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|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Alan ParksGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=To Die in JuneThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=What first seems like It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the unfortunate, accidental death English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a homeless man on request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the streetscircumstances seem suspicious, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then anothersay the least. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoyArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, but all the more so because his own father is a let her down-and-out alcoholicbadly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, with no fixed abode, and he she has been for yearsnot felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. At After the same time as facing these possible murderssplit, Harry is also dealing with she worked in a move to a different police stationcafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the arrival there love of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missinglife, only no record of the boy having existed can be foundwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784
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|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover
|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''
I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, 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 latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|author=Laura NoakesSunny Singh|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Meet Number OneThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Or ratherHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, Cosima Unfortunate. Or ratherkilling everyone on site, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in there is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledgerSam, a wartime photographer and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilitiesAbhi, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly uponthe hotel manager. But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems As Abhi continues to try to be known about where she came from, as care remotely for the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family residents who are still alive in the outside world. During hotel, he forms a daring escapade bond with Sam who refuses to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoonbe cowed by events, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems and keeps on venturing out of her room to want try to adopt all the girls for his Institutecapture what's happened through her photography. But whyAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the past she has so little link with?terrorists.|isbn=0008579059086154742X
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|authorisbn=Thomas D Lee1529153298|title=Perilous TimesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=35|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what'Hate is s worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the path of least resistancefamily 'Down South'. When you' Set in the near-distant futurere from Yorkshire, in Down South is a world on the verge of climate collapsefrightening, foreign place, Britain is in great perilbest avoided. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save For Miv, the day move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and rescue what little remainsshe'll do anything to prevent that. What no one expected was She's not worried about the dangers or that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the callher Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=0356518523
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|authorisbn=Madelaine Lucas1398524085|title=Thirst for SaltHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Loves fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, I'd readsons Niall, was supposed to be a light Paul and Ollie and weightless feelingher daughter, Etty. are all worried but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined strangely - herhusband, Alec, is not. Overlaid with later wisdom Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the narrator relives body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer afterriver. Set against the backdrop of It was an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst easy assumption for Salt'the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn' details t stand the 24-year-old narratorguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's deepening relationship little else they can do but get on with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships their lives and how it altered her irrevocablywonder about what really happened.|isbn=0861546490
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|isbn=15293828231035906708|title=The Last PassengerDiva|author=Will DeanDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Caroline Riley (We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly was born to Greek parents in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise to Manhattan, New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she doesnwas thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 't know whether sheCallas's relieved or disappointedto make it more manageable in the States. They've not been a couple When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for that long and her voice - she was raised under the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him Nazi occupation by a bit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementiamercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie. It's going to be good, isn't it?
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|author=Lex CroucherChristopher Edge|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they'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 very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?
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|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Who knew that what ''I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestlycan hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, it lifted the answering beat in my spirits in a most delightful wayheart. In this story'' Rosevear, Gwen a remote and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tinypartially forgotten island, much to their mutual disgust! Gwensurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, you seelike her mother before her, is in love with Bridget (one of the seven who swim out to survey the kingdom's only female knight) - something ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that Art discovers from her private diarieslies within. And then But when Gwen then catches Art kissing the Council Watch lays a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating trap to end the subterfuge of falling in love with each otherwrecking, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentscapture the island's leader and Mira's father. But Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as their impending wedding draws ever closerhe is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, will they find she sets off in search of a way family secret that lies buried deep in which they can both truly the sea. 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 smuggler's territory, Mira must be themselves, or are they destined determined to stop at nothing to live a lie their whole lives?save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=15266517930008664730
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|author=Emily CritchleyJames Sherwood Metts|title=One Puzzling AfternoonPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in Things have been a bit sticky for the same small town for almost her whole lifeEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, but now she is facing a move often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as her son wants they were beginning to move get used to another house all this technological change and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory think of her childhood friendother, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years agonew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw heralong with it, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers all the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day lifemany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=18041812501736128426
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|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)Matthew Tree|title=Thirty Days of DarknessWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=Thrillers Literary Fiction|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeableTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, bitter woman, an author a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon being exceptional at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world any of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash his artistic passions all failed miserably and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusationwho had endless crises of self confidence. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark So Tim applied himself to Icelandhis studies, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it allcultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1804545600A G Slatter|title=The Monk|author=Tim SullivanBriar Book of the Dead
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=The body in the woods near Bristol was '' There's a nasty shock - a monk strapped 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. I just want to enjoy it for a chair and dumped in a ditchwhile. He'd been savagely beaten. It' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's , a while before D S George Cross family of witches who protect the town and the Major Crime Unit establish that this wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is Father Dominic. He'd been missing the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a few days steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and certainly hadnpotions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't asked permission to leave his abbey. As s cousin Audra becomes the team gradually unpick Briar Witch, the monktown's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved as an investment bankerleader, brotherand Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, neighbour right and friendcentre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. HeReeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faithlegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat. Why would someone savagely murder him?|isbn=1803364548
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|authorisbn=Lauren Bravo1529900360|title=PrelovedThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary= Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom It 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 a big number difficult cases. His assertions that starts with a four there were only open-and ends with an oh-my-God-Ishut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware'm-nearly-fortys partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue Two lovers were murdered in the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit swimming pool of a mid-life crisisremote property in Bel Air. Catharsis is key He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and Gwen has decided now she is the time married to take back her lifean extremely rich man and it'|isbn=1398510629s not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|authorisbn=Cath Howe1529395224|title=My Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life on Fireof a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Ren's family home is destroyed in a fireSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. She, her parents, His father was a GP and her little brother lose everything. She doesnRowlands didn't have any of her clotheswant to follow in his footsteps, or any of her special little knickparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-knacks from her cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmothercall put on his father's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eatlife. When she goes back to school she discovers that he was seventeen he took the class are opportunity of doing work experience with a special art project, creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and show family friend who they are as was a personvet and was convinced this was the job for him. But Ren has nothing to put in a boxBefore long, and so she finds herself starting to steal thingshe was at Liverpool University. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have It hadn't - as with so much alreadymany students - been his dream since he was a child. But what will happen If anything, he'd wanted to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=1839942835be a professional footballer.
