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|author=Christine BrownChris Hauty|title=Bucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West AfricaDeep State|rating=4.53|genre=TravelThrillers|summary=In the summer Hayley Chill is a fighter. She is every kind of 2008fighter, this bookand well-trained in most of them. She's author was spending her days working in an office job in the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something elsearmy infantry and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always. Long story short, She wins because she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africais focussed. Now coincidentallyShe works hard, in the summer of 2010, this review's author was spending ''her'' days working in an office job (albeit in the UK) while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something elsementally and physically, and ''she'' ended up just 3 countries away, volunteering in Sierra Leone, West Africa. So you can see why, when this book came up, said reviewer was delighted knows how to have deal with the opportunity pain. She is not so much cold as controlled. This fight is against someone she is not expected to read and critique itbeat. And she is being watched.|isbn=171024299X1471185605
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|author=Mark LinganeH G Parry |title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
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|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= ''Degrade'' opens as it means Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to go on eye for years - with inyerface, banging action. Poor Arid, alone Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in the desert since his parents were killed, has a narrow escape as two mega"normal" world -rigs fight it out and his Charley a man who is pretty much destroyed. He finds himself rescued by the mysteriousblessed with an ability he can't fully control -but-fascinating Ella and onboard one which allows him to bring literary characters into the ''Moonlight'' under the suspicious eyes real world. After years of its leaderprotecting Charley, Queen Bea. Bea's eyes flash with recognition when he tells her Rob wants to discharge his duties and leave Charley to his name - Arid Geiger own devices - but before he can find circumstances soon take choices out why of both their hands. As literary characters begin to appear everywhere, it soon becomes clear that is, someone out thereshares Charley's an assassination attempt powers and Arid is under suspicion intends to use them for nefarious gains. Rob and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella Charley must team up to stop the madness - Queen Bea's daughter - sees Arid in a battle to win before they, the characters and her other daughter, Frey, stranded in the desert...world reach The End…|isbn= 099461649X0356513777
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|isbn=B07XLM3SM61444776185|title=Murder at the Dolphin HotelHaven't they Grown|author=Helena DixonSophie Hannah|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers|summary=Elowed Underhay It was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving Beth Leeson was ferrying her daughterson, KittyBen, in the care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was a football match that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel found herself on Wyddial Lane in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was illHemingford Abbots. She was reluctant Actually, It's a little disingenuous to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. Shesay 'found herself's always coped with the mix of holidaymakers, boating people and the naval college as Beth had made a deliberate detour on the edge of town before - and grounds that shedidn's done every job t find herself in the hotel. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge this neck of security at the hotel.}}{{Frontpage|author=Seishi Yokomizo woods very often and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=The Honjin Murders|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough she was curious to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words see where a family who'clever' or 'goodd come into money had lived before they'd all lost contact twelve years ago. For those who need more, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan in the 1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as And it might be – hardly anybody has turned have gone no further than that had Beth not seen a car draw up, what and her friend Flora get out along with it being arranged at great hastetwo children she called Thomas and Emily. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, Beth remembered the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple to names well - but these children were about three and five and Flora's children - Thomas and Emily - would now be slashed to death in their private annex before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, fifteen and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case has a lot of the peculiar about itseventeen.|isbn=1782275002
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|authorisbn=Cixin Liu1529123763|title=Death's EndMiss Austen|author=Gill Hornby
