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|isbnauthor=0008506337Tom Percival|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Georgina MooreWrong Shoes
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard OWill'Leary was all-consumings life is difficult, apparently on both sidesin a multitude of ways. Margo He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was just sixteen when they fell working a cash-in love. Richard was twenty-one hand job on a building site and described by Margo's mother as 'had an older man'accident. Her parents worried Throw into that Richardmix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a glittering careertiny amount of hope. In He is good at art, and clings to the eventmoments of joy when he is drawing, they eloped and Richard took her away from that feel like a light at the Isle end of Wighta long, dark tunnel. Margo did go |isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to Oxford and went on the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to become a well-respected journalistcompelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The couple had three childrenThere’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: Rachel, Imogen does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and Sasha. her daughter? Life was lived For the moment they’re enjoying life in London the present and holidays were spent at Sandcove, putting the family home future on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''. Then Richard left themback burner.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1786482126|title=Expectant The Janus Stone (Detective Sam ShephardDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the start bones of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. ? Suddenly she Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, working with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfDCI Harry Nelson. Finding herself put on desk dutiesIt's difficult as Ruth knows, which she rails againstbut Nelson doesn't, that she just can't let is pregnant with his child as a result of the case go and she starts to follow every thread one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to uncover what's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry sudden bouts of just what might happen nextsickness.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbn=15291259600008551324|title=Unnatural HistoryThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jonathan KellermanNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=Donny Klement was a photographerIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. Well, it was Adonis, actually, but Donny had stuck unless But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he got Danny but whichever - it's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bed. Three shots were placed neatly through his heartprepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. The PAThis person, Mel Gornickhe promises, is distraught someone big and it falls will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to psychologist Alex Delaware an open prison to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as he tries serve the remainder of his sentence and to establish what's happenedget an early parole date. Donny had just finished a series of photographs called ''Not much to ask, is it? The Wishersnew Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'. He'd taken eight homeless people off s even prepared to do the streets other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and asked them anyone who works with him is kept well away from what they'd really like to be. They were then dressed up as their fantasy, photographed and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollarss happening.
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|authorisbn=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson0008405026|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver StreetA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=JaydenIt's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and unicorns of the world, for exampleinvestigation ground to a halt. Aisha is addicted to Now, her new tabletmother, Helena, where she can see videos of anything that might be out thereand her father are dead in their bed. The problemInitially, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there' themselves, exploring s something about the outside world positioning of Hackney, Londonthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a scienceWhat looked as though it was going to be an open-minded, educational purpose, and with -shut case is now a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existedcomplex double murder. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including Kerrigan is convinced that the one Aisha thinks sheexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyleboss, Una Burt) are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join inless convinced. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=0241573483
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|isbn=19138396560571379877|title=Let's Celebrate Being DifferentThe Kellerby Code|author=Lainey DeeJonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Todd was excited about spending the weekend Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his grandmotherupper-class friends, not least because she made the best beetle juiceRobert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He packed two pairs of dungarees 's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and his favourite hat entitled and then gathered together his button collection uses Edward to show his grandmotherrun errands for him. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted 's drunkenly confided how he feels to make new friendsRobert. At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because a relationship had begun between them but he looked different's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When 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's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=17873010361399613073|title=What July KnewMoral Injuries|author=Emily KochChristie Watson|rating=4.5
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|summary=When we Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years oldday of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. She's Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a careful, meticulous childcardiothoracic surgeon. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who Laura is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July's mother, a perfectionist and any hint that the conversation a trauma doctor. Anjali is heading that way will lead to the necessity free spirit of the group and she becomes a LessonGP. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and heit's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visiblegoing to end in tragedy. JulyWe don's teacher is concerned and brings up t know who suffered the possibility of abuse with tragedy or the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the schoolthree friends. This time, has he not? The playground wouldnit't have been resurfaced but for hims their teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Lucy Ashe0241636604|title=Clara and OliviaThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=The year is 1933. The place? SadlerIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's Wellsre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Ballerinas Clara A hoodie and Olivia are sistersjeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, twins where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no less. Identical posh public school on the outside his CV - but not, we learn, on he had been to the insideLondon School of Economics. And not on stage, either. Because there's Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a lot that builds a dancerfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Some things He also realised that can most rich people expect poor people to be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the classroomstupid. A stage presence It was his ability at what was, a charmessentially, a ''joie de vivre''card game which got him an internship with Citibank. The difference between a hard-worker Eventually, and this turned into permanent employment as a startrader.|isbn=0861544080
