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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=B097XNMCRK0008517061|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Neil LancasterStig Abell
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|summary=Loch Torridon ''is'' the back of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugsFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto There’s perhaps a nice little earner, only to find that Macca, uncertainty about the man he thought he was working future of his life withhis vet girlfriend, is dead. His remains Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would never be found. The delivery 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 hijacked by Davie the future she wants for herself and Callum. her daughter? As For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the story progresses we'll get to know them quite wellfuture on the back burner.
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|isbn= B09NDJ77LM1786482126|title=Me and My ShadowThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Deborah StoneElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'What happens apartments - when someone is pushed too far and they begin to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt that discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no one loved youskull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? And how far would you go to be happy? Accompany Rachel Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she tries to shake off is pregnant with his child as a result of the shadows of her past and attempts one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to repair decades worth sudden bouts of painsickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.''5|genre=CrimeRachel |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's prepared to tell the police where the body of a current conversation with missing person is buried and who was responsible for her psychiatristdeath. This person, who pushes her to recall her life from very young childhood onwardshe promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. But Rachel And what he wants is combative with Doctor Blake, sometimes even contemptuous to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of herhis sentence and to get an early parole date. You can see that Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's not an easy therapeutic relationship. Rachelt think so and she's recall of her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and each major betrayal in perfect detail anyone who works with absolute and unforgiving clarityhim is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=15294096590008405026|title=The Locked Room A Stranger in the Family (Dr Ruth GallowayMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Elly GriffithsJane Casey
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|summary=It was some time 's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongingsbed one summer night. She was intrigued by never found and the discovery of investigation ground to a picture of halt. Now, her own house: it was an old photographmother, Helena, taken in misty conditions and on the back it said 'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was born. It was before her parents were marriedfather are dead in their bed. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to find out what was behind the photograph Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but Covid intervened and there's something about the country was in lockdown. Ruth and Kate are restricted to positioning of the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and continue with her university teaching dutiesboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The good thing What looked as though it was meeting Zoe, going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carersexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=18479418340571379877|title=Atomic HabitsThe Kellerby Code|author=James ClearJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=I've said this before but there are some books that you seek outEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, some books that you stumble across Robert and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themStanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, likedemanding, right now! 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'Atomic Habitss 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 the last categorya dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WJo Callaghan|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasLeave No Trace
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Helen When a man is found crucified on the top of a popular activisthill 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. Or should we call her But when there is a popular influencer? Or perhaps second body found crucified a popular franchise owner? Anywayfew days later, Helen Kat is so popular suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that the United States government has made her its Ambassador draws a lot of Wokeunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of Will they be able to solve the governmentcase in time, including or will Kat find herself taken off the Shaming Conference case and the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''for indoctrinating and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how to have it''. Ouch!, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=B09D95TRKZ1399613073|title=The Wedding MurdersMoral Injuries|author=Sarah LinleyChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Libby Steele was hoping Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to get be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a permanent job with trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the newspaper group and the case she was covering was her big chancebecomes a GP. It was even more important When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to her than end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the celebrity wedding she was to attend tragedy or the following day with her exconsequences. Twenty-rock star boyfriendfive years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, Matthewyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. She was leaving her sevenA hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-year-old sonstripe suit and his background is the East End, Patrick where he was familiar with her sister, Emmaviolence, poverty and heading off injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to a grand manor house hotel in the North Yorkshire countrysideLondon School of Economics. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and former member he has a facility with numbers which most of the rock band us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' , essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phonesa trader.
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|isbn=18382268341035021803|title=Carried Away With the CarnivalThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Ed BoxallC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=It was one 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of those memories we treasure a request for help from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparentsher beloved aunt, Carole. They Freya's former mentor and Carole're there to undo all s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the good that parents docircumstances seem suspicious, so to say the trips out were always so much funleast. A young boy Arthur was going the reason why Freya had not been back to the carnival with his Grandadvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, who told him: ''It'll she has not felt able to be brilliantnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, just remembershe worked in a cafe, don't let go met and married James (on the rebound from the love of my handher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.''
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|isbn=1529135362AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Long WeekendAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Gilly MacmillanBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=It was a long drive to the weekend retreat in Northumbria, right ''Opening up near new ways of thinking about the Scottish borders and shape of things to make come.'' I've heard it worse the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morningsaid that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Jane and Ruth had known each other for Well, I must confess that there have been more than a long time but Emily was a bit few decades of an outsidertechnology in my lifetime. She and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the other two womenfeeling that it's all getting away from me. The friendship Some of the group went back to school daysit is - frankly - quite frightening. Paul had coached rugby at Of course, I could research the school where Mark, Toby possibilities and Rob were pupils. Mark had married Jane, the probabilities and Toby is Ruthend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they's husbandre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. And Rob? Well, Rob's deadI needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=gareth_steelSunny Singh|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth SteelHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeThrillers |summary=I don't often begin my reviews with The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriateterrorist group. Stories of Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great wartime photographer and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not Abhi, the companion volume you've been looking forhotel manager. As a TV show Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realismhotel, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree he forms a bond with him. He says that he's written it Sam who refuses to inform and provoke thoughtbe cowed by events, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesnkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what't lack sensitivitys happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, although there their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eatingdiscovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=17876348841529153298|title=The HerdList of Suspicious Things|author=Emily EdwardsJennie Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Our story opens in December 2019It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, before most of us had even heard of Covid or realised they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come her father wants to be a major issuemove the family 'Down South'. WeWhen you're in Farley County Courtfrom Yorkshire, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash KohliDown South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. As they were For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened is major friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that, regardless of . She's not worried about the outcome, this is not going dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to work out well for anyone.
