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|isbn=00083849830241636604|title=The Paris ApartmentTrading Game: A Confession|author=Lucy FoleyGary Stevenson
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|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you''Things are not what they seem''. It was a Friday and Jess Hadley was keen re unlikely to get to her half-brother's flat in Paristhink of someone like Gary Stevenson. She'd come across from London on Eurostar, courtesy of A hoodie and jeans replaces the money she'd stolen from The Pervert's till in pin-stripe suit and his background is the Copacabana Bar in BrightonEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. It wasn't likely that the police would be There was no posh public school on to her yet his CV - but she'd like he had been to be somewhere safe and with food and drink inside herthe London School of Economics. She'd phoned Ben and got the address Stevenson is bright - 12 Rue des Amants extremely bright - and he told her has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that the apartment was on the third floormost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. She's outside It was his ability at what's obviously was, essentially, a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get in touch card game which got him an internship with BenCitibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=07603735581035021803|title=Nordic KnitsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Sue FlandersC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I was so delighted by Sue FlandersIt'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 her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hats close friend, MittenArthur Crockleford, Scarf is dead and Sock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didn't need any persuading at all circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to pick up the village: Arthur, she feels, let her ''Nordic Knits''down badly. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from NorwayEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, Sweden and Icelandshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. There are After the split, she worked in a few sweaters or jackets but cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the majority love of patterns are for smaller items such as mittensher life, gloves, hats and bags. All are bright who was murdered) and cheerful Freya and very cosyJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=1916072038AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Allie CresswellBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Science Fiction|summary=We meet part ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, shape of things to the house in the hollowcome. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses:'
I've heard it said that 'technology'She is practiced at subterfugewhat happens after you're eighteen. Well, at concealing, beneath I must confess that there have been more than a facade few decades of respectability, the deplorable truthtechnology in my lifetime. I''. Hester is furious about Jocelynve kept up reasonably well with what's refusal advantageous to do as she was asked, which has precipitated me but I'm left with the feeling that it'this violent s all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and unexpected removalend 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 who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers Then we |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are told of the birth of rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a child wartime photographer andAbhi, soon afterthe hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, Hester Talbot departsand keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, leaving Jocelyn in shame their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and isolation in Yorkshirethey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Matthieu Aikins1529153298|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyGeneral Fiction|summary=It's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what't Fear the Water isns worrying Miv't actually fictions family, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at timesthough. Women have been disappearing. This is not by any means a criticism Well, they've been murdered, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to accompany his friend as a refugee move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts Yorkshire, Down South is a vast and at times painful journeyfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. There are tense moments For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way throughshe'll do anything to prevent that. But it She's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality not worried about the dangers or that allows the reader her Mum's stopped talking - to perfectly envisage the environments and people describedanyone.|isbn= B09N9157T6
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1398524085|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5
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|summary=This is the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander BlixCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, a police officersons Niall, Paul and Emma RammOllie and her daughter, a crime journalistEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. In this book we Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find that when one the body of BlixGreg's colleaguesfather, KovicDuncan Ackerley, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries to contact her superior, Blixin the river. Before she can reach him, however, she is It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered, Charlie and Blixthen committed suicide when he couldn's daughter Iselin who shares t stand the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered tooguilt. We then find ourselves a few days later The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with Blix their lives and Ramm, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenwonder about what really happened. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|authorisbn=Daniel Abraham1035906708|title=Age of AshDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= We meet Alys under the most northerly tend to think of Oldgate's four bridgesMaria Callas as Greek, but she has a knife was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in her hand December 1923 and a meeting that only moved to Athens when she dreadswas thirteen. Meanwhile, the City of Kithamar is at a point Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possibleStates. It is the night between When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the funeral of Nazi occupation by a Prince mother who mercilessly exploited her and the coronation made no secret of his successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruledher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=0356515427
