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|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=00083368301786482126|title=Two WrongsThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Mel McGrathElly Griffiths
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Sondra Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was on her way home after work going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when she saw they discovered the bones of a child beneath a young woman looking as though she doorway. There was going to jump from the Clifton suspension bridgeno skull. She talks to herWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend and flatmate, Nevis SmithDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Nevis is unworldly and rather reserved - and she canIt't understand why Satnam hasns difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't shared her problems , that she is pregnant with her. She thought his child as a result of the one night they shared everythingspent together some three months ago. Satnam Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is taken prone to hospital and Nevis calls her mother, Honor. They've not been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her mothersudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=0008551324|title=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris The Devil You Know (translatorD S Max Craigie)|titleauthor=If You Kept a Record of SinsNeil Lancaster
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|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me a little conflictedIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender Neither side likes or has any respect for the nature of the person other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's addressing in his second person monologue prepared to tell the police where the body of a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother missing person is buried the following dayand who was responsible for her death. The mother was a businesswoman This person, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partnerhe promises, is someone big and feelings of abandonment are still strongit will be worth the police doing what he wants. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the original Italian in 2007remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so moderately current) Bucharest, and she's even prepared to do the ladother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell addresshappening.|isbn=1939810965
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|authorisbn=Jane Lightbourne0008405026|title= My Cat Called RedA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre=Emerging ReadersCrime|summary= Robin has red hairIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. He hates it, She was never found and the freckles that go along with itinvestigation ground to a halt. He's been bullied Now, her mother, Helena, and mocked at school because of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids her father are meandead in their bed. But red hair is not RobinInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's only misery in lifesomething about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. He's already lost his dad What looked as though it was going to a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill be an open-and -shut case is taken into hospitalnow a complex double murder. She doesn Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent't come home agains boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn= 1838216812
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|isbn=B003L7TDMU0571379877|title=Phineas FinnThe Kellerby Code|author=Anthony TrollopeJonny 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 also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has 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 AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
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|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=Phineas Finn is Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the son first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of Dr Malachi Finna century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a successful doctor in Killaloe in County Clare, who sent his son bonus when you aim to London to train as be a lawyercardiothoracic surgeon. Phineas's interest Laura is more in making influential friends than in becoming a lawyer perfectionist and one a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of them, Barrington Erle, suggests that he runs for Parliament in the forthcoming electiongroup and she becomes a GP. His father is not entirely in favour of this as members are not remunerated When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it would be up 's going to him to provide financial support for his son as well as funding his electionend in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. One of Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the doctorthree friends. This time, it's patients is Lord Tulla their teenage children who controls the borough of Loughshane and by this stroke of luck Finn is, eventually, elected by a small marginare involved.
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|isbn=18385950310241636604|title=CrookedThe Trading Game: Honest CriminalityA Confession|author=Bronwen JohnGary Stevenson
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|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=The con had seemed If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the new Banksy pin- stripe suit and they should have made a decent profit from ithis background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. The problem There was they were too successful: one no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of the marks had bought Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a few and then discovered facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that they were valuelessmost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for a simple con and It was his fatherability at what was, celebrity criminal Harry Holmesessentially, was determined that he and his family could not lose face like thata card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The grifters were going Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to paythe English country village where she grew up. Ashia She'Ashs back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya' Cox s former mentor and Max Carole'Colorado' Ying needed 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 back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be got out of near the man or pursue the countryprofession she loved. In After the course of bringing this aboutsplit, Luke Gainesshe worked in a cafe, Ash's foster fathermet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, lost his lifewho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Hayley WebsterAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Luna Rae is Not AloneAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Luna Rae has just moved house''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. Moving house '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is always tricky, but especially when what happens after you're ten years oldeighteen. Well, and you miss your old home, and you and your little sister I must confess that there have to start been more than a new school but your mum seems to be out working all the timefew decades of technology in my lifetime. Then thereI've kept up reasonably well with what's your dad, who doesnadvantageous to me but I't seem like hem left with the feeling that it's coping so wellall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and so therethe probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they's no one to take care of things but youre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Everything feels different I needed people I knew I could trust and strange, and mysterious, and so Luna finds who could deliver information in a way of coping is by watchingI could understand. She turns detective and starts keeping an eye on her new neighbourhood, but it turns out she's not the only one keeping watch!|isbn=1788006046
