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|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=18387734281786482126|title=The Art of DeathJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=David FennellElly Griffiths
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|genre=Crime
|summary=It was Builders were demolishing an art installation of old house in Norwich - the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquid. Only this time itsite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's not a depiction: these are apartments - when they discovered the bodies bones of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tippinga child beneath a doorway. The installation is the work of @nonymous, underground artist and extreme version of BanksyThere was no skull. He's made Was this a macabre promise: more will follow. ritual killing or murder? In factInevitably, we've already met the artist although not by name: he's been in the Lumberyard Cafe Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air and iPhoneDCI Harry Nelson. Elaine Kelly is there with her son, Jordan, and sheIt's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state of her marriage. Actuallydifficult as Ruth knows, it but Nelson doesn't take , that she is pregnant with his child as a lot result of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite the foundation she's appliedone night they spent together some three months ago. Chau Ho Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is behind the counter. There's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, tooprone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=14711913030008551324|title=The InvisibleDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Tom PercivalNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|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's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=This is It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the story of Isobel, investigation ground to a little girl who made a big differencehalt. Isobel lived with Now, her parents mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldnstraightforward murder/suicide but there't afford to put s something about the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside positioning of the window bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and crept up the corner of the bedposther boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious.'' The family didn't go What looked as though it was going to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other be an open-and they were happy-shut case is now a complex double murder. Then Kerrigan is convinced that the day came when they couldnexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was colds boss, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisibleUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=178089905X0571379877|title=SerpentineThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonathan KellermanJonny Sweet|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: Edward Jevons is a death from thirtyworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-six years ago class friends, Robert and the daughter of the woman who died wanted some answersStanza. She had money and money translated into clout and so the problem was dropped onto MiloRobert's toes. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died in a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flamestheatre director. It turned out that she wasnHe't actually married to the man with whom she'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barkers also self-obsessed, optometristdemanding, was a good man handsome and entitled and he took out adoption papers uses Edward to run errands for Ellie him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and she took his namehe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Ellie was three when her mother Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing to stumble upon the two of her but one photograph of her mother and father and them kissing in a necklace made of serpentinedark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=0008379300Jo Callaghan|title=The Shadow Man|author=Helen FieldsLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?
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|isbn=1399613073
|title=Moral Injuries
|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and he knows that he's dyingtheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. His body Olivia is giving up on himruthlessly ambitious, his internal organs beginning which is a bonus when you aim to putrify but before he dies he wants be a wife, cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a child perfectionist and a brothertrauma doctor. He's been on Anjali is the lookout for free spirit of the perfect people group and he's made certain preparationsshe becomes a GP. The flat where the family will live is prepared When we first meet them they're at a drug and even windows with curtains, alcohol-fuelled party and pictures it's going to end in frames have been painted onto the wallstragedy. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wifeWe don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Her husband, Cal, had taken the children Twenty- a boy of seven and a girl of five, away for years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the weekendthree friends. UnfortunatelyThis time, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela diess their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=B08NZ4LV2R0241636604|title=Dark Memories (DS Nikki Parekh 3)The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Liz MistryGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5
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|summary=Peggy Dyson was in her sixties and hadnIt't worn wells twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. 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 's back now because of a favour by putting request for help from her out of her miserybeloved aunt, Carole. DS Nikki Parekh Freya's former mentor and DC Sajid Malik are on the case. Nikki can't quite understand why sheCarole's been sent an anonymous letter with a press report of close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the deathleast. It Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been impossible back to make any progress in the case and the note seemed to taunt the policevillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Then another note arrived with a report of a seemingly unconnected death Even though they were in Cambridgebusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. The third death - After the split, she worked in the street where Nikki lived as a child - brought another communicationcafe, with a further clue under met and married James (on the rebound from the victim - love of her life, who was murdered) and Nikki was sure that there was something personal in the caseFreya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Anna CareyAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=This is Not the Jess ShowAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Jess is a normal 90's teenage girl, just trying to navigate 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the usual stresses shape of school, and boys, and parent troubles. But strange things seem to be happening in her small towncome.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, with I must confess that there have been more than a mystery flu keeping lots few decades of people indoors, and a strange metal device, technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with an apple on the feeling that it, that slips out of her friend's bagall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, but that her friends just wonI 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't talk to her re talking aboutor the latest conspiracy theorist. Jess feels like she might be hearing voices, I needed people I knew I could trust and her sister (who is very ill) seems to be responding to her could deliver information in strange ways sometimesa way I could understand. Is there something going on beneath the surface of Jess' life?|isbn=1683691970