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|isbnauthor=1529095522Christopher Edge|title=The Interview|author=C M EwanBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Kate Harding is going Lucas and his friends are all booked in for an interview for her dream job a movie marathon at Edge Communicationstheir local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. It All big movie fans, they's the last interview re looking forward to lots of the day at one of London's newest office buildings exciting films, and Edge have fitted out their part of many, many snacks! However, as the building to be movie starts, they very quickly realise that something special. Maggieabout this new film format is very different, Kateand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn's recruitment agent, is keen t even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to see that Kate approaches the interview in a good state of mind: Kate assumes that this next, can they figure out what on earth is because Maggie will going on? Will they ever get a decent bonus if Kate gets back to the job - cinema, and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recently.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|isbnauthor=B097XNMCRKRachel Greenlaw|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Loch Torridon ''isI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the back wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place seven who swim out to land illegal deliveries of drugssurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto But when the Council Watch lays a nice little earnertrap to end the wrecking, only they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to find that Maccasave him from death, the man he thought he was working Mira makes a bargain with, a wreck survivor who is dead. His remains would never be found. The delivery as charming as he is hijacked by Davie secretive and Callumwith only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. As With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the story progresses wesmuggler'll get s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to know them quite wellsave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|isbnauthor= B09NDJ77LMJames Sherwood Metts|title=Me and My Shadow|author=Deborah StonePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= ''What happens when someone is pushed too far Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they begin 're paid to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt do and other tasks that no one loved you? And how far would you go took time to be happy? Accompany Rachel accomplish. Just as she tries they were beginning to get used to shake off the shadows of her past all this technological change and attempts starting to repair decades worth think of pain.'' Rachel is in a current conversation with her psychiatristother, who pushes her new ways to recall her life from very young childhood onwards. But Rachel is combative with Doctor Blakespend time, sometimes even contemptuous of her. You can see that it's not along came an easy therapeutic relationshipawful pandemic. Rachel's recall of her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight Life was pretty much shut down and each major betrayal in perfect detail , along with absolute and unforgiving clarityit, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=1529409659Matthew Tree|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It was some time since her Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating , a drunk and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongings. She was intrigued by the discovery chronic underachiever whose dreams of a picture being exceptional at any of her own house: it was an old photograph, taken in misty conditions his artistic passions all failed miserably and on the back it said 'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was born. It was before her parents were marriedwho had endless crises of self confidence. When she returned So Tim applied himself to Norfolk she was determined to find out what was behind the photograph his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but Covid intervened and the country was in lockdown. Ruth and Kate are restricted to the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate and continue with her university teaching duties. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carersachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1847941834A G Slatter|title=Atomic Habits|author=James ClearThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleFantasy|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. Ijust want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar've said this before but there are some books that you seek outs, some books that you stumble across a family of witches who protect the town and some books that drop the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into your life because you really MUST read themher family for generations and as such since she was young, likeher training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, right now! Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town'Atomic Habitss leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches'' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is in the last categoryunder threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=B09MSC981W1529900360|title=The Woke IliadGhost Orchid|author=George BoreasJonathan Kellerman
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Helen is a popular activistIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Or should we call her His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a popular influencer? Or perhaps psychologist only worked for a popular franchise owner? Anywaywhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, Helen is so popular who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the United States government has made her its Ambassador of Wokeman she loved needed. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of the government The next case did look simple, including though. Two lovers were murdered in the Shaming Conference and swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''for indoctrinating heir to an Italian shoe empire and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how she is married to have an extremely rich man and it''s not the Italian. Ouch! But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=B09D95TRKZ1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Wedding MurdersSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sarah LinleySion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Libby Steele Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was hoping to get a permanent job with the newspaper GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the case she was covering was her big chancestrain that being on-call put on his father's life. It When he was even more important to her than seventeen he took the celebrity wedding she was to attend the following day opportunity of doing work experience with her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthew. She a family friend who was leaving her seven-year-old son, Patrick with her sister, Emma, a vet and heading off to a grand manor house hotel in was convinced this was the North Yorkshire countrysidejob for him. Daniel AcroydBefore long, television presenter and former member of the rock band he was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that the wedding wasnat Liverpool University. It hadn't ''quite'' - as highwith so many students -profile as had been suggested as there his dream since he was no ban on photos or phonesa child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.
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|isbn=18382268340861541774|title=Carried Away With the CarnivalA Nye of Pheasants|author=Ed BoxallSteve Burrows
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=It DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing facing a man armed with our grandparentsa knife - and he killed a Ghurka. They're there Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to undo all murder the good that parents do, so man. Now he could be facing the trips out were always so much fundeath penalty. A young boy was going Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him: ''It'll be brilliant, just remember, donhelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't let go of my handhelp Danny at all.''
