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|author=Jane LightbourneSylvie Cathrall|title= My Cat Called RedA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating= 45|genre=Emerging ReadersScience Fiction|summary= Robin has red hair. He hates it, and the freckles that go along with it. He's been bullied and mocked at school because of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids There are mean. But red hair is not Robin's only misery in life. He's already lost his dad few greater joys than a book which lives up to a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and compelling premise. And this is taken into hospital. She doesn't come home againone of them.|isbn= 18382168120356522776
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|isbn=B003L7TDMU0008517061|title=Phineas FinnDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Anthony TrollopeStig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Phineas Finn is the son of Dr Malachi FinnFormer Metropolitan Police detective, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County ClareJake Johnson, who sent has settled into his son to London to train as a lawyerrustic life at Little Sky. Phineas's interest is more in making influential friends than in becoming There’s perhaps a lawyer and one little uncertainty about the future of themhis life with his vet girlfriend, Barrington ErleLivia and her daughter Diana, suggests that he runs for Parliament as moving in the forthcoming election. His father is not entirely in favour together would mean a lot of this as members are not remunerated compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and it would be up relaxing life to him move in with Livia or does Livia move to provide financial support Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for his son as well as funding his election. herself and her daughter? One of For the doctor's patients is Lord Tulla who controls moment they’re enjoying life in the borough of Loughshane present and by this stroke of luck Finn is, eventually, elected by a small marginputting the future on the back burner.
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|isbn=18385950311786482126|title=Crooked: Honest CriminalityThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Bronwen JohnElly Griffiths
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The con had seemed like a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the new Banksy site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - and when they should have made discovered the bones of a child beneath a decent profit from itdoorway. The problem There was they were too successful: one of the marks had bought a few and then discovered that they were valuelessno skull. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for Was this a simple con and his fatherritual killing or murder? Inevitably, celebrity criminal Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Holmes, was determined that he and his family could not lose face like that. The grifters were going to payNelson. Ashia It'Ashs difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn' Cox and Max 'Colorado' Ying needed to be got out t, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the countryone night they spent together some three months ago. In the course Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of bringing this about, Luke Gaines, Ash's foster father, lost his lifesickness.
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|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=On It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the surface ''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: itother. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the story body of one woman a missing person is buried and two men who are vying with each other was responsible for her lovedeath. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged to her cousinThis person, he promises, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement is someone big and later became engaged to John Greyit will be worth the police doing what he wants. When we first meet Alice she's on And what he wants is to be transferred to an extended tour open prison to serve the remainder of the continent with George Vavasor his sentence and his sister Kateto get an early parole date. It's obvious that there's still a great deal of chemistry between John and Alice - and Kate Not much to ask, is all for encouraging the relationship as it would tie Alice to her. ? George wants Alice but itThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's a matter of ''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone even prepared to do the other than himself thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and the original engagement had fallen through because of his infidelity and deceitfulness. This thread is the story of a very complicated love affair and a woman anyone who lacks confidence in her own judgement. You might not like Alice to start works with but you will warm to herhim is kept well away from what's happening.
