillsis someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. Don't groan! I know there And what he wants is a market glut to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of such books for we grown-ups his sentence and for young adults tooto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, but there is a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to younger do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and younger children for material for tweens tooanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. |isbn= 0228818826
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|authorisbn= Katie Fforde0008405026|title= A Springtime AffairStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre= Women's FictionCrime|summary= IIt've wanted s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warmhalt. Now, her mother, cosy read focused on romanceHelena, family and friendshipsher father are dead in their bed. This provided two romances for Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the price positioning of one, but the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was actually going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the family element explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as opposed to the romance that I really enjoyedDerwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. |isbn=1780897561
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|isbn=18385931870571379877|title=Guess What I Found in the Playground!The Kellerby Code|author=Victoria ThompsonJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Tilly Edward Jevons is exciteda working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. SheRobert's just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her facetheatre director. DadHe's come to collect her also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and her brother entitled and he ''uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has'' to try to guess what she found been in the playground today, although she concedes that love with Stanza since their university days - and he will never guess. Dad wants to know how school was, but ''obviously'' that's not importantdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (IsnMost men in Robert't s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, relationship had begun between them but thathe's not what she wants Dad like most men: Edward is left to guessstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha SaeedJo Callaghan|title= Yes Leave No Maybe So Trace|rating= 4|genre= TeensCrime|summary= ''We might give it our all and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for, don't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for a special election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassing, he can't think of anything worse. However, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician and decides there man is no time like found crucified on the present to conquer his fear top of speaking a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the publiccase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Maya But when there is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is having the worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through suddenly struggling with a separation, she has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things potential serial killer and her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy her, her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to go canvassingtheir AI Future Policing project. The pair could possibly Will they be able to solve the worst canvassing duo case in historytime, as neither of them really want to be thereor will Kat find herself taken off the case and, but as the campaign goes on they discover that they carepotentially, out of a lot, about the election - and maybe even about each othercareer?|isbn=1471184668139851120X
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|authorisbn=Gregg Hurwitz1399613073|title=Into The FireMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Grant Merriweather Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a forensic accountantperfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. Or rather, wasWe don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. He was brought into Twenty-five years later there will be an ER room after eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an alleged car crashimage 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 friend pleading 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 medics 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 keep him alivebe stupid. He It was his ability at what was needed alive just long enough to give up , essentially, a namecard game which got him an internship with Citibank. His cousinEventually, Maxthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=0718185501
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|isbn=15291243951035021803|title=When You See MeThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Lisa GardnerC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=For Janet and Chuck, it was a hiking break in It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off the beaten track to find a stickEnglish country village where she grew up. What he found was She's back now because of a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called inrequest for help from her beloved aunt, along with Sergeant D D WarrenCarole. Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on the services of Keith EdgarFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, a computer analystArthur Crockleford, is dead and Flora Dane who brought something unique the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the tableleast. Flora Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been kidnapped and held for 472 days by back to the notorious killervillage: Arthur, she feels, Jacob Nesslet her down badly. If Ness had anything Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to do with 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 current discoveries then what Flora had to say could be invaluablelove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1529009677AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=A Window BreaksAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=C M EwanBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the 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'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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia
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|genre=Thrillers|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problemsThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. It's not just Hiding from the usual growing apart after more than a decade of marriage. Their sonterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, Michaelthere is Sam, was killed in a car crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi wartime photographer and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to driveAbhi, the hotel manager. Not only did he kill himself when As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the car rammed into a treehotel, but he also killed his girlfriendforms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom can't think about Michael without a sense and keeps on venturing out of shame and guilt. Rachel is broken, but she wants her room to try to forgive Michaelcapture what's happened through her photography. To give some space, Tom's moved out of Although they only ever talk over the family homephone, but stresses their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separationsee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=02419851531529153298|title=The House on the LakeList of Suspicious Things|author=Nuala EllwoodJennie Godfrey|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=We know It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that something has gone wrong - badly wrong - when her father wants to move the woman who was alone in the house family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is taken away by a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the policemove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, but itand she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's going stopped talking - to be a while before we learn exactly what has happenedanyone.