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|genre=Science Historical Fiction|summary= If IIt'd s long been paying more attention when I picked this book up, I would have put it back on the shelf. Not because I didn't want to read it, but because I'd have figured out known that it was the final part Cassandra Austen burned most of a trilogy. Coming in partway through a saga is never the easiest thing to do letters which she and it's particularly true in science fiction because without knowing other members of the back-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing to you (when it's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts that you won't understandextensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister Jane. This latter What is not known is particularly true of Cixin Liu's work – his range is phenomenal. George R R Martin, who knows a thing or two about world-creation, described it as 'why''a unique blend of scientific she did this and philosophical speculation, conspiracy theory and cosmology'at this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane's death - a definitive answer is unlikely to forthcoming. All of Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in a book that and proved to be far moreemotionally complex than I was expecting.|isbn=1784971650
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|isbnauthor=1780894511Rory Clements|title=Die Alone|author=Simon KernickHitler's Secret|rating=43.5
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|summary=Ray Mason So, Hitler had a secret? Two, if you include the reproductive detail mentioned in a certain sing-song aspersion. But this is a secret that is counter to that, and in prison awaiting trial for murder and fact is a secret that Hitler himself doesn't even know about. His neice, Geli Raubal, the attractive young woman he's seemed to be very close to in the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a copearly 1930s, he's something of had had his daughter behind his back. Protected under a targetfalse identity ever since, but the unit girl is not as secure as completely ignorant of her past, and the inmates would have hoped and Mason truth is injured in a riotvery rare thing. On his way to hospital heMartin Bormann, the 's broken free by armed men and an offer is made to him. Hegatekeeper's to assassinate the Hitler and his right hand man who , knows – and is likely to become desperately intent on wiping the country's next prime minister slate clean and he'll then be given a new identity so that he can start afresh abroadremoving all connected with her existence from the Reich. His captors say that theySo it're MI6s down to Tom Wilde, an American history professor at Oxbridge, but Mason has his doubts. His choices are limited though to go in and he has personal reasons to believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was deadextract her, in this most shadowy race against time.|isbn=1838770275
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|authorisbn=Akwaeke Emezi0241985110|title=PetAll the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara Hunter
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|genre=TeensCrime|summary=The people A very beautiful, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by a minicab driver on the outskirts of the town Lucille believe that all the monsters are goneOxford. Their children are raised She didn't want to go to understand that they were saved by the angels, those who rid police station or the town of evil, and there are no monsters anymorehospital: she just wanted to be taken home. But one dayThe driver wasn't so certain though - and after dropping the girl at home he went to the police, Jam accidentally cuts herself which is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford and bleeds a little onto one of her mother. Both were adamant that this was nothing more than an April Fool's paintingsjoke which had gone wrong. The blood awakens a bizarre, terrifying-looking creature named Pet, who somehow comes to life No crime had been committed and declares that it is here Faith didn't want to hunt take the monstermatter any further. Though Jam tries Fawley and his team weren't prepared to convince leave it at that all the monsters are gone, Pet is certain that there is one, still, and they began investigating. What they found strange was that the monster is hiding in the home Faith Appleford didn't seem to have much of her best friend, Redemptiona history.|isbn=0571355110
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|isbn=16867516801529400279|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarresSix Wicked Reasons|author=Amelie Julien and GustyawanJo Spain|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Which child doesn't think It was early summer 2018 and Adam Latimer returned home to Spanish Cove after an absence of ten years. The family had thought him dead - in fact, that their mother is, well, ''weird''? It might be that in s what the morning their private detective his mother doesnhad insisted upon had told them. He was cagey about exactly where he't like speaking much when every self-respecting child knows that that is when you're at your brightest with lots d been but he seemed content, if not happy, to saybe home. What brought him? Well, nine years ago his mother died and he'd seen the 'Why'in memoriam' then does Mummy stick her fingers in her ears? Then there's doing yoga in front of the television, which could be worrying if it wasnpaper: this was the first he't so funny. We won't go into too much detail d heard about what goes on in the bathroom had happened. His three sisters and the colour changes which two brothers had mixed feelings about his return, but his father is delighted. In fact, he's determined to have occurred when Mummy emerges and franklya party. Only, with Frazer Latimer, the less said the better what happens has to be about her reactions him. He has an announcement to your artistic efforts on the wallmake - it's nine years since Kathleen died and he's been lonely. I meanHe's met Ana, a Polish immigrant, what else would you use paint for?and they're getting married.
