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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=17874778000008517061|title=The Night Hawks (Dr Ruth Galloway)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Elly GriffithsStig Abell|rating=4.5
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|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists and they're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that there's treasure to be foundFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Unfortunately, There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the youngest future of the grouphis life with his vet girlfriend, twenty-one-year-old Troy EvansLivia and her daughter Diana, finds the body as moving in together would mean a lot of a man floating on 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 incoming tide. future she wants for herself and her daughter? After pulling it ashore, they call For the moment they’re enjoying life in the police. DCI Nelson thinks that it's probably present and putting the body of an asylum seeker but there's no evidence of any activity to be had from future on the coastguard. The dead man turns out to be Jem Taylor, a North Norfolk man recently released from prisonback burner.
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|isbn=15293786481786482126|title=Slough House The Janus Stone (Jackson Lamb 7Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Mick HerronElly Griffiths
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Someone is killing secret service agents, past and present, from Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the Slough House team. Jackson Lamb cansite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury't understand itapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. Well, what he actually can't understand is why, having seen them, anyone would botherThere was no skull. But the deaths are mounting up and something needs to be done. Was this a ritual killing or murder? After all ''when things went awry on Spook StreetInevitably, they generally went the full Chris GraylingDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson.'' Over at RegentIt's Parkdifficult as Ruth knows, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatched. It isnbut Nelson doesn't just the message , that was sent: she's also delighted that she managed to fund is pregnant with his child as a result of the operation off the booksone night they spent together some three months ago. Some private money was brought in. She won't always Her condition will be so jubilant about thisobvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=18387734280008551324|title=The Art of DeathDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=David FennellNeil Lancaster
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|genre=Crime
|summary=It was an art installation of 's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidpolice. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are Neither side likes or has any respect for the bodies of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tippingother. The installation But Davie Hardie is the work of @nonymous, underground artist struggling in prison and extreme version of Banksy. Hehe's made prepared to tell the police where the body of a macabre promise: more will followmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. In factThis person, we've already met the artist although not by name: he's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebookpromises, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air is someone big and iPhoneit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Elaine Kelly And what he wants is there with her son, Jordan, and she's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris about be transferred to an open prison to serve the state remainder of her marriagehis sentence and to get an early parole date. ActuallyNot much to ask, is it ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't take a lot of explaining: Frankthink so and she's attentions are obvious on her face despite even prepared to do the foundation she's applied. Chau Ho other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is behind the counter. Therekept well away from what's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, toohappening.
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|isbn=14711913030008405026|title=The InvisibleA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Tom PercivalJane 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 cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a wife, perfectionist and a child trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a brotherGP. HeWhen we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's been on going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the lookout for consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the perfect people and hethree friends. This time, it's made certain preparationstheir 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 image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. The flat where A hoodie and jeans replaces the family will live pin-stripe suit and his background is prepared and even windows the East End, where he was familiar with curtainsviolence, poverty and pictures in frames have injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been painted onto to the wallsLondon School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Angela Fernycroft was He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be his wifestupid. Her husbandIt was his ability at what was, Calessentially, had taken the children - a boy of seven and a girl of five, away for the weekendcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. UnfortunatelyEventually, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela diesthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=B08NZ4LV2R1035021803|title=Dark Memories (DS Nikki Parekh 3)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Liz MistryC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|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
|rating=4.5
|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 ''I can hear the song of the Goddess sea. The call of Warthe deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. That is until she is banished by Mira, like her high priestess for not following mother before her , is one order: of the seven who swim out to kill survey the traveller ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that visits her templelies within. Her whole town is burnt But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the ground while she is praying for forgivenesswrecking, they capture the island's leader and Hessa – now left alone – must find this traveller to atone for her weakness and win back her goddessMira' favours father. On her journeyDesperate to save him from death, she encounters zealot soldiers, deceitful gods, and newly awakened demons at every turn. It Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is a gruelling quest, secretive and along the waywith only coordinates to guide her, she discovers sets off in search of a harrowing truth: family secret that lies buried deep in the gods are dyingsea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, and as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the High Halls heart of the afterlife are fading. Soon Hessasmuggler's trust in her goddess weakensterritory, and she is thrust into a battle between Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the gods future of the Old World her home and the Newones she holds most dear.|isbn=17890949840008664730
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|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)James Sherwood Metts|title=Kokoschka's DollPlanet Storyland|rating=24.5|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Well, this looked very much like Things have been a book I could love from bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up used to all this technological change and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any starting to think of it. I found things other, new ways to potentially delight me each spend time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number along came an awful pandemic. Life was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative formpretty much shut down and, and so on. It intrigued along with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. But you've seen all the star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was many daily social interactions on these pages, it was not actually caused by themwhich they depend so heavily. So what happened?|isbn=15294026971736128426
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|author=David F RossMatthew Tree|title= ThereWe's Only One Danny Garveyll Never Know
