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|authorisbn=Sarah Ann Juckes0008517061|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Jasper is a little boy who has some strugglesFormer Metropolitan Police detective, and whilst we're never told why exactlyJake Johnson, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotionssettled into his rustic life at Little Sky. His big sister, Rosie, has been There’s perhaps a huge support to himlittle uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, talking him down when things were difficultLivia and her daughter Diana, encouraging him, and writing as moving in together would mean a book with him, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm down. His parents seem completely caught lot of compromise: does Jake give up in their business, his off-grid and so it is Rosie he always turns relaxing life to. Even though she has gone away move in with Livia or does Livia move to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs Little Sky despite her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when reservations about whether or not this is the future she said she would, wants for herself and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be right, the present and putting the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find future on the nightingale and listen to its song, as they do together every Springback burner.|isbn=1398510890
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|authorisbn=1786482126|title=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken The Janus Stone (translatorDr Ruth Galloway)|titleauthor=Red is My HeartElly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read Builders were demolishing an old house in my houseNorwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. And so There was no skull. Was this onea ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one wasnight they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, and not least because Ruth is, black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's possible prone to say not one page lacks the influence sudden bouts of some striking visual ideassickness.|isbn=1913547183
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|isbn=15291355670008551324|title=One Step Too FarThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Lisa GardnerNeil Lancaster
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|summary=It's five years since unusual for anyone from the stag weekendHardie family to approach the police. Five Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of them had set out: Tim (the groom) a missing person is buried and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy)responsible for her death. This person, Neil he promises, is someone big and Joshit will be worth the police doing what he wants. The first night they had plenty And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of alcohol - too much really - his sentence and in the night Scot managed to wander offget an early parole date. The remaining four searched for him in vain and Not much to ask, is it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. ? When help didnThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't come the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Tim. Every year, Timthink so and she's father, Martin, and the four friends have been back even prepared to continue do the search although they do now acknowledge other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that theyDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tims happening.
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|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen0008405026|title=Bitter FlowersA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=3.5
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|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and is now returning the investigation ground to worka halt. However Now, the quiet job he's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigationher mother, Helena, and a mystery around a missing womanher father are dead in their bed. Varg finds himself not only investigating these Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but also looking into an old, cold case there's something about the positioning of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was never found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear going to be linked, but what an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the linkexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308XUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Kia Ahankoob0571379877|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, each obsessed with its own strength and weakenesshis upper-class friends, in the hope they would complement each other Robert and collaborate, creating Stanza. Robert's a dynamic and prosperous societytheatre director. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad He's children also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their descendantsuniversity days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. But it didn Most men in Robert't quite work out like s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of a relationship had begun between them and the eight countries went but he's not like most men: Edward is left to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding stumble upon the cost two of war too high, them kissing in a solution is proposed. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Dunivadark passageway.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV
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|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsJo Callaghan|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinLeave No Trace
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|genre=Crime
|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James When a man is at found crucified on the top of a meeting with Dominique Shawhill in Nuneaton, Undersecretary for DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the school systemcase alongside her sidekick, a representative from the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakerAI detective Lock. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is an exploration of the possibility suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of the idea behind the book being used unwanted attention to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiestheir AI Future Policing project. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could Will they be as able to solve the problem seems to occur case in Nigerian time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust , potentially, out of the people she speaks to and photographs.a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=B09Q3P283Y1399613073|title=ShadebringerMoral Injuries|author=Grayson W HooperChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for the US Army during the Vietnam Wara quarter of a century. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, nor which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is he particularly interested in a career in perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the militarygroup and she becomes a GP. If he When we first meet them they's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself re at least a drug and alcohol- he hasn't got many choices fuelled party and this one, at least, gets him out of the rut heit's going to end intragedy. He We don's good in training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training courset know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. He This time, it's chuffed with himselftheir teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy0241636604|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=There is no mermaid 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 millpond. That at least is what Bess pin-stripe suit and his background is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kidsEast End, who have where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had their entire childhoods sold been to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homeSchool of Economics. Bess knows there Stevenson is no time for friendship in a handbright -toextremely bright -mouth, every man for himself kind and he has a facility with numbers which most of existenceus can only envy. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything He also realised that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending most rich people expect poor people only leads to harmbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, there might be essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workerstrader. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X
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|isbn=17856330741035021803|title=Staggering HubrisThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Josh BerryC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=HumourCrime|summary=Members of Parliament like us It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to believe that the English country is run by politiciansvillage where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, headed by the Prime minister - the Carole. Freya''primus inter pares'' (thats former mentor and Carole's for those of you who are Eton close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that circumstances seem suspicious, to say the ''prime'' movers are least. Arthur was the special advisers - reason why Freya had not been back to the SPADS - who are village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the driving force behind man or pursue the governmentprofession she loved. We are After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the privileged position of having access to rebound from the memoirs love of Rafe Hubrisher life, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name murdered) and Freya and James have now but he will certainly be the man to watchdivorced.