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|isbnauthor=B08LKT7HSRSunny Singh|title=Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena DixonHotel Arcadia
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers |summary=In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the cellar of terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the Glass Bottle Public Househotel manager. Ezekiel Hamett was sought As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in connection with the murder of Elowed and his half-brotherhotel, Denzil Hammetthe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, whose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhayand keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's long search for happened through her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was overphotography. Now she's determined that Although they only ever talk over the man responsible for phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her murder keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be brought to justicerescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=17822277411529153298|title=Little Gold TedThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha SathaJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. It's quite a deep puddle 1979 and the water Margaret Thatcher is swirlingPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on the side of the street Women have been disappearing. Finding himself down in the sewerWell, they've been murdered, Ted starts but to panichave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'OH HELP ME PLEASEDown South'. When you' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg re from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the sewer ratmove would mean leaving her best friend, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his caneSharon, which might look just a bit like an old cricket batand she'll do anything to prevent that. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=Rob Keeley1398524085|title=The Treasure in the TowerHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here Charlotte Salter was expected at Bookbag Towers her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are always happy to read a new adventure from Rob all worried but - strangely - his stories combine fast pace and lots of actionher husband, Alec, an easy to read styleis not. Shortly afterwards, an unerring eye for children's friendships Etty and rivalriesGreg, and always a good dollop find the body of naughty humour. TheyGreg're all present heres 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''The Treasure in t stand the Tower''guilt. The chance purchase of a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventure. Who Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can follow the clues best and find the treasure? Jess, her brother Mason and do but get on with their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money lives and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?|isbn=1800461321wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=15291244171035906708|title=Before She DisappearedDiva|author=Lisa GardnerDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani WhitehorseWe 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's body to make it more manageable in her car at the bottom of the lakeStates. She knew When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left she could get appropriate training for her threevoice -year-old daughter and run away. Lani she was raised under the fourteenth missing person to be located Nazi occupation by Frankie and now she's moving on again, this time to Boston where there's a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until mother who mercilessly exploited her disappearance eleven months ago. Frankie, middle-aged and whitemade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, gets a job and accommodation at Stoney's bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively blackJackie.
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|isbnauthor=B08QDL5HDLChristopher Edge|title=The Jeeves Collection, Vol 1|author=P G WodehouseBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=HumourConfident Readers|summary=In my youthLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, I wasna place that has the nickname of 't fond of PG Wodehouse: IThe Black Hole've never been keen on upper-class twits and I was greedy. I wanted everything: I required brilliant plotsAll big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, exceptional characters and laugh-out-loud humour. many, many snacks! Age brought However, as the realisation movie starts, they very quickly realise that you have to compromise and I came back to Wodehouse with a something about this new film format is very different mindset. The humour is gentle , and subtle: therethey are swept up into an adventure they couldn's never any malice in itt even imagine. The characterisation But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is two-dimensional where women are concerned: there's little in between old gorgons (Aunt Agathagoing on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, we're looking at you...) and young schemers such as Honoria Glossop. The plots are superficial but gently engaging. They're fun - and the writing is exquisite.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|author=H M LongRachel Greenlaw|title=Hall of SmokeCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary= Hessa is an Eangi: a powerful priestess of ''I can hear the Goddess song of War. That is until she is banished by her high priestess for not following her one order: to kill the traveller that visits her templesea. Her whole town is burnt to The call of the ground while she is praying for forgivenessdeep, and Hessa – now left alone – must find this traveller to atone for her weakness and win back her goddessthe answering beat in my heart.'' favour. On her journey, she encounters zealot soldiers Rosevear, deceitful gods, and newly awakened demons at every turn. It is a gruelling quest, remote and along the waypartially forgotten island, she discovers a harrowing truth: survives on luring ships into the gods are dying, rocks and plundering the High Halls of the afterlife are fadingwrecks. Soon Hessa's trust in Mira, like her mother before her goddess weakens, and she is thrust into a battle between one of the gods of seven who swim out to survey the Old World ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the New.