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|author=Yancey WilliamsTom Percival|title=Crosshairs of the Devil|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the DeepThe Wrong Shoes
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|summary=In Will's life is difficult, in a word, richmultitude of ways. There He is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildseabullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', British but way west, beyond he has the Scillies. There are troll people on it, wrong shoes because his dad can't work and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch doesn't have enough money for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watchermost basic of things like food, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the Hidden Landscollege, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science was working a cash-in -hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his head to worry about such local yokel superstitionsmum and dad are separated, and AndreweWill's foundling daughterlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, who washed up out he still has a tiny amount of the sea one day eleven years agohope. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself He is good at art, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into clings to the world moments of protecting their islandjoy when he is drawing, that feel like it or nota light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=17884523721398527122
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|author=Erling KaggeSylvie Cathrall|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeLetter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre= LifestyleScience Fiction|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved There are few greater joys than a book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology which lives up to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not minea compelling premise. In my defence, I will say that as a reader of And this type is one of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why)them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{FrontpageErligg Kagge is |isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Norwegian explorer who Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has walked to the South Pole, the North Pole and the summit of Everestsettled into his rustic life at Little Sky. He knows There’s perhaps a thing or two little uncertainty about walking. Howeverthe future of his life with his vet girlfriend, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeysLivia and her daughter Diana, it is instead as moving in together would mean a thoughtful exploration lot of what it means compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to walk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about walking. There whether or not this is no 'contents' page the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and I haven't countedputting the future on the back burner. In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages long. Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|isbn=0241357705
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|authorisbn=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault1786482126|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for heBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a slight boy, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sightdoorway. That's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, and look what happened to her – she died There was no skull. Luckily Was this a ritual killing or unluckily thenmurder? Inevitably, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when JackDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's father also goes AWOLdifficult as Ruth knows, Jack will fluke the ogrebut Nelson doesn's deatht, that she is pregnant with his child as a dwarfish wizard-type result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will make him an apprentice monster hunterbe obvious before long, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs not least because Ruth is prone to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''sudden bouts of sickness...|isbn=0755501942
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|authorisbn=Keith Gray0008551324|title=The ClimbersDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Sully is It's unusual for anyone from the best tree climber in Hardie family to approach the villagepolice. He Neither side likes or has what's known amongst any respect for the kids as 'reach'other. But what happens when a new kid shows up Davie Hardie is struggling in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully a missing person is worried that his status is being threatened, buried and not only thatwho was responsible for her death. This person, that his chance to name the finalhe promises, unnamed is someone big tree in and it will be worth the park by being the first police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to conquer it, might be snatched from transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his handssentence and to get an early parole date. How can Sully stop Nottingham Not much to ask, is it? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even all of his friends, prepared to do so?|isbn=1781129991the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|authorisbn=Emma Carroll0008405026|title=The Week at World's EndA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=First, the title. We're in WorldIt's End Close, sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a mediocre set of houseshalt. Now, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog mother, Helena, and with the boy over the roadher father are dead in their bed. But we could also be at World Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's End, because something taking a great chunk about the positioning of the fun away is the fact bodies that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking offmakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded What looked as America tries though it was going to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, be an open-and not much else -shut case is able to make the news. That said, Vie has news of her own – Anna, now a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shedcomplex double murder. Anna has, Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Close, said sheRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'd locate something she wanted and leaves boss, failed to leave, and implied her life was at riskUna Burt) are less convinced. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=0571364438
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|authorisbn=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston0571379877|title=Julia and the SharkThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=JuliaEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, our preRobert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-teen heroineobsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been packed off in love with her parents Stanza since their university days - and their cat from the family home in SW England he's drunkenly confided how he feels to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islandsRobert. Here be Vikings, Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that kind of Scottish island. Dad a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is going left to be automating stumble upon the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career two of them kissing in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland sharka dark passageway. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789
