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=='''25 JANUARY23 MAY'''==
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|author=Dean KoontzOnyi Nwabineli|title=QuicksilverAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. HeAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yetincreasingly popular presence on social media, for hewhere she posted every step of Anuri's lived childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, her twenties and now she is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject slowly trying to regain her confidence and to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuitionget her life back, call it mindsuing her step-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go mother to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash take down the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lamcontent about her. And all this Anuri is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types battling alcoholism, failing to turn up start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and suggest he's of interest to receiving money from themfor doing so. Helped to escape Most importantly, he finds his flight she is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in controldesperately worried about her little sister, who is the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind new focus of burgeoning power – Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and a whole lot more besides.perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=15420198850861546873
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=='''26 JANUARY30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=B09MN1526WB0CYV674G2|title=Blood Games Swanton Morley (DS Nikki Parekh 4John Tanner)|author=Liz MistryDavid Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's the third murder seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in the space of a few weeks mud and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagers. DS Nikki Parekh blood - and DC Sajid Malik are amongst carrying a knife, comes into the first to arrive on police station shouting that he hasn't killed the scene man. A body at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts bottom of Bradford. Only, this time, ita freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's going been stabbed to be differentdeath. The body appears to Nikki to be that DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of her beloved nephew, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdownhis daughter Samantha. It isnYou would think he't Haqib: there are similarities d be grateful for an easy answer but the body is clad in designer clothes words 'perverse' and comes from an obviously monied background'John Tanner' were made for each other. What it does mean though is that Nikki is He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depression- probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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=='''3 FEBRUARY4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Christopher EdgeStuart Douglas|title=Escape RoomLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=IDuring location filming for his 1970've seen junior variants of the s sitcom 'Choose Your Own AdventureFloggit and Leggit' format cover escape rooms – , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the process by which dead body of a character or characters start by being trapped in woman on the edge of a specific location, and have reservoir. The police seem happy to solve problems in order to get their way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such assign it as an adventureaccidental death, with the regular second person narrative replaced by but something about the first. Herewhole thing bothers Lowe, Ami and four other tweenagershe enlists the help of a fellow actor, all new John Le Breton to each other and booked into help him investigate matters further. They travel across the game without any of country during their friendsdays off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, are a team – starting out at link to death during the game's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerSecond World War. But could watching people engage with such is there really a pastime, despite link between the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literaturedeaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=17880079641803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Louie StowellKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=LokiDungeon Runners: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodHero Trial|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet LokiKit. The trickster god has got into trouble again Like most of the people in his world, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – seems, he must be banished. And transformed is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – for Loki is spending the sport where a month both in exile team of warrior, mage and in the physical form of a middlehealer enter specially prepared, century-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parentsold, magical mazes, and Thor has come along as well, race to be the more suaveexit, more popular perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and more successful brother of the twopoints they grant you along the way. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation Unfortunately for Kit, and get his moral compass pointing the right way againonly thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, or elseeaten, and to prove it a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to write the text we read in goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a sentient notebookteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that is able to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progress. But Loki is the kind of god who insists how could he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going possibly hope to be a walk in the park...rightsucceed?|isbn=14063997521839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs1635866847|title=The Language of FoodLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionLifestyle|summary=Eliza Acton It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an eggbook for you. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a local woman with picture of a troubled home lifeslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. Together, they test, craft, refine I don't eat cakes and reshape desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the world of domestic cookerybook, reinventing which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the recipe book and changing I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the face corners of cookery writing foreverpages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1398502227
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=='''3 MARCH4 JULY'''==
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|author=Marcus SedgwickMax Boucherat|title=WrathThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meet FitzWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, a young Scottish lad full of frustration mother at himself. Lockdown is only work, just overan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and he should be free to do what he wants, to on her lonesome. What could possibly go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot wrong? Snuggled in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school bandblanket fort, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with has one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world -building, critter-collecting game that is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music shehit in Lori's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie world. But first Lori has gone missing he cana tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn'tfind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering.. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=18009008990008666482
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|author=Jennifer SaintJenny Lecoat|title=ElektraBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the story end of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greeceoccupation. Cassandra During the war, ClytemnestraJean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and Elektra are all bit players in the story her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often British finally free the silent women have Channel islands from the most compelling stories Nazis, and the most extreme furieswar is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=19130978541846976537
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