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|isbn=00084544931035021803|title=All the Dangerous ThingsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Stacy WillinghamC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnIt't really slept for a year - well, apart from s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the odd occasion when English country village where she lost track of time or drifted off for a momentgrew up. ItShe's back now because of a year since request for help from her sonbeloved aunt, MasonCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing dead and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping incircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. In that year she's done everything she could Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to raise awareness about the casevillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. She does interviews and when we meet herEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, she's just been has not felt able to TrueCrimeCon where be near the man or pursue the profession she gave a keynote presentationloved. On After the plane backsplit, she's approached by worked in a podcastercafe, Waylon Spencermet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who points out that she could do a podcast was murdered) and Freya and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferencesJames have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy GreeneAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Fritz All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and KurtStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=We start with ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the pair shape of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when come.'' I've heard it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbourssaid that 'technology' is what happens after you' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switchre eighteen. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's willWell, and instead I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them technology in with open armsmy lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what'Kristallnachts advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did s all the roundgetting away from me. Some of it is - frankly -ups of Jewsquite frightening. These in their turn leave Of course, I could research the younger Kurt at home with his mother possibilities and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the stone quarry therelatest conspiracy theorist. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could come about…|isbn=024156574Xunderstand.
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|isbnauthor=1529421241Sunny Singh|title=Stay Buried|author=Kate WebbHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=DI Matt Lockyer The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that it's actually site, there is Sam, a cold case unit wartime photographer and there are just two of them doing Abhi, the jobhotel manager. Lockyer's not unduly worriedAs Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, though although heforms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable of something betterhappened through her photography. It was a bit of a shock when he got Although they only ever talk over the phone call from Hedy Lambert: she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years ago. She's keen their friendship grows as Abhi tries to see him help her keep safe and they both wait to tell him that see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF1529153298|title=Just LookingThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Matthew TreeJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian General Fiction|summary=It was the summer of 2035 's 1979 and on a cruise ship in MarseillesMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and the end of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a man! honestly...) HeShe's watching the tornado - theynot what're more common in Europe these days - thats worrying Miv's keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierrefamily, a French journalist in his thirtiesthough. Women have been disappearing. He writes for a relatively new paperWell, they've been murdered, the right-wing but to have 'disappeared'La Tribune Gauloisedoesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv' and hes upset because she's interesting if a little wordy on subjects such as overheard that her father wants to move the difference between family 'FranceDown South' and . When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the Frenchmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. His partner, Helen, whoShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's English and Jewish, keeps him in check stopped talking - to some extentanyone.
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|isbn=057137493X1398524085|title=The Other HalfHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Charlotte VassellNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''The room Charlotte Salter was full of the sort of people expected at her husband''Tatler'' thinks you should know.'' ''The Other Half'' is the story of two men, both with what looks like the same surname. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir to a baronetcy and his thirtieth s fiftieth birthday party is a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Townbut never turned up. Think Bollinger Her children, sons Niall, Paul and cocaineOllie and her daughter, Etty. His surname is pronounced 'Beecham'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police and is biare all worried but - strangely -racial. His surname her husband, Alec, is pronounced as you see itnot. The two encounter each other when CaiusShortly afterwards, out for a runEtty and Greg, stumbles across find the body of Clemmie OGreg'Haras father, Duncan Ackerley, Rupert's girlfriendin the river. Rupert thought that she It was being deliberately late an easy assumption for his partythe police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. She was dead under a bushThe 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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|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1035906708|title=White RiotDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics there's always the danger We tend to think of making it too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture the spirit of the momentonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. It takes a truly talented writer Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to be able 'Callas' to capture make it more manageable in the zeitgeist of a particular event or era of political historyStates. Austerity Britain, the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – When she was back in Athens - supposedly so much of what is, and has been, written in that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven Nazi occupation by time to be frothy a mother who mercilessly exploited her and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisive. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly made no secret of her preference for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature)her elder sister, the best writing about current political events is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective viewJackie.|isbn= 1529423376
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|author=Heather FawcettChristopher Edge|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of FaeriesBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie loreLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, and she a place that has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia nickname of faeries'The Black Hole'. Whilst she is brilliant at research All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and speaking to faeriesmany, she is not so good with people. many snacks! So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of HrafvsnikHowever, having somehow offended as the village matriarchmovie starts, she they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is not sure what she has donevery different, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emilythey are swept up into an adventure they couldn's frustrationt even imagine. But why is he here? What does he want? And as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what exactly on earth is going on with ? Will they ever get back to the faerie folk around Hravsnikcinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=03565191201839942738
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|isbnauthor=1848458436Rachel Greenlaw|title=Just the Nicest Couple|author=Mary KubicaCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The whole thing has spiralled out call of controlthe deep, turning into someone I'm notthe answering beat in my heart.''
