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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=19164599430008517061|title=Squeakily BabyDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Beth WebbStig Abell
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Much as mothers love their babiesFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, there's something they all dread - a squeakily babyhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. He's so tired but he can't There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or won't - go does Livia move to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and ''wails''. her daughter? The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the waves sing ''hush, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have future on the sound perfectlyback burner. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The mermaids join Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'la lou, la layapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn' And for t, that she is pregnant with his child as a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyesresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to happen nextsudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=Robin Stevens0008551324|title=The Ministry of Unladylike ActivityDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=May Wong is a long way It's unusual for anyone from her the Hardie family in Hong Kongto approach the police. She’s stuck Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in her school, Deepdean, prison and desperate he's prepared to get away, and do something useful to help end tell the police where the war body of a missing person is buried and to get homewho was responsible for her death. She just knows that she would make the perfect spy! And when she finds herself turned away by the MinistryThis person, she takes matters into her own handshe promises, along with a boy she meets outside is someone big and it will be worth the Ministry, Ericpolice doing what he wants. They both go undercover in a large country house, pretending And what he wants is to be evacuees, in transferred to an attempt open prison to prove that someone there is passing secrets serve the remainder of his sentence and to the Nazisget an early parole date. But there Not much to ask, is a lot more going on in Elysium Hall than either them have imagined, it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and suddenly they find themselves in the middle of a murder scene, with she's even more prepared to try to unravel do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and solveanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=0241429862
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|authorisbn=Peter Owen Jones0008405026|title=Conversations with NatureA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
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|genre=Spirituality and ReligionCrime|summary= One of the comments made when I was offered this beautiful book for review was that itIt's not very longsixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Having read She was never found and the book twice overinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, I'm brought back inescapably to the Spanish proverb that Life may be shortand her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but it is broad. In this case Ithere'm brought to s something about the idea that the length positioning of life is not the point; the point bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is its depthnow a complex double murder. Peter Owen Jones dives deepKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=19129924180571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, 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's 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 a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1919635017Jo Callaghan|title=A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt TownsendLeave No Trace
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|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Solomon Klyne isnWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It't s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a bad ladsecond body found crucified a few days later, so why Kat is he running around London committing suddenly struggling with a series potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of robberies? And how did he learn unwanted attention to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the first one: for his grandmother...case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=13985153881399613073|title=The Boy and the DogMoral Injuries|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)Christie Watson
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|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=First of allOlivia, it was Laura and Anjali met on the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami first day of medical school and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdowntheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. The result was complete and utter devastationOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. The deaths were uncountable, Laura is a perfectionist and the loss of livelihoods was widespreada trauma doctor. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down Anjali is the list free spirit of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered group and she becomes a dog outside GP. When we first meet them they're at a convenience storedrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. He wasnWe don't a dog person but know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the convenience store ownerthree friends. This time, it's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped intheir teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=15291530500241636604|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Tim BensonGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary=Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming If you were to seem more and more like bring up an adrenaline sportimage of a city banker in your mind, I was nudged towards you''Britain's Best Political Cartoons re unlikely to think of 2022''someone like Gary Stevenson. Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through A hoodie and jeans replaces the year: pin-stripe suit and his background is the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 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 31 August 2022the London School of Economics. Who Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can imagine only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1035021803|title=The Dark RoomAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone was dead, because youIt'd watched them die several s twenty years ago, but then you come across a photograph that seemed since Freya Lockwood has been back to show their murder happened in a different place and time? This is what happens to Leonard in this storythe English country village where she grew up. He is an ex-crime reporter She's back now because of a request for a newspaperhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and since leaving journalism heCarole's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds oldclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, undeveloped rolls of film is dead and develops them in his own dark room at homethe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. One of these photographs turns out Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to show the murder scene of a young woman he met some years agovillage: Arthur, she feels, and who he ''thought'' he had watched die let her down badly. Even though they were in front of him one night business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a hotel. He'd felt guilty ever since that nightcafe, met and lost everything because married James (on the rebound from the love of it - his fiancee her life, who was murdered) and Freya and his career - but James have now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died the night she was with him, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535Xdivorced.
