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|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to regret his marriage but he didn't live long enough for a compelling premise. And this to become is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a problemLonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. After There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his death, life with his wifevet girlfriend, Lizzie - still only in Livia and her late teens - was daughter Diana, as moving in possession together would mean a lot of a very valuable diamond necklace compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and was determined that she would not hand it over relaxing life to her husband's executors. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given it move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her absolutely, although reservations about whether or not this is the precise circumstances of the giving varied from telling to telling. Lady Eustace was not a woman to whom truth meant a great deal. All that was important to her now, future she maintained, was wants for herself and her son. daughter? And, of course, her diamondsFor the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.
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|isbn=15290473151786482126|title=The LamplightersJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Emma StonexElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=''A fisherman told him once about Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the sea having two faces. You have site was going to take them both, he said, the good and the bad, and never turn your back on either one of them.hold seventy-five 'luxury' In 1972, fifteen miles off apartments - when they discovered the coast bones of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in ''the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeper, the weather such that ''the boat [was] rocking and bobbing like child beneath a bath toy over the wavelets'' but they were unable to get any response from the Maiden Rockdoorway. It was broken into the next day, but there There was no sign of the menskull. The table was set for Was this a meal for two - and the clocks were stopped at 8.45ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Contact It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with the light had not been possible his child as a result of the radio was brokenone night they spent together some three months ago. No explanation was ever found for what happened Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to the mensudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=Mary H K Choi0008551324|title=YolkThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student thatIt's barely getting byunusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about Neither side likes or has any respect for the men she sleeps withother. She's an all-round messy character; But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and thathe's her charm. June, on prepared to tell the police where the other hand, body of a missing person is a complete contrast to Jayne. She's a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows it all, buried and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne who was responsible for her life choicesdeath. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two yearspolice doing what he wants. This And what he wants is until June finds out she's sick, to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and Jayne is the only person she can turn toget an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The two sisters have to come together new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and decide how far theyshe'll go s even prepared to save each do the otherthing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's lives – even if it means swapping identitieshappening.|isbn= 0349003696
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|authorisbn=Saima Mir0008405026|title=The KhanA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
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|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sisterIt's wedding after fifteen sixteen years in selfsince nine-year-imposed exile, she is at the top of old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her gamebed one summer night. Returning She was never found and the investigation ground to the city of a halt. Now, her birthmother, to old scars and fresh woundsHelena, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the future with positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her sense of honour boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and duty-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1786079097
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|isbn=00083368300571379877|title=Two WrongsThe Kellerby Code|author=Mel McGrathJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Sondra was on her way home after work when she saw Edward Jevons is a working-class young woman looking as though she was going to jump from the Clifton suspension bridgeman, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. She talks to herHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and Sondra finally persuades Satnam uses Edward to call her best friend and flatmate, Nevis Smithrun errands for him. Nevis is unworldly and rather reserved Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and she can't understand why Satnam hasnhe't shared her problems with her. She thought they shared everything. Satnam is taken s drunkenly confided how he feels to hospital and Nevis calls her mother, HonorRobert. TheyMost men in Robert've s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not been on good terms since like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her motherdark passageway.