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|authorisbn=Hannah Gold0008405026|title=The Last BearA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=AprilIt's father, a scientist, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and he accepts the job deciding investigation ground to take his daughter April with hima halt. They live alone anywayNow, since April's her mother died some time before, Helena, and he feels it will be educational for her to experience the island and all its natural beautyfather are dead in their bed. April already has an affinity with natureInitially, and sheit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's excited to travel with her father, thinking something about the positioning of all the fun things they will be able to experience together on the islandbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. But when they get there, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of his time, What looked as though it was going to be an open-and so April -shut case is left to explore by herselfnow a complex double murder. Her father had reassured her Kerrigan is convinced that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find the Bear, and then when she sees he is injuredexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, to befriend and help himUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=000841128X
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|isbn=14722761400571379877|title=What Will Burn (Inspector McLean)The Kellerby Code|author=James OswaldJonny Sweet|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Cecily SlaterEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's body was found, she'd already been dead for a week - in a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburghtheatre director. Heavy rain had washed away most of the evidenceHe's also self-obsessed, but DI Tony McLeandemanding, demoted handsome and just returned from suspension, is reluctant entitled and uses Edward to accept that this is nothing more than a careless accidentrun errands for him. There were indications that Slater had Edward has been savagely, almost ritualistically beaten before the firein love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. But who Most men in Robert's position would hate stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a ninety-year-old woman relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the extent two of doing something like that? She was them kissing in a virtual recluse: who could she have upset to that extent?dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=000845552XJo Callaghan|title=Where Ravens Roost|author=Karin NordinLeave No Trace
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from his father, Stenar, for more than When a decade but when he got man is found crucified on the rather muddled phone call from him saying that he'd seen top of a murder hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the barn on his land he didn't hesitate to drop everything and go to VarsundAI detective Lock. ActuallyIt's their first live case together, 'drop everything' rather overstates the situationhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. Nygaard was on suspension following the shooting of But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a suspect in the Aubuchon murder enquiry. There had been very high profile case that draws a complication: the Kattegat Killer turned out lot of unwanted attention to be Nils Hedin, Nygaard's best friendtheir AI Future Policing project. Still, Will they be able to solve the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the south case and, potentially, out of Sweden to Varsund in the far north shouldn't be underestimated.a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=14711871791399613073|title=A Beautiful SpyMoral Injuries|author=Rachel HoreChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers|summary=Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a leafy provincial suburbcentury. The book Olivia is set in the 1930s and Minnie ruthlessly ambitious, which is expected a bonus when you aim to live up to her mother's expectations be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend trauma doctor. Anjali is the rest free spirit of her days looking after her husband the group and their homeshe becomes a GP. Unfortunately, this isnWhen we first meet them they't what she wants to do re at all a drug and neither does she want alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to continue working as a secretaryend in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. As This time, it's their 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 result city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of a chance meetingsomeone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, she finds herself drawn into espionagewhere he was familiar with violence, working for the secret service poverty and effectively living a double life injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - attempting but he had been to infiltrate the Communist Party London School of Great BritainEconomics. Minnie finds herself torn between 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 she perceives was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Partya trader.
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|authorisbn= T L Huchu1035021803|title= The Library of the DeadAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to take messages from the dead English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of Edinburgh a request for their living relativeshelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. Ever since she dropped out of school, she Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been using it back to support not only herselfthe village: Arthur, she feels, but her younger sister and let her aging grandmotherdown badly. However Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, there's an evil stalking she has not felt able to be near the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting man or pursue the city's childrenprofession she loved. Soon After the split, Ropa is pulled into she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the search for a missing boy at rebound from the request love of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library her life, who was murdered) and realise that the world of magic is far bigger Freya and more dangerous than she ever could've imaginedJames have now divorced. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 1529039452
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|authorisbn=Everina MaxwellAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=WinterAll Tomorrow's OrbitFutures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary= Prince Kiem ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a famous political disappointmentfew decades of technology in my lifetime. He I've kept up reasonably well with what's outgoing, carefreeadvantageous to me but I'm left with the 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 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 who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has gotten into many drunken scandals suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the past few yearsterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. So when an important political alliance is 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 arranged – one that is supposed 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 prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be chosen for rescued before they are discovered by the role. Least of all himterrorists.|isbn=0356515885086154742X