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|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukPenny Chrimes|title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?Tiger Heart|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=''The day has ended''<br>''Hasn't it been splendid?'' <br>''But nowFly never meant to end up in the cage with a man-eating tiger. She just saw her chance to skedaddle, and she took it's time. And even when the cloud of soot cleared and she saw the golden eyes of a killer staring into hers, to be sure'' <br>''For an entirely different adventure'' <br> I hope you havenshe still didn't forgotten how it feels to be much too excited for bedturn round and climb back up the chimney straightaway. If you're a parent at least, you'll know how it is to persuade an excited small person that yes, it is in fact time Cos there was worse waiting for bedher back on the roof. ''What Wonders DoYou See...an opener! And there'' sets out to cater to these children. Instead of trying s plenty more to persuade them that night time is a calm time, it takes a slightly different tack. It tells them that sleep is actually an exciting time: a time of dreams in which imagination takes over and has no limit. But the trick in accessing this wonderful and exciting world is to get calm and relaxed first so that you can easily fall asleep and open the door to it. come!|isbn=194812422X 1510107045
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|author=Michael HarrisTanya Landman|title=SolitudeJane Eyre: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded WorldRetelling
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|genre=LifestyleTeens|summary= This is not A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the book I was expecting it life she wants – and with only one job, to be. For some reason I expected it to be another selftutor a young half-help manual on how to find calm, how to step outside the mainstreamFrench girl, but it whose father is not that at allalmost always absent. Instead of telling us how it is more about the ''why''. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used When he does turn up he seems to be a natural part of our human lifedark, brooding and why troubled – but that matters. Of course's nothing compared to the darker, he talks about how some people have found solitude more broody and what has come of that, and eventually even more troubled secret in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it outhouse. Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that his thinking about if you don't, for whatever reason, this lost art led himis a wonderful book to turn to.|isbn=18479476621781129126
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|author=Andy BriggsT R Hendrick|title=Ctrl+SWhat if They Knew|rating=54|genre=Science General Fiction|summary= Life in the near futureIt's not all bad2025. We've reversed global warming and fixed Underneath a lodge in the collapsing bee population. We even created SPACEBlue Mountain resort in Pennsylvania, is a virtual-sensory universe where average guys like Theo Wilson can do almost anything they desiresecret facility. But almost anything isn't enough for Here, Dr Benton and his team are making somecritical scientific advances on behalf of the Benefactor, their anonymous funder. Every dayAlready, normal people are being takenthe team have succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place to another. But, their emotions harvested - and lives traded - unbeknownst to create death-defying thrills for the rich and twisted. Now Theo’s mother Benefactor, Dr Benton has disappearedalso coded for another type of teleportation altogether - travel through time. And as he follows her breadcrumb trail of clues, he'll come up against the most dangerous SPACE has s ready to offer: policetest. If successful, AI Bots and anarchists - as well as Benton has a criminal empire that will kill to stop him finding her . . .very specific use for his technology in mind|isbn=14091846411734277211
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|isbnauthor=1609809378Catherine Steadman|title=The Rabbits' Rebellion|author=Ariel Dorfman and Chris RiddellMr Nobody|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=WeDon're t you just hate it when people are multi-talented? Author Catherine Steadman is both a successful actress and writer, with this her second novel. I think in a way her acting background shows in her writing as to my mind the 'fight scene' at the realm of end was somewhat unrealistic – you know the rabbits, only kind where the foxes and wolves have taken over. King Wolf, His Wolfiness, hero has declared the rabbits donbeen hurt so many times that it's virtually impossible they't exist, but the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that the bunnies are in fact d still aroundbe alive let alone able to fight off an attacker. Demanding The story also unfolded at a propaganda spree, King Wolf orders steady pace throughout until the ending which felt overstuffed in a humble monkey frenetic bid to be his official portrait photographer, but whatever wrap everything up in the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom there is a distinct leporine hintlast few chapters. Can King Wolf succeed in proving himself victorious, can It was almost as if the rabbits show their continued existence author wanted to all who need keep the suspense until the last possible moment (which I liked) but then was somewhat left with too much to know of it – and what can do in the poor monkey caught in between do?closing stages.|isbn=1984890646
