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|isbnauthor=1788360702Sylvie Cathrall|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard ErnstA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=BiographyScience Fiction|summary=For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's opinions, beliefs and aims against the background of the scientific evidence. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments greater joys than a book which have no scientific support has done considerable damage lives up to the reputation of a man who compelling premise. And this is proud one of his refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitionsthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|authorisbn=Will Carver0008517061|title=The Daves Next DoorDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his vest on rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a London tube line. As their fates overlap, little uncertainty about the story is told in backwards orderfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, leading up to the fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1529125790|title=The Family Remains|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=In July 2019Livia and her daughter Diana, Jason Mott was mud larking on the banks of the River Thames when he came across as moving in together would mean a bag lot of what appeared to be human bones. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and Saffron Brown from forensics were there relaxing life to investigate. The bones were indeed human: a young woman had been killed by a blow move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the head many years ago - probably as long as twenty-five - but future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the bones had not been moment they’re enjoying life in the river longer than a year. There was no identification but present and putting the future on the bag contained vegetation, some of which was quite unusualback burner.
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|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason1786482126|title=Partitions of UnityThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective Builders were demolishing an old house in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when she investigated and unravelled they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a series of disappearancesritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. In ''Partitions of Unity It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she sets her mind to solving is pregnant with his child as a murder..result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF
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|authorisbn=Fiona Parashar 0008551324|title=A Beautiful Way to Coach The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary= So what am I doing reading this book, using this book, and being audacious enough It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to review it? approach the police. Truth Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is I bought it out struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of curiosity. I a missing person is buried and who was at an on-line launch responsible for the her death. book This person, he promises, is someone big and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed to meit will be worth the police doing what he wants. I wanted And what he wants is to see if there were things in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying be transferred to an open prison to mentor – without committing them serve the remainder of his sentence and to a full day, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrowget an early parole date. I also wanted Not much to see if I could give myself a Vision Dayask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to bring me do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from their vision and back to my ownwhat's happening.|isbn=103211603X
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|isbn=19137503530008405026|title=Britannica's Word of A Stranger in the DayFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue MacyJane Casey
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=''BritannicaIt's Word of the Day'' has a subsixteen years since nine-year-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant bookold Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition She was never found and then includes the word in investigation ground to a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration toohalt. I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!}}{{Frontpage|author=A C Wise|title=Hooked|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It’s been twenty-two years since Captain HookNow, her mother, now going by just ‘James’Helena, has been and her father are dead in Neverlandtheir bed. Living Initially, it looks like a new life in London, he has never completely escaped his past. But now he senses straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the edges positioning of the beast circling around his life in London, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and when suddenly he finds himself face her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to face in the street with Wendy, he knows that the line between this world be an open-and Neverland -shut case is growing thinnow a complex double murder. The beast Kerrigan is finally coming to get himconvinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and in the process will pull Wendy and her daughter Jane back into their past once againUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1789096839
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|isbn=17873017450571379877|title=ConfidenceThe Kellerby Code|author=Denise MinaJonny Sweet
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We're back in the world of podcasters Anna and Fin, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]. It was Anna who'd organised the 'family' holiday: her exEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, Hamish, is now obsessed with her best friendhis upper-class friends, Estelle Robert and her children are living with themStanza. Fin (who was married to Estelle) is there too and it was Anna who invited his girlfriend, Sofia. ItRobert's not long before everyone realises that was a bad mistaketheatre director. SofiaHe's difficult and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation also self- a lighthouseobsessed, in a storm - she begins talking about Anna's pastdemanding, including her real name handsome and the rapeentitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. This was something which Anna had intended to tell the girls Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - twelve-tear-old Jess and ten-year-old Lizzie - when the time was righthe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. And this wasnMost men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he't s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the right timetwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=178763566XJo Callaghan|title=Listen to Me|author=Tess GerritsenLeave No Trace|rating=4.5
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|summary=We're in Boston with Amy. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day and she wore her newman is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows that they're going DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to be ruined - and unsafe - in the snow that's now falling. As she crosses case alongside her sidekick, the road, a car comes out of nowhere and hits herAI detective Lock. It doesn't stops their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Two months But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, we're Kat is suddenly struggling with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli, a potential serial killer and a keen defender very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the suburb of Reverecase in time, north of Boston, where she lives. Nothing gets past her or will Kat find herself taken off the case and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsakpotentially, is in California, looking after his sister, she has the time to watch what's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicions.out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=00083956321399613073|title=One Last SecretMoral Injuries|author=Adele ParksChristie Watson