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|isbn=18389520121529153298|title=The FavourList of Suspicious Things|author=Laura VaughanJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=The rejection by Oxford came as a bit of a shock to Ada Howell: she wasIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, after allhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, the daughter of the renowned author, Anthony Howell, who'd though. Women have been to this collegedisappearing. Well, she wasnthey't ve been murdered, but to have 'disappeared'actuallydoesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv' Howells upset because she's daughter: he'd married overheard that her mother after her birth and had then adopted her, so she was father wants to move the family 'chosenDown South' rather than just 'made', which was better really. And whilst weWhen you're being honestfrom Yorkshire, we might as well admit that 'renowned author' might be stretching the truth Down South is a little: his books degenerated into self-published poetry which Ada couldn't understandfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. StillFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, Ada had felt entitled and this was why she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her godmotherMum's offer had come at such a brilliant timestopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=C A Sacha1398524085|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has a plan to increase his already startling wealth and ensure his legacy: to bring the worldCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's first emission-free car to market fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and dominate productionher daughter, Etty. The secret development project to enable thisare all worried but - strangely - her husband, BucephalusAlec, is already underway not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into a second term to help him carry it outGreg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Montgomery is also looking It was an easy assumption for a legacy the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and one that does then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not involve his controlling mother and her foundation, so grabs onto Finneganconvinced but there's Feed Africa programme little else they can do but get on with both handstheir lives and wonder about what really happened...|isbn=1800461976
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|authorisbn=Martin Venning1035906708|title=The Primary ObjectiveDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=24.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Sometimes a book starts off slowlyWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but eventually draws you she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to caring about the characters or simply wanting to know what happens nextAthens when she was thirteen. Sometimes Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it doesnto 't. The basic premise is a good one – a clandestine organisation, operating as a charity, but funded by various governments around the world and partially (maybe, ICallas'm not sure) under the auspices of to make it more manageable in the UN, with the primary objective of keeping the peace, by any means possibleStates. Diplomacy is always the first option and sometimes one When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that needs to be carried out by third parties, but she could get appropriate training for situations when that looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains a callher voice -on list of field operatives, ex-military, medics, scientists or anyone else with she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a taste for adventure mother who mercilessly exploited her and willing to risk their life made no secret of her preference for the sake of ither elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=1800461100
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|author=Francesca Simon and Steve MayChristopher Edge|title=Two Terrible VikingsBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=In Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a small Viking village there live two twinsplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, Hack and Whackmany, who are eager to be the very worst Vikings evermany snacks! Nothing can stop their mad maraudingHowever, as the movie starts, they cause havoc at a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a trollvery quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and undertake a grand journey they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to raid Bad Island with their friends! the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? They Will they ever get up back to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Biteythe cinema, and to their crazy cast of friends.real lives?|isbn=05713494981839942738
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|author=Helen FisherRachel Greenlaw|title=Space HopperCompass and Blade
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|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young''I can hear the song of the sea. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worseThe call of the deep, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormouslythe answering beat in my heart. So when, unexpectedly'' Rosevear, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70's remote and her mumpartially forgotten island, she revels in survives on luring ships into the chance to create some memories rocks and get to know plundering the woman who meant so much to herwrecks. The time travellingMira, howeverlike her mother before her, is neither easy nor safe, one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and Faye fears any treasure that her husband wonlies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island't believe whats leader and Mira's happening and so lies father. Desperate to save him instead. The lies grow more tangledfrom death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and Faye begins with only coordinates to wonder if it's safe for guide her to return one last time to , she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the pastsea. Should she try With only nine days to see unearth what might save her father, as her mum one last time before journey takes her mumfrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's deathterritory, or will it change Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her own future forever to attempt it?home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=14711886630008664730
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|isbnauthor=1787477800James Sherwood Metts|title=The Night Hawks (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsPlanet Storyland
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect paid to do and other tasks that there's treasure took time to be foundaccomplish. Unfortunately, the youngest Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of the groupother, twenty-one-year-old Troy Evansnew ways to spend time, finds the body of a man floating on the incoming tidealong came an awful pandemic. After pulling Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it ashore, all the many daily social interactions on which they call the police. DCI Nelson thinks that it's probably the body of an asylum seeker but there's no evidence of any activity to be had from the coastguard. The dead man turns out to be Jem Taylor, a North Norfolk man recently released from prisondepend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=1529378648Matthew Tree|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick HerronWe'll Never Know
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|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Someone is killing secret service agents, past and present, Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from the Slough House team. Jackson Lamb can't understand it. Wellhis father, what he actually can't understand is why, having seen them, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up a drunk and something needs to be done. After all ''when things went awry on Spook Street, they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'' Over chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at Regent's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator any of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured his artistic passions all failed miserably and one dead) dispatchedwho had endless crises of self confidence. It isn't just the message that was sent: she's also delighted that she managed So Tim applied himself to fund the operation off the books. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about thishis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1838773428A G Slatter|title=The Art of Death|author=David Fennell|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: 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 and 34-year-old Noel Tipping. The installation is the work of @nonymous, underground artist and extreme version 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 and iPhone. Elaine Kelly is there with her son, Jordan, and she's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state Briar Book of her marriage. Actually, it doesn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite the foundation she's applied. Chau Ho is behind the counter. There's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, too.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=The Invisible|author=Tom PercivalDead
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|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, a little girl who made a big differenceall mine, at last. Isobel lived with her parents in I just want to enjoy it for a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpostwhile.''