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|isbn=B09MYXSRV4AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=OtterAll Tomorrow's CoatFutures: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareFictions that Disrupt|author=Cordellya SmithBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=When ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the world was made, the animals were given giftsshape of things to come. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so '' I've heard it said that he could see the present 'technology'and'is what happens after you' the futurere eighteen. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunatelyWell, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. not the ability to use it I've kept up reasonably well. He liked with what's advantageous to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race me but I'm left with Turtle. You might think the feeling thatit's not a fair contest but wait and seeall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Things are not always as 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 seem're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I'll tell you how it came aboutneeded people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|author=Giovanna FletcherSunny Singh|title=Walking on SunshineHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionThrillers |summary=Mike's wifeThe 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 rampaging through, Pia, who he was with for seventeen yearskilling everyone on site, has died. And whilst he there is dealing with his griefSam, so are their best friendsa wartime photographer and Abhi, Vicky and Zazathe hotel manager. But Pia left them all some 'rules' As Abhi continues to follow, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help try to carry on living. Whilst some of care remotely for the rules residents who are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobestill alive in the hotel, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to take one of their trips awaybe cowed by events, and Vicky and Zazakeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, struggling with their grief friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and their own life troubles, decide they both wait to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with himsee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=140593560X086154742X
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|isbn=15293939301529153298|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your BusinessThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Sophie RochesterJennie Godfrey
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|genre=CraftsGeneral Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'Starting a creative business has never s not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been easierdisappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have ' disappeared'doesn'If not now, when?t sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she' I know s overheard that Iher father wants to move the family 'Down South'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. ThereWhen you's re from Yorkshire, Down South is a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as giftsfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Selling For Miv, the move would offset the costsmean leaving her best friend, Sharon, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun to she'll do, couldn't it? But where anything to start? prevent that. What do I need to think She's not worried about? Well, the first thing dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making a Living''.
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|isbn=suppl_stafl1035906708|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversDiva|author=Kim StaflundDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=ReferenceGeneral Fiction|summary=SoWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, you've finished writing your book but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and you think the hard work is all done? only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. YouHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas're convinced that all you need to do now is get make it published and the money will start rolling more manageable in? Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - and you had a talent for delivering the written wordStates. You knew your subject When she was back to front. Now you're going to have to in Athens - supposedly so that she could get to grips with appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the book supply chain, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no one wants to be the first to try. Then, when you ''finally'' have a copy secret of the book in your handsher preference for her elder sister, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to youJackie.
