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|authorisbn=Will Carver0241636604|title=Psychopaths AnonymousThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Maeve is If you were to bring up an image of a high functioning alcoholiccity banker in your mind, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted you're unlikely to attending numerous AA groupsthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. She is also a self A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing stripe suit and critiquing the AA steps she his background is mainly using the groups to find targetsEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice...targets for sexual encounters, targets There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to feed her desire to hear the London School of people's misery, Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and targets for her violent behaviourhe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Yet she He also seems realised that most rich people expect poor people to be searching for others who think as she doesstupid. It was his ability at what was, and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her ownessentially, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessionsa card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=1913193756
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|isbn=15294181001035021803|title=BrunoThe Antique Hunter's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesGuide to Murder|author=Martin WalkerC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=IIt'm not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to put the book down between stories and forget to pick it English country village where she grew up again - but I am . She's back now because of a fan of Martin Walkerrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's [[Martin Walkerformer mentor and Carole's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the temptation circumstances seem suspicious, to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' say the least. Arthur was hard the reason why Freya had not been back to resist and I'm rather glad that I didn't even trythe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. For those new Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the seriesman or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who's who was murdered) and Freya and the background to why Bruno is in St DenisJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=B09GJW49GFAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Jenny O'BrienBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her son''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. Hunter had diabetes and this was controlled by a pump attached to his stomach, so her over-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her to get married and she thought '' I've heard it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was said that 'technology'reallyis what happens after you'' likere eighteen. Her friendWell, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for I must confess that there have been more than a night few decades of technology in a posh hotel my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but then he dumped her and she couldnI't get m left with the money backfeeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, so Hannah was offered I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the opportunity to go in his placelatest conspiracy theorist. She would return home to find Ian dead I needed people I knew I could trust and five-year-old Hunter missingwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=B09GV3WS1QSunny Singh|title=Without a Trace|author=Jane BettanyHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Life hadn't The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through , killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a divorce wartime photographer and right now it was raining hardAbhi, the hotel manager. All she wanted was As Abhi continues to get back try to her new home and settle down care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a quiet evening. It wasn't going bond with Sam who refuses to be though: when she went into cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her bedroom she found a dead man on room to try to capture what's happened through her bed with a knife in his chestphotography. She'd no idea who he wasAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=18387748231529153298|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemThe List of Suspicious Things|author=S J BennettJennie Godfrey
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's 2016 1979 and the QueenMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's Private Secretaryfamily, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistbandthough. Women have been disappearing. SwimmingWell, he decidesthey've been murdered, is the way but to go and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to be there early one morning and discovered move the body of Cynthia Harris at the side of the poolfamily 'Down South'. There was broken glass - When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a crystal tumblerfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, by the look at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly she'll do anything to prevent that she had bled out. Still, it was a shock for Sir SimonShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=057136358X1398524085|title=April in SpainHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=John BanvilleNicci French
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|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Terry Tice Charlotte Salter was a hitman, although he didnexpected at her husband't think of himself in those termss fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. He saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy''Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. I couldn't resist the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondoare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. He enjoyed his jobShortly afterwards, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows Etty and had a fine old time''. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know Greg, find the purpose body of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldnGreg't drink champagne with bubbles s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the ''morning''? river. It was after Percy's death an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spain.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dave Letterfly Knoderer|title=Speedy: Hurled Through Havoc|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=How to summarise the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you know, I really doncouldn't think I can. Dave is an author and an artist. An inspirational speaker and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholicstand the guilt. The son of a Lutheran minister, heSalter children are not convinced but there's struggled little else they can do but get on with a controlling father, run away to join the circus (not a metaphor), trained horses, painted caravans, designed their lives and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when the bottle took overwonder about what really happened.|isbn=B0965V3LLN
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|authorisbn=Tade Thompson1035906708|title=Far From the Light of HeavenDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going We tend to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the world think of BloodrootMaria Callas as Greek, but she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's AI captain. Howeverwas born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she wakes up at the end of was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her trip father changed it to find dozens of her passengers butchered and 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the Ragtime's AI almost nonStates. When she was back in Athens -responsive, supposedly so that she begins to realise that could get appropriate training for her first mission won't be going as smoothly as voice - she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on was raised under the Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes Nazi occupation by a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking mother who mercilessly exploited her and bureaucracy made no secret of Space Station Lagos. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just her preference for Bloodroother elder sister, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323Jackie.