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|author=Freya SampsonJo Callaghan|title=The Last LibraryLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=I am always When a little nervous to start man is found crucified on the top of a story about a libraryhill in Nuneaton, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the thought of case alongside her sidekick, the incoming cardigan-wearingAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, hair in having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a bun, cat-owning, glasses on second body found crucified a chain stereotypes! In this storyfew days later, the main character, June, does put her hair in Kat is suddenly struggling with a bun, potential serial killer and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once very high profile case that draws a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the book out lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the window, because I found I was interested case in Junetime, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and why she lived as she did. Her mum used to be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sickpotentially, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home to take care out of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at the local library. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the change.career?|isbn=183877369X139851120X
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|isbn=00083709821399613073|title=Rock Paper ScissorsMoral Injuries|author=Alice FeeneyChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Amelia Wright is forty-two Olivia, Laura and it was Anjali met on the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a weekend away in quarter of a converted chapel in Scotlandcentury. Her husbandOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, Adam, isn't so keen on which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the ideagroup and she becomes a GP. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: heWhen we first meet them they's re at a screenwriter drug and healcohol-fuelled party and it's never shy of making it clear going to Amelia end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that hewill impact the three friends. This time, it'd prefer s their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to spend time with the novels hebring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's hoping re unlikely to adapt than with herthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin- stripe suit and working with his background is the dogsEast End, many of whom have been abusedwhere he was familiar with violence, is never easypoverty and injustice. Still There was no posh public school on his CV - she's won but he had been to the weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and then doing the same thing he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to come back be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a couple of days latercard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|authorisbn=Doug Johnstone1035021803|title=The Great SilenceAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=For those who, like me, havenIt't come across s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the Skelfs before, IEnglish country village where she grew up. She'll risk s back now because of a quick synopsis of whorequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isnformer mentor and Carole't some fantastic creatures close friend, though it sounds as though it ought to beArthur Crockleford, it is merely the surname of a family of undertakers. Undertakers dead and private investigators. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinctcircumstances seem suspicious, she married a scot and ended up helping to run say the least. Arthur was the Edinburgh undertaking firm that reason why Freya had not been in back to the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jennyvillage: Arthur, 46she feels, is haunted by let her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisonerdown badly. And grand-daughter is about Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to graduate with be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a first-class physics degree cafe, met and join married James (on the academic staff next termrebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1913193837
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|isbn=1901514978AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=ThereAll Tomorrow's a Problem With DadFutures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Carlos AlbaBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=Life ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is different for George Lovelace and he canwhat happens after you't really understand whyre eighteen. He's always done everything he ought to: steady workerWell, husband and father - and I must confess that there have been more than a father who was always there for school plays and sports daysfew decades of technology in my lifetime. So why is he never quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why is someone I've kept up reasonably well with such a what's advantageous to me but I'goodm left with the feeling that it'' mind unable to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breaths all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly -taking gaffes? quite frightening. ItOf course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's almost become a cliche these days to suggest that m reading someone who is a little different is knows what they'on re talking about or the spectrum', but George Lovelace has all the symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: high-functioning autismlatest 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=Louise CandlishSunny Singh|title=The HeightsHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that dayhas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. She's Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, visiting there is Sam, a client wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for a lighting consultation when she spies him the residents who are still alive in a building across the way. There are lots of thingshotel, lots of peoplehe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, you might see when you look and keeps on venturing out across London, but this isnof her room to try to capture what't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other days happened through her photography. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for Although they only ever talk over two yearsthe phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murderthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1471183483086154742X
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|isbn=00084217141529153298|title=Mrs MarchThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Virginia FeitoJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George MarchIt's most successful novel to date1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last pageA woman? I mean, honestly...) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morningWell, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the breadthey've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared'but isndoesn't this the first time hesound quite so frightening. Miv's based a character on you?upset because she'' She mentioned s overheard that Johanna, her father wants to move the principal character had 'her mannerismsfamily 'Down South'. Perhaps this would not have matteredWhen you're from Yorkshire, except for the fact that Johanna Down South is the whore of Nantes - ''a weakfrightening, plainforeign place, detestablebest avoided. For Miv, patheticthe move would mean leaving her best friend, unlovedSharon, unloveable wretchand she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=John Boyne1398524085|title=The Echo ChamberHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. 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=1035906708
|title=Diva
