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|isbnauthor=1472276140Sylvie Cathrall|title=What Will Burn (Inspector McLean)|author=James OswaldA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=When Cecily Slater's body was found, she'd already been dead for There are few greater joys than a week - in book which lives up to a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburghcompelling premise. Heavy rain had washed away most of the evidence, but DI Tony McLean, demoted and just returned from suspension, is reluctant to accept that And this is nothing more than a careless accidentone of them. There were indications that Slater had been savagely, almost ritualistically beaten before the fire. But who would hate a ninety-year-old woman to the extent of doing something like that? She was a virtual recluse: who could she have upset to that extent?|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=000845552X0008517061|title=Where Ravens RoostDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Karin NordinStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from his fatherFormer Metropolitan Police detective, StenarJake Johnson, for more than has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a decade but when he got little uncertainty about the rather muddled phone call from him saying that he'd seen a murder in the barn on future of his life with his land he didn't hesitate to drop everything vet girlfriend, Livia and go to Varsund. Actuallyher daughter Diana, 'drop everything' rather overstates the situation. Nygaard was on suspension following the shooting of a suspect as moving in the Aubuchon murder enquiry. There had been together would mean a complicationlot 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 Kattegat Killer turned out to be Nils Hedin, Nygaard's best friend. future she wants for herself and her daughter? Still, For the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg moment they’re enjoying life in the south of Sweden to Varsund in present and putting the future on the far north shouldn't be underestimatedback burner.
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|isbn=14711871791786482126|title=A Beautiful SpyThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Rachel HoreElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Minnie is Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'ordinaryluxury' girl living an unexciting life in apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a leafy provincial suburbdoorway. The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find There was no skull. Was this a nice young man to marryritual killing or murder? Inevitably, produce children and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their homeDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. UnfortunatelyIt's difficult as Ruth knows, this isnbut Nelson doesn't what , that she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working is pregnant with his child as a secretaryresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. As a result of a chance meetingHer condition will be obvious before long, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting not least because Ruth is prone to infiltrate the Communist Party sudden bouts of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Partysickness.
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|authorisbn= T L Huchu0008551324|title= The Library of the DeadDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to take messages from approach the dead of Edinburgh police. Neither side likes or has any respect for their living relativesthe other. Ever since she dropped out of school, sheBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's been using it prepared to support not only herself, but her younger sister tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her aging grandmotherdeath. However This person, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburghhe promises, targeting is someone big and it will be worth the city's childrenpolice doing what he wants. Soon, Ropa And what he wants is pulled into the search for a missing boy at to be transferred to an open prison to serve the request remainder of his dead mothersentence and to get an early parole date. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic Not much to ask, is far bigger it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find s even prepared to do the missing children other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 1529039452anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|authorisbn=Everina Maxwell0008405026|title=Winter's OrbitA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary= Prince Kiem It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a famous political disappointmentcomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's outgoingalso self-obsessed, carefreedemanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has gotten into many drunken scandals over been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. 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 to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave 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 past few yearsAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. So But when an important political alliance 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 arranged – one that is supposed able to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the role. Least case and, potentially, out of all him.a career?|isbn=0356515885139851120X
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|isbn=18389520121399613073|title=The FavourMoral Injuries|author=Laura VaughanChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=The rejection by Oxford came as Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a bit quarter of a shock century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to Ada Howell: she was, after all, be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the daughter free spirit of the renowned author, Anthony Howell, who'd been to this college. Well, she wasn't ''actually'' Howell's daughter: he'd married her mother after her birth group and had then adopted her, so she was 'chosen' rather than just 'made', which was better reallybecomes a GP. And whilst When wefirst meet them they're being honest, we might as well admit that at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it'renowned authors going to end in tragedy. We don' might t know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be stretching an eerily similar event that will impact the truth a little: his books degenerated into self-published poetry which Ada couldn't understandthree friends. StillThis time, Ada had felt entitled and this was why her godmotherit's offer had come at such a brilliant timetheir teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=C A Sacha0241636604|title=LegacyThe Trading Game: A Political ThrillerConfession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has If you were to bring up an image of a plan city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to increase think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his already startling wealth background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and ensure injustice. There was no posh public school on his legacy: CV - but he had been to bring the world's first emission-free car to market and dominate productionLondon School of Economics. The secret development project to enable this, Bucephalus, Stevenson is already underway bright - extremely bright - and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into he has a second term to help him carry it outfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Montgomery is He also looking for a legacy and one realised that does not involve most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his controlling mother and her foundationability at what was, essentially, so grabs onto Finnegan's Feed Africa programme a card game which got him an internship with both hands.Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=1800461976
