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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=15291259440356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=City of the DeadDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Jonathan KellermanStig Abell
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|summary=When you drive large vehicles for Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a living, you're careful and it's not just little uncertainty about the way that you drive. You restrict your alcohol intake future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and if it's her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleep. When you're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off at 5 a.m. when the roads are quieter, even if you have -grid and relaxing life to wait up when you get move in with Livia or does Livia move to where you're going. Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? And it was going well until For the men hit something moment they’re enjoying life in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeles. The man was stark naked the present and couldn't be identifiedputting the future on the back burner.
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|authorisbn=1786482126|title=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme The Janus Stone (TranslatorDr Ruth Galloway)|titleauthor=I May Be WrongElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre= AutobiographyCrime|summary= When Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the Dalai Lama adds his words site was going to your frontispiece, Ihold seventy-five 'm inclined to think it doesnluxury't really matter how apartments - when they discovered the rest bones of the world responds to your booka child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. I knowWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, having read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with that thoughtDCI Harry Nelson. He It's difficult as Ruth knows (and at core so do I) , but Nelson doesn't, that it matters very much how the rest she is pregnant with his child as a result of the world responds to this bookone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because it tells the truth as it Ruth is, in the early 21st centuryprone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1526644827
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC10008551324|title=The Patient Devil You Know (A DS Cross thrillerD S Max Craigie)|author=Tim SullivanNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Aspergerany respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's Syndromeprepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. He can be rudeThis person, he promises, difficult is someone big and awkward with people, although it's never intentionalwill be worth the police doing what he wants. It's just that And what he thinks differently wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and social niceties simply don't occur to himget an early parole date. ThereNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit t think so and itshe's even prepared to do the other thing that he has the best conviction rate Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with cases, ever. His partner him is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Crosskept well away from what's behaviourhappening.
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|isbn=15291516000008405026|title=Give Unto OthersA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Donna LeonJane Casey
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changedIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. The ''pandemia'' stripped She was never found and the city of its tourists for nearly two years and investigation ground to a lot of businesses have closedhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, most never to reopenand her father are dead in their bed. ThereInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's now a cascade something about the positioning of money as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end to greedthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they What looked as though it was going to launder all the money which be an open-and-shut case is coming their way? Whilst he's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was now a childcomplex double murder. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and sheKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'd like Brunettis disappearance: others (such as Derwent's adviceboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Marcus Sedgwick0571379877|title=WrathThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Meet FitzEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himselftheatre director. Lockdown is only just over He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and he should be free entitled and uses Edward to do what he wants, to go where he wants run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when 's drunkenly confided how he talks feels to his best friend, CassieRobert. They were half of Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a desultory school band, relationship had begun between them but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the end two of the world is already them kissing in a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can'tdark passageway...|isbn=1800900899
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|isbnauthor=1635864070Jo Callaghan|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah TalleyLeave No Trace
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|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=If you've ever started knitting When a pair man is found crucified on the top of socksa hill in Nuneaton, finished the first one and either got bored by DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the idea of doing the same thing all over againcase alongside her sidekick, or started on the second sock and lost the AI detective Lock. It's their first before you finished itlive case together, this having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is the book for you. Where a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is it suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that single socks go draws a lot of unwanted attention to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to knit two socks solve the case in onetime, divide them up or will Kat find herself taken off the case and have , potentially, out of a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds goodcareer? It's clever and well-thought-out.|isbn=139851120X
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|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''Things are not what they seem''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 be a cardiothoracic surgeon. It was Laura is a Friday perfectionist and Jess Hadley was keen to get to her half-brother's flat in Parisa trauma doctor. She'd come across from London on Eurostar, courtesy Anjali is the free spirit of the money group and shebecomes a GP. When we first meet them they'd stolen from The Pervertre at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's till going to end in the Copacabana Bar in Brightontragedy. It wasnWe don't likely that know who suffered the tragedy or the police would be on to her yet but she'd like to be somewhere safe and with food and drink inside herconsequences. She'd phoned Ben and got the address Twenty- 12 Rue des Amants - and he told her five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the apartment was on the third floorthree friends. SheThis time, it's outside what's obviously a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get in touch with Bentheir teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=07603735580241636604|title=Nordic Knits|author=Sue Flanders|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=I was so delighted by Sue Flanders' [[Cozy KnitsThe Trading Game: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didn't need any persuading at all to pick up her ''Nordic Knits''. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norway, Sweden and Iceland. There are a few sweaters or jackets but the majority of patterns are for smaller items such as mittens, gloves, hats and bags. All are bright and cheerful and very cosy.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1916072038|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)A Confession|author=Allie CresswellGary Stevenson
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|genre=Historical FictionAutobiography|summary=We meet part If you were to bring up an image of the Talbot family a city banker in Yorkshire in November 1811your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Twenty-seven-yearA hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-old Jocelyn Talbot stripe suit and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklingtonhis background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the house in the hollowLondon School of Economics. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn Stevenson is well aware of her mother's strengths bright - extremely bright - and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath he has a facade facility with numbers which most of respectability, the deplorable truth''us can only envy. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to do as she be stupid. It was his ability at what was asked, essentially, a card game which has precipitated ''got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this violent and unexpected removal''. Then we are told of the birth of turned into permanent employment as a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshiretrader.
