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|isbn=13987069060241636604|title=The LostTrading Game: A Confession|author=Simon BeckettGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=The disappearance If you were to bring up an image of Metropolitan police firearms officera city banker in your mind, Jonah Colleyyou's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. He'd fallen asleep in A hoodie and jeans replaces the park whilst Theo was playing pin-stripe suit and when his background is the East End, where he wokewas familiar with violence, Theo had gonepoverty and injustice. It cost him There was no posh public school on his marriage and his homeCV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Ten years later he's largely come through it Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he's out has a facility with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneynumbers which most of us can only envy. Gavin used He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be his best friend but it's a long time since they've spokenstupid. He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in It was his voice - and he asks Jonah to meet ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him at Slaughter Quayan internship with Citibank. ''There's no one else I can trust''Eventually, he saysthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|authorisbn=Amanda Mason1035021803|title=The Hiding PlaceAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
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|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Needing an escape It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from their turbulent lifeher beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, Nell Galilee takes her husband is dead and stepdaughter the circumstances seem suspicious, to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by say the name of Elder Houseleast. She hopes that it will be Arthur was the perfect place reason why Freya had not been back to sort things outthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. But there's something Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not quite right about Elder Housefelt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. The atmosphere is unsettling After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and off – married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and before long Nell starts to suspect that she Freya and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964James have now divorced.}}
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|authorisbn=Paul CleaveAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Quiet PeopleAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary= I am not a fan ''Opening up new ways of "thinking about the Prologue"shape of things to come. Most books are the worse for them'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. In this case Well, I might make an exceptionmust confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. We start I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with Luca Pittman who the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is in a hurry- frankly - quite frightening. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have Of course, I could research the possibilities and when he hurries, when he bundles things into the back of his car probabilities and tries to run end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes who could deliver information in a riskway I could understand. It ends badly.|isbn=1913193942
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|author=Will CarverSunny Singh|title=Psychopaths AnonymousHotel Arcadia
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|genre=Thrillers|summary=Maeve The Hotel Arcadia is a high functioning alcoholicluxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, drinking continuously and alsokilling everyone on site, curiouslythere is Sam, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing wartime photographer and critiquing Abhi, the AA steps she is mainly using the groups hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to find targets...targets care remotely for sexual encountersthe residents who are still alive in the hotel, targets he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to feed be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her desire room to try to hear of peoplecapture what's misery, and targets for happened through her violent behaviourphotography. Yet she also seems Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to be searching for others who think as she does, help her keep safe and when she's unable they both wait to find like-minded people in any of see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornterrorists.|isbn=1913193756086154742X
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|isbn=15294181001529153298|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Martin WalkerJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? Imean, honestly...) She'm s not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walkerwhat's [[Martin Walkerworrying Miv's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to read have 'disappeared'Brunodoesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's Challengeupset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family ' was hard to resist and IDown South'm rather glad that I didn. When you't even tryre from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For those new to Miv, the seriesmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, thereand she'll do anything to prevent that. She's an excellent introduction not worried about the dangers or that will tell you all you need to know about whoher Mum's who and the background stopped talking - to why Bruno is in St Denisanyone.
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF1398524085|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jenny O'Brien|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her son. 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 it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' like. Her friend, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for a night in a posh hotel but then he dumped her and she couldn't get the money back, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go in his place. She would return home to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missing.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q|title=Without a Trace|author=Jane Bettany|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through a divorce and right now it was raining hard. All she wanted was to get back to her new home and settle down for a quiet evening. It wasn't going to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed with a knife in his chest. She'd no idea who he was.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838774823|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog Problem|author=S J BennettNicci French
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|genre=Crime
|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's 2016 fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and the Queen's Private Secretaryher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistbandnot. SwimmingShortly afterwards, he decidesEtty and Greg, is the way to go and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to be there early one morning and discovered find the body of Cynthia Harris at Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the side of the poolriver. There It was broken glass - a crystal tumbler, by an easy assumption for the look at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris police to make that Duncan had slipped murdered Charlie and cut herself so badly that she had bled outthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Still, it was a shock for Sir SimonThe Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=057136358X1035906708|title=April in SpainDiva|author=John BanvilleDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't We tend to think of himself in those terms. He saw what he did Maria Callas as ''a matter of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist the thought that he Greek, but she was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his jobborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, something which occurred in December 1923 and only moved to him Athens when he she was thirteen. Her original surname was in Burma with the army Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'where he got the chance to kill a lot of make it more manageable in the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''States. He When she was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus back in Athens - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a swizzle stick supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It she was after Percy's death that he saw raised under the benefits Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of taking up a job in Spainher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|author=Dave Letterfly KnodererChristopher Edge|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=How to summarise the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a pithy sentence to kick off movie marathon at their local cinema, a review place that has the nickname of his memoir? Do you know'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, I really donthey't think I can. Dave re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is an author very different, and they are swept up into an artistadventure they couldn't even imagine. An inspirational speaker and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholic. The son of a Lutheran minister But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, he's struggled with a controlling father, run away can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to join the circus (not a metaphor), trained horses, painted caravanscinema, designed and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when the bottle took over.to their real lives?|isbn=B0965V3LLN1839942738