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|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Jo Callaghan|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsLeave No Trace|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me When a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or man is found crucified on the nature top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the person he's addressing in his second person monologue of a narrationcase alongside her sidekick, we see him picked up by his motherthe AI detective Lock. It's chauffeurtheir first live case together, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is buried the following day. The mother was a businesswomansecond body found crucified a few days later, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania Kat is suddenly struggling with her (night-time a potential serial killer and business) partner, and feelings a very high profile case that draws a lot of abandonment are still strongunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in Will they be able to solve the original Italian case in 2007time, so moderately current) Bucharestor will Kat find herself taken off the case and, to the lad's childhoodpotentially, and see just what he has to tell her as out of a private farewell address.career?|isbn=1939810965139851120X
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|authorisbn=Jane Lightbourne1399613073|title= My Cat Called RedMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersThrillers|summary= Robin has red hair. He hates itOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the freckles that go along with it. He's been bullied first day of medical school and mocked at school because their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of ita century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. But red hair Anjali is not Robinthe free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's only misery going to end in lifetragedy. He We don's already lost his dad to a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and is taken into hospitalt 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. She doesn This time, it't come home agains their teenage children who are involved.|isbn= 1838216812
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|isbn=B003L7TDMU0241636604|title=Phineas FinnThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Anthony TrollopeGary Stevenson
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|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=Phineas Finn is the son If you were to bring up an image of Dr Malachi Finn, a successful doctor city banker in Killaloe in County Clareyour mind, who sent his son you're unlikely to London to train as a lawyerthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Phineas's interest A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is more in making influential friends than in becoming a lawyer and one of themthe East End, Barrington Erlewhere he was familiar with violence, suggests that poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he runs for Parliament in had been to the forthcoming electionLondon School of Economics. His father Stevenson is not entirely in favour bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of this as members are not remunerated and it would us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be up to stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him to provide financial support for his son as well as funding his electionan internship with Citibank. One of the doctor's patients is Lord Tulla who controls the borough of Loughshane and by Eventually, this stroke of luck Finn is, eventually, elected by turned into permanent employment as a small margintrader.
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|isbn=18385950311035021803|title=Crooked: Honest CriminalityThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Bronwen JohnC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The con had seemed like a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the new Banksy - and they should have made a decent profit from itEnglish country village where she grew up. The problem was they were too successful: one She's back now because of the marks had bought a few and then discovered that they were valuelessrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for a simple con Freya's former mentor and his fatherCarole's close friend, celebrity criminal Harry HolmesArthur Crockleford, was determined that he is dead and his family could not lose face like thatthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. The grifters were going Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to paythe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Ashia 'Ash' Cox and Max 'Colorado' Ying needed 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 being exceptional at any of a shock his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to Ada Howell: she washis studies, after all, the daughter cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the renowned author, Anthony Howell, whoDead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' There'd been s a part of me that wants to keep this collegejust to myself for however long I can. WellThis secret magic of my own, she wasnall mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'t ''actually'' Howell Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's daughter: he'd married , a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her mother after her birth family for generations and had then adopted her, so as such since she was 'chosen' young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than just spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie'mades cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, which was better reallyand Ellie takes her place beside her. And whilst we're being honestAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, we might as well admit that 'renowned author' might be stretching putting her at the truth heart of a little: his books degenerated into self-published poetry which Ada couldn't understandmaelstrom of chaos. StillReeling from one family secret to another, Ada had felt entitled Ellie must decide who to trust and this was why her godmotherdetermine what to do as the Briar witches's offer had come at such a brilliant timelegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|authorisbn=C A Sacha1529900360|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has a plan It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to increase ask for his already startling wealth help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and ensure his legacy: to bring -shut cases which didn't need the worldhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's first emission-free car to market and dominate productionpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The secret development project to enable thisnext case did look simple, Bucephalus, is already underway and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a second term remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to help him carry it out. Montgomery an Italian shoe empire and she is also looking for a legacy married to an extremely rich man and one that does not involve his controlling mother and her foundation, so grabs onto Finneganit's Feed Africa programme with both handsnot the Italian...|isbn=1800461976 But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Martin Venning1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Primary ObjectiveSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=23.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Sometimes a book starts off slowly, but eventually draws you in to caring about the characters or simply wanting to know what happens nextSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Sometimes it doesnHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn't. The basic premise is a good one – a clandestine organisationwant to follow in his footsteps, operating as a charity, but funded by various governments around particularly when he considered the world and partially (maybe, Istrain that being on-call put on his father'm not sure) under s life. When he was seventeen he took the auspices opportunity of the UN, doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the primary objective of keeping the peacejob for him. Before long, by any means possiblehe was at Liverpool University. 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 It hadn't -on list of field operatives, exas with so many students -militarybeen his dream since he was a child. If anything, medics, scientists or anyone else with he'd wanted to be a taste for adventure and willing to risk their life for the sake of itprofessional footballer.|isbn=1800461100