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|authorisbn=Martin Venning1035021803|title=The Primary ObjectiveAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=23.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Sometimes a book starts off slowly, but eventually draws you in It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to caring about the characters or simply wanting to know what happens nextEnglish country village where she grew up. Sometimes it doesnShe'ts back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. The basic premise is a good one – a clandestine organisationFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, operating as a charityArthur Crockleford, but funded by various governments around is dead and the world and partially (maybecircumstances seem suspicious, I'm to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not sure) under been back to the auspices of the UNvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, with she has not felt able to be near the primary objective of keeping man or pursue the peace, by any means possibleprofession she loved. Diplomacy is always After the first option and sometimes one that needs to be carried out by third partiessplit, but for situations when that looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains she worked in a call-cafe, met and married James (on list the rebound from the love of field operativesher life, ex-military, medics, scientists or anyone else with a taste for adventure who was murdered) and Freya and willing to risk their life for the sake of itJames have now divorced.|isbn=1800461100
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|authorisbn=Francesca Simon and Steve MayAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Two Terrible VikingsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Emerging ReadersScience Fiction|summary=In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to be the very worst Vikings ever! come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Nothing can stop their mad maraudingWell, as they cause havoc at I must confess that there have been more than a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a troll, and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! few decades of technology in my lifetime. They get I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all kinds getting away from me. Some of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolfit is -cub Biteyfrankly -Biteyquite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and their crazy cast of friendswho could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=0571349498
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|author=Helen FisherSunny Singh|title=Space HopperHotel Arcadia
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=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 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 residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.
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|isbn=1529153298
|title=The List of Suspicious Things
|author=Jennie Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very youngIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worse's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, and although they were kind and very good 've been murdered, but to her she of course missed her mum enormouslyhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. So when, unexpectedly, Miv's upset because she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) 's overheard that takes her back father wants to move the 70family 'Down South'. When you's and her mumre from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to herbest avoided. The time travellingFor Miv, howeverthe move would mean leaving her best friend, is neither easy nor safeSharon, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe whatshe's happening and so lies ll do anything to him insteadprevent that. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if itShe's safe for her to return one last time to not worried about the past. Should she try to see dangers or that her mum one last time before her mumMum's death, or will it change her own future forever stopped talking - to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663anyone.
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|isbn=17874778001398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Night Hawks (Dr Ruth Galloway)Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Elly GriffithsDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The night hawks are metal detectorists and Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're out on Blakeney Point where looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they suspect very quickly realise that theresomething about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn's treasure to be foundt even imagine. UnfortunatelyBut as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the youngest cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the groupsea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, twenty-one-year-old Troy Evansa remote and partially forgotten island, finds survives on luring ships into the body rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of 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 man floating on trap to end the incoming tide. After pulling it ashorewrecking, they call capture the police. DCI Nelson thinks that itisland's probably the body of an asylum seeker but thereleader and Mira's no evidence of any activity father. Desperate to be had save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the coastguardsea. The dead man turns out With only nine days to be Jem Taylorunearth what might save her father, a North Norfolk man recently released as her journey takes her from prisonthe watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|isbnauthor=1529378648James Sherwood Metts|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick HerronPlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Someone is killing secret service agents, past and present, from Things have been a bit sticky for the Slough House teamEarthlings. Jackson Lamb can't understand it. WellAI and automation have been proceeding apace, what he actually canoften replacing jobs they't understand is why, having seen them, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up re paid to do and something needs other tasks that took time to be doneaccomplish. After Just as they were beginning to get used to all ''when things went awry on Spook Streetthis technological change and starting to think of other, they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'' Over at Regent's Parknew ways to spend time, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about along came an operation which saw the perpetrator of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatchedawful pandemic. It isn't just the message that Life was sent: she's also delighted that she managed to fund pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the operation off the books. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be many daily social interactions on which they depend so jubilant about thisheavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=1838773428Matthew Tree|title=The Art of Death|author=David FennellWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It was an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquid. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton drunk and 34-year-old Noel Tipping. The installation is the work chronic underachiever whose dreams of @nonymous, underground artist and extreme version being exceptional at any of Banksy. He's made a macabre promise: more will follow. In fact, we've already met the artist although not by name: he's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air artistic passions all failed miserably and iPhone. Elaine Kelly is there with her son, Jordan, and she's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state who had endless crises of her marriageself confidence. Actually, it doesn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite the foundation she's So Tim applied. Chau Ho is behind the counter. There's someone onlinehimself to his studies, CassandraH, that the artist has cultivated his abilities rather than his eye on, toodaydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1471191303A G Slatter|title=The Invisible|author=Tom PercivalBriar Book of the Dead
