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=='''29 OCTOBER23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0349423083Onyi Nwabineli|title=Death and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances BrodyAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Kate Shackleton runs Anuri spent her investigation agency from Batswing Cottagechildhood on display to the world, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and thanks to her housekeeperstep-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Mrs Sugden. Shewhere she posted every step of Anuri's been approached by William Lofthouse of the Barleycorn Brewery in Mashamchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Something Now Anuri is going wrong with his business in her twenties and he'd like Kate she is slowly trying to look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew regain her confidence and rightto get her life back, suing her step-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip mother to Germany before longtake down the content about her. James went Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to see what the continental brewers were start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to makeso. William Most importantly, she is desperately worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a about her little bit ''too'' much or sister, who is going to bring back a German bride but hethe new focus of Ophelia'd like s online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the business to be ship-shape before his nephew returns.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=1838773169B0CYV674G2|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=S J BennettDavid Blake|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Itseemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for t killed the Easter Courtman. She's having a dine and sleep A body at the request bottom of Prince Charles, whoa freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's attempting been stabbed to raise money death. DCI John Tanner is just back from some rich Russians for one his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his pet projectsdaughter Samantha. ThereYou would think he'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to be grateful for an easy answer but the evening words 'perverse' and one of the performers brought in to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstances'John Tanner' were made for each other. The immediate reaction is that one of the guests is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an exHe's sleep-ambassador deprived to Moscow, the Archbishop point of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldnfalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't bear to go down get any of ''those'' roadssleep at home.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Caroline ScottStuart Douglas|title=When I Come Home Again|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses to give a name, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he is. Eventually, they determine this isn't willful obstinance, he doesn't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being on the road for a long time and being frightened, and some of the faces from the road, but other than that – everything that came before has gone. They need a name for the forms and so they call him Adam and, because he was found in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galilee. A fanciful name for a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he is, where he is or how he got there.|isbn=1471192172}} =='''1 NOVEMBER'''== {{Frontpage|author= Susi Holliday |title= The Last Resort |rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories Lowe and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these wellLe Breton Mysteries -kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}}=='''5 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R Black|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 Death at Ferngate Bridge. There was a furious storm going on and she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in a big vehicle. We'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven off. There has been no sign of her - or her body - in the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and she's not going to be stopped.}} =='''12 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1472255917|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)|author=Quintin JardineDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=On New YearDuring location filming for his 1970's Evesitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the golf club with his wife, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner and dead body of a woman on the man with whom she shares edge of a house, Dominic Jacksonreservoir. Jackson would be better-known The police seem happy to the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh assign it as Lennie Plenderleith an accidental death, but he's reformed and something about the new name reflects a new man. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse whole thing bothers Lowe, and are dropped home not long into the new year. Skinner's tempted to let the phone ring but knows that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene in enlists the centre help of Edinburgha fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Skinner's not technically with They travel across the police now - he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and experience.}}{{Frontpage|author= Claire McGowan|title=The Push|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at a prenatal class. It's NCT ''style'', but not the proper NCT. This bit is importantseemingly, but you have to wait a little link to see whydeath during the Second World War. This being London, such a class attracts But is there really a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of link between the ladies the thing deaths? And will they have in common manage to uncover who is it's responsible before more people lose their first baby. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.lives?|isbn=15420199901803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Roxanne BouchardKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Coral BrideDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - a female fisherwoman, making her living Meet Kit. Like most of the people in a man's his world. When her lobster trawler , it seems, he is found drifting off an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the coast sport where a team of Quebecwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, Detective Morales is called in magical mazes, and race to come the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and head the investigationpoints they grant you along the way. Although Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister inn TV equivalent is going onthat one team has been retired, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendaseaten, fishing histories and secret family feudsa new trio of questors is needed. At the same time as trying to run his investigationPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he also has taken to the goading from the token bully of his grown up sonworld and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, Sebastien arriving at his doormuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, weighed down with personal problems that and how could he is unable to talk possibly hope to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficulties.succeed?|isbn=19131933221839945184
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=='''13 NOVEMBERJUNE'''==
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|isbn=18388873341635866847|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)The Lavender Companion|author=Angela MarsonsJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingIt's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The need for coffee overtook Stone - Lavender Companion'', I visited the course had been author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a complete waste slice of time for her as she knew chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that she was equally rude to everyonecake viscerally. It was (There's a recipe in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of a little girl clutching a teddy bear it. Notes in the absence of her mothermargins are sanctioned. Stone and Bryant didn't realise the extent You get to which this case was going to occupy their minds as fold down the body corners of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours laterpages. Her neck had been broken and it had all the hallmarks You suspect that smears of a quick, functional kill, but who butter would do that to not be a young mother out shopping with her child?problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''26 NOVEMBER4 JULY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1838770046Max Boucherat|title=Body Language|author=A K TurnerThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is We meet Lori on the senior mortuary technician and not only does first evening she talk to 's got the dead, she also hears what they have house to say herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on herlonesome. It's not something What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she's inclined has one main intention, and that is to log on to share with people as sheVoxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's pretty certain about what their reaction will beworld. SheBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's certainly not going to share it with the new pathologistt find herself entirely on her own, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harrovianthen she finds something even more spooky. He's very conscious of his position For the server she and her bestie and isn't even inclined nobody else should be able to ask for the view enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that they have a lot more experience than him and he game has only been doctored – well, where is a limited amount of time girl to spend on each body. That will prove to be a mistake.turn?|isbn=0008666482
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{{Frontpage
|author=Helen FisherJenny Lecoat|title=Space HopperBeyond Summerland|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Faye lost Jean lives on Jersey with her mum when she was very youngmother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. She During the war, Jean's father was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from arrested for listening to a cold that got worsebanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and although they were kind and very good to her she mother waiting for years for news of course missed her mum enormouslyhim. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to As the British finally free the Channel islands from the 70's and her mumNazis, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to her. The time travelling, however, war is neither easy nor safefinally over, and Faye fears their hopes rise that her husband won't believe they will finally learn what's happening and so lies to became of him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to But will the past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's deathtruth come as a relief, or will it change her own future forever to attempt itraise 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=14711886631846976537
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