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|isbn=15291259440008517061|title=City of the DeadDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Jonathan KellermanStig Abell
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|summary=When you drive large vehicles for Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a living, you're careful and it's not just little uncertainty about the way that you drive. You restrict your alcohol intake future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and if it's her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleep. When you're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off at 5 a.m. when the roads are quieter, even if you have -grid and relaxing life to wait up when you get move in with Livia or does Livia move to where you're going. Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? And it was going well until For the men hit something moment they’re enjoying life in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeles. The man was stark naked the present and couldn't be identifiedputting the future on the back burner.
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|authorisbn=1786482126|title=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme The Janus Stone (TranslatorDr Ruth Galloway)|titleauthor=I May Be WrongElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre= AutobiographyCrime|summary= When Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the Dalai Lama adds his words site was going to your frontispiece, Ihold seventy-five 'm inclined to think it doesnluxury't really matter how apartments - when they discovered the rest bones of the world responds to your booka child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. I knowWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, having read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with that thoughtDCI Harry Nelson. He It's difficult as Ruth knows (and at core so do I) , but Nelson doesn't, that it matters very much how the rest she is pregnant with his child as a result of the world responds to this bookone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because it tells the truth as it Ruth is, in the early 21st centuryprone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1526644827
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC10008551324|title=The Patient Devil You Know (A DS Cross thrillerD S Max Craigie)|author=Tim SullivanNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DS George Cross It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Aspergerany respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's Syndromeprepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. He can be rudeThis person, he promises, difficult is someone big and awkward with people, although it's never intentionalwill be worth the police doing what he wants. It's just that And what he thinks differently wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and social niceties simply don't occur to himget an early parole date. ThereNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit t think so and itshe's even prepared to do the other thing that he has the best conviction rate Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with cases, ever. His partner him is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Crosskept well away from what's behaviourhappening.
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|isbn=15291516000008405026|title=Give Unto OthersA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Donna LeonJane Casey
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changedIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. The ''pandemia'' stripped She was never found and the city of its tourists for nearly two years and investigation ground to a lot of businesses have closedhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, most never to reopenand her father are dead in their bed. ThereInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's now a cascade something about the positioning of money as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end to greedthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they What looked as though it was going to launder all the money which be an open-and-shut case is coming their way? Whilst he's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was now a childcomplex double murder. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and sheKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'd like Brunettis disappearance: others (such as Derwent's adviceboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Marcus Sedgwick0571379877|title=WrathThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Meet FitzEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himselftheatre director. Lockdown is only just over He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and he should be free entitled and uses Edward to do what he wants, to go where he wants run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when 's drunkenly confided how he talks feels to his best friend, CassieRobert. They were half of Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a desultory school band, relationship had begun between them but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the end two of the world is already them kissing in a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can'tdark passageway...|isbn=1800900899
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|isbnauthor=1635864070Jo Callaghan|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah TalleyLeave No Trace
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|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=If you've ever started knitting When a pair man is found crucified on the top of socksa hill in Nuneaton, finished the first one and either got bored by DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the idea of doing the same thing all over againcase alongside her sidekick, or started on the second sock and lost the AI detective Lock. It's their first before you finished itlive case together, this having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is the book for you. Where a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is it suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that single socks go draws a lot of unwanted attention to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to knit two socks solve the case in onetime, divide them up or will Kat find herself taken off the case and have , potentially, out of a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds goodcareer? It's clever and well-thought-out.|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Olivie Blake1399613073|title=The Atlas SixMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary= DarkOlivia, sharpLaura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and highly inquisitive, she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it'The Atlas Sixs going to end in tragedy. We don't 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. This time, it' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensations their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1529095239
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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
|genre=Crime
|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=It's the third murder in the space of Chef Paul Delamare took a few weeks and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagers. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on the scene teaching job at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of Bradforda residential cookery school in Belgravia. Only, this time, itHe didn's going t really want to be different. The body appears to Nikki to be that but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of her beloved nephew, Haqib, getting both men and she has a very public meltdownwomen to do what he wanted. It isnPaul ''t Haqib: there are similarities but somehow'' got the body is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is impression that Nikki is going to he'd be on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depression.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ally Wilkes|title=All at the White Spaces|rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathanschool to assist Paul, this adventure represents a chance for who had a fresh startbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the opportunity to live life as problems - are all his authentic self and true gender, without the disapproval and constraints of his parentsown. However, Jonathan isn The one thing he hadn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expeditionexpected was for someone to turn up dead. Guilt Unfortunately, mistrust and grief stalk he was the person who discovered the party body and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is to make it out of everyone knows that the Arctic winter alive, he will have police consider that person to face his demons once and for all, or risk making be the barren, icy landscape his tombprime suspect.|isbn=1789097835
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