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|author=Rob KeeleyChristopher Edge|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!Black Hole Cinema Club|rating= 4|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage Lucas and aubergines. When her his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at school turn up their noseslocal cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice 're looking forward to eat. One daylots of exciting films, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordanand many, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriatedmany snacks! However, Lily checks with as the teachermovie starts, who explains they very quickly realise that fruits grow on trees something about this new film format is very different, and vegetables, like carrots, grow in they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the ground. Jordan saysnext, "I did try can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to tell herthe cinema, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.to their real lives?|isbn= B09HHN541V1839942738
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|isbnauthor=178607981XRachel Greenlaw|title=Bad Apples|author=Will DeanCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at ''I can hear the side song of the roadsea. Wondering if someone needed help she got out The call of the car - and heard the screams from deep inside , the forestanswering beat in my heart. Determining the direction of a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where a woman was holding her coat over the body of a man. He'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Persson, a resident of Visberg.}}
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|author=Lucy HopeJames Sherwood Metts|title=FledglingPlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is Things have been a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over sticky for the decadesEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. Itoften replacing jobs they's an eccentric house, re paid to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as we'd know it, the roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, do and so onother tasks that took time to accomplish. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and a passion for the long-standing family hobby starting to think of taxidermyother, a woman who does nothing but quibblenew ways to spend time, kvetch along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassiealong with it, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again..many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=183994188X1736128426
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|isbnauthor=1846276772Matthew Tree|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell'll Never Know
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to which they suffer be different from it: it's simply his father, a part drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve being exceptional at any of the white man. Even when those his artistic passions all failed miserably and who wouldn't pass the medical become a part had endless crises of an organisation it's rare that their views are heardself confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias set himself high but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=Teresa DriscollA G Slatter|title=Her Perfect FamilyThe Briar Book of the Dead
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|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=The novel begins by introducing you '' There's a part of me that wants to Gemmakeep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, who at first instance appears last. I just want to be your average studentenjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, faced with far away from the familiar horrifying realisationworld, at lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the eleventh hourBriar's, that her graduation outfit is all wronga family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. SuddenlyThough she has always wished for magic, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He Ellie Briar is not who he says he is…'', paving the way first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the sinister tone that remains throughout Briar Witch, the noveltown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. In a twist of eventsAs challenges come her way left, right and after a change of outfitcentre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, Gemma is shot in putting her at the midst heart of her graduation ceremonya maelstrom of chaos. With Gemma then in a comaReeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow do as the further you readBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=15420287521803364548
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|isbn=84092901031529900360|title=If OnlyThe Ghost Orchid|author=Matthew TreeJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: badly injured but he asked his accountant, Mr Patrickfelt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ensure that the young man got ask for his help on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowancedifficult cases. Patrick sent the money regularly His assertions that there were only open-and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior shut cases which didn't care need the help of a psychologist only worked for his sona while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that he didn't care to have him the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in this country where he might be the swimming pool of a danger remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to his wife an extremely rich man and other childrenit's not the Italian. The alcohol problem But which of them was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.primary target?
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|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Rabbit FactorSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands
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|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.