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|authorisbn=Innosanto Nagara1473681847|title=M is for MovementIn Her Eyes|author=Sarah Alderson|rating=45|genre=Emerging ReadersThrillers|summary=Set in IndonesiaAva lives a charmed life, in but those things sometimes rub other people up the not too distant past, this is wrong way. One evening she returns from a story about social change. Dealing night out with some difficult issuesa friend, such as political corruption and nepotism, the book is neither boring nor preachy. It educates gentlybefore she can finish her bedtime routine, with vibranther home, challenging illustrationsand her life, are under attack: masked men have broken in and it portrays how social movements need people who will tryare demanding money from her husband, even when it seems that they will failwhile her young daughter cowers beside him. The message In the scuffle than ensues, Ava is a positive one; that hurt, badly. When she wakes up in an increasingly uncertain worldhospital she can barely remember what happened, we do but she knows it was life-changing. With her daughter still have fighting for her life in a room down the power corridor, Ava has a lot to instigate changecontend with as she tries to recover, wills her daughter to recover, and attempts to piece together what happened and why.|isbn=1609809351
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|isbnauthor=1780724047Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs|author=Peter J ConradiWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=43|genre=PetsTeens|summary=I struggle to resist a book about dogsDiana, but I did wonder why this one was so ''thin'': given that I've never encountered a dog who wasn't interesting or important - and probably bothbeing unique on her island, I was expecting is the victim of a massive tome. But ''A Dictionary lot of Interesting taunts, and Important Dogs'' is actually ''a rich compendium claims of the world's most significant and beloved dogs'' and it's certainly a rich treasure trovenepotism. We begin with Peter J ConradiIt's four collies: Cloudyonly her unique status, Sky. Bradley and Maxher mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young woman. They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogsPerhaps too strong for the island, but what comes over is Conradi's love however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for each the World of Men, and every one this Diana is the heroine of themyet another Wonder Woman origin story. I knew that I was A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in safe handsa running race, but the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more...|isbn=1401282555
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|isbn=17857692941786075695|title=Man at When the Window Dead Come Calling (Detective CardelliniBurrowhead Mysteries 1)|author=Robert JeffreysHelen Sedgwick|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's when we read that began with the discovery of a young boy is creeping reluctantly to a teacherbody under the swings in the children's bedroom one October night that we realise something is badly wrongplayground. Nowadays you ''might'' hope that something would be done about it fairly quickly but this It was 1965 Dr Alexis Crosse and child abuse he was generally regarded as malicious mischief on the part of the childfound by PC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeply, but who had reason to mistrust him. The boy would be safe that night though - albeit Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up in Greece, but such professions are misunderstood in the most horrific fashionBurrowhead (along with foreigners), a community which regards anyone not born and brought up there as an outsider. When DI Georgie Strachan is an outsider - you've only got to look at her skin to realise that, and her husband, Fergus, well, he reached Captain Edmund's bedroom he found the man dead on the floora little strange too, the top of his skull missing. The schoolnot entirely ''here''s initial reaction was that this was a dreadful accident: there had been a cull of kangaroos in some nearby fields and it was obviously a stray bullet that had killed the Captain.