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|isbnauthor=B003A6W0FOSunny Singh|title=Can You Forgive Her?|author=Anthony TrollopeHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers |summary=On the surface ''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: it's 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 story of one woman and two men terrorists who are vying with each other for her loverampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged As Abhi continues to her cousin, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and later became engaged try to John Grey. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour of care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the continent hotel, he forms a bond with George Vavasor Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and his sister Kate. It's obvious that there's still a great deal keeps on venturing out of chemistry between John and Alice - and Kate is all for encouraging the relationship as it would tie Alice her room to try to her. George wants Alice but itcapture what's a matter of ''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and the original engagement had fallen happened through because of his infidelity and deceitfulnessher photography. This thread is Although they only ever talk over the story of a very complicated love affair phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and a woman who lacks confidence in her own judgement. You might not like Alice they both wait to start with but you see if they will warm to herbe rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Hannah Gold1529153298|title=The Last BearList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=AprilIt's father1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, a scientisthonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, has though. Women have been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with himdisappearing. They live alone anywayWell, since Aprilthey's mother died some time beforeve been murdered, and he feels it will be educational for her but to experience the island and all its natural beautyhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. April already has an affinity with nature, and Miv's upset because she's excited to travel with overheard that her father, thinking of all the fun things they will be able wants to experience together on move the islandfamily 'Down South'. But when they get thereWhen you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of his timeforeign place, and so April is left to explore by herselfbest avoided. Her father had reassured For Miv, the move would mean leaving her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Islandbest friend, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of oneSharon, and so she sets out 'll do anything to find prevent that. She's not worried about the Bear, and then when she sees he is injured, dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to befriend and help himanyone.|isbn=000841128X
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|isbn=14722761401398524085|title=What Will Burn (Inspector McLean)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=James OswaldNicci French
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|summary=When Cecily SlaterCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's body was found, she'd already been dead for a week - in a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburghfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Heavy rain had washed away most of the evidenceHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but DI Tony McLean- strangely - her husband, demoted and just returned from suspensionAlec, is reluctant to accept that this is nothing more than a careless accidentnot. There were indications that Slater had been savagelyShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, almost ritualistically beaten before in the fireriver. But who would hate a ninety-year-old woman 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 extent of doing something like that? guilt. She was a virtual recluse: who could she have upset to that extent?The 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.
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|isbn=000845552X1035906708|title=Where Ravens RoostDiva|author=Karin NordinDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from his fatherWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, StenarNew York, for more than a decade but when he got the rather muddled phone call from him saying that he'd seen a murder in the barn on his land he didn't hesitate to drop everything December 1923 and go only moved to VarsundAthens when she was thirteen. Actually, Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'drop everythingCallas' rather overstates to make it more manageable in the situationStates. Nygaard When she was on suspension following the shooting of a suspect back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Aubuchon murder enquiry. There had been Nazi occupation by a complication: the Kattegat Killer turned out to be Nils Hedinmother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Nygaard's best friend. Still, the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg in the south of Sweden to Varsund in the far north shouldn't be underestimatedJackie.
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|isbnauthor=1471187179Christopher Edge|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel HoreBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=Minnie is an Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'ordinaryThe Black Hole' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her motherAll big movie fans, they's expectations and find a nice young man re looking forward to marrylots of exciting films, produce children and spend many, many snacks! However, as the rest of her days looking after her husband and their home. Unfortunatelymovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this isnnew film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretaryeven imagine. As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting But as they lurch from one film genre to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and Will they ever get back to the friends she has made - cinema, and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|author= T L HuchuRachel Greenlaw|title= The Library of the DeadCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre= Teens|summary= Ropa Moyo is ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a ghostalkerremote and partially forgotten island, using Zimbabwean magic (survives on luring ships into the rocks and a bit plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Scottish pragmatism) the seven who swim out to take messages from survey the dead of Edinburgh for their living relativesruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Ever since she dropped out of schoolBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, shethey capture the island's leader and Mira's been using it father. Desperate to support not only herselfsave him from death, but her younger sister Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her aging grandmother, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. HoweverWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, there's an evil stalking as her journey takes her from the ruined watched streets of Edinburgh, targeting foreign islands to the heart of the citysmuggler's children. Soonterritory, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the request future of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library her home and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than ones she ever could've imaginedholds most dear. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 15290394520008664730
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|author=Everina MaxwellJames Sherwood Metts|title=Winter's OrbitPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= Prince Kiem is Things have been a famous political disappointmentbit sticky for the Earthlings. HeAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's outgoing, carefree, re paid to do and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past few yearsother tasks that took time to accomplish. So when an important political alliance is Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to be arranged – one that is supposed think of other, new ways to prevent spend time, along came an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the roleawful pandemic. Least of Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all himthe many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=03565158851736128426
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|isbnauthor=1838952012Matthew Tree|title=The Favour|author=Laura VaughanWe'll Never Know