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|author=Tade ThompsonRachel Greenlaw|title=Far From the Light of HeavenCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for I can hear the world song of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's AI captainsea. However, when she wakes up at the end The call of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsivedeep, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as 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 the Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter answering beat in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating= 4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and auberginesmy heart. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|isbn= B09HHN541V}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178607981X|title=Bad Apples|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of the road. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of the car - and heard the screams from deep inside the forest. 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
|rating=5
|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
|rating=3.5
|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
|rating=4
|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=For SharingCrime|summary= Toots, trumps, fartsChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn He didn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny really want to talk about but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and joke about, women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go he'd be at the wrong time. In classschool to assist Paul, saywho had a broken arm, when everyone will hear but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and everyone will laughthe problems - are all his own. At you The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and gently and calmly, with everyone knows that the familiar humour attached, explains police consider that tooting is perfectly normalperson to be the prime suspect. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}}
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|isbnauthor=1784165263Sarah Marsh|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma CurtisA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Martin Curran's wifeAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letEllen Lark loses her hearing. If she didn't get homeSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, there would be troubleeverything about her life changes. There was some excuse: Martin Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a paraplegic and confined school where she is taught to a wheelchairlip read, but don't be too quick to be understandingphysically restrained from signing. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a disappointment''system called Visible Speech. All this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrivedAt the same time, unannouncedBell is working on other inventions and ideas, at the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in before it was advertised as being availablea complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614
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|isbn=17847427751803816759|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)The Unravelling|author=Susan HillWill Gibson|rating=54|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Drugs hadnIt't really been that much of s 2038 and Joe is a problem in Lafferton bored cop policing the wealthy and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of a waste of timeadventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. They still wereBut then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to a great extentspread. Finally, but Serrailler knew that something had Joe gets to be donedo some real policing. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport In the aftermath of the drugs rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and the operation running the county lines was tightJoe is assigned to bring her home. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldnJoe isn't be the correct only one) of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the organisationcase. The police might catch a few of What went wrong? Did the runners but theysystem fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki'd never get anywhere near those higher up.s kidnapping connected?
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|isbn=B09FS89KX91529421284|title=Fall On MeLaying Out the Bones|author=Penelope PottsKate Webb|rating=34.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. She was just going into In a gully, a human skeleton came to the final year of her veterinary degree surface and - three forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years later - was still working at BBearlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's dinert convinced. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he Geary was a good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriendtownie, Marcus: her mother thought he so what was great and he was doing well in his career. out on Salisbury Plain alone? Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted There are connections to control her the suicide of Holly Gilbert and most of all he wanted her to leave her job two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the dinertime. Then there was Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the fact Major Crimes Review Unit (that he would be violent, both 's cold cases to her you and to other peopleme) investigate.
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|authorisbn=John Gwynne0571379559|title=The Shadow Of The GodsHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
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|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=''The Shadow Of The Gods House of Broken Bricks'' is the first installment story of the Bloodsworn Sagafour people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, set she lives in the era house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the Vikings in the shadow passage of Ragnaroktime, storms and floods. Her husband, when Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the Gods have battled delivery rounds - and their bones lie scattered for all to seebring in sufficient money. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creaturesrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, archaic language much less twins and battles galore. This there's an assumption when Max is a thick book, out with an intricate plot and fascinating characters his mother that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battleshe's his nanny.|isbn=0356514218
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|isbn=B09HTWX47X1529425867|title=Endless ObsessionLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Dai HenleySimon Mason|rating=4.5
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|summary=ItIn 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 Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly a DCI in the Met but now a well-respected private investigatornot any of those things. He's married to Laurawhite, originated from a trailer park, formerly barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his DS in the Murder Squad but now working wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in a forensics laboratorylime green or acid yellow. FloodYou might wonder if you's daughters, Gemma and Pippa, have flown the nest, Pippa re being introduced to Australiaa police procedural written for laughs. Well, from where she has very little contact with you're not. The two men are just different sides of the family, and Gemma to married lifesame policing coin. She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide Sometimes the support she needscombination works brilliantly well. FloodSometimes it's business is going well and that was why he felt able to turn down the case of Lisa Blackproblematic.
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|author=Peter PapathanasiouMosby Woods|title=The StoningA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=3.54|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 sheThe West isn's had rocks bowled at her as if she were t the world's tallest cricket stumpsdominant force it once was. When she's discovered by Nobody in the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are West is quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home sure how to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and mend this or even if mending it's only fair, is the general opinionbest course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for the occupants are often setting their own fires climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in protest at their conditionsactual charge. Cue the arrival of George ManolisImagine then, there was a higher rank from man with precognition. Imagine the city, to sort everything outstrategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. Because such an aggrievedThat man would be valuable, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down right? Perhaps the law.most valuable asset in history.Imagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=1529416973B0C9SNG8R1
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