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Years agoTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, Danny Garvey was a footballing prodigy playing for drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his local clubartistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. Everyone predicted a bright future – but So Tim applied himself to his career in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years onstudies, convinced to return home by cultivated his "uncle" Higgy to visit abilities rather than his dying mother, Danny takes over the shambolic daydreams and once-great team he used to play for and tries to reform themset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= 1913193500B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1529337925A G Slatter|title=The Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPhersonBriar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Fantasy|summary=It was the August Bank Holiday weekend and'' 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, as so often happenedall mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it was cold enough to have for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the fire lit and Bunty protection of the Dalmation wasnBriar't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on s, a family of witches who protect the sofa. The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took town and the call wider world from Sandy Bissett in Dundeethe Darklands. She 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 the publisher of young, her training as a magazine steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and had been told that potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the man running Briar Witch, the Punch town's leader, and Judy show in the local park had used copies of two of Ellie takes her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and place beside her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver As challenges come her way left, right and Osborne centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to warn communicate with the dead, putting her at the man about infringement heart of a maelstrom of copyright - and Dandy chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor determine what to do as the same jobBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=00995510631529900360|title=The Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial KillersGhost Orchid|author=Dr Kevin DuttonJonathan Kellerman
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|genre=Popular ScienceCrime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler 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 psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcherdifficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'' Until t need the events help of 6 January 2021 that might have surpriseda psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, even shocked many readers: now theyDelaware're probably convinced s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that they knew it all alongthe man she loved needed. The statement has lost next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a little remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of its shock value but it does help us to understand more about the nature Bag: The Secret Life of psychopathya Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. ItHis 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 too easy to associate psychopathy 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 Yorkshire Ripperjob for him. Before long, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, the realhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students -life Hannibal Lecterbeen his dream since he was a child. If anything, but the truth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes he'd wanted to be a good thingprofessional footballer.
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|authorisbn=Alex Wheatle0861541774|title=The Humiliations A Nye of Welton BlakePheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=2.54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, heDCI Domenic Jejeune's chundered last night's meal close friend and his breakfast over another girl in classformer colleague, Danny Maik, who's duffed him up has taken a short holiday in response, and the wanna-bae seems Singapore to actually be meet up with someone else anywayan old ally, Guy Trueman. On Maik was involved in a bigger scale street brawl - he would later maintain that he's living was facing a man armed with his mother a knife - and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinnerhe killed a Ghurka. I knowInitially, right? But surely this is just he faced a blip, a day at school charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in murder the man. Now he could be facing the wash? death penalty. This Domenic Jejeune cando nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|isbn=1781129495help Danny at all.
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|author=Karen M McManusAlexander McCall Smith|title=The CousinsPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= The rich Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and famous Story family led operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a life trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of luxury on Gull Cove Islanda break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, until 25 years ago when each of bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Story children Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match- Andersmaking, Archerbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, Adam and Allison - received a mysterious letter from their mother there's always her very helpful (and were cut off completely. But nowrather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a quarter collection of a century later, their children have been called to return knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the island for 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the summer fire' variety. The projects are divided by their grandmother. 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 time they seem? The dark web of twisted lies'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, secrets ten to twenty hours and tragedy that has held more than twenty hours. All the Story family up projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social- and held them apart media- for a quarter of a century is about to come crashing downworthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=0241376947
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|isbnauthor=1786495902Dean Koontz|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel HardmanBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleParanormal|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered Benny is having a trauma which she chooses not to shareterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. She says that Oh, and someone has delivered a friend who does knowreally weird, burst into tears and healthdisturbing coffin-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went sized object to work to cover the budgethis home, next there and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the EU referendumthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the political party leadership contests and then very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it was party conference season. One night she had turns out that the delivery to be sedated and returned home his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to begin long-term sick leavehelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. That was what brought me Spike is going to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went 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 more often than I didwho exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|author=Emma Carroll and Kaja KajfezAdam Stower|title=The Ghost GardenMurray and Bun
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|isbn=reed3B0C47LV1PC|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)Fragility|author=James ReedMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceLiterary Fiction|summary=Six years on from the original edition, the book is being re-issued with Can you make a bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of WorkYo birthing person'' which includes an additional 10 questions. I've come to this some 6 years after reviewing joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the original book and my life has changed significantly in question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the meantimeanswer for both could well be.... I'm no longer working in middle-management having opted for a down-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. I can therefore relate ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the first point made in this chapter namely that independence and flexibility are core skills that employees need to have.restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1529431735|title= The CaptiveWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the cagemore surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, intimatelysaying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It lurks 's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the corner boot of her eyea stolen Ford Sierra. Soon, Is it will be occupied. Then what? What if he speaks a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts himhome?|isbn=1838772650
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|isbnauthor=B08CR3WNFTAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Therapist|author=B A ParisGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=When Leo Curtis found Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the house wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in The Circlethe evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a gated community, Alice Dawson was generation missing in Venicethe family. Leo wanted A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to move quickly on the property as it was on the market at such titular race, a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to sell her cottage navigate the world in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. Alice agreed - she was tired the company of their long-distance relationshipa magical beast. Now they would be able 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 spend enter what he most of hates, with the sole aim the week together instead prize of just magic at the weekends. Leo had some work done on end – the house: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable thereonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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