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|isbnauthor=1914585402James Sherwood Metts|title=Dashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F RossPlanet Storyland
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] Things have been a couple of years back bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and affecting it wasother tasks that took time to accomplish. It was a grippingJust as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, emotionally wounding readnew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and rereading my review of , along with it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise , all the many daily social interactions on itwhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=178563335XMatthew Tree|title=Sea Defences|author=Hilary TaylorWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicarTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, sitting in on a PCC meeting drunk and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishionerwho had endless crises of self confidence. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling So Tim applied himself to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the vicar, Gailhis studies, but then she's been doing the job for more cultivated his abilities rather than thirty years. Rachel his daydreams and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy set himself high but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missingachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=Hadeer ElsbaiA G Slatter|title=The Daughters Briar Book of Izdiharthe Dead|rating=45
|genre=Fantasy
|summary= Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters There's a part of Izdiharme that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' explores Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the lives of two women who could not be more differentworld, yet find themselves fighting for lies Silverton; a town under the rights protection of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper classBriar's, wishes to attend a family of witches who protect the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities town and then join the militarywider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, but instead she Ellie Briar is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure first non-witch to provide be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her family training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and maintain their reputationpotions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for womentown's rightsleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Giorgina also happens As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to be in love communicate with Nico. What follows is the dead, putting her at the heart of a story maelstrom of an unjust societychaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, filled with hypocrisy Ellie must decide who to trust and crueltydetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstaclesis under threat.|isbn=03565204711803364548
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|authorisbn=Sarah Todd Taylor1529900360|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Spoonful of SpyingThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=[[Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for Trouble by Sarah Todd Taylor|Last time around]], Alice Eclair It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had to prove herself as a spy been badly injured but he felt responsible and as a master at all things French and fancy and fondanteven after Alex recovered, as the only way Sturgis was reluctant to save the day involved being an expert baker and icer ask for his help on the French railwaysdifficult cases. Here, we start on a bateauHis assertions that there were only open-mouche in Paris, and even though the espionage isn-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a complete success it proves to Alice and her handlers that things are afootwhile. And there will never be more feet than at the WorldFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's Fairpartner, reviving who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the huge expo involvement was something that gave the city man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the Eiffel Tower and this time showing all her interwar glories off to the worldswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. Once again Alice will have He was the heir to present the front an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the world of being a humble yet world-class cake decorator, while seeking out cluesItalian. At stakeBut which of them was the primary target? Pioneering flight technology that the enemy just cannot be allowed to smuggle out…|isbn=1839940972
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|authorisbn=Amanthi Harris1529395224|title=Beautiful PlaceLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Padma, Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a young Sri LankanGP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, has returned to particularly when he considered the Villa Hibiscus strain that being on -call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the southern coast opportunity of her home countrydoing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. This is a place she spent her formative yearsBefore long, he was at Liverpool University. It is not hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a place she was born into, but the one she thinks of as homechild. How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home If anything, and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the he''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails d wanted to escape her past and much like the musical score of be a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villaprofessional footballer.|isbn=1784631930
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|authorisbn=Nigel Baines0861541774|title=A Tricky Kind Nye of Magic|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, and named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to be. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|isbn=1444960261}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1542037239|title=Death in HeelsPheasants|author=Kitty MurphySteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinDCI Domenic Jejeune's drag scene, ''Death in Heels'' tells the story of Fi McKinnery close friend and her best friendformer colleague, RobynDanny Maik, who is about has taken a short holiday in Singapore to debut as drag queen Mae Bmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. What is meant to be Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a night of excitement soon takes knife - and he killed a downward turn when fellow drag queenGhurka. Initially, Eve, takes he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the stage to mock Mae Bman. As if the night Now he could not get any worse, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet the drag community, and be facing the Guards, accept it as an accidentdeath penalty. Fi takes it upon herself Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to solve the mystery help as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperany interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbnauthor=1800465270Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Lensky Connection|author=Conrad DelacroixPerfect Passion Company