|isbn=1789094984}}{{Frontpage|author=Afonso Cruz Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=KokoschkaMira's Doll|rating=2father.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=WellDesperate to save him from death, this looked very much like Mira makes a bargain with a book I could love from the get-go, which wreck survivor who is as charming as he is why I picked my review copy up secretive and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things with only coordinates to potentially delight me each time – a weird section guide her, she sets off in the middle on darker stock paper, search of a chapter whose number was family secret that lies buried deep in the 20,000ssea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, letters used as narrative form, and so on. It intrigued with her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew heart of it mentionedthe smuggler's territory, too. But you've seen Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the star rating that comes with this review, future of her home and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by themthe ones she holds most dear. So what happened?|isbn=15294026970008664730
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|author=David F RossJames Sherwood Metts|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyPlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Years ago, Danny Garvey was Things have been a footballing prodigy playing bit sticky for his local clubthe Earthlings. Everyone predicted a bright future – but his career in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years onAI and automation have been proceeding apace, convinced often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to return home by his "uncle" Higgy accomplish. Just as they were beginning to visit his dying mother, Danny takes over the shambolic and once-great team he get used to play for all this technological change and tries starting to think of other, new ways to reform themspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn= 19131935001736128426
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|isbnauthor=1529337925Matthew Tree|title=The Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPhersonWe'll Never Know
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=It was the August Bank Holiday weekend andTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit a drunk and Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. The thought chronic underachiever whose dreams of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. She was the publisher being exceptional at any of a magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch his artistic passions all failed miserably and Judy show in the local park who had used copies endless crises of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - self confidence. So Tim applied himself to drum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the man about infringement of copyright - studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the same jobset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=0099551063A G Slatter|title=The Wisdom Briar Book of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Duttonthe Dead|rating=45|genre=Popular ScienceFantasy|summary='' There'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researchers 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.''
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|authorisbn=Alex Wheatle1529900360|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=2.54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=We meet Welton Blake 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 worst help of times – a psychologist only they should be the best of timesworked for a while. He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema dateFinally, but his phone has packed upit was Robin, he's chundered last nightDelaware's meal and his breakfast over another girl in classpartner, who's duffed him up in response, and the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anywaynudged Milo into asking for help again. On a bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now She knew that the dad has left involvement was something that the picture – yesman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinnerthough. I know, right? Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. But surely this He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is just a blip, a day at school married to forget, an extremely rich man and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in it's not the wash? Italian. This can't be But which of them was the start of a most nightmarish time for young Weltonprimary target?|isbn=1781129495
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|authorisbn=Karen M McManus1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The CousinsSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= The rich Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and famous Story family led a life of luxury on Gull Cove IslandRowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, until 25 years ago particularly when each of he considered the Story children strain that being on- Anders, Archer, Adam and Allison - received a mysterious letter from their mother and were cut off completelycall put on his father's life. But now, When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a quarter of family friend who was a century later, their children have been called to return to vet and was convinced this was the island job for the summer by their grandmotherhim. What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted lies Before long, secrets and tragedy that has held the Story family up he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - and held them apart as with so many students - for been his dream since he was a quarter of child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a century is about to come crashing downprofessional footballer.|isbn=0241376947
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|isbn=17864959020861541774|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your MindA Nye of Pheasants|author=Isabel HardmanSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a trauma which she chooses not short holiday in Singapore to sharemeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. She says Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a friend who does know, burst into tears man armed with a knife - and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbeliefhe killed a Ghurka. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to work light that suggested that he might have planned to cover murder the budget, next there was man. Now he could be facing the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference seasondeath penalty. One night she had Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to be sedated help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I didwouldn't help Danny at all.