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|isbn=0861541774
|title=A Nye of Pheasants
|author=Steve Burrows
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Henri. With DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beingsshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, he's perfect for his job Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a teamstreet brawl -member, he would later maintain that they'd prefer everyone to be all openhe was facing a man armed with a knife -plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having killed a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, and nothing elseGhurka. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind Initially, but he perks up faced a little when charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans might have been made out and planned to murder the amount vanishedman. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on Now he could be facing the scene death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to explain that missing money – it's been turned into help as any interference from another police force could provoke a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, diplomatic incident and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan..wouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbnauthor=1471179311Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Unheard|author=Nicci FrenchPerfect Passion Company
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=TessThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, a teacher run by Ness and Jason, operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a headmastermore personal, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of the family home and Jason is now married to Emilytailored service. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who Ness has asked her bedroom in what was the family home younger cousin Katie if she could come and another in look after the flat she shares with her motherbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. It ''seemed'' to be working well until the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing Katie is coming out of a woman falling from break up with a tall building bad boyfriend, and she started swearing, using words she was unlikely so jumps at the chance to have heard in either come hometo Edinburgh. Her behaviour deteriorated And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and there were problems at nursery schoolthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Tess turns to Katie has no experience in running a therapist for helpbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, then and there's always her doctor very helpful (and finally the police but no one will take what she has rather handsome) neighbour, William, to say seriously.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=14711966150811771741|title=IcedInstaKnits for Baby|author=Felix FrancisMelissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=Miles Pussett used to be Benny is having a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he now gets loses his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Runfiancee, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourand his house gets trashed. He was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin- thatsized object to his home, and it's high-class horseracing on possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the frozen lake and against thing that has trashed his better judgement he gets talked into helping with house! The thing is, Benny is the saddling of the horsesvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore So fortunately for Benny it turns out that he'd never go back the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to ithelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. But when he sees that something suspicious Spike is going onto take care of Benny, Miles canand will certainly take care of Benny't help but look for answerss enemies, if he, Benny, even when it puts him in dangerand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=147228612XAdam Stower|title=The Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Alan JohnsonMurray and Bun
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=We all know people like Gary NelsonMurray is supposed to be a humble, although we probably haven't taken much notice of them. They live quiettidy and friendly cat, uneventful lives one who is able to sleep and stay mostly under eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the radartwo. In But he's a city like London, thatbad magician's quite easy - cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himwhiffs. The highlight of his day This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to work on the train each morning: be honest, but he'd love to ask her for a date but s turned up and he doesn't ll have the courage. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and asks for his help. Before long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan police.do…|isbn=0008561249
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|authorisbn=Claire McGowanB0C47LV1PC|title=I Know YouFragility|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Then:Yo birthing person'' Casey returns from a walk with joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the babyquestion if you did, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken downwould it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.
''Now:Fragility'' Rachel is out for a walk with her dogset as the city of Portland, BrandyOregon, when she comes across a body in cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the woods.|isbn=1542019974covid pandemic
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|isbn=15291482511529431735|title=Misfits: A Personal ManifestoThe Winter Visitor|author=Michaela CoelJames Henry|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=It''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice s February 1991 and povertyEssex is bitingly cold, yet still compartmentalise? Itwhich made Bruce Hopkins's as though I were telling return all the truth whilst simultaneously running away from itmore surprising. He'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a certain frame of minddecade. You The return has come about because he're not going to read s had a book of essays or a selfletter from his ex-help book. Youwife, saying that she're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coels ill and hasn's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture t long to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festivallive. You might be It''reading'' the book but you need s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to ''listen'' his underwear and sent to the words as though you're a watery grave in the lecture theatreboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a cloud of exquisite writing.problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=0008433631Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Next The Glorious Race of Kin|author=Kia AbdullahMagical Beasts|rating=54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It was Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the sort of thing that happened every daywondrous library we start by visiting with him, although not to Leila Syedand in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. She'd never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but Eli lives with his fatherlovely gran, Andrew Hanson, had rung her too – for there is a generation missing in a panicthe family. He was supposed A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to be taking Max the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to school but he'd been called into work and navigate the delay world in getting there could lead to financial losses. As the school was only five minutes out company of Leila's way, could she drop him off? Of course, she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her carmagical beast. On This has made the race anathema to the way Leila took pair – but when a phone call - there was panic bad incident at her work toothe eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract the sole aim the prize of magic at riskthe end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova178763681X|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Drugs hadnChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really been that much of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had thought of drugs ops as a bit way of a waste of timegetting both men and women to do what he wanted. They still were Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, to who had a great extentbroken arm, but Serrailler knew it didn't turn out that something had to be doneway. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport the drugs The teaching - and the operation running the county lines was tightproblems - are all his own. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn The one thing he hadn't be the correct one) of expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in discovered the body and everyone knows that the organisation. The police might catch a few of consider that person to be the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upprime suspect.
