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|isbnauthor=B08NZ4LV2RSylvie Cathrall|title=Dark Memories (DS Nikki Parekh 3)|author=Liz MistryA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Peggy Dyson was in her sixties and hadn't worn well. She was a drug addict and was living under the arches in Forster Square Station in Bradford. Her killer thought that he was probably doing her a favour by putting her out of her misery. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik There are on the case. Nikki can't quite understand why she's been sent an anonymous letter with few greater joys than a press report of the death. It had been impossible book which lives up to make any progress in the case and the note seemed to taunt the policea compelling premise. Then another note arrived with a report And this is one of a seemingly unconnected death in Cambridge. The third death - in the street where Nikki lived as a child - brought another communication, with a further clue under the victim - and Nikki was sure that there was something personal in the casethem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn=Anna Carey0008517061|title=This is Not the Jess ShowDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Jess is Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a normal 90's teenage girl, just trying to navigate little uncertainty about the usual stresses future of schoolhis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and boysher daughter Diana, and parent troubles. But strange things seem to be happening as moving in her small town, with together would mean a mystery flu keeping lots lot of people indoors, compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and a strange metal device, relaxing life to move in with an apple on it, that slips out of her friend's bag, but that her friends just won't talk Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about. Jess feels like whether or not this is the future she might be hearing voices, wants for herself and her sister (who is very ill) seems to be responding to her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in strange ways sometimes. Is there something going the present and putting the future on beneath the surface of Jess' life?|isbn=1683691970back burner.
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|isbn=B08LKT7HSR1786482126|title=Murder in the Belltower The Janus Stone (A Miss Underhay MysteryDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Helena DixonElly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In December 1933 Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the remains of Elowed Underhay were site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered in the cellar bones of the Glass Bottle Public Housea child beneath a doorway. Ezekiel Hamett There was sought in connection with the no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder of Elowed and his half-brother? Inevitably, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discoveredDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Kitty UnderhayIt's long search for her motherdifficult as Ruth knows, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now shebut Nelson doesn's determined t, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the man responsible for her murder one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be brought obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to justicesudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=17822277410008551324|title=Little Gold TedThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha SathaNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle and unusual for anyone from the water is swirling. Poor Ted starts Hardie family to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on approach the police. Neither side of likes or has any respect for the streetother. Finding himself down But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the sewerbody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries promises, is someone big and alerts it will be worth the attention of Reg police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the sewer rat, who plucks him out remainder of the dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like sentence and to get an old cricket batearly parole date. Reg Not much to ask, is a kind soul it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and he dries Ted off she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and warms anyone who works with him up with a nice bowl of brothis kept well away from what's happening.
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|authorisbn=Rob Keeley0008405026|title=The Treasure A Stranger in the TowerFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to read a new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace and lots of actionhalt. Now, an easy to read styleher mother, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalriesHelena, and always a good dollop of naughty humourher father are dead in their bed. They're all present here Initially, in it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there''The Treasure in s something about the Tower''. The chance purchase positioning of a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventurebodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Who can follow the clues best What looked as though it was going to be an open-and find -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the treasure? Jessexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?|isbn=1800461321Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=15291244170571379877|title=Before She DisappearedThe Kellerby Code|author=Lisa GardnerJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani WhitehorseEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's body in her car at the bottom of the lakea theatre director. She knew that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldnHe't have left her threes also self-year-old daughter obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run awayerrands for him. Lani was the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and now shehe's moving on again, this time drunkenly confided how he feels to Boston where thereRobert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. Frankie, middle-aged and white, gets a job and accommodation at Stoneyrelationship had begun between them but he's bar and sets out not like most men: Edward is left to investigate stumble upon the community which is just about exclusively blacktwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=B08QDL5HDLJo Callaghan|title=The Jeeves Collection, Vol 1|author=P G WodehouseLeave No Trace
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|genre=HumourCrime|summary=In my youthWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, I wasn't fond of PG Wodehouse: I've never been keen on upper-class twits and I was greedy. I wanted everything: I required brilliant plotsDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, exceptional characters and laugh-out-loud humour. Age brought the realisation that you have to compromise and I came back to Wodehouse with a different mindsetAI detective Lock. The humour is gentle and subtle: thereIt's never any malice in ittheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. The characterisation But when there is two-dimensional where women are concerned: there's little in between old gorgons (Aunt Agathaa second body found crucified a few days later, we're looking at you...) Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and young schemers such as Honoria Glossopa very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The plots are superficial but gently engaging. They're fun - Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and the writing is exquisite., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=H M Long1399613073|title=Hall of SmokeMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary= Hessa is an Eangi: a powerful priestess of Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the Goddess first day of War. That is until she is banished by her high priestess medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for not following her one order: to kill the traveller that visits her templea quarter of a century. Her whole town Olivia is burnt to the ground while she ruthlessly ambitious, which is praying for forgiveness, and Hessa – now left alone – must find this traveller a bonus when you aim to atone for her weakness and win back her goddess' favourbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. On her journey, she encounters zealot soldiers, deceitful gods, and newly awakened demons at every turn. It Laura is a gruelling quest, perfectionist and along the way, she discovers a harrowing truth: trauma doctor. Anjali is the gods are dying, and the High Halls free spirit of the afterlife are fadinggroup and she becomes a GP. Soon Hessa When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's trust going to end in her goddess weakens, and she is thrust into a battle between tragedy. We don't know who suffered the gods of tragedy or the Old World and consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the Newthree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1789094984
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|authorisbn=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)0241636604|title=Kokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697}}{{FrontpageThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=David F Ross|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyGary Stevenson
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|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary= Years ago, Danny Garvey was If you were to bring up an image of a footballing prodigy playing for his local club. Everyone predicted a bright future – but his career city banker in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years onyour mind, convinced you're unlikely to return home by think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying motherbackground is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, Danny takes over the shambolic poverty and onceinjustice. There was no posh public school on his CV -great team but he used had been to play for the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and tries he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to reform thembe 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.|isbn= 1913193500
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|isbn=15293379251035021803|title=The Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Catriona McPhersonC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It was 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the August Bank Holiday weekend 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 andCarole's close friend, as so often happenedArthur Crockleford, it was cold enough to have the fire lit is dead and Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it circumstances seem suspicious, to keep Dandy Gilver warm on say the sofaleast. The thought of work Arthur was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in Dundeebusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. She was After the publisher of split, she worked in a magazine cafe, met and had been told that married James (on the man running the Punch and Judy show in rebound from the local park had used copies of two love of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett's request life, who was simple: she wanted Gilver murdered) and Osborne to warn the man about infringement of copyright - Freya and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the same jobJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=0099551063AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Wisdom of PsychopathsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial KillersFictions that Disrupt|author=Dr Kevin DuttonBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Popular ScienceFiction|summary='' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcherOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''
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|author=Alex WheatleSunny Singh|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeHotel Arcadia|rating=23.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of timesThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. He should be getting a text Hiding from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema dateterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, but his phone has packed upthere is Sam, he's chundered last night's meal a wartime photographer and his breakfast over another girl Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in classthe hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who's duffed him up in responserefuses to be cowed by events, and the wanna-bae seems keeps on venturing out of her room to try to actually be with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale hecapture what's living with his mother and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinnerhappened through her photography. I knowAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day at school their friendship grows as Abhi tries to forget, help her keep safe and everything (like his vomit) they both wait to see if they will all come out in the wash? This can't be rescued before they are discovered by the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?terrorists.|isbn=1781129495086154742X
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|authorisbn=Karen M McManus1529153298|title=The CousinsList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= The rich It's 1979 and famous Story Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family led a life of luxury on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago when each of the Story children - Andersthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, Archerthey've been murdered, Adam and Allison - received a mysterious letter but 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 their mother and were cut off completely. But nowYorkshire, Down South is a quarter of a century laterfrightening, foreign place, their children have been called to return to the island for the summer by their grandmotherbest avoided. What does she want with For Miv, the cousins? Why did she cut off move would mean leaving her children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted liesbest friend, Sharon, secrets and tragedy she'll do anything to prevent that has held . She's not worried about the Story family up - and held them apart dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - for a quarter of a century is about to come crashing downanyone.|isbn=0241376947
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|isbn=17864959021398524085|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your MindHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Isabel HardmanNicci French
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|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to shareCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She says that a friend who does know Her children, sons Niall, burst into tears Paul and healthOllie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but -care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbeliefstrangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Hardman dealt with this at Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the time by body of Greg'keeping going': s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there river. It was an easy assumption for the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then it was party conference seasoncommitted suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. One night she had to be sedated The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was wonder about what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I didreally happened.
