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|author=Charlie CarrollSylvie Cathrall|title=The LipA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=''Melody Janie Rowe'' even the name is evocative of…probably of whatever we want it There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to be, and maybe that's the point. To me the name sings of English folk music, but even in my use of that word English, I know I'm putting an emmet take on thingsa compelling premise. And Melody Janie Rowe this is anti-emmetone of them. |isbn=15293341790356522776
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|authorisbn=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll0008517061|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Stella and her family. They're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in togetherFormer Metropolitan Police detective, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different thingsJake Johnson, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blankhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. And it's not just their home, but There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the entire south-western village future of Mouseholehis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and not just thather daughter Diana, either, but the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get as moving in together would mean a screen back, 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 what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do this is the V part of their job, future she wants for herself and no computer can show its computations. her daughter? You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck For the moment they’re enjoying life in such a Luddite experience against their will, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, present and see if they can get across country to herputting the future on the back burner. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too – for it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.|isbn=1471196887
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|isbn=19131935271786482126|title=Bound The Janus Stone (Detective Sam ShephardDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Vanda SymonElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dunedin Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was shocked going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when it heard of they discovered the murder bones of a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffchild beneath a doorway. His wife had been bound and gagged and placed so that she There was forced to watch the no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with the scene being discovered by their sonDCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, Declanbut Nelson doesn't, when he returned home from an evening out. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson had been involved in she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalthree months ago. His companyHer condition will be obvious before long, Eros Global, manufactured and marketed ''vitamin-type supplements and, well, sexual enhancers, that kind not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of thing'', as Henderson's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedsickness.
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|isbn=15291091160008551324|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's JourneyThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Hannah JacksonNeil Lancaster
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|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'I want s prepared to tell the image of a British farmer to simply be that police where the body of a missing person is buried and who is proudly employed in feeding the nationwas responsible for her death. I don't think that This person, he promises, is too much to ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on someone big and it will be worth the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generationspolice doing what he wants. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to And what he really wants is to do: he knows that he'll be a farmer. It's not always transferred to an open prison to serve the case though. Hannah Jackson was born remainder of his sentence and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love of animalsto get an early parole date. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr JacksonNot much to ask, whale scientistis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn' t think so and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday 's even prepared to do the Lake District. She saw a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos of her original intention, she knew other thing that she wanted to be a shepherd. With the determination Hardie demanded - make certain that youDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambitions happening.
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|isbn=08575272310008405026|title=Dog DaysA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Ericka WallerJane Casey
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angry. It's eight days sixteen years since his wifenine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, EllenHelena, died and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, itlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the first time bodies that she's let him downmakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. HeKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's lost, bereft without her disappearance: others ( he such as Derwent''needs s boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his wifeupper-class friends, like a snail needs its shell'')Robert and Stanza. He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the doorstep, heRobert'd much rather have s a good row with someonetheatre director. He's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to contradict run errands for him when he told her that the dog wasn't staying. Now Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's lumbered with a dog drunkenly confided how he doesn't want and a load of busybodies who are trying feels to interfere in his lifeRobert. Worst of all is Betty, who wonMost men in Robert't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a lot relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of time trying to escape from and destroy themkissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Jo Callaghan|title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he didn't live long enough for this to become When a problem. After his death, his wife, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession man is found crucified on the top of a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined that she would not hand it over hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her husbandsidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's executorstheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. She was adamant 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 Sir Florian had given it to her absolutely, although the precise circumstances draws a lot of the giving varied from telling unwanted attention to tellingtheir AI Future Policing project. Lady Eustace was not a woman Will they be able to whom truth meant a great deal. All that was important to her nowsolve the case in time, she maintainedor will Kat find herself taken off the case and, was her son. Andpotentially, out of course, her diamonds.a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=15290473151399613073|title=The LamplightersMoral Injuries|author=Emma StonexChristie Watson|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two faces. You have to take them both, he said, the good and the badOlivia, Laura and never turn your back Anjali met on either one the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep theminseparable for a quarter of a century.'' In 1972 Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, fifteen miles off the coast of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in ''the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Jory Martin had taken out Laura is a relief keeper, the weather such that ''the boat [was] rocking perfectionist and bobbing like a bath toy over the wavelets'' but they were unable to get any response from the Maiden Rocktrauma doctor. It was broken into Anjali is the next day, but there was no sign free spirit of the mengroup and she becomes a GP. The table was set for When we first meet them they're at