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|isbnauthor=B09FS89KX9Sarah Marsh|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope PottsA Sign of Her Own
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|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. She was just going Suddenly plunged into the final year a world of silence, everything about her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's dinerlife changes. Bob - Living in a time when the owner - regarded her fondly: he use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a good bossschool where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriendFrom here, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well she ends up in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the dinerusing a system called Visible Speech. Then there was At the fact that he would be violentsame time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, both to her and to other peopleEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614
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|authorisbn=John Gwynne1803816759|title=The Shadow Of The GodsUnravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=54|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the first installment wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the Bloodsworn SagaAI system that now runs everything, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarokmaking life easier for many, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all riots start to seespread. This story is the ultimate in High FantasyFinally, and John Gwynne certainly does justice Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and battles galoreJoe is assigned to bring her home. This is a thick bookJoe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic British superfan and gritty world in which our heroes must do battletech nerd, is also on the case.|isbn=0356514218What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?
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|isbn=B09HTWX47X1529421284|title=Endless ObsessionLaying Out the Bones|author=Dai HenleyKate Webb|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly a DCI was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in the Met but now a well-respected private investigatorheatwave. He's married In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to Laurabe Lee Geary, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratorywho had disappeared nine years earlier. FloodHe's daughters, Gemma d been a known drug user and Pippahad learning disabilities, so it could have flown the nestbeen a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, Pippa so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to Australia, from where she has very little contact with the family, suicide of Holly Gilbert and Gemma to married lifetwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy Lockyer and Laura hope DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that married life will provide the support she needs. Flood's business is going well cold cases to you and that was why he felt able to turn down the case of Lisa Blackme) investigate.
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|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou0571379559|title=The StoningHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were The House of Broken Bricks'' is the worldstory of four people. Tess Hembry's tallest cricket stumps. When roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she's discovered by the town gossip everyonemight be happier there, including the local copsbut instead, are quite confident she lives in the culprit has come from house on the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home toriverbank, built of broken bricks. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and Insubstantial as it might look, it's only fair, is stood the general opinionpassage of time, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditionsstorms and floods. Cue the arrival of George Manolis Her husband, a higher rank from the cityRichard, struggles to sort everything out. Because such an aggrievedgrow his vegetables, insular community is really going to welcome a Greekcomplete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys -heritaged city boy laying down Sonny and Max, the lawrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage.Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|isbn=1529416973
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|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H1529425867|title=The Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery of Healing)|author=A P McGrathSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of the common era Ryan and hefather of Ryan, is not. He's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement not any of the populacethose things. The remuneration isnHe't high but the work gives the doctor s white, originated from a feeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''wantsreally'' the warriors to livehis thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. ItYou might wonder if you's quite re being introduced to a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see thempolice procedural written for laughs. Well, theyyou're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to make them look more impressivenot. The sagitarii two men are just different sides of the archers and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with same policing coin. Sometimes the wild animalscombination works brilliantly well. Today, Sometimes it's the crocodilesproblematic.
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|author=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie BlackallMosby Woods|title=The Beatryce ProphecyA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=The West isn''Stories have joy and surprises in them'', we are told heret the dominant force it once was. And none more so than Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this wondrous story, which feels an instant classic with the freshness and the agelessness or even if mending it has in equal proportion. We start with a group of monks, is the Order best course of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on and biting the poor Brothersaction. Governments are flailing. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girlA war here, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King in his castle, desperate to find the girl, push for it climate action there. A feeling that nobody is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne and cause great changein actual charge. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simpleImagine then, amnesiac lass ever prove there was a threat to anyone?|isbn=1529500893}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09FFJF8YS|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3man with precognition.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, Imagine the potty masters strategic advantage in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is this asset; a cry (the big-girl kind!) man who can tell you what will happen given any set of toilet triumph and persevering panty pridecircumstances.'' And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dogThat man would be valuable, her catright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannotthis man loses this ability. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone What would governments do to know get it!back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1
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