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|authorisbn=Mark Lingane0008517061|title=GalaxyDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=SparkFormer Metropolitan Police detective, who is an elite pilot Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with the Space Academyhis vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, barely makes it through as moving in together would mean a battle alive. His colot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years, he remembers little grid and is relaxing life to move in no physical shape with Livia or does Livia move to resume his duties. But Earth Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is under threat the future she wants for herself and he must. Returned by his superiors to her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the space station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity - present and not just from putting the future on the alien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itselfback burner. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W
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|authorisbn=Lissa Evans1786482126|title=WishedThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=When things contrive Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the neighbourhood spinsterish old woman, Miss Filey, for bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a week of half-termritual killing or murder? Inevitably, they're not looking forward to itDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. For one thingIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she thinks Wi-Fi is pregnant with his child as a special brand result of biscuit. They don't particularly take to Willard either, the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywhere. But things soon change when one night they find spent together some tiny old birthday candles, and manage to work out that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come truethree months ago. How Her condition will things change for a second time when they realise thatbe obvious before long, having used up three not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of them, these should really be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202Xsickness.
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|authorisbn=Justyn Edwards0008551324|title=The Great Fox IllusionDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. 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 a contest with a differencemissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. No singing This person, no dancinghe promises, this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks work, someone big and who can attempt it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to win The Great Fox's magical legacy - serve the secrets to all remainder of his tricks! Flick is determined sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to winask, but not because she wants to own the tricks. She is interested in just it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'one'' trick, s even prepared to do the trick other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that The Great Fox stole DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from her father. And shewhat's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able to bring her missing father homehappening.|isbn=1529501946
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|authorisbn=Jason Rohan0008405026|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access Denied|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Arun and Sam have had little to do with Donna, a girl at their school. But things immediately change at the start of this extended sprint of a novel, when she insists Arun's house has become the attention of plain-clothes coppers and that they should bunk off school to find out why. And thus an unlikely trio of misfit young heroes is formed – Sam is really not Donna's idea of company, but he is the computer buff, Donna seems to know all the criminal ins and outs and survival skills, and Arun? Well, it's his lot to find out that all he based his family life on isn't true, and that his father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved Stranger in something quite unexpected. But how can this disparate trio hope to best MI6, kidnappers, people able to keep the truth about themselves secret for decades, and so much more?|isbn=1839943386}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1638485216|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law EnforcementFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Frederick ReynoldsJane Casey
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|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''. The murder of George Floyd, a forty-sixs sixteen years since nine-year-old black manRosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvinher mother, a forty-four-year-old police officerHelena, and her father are dead in the US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the worldtheir bed. We rarely see pictures of Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder taking place /suicide but Floydthere's death was an exception. The image something about the positioning of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I'll ever forget the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and the protests which followed cannot have been unexpectedher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. There What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a backlash against complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the police - and not just explanation lies in MinneapolisRosalie's disappearance: whatever their colour or creed they were others (such as Derwent''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brushs boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=B09DD1QJKJ0571379877|title=The ClubKellerby Code|author=Ellery Lloyd|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''The party of the year turned into the murder mystery of the decade.'' Just off Littlesea, in Essex and a mile or so into the Blackwater Estuary, The Manor stood on an island. It was now known as Island Home, one of The Home Group's exclusive clubs and the opening weekend was going to be something special, even by Home's standards. Speedboats, helicopters and blacked-out SUVs were converging on the island, which was linked to the mainland by a causeway that was inaccessible at high tide. Home's CEO, Ned Groom, is determined that everything, ''everything'' will be perfect. Home has 5761 members: just 150 of them have received invites for the weekend. Those who have not been invited have not stopped ringing...}}{{Frontpage|author=Melissa Fu |title=Peach Blossom Spring Jonny Sweet
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|genre=Historical Fiction Crime|summary= I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom SpringEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, a short chapter entitled ''Origins''Robert and Stanza. Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of Robert's a book that I expected more fromtheatre director. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family He's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the war with Japanalso self-obsessed, demanding, a young mother (Meilin) handsome and entitled and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who fleeuses Edward to run errands for him. The story follows them on Edward has been in love with Stanza since their journey across China, university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in RenshuRobert's case eventually position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to Americastumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway. |isbn=1472277538
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|author=Vanda SymonJo Callaghan|title=FacelessLeave No Trace