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|isbnauthor=1398706906Christopher Edge|title=The Lost|author=Simon BeckettBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=CrimeConfident 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 disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officerBlack Hole'. All big movie fans, Jonah Colleythey's young sonre looking forward to lots of exciting films, Theoand many, just about finished himmany snacks! However, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happened. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and when he wokemovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, Theo had gone. It cost him his marriage and his homethey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Ten years later he's largely come through it and he's out with his team when he gets a phone call But as they lurch from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used one film genre to be his best friend but it's a long time since the next, can they've spoken. figure out what on earth is going on? He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - Will they ever get back to the cinema, and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quay. ''There's no one else I can trust'', he says.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|author=Amanda MasonRachel Greenlaw|title=The Hiding PlaceCompass and Blade
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|genre=HorrorTeens|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, Nell Galilee takes her husband a remote and stepdaughter to Whitbypartially forgotten island, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the name wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place seven who swim out to sort things outsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But therewhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's something not quite right about Elder Housefather. The atmosphere Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is unsettling secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off – and before long Nell starts in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to suspect that she and unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her family arenfrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler't alone there…s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=18387719640008664730}}
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|author=Paul CleaveJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Quiet PeoplePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary= I am not Things have been a fan of "bit sticky for the Prologue"Earthlings. Most books are the worse for themAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. In Just as they were beginning to get used to all this case I might make technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an exceptionawful pandemic. We start Life was pretty much shut down and, along with Luca Pittman who is in a hurry. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not haveit, and when he hurries, when he bundles things into all the back of his car and tries to run and then hears sirens behind him, many daily social interactions on which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badlydepend so heavily.|isbn=19131939421736128426
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|author=Will CarverMatthew Tree|title=Psychopaths AnonymousWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and alsoTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing drunk and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of people's misery, his artistic passions all failed miserably and targets for her violent behaviourwho had endless crises of self confidence. Yet she also seems So Tim applied himself to be searching for others who think as she doeshis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornhimself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1913193756B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1529418100A G Slatter|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin WalkerThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesFantasy|summary=I'm not usually ' There's a fan part of short stories - me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I find it can. This secret magic of my own, all too easy mine, at last. I just want to put enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am world, lies Silverton; a fan town under the protection of Martin Walkerthe Briar's [[Martin Walker, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the 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 Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the temptation to read ''Brunotown's Challenge'' was hard to resist leader, and I'm rather glad that I didn't even tryEllie takes her place beside her. For those new As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the seriesdead, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to know about who's another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the background Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to why Bruno survive, is in St Denisunder threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF1529900360|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jenny O'BrienJonathan Kellerman
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her son. Hunter It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had diabetes been badly injured but he felt responsible and this even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was controlled by a pump attached reluctant to ask for his stomach, so her overhelp on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her to get married and she thought it would be -shut cases which didn't need the help of a good idea psychologist only worked for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likea while. Her friendFinally, Millyit was Robin, had arranged to take her boyfriend, LiamDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for a night in a posh hotel but then he dumped her and help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she couldn't get the money backloved needed. The next case did look simple, so Hannah was offered though. Two lovers were murdered in the opportunity to go swimming pool of a remote property in his placeBel Air. She would return home He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to find Ian dead an extremely rich man and five-year-old Hunter missingit's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q1529395224|title=Without Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a TraceVet|author=Jane BettanySion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Life hadnSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: shewant to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father'd just come through s life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a divorce vet and right now it was raining hardconvinced this was the job for him. All she wanted Before long, he was to get back to her new home and settle down for a quiet eveningat Liverpool University. It wasnhadn't going to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a knife in his chestchild. SheIf anything, he'd no idea who he waswanted to be a professional footballer.
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|isbn=18387748230861541774|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemNye of Pheasants|author=S J BennettSteve Burrows|rating=54
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|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's 2016 close friend and the Queen's Private Secretaryformer colleague, Danny Maik, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided 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 too much good claret he was facing a man armed with a knife - and too little exercise is putting he killed a strain on his waistbandGhurka. SwimmingInitially, he decides, is the way faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to go and light that suggested that he can use might have planned to murder the Buckingham Palace pool which is how man. Now he came to could be there early one morning and discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at the side of facing the pooldeath penalty. There was broken glass - Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a crystal tumbler, by the look diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled out. Still, it was a shock for Sir Simonall.