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|isbnauthor=1786695227Alastair Chisholm|title=Invisible in a Bright Light|author=Sally GardnerOrion Lost
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|summary=The beginning of this excellent story will leave Thirteen-year-old Beth and her parents board the reader more than transport ship Orion ready for a little confused: who new life on Eos Five. Their new home is the man in the green suitstill being terra-formed and life there isn't going to be easy, what but it ''is the Reckoning'' going to be a fresh start. As Beth's mum puts it, and why are rows of people in ''There's a cave? But stick with it – Ms. Gardner is very cleverly letting future waiting for us experience the same disorientation as our heroine. We watch in dismay as the strange man, who seems A chance to have no eyesmake our own decisions, does his best to persuade her to answer his questions. But for some reason, Celeste, despite her bewilderment, remains wary and gives nothing awaycreate our own lives.''|isbn=1788005929
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|isbn=19123748540753553236|title=VioletTiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=S B J I HollidayFogg|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=IGo on, admit it - you've never been but understand re not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky, even loveable (to you) habits that travelling is all about meeting new seem to annoy other people. Other people and forming instantaneous bonds , of course, are sorely afflicted with people in often chance situationssome dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just a little bit of effort. Well Or put another way, that's exactly I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try to make what happens when seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the two main/only characters meet in a travel agency in Beijing - Carrie concepts. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack of willpower is unsuccessfully trying another burden to add to get a refund on an extra ticket for the Trans-Siberian train and Violet list.}}{{Frontpage|author= B T Keaton|title= Transference|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Barrabus Madzimure is trying about to unsuccessfully buy die, stranded on a ticket mining planet millions of light-years from home, executed for high crimes against the Church, the same sold-out journeyruling body of Earth. As the two team upExcept he's not Barrabus Madzimure, travelling through Mongolia, Serbia and into Russia, it couldhe's Thaniel Kilraven in Barrabus Madzimure've been s body. Such is the start magic of Transference, the ability to transplant a beautiful friendship but this person's soul or consciousness into a thriller after all so it quickly becomes different body - and a tale of obsessionpower that the Church has exclusive control over. As if Thaniel doesn't have enough things to worry about, manipulationa Church employee named Corvus has arrived from Earth to interrogate him. All Thaniel wants is to see his family again, and toxic friendshipshe'll stop at nothing to accomplish this, but the Church isn't going to give in without a hell of a fight...|isbn=B082WPHTHH
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|isbnauthor=1912374838Christine Brown|title=Nothing Important Happened Today|author=Will CarverBucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West Africa|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionTravel|summary=Nothing Important Happened Today is a darkIn the summer of 2008, twistedthis book's author was spending her days working in an office job in the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else. Long story short, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, difficult readWest Africa. Stories about cults often areNow coincidentally, in the summer of 2010, but this is different; itreview's written with a sense of style that is quite unlike anything Iauthor was spending ''her've read before. I can't remember ever having read a novel with such days working in an oddoffice job (albeit in the UK) while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else, and ''she'' ended up just 3 countries away, volunteering in Sierra Leone, distinctive narrative voiceWest Africa. While a slim and relatively small So you can see why, when this bookcame up, said reviewer was delighted to have the slow-moving nature of the plot makes opportunity to read and critique it feel far larger than its 276 pages.|isbn=171024299X
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|isbnauthor= williamabbeyMark Lingane|title=The Pursuit of William Abbey|author=Claire NorthDegrade (Tesla Expansion)|rating=3.54|genre=ParanormalTeens|summary=When William Abbey fails ''Degrade'' opens as it means to prevent the lynching of a young boy in 1880's South Africago on - with inyerface, he finds himself cursed by the grieving motherbanging action. A naïve English DoctorPoor Arid, he slowly learns alone in the weight of the curse upon himdesert since his parents were killed, has a narrow escape as the shadow of the dead boy begins to follow him across the world. Never stopping, always growing – two mega-rigs fight it crosses oceans out and mountains in pursuit of Williamhis is pretty much destroyed. As he He finds himself unable to resist speaking rescued by the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella and onboard the ''Moonlight'' under the truths that suspicious eyes of its leader, Queen Bea. Bea's eyes flash with recognition when he hears in others, tells her his name - Arid Geiger - but before he also learns can find out why that the dark shadow is deadly – , there's an assassination attempt and Arid is under suspicion and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella - Queen Bea's daughter - sees Arid and seeks to kill her other daughter, Frey, stranded in the one he loves the most…desert...|isbn= 099461649X