|rating=5
|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This is the story secret magic of Isobelmy own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a little girl who made a big differencewhile. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on:'
Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar''Ice curled across the inside s, a family of witches who protect the window town and crept up the corner of wider world from the bedpostDarklands.'' The Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and they were happypotions. Then the day came when they couldnWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't afford s cousin Audra becomes the rent for Briar Witch, the house town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and they had to move centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the far side heart of a maelstrom of the citychaos. This part of Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the city was coldBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisibleis under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=178089905X1529900360|title=SerpentineThe Ghost Orchid
|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It wasnhadn't exactly the case been Lt Milo Sturgis 's fault that Alex Delaware had been dreaming about: a death from thirtybadly 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-six years ago and -shut cases which didn't need the daughter help of the woman who died wanted some answersa psychologist only worked for a while. She had money and money translated into clout and so the problem Finally, it was dropped onto MiloRobin, Delaware's toespartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Dorothy Swoboda She knew that the involvement was twenty-four years old when something that the man she died loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flamesremote property in Bel Air. It turned out that He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she wasn't actually is married to the an extremely rich man with whom sheand it'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man and he took out adoption papers for Ellie - and she took his names not the Italian. Ellie But which of them was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing of her but one photograph of her mother and father and a necklace made of serpentine.the primary target?
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|isbn=00083793001529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Shadow ManSecret Life of a Vet|author=Helen FieldsSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Fergus Ariss is Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his late thirties and footsteps, particularly when he knows considered the strain that hebeing on-call put on his father's dyinglife. His body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before When he dies was seventeen he wants took the opportunity of doing work experience with a wife, family friend who was a child vet and a brother. He's been on was convinced this was the lookout job for the perfect people and he's made certain preparationshim. The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtainsBefore long, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft he was to be his wifeat Liverpool University. Her husband, Cal, had taken the children It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a boy of seven and a girl of five, away for the weekendchild. UnfortunatelyIf anything, it doesnhe't go according d wanted to plan and Angela diesbe a professional footballer.
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|isbn=B08NZ4LV2R0861541774|title=Dark Memories (DS Nikki Parekh 3)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Liz MistrySteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peggy Dyson was DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in her sixties and hadn't worn wellSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. She Maik was involved in a drug addict and was living under the arches in Forster Square Station in Bradford. Her killer thought street brawl - he would later maintain that he was probably doing her facing a man armed with a favour by putting her out of her misery. DS Nikki Parekh knife - and DC Sajid Malik are on the casehe killed a Ghurka. Nikki can't quite understand why she's been sent an anonymous letter with Initially, he faced a press report charge of the death. It had been impossible manslaughter but evidence came to make any progress in the case and the note seemed light that suggested that he might have planned to taunt murder the policeman. Then another note arrived with a report of a seemingly unconnected Now he could be facing the death in Cambridgepenalty. The third death - in the street where Nikki lived Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as a child - brought any interference from another communication, with police force could provoke a further clue under the victim - diplomatic incident and Nikki was sure that there was something personal in the casewouldn't help Danny at all.
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|author=Anna CareyAlexander McCall Smith|title=This is Not the Jess ShowThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Jess The Perfect Passion Company is a normal 90's teenage girldating agency in Edinburgh, just trying run by Ness and operating as an alternative to navigate all the usual stresses of schoolonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and boyslook after the business, and parent troublesas Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. But strange things seem to be happening in her small town, Katie is coming out of a break up with a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoorsbad boyfriend, and a strange metal deviceso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, with bringing us to an apple on itEdinburgh we already love, that slips out of her friend's bagthanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but that her friends just won't talk with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her about. Jess feels like she might be hearing voicesabilities, and there's always her sister very helpful (who is very illand rather handsome) seems neighbour, William, to be responding to her in strange ways sometimes. Is there something going on beneath the surface of Jess' life?lend a hand…|isbn=16836919701846976596
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|isbn=B08LKT7HSR0811771741|title=Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the cellar of the Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the murder of Elowed and his half-brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's long search InstaKnits for her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now she's determined that the man responsible for her murder will be brought to justice.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1782227741|title=Little Gold TedBaby|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha SathaMelissa Leapman
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|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=One day, Gold Ted falls into a puddle. ItMelissa Leapman's quite ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a deep puddle and the water is swirlingcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Poor Ted starts to spin around and around and is sucked down a drain on Some will be quick knits - others are of the side 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the streetfire' variety. Finding himself down in The projects are divided by the sewertime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, Ted starts ten to panictwenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'OH HELP ME PLEASEbut that'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer rat, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, 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 broths me being picky.