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|authorisbn=Matthieu Aikins1035021803|title=The Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=ItAntique Hunter's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament Guide to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But it's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people described.|isbn= B09N9157T6}}{{FrontpageMurder|author=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas EngerC L Miller|titlerating=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)|rating=4.5
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|summary=This is It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the third book in a series English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Rammrequest for help from her beloved aunt, a crime journalistCarole. In this book we find that when one of BlixFreya's former mentor and Carole's colleaguesclose friend, KovicArthur Crockleford, uncovers a connection between several Oslo casesis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, she tries to contact her superior, Blixsay the least. Before Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she can reach himfeels, howeverlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she is murdered, and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered tooprofession she loved. We then find ourselves After the split, she worked in a few days later with Blix cafe, met and Rammmarried James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot was murdered) and killed someone, Freya and Ramm saw it all happenJames have now divorced. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|authorisbn=Daniel AbrahamAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Age of AshAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary= We meet Alys under ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the most northerly shape of Oldgatethings to come.''s four bridges I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, she has I must confess that there have been more than a knife few decades of technology in her hand and a meeting my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that she dreadsit's all getting away from me. Meanwhile, the City Some of Kithamar it is at a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible- frankly - quite frightening. It is Of course, I could research the night between possibilities and the funeral of a Prince probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the coronation of his successorlatest conspiracy theorist. For I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a night the Kithamar is un-ruledway I could understand.|isbn=0356515427
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|isbnauthor=1529095522Sunny Singh|title=The Interview|author=C M EwanHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Kate Harding The Hotel Arcadia is going for a luxury hotel in an interview unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for her dream job at Edge Communications. It's the last interview of residents who are still alive in the day at one of London's newest office buildings hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and Edge have fitted keeps on venturing out their part of the building her room to try to be something special. Maggie, Katecapture what's recruitment agenthappened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, is keen their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see that Kate approaches the interview in a good state of mind: Kate assumes that this is because Maggie if they will get a decent bonus if Kate gets be rescued before they are discovered by the job - and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlyterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=B097XNMCRK1529153298|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Loch Torridon ''is'' the back List of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugs. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto a nice little earner, only to find that Macca, the man he thought he was working with, is dead. His remains would never be found. The delivery is hijacked by Davie and Callum. As the story progresses we'll get to know them quite well.}}{{Frontpage|isbn= B09NDJ77LM|title=Me and My ShadowSuspicious Things|author=Deborah StoneJennie Godfrey|rating=45
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|summary= It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'What happens when someone is pushed too far and s not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they begin 've been murdered, but to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that no one loved you? And how far would you go her father wants to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off move the shadows of her past and attempts to repair decades worth of painfamily 'Down South'. When you'' Rachel re from Yorkshire, Down South is in a current conversation with her psychiatristfrightening, foreign place, who pushes her to recall her life from very young childhood onwardsbest avoided. But Rachel is combative with Doctor Blake For Miv, sometimes even contemptuous of the move would mean leaving herbest friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. You can see that it She's not an easy therapeutic relationship. Rachelworried about the dangers or that her Mum's recall of her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute and unforgiving claritystopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=15294096591398524085|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Elly GriffithsNicci French
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|genre=Crime
|summary=It Charlotte Salter was some time since expected at her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her motherhusband's belongingsfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She was intrigued by the discovery of a picture of her own house: it was an old photographHer children, sons Niall, taken in misty conditions Paul and Ollie and on the back it said 'dawn 1963'her daughter, some years before Ruth was bornEtty. It was before are all worried but - strangely - her parents were marriedhusband, Alec, is not. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the country was in lockdownriver. Ruth and Kate are restricted to It was an easy assumption for the cottage with Ruth attempting police to home school Kate make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and continue with her university teaching dutiesthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they got to know whilst clapping for carerscan do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=18479418341035906708|title=Atomic HabitsDiva|author=James ClearDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=I've said this before We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but there are some books that you seek outshe was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, some books that you stumble across in December 1923 and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'Atomic Habits'' to make it more manageable in the States. is When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the last categoryNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WChristopher Edge|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Helen Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is a popular activistvery different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Or should we call her a popular influencer But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives? Anyway, Helen is so popular that |isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the United States government has made her its Ambassador song of Wokethe sea. Helen runs all sorts The call of initiatives the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on behalf luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the government, including seven who swim out to survey the Shaming Conference ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Permissible Entertainment Committee - Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'for indoctrinating s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how with only coordinates to guide her, she sets 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 have it'the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. Ouch!|isbn=0008664730
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|isbnauthor=B09D95TRKZJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Wedding Murders|author=Sarah LinleyPlanet Storyland
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get Things have been a permanent job with bit sticky for the newspaper Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and the case she was covering was her big chanceother tasks that took time to accomplish. It was even more important Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to her than the celebrity wedding she was think of other, new ways to attend the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriendspend time, Matthewalong came an awful pandemic. She Life was leaving her seven-year-old sonpretty much shut down and, Patrick along with her sister, Emma, and heading off to a grand manor house hotel in the North Yorkshire countryside. Daniel Acroydit, television presenter and former member of all the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban many daily social interactions on photos or phoneswhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=1838226834Matthew Tree|title=Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed BoxallWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=It was one Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo his artistic passions all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much funfailed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. A young boy was going So Tim applied himself to the carnival with his Grandadstudies, who told him:cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. ''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of my hand.''|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1529135362A G Slatter|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanBriar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=It was '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long drive 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 weekend retreat in Northumbriaworld, right up near lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the Scottish borders town and to make it worse the three husbands had all - wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for one reason or another magic, Ellie Briar is the first non- had witch to delay making the trip until the Saturday morning. Jane be born into her family for generations and Ruth had known each other for a long time but Emily as such since she was young, her training as a bit of an outsider. She steward revolved around letters and Paul had married only relatively recently administration rather than spells and she was ten years younger than potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the other two womentown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. The friendship of As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the group went back rare ability to school days. Paul had coached rugby communicate with the dead, putting her at the school where Mark, Toby and Rob were pupilsheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Mark had married JaneReeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and Toby is Ruthdetermine what to do as the Briar witches's husband. And Rob? Welllegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, Rob's deadis under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=gareth_steel1529900360|title=Never Work With AnimalsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Gareth SteelJonathan Kellerman
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|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary=I donIt hadn't often begin my reviews with a warning been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to be appropriateask for his help on difficult cases. Stories His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a vetpsychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking partner, who nudged Milo into asking forhelp again. As a TV show She knew that the author would argue involvement was something that ''All Creatures'' lacked realismthe man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, as do other similar programmesthough. Gareth Steel says that Two lovers were murdered in the book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with himswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He says that he's written it was the heir to inform an Italian shoe empire and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable she is married to an extremely rich man and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eatings not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=17876348841529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The HerdSecret Life of a Vet|author=Emily EdwardsSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Our story opens Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in December 2019his footsteps, before most 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 us had even heard of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come to be doing work experience with a family friend who was a major issuevet and was convinced this was the job for him. We're in Farley County CourtBefore long, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash Kohlihe was at Liverpool University. As they were best friends until just It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a few months ago we know that whatever has happened is major and thatchild. If anything, regardless of the outcome, this is not going he'd wanted to work out well for anyonebe a professional footballer.