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|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=The rejection by Oxford came as Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a bit drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of a shock to Ada Howell: she was, after being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all, the daughter failed miserably and who had endless crises of the renowned author, Anthony Howell, who'd been self confidence. So Tim applied himself to this college. Wellhis studies, she wasn't ''actually'' Howell's daughter: he'd married her mother after her birth and had then adopted her, so she was 'chosen' cultivated his abilities 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 a little: his books degenerated into self-published poetry which Ada couldn't understand. Still, Ada had felt entitled daydreams and this was why her godmother's offer had come at such a brilliant timeset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=C A SachaG Slatter|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has '' There's a plan part of me that wants to keep this just to increase his already startling wealth and ensure his legacy: myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to bring enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's first emission-free car to market , a family of witches who protect the town and dominate productionthe wider world from the Darklands. The secret development project to enable this, BucephalusThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is already underway and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery the first non-witch to be born into a second term to help him carry it out. Montgomery is also looking her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a legacy steward revolved around letters and one that does not involve his controlling mother administration rather than spells and potions. When her foundationgrandmother suddenly dies, so grabs onto FinneganEllie's Feed Africa programme cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with both hands.the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos.Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=18004619761803364548
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|authorisbn=Martin Venning1529900360|title=The Primary Objective|rating=2|genre=General Fiction|summary= Sometimes a book starts off slowly, but eventually draws you in to caring about the characters or simply wanting to know what happens next. Sometimes it doesn'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, I'm not sure) under the auspices of the UN, with the primary objective of keeping the peace, by any means possible. Diplomacy is always the first option and sometimes one that needs to be carried out by third parties, but for situations when that looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains a call-on list of field operatives, ex-military, medics, scientists or anyone else with a taste for adventure and willing to risk their life for the sake of it.|isbn=1800461100}}{{FrontpageGhost Orchid|author=Francesca Simon and Steve May|title=Two Terrible VikingsJonathan Kellerman
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|genre=Emerging ReadersCrime|summary=In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and Whackeven after Alex recovered, who are eager Sturgis was reluctant to be ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the very worst Vikings ever! help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Nothing can stop their mad maraudingFinally, it was Robin, as they cause havoc at a birthday partyDelaware's partner, chaos whilst tracking a trollwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, and undertake though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! remote property in Bel Air. They get up He was the heir to all kinds of mischief an Italian shoe empire and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, she is married to an extremely rich man and their crazy cast it's not the Italian. But which of friends.|isbn=0571349498them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Helen Fisher1529395224|title=Space HopperLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands
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|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very youngSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. She His father was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worse, GP and although they were kind and very good Rowlands didn't want to her she of course missed her mum enormously. So follow in his footsteps, particularly when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) he considered the strain that takes her back to the 70being on-call put on his father's and her mum, she revels in life. When he was seventeen he took the chance to create some memories opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and get to know was convinced this was the woman who meant so much to herjob for him. The time travellingBefore long, however, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that her husband wonhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't believe what's happening and - as with so lies to him insteadmany students - been his dream since he was a child. The lies grow more tangledIf anything, and Faye begins to wonder if ithe's safe for her d wanted to return one last time to the pastbe a professional footballer. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663
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|isbn=17874778000861541774|title=The Night Hawks (Dr Ruth Galloway)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Elly GriffithsSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
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|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists and they're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that thereDCI Domenic Jejeune's treasure close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to be foundmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Unfortunately, the youngest of the group, twentyMaik was involved in a street brawl -onehe would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -year-old Troy Evans, finds the body of and he killed a man floating on the incoming tideGhurka. After pulling it ashoreInitially, they call the police. DCI Nelson thinks that it's probably the body he faced a charge of an asylum seeker manslaughter but there's no evidence of any activity came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be had from facing the coastguarddeath penalty. The dead man turns out Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to be Jem Taylor, help as any interference from another police force could provoke a North Norfolk man recently released from prisondiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbnauthor=1529378648Alexander McCall Smith|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick HerronThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Someone The Perfect Passion Company is killing secret service agentsa dating agency in Edinburgh, past run by Ness and presentoperating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, from the Slough House teamtailored service. Jackson Lamb can't understand it. WellNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, what he actually can't understand as Ness is why, having seen them, anyone would botherplanning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. But the deaths are mounting Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and something needs so jumps at the chance to come home to be doneEdinburgh. After all ''when things went awry on Spook And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Streetand the Isabel Dalhousie novels, they generally went the full Chris Graylingbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm.'' Over at RegentKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of a Novichok poisoning in the UK always her very helpful (three people seriously injured and one deadrather handsome) dispatched. It isn't just the message that was sent: she's also delighted that she managed neighbour, William, to fund the operation off the books. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about this.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=18387734280811771741|title=The Art of DeathInstaKnits for Baby|author=David FennellMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=It was an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a depiction collection of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidknits from toys to blankets. Only this time it's not a depiction: these Some will be quick knits - others are the bodies of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tipping. The installation is the work of @nonymous'long, underground artist and extreme version cosy afternoons in front of Banksy. Hethe fire's made a macabre promise: more will followvariety. In fact, we've already met The projects are divided by the artist although not by name: hetime they's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebookll take to complete - less than five hours, Maki-e fountain penfive to ten hours, MacBook Air ten to twenty hours and iPhonemore than twenty hours. Elaine Kelly is there with her son, JordanAll the projects are attractive, modern and she's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state of her marriageuseable. Actually, it doesnI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 't take a lot of explaining: Franksocial-media-worthy projects's attentions are obvious on her face despite the foundation she's applied. Chau Ho is behind the counter. Therebut that's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, toome being picky.