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|authorisbn=Francesca Simon and Steve May0861541774|title=Two Terrible VikingsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
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|genre=Emerging ReadersCrime|summary=In DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a small Viking village there live two twinsshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Hack Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and Whackhe killed a Ghurka. Initially, who are eager he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the very worst Vikings ever! death penalty. Nothing Domenic Jejeune can stop their mad marauding, do nothing to help as they cause havoc at a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking any interference from another police force could provoke a troll, diplomatic incident and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to wouldn't help Danny at all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and their crazy cast of friends.|isbn=0571349498
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|author=Helen FisherAlexander McCall Smith|title=Space HopperThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from The Perfect Passion Company is a cold that got worsedating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and although they were kind and very good operating as an alternative to her she of course missed her mum enormouslyall the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. So when, unexpectedly, Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to could come and look after the 70's and her mumbusiness, she revels in the chance as Ness is planning to create some memories and get take a trip to know the woman who meant so much Canada to herget away for a while. The time travelling, however, Katie is neither easy nor safecoming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies jumps at the chance to him insteadcome home to Edinburgh. The lies grow more tangledAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, and Faye begins bringing us to wonder if it's safe for her an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to return one last time 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to the pastcharm. Should she try to see Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her mum one last time before her mumabilities, and there's deathalways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?lend a hand…|isbn=14711886631846976596
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|isbn=17874778000811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=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 front of the fire' variety. The Night Hawks (Dr Ruth Galloway)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 useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Elly GriffithsDean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and they're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that there's treasure to be foundhis house gets trashed. UnfortunatelyOh, the youngest of the groupand someone has delivered a really weird, twentydisturbing coffin-one-year-old Troy Evanssized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, finds Benny is the body of very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a man floating on the incoming tidenice person. After pulling it ashore, they call the policeA really nice person. DCI Nelson thinks So fortunately for Benny it turns out that it's probably the body of an asylum seeker but there's no evidence of any activity delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to be had help him since Benny is clearly under attack from the coastguardnefarious forces for being a good person. The dead man turns out Spike is going to be Jem Taylortake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a North Norfolk man recently released from prisonwaitress 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=1529378648Adam Stower|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick HerronMurray and Bun
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=Someone Murray is killing secret service agentssupposed to be a humble, past tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and present, from well, whatever takes his fancy next of the Slough House teamtwo. Jackson Lamb But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can't understand itchuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. WellThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, what he actually can't understand where a troll hunter is whyexpected – well, having seen themone much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting but he's turned up and something needs he'll have to be done. After all do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person''when things went awry on Spook Streetjoke? And if you could, they generally went is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the full Chris Graylinganswer for both could well be.... no. '' Over at RegentFragility''s Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw set as the perpetrator city of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatched. It isn't just the message that was sent: she's also delighted that she managed Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to fund emerge from the operation off restrictions imposed during the books. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about this.covid pandemic
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|isbn=18387734281529431735|title=The Art of DeathWinter Visitor|author=David FennellJames Henry|rating=4.5
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|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 February 1991 and 34-year-old Noel Tipping. The installation Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the work of @nonymous, underground artist and extreme version of Banksymore surprising. He's made d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a macabre promise: more will followdecade. In fact, we've already met the artist although not by name: The return has come about because he's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with had a letter from his Moleskine notebook, Makiex-e fountain penwife, MacBook Air saying that she's ill and iPhonehasn't long to live. Elaine Kelly It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is there with her son, Jordanabducted, stripped to his underwear and she's explaining sent to her best friend, Jackie Morris about a watery grave in the state boot of her marriagea stolen Ford Sierra. Actually, Is 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.warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=1471191303Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Invisible|author=Tom PercivalGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=This Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the story of Isobelwondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a little girl who made a big differencehelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Isobel lived Eli lives with her parents his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in a house - a very cold housethe family. A few short years ago, because her Eli's parents couldn't afford were both lost to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the inside of world in the window and crept up the corner company of a magical beast. This has made the bedpost.'' The family didn't go race anathema to the cinema or on holidays pair – but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford a bad incident at the rent for the house and they had eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to move dare to enter what he most hates, with the far side sole aim the prize of magic at the city. This part of end – the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisibleonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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