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|isbn=00085170100861541774|title=Death Under a Little SkyA Nye of Pheasants|author=Stig AbellSteve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=The marriage had run its courseDCI 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. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadn't ended Maik was involved in miscarriages but no one else a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was involved facing a man armed with a knife - certainly not on Jake's side and he didn't think there was for Faye eitherkilled a Ghurka. They were still polite Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to each other and wished each other well - but didn't wish light that suggested that he might have planned to remain marriedmurder the man. The perfect solution arrived in Now he could be facing the form of a legacy from Jake's Uncle Arthurdeath penalty. He'd been left Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a secluded property in the hamlet of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - diplomatic incident and enough money to live there without the need to workwouldn't help Danny at all.
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|author=Jennifer SaintAlexander McCall Smith|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.|isbn=1472292154}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny JacksonThe Perfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''Pineapple Street'' The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the story of three women: Sashaonline apps in providing a more personal, Darley and Georgianatailored service. Darley Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and George are sisters and Sasha look after the business, as Ness is married planning to take a trip to Canada to their brother Cordget away for a while. They're StocktonsKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth and so she isn't readily accepted into jumps at the tribechance to come home to Edinburgh. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarchAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, Tildabringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like thanks to move into the Pineapple 44 Scotland Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to another property, a street or so away, which they owncharm. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple StreetKatie has no experience in running a business, so Sasha and Cord can move straight or in. Nominallymatch-making, they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. Shethere's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to 'the GD'.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=00085512780811771741|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Neil LancasterMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Affi Smith was snatched 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 bottom 'long, cosy afternoons in front of Fyrish, where shethe fire'd been doing her trainingvariety. SheThe projects are divided by the time they'd been a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squadmore than twenty hours. That's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seeAll the projects are attractive, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at the age of twelvemodern and useable. She was rescued I perhaps show my age when she was carrying a kilo of drugs and three years later sheI wonder about 's happy with her foster family. Theresocial-media-worthy projects's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sister, Melodi is in a childrenbut that's home in Tirana - and anyone could get to herme being picky.
