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|author= T L HuchuSylvie Cathrall|title= The Library of the Dead|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it A Letter to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 1529039452}}{{Frontpage|author=Everina Maxwell|title=Winter's OrbitLuminous Deep
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|genre=Science Fiction
|summary= Prince Kiem is There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a famous political disappointment. He's outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past few yearscompelling premise. So when an important political alliance is to be arranged – one that And this is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the role. Least of all himthem.|isbn=03565158850356522776
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|isbn=18389520120008517061|title=The FavourDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Laura VaughanStig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The rejection by Oxford came as a bit of a shock to Ada Howell: she wasFormer Metropolitan Police detective, after allJake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the daughter future of the renowned author, Anthony Howellhis life with his vet girlfriend, who'd been to this college. Well, she wasn't ''actually'' Howell's daughter: he'd married her mother after her birth Livia and had then adopted herdaughter Diana, so she was 'chosen' rather than just 'made', which was better really. And whilst we're being honest, we might as well admit that 'renowned author' might be stretching the truth moving in together would mean a littlelot of compromise: does Jake give up his books degenerated into selfoff-published poetry which Ada couldn't understand. Still, Ada had felt entitled grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this was why is the future she wants for herself and her godmother's offer had come at such a brilliant timedaughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.
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|authorisbn=C A Sacha1786482126|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has a plan Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to increase his already startling wealth and ensure his legacy: to bring the worldhold seventy-five 'luxury's first emissionapartments -free car to market and dominate productionwhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. The secret development project to enable Was thisa ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, Bucephalusbut Nelson doesn't, that she is already underway and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into pregnant with his child as a second term to help him carry it outresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Montgomery Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is also looking for a legacy and one that does not involve his controlling mother and her foundation, so grabs onto Finnegan's Feed Africa programme with both hands..prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1800461976
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|authorisbn=Martin Venning0008551324|title=The Primary ObjectiveDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=24.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Sometimes a book starts off slowly, but eventually draws you in It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to caring about approach the characters or simply wanting to know what happens nextpolice. Sometimes it doesn'tNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. The basic premise But Davie Hardie is a good one – a clandestine organisation, operating as a charity, but funded by various governments around the world struggling in prison and partially (maybe, Ihe'm not sure) under s prepared to tell the police where the auspices body of the UNa missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, with is someone big and it will be worth the primary objective of keeping the peace, by any means possiblepolice doing what he wants. Diplomacy And what he wants is always to be transferred to an open prison to serve the first option remainder of his sentence and sometimes one that needs to be carried out by third partiesget an early parole date. Not much to ask, but for situations when is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains a callHardie demanded -on list of field operatives, ex-military, medics, scientists or make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone else who works with a taste for adventure and willing to risk their life for the sake of ithim is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1800461100
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|authorisbn=Francesca Simon and Steve May0008405026|title=Two Terrible VikingsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=Emerging ReadersCrime|summary=In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and Whack, who are eager the investigation ground to be the very worst Vikings ever! a halt. Nothing can stop their mad maraudingNow, as they cause havoc at a birthday partyher mother, chaos whilst tracking a trollHelena, and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with her father are dead in their friends! bed. They get up to all kinds Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of mischief the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and naughty behaviour, along with their wolfher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-cub Biteyand-Biteyshut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and their crazy cast of friendsUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=0571349498
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|authorisbn=Helen Fisher0571379877|title=Space HopperThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very Edward Jevons is a working-class young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worseman, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormouslyStanza. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70Robert's and her mum, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to hera theatre director. The time travelling, howeverHe's also self-obsessed, is neither easy nor safedemanding, handsome and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening entitled and so lies uses Edward to run errands for him instead. The lies grow more tangled, Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and Faye begins to wonder if ithe's safe for her drunkenly confided how he feels to return one last time to the pastRobert. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mumMost men in Robert's death, position would stay away from Stanza or will it change her own future forever tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1787477800Jo Callaghan|title=The Night Hawks (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsLeave No Trace|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists and they're out When a man is found crucified on Blakeney Point where they suspect that there's treasure to be found. Unfortunately, the youngest top of the group, twenty-one-year-old Troy Evansa hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the body of a man floating on case alongside her sidekick, the incoming tideAI detective Lock. After pulling it ashoreIt's their first live case together, they call the policehaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. DCI Nelson thinks 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 it's probably the body of an asylum seeker but there's no evidence draws a lot of any activity unwanted attention to be had from the coastguardtheir AI Future Policing project. The dead man turns out Will they be able to be Jem Taylorsolve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a North Norfolk man recently released from prison.