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|summary=Natalya is an escortOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. WellOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, her name's not ''actually'' Natalya: that's her professional name but it which is a nod bonus when you aim to her Serbian heritagebe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora Dziewulski, usually known as Dora WulskiAnjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. If youWhen we first meet them they're thinking of 'escort' as being at a polite description of a prostitute, run by a pimp, whodrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's turning tricks going to fund a drug habit, forget itend in tragedy. Dora is a professional in all senses of We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the wordconsequences. She has Twenty-five years later there will be an agent, Elspeth, who takes 30% of her income and deals with the payments but checks out eerily similar event that will impact the clients to see that Dora is going to be safethree friends. Dora describes herself as a self-employed clairvoyant to Her MajestyThis time, it's Revenue and Customstheir teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=David Solomons0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyConfession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Gavin If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is being followedthe East End, seemingly constantlywhere he was familiar with violence, by the new (very annoying) girl at schoolpoverty and injustice. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl storyThere was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Because in this instance, the girl in question Stevenson is Niki, bright - extremely bright - and she is he has a galactic princess (no, really, she is!) facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. So It was his ability at what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled in a situation wherewas, potentiallyessentially, Earth and everyone on it will be blown to smithereensa card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, all because of Niki?|isbn=0857639935this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|authorisbn=Alex Cotter1035021803|title=The Mermaid CallAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids donIt't exist. But she also knows they have s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to exist – at least in the public eyeEnglish country village where she grew up. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – She's back now because of a far northern English resort – without themrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. A hundred years Freya's former mentor and change agoCarole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaidsis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, but were forced to return to help out with say the Great War effortleast. They also showed female emancipationArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, which helped create the town's tourism industryshe feels, now faded and falling apart but once a feminist success storylet her down badly. Alice, a girl who stumbles into Vivien's gran's tourist shop one dayEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, knows she certainly wants mermaids has not felt able to exist – be near the man or pursue the profession she thinks her family's black sheep died searching for them, or else was just too successful in her huntloved. When After the shysplit, she worked in a cafe, doubting Thomasina that is Vivien collides with met and married James (on the rebound from the exuberantlove of her life, gung-ho Alice, what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they find?|isbn=1839941901who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1739805100AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Loving the EnemyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Building bridges in a time of warFictions that Disrupt|author=Andrew MarchBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyScience Fiction|summary= ''Loving Opening up new ways of thinking about the Enemyshape of things to come.'' I' tells the quite extraordinary story ve heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of author Andrew Marchtechnology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's grandparents, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went advantageous to Dresden to teach in me but I'm left with the early days feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of the Nazi regime in the 1930sit is - frankly - quite frightening. Fred Of course, a sensitive I could research the possibilities and thoughtful man, had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the timelatest conspiracy theorist. Fred's attempts to separate individual I needed people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships I knew I could trust and connections that lasted for who could deliver information in a lifetimeway I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=B0B575J99NSunny Singh|title=Beneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke AdamsHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionThrillers |summary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and The Hotel Arcadia is a teacher at luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a prestigious girl's school in Yorkterrorist group. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found Hiding from the right vocation nor met the right man'' terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and now was Abhi, the time to make a changehotel manager. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the professoressa job residents who are still alive in Bologna. After the hotel, he forms a telephone interviewbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, she was offered the position and it wasnkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what't long before she was exploring the beautiful citys happened through her photography. There were some natural doubts 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 if they will be rescued before her first class but it went surprisingly wellthey are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=15291258981529153298|title=Godmersham ParkThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Gill HornbyJennie Godfrey
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|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'If it were s not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentlemanwhat's worrying Miv's dutyfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, there would no women but to teach well-bred daughters at allhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park s overheard that her father wants to take up move the position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austenfamily 'Down South'. She had no experience of teaching but this was When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a case of necessityfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Until For Miv, the death of move would mean leaving her motherbest friend, Sharon, Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the householdshe'll do anything to prevent that. When She's not worried about the dangers or that her mother died, her father cast her off and would have nothing more Mum's stopped talking - to do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a year. Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighboursanyone.
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthdayparty but never turned up. Voices told him to do it. Only two people survived the carnage - EliasHer children, who was sent to Ramptonsons Niall, Paul and his thirteenOllie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but -yearstrangely -old brotherher husband, CyrusAlec, who hid in a shed until the police found himis not. Twenty years laterShortly afterwards, Cyrus is a forensic psychologist Etty and heGreg, find the body of Greg's been told that his brother is being releasedfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Can Cyrus forgive It was an easy assumption for the sinner whilst having police to live on a daily basis with the results of the crime? Can make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he bear to have Elias living in couldn't stand the same house? guilt. How will his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=140595115X1035906708|title=A Stranger on BoardDiva|author=Cameron WardDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Right from the beginningWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, we know this will not turn out wellin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Eight days into the trip Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to deliver the superyacht ''Escape'Callas' to Antigua, all 300 tonnes and six decks will be floundering without power make it more manageable in the AtlanticStates. Those of When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the crew Nazi occupation by a mother who are left will be cowering in fear a fellow crew member tries to pick them off, one by one. Some are already dead. They are three days from shore mercilessly exploited her and there is made no way secret of making contact. But let's go back to when all this startedher preference for her elder sister, in SouthamptonJackie.