a meal for two drug and alcohol- fuelled party and the clocks were stopped at 8.45it's going to end in tragedy. Contact with We don't know who suffered the light had not been possible as tragedy or the radio was brokenconsequences. No explanation was ever found for what happened to Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the menthree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Mary H K Choi0241636604|title=YolkThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=TeensAutobiography|summary= Jayne Baek is If you were to bring up an image of a fashion student thatcity banker in your mind, you's barely getting byre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the men she sleeps East End, where he was familiar with. She's an all-round messy character; violence, poverty and that's her charminjustice. June, There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the other hand, London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a complete contrast facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to Jaynebe stupid. She's a typical older sister: she's smart It was his ability at what was, thinks she knows it allessentially, and has a successful jobcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices Eventually, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two yearsthis turned into permanent employment as a trader. This is until June finds out she's sick, and Jayne is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identities.|isbn= 0349003696
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|authorisbn=Saima Mir1035021803|title=The KhanAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jia Khan It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has alway lived by been back to the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white menEnglish country village where she grew up. This has served She's back now because of a request for help from her well in her rise through the criminal justice system beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and by the time she is called home for her sisterCarole's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exileclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, she is at dead and the top of her gamecircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Returning Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the city of village: Arthur, she feels, let her birthdown badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to old scars and fresh woundsbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, Jia must confront her past met and reconcile her visions for married James (on the rebound from the future with love of her sense of honour life, who was murdered) and Freya and dutyJames have now divorced.|isbn=1786079097
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|isbn=0008336830AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Two WrongsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Mel McGrathBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Sondra was on her way home ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after work when she saw a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from the Clifton suspension bridgeyou're eighteen. She talks to herWell, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend and flatmate, Nevis SmithI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. Nevis is unworldly and rather reserved - and she canI've kept up reasonably well with what't understand why Satnam hasns advantageous to me but I't shared her problems m left with herthe feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. She thought 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 shared everything're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Satnam is taken to hospital I needed people I knew I could trust and Nevis calls her mother, Honor. They've not been on good terms since who could deliver information in a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her motherway I could understand.
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|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Sunny Singh|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers |summary=This was The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an incredibly readable novella, but one unnamed city that left me has suddenly been violently taken over by a little conflictedterrorist group. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person he's addressing in his second person monologue of a narrationkilling everyone on site, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeurthere is Sam, a wartime photographer and carted off Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to do all care remotely for the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following day. The mother was a businesswoman, residents who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, and feelings of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (well, this came out alive in the original Italian in 2007hotel, so moderately current) Bucharesthe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to the ladtry to capture what's childhoodhappened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell addressif they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1939810965086154742X
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|authorisbn=Jane Lightbourne1529153298|title= My Cat Called RedThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 45|genre=Emerging ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= Robin has red hairIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. He hates it (A woman? I mean, and the freckles that go along with ithonestly... He) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been bullied and mocked at school because of itdisappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'Ginger Minger! Carrots!disappeared'doesn' Kids are meant sound quite so frightening. But red hair is not RobinMiv's only misery in life. Heupset because she's already lost his dad overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and is taken into hospitalshe'll do anything to prevent that. She doesn't come home agains not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn= 1838216812
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|isbn=B003L7TDMU1398524085|title=Phineas FinnHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Anthony TrollopeNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Phineas Finn is the son of Dr Malachi FinnCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County ClareAlec, who sent his son to London to train as a lawyeris not. PhineasShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's interest is more in making influential friends than in becoming a lawyer and one of themfather, Barrington ErleDuncan Ackerley, suggests in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he runs for Parliament in couldn't stand the forthcoming electionguilt. His father is not entirely in favour of this as members The Salter children are not remunerated and it would be up to him to provide financial support for his son as well as funding his election. One of the doctorconvinced but there's patients is Lord Tulla who controls the borough of Loughshane little else they can do but get on with their lives and by this stroke of luck Finn is, eventually, elected by a small marginwonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=18385950311035906708|title=Crooked: Honest CriminalityDiva|author=Bronwen JohnDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=The con had seemed like a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by the new Banksy - and they should have made a decent profit from it. The problem We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was they were too successful: one of the marks had bought a few and then discovered that they were valueless. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for a simple con and his fatherborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, celebrity criminal Harry HolmesNew York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was determined that he and his family could not lose face like thatthirteen. The grifters were going Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to pay. Ashia 'AshCallas' Cox and Max 'Colorado' Ying needed to be got out of make it more manageable in the countryStates. In When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the course Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of bringing this about, Luke Gaines, Ash's foster fatherher preference for her elder sister, lost his lifeJackie.