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=15293786481399613073|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)Moral Injuries|author=Mick HerronChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Someone is killing secret service agentsOlivia, past Laura and present, from Anjali met on the Slough House teamfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Jackson Lamb can't understand itOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Well, what he actually can't understand Laura is why, having seen them, anyone would bothera perfectionist and a trauma doctor. But Anjali is the deaths are mounting up free spirit of the group and something needs to be doneshe becomes a GP. After all ''when things went awry on Spook Street, When we first meet them they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'' Over re at Regenta drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of a Novichok poisoning going to end in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatchedtragedy. It isnWe don't just know who suffered the message that was sent: she's also delighted that she managed to fund tragedy or the operation off the booksconsequences. Some private money was brought inTwenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. She wonThis time, it't always be so jubilant about thiss their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=18387734280241636604|title=The Art of DeathTrading Game: A Confession|author=David FennellGary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=1035021803
|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder
|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was an art installation of 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidEnglish country village where she grew up. Only this time itShe's not back now because of a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy Perrinrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel TippingCarole. The installation Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the work of @nonymouscircumstances seem suspicious, underground artist and extreme version of Banksy. He's made a macabre promise: more will followto say the least. In fact, we've already met Arthur was the artist although reason why Freya had not by name: he's been in back to the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebookvillage: Arthur, Maki-e fountain penshe feels, MacBook Air and iPhonelet her down badly. Elaine Kelly is there with her sonEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, Jordan, and she's explaining has not felt able to her best friend, Jackie Morris about be near the state of her marriage. Actually, it doesn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite man or pursue the foundation profession she's appliedloved. Chau Ho is behind After the counter. There's someone onlinesplit, CassandraHshe worked in a cafe, that met and married James (on the artist has his eye onrebound from the love of her life, toowho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1471191303AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The InvisibleAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Tom PercivalBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=This is ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the story shape of Isobel, a little girl who made a big differencethings to come. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on:'
I've heard it said that 'Ice curled across technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the inside feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the window probabilities and crept end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the corner of the bedpostlatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.''5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The family didn't go Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the cinema or residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on holidays but venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they had each other only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they were happyboth wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Then the day came when Women have been disappearing. Well, they couldn've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't afford the rent for the house and they had sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move to the far side of the cityfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. This part of For Miv, the city was coldmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisibleshe'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=178089905X1398524085|title=SerpentineHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jonathan KellermanNicci French
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|genre=Crime
|summary=It wasnCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death from thirty-six years ago s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and the her daughter of the woman who died wanted some answers, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. She had money Shortly afterwards, Etty and money translated into clout and so Greg, find the problem was dropped onto Milobody of Greg's toes. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died father, Duncan Ackerley, in a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flamesthe river. It turned out was an easy assumption for the police to make that she wasnDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't actually married to stand the man with whom sheguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there'd left her daughter s little else they can do but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man and he took out adoption papers for Ellie - and she took his name. Ellie was three when her mother left her get on with Dr Barker their lives and she has nothing of her but one photograph of her mother and father and a necklace made of serpentinewonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=00083793001035906708|title=The Shadow ManDiva|author=Helen FieldsDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Fergus Ariss is We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in his late thirties and he knows that he's dying. His body is giving up on himManhattan, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wifeNew York, a child in December 1923 and a brotheronly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. HeHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's been on the lookout for the perfect people and heCallas's made certain preparations. The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures to make it more manageable in frames have been painted onto the wallsStates. Angela Fernycroft When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was to be his wife. Her husband, Cal, had taken raised under the children - Nazi occupation by a boy of seven mother who mercilessly exploited her and a girl made no secret of five, away her preference for the weekend. Unfortunatelyher elder sister, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela diesJackie.