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|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Natasha Hastings Benjamin Greenaway and Alex T SmithStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I'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 technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost FairHotel Arcadia
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|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=''The River Thames had frozen to death Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in its sleepan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group.'' And thus Hiding from the Frost Fair could happen – people trading terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on the completely iced-over river, like our heroine Thomasina's father with his gingerbread and confectionery shop. Thomasina will be working the Fair too – but her twin brother won'tsite, as he dies in Chapter One. It was a tragedy she feels no small guilt forthere is Sam, and which has made her father a sullen, closed shop – wartime photographer and her bed-bound mother has spoken not a word – not even opened her eyesAbhi, more or less – in the four years since, eitherhotel manager. But into As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the dark, frosted London comes Inigohotel, he forms a bond with supreme magical powersSam who refuses to be cowed by events, and a willingness keeps on venturing out of her room to try to help Thomasinacapture what's happened through her photography. Not Although they only can he introduce her to ever talk over the fantastical Other Frost Fairphone, using the river surface at night for no end of mystical beasts and characters and their happenings, but he has a unique proposal for Thomasina, which will shake friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her world keep safe and they both wait to its coresee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=0008496056086154742X
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|authorisbn=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams 1529153298|title=The Book List of Hope Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
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|genre=Politics and Society General Fiction|summary= The done thing It'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, they've been murdered, but to read a book all have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the way through before family 'Down South'. When you sit down to review it're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. I’m making an exception here For Miv, because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing bookmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, I want and she'll do anything to capture it as it hits meprevent that. And it is hitting me She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. This beautiful book has me in tears. |isbn=024147857X
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|isbn=15295047671398524085|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyNicci French
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Susan Charlotte Salter was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destinationdaughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. She neednShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg't have worried though as she went s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to the home of Mr make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and Mrs Russell, who then committed suicide when he couldn't have been kinder to herstand the guilt. She even had her own room - all 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to herself. Gradually think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she relaxed was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and began only moved to enjoy her lifeAthens when she was thirteen. SheHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when Callas' to make it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on more manageable in the Christmas treeStates. The best surprise happened When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the following morningNazi 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=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)Christopher Edge|title=Red as BloodBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missing, Lucas and his friends are all the evidence seems to point towards her having been kidnapped. The ransom note tells him not to have any contact with the policebooked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, so instead he enlists a place that has the help nickname of Arora'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, a financial investigator. She manages they're looking forward to persuade Flosi that they will need the help lots of the policeexciting films, and she calls her detective friendmany, Danielmany snacks! However, whom she met when he was investigating her sister’s disappearance. Togetheras the movie starts, they start to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearancevery quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, trying not and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to arouse the suspicion of anyonenext, since can they have no idea who figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the kidnappers might becinema, yet the more they uncover, the more confusing things become.and to their real lives?|isbn=19145853211839942738
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|isbnauthor=0861541995Rachel Greenlaw|title=Wolf Pack|author=Will DeanCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on ''I can hear the road north song of Visbergthe sea. She sees blood on The call of the road and a creature on its side near deep, the pine treesanswering beat in my heart. It will turn out to be Bronco'' Rosevear, a Swedish Elkhoundremote and partially forgotten island, who has been attacked by a wolfsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Tuva takes Bronco and his ownerMira, Bengt Nyberglike her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the vetruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Bronco didn't make it but on But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the waywrecking, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missing. Shethey capture the island'd been working at Rose Farm s leader and MoodysonMira's journalist's instincts are soon brought father. Desperate to the fore. Rose Farm save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is now home secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a group of survivalists but back family secret that lies buried deep in 1987 the then ownersea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, Johan Svenson murdered his wifeas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, and his two eldest children and then killed himself. His newborn child, just four weeks old survived. Does this have any connection Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the disappearance future of Elsa Nyberg?her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|author=Alison HughesJames Sherwood Metts|title=FlyPlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This is Things have been a very impressive readbit sticky for 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 it does a lot of what mainstream teen they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and tween fiction still struggles with. Its focus is courtesy starting to think of the first-person narration from Flyother, a secondary school lad with cerebral palsynew ways to spend time, a along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down-on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being a cleaner, a carer while at school, and a bundle of assumptions people lay on him. First they assume that with a broken body comes a broken mind, then they decide he's a maths savant – they even believe they can get away along with calling him Flyit, all the many daily social interactions on which isn't his real name, but everybody just uses itthey depend so heavily.|isbn=15253058321736128426
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|isbnauthor=3791388398Matthew Tree|title=New European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and Pastries|author=Laurel KratochvilaWe'll Never Know
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|genre=CookeryLiterary Fiction|summary=This is probably one of the most unusual baking books I've encountered. It's built around 99 recipes for breadsTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, brioches a drunk and pastries but the recipes are interwoven with some thought-provoking writing on how bread - chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and baking - have changed in the twentieth and early twenty-first centurieswho had endless crises of self confidence. We start with the basics - the equipment you'll need (there's nothing extravagant or indulgent) and the ingredientsSo Tim applied himself to his studies, where the author is particular. You might not have realised that different salts can change the flavour cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and sensation on the tongue of the finished product set himself high but, apparently, they doachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=Andrew GivlerA G Slatter|title=Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Briar Book 1)of the Dead|rating=45
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—itThere's awfula part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a blissful life in exchange for his soulwhile.''