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|isbnauthor=057136358XAlexander McCall Smith|title=April in Spain|author=John BanvilleThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Terry Tice was The Perfect Passion Company is a hitmandating agency in Edinburgh, although he didn't think of himself run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in those termsproviding a more personal, tailored service. He saw what he did Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as ''Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a matter of making things tidy''while. I couldn't resist Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondochance to come home to Edinburgh. He enjoyed his jobAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, something which occurred bringing us to him when he was in Burma an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with the army ''where he got the chance some new characters who quickly begin to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''charm. He was spending Katie has no experience in running a lot of time with Percy Antrobus business, or in match- who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles making, but Ness has full confidence in the ''morning''? It was after Percyher abilities, and there's death that he saw the benefits of taking up always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a job in Spain.hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn=Dave Letterfly Knoderer0811771741|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=AutobiographyCrafts|summary=How Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to summarise blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv 'long, cosy afternoons in a pithy sentence to kick off a review front of his memoir? Do you know, I really donthe fire't think I can. Dave is an author and an artist. An inspirational speaker and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholicvariety. The son of a Lutheran minister, heprojects are divided by the time they's struggled with a controlling fatherll take to complete - less than five hours, run away five to join the circus (not a metaphor)ten hours, trained horses, painted caravans, designed ten to twenty hours and painted theatre setsmore than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and hit rock bottom useable. I perhaps show my age when the bottle took overI wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=B0965V3LLN
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|author=Tade ThompsonDean Koontz|title=Far From the Light of HeavenThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=Science FictionParanormal|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion Benny is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to spacehaving a terrifically bad day. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, bound for the world of Bloodrootand his house gets trashed. Oh, she will essentially be and someone has delivered a babysitter for the ship's AI captain. Howeverreally weird, when she wakes up at the end of her trip disturbing coffin-sized object to find dozens of her passengers butchered his home, and the Ragtimeit's AI almost non-responsivepossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, she begins Benny is the very last person to realise deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodrootthe delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are who has been sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtimehelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Meanwhile Spike is going to take care of Benny, former astronaut and friend will certainly take care of ShellBenny's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodrootenemies, half-alien daughter in towif he, to see why the Ragtime has gone quietBenny, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station LagosHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=03565143231662500491
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|author=Rob KeeleyAdam Stower|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!Murray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoliMurray is supposed to be a humble, cabbage tidy and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their nosesfriendly cat, Lily one who is keen able to explain how good they are for you sleep and eat and how nice to eatand sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. One day But he's a bad magician's cat, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordanso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriatedand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, Lily checks with not into the teacherregular back garden, who explains that fruits grow on trees but into a world of frightening adventure and vegetableswhiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, like carrotswhere a troll hunter is expected – well, grow in the ground. Jordan saysone much bigger than Murray was, "I did try to tell herbe honest, Miss!" but he's turned up and everyone laughs at poor Lily.he'll have to do…|isbn= B09HHN541V0008561249
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|isbn=178607981XB0C47LV1PC|title=Bad ApplesFragility|author=Will DeanMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up Can you make a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the side of question should you make it? Or is the road. Wondering question if someone needed help she got out of you did, would it land? The catch is that the car - and heard the screams from deep inside the forestanswer for both could well be.... no. Determining the direction of a sound isn ''Fragility''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 set as the body city of a man. He'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav PerssonPortland, Oregon, a resident of Visberg.cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir1529431735|title=Cold As HellThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= In It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a red suitcase as the bottom of wanted drug smuggler for a fissure in decade. The return has come about because he's had a lava fieldletter from his ex-wife, there saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a body. And watery grave in the man who has put her there has just discovered that he is capable boot of killinga stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=1913193888 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|author=Lucy HopeAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=FledglingThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene Eli is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit busy lad – by bit over the decades, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. It's day an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so apprentice in the wondrous library shelving system is not as we'd know itstart by visiting with him, and in the roof is retractable, there is evening a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and so onruns. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier Eli lives with PTSD and his lovely gran, too – for there is a passion for generation missing in the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy. A few short years ago, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and Eli's parents were both lost to the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassietitular race, a young lass who has globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to do all navigate the world in the maintenance company of this bizarre machine-like abodea magical beast. Oh This has made the race anathema to the pair – 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 bad incident at the eatery leads to a heavenly arrival confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is going to be a completely great and wonderful dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing, think again..to possibly save his gran.|isbn=183994188X0571382231
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|isbn=1846276772178763681X|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our MindsKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Jessica NordellOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in that they may no longer even recognise the extent Belgravia. He didn't really want to which they suffer from it: it's simply but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a part way of everyday life. White getting both men will always come firstand women to do what he wanted. The able will come before Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the disabled. Jobs, promotionsschool to assist Paul, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become had a part of an organisation broken arm, but itdidn's rare t turn out that their views are heard, that their concerns way. The teaching - and the problems - are acknowledgedall his own. ItThe one thing he hadn's personally appalling and degrading t expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the individuals on person who discovered the receiving end of body and everyone knows that the bias but it's not just police consider that person to be the individuals who are negatively impactedprime suspect.
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