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|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs1398524085|title=The Language of FoodHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never had the slightest inclination to boil an eggturned up. When tasked with writing a cookery book Her children, sons Niall, she recruits Ann KirbyPaul and Ollie and her daughter, a local woman with a troubled home lifeEtty. Togetherare all worried but - strangely - her husband, they testAlec, craftis not. Shortly afterwards, refine Etty and reshape Greg, find the world body of domestic cookeryGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, reinventing in the river. It was an easy assumption for the recipe book police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and changing then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the face of cookery writing foreverguilt. 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.|isbn=1398502227
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|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1035906708|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|author=Christopher Edge
|title=Black Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile Lucas and his friends are all booked in the physical form of for a middle-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by movie marathon at their local cinema, a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor place that has come along as well, to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother nickname of the two'The Black Hole'. Loki has a month All big movie fans, they're looking forward to redeem his reputationlots of exciting films, and get his moral compass pointing the right way againmany, or elsemany snacks! However, and to prove it he has to write as the text we read in a sentient notebookmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is able to cry foul of his liesvery different, and judge his progressthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But Loki is as they lurch from one film genre to the kind of god who insists he next, can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to be a walk in the park...rightcinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=14063997521839942738
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|isbnauthor=0008454442Rachel Greenlaw|title=A Flicker in the Dark|author=Stacy WillinghamCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a medical psychologistremote and partially forgotten island, is completing a session with a new patientsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Lacey Mira, like her mother before her, is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes one of getting her through the traumaseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. You seeBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, Chloe knows what itthey capture the island's leader and Mira's like father. Desperate to have save him from death, Mira makes a traumatic childhood. Her father bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is Richard Davissecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the man who murdered six girls some twenty years agosea. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed it watched streets of foreign islands to the police. Dick Davis is in heart of the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to do with him for save the last twenty years. Her mother is in a care future of her homeand the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|author=Christopher EdgeJames Sherwood Metts|title=Escape RoomPlanet Storyland|rating=34.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=I've seen junior variants of Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific location, re paid to do and have other tasks that took time to solve problems in order accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get their way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, Ami used to all this technological change and four starting to think of other tweenagers, all new ways to each other spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and booked into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at along with it, all the game's main offices, where many daily social interactions on which they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerdepend so heavily. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=17880079641736128426
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|isbnauthor=1732898731Matthew Tree|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A ChildrenWe's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese ll Never Know
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|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=There was Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything drunk and he was meticulous about storage: chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys artistic passions all failed miserably and the like: all the things which most children have in abundancewho had endless crises of self confidence. The Boy's delight was in the sense of order in So Tim applied himself to his room: it made him feel happy. As he grew up and became a Manstudies, cultivated his abilities rather than his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger daydreams and better boxes. Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that one of them has a padlock..set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=B09MN1526WA G Slatter|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)|author=Liz MistryThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=It'' 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 third murder in world, lies Silverton; a town under the space protection of the Briar's, a few weeks and they've all been because family of machetes used on teenagers. DS Nikki Parekh witches who protect the town and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on wider world from the outskirts of BradfordDarklands. OnlyThough she has always wished for magic, this time, it's going to be different. The body appears to Nikki Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be that of born into her beloved nephew, Haqib, family for generations and as such since she has was young, her training as a very public meltdownsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. It isnWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't Haqib: there are similarities but s cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the body is clad in designer clothes town's leader, and comes from an obviously monied backgroundEllie takes her place beside her. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to be on sick leave for some time communicate with anxiety 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 depressiondetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|authorisbn=Ally Wilkes1529900360|title=All the White SpacesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
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|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=In post-WWI EnglandIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Jonathan Morgan stows away Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on an Arctic expedition led by difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents help of a chance psychologist only worked for a fresh startwhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, and who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, without involvement was something that the disapproval and constraints of his parentsman she loved needed. However The next case did look simple, Jonathan isn't though. Two lovers were murdered in the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow swimming pool of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expeditionremote property in Bel Air. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk He was the party heir to an Italian shoe empire and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan she is married to make an extremely rich man and it out 's not the Italian. But which of them was the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.|isbn=1789097835primary target?