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|author=Hayley WebsterChristopher Edge|title=Luna Rae is Not AloneBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Luna Rae Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has just moved housethe nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Moving house is always trickyAll big movie fans, but especially when youthey're ten years oldlooking forward to lots of exciting films, and you miss your old homemany, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and you and your little sister have they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to start a new school but your mum seems the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to be out working all the timecinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3. Then there5|genre=Teens|summary=''s your dadI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, who doesnthe answering beat in my heart.'t seem like he's coping so well Rosevear, a remote and so there's no partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to take care of things but yousurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Everything feels different and strangeBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and mysteriousMira's father. Desperate to save him from death, and so Luna finds Mira makes a bargain with a way of coping wreck survivor who is as charming as he is by watching. She turns detective secretive and starts keeping an eye on with only coordinates to guide her new neighbourhood, but it turns out shesets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's not territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the only one keeping watch!future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=17880060460008664730
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|isbnauthor=B003A6W0FOJames Sherwood Metts|title=Can You Forgive Her?|author=Anthony TrollopePlanet Storyland
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|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=On Things have been a bit sticky for the surface Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they''Can You Forgive Her?'' looks deceptively simple: it's the story of one woman re paid to do and two men who are vying with each other for her lovetasks that took time to accomplish. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged Just as they were beginning to her cousin, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and later became engaged get used to John Grey. When we first meet Alice she's on an extended tour of the continent with George Vavasor all this technological change and his sister Kate. It's obvious that there's still a great deal of chemistry between John and Alice - and Kate is all for encouraging the relationship as it would tie Alice starting to her. George wants Alice but it's a matter think of ''amour propre'' rather than love: he has little consideration for anyone other than himself and the original engagement had fallen through because of his infidelity and deceitfulness, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. This thread is the story of a very complicated love affair Life was pretty much shut down and a woman who lacks confidence in her own judgement. You might not like Alice to start , along with but you will warm to herit, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|author=Hannah GoldMatthew Tree|title=The Last BearWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=April's Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a scientist, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, drunk and he accepts the job deciding to take chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his daughter April with him. They live alone anyway, since April's mother died some time before, and he feels it will be educational for her to experience the island and artistic passions all its natural beauty. April already has an affinity with nature, failed miserably and she's excited to travel with her father, thinking who had endless crises of all the fun things they will be able self confidence. So Tim applied himself to experience together on the island. But when they get therehis studies, her father finds that cultivated his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of abilities rather than his time, daydreams and so April is left to explore by herself. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, set himself high 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 injured, to befriend and help himachievable ambitions.|isbn=000841128XB0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1472276140A G Slatter|title=What Will Burn (Inspector McLean)|author=James OswaldThe Briar Book of the Dead
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|genre=Fantasy
|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to 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, 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 family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's 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 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.
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|isbn=1529900360
|title=The Ghost Orchid
|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Cecily SlaterIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's body fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was found, shereluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'd already been dead t need the help of a psychologist only worked for a week - in a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburghwhile. Heavy rain had washed away most of the evidenceFinally, but DI Tony McLeanit was Robin, demoted and just returned from suspensionDelaware's partner, is reluctant to accept who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that this is nothing more than a careless accidentthe man she loved needed. There were indications that Slater had been savagelyThe next case did look simple, almost ritualistically beaten before the firethough. But who would hate a ninety-year-old woman to Two lovers were murdered in the extent swimming pool of doing something like that? a remote property in Bel Air. She He was a virtual recluse: who could the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she have upset is married to that extentan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=000845552X1529395224|title=Where Ravens RoostLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Karin NordinSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from his fatherDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, Stenarhas taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, for more than Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a decade but when street brawl - he got the rather muddled phone call from him saying would later maintain that he'd seen was facing a man armed with a murder in the barn on his land knife - and he didn't hesitate to drop everything and go to Varsundkilled a Ghurka. ActuallyInitially, 'drop everything' rather overstates he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the situationman. Nygaard was on suspension following Now he could be facing the shooting of a suspect in the Aubuchon murder enquirydeath penalty. There had been a complication: the Kattegat Killer turned out Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to be Nils Hedin, Nygaard's best friend. Still, the ten-hour drive help as any interference from Gothenburg in the south of Sweden to Varsund in the far north shouldnanother police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't be underestimatedhelp Danny at all.