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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 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 went off of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a cliff on Mulholland Drive Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and burst Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into flamesveterinary science accidentally. It turned out that she wasnHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn't actually married want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the man strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with whom she'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, a family friend who was a good man vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he took out adoption papers for Ellie was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - and she took been his namedream since he was a child. Ellie 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 If anything, he'd wanted to be a necklace made of serpentineprofessional footballer.
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|isbn=00083793000861541774|title=The Shadow ManA Nye of Pheasants|author=Helen FieldsSteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Fergus Ariss is DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in his late thirties and a street brawl - he knows would later maintain that he's dyingwas facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. His body is giving up on himInitially, his internal organs beginning he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to putrify but before light that suggested that he dies might have planned to murder the man. Now he wants could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a wifediplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, a child run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a brothermore personal, tailored service. He's been on Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the lookout business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for the perfect people and he's made certain preparationsa while. The flat where the family will live Katie is prepared and even windows coming out of a break up with curtainsa bad boyfriend, and pictures in frames have been painted onto so jumps at the walls. Angela Fernycroft was chance to come home to be his wifeEdinburgh. Her husbandAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, Calbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, had taken thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the children - a boy of seven and a girl of fiveIsabel Dalhousie novels, away for the weekendbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. UnfortunatelyKatie has no experience in running a business, it doesnor in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there't go according s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to plan and Angela dies.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=B08NZ4LV2R0811771741|title=Dark Memories (DS Nikki Parekh 3)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Liz MistryMelissa Leapman
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|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Peggy Dyson was Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in her sixties front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and hadnuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that't worn wells me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. She was Oh, and someone has delivered a drug addict really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was living under inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the arches in Forster Square Station in Bradfordvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. Her killer thought that he was probably doing her He is a favour by putting her out of her miserynice person. A really nice person. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are on So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the casedelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Nikki canSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny't quite understand why shes enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's been sent an anonymous letter with wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a press report 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 deathtwo. It had But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been impossible to make any progress in the case turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the note seemed to taunt catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the police. Then another note arrived with regular back garden, but into a report world of a seemingly unconnected death in Cambridgefrightening adventure and whiffs. The third death - in the street This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where Nikki lived as a child - brought another communicationtroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, with a further clue under the victim - but he's turned up and Nikki was sure that there was something personal in the case.he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|authorisbn=Anna CareyB0C47LV1PC|title=This is Not the Jess ShowFragility|author=Mosby Woods
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|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Jess is Can you make a normal 90's teenage girl'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, just trying to navigate is the question should you make it? Or is the usual stresses of schoolquestion if you did, and boys, and parent troubles. But strange things seem to be happening in her small town, with a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoors, and a strange metal device, with an apple on would it, land? The catch is that slips out the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of her friend's bagPortland, but that her friends just won't talk to her about. Jess feels like she might be hearing voicesOregon, and her sister (who is very ill) seems cautiously begins to be responding to her in strange ways sometimes. Is there something going on beneath emerge from the restrictions imposed during the surface of Jess' life?|isbn=1683691970covid pandemic
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|isbn=B08LKT7HSR1529431735|title=Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)The Winter Visitor|author=Helena DixonJames Henry|rating=3.54|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In December 1933 It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in more surprising. He'd been exiled on the cellar of the Glass Bottle Public HouseCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the murder of Elowed and The return has come about because he's had a letter from his halfex-brotherwife, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discoveredsaying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. Kitty UnderhayIt's long search for her motherhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, who disappeared stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in June 1916 was overthe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Now she's determined that the man responsible for her murder will be brought Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to justice.home?
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|isbnauthor=1782227741Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Little Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha SathaThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=One Eli is a busy lad – by dayan apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, Gold Ted falls into and in the evening a puddlehelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. It's quite Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a deep puddle and generation missing in the water is swirlingfamily. Poor Ted starts A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to spin around and around and is sucked down the titular race, a drain on globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the side world in the company of the streeta magical beast. Finding himself down in This has made the sewer, Ted starts race anathema to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg pair – but when a bad incident at the sewer rateatery leads to a confession from gran, who plucks him out of the dirty water using Eli knows his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg only hope is a kind soul and to dare to enter what he dries Ted off and warms him up most hates, with a nice bowl the sole aim the prize of brothmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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