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|isbnauthor=1399702289Sylvie Cathrall|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise PennyLetter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=After There are few greater joys than a harsh winter, the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of springbook which lives up to a compelling premise. But something And this is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir one of the Sûreté du Québec. Gamache had offered help to a young woman after the murder of her mother: he'd been less certain about her charismatic brother. For Jean-Guy, it had always been the other way around. Now they're both in the village and neither can fathom what's happening. Armand will soon find that they're not just in Three Pines but in his home and in his lifethem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=B0BHR8KWSK0008517061|title=DukkhaDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Martin HydeStig Abell
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|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Sam wakes up chained in Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a basement. He rails against his captor and little uncertainty about the injustice future of his imprisonment? Why? ''Why?'' But of courselife with his vet girlfriend, he knows why. Sam is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down Livia and dirty life by going to her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a retreat lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and emerging as a neophyte Buddhist monk. Recently returning relaxing life to join the community move in his old neighbourhood, he knew his past would be hard with Livia or does Livia move to escape but he hadn't imagined it exploding into Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this new is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in quite such a violent fashionthe present and putting the future on the back burner.
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|isbn=B09XWSXSKY1786482126|title=Maestro Orpheus and the World ClockThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Robert Penee and Joanne GrodzinskiElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldnBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury't sleep. A tune, rather like apartments - when they discovered the ticking bones of a clock was playing over and over in his mindchild beneath a doorway. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfatherThere was no skull. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anywayWas this a ritual killing or murder? All they do is tell the timeInevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. And time isnIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't good for anything...'' And , that was why he was looking at she is pregnant with his child as a result of the clock beside the bedone night they spent together some three months ago. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six timesHer condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness. There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?
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|isbn=37562287110008551324|title=CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Hans BodmerNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=It''The history of s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pagesother.But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'' Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that. He has chosen s prepared to tell us about the shortpolice where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, but explosivehe promises, history of is someone big and it will be worth the Control Data Company, CDC, for whom police doing what he workedwants. It And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's a fascinating tale, told in a mixture of technological summary even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and wry anecdoteanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=15293566600008405026|title=The SanctuaryA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Emma HaughtonJane Casey|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It 's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the quiet which woke Zoey up - orinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, ratherHelena, the absence of the noise which was a constant and her father are dead in New Yorktheir bed. Here Initially, it was silent and looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the heat was overwhelming. When she looked out positioning of the window all she could see was the desertbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. How did she get here? Zoey What looked as though it was housegoing to be an open-sitting for Uncle Dan and his two Manx cats and she remembered that she'd been out with Franny and Rocco last night-shut case is now a complex double murder. She knew Kerrigan is convinced that shethe explanation lies in Rosalie'd had quite a lot to drink but how could she have got to the desert from New York? She had no memory of getting on a plane but s disappearance: others (such as she thought backDerwent's boss, a memory of sirens, flashing lights and of being pushed into a car snagged on the edge of her mindUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Christopher Golden0571379877|title=Road of BonesThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
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|genre=Crime
|summary=''The QueenEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, like the sunrise Robert and the tides, was generally a reliable way of marking timeStanza. Robert'' It seemed to begin as s a coldtheatre director. Hardly surprisingHe's also self-obsessed, reallydemanding, as Prince Philip had been suffering handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for a couple of days but seemed to be getting betterhim. Hopefully, the Queen thought, her cold would go the same way. She'd probably caught it from one of the greatEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -grandchildren. Unfortunately, it didnand he't get better and when the doctor called s drunkenly confided how he diagnosed full-blown flu. She and the Duke were due feels to go to Sandringham by train that day but the doctor put his foot downRobert. HeMost men in Robert'd have preferred s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that the queen have a few days' bed rest before venturing out relationship had begun between them but had to be satisfied with the thought that theyhe'd go by helicopter the following day. It was annoying: people would be ready for her today and Her Majesty did s not like to disappoint.}}{{Frontpage|author=Peter Owen Jones|title=Conversations with Nature|rating=5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary= One of the comments made when I was offered this beautiful book for review was that it's not very long. Having read the book twice over, I'm brought back inescapably to the Spanish proverb that Life may be short, but it most men: Edward is broad. In this case I'm brought left to stumble upon the idea that the length two of life is not the point; the point is its depth. Peter Owen Jones dives deepthem kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1912992418
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|isbnauthor=1916459943Jo Callaghan|title=Squeakily Baby|author=Beth WebbLeave No Trace