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|isbnauthor=B08NZ4LV2RChristopher Edge|title=Dark Memories (DS Nikki Parekh 3)|author=Liz MistryBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Peggy Dyson was Lucas and his friends are all booked in her sixties and hadnfor a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole't worn well. She was a drug addict All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and was living under many, many snacks! However, as the arches in Forster Square Station in Bradford. Her killer thought movie starts, they very quickly realise that he was probably doing her a favour by putting her out of her misery. DS Nikki Parekh something about this new film format is very different, and DC Sajid Malik they are on the case. Nikki canswept up into an adventure they couldn't quite understand why she's been sent an anonymous letter with a press report of the deatheven imagine. It had been impossible But as they lurch from one film genre to make any progress in the case and the note seemed next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to taunt the police. Then another note arrived with a report of a seemingly unconnected death in Cambridge. The third death - in the street where Nikki lived as a child - brought another communicationcinema, with a further clue under the victim - and Nikki was sure that there was something personal in the case.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|author=Anna CareyRachel Greenlaw|title=This is Not the Jess ShowCompass and Blade|rating=43.5
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|summary=Jess is a normal 90's teenage girl'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, just trying to navigate the usual stresses of schoolanswering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and boyspartially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and parent troublesplundering the wrecks. But strange things seem to be happening in Mira, like her mother before her small town, with a mystery flu keeping lots is one of people indoors, the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a strange metal devicetrap to end the wrecking, with an apple on it, that slips out of her friendthey capture the island's leader and Mira's bagfather. Desperate to save him from death, but that her friends just won't talk Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her about, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Jess feels like she With only nine days to unearth what might be hearing voicessave her father, and as her journey takes her sister (who is very ill) seems from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be responding determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her in strange ways sometimeshome and the ones she holds most dear. Is there something going on beneath the surface of Jess' life?|isbn=16836919700008664730
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|isbnauthor=B08LKT7HSRJames Sherwood Metts|title=Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena DixonPlanet Storyland|rating=34.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=In December 1933 Things have been a bit sticky for the remains of Elowed Underhay 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 discovered in the cellar beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of the Glass Bottle Public Houseother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Ezekiel Hamett Life was sought in connection with the murder of Elowed pretty much shut down and his half-brother, Denzil Hammettalong with it, whose body was also discoveredall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. Kitty Underhay|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We's long search for her motherll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who disappeared in June 1916 was overhad endless crises of self confidence. Now she's determined that the man responsible for her murder will be brought So Tim applied himself to justicehis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1782227741A G Slatter|title=Little Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha SathaThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary=One day'' 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, Gold Ted falls into all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a puddlewhile. It'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's quite , a deep puddle family of witches who protect the town and the water wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is swirling. Poor Ted starts the first non-witch to spin be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and around administration rather than spells and is sucked down a drain on potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the side of Briar Witch, the streettown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Finding himself down in As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the sewerrare ability to communicate with the dead, Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts putting her at the attention heart of Reg the sewer rata maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who plucks him out of to trust and determine what to do as the dirty water using his caneBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of brothunder threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|authorisbn=Rob Keeley1529900360|title=The Treasure in the TowerGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy 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 read a new adventure from Rob ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open- his stories combine fast pace and lots -shut cases which didn't need the help of actiona psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, an easy to read styleit was Robin, an unerring eye for childrenDelaware's friendships and rivalriespartner, and always a good dollop of naughty humourwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. They're all present here The next case did look simple, in ''The Treasure though. Two lovers were murdered in the Tower''. The chance purchase swimming pool of a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventureremote property in Bel Air. Who can follow He was the clues best heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and find it's not the Italian. But which of them was the treasure? Jess, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheatprimary target?|isbn=1800461321
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|isbn=15291244171529395224|title=Before She DisappearedLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Lisa GardnerSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani WhitehorseSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn's body t want to follow in her car at the bottom of his footsteps, particularly when he considered the lake. She knew strain that the twentybeing on-two-year-old waitress wouldncall put on his father't have left her three-year-old daughter and run aways life. Lani When he was seventeen he took the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and now she's moving on again, was convinced this time to Boston where there's a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months agothe job for him. FrankieBefore long, middlehe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't -aged and whiteas with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, gets a job and accommodation at Stoneyhe's bar and sets out d wanted to investigate the community which is just about exclusively blackbe a professional footballer.