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|isbnauthor=1398508632Christopher Edge|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo WildeBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=It had been on the cards Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a while but it was movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year nickname of eating only wild food'The Black Hole'. The end All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of Novemberexciting films, and many, many snacks! However, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not as the best time to startmovie starts, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate changethey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, Brexit and a pandemicthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Wilde had a few advantages: But as they lurch from one film genre to the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? She had electricity which allowed her Will they ever get back to run a fridgethe cinema, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|isbnauthor=1635864674Rachel Greenlaw|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, Compass and More|author=Joy HowardBlade|rating=43.5|genre=CookeryTeens|summary=''Think I can hear the song of it as no-whining diningthe sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
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|isbnauthor=0241989027James Sherwood Metts|title=We All Have Our Secrets|author=Jane CorryPlanet Storyland
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Harold Gentle advertised Things have been a bit sticky for live-in help the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as he was failing they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to cope at Willowmead House on his own. His advert was fairly specific: he was a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke think of the ability other, new ways to cook a good steakspend time, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fadsalong came an awful pandemic. The first person who came to the house Life was Francoisepretty much shut down and, a French woman in her early twentiesalong with it, who fit all the bill perfectly. She got the job but Francoise didn't know about the advert: she was there for a completely different reason. Emily Gentle is Harold's daughter and she came to Willowmead House because she was running away from a problem in London. Emily's a midwife and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had been mademany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|author=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)Matthew Tree|title=Tasting SunlightWe'll Never Know
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Sally is a teenager who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinic. She just Timothy Wyndham wants space, and for people nothing more than to stop questioning her, tiptoeing around herbe different from his father, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding her. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss who is in her forties drunk and seems to live alone. Liss is unlike chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any other adult Sally has ever metof his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. She just accepts Sally as she is, giving her a room So Tim applied himself to sleep inhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and the space to just be. As they work together on the farm, a closeness develops between them, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendshipset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1914585143B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=Jennifer MasonA G Slatter|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a womenThere's track coach with a yen part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-however long I can. This secret magic of-the-art S&M dungeonmy own, a man serving a life sentence in Alabamaall mine, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on at last. I just want to enjoy it for a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia..while.''
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|authorisbn=Will Brooker1529900360|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the most successful British authors IIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brookers fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have readSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, His assertions that there were only open-and shows how 2021 drew -shut cases which didn't need the two closer and closer togetherhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. The meeting was some unspecified combinationFinally, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the words of her latest book she was recitingRobin, and her being in a Delaware''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brookers partner, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the rabbit-hole involvement was something that is Jewell's diverse outputthe man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a year remote property in Bel Air. He was the published authorheir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's life, working to make a success of the latest title, and struggling with not the next in lineItalian. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is But which of them was the result.|isbn=1529136024primary target?
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|isbn=18011092651529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The CompanionSecret Life of a Vet|author=Lesley ThomsonSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a punctual man who was inexplicably never on time'GP and Rowlands didn' and he was - as usual - late t want to pick up follow in his sonfootsteps, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for particularly when he considered the boystrain that being on-call put on his father's attention, his mother, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when life. When he was seventeen he returned. The dinner would never be served, as James and Wilbur are took the victims opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a double stabbing on vet and was convinced this was the beachjob for him. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policeBefore long, he was at Liverpool University. SheIt hadn's feeling the pressuret - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughIf anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.
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|isbn=152941363X0861541774|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief Nye of Police Novel)Pheasants|author=Martin WalkerSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
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|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''Nobody knows what the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis s close friend and much of the Vézère valley and works closely former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')an old ally, the head of detectives for the départment of the DordogneGuy Trueman. They're not just policemen Maik was involved in a street brawl - they're both deeply committed to the wellhe would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Francehe killed a Ghurka. The discovery of an oldInitially, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in he faced a ditch wouldn't normally charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have worried them so much had it not been for planned to murder the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the carman. Oh, and there was a golf ball too, which didn't belong to the owner of Now he could be facing the cardeath penalty. A golf bag would be a good place Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to hide help as any interference from another police force could provoke a sniperdiplomatic incident and wouldn's weapont help Danny at all. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?