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Much as mothers love their babiesWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to sleep: insteadthe case alongside her sidekick, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to helpthe AI detective Lock. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hushs their first live case together, hush''having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a sandy beach potential serial killer and you have the sound perfectlya very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The mermaids join Will they be able to solve the case in - ''la loutime, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, la lay...'' And for out of a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyes. Then a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen next.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Robin Stevens1399613073|title=The Ministry of Unladylike ActivityMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
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|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=May Wong is a long way from her family in Hong Kong. She’s stuck in her school, DeepdeanOlivia, Laura and desperate to get away, and do something useful to help end Anjali met on the war first day of medical school and to get home. She just knows that she their friendship would make the perfect spy! And when she finds herself turned away by the Ministry, she takes matters into her own hands, along with keep them inseparable for a quarter of a boy she meets outside the Ministry, Ericcentury. They both go undercover in Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a large country house, pretending bonus when you aim to be evacuees, in an attempt to prove that someone there is passing secrets to the Nazisa cardiothoracic surgeon. But there Laura is a lot more going on in Elysium Hall than either them have imagined, perfectionist and suddenly they find themselves in a trauma doctor. Anjali is the middle free spirit of the group and she becomes a murder scene, with even more to try to unravel and solveGP.|isbn=0241429862}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Solomon Klyne isn When we first meet them they't re at a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? Youdrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it'll have s going to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilersend in tragedy. But I We don'll answer t know who suffered the tragedy or the first one: for his grandmotherconsequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=13985153880241636604|title=The Boy and the DogTrading Game: A Confession|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)Gary Stevenson
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|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=First If you were to bring up an image of all, it was the earthquake, deep a city banker in the ocean flooryour mind, which created you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the tsunami pin-stripe suit and thishis background is the East End, in turnwhere he was familiar with violence, caused the nuclear meltdownpoverty and injustice. The result There was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the loss London School of livelihoods was widespreadEconomics. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but Stevenson is bright - six months after the tsunami extremely bright - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered and he has a dog outside a convenience storefacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment also realised that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa most rich people expect poor people to open be stupid. It was his car door and Tamon the dog jumped inability at what 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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|isbn=15291530501035021803|title=BritainThe Antique Hunter's Best Political Cartoons 2022Guide to Murder|author=Tim BensonC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=HumourCrime|summary=Seeking some light relief from It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''BritainEnglish country village where she grew up. She's Best Political Cartoons back now because of 2022a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Sharp eyes will have noted that we're Arthur was the reason why Freya had not yet through been back to the yearvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022profession she loved. Who can imagine what there will be to come After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the 2023 edition?love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Lisa GrayAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Dark RoomAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=What if you knew someone was dead, because you'd watched them die several years ago, but then you 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come across a photograph .'' I've heard it said that seemed to show their murder happened in a different place and time? This 'technology' is what happens to Leonard in this storyafter you're eighteen. He is an ex-crime reporter for Well, I must confess that there have been more than a newspaper, and since leaving journalism he's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds old, undeveloped rolls few decades of film and develops them technology in his own dark room at homemy lifetime. One of these photographs turns out to show the murder scene of a young woman he met some years ago, and who he I've kept up reasonably well with what'thoughts advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it' he had watched die in front s all getting away from me. Some of him one night in a hotelit is - frankly - quite frightening. He'd felt guilty ever since that nightOf course, I could research the possibilities and lost everything because of it - his fiancee the probabilities and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadnend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they't really died re talking about or the night she was with him, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535Xlatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|author=Natasha Hastings and Alex T SmithSunny 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
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|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 help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the great Doctor Extraordinaryman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, their very own superhero taking care though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of thema remote property in Bel Air. Whenever He was the evil Captain Chaos has come up with another cunning plan (usually involving a giant robot of some description) Doctor Extraordinary has been there heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to thwart her mischief an extremely rich man and save it's not the dayItalian. But one day which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Doctor Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the Captain are trapped together inside a giant robot strain that then explodes, and being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the hero opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the villain are no morejob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. Or are they…?|isbn=0241470536It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.