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|isbn=B08QDL5HDL0861541774|title=The Jeeves Collection, Vol 1A Nye of Pheasants|author=P G WodehouseSteve Burrows
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|genre=HumourCrime|summary=In my youth, I wasnDCI Domenic Jejeune't fond of PG Wodehouse: I've never been keen on upper-class twits s close friend and I was greedyformer colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. I wanted everything: I required brilliant plots, exceptional characters and laughMaik was involved in a street brawl -outhe would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -loud humourand he killed a Ghurka. Age brought the realisation Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that you he might have planned to compromise and I came back to Wodehouse with a different mindsetmurder the man. The humour is gentle and subtle: there's never any malice in itNow he could be facing the death penalty. The characterisation is two-dimensional where women are concerned: thereDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's little in between old gorgons (Aunt Agatha, we're looking t help Danny at you...) and young schemers such as Honoria Glossop. The plots are superficial but gently engaging. They're fun - and the writing is exquisiteall.
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|author=H M LongAlexander McCall Smith|title=Hall of SmokeThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= Hessa The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an Eangi: alternative to all the online apps in providing a powerful priestess of the Goddess of Warmore personal, tailored service. That is until Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is banished by her high priestess for not following her one order: planning to take a trip to kill the traveller that visits her temple. Her whole town is burnt Canada to the ground get away for a while she . Katie is praying for forgivenesscoming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and Hessa – now left alone – must find this traveller so jumps at the chance to come home to atone for her weakness and win back her goddess' favourEdinburgh. On her journey And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, she encounters zealot soldiersbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, deceitful godsthanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, and newly awakened demons at every turnbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. It is Katie has no experience in running a gruelling questbusiness, and along the wayor in match-making, she discovers a harrowing truth: the gods are dyingbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and the High Halls of the afterlife are fading. Soon Hessathere's trust in always her goddess weakensvery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, and she is thrust into William, to lend a battle between the gods of the Old World and the New.hand…|isbn=17890949841846976596
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|authorisbn=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)0811771741|title=Kokoschka's DollInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=2.54|genre=Literary FictionCrafts|summary=Well, this looked very much like Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a book I could love collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the get-go'long, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any cosy afternoons in front of itthe fire' variety. I found things The projects are divided by the time they'll take to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock papercomplete - less than five hours, a chapter whose number was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative formfive to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and so onmore than twenty hours. It intrigued with All the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentionedprojects are attractive, toomodern and useable. But youI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 've seen the star rating social-media-worthy projects' but that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them's me being picky. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697
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|author=David F RossDean Koontz|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary= Years agoBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, Danny Garvey was a footballing prodigy playing for he loses his fiancee, and his local clubhouse gets trashed. Everyone predicted Oh, and someone has delivered a bright future – but his career in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years onreally weird, convinced disturbing coffin-sized object to return his home by , and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his "uncle" Higgy house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to visit his dying motherhouse 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 Benny, Danny takes over the shambolic and once-great team will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he used to play for , Benny, and tries to reform themHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn= 19131935001662500491
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|isbnauthor=1529337925Adam Stower|title=The Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPhersonMurray and Bun
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers |summary=It was the August Bank Holiday weekend Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy andfriendly cat, as so often happened, it was cold enough one who is able to have the fire lit sleep and eat and eat and sleep and Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. The thought , well, whatever takes his fancy next of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundeetwo. She was the publisher of But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a magazine hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and had been told that the man running catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the Punch and Judy show in the local park had used copies regular back garden, but into a world of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek frightening adventure and her sister Freckle - whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to drum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissettbe honest, but he's request was simple: she wanted Gilver turned up and Osborne he'll have to warn the man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the same job.do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=0099551063B0C47LV1PC|title=The Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial KillersFragility|author=Dr Kevin DuttonMosby Woods
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|genre=Popular ScienceLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a '' Yo birthing person'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcherjoke? 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.''
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