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|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith1529900360|title=Super The GhostOrchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Paragon City has It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been lucky badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to have ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the great Doctor Extraordinaryhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, their very own superhero taking care of themwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Whenever She knew that the evil Captain Chaos has come up with another cunning plan (usually involving a giant robot of some description) Doctor Extraordinary has been there to thwart her mischief and save involvement was something that the dayman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. But one day Two lovers were murdered in the Doctor and swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the Captain are trapped together inside a giant robot that then explodes, heir to an Italian shoe empire and the hero she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the villain are no moreItalian. Or are they…But which of them was the primary target?|isbn=0241470536
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|isbn=B0B7289HKQ1529395224|title=Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along Letting the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture Cat Out of the Soul Bag: The Secret Life of Americaa Vet|author=Kari LoyaSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=TravelAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, by particularly when he considered the way) wanted to spend some time with strain that being on-call put on his father 's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do itjob for him. The decision Before long, he was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015at Liverpool University. They had 73 days to do it It hadn't - slightly less than the recommended time as with so many students - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of been his dream since he was a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it onchild. Merv Loya was 75 years old and If anything, he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer'sd wanted to be a professional footballer.
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|authorisbn=Christopher Bowden0861541774|title=Mr MagentaA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Christopher BowdenDCI Domenic Jejeune's latest novel is close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's lifeshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, carried out by her nephew after she has diedGuy Trueman. The aunt who always provided Maik was involved in a safe harbour street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a little bit charge of indulgence manslaughter but evidence came to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than light that suggested that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems he might have planned to him an obligation murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to find it help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all out. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW
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|isbnauthor=1739593901Alexander McCall Smith|title=22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=''Our future will be The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more complex than we expectedpersonal, tailored service. Instead of flying carsNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets as Ness is planning to track grandma.'' I've got take a couple of confessions trip to Canada to makeget away for a while. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read Katie is coming out of a break up with a few stories bad boyfriend, and then forget so jumps at the chance to return come home to the bookEdinburgh. There's got And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to be a very compelling hook an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's 44 Scotland Street and the technology which takes centre stage along Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with the world-buildingsome new characters who quickly begin to charm. ItKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's human beings who fascinate me: the technology always her very helpful (and the world scape are purely incidental. Sorather handsome) neighbour, William, what did I think of to lend a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=14059511840811771741|title=The Girls Who DisappearedInstaKnits for Baby|author=Claire DouglasMelissa Leapman
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|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Back in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a night outcollection of knits from toys to blankets. As she passed through Some will be quick knits - others are of the darkly-wooded Devil's Corridorlong, a figure appeared cosy afternoons in front of the roadfire' variety. Olivia swerved The projects are divided by the time they'll take to avoid him and the car smashed into a treecomplete - less than five hours, leaving her trapped. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappeared. Ralph Middletonfive to ten hours, who lived in the woods helped her before the police ten to twenty hours and ambulance arrivedmore than twenty hours. But what had happened to Sally ThorneAll the projects are attractive, Tamsin Cole modern and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in the Stafferbury area of Wiltshireuseable. It was thought of as AveburyI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's poor relationme being picky.