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|isbnauthor=1471191303Dean Koontz|title=The Invisible|author=Tom PercivalBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingParanormal|summary=This Benny is the story of Isobel, having a little girl who made a big differenceterrifically bad day. Isobel lived with her parents in a He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house - gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a very cold housereally weird, because her parents couldn't afford disturbing coffin-sized object to put the heating on: his home, and it''Ice curled across the s possible that whoever or whatever was inside of is the window and crept up thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the corner of the bedpostvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person.'' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy A really nice person. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house and they had is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to move to the far side of the cityhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. This part Spike is going to take care of the city was coldBenny, sad and lonely will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Isobel felt invisibleHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=178089905XAdam Stower|title=Serpentine|author=Jonathan KellermanMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: Murray is supposed to be a death from thirty-six years ago humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and the daughter , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the woman who died wanted some answerstwo. She had money and money translated into clout and so the problem was dropped onto MiloBut he's toes. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died in a car which went off bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a cliff on Mulholland Drive hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and burst the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into flames. It turned out that she wasn't actually married to the man with whom she'd left her daughter regular back garden, but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was into a good man and he took out adoption papers for Ellie - world of frightening adventure and she took his namewhiffs. Ellie This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing of her , to be honest, but one photograph of her mother he's turned up and father and a necklace made of serpentine.he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=0008379300B0C47LV1PC|title=The Shadow ManFragility|author=Helen FieldsMosby Woods
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|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that heCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s dying. His body joke? And if you could, is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child and a brother. He's been on the lookout for question should you make it? Or is the perfect people and he's made certain preparations. question if you did, would it land? The flat where the family will live catch is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames have been painted onto that the wallsanswer for both could well be... Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husband, Cal, had taken no. ''Fragility'' is set as the children - a boy city of seven and a girl of fivePortland, away for the weekend. UnfortunatelyOregon, it doesn't go according cautiously begins to plan and Angela dies.emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|isbn=B08NZ4LV2R1529431735|title=Dark Memories (DS Nikki Parekh 3)The Winter Visitor|author=Liz MistryJames Henry
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|summary=Peggy Dyson was in her sixties It's February 1991 and hadnEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins't worn wellreturn all the more surprising. She was He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug addict and was living under the arches in Forster Square Station in Bradfordsmuggler for a decade. Her killer thought that The return has come about because he was probably doing her 's had a favour by putting her out of her misery. DS Nikki Parekh letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and DC Sajid Malik are on the case. Nikki canhasn't quite understand why she's been sent an anonymous letter with a press report of the deathlong to live. It had been impossible 's hard to make feel any progress in the case sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and the note seemed sent to taunt a watery grave in the police. Then another note arrived with a report boot of a seemingly unconnected death in Cambridgestolen Ford Sierra. The third death - in the street where Nikki lived as Is it a warning from a child - brought another communication, with Spanish gang or a further clue under the victim - and Nikki was sure that there was something personal in the case.problem closer to home?
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|author=Anna CareyAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=This is Not the Jess ShowThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Jess Eli is a normal 90's teenage girl, just trying to navigate busy lad – by day an apprentice in the usual stresses of schoolwondrous library we start by visiting with him, and boys, in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and parent troublesruns. But strange things seem to be happening in her small town, Eli lives with a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoorshis lovely gran, and too – for there is a strange metal devicegeneration missing in the family. A few short years ago, with an apple on it, that slips out of her friendEli's bagparents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but that her friends just won't talk when a bad incident at the eatery leads to her about. Jess feels like she might be hearing voicesa confession from gran, and her sister (who Eli knows his only hope is very ill) seems to be responding dare to her in strange ways sometimes. Is there something going on beneath enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the surface prize of Jess' life?magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=16836919700571382231
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