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|authorisbn=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)1398524085|title=Orphans of the TideHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The 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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|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 born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|author=Christopher Edge
|title=Black Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= In Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they 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 imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the last city next, can they figure out what on earth is going on Earth? Will they ever get back to the cinema, anyone and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can be hear the vessel song of the sea. The Enemy - 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 god who drowned wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the world - seven who has come swim out to wreak havoc on survey the last of humanityruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. When But when the Council Watch lays a mysterious boy is pulled from trap to end the corpse of a whalewrecking, they capture the citizens immediately believe 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 be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancasterguide her, she sets off in search of a girl inventorfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. As With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the ruthless Inquisition prepares watched streets of foreign islands to execute the boyheart of the smuggler's territory, Ellie Mira must prove that he is innocent - even if it means revealing be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her deepest, darkest secrets..home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=02413844350008664730
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|isbnauthor=0008297169James Sherwood Metts|title=The Guest List|author=Lucy FoleyPlanet Storyland
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off the Irish coast, might Things have been enough to put some guests off, but it was the wedding of a bit sticky for the yearEarthlings. Will Slater (television personalityAI and automation have been proceeding apace, if not yet a celebrity) was often replacing jobs they're paid to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, in the ruined chapel on the island. The bride's sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid do and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife and her husband, Freddyother tasks that took time to accomplish. They gave a huge discount Just as they were beginning to get the couple used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to the islandspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, but surely along with it would be worth it for , all the publicity?many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=B07ZGL6B1BMatthew Tree|title=In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)|author=Marion ToddWe'll Never Know
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|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It was Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West drunk and DI Clare Mackay were chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at the beach when the baby was stolen. They were there for the fun run any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt the racehad endless crises of self confidence. They're against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant So Tim applied himself to be constructed on Priory Marsh his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and the firm is sponsoring the fun run. It was Lisa Mitchell's scream which stopped everything. Her daughter, six-month-old Abi, had been taken from her pram whilst no one was looking. It's a major incident when ''any'' child is abducted set himself high but Abi needs regular medication because of a heart problem: without it, she might have only forty-eight hours to liveachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1471180921A G Slatter|title=Firewatching|author=Russ ThomasThe Briar Book of the Dead
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''
Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town 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 such since she was young, her training as a 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 town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.
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|isbn=1529900360
|title=The Ghost Orchid
|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think that heIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's lucky to be there, given fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he decked a superior officerfelt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. He's His assertions that there because Tyler came off worse in the exchange were only open-and- thereshut cases which didn's t need the help of a psychologist only worked for a scar on his face to prove while. Finally, it - and was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the superior officer involvement was forced to take early retirementsomething that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. There's Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a suggestion too that Tyler's godmother (remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and sheis married to an extremely rich man and it's on not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the force too) has looked after him Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and that his current boss is keen to have Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a tame gay GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the town hall steps come Pridejob for him. Either wayBefore long, hewas at Liverpool University. It hadn's theret - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, but without anything really interesting he'd wanted to get his teeth intobe a professional footballer.