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|isbnauthor=1471187179Alexander McCall Smith|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel HoreThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Minnie The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life alternative to all the online apps in providing a leafy provincial suburbmore personal, tailored service. The book is set in Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the 1930s and Minnie business, as Ness is expected planning to take a trip to Canada to live get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up to her mother's expectations and find with a nice young man to marrybad boyfriend, produce children and spend so jumps at the rest of her days looking after her husband and their chance to come hometo Edinburgh. UnfortunatelyAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, this isn't what she wants thanks to do at all 44 Scotland Street and neither does she want the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to continue working as a secretarycharm. As Katie has no experience in running a result of a chance meetingbusiness, or in match-making, she finds herself drawn into espionagebut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as there's always her duty very helpful (and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn= T L Huchu0811771741|title= The Library of the DeadInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensCrafts|summary= Ropa Moyo is Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit collection of Scottish pragmatism) knits from toys to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relativesblankets. Ever since she dropped out Some will be quick knits - others are of school, shethe 's been using it to support not only herselflong, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets cosy afternoons in front of Edinburgh, targeting the cityfire's childrenvariety. Soon The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger ten to twenty hours and more dangerous than she ever could've imaginedtwenty hours. Will she find All the missing children projects are attractive, modern and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 1529039452useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.
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|author=Everina MaxwellDean Koontz|title=Winter's OrbitThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionParanormal|summary= Prince Kiem Benny is having a famous political disappointmentterrifically bad day. He's outgoingloses his job, he loses his fiancee, carefreeand his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has gotten into many drunken scandals over delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized 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, Benny is the past few yearsvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So when an important political alliance is fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to be arranged – one that his house is supposed a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects help him to be chosen since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for the rolebeing a good person. Least Spike is going to take care of all himBenny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=03565158851662500491
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|isbnauthor=1838952012Adam Stower|title=The Favour|author=Laura VaughanMurray and Bun
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=The rejection by Oxford came as Murray is supposed to be a bit of a shock humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to Ada Howell: she wassleep and eat and eat and sleep and, after allwell, the daughter whatever takes his fancy next of the renowned author, Anthony Howell, who'd been to this collegetwo. Well, she wasnBut he't ''actually'' Howells a bad magician's daughter: he'd married her mother after her birth and had then adopted hercat, so she was 'chosen' rather than just 'made'his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, which was better really. And whilst we're being honestand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, we might as well admit that 'renowned author' might be stretching not into the truth regular back garden, but into a little: his books degenerated into self-published poetry which Ada couldn't understandworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. StillThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, Ada had felt entitled and this where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was why her godmother, to be honest, but he's offer had come at such a brilliant time.turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|authorisbn=C A SachaB0C47LV1PC|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerFragility|author=Mosby Woods
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|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has Can you make a plan to increase his already startling wealth and ensure his legacy: to bring the world's first emission-free car to market and dominate production. The secret development project to enable this'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, Bucephalusis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, is already underway and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into a second term to help him carry would it out. Montgomery land? The catch is also looking that the answer for a legacy and one that does not involve his controlling mother and her foundation, so grabs onto Finnegan's Feed Africa programme with both handscould well be.... no.|isbn=1800461976''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Martin Venning1529431735|title=The Primary ObjectiveWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=24|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Sometimes a book starts off slowlyIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, but eventually draws you in to caring about which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the characters or simply wanting to know what happens nextmore surprising. Sometimes it doesnHe'td been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The basic premise is return has come about because he's had a good one – a clandestine organisationletter from his ex-wife, operating as a charity, but funded by various governments around the world saying that she's ill and partially (maybe, Ihasn't long to live. It'm not sure) under the auspices of the UN, with the primary objective of keeping the peace, by s hard to feel any means possible. Diplomacy sympathy when Hopkins is always the first option abducted, stripped to his underwear and sometimes one that needs sent to be carried out by third parties, but for situations when that looks unlikely to yield results Peace International maintains a call-on list watery grave in the boot of field operatives, ex-military, medics, scientists a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or anyone else with a taste for adventure and willing problem closer to risk their life for the sake of it.|isbn=1800461100home?
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|author=Francesca Simon Alex Bell and Steve MayTim McDonagh|title=Two Terrible VikingsThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
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|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=In Eli is a small Viking village there live two twinsbusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be in the evening a helper at the very worst Vikings ever! dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Nothing can stop their mad maraudingEli lives with his lovely gran, as they cause havoc at too – for there is a birthday partygeneration missing in the family. A few short years ago, chaos whilst tracking a trollEli's parents were both lost to the titular race, and undertake a grand journey globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to raid Bad Island with their friends! navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. They get up This has made the race anathema to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviourthe pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and their crazy cast the sole aim the prize of friendsmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=05713494980571382231
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