|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined We tend to think of Maria Callas as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but then his author wife is getting her kicks with father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withStates. They have three children, who are a sad When she was back in Athens -sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtuesupposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice -signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save she was raised under the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and Nazi occupation by a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, mother who mercilessly exploited her and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, howevermade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, is the fact this is bloody funnyJackie.|isbn=0857526219
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|isbnauthor=0241989094Christopher Edge|title=The Perfect Life|author=Nuala EllwoodBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=In August 2018 we meet Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a young woman called Imogen and sheplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and telling many, many snacks! However, as the estate agent movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about her three childrenthis new film format is very different, Lavender, Freddie and Barclaythey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. The boys are a bit of a handful which But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is why shegoing on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''s making this trip on her ownI can hear the song of the sea. The house would be perfect for themcall of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
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|author=Darren ShanJames Sherwood Metts|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Planet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=SoThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. Having done the impossible AI and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Cryptautomation have been proceeding apace, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has ''grop'often replacing jobs they' re paid to think about. But before do and other tasks that, soireestook time to accomplish. Soirees! ArchieJust as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, much new ways to Inez's amusementspend time, doesn't even know what one of those isalong came an awful pandemic. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathedLife was pretty much shut down and, even after an uncomfortable encounter along with Kurtisit, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in all the first volume of this seriesmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |isbn=B093J9TF731736128426
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|isbnauthor=B07GZ81J7CMatthew Tree|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter CottonWe'll Never Know
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|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you different from his father, a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake drunk and even those chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of us his artistic passions all failed miserably and who have a phobia about snakes are going had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to warm to him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and immediately became part of the family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakesset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaA G Slatter|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. But reallyThis secret magic of my own, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions mine, at last. I just as we have want to learn about everything else when we are smallenjoy it for a while. Why shouldn't potty training ' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as much fun such since she was young, her training asa steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, sayEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, learning about why the sun town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the moon take turns in dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the sky? Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn= B098BJZYHH1803364548
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|isbn=17876344931529900360|title=All Her Fault|author=Andrea Mara|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on a play date. She was concerned that he didn't have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacob's mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nanny.}}{{FrontpageGhost Orchid|author=Claire North|title=Notes from the Burning AgeJonathan Kellerman
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|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=At its core It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thrillers fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, with as many double crosses, interrogations Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with -shut cases which didn't need the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that help of a new and timely genrepsychologist only worked for a while. Finally, cli-fiit was Robin, or climate change fiction. NorthDelaware's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuelsman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, weapons though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of mass destruction, intensive farming)a remote property in Bel Air. There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, He was the Brotherhood, aims heir to master these processes no matter the cost an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the EarthItalian.|isbn=0356514757 But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)1529395224|title=Girls Who LieLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. You think, seeing on the map that weHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn're set t want to follow in Akraneshis footsteps, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from particularly when he considered the capital city, strain that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual smallbeing on-town feel, itcall put on his father's not just in Akranes that our interests lielife. Six months ago When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, vet and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with convinced this was the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked job for the girl back, and a couple of delighted adoptershim. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use Before long, he was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the womanLiverpool University. It hadn's car t - as with so many students - been his dream since he was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote placechild. MeanwhileIf anything, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from he'd wanted to be a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her bodyprofessional footballer. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X
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|isbn=B0925KS87N0861541774|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Neil LancasterSteve Burrows
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and it took some finding - former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an overgrown old cemeteryally, Guy Trueman. It Maik was involved in a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to do, but Tam street brawl - he would later maintain that he was getting old facing a man armed with a knife - and there were things he wanted to dokilled a Ghurka. OnlyInitially, his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he'd found might have planned to murder the grave - man. Now he could be facing the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and his three sons began to worrydeath penalty. Tam Junior, Frankie Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and Dave wouldn't normally go to the police but they weren't certain where their father had been and they were worriedhelp Danny at all.