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|isbnauthor=1529135362Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanPerfect Passion Company
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=It was The Perfect Passion Company is a long drive to the weekend retreat dating agency in NorthumbriaEdinburgh, right up near the Scottish borders run by Ness and operating as an alternative to make it worse the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morningonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Jane Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and Ruth had known each other look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a long time but Emily was a bit of an outsiderwhile. She Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than so jumps at the other two womenchance to come home to Edinburgh. The friendship of And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the group went back Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to school dayscharm. Paul had coached rugby at the school where MarkKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, Toby and Rob were pupils. Mark had married Janebut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and Toby is Ruththere's husband. And Rob? Wellalways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, Rob's dead.to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=gareth_steel0811771741|title=Never Work With AnimalsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Gareth SteelMelissa Leapman
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|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrafts|summary=I donMelissa Leapman't often begin my reviews with a warning but with s ''Never Work With AnimalsInstaKnits for Baby'' it seems gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be appropriate. Stories quick knits - others are of a vetthe 's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not long, cosy afternoons in front of the companion volume youfire've been looking forvariety. As a TV show The projects are divided by the author would argue that time they''All Creatures'' lacked realismll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, as do other similar programmesten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. Gareth Steel says that All the book is not suitable for younger readers projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social- after reading media- I agree with him. He says worthy projects' but that he's written it to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eatingme being picky.
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|isbnauthor=1787634884Dean Koontz|title=The Herd|author=Emily EdwardsBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=Our story opens in December 2019, before most of us had even heard of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come to be Benny is having a major issueterrifically bad day. We're in Farley County CourtHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash Kohlihis house gets trashed. As they were best friends until just Oh, and someone has delivered a few months ago we know really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has happened trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is major and a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out thatthe delivery to his house is a new friend, regardless of the outcomea bad weather friend called Spike, this who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is not going to work take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out well for anyonewho exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|author=Annabel AbbsAdam Stower|title=The Language of FoodMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers |summary=Eliza Acton Murray is supposed to be a poet humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who has never had is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the slightest inclination to boil an eggtwo. When tasked with writing But he's a cookery bookbad magician's cat, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with so his favourite bun has been turned into a troubled home life. Togetherhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they testboth use can chuck them out, craftnot into the regular back garden, refine and reshape the but into a world of domestic cookeryfrightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, reinventing the recipe book where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and changing the face of cookery writing forever.he'll have to do…|isbn=13985022270008561249
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|authorisbn=Louie StowellB0C47LV1PC|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble againCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, so is the other gods have decided there's only one thing for question should you make it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki ? Or is spending a month both in exile and in the physical form of a middle-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parentsquestion if you did, and Thor has come along as would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well, to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother of the two. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and to prove it he has to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progress. But Loki .. no. ''Fragility'' is set as the kind city of god who insists he can do anythingPortland, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going Oregon, cautiously begins to be a walk in emerge from the restrictions imposed during the park...right?|isbn=1406399752covid pandemic
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|isbn=00084544421529431735|title=A Flicker in the DarkThe Winter Visitor|author=Stacy WillinghamJames Henry
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's May 2019 February 1991 and Dr Chloe DavisEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a medical psychologist, is completing a session with wanted drug smuggler for a new patientdecade. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe The return has hopes of getting her through the trauma. You see, Chloe knows what itcome about because he's like to have had a traumatic childhood. Her father is Richard Davis, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to the girls - trophies taken letter from their bodies his ex- tucked away in a cupboard at home and wife, saying that she 's ill and her mother handed it hasn't long to the policelive. Dick Davis It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary abducted, stripped to his underwear and Chloie has had nothing sent to do with him for a watery grave in the last twenty yearsboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Her mother is in Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a care problem closer to home.?