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|isbn=1643785036B07XLM3SM6|title=The Wondrous ApothecaryMurder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Mary E MartinHelena Dixon
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|genre=General FictionCrime (Historical)|summary=Those who have known Alexander WainwrightElowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the landscape artist famous for his Turner prize-winning ''The Hay Wagon'', care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and Rinaldo, the renowned conceptual artist would say conclusion was that they're chalk and cheeseshe was dead, if not sworn enemiesmainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. If you've watched the relationship, as Kitty has our narrator, art dealer Jamie Helmsworth, you'd have said that they were magnets, drawing come to terms with this and repulsing each other in equal measure. Wainwright 1933 she was at running the socially acceptable end of the artistic continuum, but Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with Rinaldo, it her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was all too obvious that there ill. She was but a fine dividing line between conceptual art reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and public nuisanceKitty could not understand why. As time has worn on, heShe's frequently been brought to always coped with the mix of holidaymakers, boating people and the naval college on the attention edge of town before - and she's done every job in the policehotel. On this latest occasion, we see him charged with arson and theft of And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''The Hay Wagonand''why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotel.
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|author=Mary H.K. ChoiSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=Permanent RecordThe Honjin Murders
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|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Pablo, a college drop-outTo many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is working at a New York bodegaenough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. HeFor those who need more, here is the extra background – we's massively re in debt, he's avoiding his mother, and he finds his joy rural Japan in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! the 1930s. Whilst working one eveningThe oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, he's surprised to discover that although the girl he whole affair is chatting with as he serves is a super-famous pop star and, really not as unlikely ostentatious as it may seemmight be – hardly anybody has turned up, they start a relationshipwhat with it being arranged at great haste. With She only has an uncle representing her family, for one character who is trying very hard not thing. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple to be seen or noticed by anyone and the other who is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over slashed to death in their private annexe before the world, it's an interesting clash as they come togethersun rises on their marriage. This isn't just What with a love story thoughman missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, and actually it's really just Pab's storysome mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case has a lot of the peculiar about the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smartit.|isbn=03490034591782275002
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|isbnauthor=1609809319Cixin Liu|title=Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub|author=Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)Death's End
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|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=One day If I'd been paying more attention when I picked this book up, I would have put it back on the shelf. Not because I didn't want to read it, but because I'd have figured out that it was the final part of a boy trilogy. Coming in partway through a saga is never the easiest thing to do and it's particularly true in science fiction because without knowing the zoo with back-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing to you (when it's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts that you won't understand. This latter is particularly true of Cixin Liu's work – his father when the man gets called away on urgent businessrange is phenomenal. The boy isnGeorge R R Martin, who knows a thing or two about world-creation, described it as ''t hustled into a cab unique blend of scientific and taken home firstphilosophical speculation, thoughconspiracy theory and cosmology''. All of that and more.|isbn=1784971650}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1780894511|title=Die Alone|author=Simon Kernick|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Ray Mason is in prison awaiting trial for murder and he's in the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a cop, no – he's given hot dog moneysomething of a target, but the unit is not as secure as the inmates would have hoped and taxi money, Mason is injured in a riot. On his way to hospital he's broken free by armed men and told an offer is made to just stick around on his own and enjoy himselfhim. Well, itHe's no surprise that to assassinate the orphan-for-an-afternoon sensation man who is likely to become the lad feels doesncountry't make him happy, s next prime minister and he'll then be given a new identity so that he thinks of a species name for himselfcan start afresh abroad. His captors say that they're MI6, but Mason has his doubts. His choices are limited though and curls himself up into an empty cage as he has personal reasons to believe that it would be better if he were a new exhibitAlastair Sheridan was dead. And it's then the drama begins…
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