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|author=Emily CritchleyAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small FlowersPerfect Passion Company|rating=34.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I was intrigued by the plot, liked the design of the book, and thought the author's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} {{Frontpage|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good Neighbours|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street Perfect Passion Company is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved dating agency in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rockerEdinburgh, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends run by Ness and their kids have settled in, and it's operating as an alternative to all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up the online apps in the park across the way. It's providing a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Streetmore personal, the worst is yet to cometailored service.|isbn=1789098211}}{{Frontpage|author=Lisa Thompson|title=The Small Things|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Although Anna Ness has friends at school, asked her younger cousin Katie if she feels like she never really fits in. Her family don't have enough money to let her do could come and look after school activitiesthe business, and so she feels like her life at home as Ness is boring in comparison planning to theirs. When take a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked trip to Canada to partner her, but things are complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can't attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with the class by using get away for a robotwhile. Can Anna overcome the challenge Katie is coming out of making friends a break up with someone through a robotbad boyfriend, and is she even interesting enough so jumps at the chance to be a good friend come home to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterpartsEdinburgh...'' ''We Need And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came firstIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with her father joining them latersome new characters who quickly begin to charm. The family was hardKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-workingmaking, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, principled and determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was there's always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. For Oteghaher very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, education meant a scholarship to lend a private school in London and then a place at New College, Oxford.hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=17876318690811771741|title=The Rising TideInstaKnits for Baby|author=Sam LloydMelissa Leapman
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|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=Lucy LockeMelissa Leapman's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a good and decent life collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the aftermathfire' variety. SheThe projects are divided by the time they's now married ll take to Daniel, who cocomplete -owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beachless than five hours, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billiefive to ten hours, Lucy's daughter ten to twenty hours and Fin, the child she had with Danielmore than twenty hours. They have financial difficultiesAll the projects are attractive, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner modern and so-called best frienduseable. Nick and Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a childrenI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects's home but it's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concernedme being picky.
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|author=Hannah PeckDean Koontz|title=Kate on the CaseThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Meet Kate, although I got the impression she'd rather be Benny is having a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at thatterrifically bad day. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idolHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''his house gets trashed. Armed with Oh, and someone has delivered a plucky fatherreally weird, that bookdisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and her talking mouse called Rupertit's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, she Benny is all equipped to manage a train ride to the Arctic, very last person to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonksdeserve all this bad luck. However, this He is a train ride with a difference, nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for on board Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a greedy-seeming harridan and her catnew friend, a thief – and two glowing eyesbad weather friend called Spike, shining who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from the darkness in nefarious forces for being a blink-and-you'll-miss-them stylegood person. ItSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's definitely enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a case for a new young investigative journalist..waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=184812970X1662500491
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|author=Darren ShanAdam Stower|title=Archibald Lox Murray and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Bun
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|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our heroMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, Archiewell, back in London in the world whatever takes his fancy next of the Borntwo. It But he's a bad magician's not been easycat, explaining to so his foster parents where he's favourite bun has beenturned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, or slipping back and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Mergeregular back garden, but Archie has done his best...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, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Benone much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's clock tower turned up and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.'ll have to do…|isbn=B093H8DPQZ0008561249
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|isbn=0571365884B0C47LV1PC|title=My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in AnxietyFragility|author=Georgia PritchettMosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=AutobiographyLiterary Fiction|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always been anxiousCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, even as a child. She would worry about whether is the monsters under the bed were comfortable: question should you make it was ? Or is the sort of life where question if she had nothing to worry about she you did, would become anxious but such occasions were few and far between. On a visit to a therapist, as an adult, when she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with her it was suggested land? The catch is that she should write it down and the answer for both could well be.... no. ''My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in AnxietyFragility'' is set as the result - or so we are given city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to believe.emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Alex Cotter1529431735|title=The House on the EdgeWinter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Robin Lyons It's February 1991 and Essex is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Metmore surprising. She might have He'd been reinstated but exiled on the whole episode left Costa del Sol as a nasty taste in her mouth. She was now working wanted drug smuggler for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years beforea decade. She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parentThe return has come about because he's home into had a rented house but thereletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone out of his way ill and hasn't long to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young childlive. HeIt's married hard to Nataliefeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, now stripped to his underwear and has sent to a young child but he's still got it watery grave in for Robinthe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.}} Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