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|author=Rob KeeleyDean Koontz|title=The Treasure in the TowerBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary= Rob Keeley Benny is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read having a new adventure from Rob - terrifically bad day. He loses his stories combine fast pace and lots of actionjob, an easy to read stylehe loses his fiancee, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalrieshis house gets trashed. Oh, and always someone has delivered a good dollop of naughty humour. They're all present herereally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, in 'and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The Treasure in thing is, Benny is the Tower''very last person to deserve all this bad luck. The chance purchase of He is a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventurenice person. A really nice person. Who can follow So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the clues best and find the treasure? Jessdelivery to his house is a new friend, her brother Mason and their a bad weather friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and tech gadgets will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and willingness to cheat?Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=18004613211662500491
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|isbnauthor=1529124417Adam Stower|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa GardnerMurray and Bun
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car at the bottom Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the lake. She knew that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left her three-year-old daughter and run away. Lani was the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and now sheBut he's moving on again, this time to Boston where therea bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. Frankiehyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, middle-aged and whitethe catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, gets but into a job world of frightening adventure and accommodation at Stoneywhiffs. 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 bar turned up and sets out he'll have to investigate the community which is just about exclusively black.do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=B08QDL5HDLB0C47LV1PC|title=The Jeeves Collection, Vol 1Fragility|author=P G WodehouseMosby Woods
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|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=In my youth, I wasnCan you make a ''Yo birthing person't fond of PG Wodehouse: I've never been keen on upper-class twits and I was greedy. I wanted everything: I required brilliant plotsjoke? And if you could, exceptional characters and laugh-out-loud humour. Age brought is the realisation that question should you have to compromise and I came back to Wodehouse with a different mindset. The humour make it? Or is gentle and subtle: there's never any malice in the question if you did, would it. land? The characterisation catch is two-dimensional where women are concerned: there's little in between old gorgons (Aunt Agatha, we're looking at youthat the answer for both could well be...) and young schemers such as Honoria Glossop. The plots are superficial but gently engagingno. They ''Fragility''re fun - and is set as the writing is exquisite.city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=H M Long1529431735|title=Hall of SmokeThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= Hessa It's February 1991 and Essex is an Eangi: a powerful priestess of bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Goddess of Warmore surprising. That is until she is banished by her high priestess He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for not following her one order: to kill the traveller that visits her templea decade. Her whole town is burnt to the ground while she is praying for forgiveness, and Hessa – now left alone – must find this traveller to atone for her weakness and win back her goddess The return has come about because he' favour. On her journeys had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she encounters zealot soldiers, deceitful gods, 's ill and newly awakened demons at every turnhasn't long to live. It 's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is a gruelling questabducted, stripped to his underwear and along the way, she discovers sent to a harrowing truth: watery grave in the gods are dying, and the High Halls boot of the afterlife are fadinga stolen Ford Sierra. Soon Hessa's trust in her goddess weakens, and she is thrust into Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a battle between the gods of the Old World and the New.|isbn=1789094984problem closer to home?
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|author=Afonso Cruz Alex Bell and Rahul Bery (translator)Tim McDonagh|title=Kokoschka's DollThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=2.54|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=WellEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, this looked very much like and in the evening a book I could love from helper at the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up dessert cafe his gran owns and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of itruns. I found things to potentially delight me each time Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a weird section generation missing in the middle on darker stock paperfamily. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a chapter whose number was globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so oncompany of a magical beast. It intrigued with This has made the race anathema to the subterranean voice pair – but when a man hears in wartorn Dresden that bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what little I knew he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of it mentioned, too. But you've seen magic at the end – the star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by themonly thing to possibly save his gran. So what happened?|isbn=15294026970571382231
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