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri GrozkyThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, it's June 1995 run by Ness and he's at operating as an alternative to all the Serafimov Cemetry online apps in St Petersburg. He's providing a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timurmore personal, whose death was drug-relatedtailored service. Valeri Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and Timur's father, Ketolook after the business, as Ness is also planning to take a pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's determined trip to Canada to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's deathget away for a while. Within a matter Katie is coming out of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link break up with Natassja Petrovskayaa bad boyfriend, a journalistand so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. She's determined And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to expose any 44 Scotland Street and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to be about her own safetycharm. To Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in herabilities, heand there's a good source. For himalways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, it's to lend a way to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=13997022890811771741|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Louise PennyMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=After Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a harsh winter, the tiny Canadian village collection of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of springknits from toys to blankets. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Inspector JeanSome will be quick knits -Guy Beauvoir others are of the Sûreté du Québec'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. Gamache had offered help to a young woman after The projects are divided by the murder of her mother: hetime they'd been ll take to complete - less certain about her charismatic brotherthan five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. For Jean-GuyAll the projects are attractive, it had always been the other way aroundmodern and useable. Now theyI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 're both in the village and neither can fathom whatsocial-media-worthy projects's happening. Armand will soon find but that they're not just in Three Pines but in his home and in his lifes me being picky.
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|isbnauthor=B0BHR8KWSKDean Koontz|title=Dukkha|author=Martin HydeThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorParanormal|summary=Sam wakes up chained in Benny is having a basementterrifically bad day. He rails against loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his captor house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the injustice of thing that has trashed his imprisonment? Why? ''Why?'' But of coursehouse! The thing is, he knows whyBenny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. Sam He is an erstwhile drug dealer a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who escaped this down and dirty life by going has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a retreat and emerging as a neophyte Buddhist monkgood person. Recently returning Spike is going to join the community in his old neighbourhoodtake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he knew his past would be hard to escape but he hadn, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny't imagined it exploding into this new life in quite such a violent fashions wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=B09XWSXSKYAdam Stower|title=Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee Murray and Joanne GrodzinskiBun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Frederick (or FredMurray is supposed to be a humble, but never Freddytidy and friendly cat, please) couldn't one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep. A tuneand, well, rather like whatever takes his fancy next of the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in his mindtwo. It happened every time But he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, hes a bad magician's ten now cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All the catflap they do is tell both use can chuck them out, not into the timeregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. And This time isn't good for anything...'' And that round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was why , to be honest, but he was looking at the clock beside the bed. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to go s turned up and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=3756228711B0C47LV1PC|title=CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'Fragility|author=Hans BodmerMosby Woods
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|genre=HistoryLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The history of catch is that the development of IT answer for both could fill books of several hundred pageswell be.... no.''
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|isbn=15293566601529431735|title=The SanctuaryWinter Visitor|author=Emma HaughtonJames Henry|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It was the quiet which woke Zoey up - or's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, rather, the absence of the noise which was a constant in New York. Here it was silent and made Bruce Hopkins' return all the heat was overwhelmingmore surprising. When she looked out of He'd been exiled on the window all she could see was the desertCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. How did she get here? Zoey was houseThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-sitting for Uncle Dan and his two Manx cats and she remembered wife, saying that she'd been out with Franny s ill and Rocco last nighthasn't long to live. She knew that she It'd had quite a lot s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to drink but how could she have got his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the desert from New York? boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. She had no memory of getting on Is it a plane but as she thought back, warning from a memory of sirens, flashing lights and of being pushed into Spanish gang or a car snagged on the edge of her mind.}}problem closer to home?