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|authorisbn=0861541774|title= A K LarkwoodNye of Pheasants|titleauthor= The Unspoken NameSteve Burrows|rating= 4|genre= FantasyCrime|summary= What does it mean DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to betray someone? What if meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that someone is he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that she would he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be sacrificed to her god on her fourteenth birthday, yet when facing the opportunity arises, she chooses to abandon everything she knows and flee with her lifedeath penalty. Who Domenic Jejeune can blame her? Her god's reach is limited and Csorwe intends do nothing to stay far beyond it, yet fate is help as any interference from another police force could provoke a funny thing diplomatic incident and when circumstances bring her back within the reach of her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers her, and blames her very much indeedwouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1250238900
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|author= M G Leonard and Sam SedgmanAlexander McCall Smith|title= The Highland Falcon ThiefPerfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= Harrison BeckThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, or Hal run by Ness and operating as he prefers an alternative to be called, isn't exactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, all the online apps in providing a travel writermore personal, on a long train journeytailored service. Although, this isn't any old train; this is Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the Highland Falconbusiness, the royal train, and this as Ness is its last ever journey before it gets sent planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a museumwhile. A number Katie is coming out of high-society figures, including film starsa break up with a bad boyfriend, millionaires and aristocrats, will be on this train, so it is quite jumps at the event on the social calendarchance to come home to Edinburgh. However And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, when bringing us to an expensive brooch is stolenEdinburgh we already love, Hal realises that maybe this trip won't be as boring as he previously thought. As thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the passengers Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to turn on each othercharm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, Hal vows to get to the bottom of the mystery…before the train gets to the end of the line.lend a hand…|isbn=15290130621846976596
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|isbn=00082752460811771741|title=Perfect Kill (D I Callanach)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Helen FieldsMelissa Leapman
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised that her son, Bart, was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from a chemically-induced sleeptoys to blankets. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrongSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. Bart might be The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty but he was considerate of his mother hours and wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her knowmore than twenty hours. BesidesAll the projects are attractive, he didn't have his phone with him modern and he wouldn't have gone far without thatuseable. ItI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects's not long before Bart realises but that he's alone, trapped in a shipping container and on his way to France, where his fate has already been decidedme being picky.
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|author= Alyssa SheinmelDean Koontz|title= What Kind of GirlThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's FictionParanormal|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared Benny is braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with having a black eyeterrifically bad day. He loses his job, claiming he gave it to herloses his fiancee, her whole world is tipped upside downand his house gets trashed. Her relationship Oh, and someone has just ended delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and now sheit's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the talk of thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the schoolvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. Mike was He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the most popular boy in school delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who was always so in love with herhas been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, everyone knew thatand will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, so why did if he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don't, but one thing is for sureBenny, this isnand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny't going to blow over any time soons wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=03490032971662500491
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|author= Holly RiversAdam Stower|title= Demelza Murray and the Spectre DetectorsBun|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Demelza Clock Murray is supposed to be a scientisthumble, often staying up late tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to work on her various gadgetssleep and eat and eat and sleep and, much to her Grandma Maevewell, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's irritation. Howevercat, she so his favourite bun has also inherited been turned into a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detectinghyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the ability to summon catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the ghosts regular back garden, but into a world of the recently deceasedfrightening adventure and whiffs. Under the guidance of her Grandma Maeve This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, Demelza begins to master her newfound skills. However, there is a mysterious individual on the prowlbe honest, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. Itbut he's turned up to Demelza and her best friend Percy he'll have to get to the bottom of this...do…|isbn=19126260390008561249
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|isbn=1787477533B0C47LV1PC|title=The Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)Fragility|author=Elly GriffithsMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Everything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. SheCan you make a ''s no longer providing assistance to the police and isnYo birthing person't even working at the University of North Norfolk. She's lecturing at Cambridge and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridge. Her daughterjoke? And if you could, Katieis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, has settled into school better than she would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could ever have hoped and life is looking goodwell be... Settled. She can't help thinking about Harry Nelson, Katie's father, because Katie sees him regularly and there's a close relationship with his familyno. You might ''almostFragility'' think that Ruth's life is settling down.set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|isbn=183895015X1529431735|title=A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a PrisonerWinter Visitor|author=Chris AtkinsJames Henry|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Documentary filmmakers donIt't usually get s February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the run of establishments within more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Mountbatten-Windsor Hotel Group, but after getting involved in an illegal tax scheme to fund his latest film, Chris Atkins was invited Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a five-year staydecade. The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworthreturn has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, which saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is probably the oldestabducted, largest stripped to his underwear and most dysfunctional prison sent to a watery grave in Europethe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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