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|author=Emily TeshDean Koontz|title=Some Desperate GloryThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=Science FictionParanormal|summary=''While EarthBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's children livepossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the enemy shall fear us'' Following very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the destruction of the Earthdelivery to his house is a new friend, amongst a rare number of survivorsbad weather friend called Spike, Kyr who has been raised on Gaea Station – the home sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of the last scraps Benny, and will certainly take care of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the world that should have been hers. All her lifeBenny's enemies, if he, she has been conditioned to fall in lineBenny, to fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveresHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=03565218341662500491
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|isbnauthor=0861544056Adam Stower|title=Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline SutherlandMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=Belle Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and David's twin daughters are just coming friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the end of their first term at universitytwo. KitBut he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been at Bristol turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and Jess's in Exeter. It's the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not only into the first time they've been away from their parents for any length regular back garden, but into a world of time - but they've also been apart from each otherfrightening adventure and whiffs. Belle can't wait to have This time round it drops them all into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that be honest, but he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': turned up and he's twenty-four ll have to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=1785633457B0C47LV1PC|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric CarFragility|author=Clive WilkinsonMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=TravelLiterary Fiction|summary=Clive Wilkinson has Can you make a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the idea of exploring question should you make it? Or is the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In factquestion if you did, would it should land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, JoanOregon, shouldn't it?cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Frederic Seager1529431735|title= Jesus, the Man and the Myth: A Jewish Reading of the New TestamentThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre= Spirituality and ReligionCrime|summary= I was brought up in a family where religion played little or no part. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side It's February 1991 and Welsh Methodist on the otherEssex is bitingly cold, nobody really discussed religion and which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the adults around me ranged from lapsed to agnostic to atheistmore surprising. Other than He'd been exiled on the odd church wedding or baptism or the school nativity playCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, I didnsaying that she's ill and hasn't think too much about faith or what people did or didnlong to live. It't believes hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=B092BWWG9Y Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=0571370977Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Lock-Up|author=John BanvilleGlorious Race of Magical Beasts
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=It's six months since Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the dramatic events which wondrous library we read about in [[April in Spain start by John Banville|April in Spain]] visiting with him, and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and living (if somewhat uneasily) runs. Eli lives with his daughterlovely gran, Phoebe. The worst of his grief too – for there is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made a generation missing in the already strained relationship between them more difficultfamily. TheyA few short years ago, Eli're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when s parents were both lost to the body of titular race, a young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a lock-upmagical beast. At firstThis has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke Eli knows his only hope is convinced that it was murder rather than suicideto dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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|authorisbn=Julia Bartz178763681X|title=The Writing RetreatKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in the world of publishing knows the nameBelgravia. Writers He didn't really want to be her, agents want but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to represent herdo what he wanted. She Paul ''s something of somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a legend with an impressivebroken arm, if compact, back catalogue of works but it didn't turn out that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhoodway. Alex, a writerThe teaching -slashand the problems -editor, is more than a little obsessed with Rozaare all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited everyone knows that the police consider that person to be part of her month-long writers' retreatthe prime suspect.|isbn=0861544439
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|author=Patrick Ness and Tea BendixSarah Marsh|title=Different for BoysA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Teens General Fiction|summary=Ant is After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in Year Eleven at quite a standard schooltime when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, and Ellen is surprised sent to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography a school where she is ever learnt) has been restructuredtaught to lip read, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy but physically restrained from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days togethersigning. As they're all fired From here, she ends up, straining at the leash only a single-sex in another school can form, studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the talk in class deaf and out often turns to sexusing a system called Visible Speech. Which is confusing for AntAt the same time, as he doesn't know what his score Bell is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months nowworking on other inventions and ideas, and so has effectively progressed Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because a complicated tangle of who he's been having the relationship and the sex withespionage.|isbn=15295094911035401614
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|authorisbn=M R Carey1803816759|title=Infinity GateThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=54
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary= I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because itIt's 2038 and Joe is a genre I dislike – nothing of bored cop policing the sortwealthy and peaceful New York City. My standards are high precisely because it's Joe longs for a hard genre bit of adventure and to get right – stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and when it's badriots start to spread. Finally, it's often terribleJoe gets to do some real policing. But In the premise aftermath of Infinity Gate had me hookedthe rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. A concept this intriguing felt like Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a high-stakes gamble: if it British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was done well, ithacked? And how is Suki'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.|isbn=0356518043s kidnapping connected?
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|isbn=13985095821529421284|title=The FavourLaying Out the Bones|author=Nicci FrenchKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 2 am, not long after A levels, when one of those flash downpours that the car crash happened. It would cause problems for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he and Jude Winter were togetherBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. She was utterly driven by her determination In a gully, a human skeleton came to go the surface and forensic testing proved the body to medical school. Liam was the reversebe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He just acted ''as if life just rolled him over d been a known drug user and carried him along'had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. A bit of weed hereGeary was a townie, a few drinks there: so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the legal effects suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the car crash really didn't worry him at alltime. The relationship broke up soon after Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that - or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any mores cold cases to you and me) investigate.
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|isbn=08570517410571379559|title=The Sins House of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationBroken Bricks|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Fiona Williams
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson 'The House of Broken Bricks'' is going to investigate the case story of a body found four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in a freezer at the home house on the riverbank, built of a deceased alcoholicbroken bricks. The problem is that the case has long passed Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the statute passage of limitationstime, storms and floods. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in 1962sufficient money. He was They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is People don't believe that this is a dying manthey're related, much less twins and there's wish. The situation changes an assumption when a post-mortem establishes Max is out with his mother that Henry Pekkari, the dead alcoholic, was also murderedshe's his nanny. Is there a connection between the two deaths?
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|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni1529425867|title=Her Deadly GameLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the lifeIn 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 work not any of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in defence of his clientslime green or acid yellow. Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has You might wonder if you're being introduced to a gift police procedural written for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the formerlaughs. Enter Keera DugganWell, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in you're not. The two men are just different sides of the hideous position of asking her father for a job at same policing coin. Sometimes the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|isbn=1662500181
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|author= Rob KeeleyMosby Woods|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other StoriesA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
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