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|author=Christopher EdgeAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Escape RoomThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=34
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|summary=I've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the process by which a character or characters wondrous library we start by being trapped visiting with him, and in the evening a specific location, helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and have to solve problems in order to get their way outruns. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for that would require actual friends) there is seen a prose book describing people generation missing in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the firstfamily. Here A few short years ago, Ami and four other tweenagersEli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all new entrants have to each other and booked into navigate the world in the game without any company of their friends, are a team magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – starting out but when a bad incident at the game's main officeseatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in sole aim the world prize of literature?magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=17880079640571382231
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|isbn=1732898731178763681X|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book Knife Skills for AdultsBeginners|author=Michael Albanese |rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and the like: all the things which most children have in abundance. The Boy's delight was in the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happy. As he grew up and became a Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that one of them has a padlock...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09MN1526W|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)|author=Liz MistryOrlando Murrin
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|summary=ItChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's the third murder in the space t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of a few weeks getting both men and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagerswomen to do what he wanted. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst Paul ''somehow'' got the first to arrive on the scene impression that he'd be at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of Bradford. Onlyschool to assist Paul, this timewho had a broken arm, but itdidn's going to be differentt turn out that way. The body appears to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephew, Haqib, teaching - and she has a very public meltdownthe problems - are all his own. It isnThe one thing he hadn't Haqib: there are similarities but expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is everyone knows that the police consider that Nikki is going person to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depressionthe prime suspect.
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|author=Ally WilkesSarah Marsh|title=All the White SpacesA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=In post-WWI EnglandAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis RandallEllen Lark loses her hearing. For Jonathan Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, this adventure represents everything about her life changes. Living in a chance for time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a fresh start, and the opportunity school where she is taught to live life as his authentic self and true genderlip read, without the disapproval and constraints of his parentsbut physically restrained from signing. However From here, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the confines of his past deaf and the shadow of the war hangs like using a funeral shroud over system called Visible Speech. At the expedition. Guiltsame time, mistrust and grief stalk the party Bell is working on other inventions andideas, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is to make it out complicated tangle of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tombespionage.|isbn=17890978351035401614
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1803816759|title=QuicksilverThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=2.54|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. HeIt's not had 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, bit of adventure and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staffto get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But when this book starts he IS then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind''runs everything, making life easier for something – call it unearthly intuitionmany, call it mind-controland riots start to spread. Finally, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go Joe gets to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash do some real policing. In the value aftermath of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this rioting global pop star Suki is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up kidnapped and suggest he's of interest Joe is assigned to thembring her home. Helped Joe isn't the only one trying to escapesave Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, also on the case. What went wrong? Did the discovery that he system fail or was it hacked? And how is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|isbn=1542019885Suki's kidnapping connected?
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|isbn=00084416181529421284|title=Other ParentsLaying Out the Bones|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Ann Juckes|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleWebb
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Jasper is It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a little boy who has some struggles, and whilst we're never told why exactly, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotionsheatwave. His big sister, Rosie, has been In a huge support to himgully, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, and writing a book with him, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared human skeleton came to help him calm down. His parents seem completely caught up in their business, the surface and so it is Rosie he always turns forensic testing proved the body to. Even though she has gone away to University nowbe Lee Geary, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs herwho had disappeared nine years earlier. But now he can He't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she wouldd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, and she isnso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't answering her phoneconvinced. His parents won't speak to him or when they do Geary was a townie, so what was he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to be right, the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, time. Lockyer and if they can find DC Gemma Broad of the nightingale Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and listen to its song, as they do together every Springme) investigate.|isbn=1398510890
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|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)0571379559|title=Red is My HeartThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in my the houseon the riverbank, built of broken bricks. And so was this one Insubstantial as it might look, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one wasit's stood the passage of time, storms and isfloods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, black to complete the delivery rounds - and white to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and redMax, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Yes People don't believe that they're related, he has much less twins and there's an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think itassumption when Max is out with his mother that she's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideashis nanny.|isbn=1913547183
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|isbn=15291355671529425867|title=One Step Too FarLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Lisa GardnerSimon Mason
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|summary=It's five years since the stag weekendIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Five Raymond Wilkins is of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmenNigerian descent, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil Balliol educated and Joshalways exquisitely dressed. The first night they had plenty D I Ryan Wilkins, son of alcohol - too much really - Ryan and in the night Scot managed to wander off. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that Timfather of Ryan, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for helpis not. When help didnHe't come the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign s not any of Timthose things. Every year, TimHe's fatherwhite, Martinoriginated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that theyhis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're looking being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you'remainsre not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it' rather than for Tims problematic.
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|author=Gunnar StaalesenMosby Woods|title=Bitter FlowersA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in rehab and the West is now returning quite sure how to workmend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. HoweverA war here, the quiet job he's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigationpush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, and there was a mystery around man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a missing woman. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case man who can tell you what will happen given any set of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never foundcircumstances. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to That man would be linkedvaluable, but what is right? Perhaps the linkmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truththat this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=191319308XB0C9SNG8R1
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