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|isbn=B0B7289HKQ0861541774|title=Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul Nye of AmericaPheasants|author=Kari LoyaSteve Burrows
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|genre=TravelCrime|summary=Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, by the way) wanted has taken a short holiday in Singapore to spend some time meet up with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do itan old ally, Guy Trueman. The decision Maik was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon involved in a street brawl - all 4250 miles of it he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - in 2015and he killed a Ghurka. They had 73 days Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to do it - slightly less than light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would man. Now he could be for most people who considered taking it onfacing the death penalty. Merv Loya was 75 years old Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimerwouldn'st help Danny at all.
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|author=Christopher BowdenAlexander McCall Smith|title=Mr MagentaThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Christopher Bowden's latest novel The Perfect Passion Company is a patient untangling of dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a seemingly ordinary woman's lifemore personal, carried out by tailored service. Ness has asked her nephew younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after she has died. The aunt who always provided the business, as Ness is planning to take a safe harbour and trip to Canada to get away for a little bit while. Katie is coming out of indulgence to a young nephew had had break up with a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised bad boyfriend, and it seems so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to him an obligation Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to find it all outcharm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW1846976596
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|isbn=17395939010811771741|title=22 Ideas About The FutureInstaKnits for Baby|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Science FictionCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's 'Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'InstaKnits for Baby' I've got gives us a couple collection of confessions knits from toys to makeblankets. ISome will be quick knits - others are of the 'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to long, cosy afternoons in front of the bookfire' variety. ThereThe projects are divided by the time they's got ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to be a very compelling hook ten hours, ten to keep me engagedtwenty hours and more than twenty hours. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's All the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-buildingprojects are attractive, modern and useable. ItI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved itbeing picky.
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|isbnauthor=1405951184Dean Koontz|title=The Girls Who Disappeared|author=Claire DouglasBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=Back in November 1998Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after a night outhe loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. As she passed through the darklyOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-wooded Devilsized object to his home, and it's Corridorpossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, a figure appeared in Benny is the roadvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. Olivia swerved to avoid him and the car smashed into He is a tree, leaving her trappednice person. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappearedA really nice person. Ralph MiddletonSo fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who lived in the woods helped her before the police and ambulance arrivedhas been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. But what had happened Spike is going to Sally Thornetake care of Benny, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in the Stafferbury area will certainly take care of Wiltshire. It was thought of as AveburyBenny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's poor relationwild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=3949666079Adam Stower|title=Noema|author=Dael AkkermanMurray and Bun
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his 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 regular back garden, but into a world of frightening 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=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a story about some things ''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 happened to me about twelve thousand years agothe answer for both could well be.... no.''
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|isbn=194241028X1529431735|title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)The Winter Visitor|author=Michael PronkoJames Henry|rating=54
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|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'You can't put 'good at golfreturn all the more surprising. He' d been exiled on your tombstone, can you?'' When we meet Patrick Walsh the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's outside had a letter from his familyex-wife, saying that she's home in the Azabu district of Tokyo, hoping that his key will still work but prepared to break in if it doesnill and hasn'tlong to live. HeIt's there hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to remove his daughters, Jenna underwear and Kiri, and take them back sent to Honolulua watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. It's Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is a quick busy lad – by day tripan apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, with just one purpose and in mindthe evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Patrick's employed by Nine Dragons Wealth Management and Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the past yearfamily. A few short years ago, heEli's been working in Wyoming because parents were both lost to the privacy laws there are conducive titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the business he's world inthe company of a magical beast. His wifeThis has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, MiyukiEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, hasn't been in Wyoming with him and is in the process sole aim the prize of divorcing him after photographs sent to her anonymously suggested that Patrick had not been faithful to her. Patrick's plan didn't work out and he finds himself on magic at the run in Tokyo with end – the two girlsonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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