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=='''12 NOVEMBER30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=1472255917B0CYV674G2|title=The Roots of Evil Swanton Morley (Bob SkinnerJohn Tanner)|author=Quintin JardineDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed 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't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}=='''4JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
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|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 something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he's reformed and enlists the new name reflects help of a new manfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at They travel across the clubhouse country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and are dropped home not long into , seemingly, a link to death during the new yearSecond World War. Skinner's tempted to let the phone ring but knows that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at But is there really a crime scene in link between the centre of Edinburgh. deaths? Skinner's not technically with the police now - he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experience.And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author= Claire McGowanSaima Mir|title=The PushVengeance|rating= 3.5|genre= General FictionThrillers|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a prenatal classMuslim woman. ItThe fact that it was the second in a series I hadn's NCT t read didn't stop me – I'styleve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn'', but not the proper NCT. This bit is important, but you have to wait t be a little to see why. This being London, such a class attracts a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is hindrance if it's their first babygood enough. Probably after the first one, you donAnd that wasn't have time for classesa problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, or think you've got child-rearing down patand I never felt lost.|isbn=15420199900861541561
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|author=Roxanne BouchardKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Coral BrideDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|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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|isbnauthor=1838887334Jenny Valentine|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)|author=Angela MarsonsUs in the Before and After|rating=45|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=DI Kim Stone Elk and DS Jim Bryant were on Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their way back from Diversity Awareness training. The need for coffee overtook Stone - the course had been friendship is a complete waste of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude to everyone. It was once in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight of a little girl clutching a teddy bear in the absence of her motherlifetime connection. Stone and Bryant didnThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't realise get each other's contact details at the extent to which this case was going to occupy their minds as the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours latertime. Her neck had been broken But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and it had all the hallmarks of a quicknow they must work through their grief, functional killand their friendship, but who would do that to a young mother out shopping with her child?together.|isbn=1471196585
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=='''26 NOVEMBER13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=18387700461635866847|title=Body LanguageThe Lavender Companion|author=A K TurnerJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk to the dead, she also hears what they have to say to herbook for you. ItBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion's not something she's inclined to share with people as she, I visited the author's pretty certain about what their reaction will be[https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Shecom/ website] and there's certainly not going to share it with the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer a picture of a genuine Barbour jacket slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and old Harroviandesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. He(There's very conscious of his position a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and isn't even inclined I was told to ask for the view make a mess of it. Notes in the anatomical pathology technicians despite margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the fact that they have a lot more experience than him and he has only a limited amount corners of time to spend on each bodypages. That will prove to You suspect that smears of butter would not be a mistakeproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''7 JANUARY 20214 JULY'''==
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|author= Deborah O'ConnorMax Boucherat|title= The CaptiveLast Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Hannah knows We meet Lori on the cagefirst evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, intimatelyjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. It lurks What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the corner of world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her eyeown, and then she finds something even more spooky. Soon, it will For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be occupiedable to enter shows signs of tampering. Then what? What if he speaks to When malevolent eyes spark up on her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts phone screen, and her? What if she hurts himsafe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=18387726500008666482
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|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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