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|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs0861541774|title=The Language A Nye of FoodPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton is DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a poet who has never had the slightest inclination short holiday in Singapore to boil meet up with an eggold ally, Guy Trueman. When tasked with writing Maik was involved in a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a local woman man armed with a troubled home lifeknife - and he killed a Ghurka. Together Initially, they test, craft, refine and reshape he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the world of domestic cookery, reinventing man. Now he could be facing the recipe book death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and changing the face of cookery writing foreverwouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1398502227
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|author=Louie StowellAlexander McCall Smith|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|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 Perfect Passion Company is spending a month both dating agency in exile Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the physical form of business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a middle-school kid here on Earthwhile. He's guarded by Katie is coming out of a giant and break up with a god in disguise as his parentsbad boyfriend, and Thor has so jumps at the chance to come along as wellhome to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to be the more suavean Edinburgh we already love, more popular thanks to 44 Scotland Street and more successful brother of the twoIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Loki Katie has no experience in running a month to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the right way againbusiness, or elsein match-making, and to prove it he but Ness has to write the text we read full confidence in a sentient notebookher abilities, that is able to cry foul of his liesand there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, and judge his progress. But Loki is the kind of god who insists he can do anythingWilliam, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to be lend a walk in the park...right?hand…|isbn=14063997521846976596
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|isbn=00084544420811771741|title=A Flicker in the DarkInstaKnits for Baby|author=Stacy WillinghamMelissa Leapman
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|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=ItMelissa Leapman's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis, ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a medical psychologist, is completing a session with a new patientcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes Some will be quick knits - others are of getting her through the trauma. You see'long, Chloe knows what itcosy afternoons in front of the fire's like to have a traumatic childhoodvariety. Her father is Richard Davis, The projects are divided by the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging time they'll take to the girls complete - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and she and her mother handed it to the policemore than twenty hours. Dick Davis is in All the Louisiana State Penitentiary projects are attractive, modern and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for the last twenty yearsuseable. Her mother is in a care homeI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.
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|author=Christopher EdgeDean Koontz|title=Escape RoomThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=I've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which Benny is having a character or characters start by being trapped in terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a specific locationreally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and have it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to solve problems in order to get their way outdeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – So fortunately for Benny it turns out that would require actual friends) the delivery to his house is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventurenew friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, with the regular second who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person narrative replaced by the first. Here Spike is going to take care of Benny, Ami and four other tweenagerswill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, all new to each other and booked Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at the gameBenny's main offices, where they're told wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=17880079641662500491
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|isbnauthor=1732898731Adam Stower|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese Murray and Bun
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|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers |summary=There was Murray is supposed to be a Boy humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who loved boxesis able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. He had But he's a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: bad magician's cat, so his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art suppliesfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, stuffed toys and the like: all catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the things which most children have in abundanceregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. The BoyThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's delight was in the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happy. As he grew turned up and became a Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that one of them has a padlock...have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=B09MN1526WB0C47LV1PC|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4)|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=Liz MistryJames Henry
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|genre=Crime
|summary=It's the third murder in the space of a few weeks February 1991 and theyEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins've return all been because of machetes used on teenagersthe more surprising. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive He'd been exiled on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of BradfordCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. OnlyThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, this time, itsaying that she's going ill and hasn't long to be differentlive. The body appears It's hard to Nikki feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to be that of her beloved nephew, Haqib, his underwear and she has sent to a very public meltdown. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but watery grave in the body is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied backgroundboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. What Is it does mean though is that Nikki is going a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depression.home?
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|author=Ally WilkesAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=All the White SpacesThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
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|genre=HorrorConfident Readers|summary=In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on Eli is a busy lad – by day an Arctic expedition led by apprentice in the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh wondrous library we startby visiting with him, and in the opportunity to live life as evening a helper at the dessert cafe his authentic self gran owns and true genderruns. Eli lives with his lovely gran, without too – for there is a generation missing in the disapproval and constraints of his parentsfamily. However A few short years ago, Jonathan isnEli't s parents were both lost to the only one fleeing titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the confines of his past and world in the shadow company of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over magical beast. This has made the expedition. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk race anathema to the party and, pair – but when disaster strikes and they are forced a bad incident at the eatery leads to overwinter on landa confession from gran, a menacing presence waits Eli knows his only hope is to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is dare to make it out enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the Arctic winter alive, he will have only thing to face his demons once and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape possibly save his tombgran.|isbn=17890978350571382231
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