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|author=Emma Carroll and Kaja KajfezAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Ghost GardenPerfect Passion Company
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=FranThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the gardener's daughter at online apps in providing a posh country housemore personal, is worriedtailored service. She's just cracked Ness has asked her garden fork through quite younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a grim discovery - trip to Canada to get away for a large bone, buried under the potatoeswhile. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided Katie is coming out of a break up with Leoa bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the older child of the house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawnchance to come home to Edinburgh. She is due And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to foretell a surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around 44 Scotland Street and the grounds in his bathchairIsabel Dalhousie novels, she might have reason but with some new characters who quickly begin to be out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chambercharm. But surely that won't act as Katie has no experience in running a premonition to anything business, or in match- not here making, but Ness has full confidence in the sultryher abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, summery days of 1914?to lend a hand…|isbn=17811290021846976596
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|isbn=reed30811771741|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)InstaKnits for Baby|author=James ReedMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceCrafts|summary=Six years on from the original edition, the book is being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled Melissa Leapman's 'The Future of Work'InstaKnits for Baby' which includes an additional 10 questions. I've come gives us a collection of knits from toys to this some 6 years after reviewing blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the original book and my life has changed significantly 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the meantimefire' variety. I The projects are divided by the time they'm no longer working in middlell take to complete -management having opted for a down-shift into reduced less than five hours freelancing , five to enable me ten hours, ten to focus on other (not necessarily paying) worktwenty hours and more than twenty hours. I can therefore relate to All the first point made in this chapter namely that independence projects are attractive, modern and flexibility are core skills useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that employees need to have's me being picky.
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|author= Deborah O'ConnorDean Koontz|title= The CaptiveBad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersParanormal|summary=Hannah knows Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the cagething that has trashed his house! The thing is, intimatelyBenny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. It lurks in He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the corner delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of her eye. SoonBenny, it and will be occupied. Then what? What certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?, 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=18387726501662500491
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|isbnauthor=B08CR3WNFTAdam Stower|title=The Therapist|author=B A ParisMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=When Leo Curtis found the house in The CircleMurray is supposed to be a humble, a gated communitytidy and friendly cat, Alice Dawson was in Venice. Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the market at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have to sell her cottage in Harlestone for them to be one who is able to afford it. Alice agreed - she was tired sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of their long-distance relationshipthe two. Now 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 would be able to spend most of both use can chuck them out, not into the week together instead regular back garden, but into a world of just the weekendsfrightening adventure and whiffs. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didnhe't feel comfortable there.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=1406395404B0C47LV1PC|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage BrainFragility|author=Nicola MorganMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=2020 has been Can you make a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep'Yo birthing person'' joke? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most peopleAnd if you could, from children to adults will have is the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep question should you make it? Or is only likely to make the question if you did, would it worseland? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. And there ''Fragility''s also is set as the fact that for far too longcity of Portland, Oregon, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made cautiously begins to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and emerge from the restrictions imposed during the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.covid pandemic
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|isbn=000820831X1529431735|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenWinter Visitor|author=Stuart MacBrideJames Henry
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|summary=At the coastal village of ClachmaraIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the headland is slowly eroding into the seamore surprising. Storm Trevor speeds up He'd been exiled on the processCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. A ship The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex- the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks wife, saying that she's ill and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of the house hasn't long to see whatlive. It's happeninghard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Margaret runs after her son Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and as she grabs Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him to pull him back to safety she glances across , and in the evening a helper at the newly-exposed cliff front dessert cafe his gran owns and sees human bonesruns. Gordon SmithEli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's home is falling into parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the North Sea and world in the evidence company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he's been doing for decades is going most hates, with it - except for what Ash Henderson the sole aim the prize of LIRU can grab as he later escapes magic at the end – the tumbling ruinonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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