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1529395224|title=QuicksilverLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=23.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Meet Quinn QuicksilverSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. He His father was a GP and Rowlands didn's not had the chance t want to get to be a mercurial character yetfollow in his footsteps, for particularly when he's lived in a nunconsidered the strain that being on-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career call put on a needless magazinehis father's stafflife. But when this book starts When he was seventeen he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded took the opportunity of him that he go to doing work experience with a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth family friend who was a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank vet and prepare for going on was convinced this was the lam. And all this is just in time job for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to themhim. Helped to escape Before long, he finds was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in controldream since he was a child. If anything, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and 'd wanted to be a whole lot more besidesprofessional footballer.|isbn=1542019885
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|isbn=00084416180861541774|title=Other ParentsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Sarah StovellSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didnDCI Domenic Jejeune't live s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up to her retired predecessor there could well be with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a house price slump in street brawl - he would later maintain that part of the townhe was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were Initially, he faced a considerable benefit charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the schoolman. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for Now he could be facing the headdeath penalty. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to Jo's restrictions on the toys children help as any interference from another police force could bring in on Toy Day but that was just provoke a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationdiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|author=Sarah Ann JuckesAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Hunt for the NightingalePerfect Passion Company
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Jasper The Perfect Passion Company is a little boy who has some strugglesdating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and whilst we're never told why exactlyoperating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, we can see that he tailored service. Ness has anxiety asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and panic attackslook after the business, and has difficulty dealing as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with change a bad boyfriend, and big emotionsso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. His big sister And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, Rosiebringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, has been a huge support thanks to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, and writing a book but with him, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared some new characters who quickly begin to help him calm downcharm. His parents seem completely caught up Katie has no experience in their running a business, and so it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away to University nowor in match-making, she but Ness has promised him that she will still be there when he needs full confidence in her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she wouldabilities, and she isnthere't answering s always her phone. His parents won't speak to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be rightvery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find RosieWilliam, and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its song, as they do together every Spring.lend a hand…|isbn=13985108901846976596
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|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)0811771741|title=Red is My HeartInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Fiction Crafts|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read 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 my housefront of the fire' variety. And so was this one The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one wasfive to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and ismore than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, black modern and white and reduseable. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I perhaps show my age when I think itwonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideasme being picky.|isbn=1913547183
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|isbnauthor=1529135567Dean Koontz|title=One Step Too Far|author=Lisa GardnerThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=It's five years since the stag weekendBenny is having a terrifically bad day. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and He loses his four groomsmenjob, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy)he loses his fiancee, Neil and Joshhis house gets trashed. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin- sized object to his home, and in it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the night Scot managed thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to wander offdeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. The remaining four searched A really nice person. So fortunately for him in vain and Benny it was decided turns out that Timthe delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for helpbeing a good person. When help didn't come the remaining three finally made their way back Spike is going to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign take care of Tim. Every yearBenny, Timand will certainly take care of Benny's fatherenemies, Martinif he, Benny, and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timare.|isbn=1662500491
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|author=Gunnar StaalesenAdam Stower|title=Bitter FlowersMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=Varg Veum Murray is supposed to be a Norwegian Private Investigator humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning able to work. Howeversleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the quiet job two. But he's supposedly taken on caretaking someonea bad magician's house quickly turns cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a murder investigationhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and a mystery around a missing woman. Varg finds himself the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not only investigating theseinto the regular back garden, but also looking into an olda world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and much bigger than Murray was never found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linkedhonest, but what is the link, he's turned up and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?he'll have to do…|isbn=191319308X0008561249
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|authorisbn=Kia AhankoobB0C47LV1PC|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsFragility|author=Mosby Woods
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|genre=Graphic NovelsLiterary Fiction|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, each with its own strength and weakenessis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, in would it land? The catch is that the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous societyanswer for both could well be. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went to warno. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding ''Fragility'' is set as the cost of war too high, a solution is proposed. Each city of the eight countries will send their greatest warriorsPortland, known as sentinelsOregon, cautiously begins to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all emerge from the rings and become restrictions imposed during the supreme ruler of Duniva.|isbn=B09MMQJFPVcovid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps1529431735|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's late July February 1991 and Deborah St James Essex is at bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary wanted drug smuggler for the school system, a representative decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from the NHShis ex-wife, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name saying that she didn's ill and hasn't catch but would later turn out long to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakerlive. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is an exploration of abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the possibility boot of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesa stolen Ford Sierra. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem seems to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks closer to and photographs.home?
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|isbnauthor=B09Q3P283YAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W HooperThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
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|summary=There Eli is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her busy lad – by day an apprentice in amongst all the other kidswondrous library we start by visiting with him, who have had their entire childhoods sold to and in the mill-owners by evening a helper at the London workhouse they used to call homedessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Bess knows Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit generation missing in the slight little Dotfamily. A few short years ago, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads Eli's parents were both lost to harmthe titular race, there might be a glimmer of companionship in globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth world in the existence company of a magical beast. This has made the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633074|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Members of Parliament like us race anathema to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) pair – but when a bad incident at the reality eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubrisdare to enter what he most hates, with the man who was behind sole aim the skilful control prize of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by magic at the end of 2020. You might not know – the name now but he will certainly be the man only thing to watchpossibly save his gran.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.0571382231
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