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|authorisbn=Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez1035906708|title=The Ghost GardenDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|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=FranLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the gardenernickname of 'The Black Hole's daughter at a posh country house, is worried. SheAll big movie fans, they's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a large bonere looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, buried under the potatoes. many snacks! But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with LeoHowever, as the older child of the housemovie starts, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. She they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is due to get very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surpriseimagine. Tasked with shoving Leo around But as they lurch from one film genre to the grounds in his bathchairnext, she might have reason to be can they figure out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he on earth is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. going on? But surely that won't act as a premonition Will they ever get back to anything - not here in the sultrycinema, summery days of 1914and to their real lives?|isbn=17811290021839942738
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|isbnauthor=reed3Rachel Greenlaw|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=James ReedCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Business and FinanceTeens|summary=Six years on from ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the original editiondeep, the book is being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled answering beat in my heart.''The Future 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 Workthe 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' which includes an additional 10 questionss father. I've come Desperate to this some 6 years after reviewing the original book save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and my life has changed significantly with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the meantimesea. IWith 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'm no longer working in middle-management having opted for a down-shift into reduced hours freelancing s territory, Mira must be determined to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. I can therefore relate stop at nothing to save the first point made in this chapter namely that independence future of her home and flexibility are core skills that employees need to havethe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|author= Deborah O'ConnorJames Sherwood Metts|title= The CaptivePlanet Storyland|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Hannah knows Things have been a bit sticky for the cageEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, intimatelyoften replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. It lurks in the corner Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of her eyeother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. SoonLife was pretty much shut down and, along with it will be occupied, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=18387726501736128426
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|isbnauthor=B08CR3WNFTMatthew Tree|title=The Therapist|author=B A ParisWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=When Leo Curtis found the house in The CircleTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a gated community, Alice Dawson was in Venice. Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the market drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have to sell her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. Alice agreed - she was tired any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of their long-distance relationshipself confidence. Now they would be able So Tim applied himself to spend most of the week together instead of just the weekends. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable thereset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1406395404A G Slatter|title=The Awesome Power Briar Book of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morganthe Dead
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|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=2020 has been '' There's a strange year: part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I doubt anyone would argue with that statementcan. Lots This secret magic of our routines have been completely dismantled and my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problemsa while. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('' 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 needs sleep? protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non- I've got loads witch to be doing) 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 others will worry unnecessarilypotions. Most peopleWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. And theretown's also leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the fact that for far too longrare ability to communicate with the dead, lack putting her at the heart of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to seem like laziness. Being up earlyanother, working late has been praised Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the ability Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=000820831X1529900360|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenGhost Orchid|author=Stuart MacBrideJonathan Kellerman
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|genre=Crime
|summary=At It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the coastal village help of Clachmaraa psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the headland is slowly eroding into involvement was something that the seaman she loved needed. Storm Trevor speeds up the processThe next case did look simple, though. A ship - the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on Two lovers were murdered in the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the house heir to see what's happening. Margaret runs after her son an Italian shoe empire and as she grabs him is married to pull him back to safety she glances across at the newly-exposed cliff front an extremely rich man and sees human bones. Gordon Smithit's home is falling into not the North Sea and the evidence of what he's been doing for decades is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson Italian. But which of LIRU can grab as he later escapes them was the tumbling ruin.primary target?
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|isbn=B08BC4D58S1529395224|title=Winterkill (Dark Iceland)Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Ragnar JonassonSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
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|summary=Ari Thor Arason is the police inspector in Siglufjordur and heDCI Domenic Jejeune's still living close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in the house on Eyrargata which a street brawl - he would later maintain that he shared was facing a man armed with his wife Kristin a knife - and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do he killed a Masters degree, taking three-year-old Stefnir with herGhurka. They were supposed Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledmurder the man. It's now Now he could be facing the Thursday of Holy Week death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and his family wouldn't help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is due a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to arrive all the online apps in Siglufjordur that afternoonproviding a more personal, tailored service. Ari Thor Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed planning to take a trip to Canada to get to sleep the phone rings: the body away for a while. Katie is coming out of a young woman has been found on Adalgatabreak up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the main street of chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the townIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn=Rob Winters0811771741|title=His Name Was WrenInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=In September 1944 something came down Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in Oban Woodsfront of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, near ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the village of Hurstwickprojects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. It came down hardOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, taking and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the spire of thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the village church with very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny itturns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, destroying a stone shackbad weather friend called Spike, who has 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, 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=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and leaving Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a wide trail through the woodhumble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, but no trace whatever takes his fancy next of what it actually wasthe two. German secret weapon was But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the local gossipregular back garden, but there should have been an explosion into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a cratertroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and there were neither of those things.he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08KGVNVNBB0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Stephen Clarke1529431735|title=The Spy Who Inspired MeWinter Visitor|author=James Henry
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=This It's February 1991 and Essex is a spoof spy storybitingly cold, that isnwhich made Bruce Hopkins't about James Bondreturn all the more surprising. Or Ian FlemingHe'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. But it features The return has come about because he's had a man called Ian Lemmingletter from his ex-wife, who dresses well saying that she's ill and hasn'likes the ladiest long to live. It' s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and who works for the secret service, but sent to a watery grave in the planning side boot of things more than the active servicea stolen Ford Sierra. Lemming finds himself put on Is it a mission with warning from a female spy called Margaux, and the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on Spanish gang or a desperate mission problem closer to unearth traitors in the resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|isbn=2952163855home?
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|isbnauthor=3110706075Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Gerry BrownThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
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|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary=''You're not there to run Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the organisationdessert cafe his gran owns and runs. You are Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there to make sure that it is run properly.'' Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board - not just a corporate board, but generation missing in the board of an NHS Trust, a university, a sports organisation or a charityfamily. He's particularly keen that thereA few short years ago, Eli's increased diversity on these boards and feels that this would help parents were both lost to avoid some of the scandals (Oxfamtitular race, Kids Company a globe- we're thinking about you) which trotting adventure where all entrants have occurred to navigate the world in recent yearsthe company of a magical beast. For this This has made the race anathema to happenthe pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, boards need Eli knows his only hope is to dare to have a wider field enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of people magic at the end – the only thing to choose from when they're looking for an IDpossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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