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|isbnauthor=3949666079Dean Koontz|title=Noema|author=Dael AkkermanThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=''This Benny is having a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years agoterrifically bad day.'' Maya is a young girl living in a hunter-gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring He loses his job, the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest homehe loses his fiancee, and food is becoming more and more scarcehis house gets trashed. What to do? Can the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller Oh, and someone has delivered a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Lifereally weird, provide solutions? }}{{Frontpage|isbn=194241028X|title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael Pronko|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''You can't put 'good at golf' on your tombstonedisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, can you?'' When we meet Patrick Walsh heand it's outside his family's home in possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the Azabu district of Tokyo, hoping thing that has trashed his key will still work but prepared house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to break in if it doesn'tdeserve all this bad luck. He's there is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to remove his daughtershouse is a new friend, Jenna and Kiria bad weather friend called Spike, and take them back who has been sent to Honoluluhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. It's a quick day tripSpike is going to take care of Benny, with just one purpose in mind. Patrickand will certainly take care of Benny's employed by Nine Dragons Wealth Management and for the past yearenemies, if he's been working in Wyoming because the privacy laws there are conducive to the business he's in. His wife, MiyukiBenny, hasn't been in Wyoming with him and is in the process of divorcing him after photographs sent to her anonymously suggested that Patrick had not been faithful to her. PatrickHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's plan didn't work wild adventure) can figure out and he finds himself on the run in Tokyo with the two girlswho exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=B09SGWCXQ8Adam Stower|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterMurray and Bun
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=Fergus Grigor went out for Murray is supposed to be a run. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Head. Was it suicidehumble, or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall tidy and fall friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his death? Or was fancy next of the two. But he pushed? On balance's a bad magician's cat, it looked like an accident but then so his 'accident' was linked to favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the deaths regular back garden, but into a world of others associated with himfrightening adventure and whiffs. Scott Paterson This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was released after a 'not-proven' verdict meant that Scotland, to be honest, but he's most notorious criminal wasnturned up and he't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigor's last client.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=0989715337B0C47LV1PC|title=Papa on the MoonFragility|author=Marco NorthMosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Can you make a ''Some frogs had gotten into 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 wellbe.... no.''
''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.Fragility'' How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in set as the form city of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musingPortland, turning on a sixpence. And author Marco NorthOregon, who has cautiously begins to emerge from the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to go on.restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|isbn=140639131X1529431735|title=A Practical Present for Philippa PheasantThe Winter Visitor|author=Briony May SmithJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=000837936X|title=The Last Girl to Die|author=Helen Fields|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana ClarkeIt's family moved to TobermoryFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, on which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Isle of Mull, in search of a new lifemore surprising. It was a bit of He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a change from Las Vegas, but the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing wanted drug smuggler for a social life - until she disappeareddecade. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been return has come about because Adrianahe's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque had a letter from Banffhis ex-wife, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagers. Brandon, Adrianasaying that she's twin, was upset ill and surly. Four-year-old Luna just knew that she missed her big sisterhasn't long to live. It took four days's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, but Sadie found Adriana stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in Mackinnon's Cavethe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. She'd been murdered and Is it looked like a ritual killing.warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Silken and Sedge, for all their differences, have Eli is a lot busy lad – by day an apprentice in common. Silken is a girl whose father is the Master Builder of what might be the finest beaver lodge on the Greenriver. Unfortunately she is also a kind of runt figurewondrous library we start by visiting with him, and as in the evening a result is patronised, and given helper at the most tokenistic tasks when it comes to fetching wood dessert cafe his gran owns and shoring the dam upruns. She also stands out Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the unique artistic ability to singfamily. Otters like Sedge singA few short years ago, but he tooEli's parents were both lost to the titular race, as a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the son of world in the lady company of a magical beast. This has made the holt, has pressure on him race anathema to be the pair – but when a bit less feckless and more attentive bad incident at the eatery leads to class. Hea confession from gran, after allEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, will eventually inherit with the sole aim the job prize of keeping magic at the otters safe from end – the wolf that both animal species fear the most, and from dreaded events like a Dark Springonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=15101096250571382231
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