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|isbnauthor=0241542405Alexander McCall Smith|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire AlexanderThe Perfect Passion Company
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|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'' operating as an alternative to: all the online apps in factproviding a more personal, she so nearly doestailored service. Her outdoor clothes are on Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and she's even considered which shoes look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to wear if she's going Canada to catch her trainget away for a while. ThenKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, she can'tand so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. She simply can't force herself And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to leave 44 Scotland Street and the safety of her homeIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. She's fortunate that she Katie has no experience in running a good friendbusiness, Sadieor in match-making, who visits regularly with but Ness has full confidence in her two childrenabilities, James and Matilda. Sadiethere's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith always her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries very helpful (and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRLrather handsome) neighbour, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding HandsWilliam, to lend a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=B09Y451X9K0811771741|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in InstaKnits for tea)Baby|author=Richard F WalkerMelissa Leapman
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|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary= Melissa Leapman's 'Anything can happen at 'InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a birthday partycollection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, particularly when the birthday boy is the young Lord cosy afternoons in front of the Manorfire' variety. But when an eerie signal is picked up in The projects are divided by the early time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, George and his new girlfriend, the vivacious Lady Antoniafive to ten hours, embark on a quest ten to uncover its incredible messagetwenty hours and more than twenty hours. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets All the cat out of the bag projects are attractive, modern and the world goes into a state of panicuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean KoontzCould |title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it be? Could '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 deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it? Have aliens reached out and contacted Earth? George and Antonia find themselves lifted turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of their privileged lives of parties Benny, and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into the world will certainly take care of advanced scienceBenny's enemies, if he, Benny, secret agents.and politicians hungry for powerHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|author=Darren ShanAdam Stower|title= Archibald Lox Murray and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 Bun
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|genre=Confident Readers|summary= So. We're back Murray is supposed to the Merge with the first chapter in the third volume of Darren Shan's saga of Archibald Loxbe a humble, tidy and friendly cat, a young man one who can pick the locks of portals from our world is able to anothersleep and eat and eat and sleep and, called well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician'Merge''. Since his last adventures cat, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce on the topic of so his regular disappearances. They don't ask too many questions and Archie favourite bun has settled been turned into a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winstonhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, his lock-picking mentor in and the ''Merge'' and showing Kojocatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the young guardianregular back garden, around our but into a world of the Bornfrightening adventure and whiffs. This 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 turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn= B09Z2MTCZD0008561249
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|authorisbn=John Henry PhillipsB0C47LV1PC|title=The SearchFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54|genre=HistoryLiterary Fiction|summary=Archaeology cannot be childCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's play, when you're scraping in the dirt looking to find what joke? And if you can findcould, often knowing there is the question should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book make it? Or is a case of the latterquestion if you did, as our author promises to locate would it land? The catch is that the topic of the titular searchanswer for both could well be.... no. And he really hasn ''Fragility''t made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, set as the target might not exist any more – ohcity of Portland, and it's underwaterOregon, when he cannot dive. Latching on cautiously begins to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find emerge from the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, restrictions imposed during the vast majority of whom perished. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Fiona Longmuir1529431735|title=Looking for EmilyThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet LilyIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. She and her mother have just moved from He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a city to decade. The return has come about because he's had a tiny seaside town called Edgeletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and everyone from said mother hasn't long to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friendslive. It turns out that she doesn't have s hard to feel any say in the matter, for while pretending sympathy when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she Hopkins is unaware her neighbourabducted, Sam, is just about stripped to make herself known, his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a big waystolen Ford Sierra. But where does Emily come Is it a warning from? Well, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of the most mundane objects, in some converted houses behind Spanish gang or a most unassuming door, in a place calling itself 'The Museum of Emily'. Sam is completely unaware of this 'museum', too, leaving the two girls problem closer to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behind the intrigue...|isbn=1839942754home?
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|isbnauthor=B09XZMCDVFAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Stories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F WalkerThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
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|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=''A news vendor Eli is crying out a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the headlines wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the middle of evening a helper at the night; a wheelchair user loses touch dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; lovely gran, too – for there is a stickler for correct grammar goes back generation missing in time the family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to correct an iconic quote; the titular race, a volunteer teacher proves globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the ideal person to have around world in the company of a lawless village; magical beast. This has made the new boy on race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the pub football team eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is very useful to dare to enter what he most hates, with his feet, and awfully familiar…'' This collection the sole aim the prize of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot to offer magic at the eclectic reader. Tying them together is end – the idea that remarkable and strange, even miraculous, things can happen only thing to ordinary people. And that ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form and tone varies so this little treasury of short fiction is never boring and you're never quite sure what's coming nextpossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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