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpointsWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, several troubled people are thrown into the same story thanks to just one mis-stepAI detective Lock. Set in New Zealand, the It's their first of our characters is Bradleylive case together, a middle aged man struggling having previously been very successful with an overbearing boss, a weighty mortgage, and what he feels is an unappreciative wifeseveral cold cases. Then there’s Billy, a homeless teenage girl who But when there is a street artist working as second body found crucified a prostitute sometimes in order to pay for the materials she needs. And then we have Maxfew days later, who Kat is also living on the streets suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and who keeps an eye on Billy. He is a shell very high profile case that draws a lot of a man, barely able unwanted attention to take any care of himself, and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he is nowtheir AI Future Policing project. One nightWill they be able to solve the case in time, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress or will Kat find herself taken off the case and anxiety, driving down the street looking for a prostitute. He picks up Billypotentially, and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and out of a spiral away from the person he thought he was into someone very different.career?|isbn=1914585046139851120X
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|isbn=07603735311399613073|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the WorldMoral Injuries|author=Sue FlandersChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsThrillers|summary=Just occasionally you encounter Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a book quarter of knitting patterns a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which seems is a bonus when you aim to meet your every needbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Right now, it's bitterly cold Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When wefirst meet them they're in the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socks, scarves, hats at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and mittens. They have it's going to look stylish, keep me warm and be so cheerful that they make me feel betterend in tragedy. If that sounds like a lot to ask, have a look at ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items and I We don't think that there was one of them which I couldn't see myself wearingknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. We start with Twenty-five years later there will be an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of eerily similar event that will impact the history of knittingthree friends. It's not essential but This time, it's a nice extratheir teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=17765740280241636604|title=Bumblebee GrumblebeeThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=David ElliottGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=I love If you were to bring up an image of a good board book! city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (erEast End, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' where he was familiar with words violence, poverty and make something quite different from each oneinjustice. We have There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the elephant who dons a tutu London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and becomes he has a ''balletphant''facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. The buffalo who has had It was his ability at what was, essentially, a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off card game which got him an internship with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''Citibank. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a ''smtrader.......'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!
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|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX1035021803|title=Death at FriarThe Antique Hunter's InnGuide to Murder|author=Rob KeeleyC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were in the finals of the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society of FriarIt's Inntwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. For aspiring barristers, moots test the participantsShe' knowledge s back now because of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: it's a great way of getting invaluable practice and of getting yourself noticedrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Tom Freya's former mentor and Nat are from 'a provincial universityCarole' s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and they're ''almost'' looked the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down on because of thisbadly. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has an abundance of confidencenot felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any betterAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1529125944AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=City of the DeadAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Jonathan KellermanBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=When you drive large vehicles for a living, you're careful and it's not just Opening up new ways of thinking about the way shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you drive're eighteen. You restrict your alcohol intake and if itWell, 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 a trip advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleep. When youit're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 as all getting away from me.mSome of it is - frankly - quite frightening. when Of course, I could research the roads are quieter, even if you have to wait possibilities and the probabilities and end up when you get to where youdown rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're going. And it was going well until talking about or the men hit something in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeleslatest conspiracy theorist. The man was stark naked I needed people I knew I could trust and couldn't be identifiedwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|author=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)Sunny Singh|title=I May Be WrongHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre= AutobiographyThrillers |summary= When 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 Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispieceterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, I'm inclined to think it doesn't really matter how the rest of the world responds to your bookhotel manager. I know, having read As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the book residents who are still alive in questionthe hotel, that Lindeblad would disagree he forms a bond with that thoughtSam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. He knows (and at core so do I) that it matters very much how the rest of Although they only ever talk over the world responds to this bookphone, because it tells the truth their friendship grows as it is, in Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the early 21st centuryterrorists.|isbn=1526644827086154742X
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|isbn=B0949Q1DC11529153298|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)List of Suspicious Things|author=Tim SullivanJennie Godfrey
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably AspergerIt's Syndrome1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. He can be rude(A woman? I mean, difficult and awkward with people, although ithonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's never intentionalfamily, though. ItWomen have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared's just that he thinks differently and social niceties simply dondoesn't occur to himsound quite so frightening. ThereMiv's a reason why heupset because she's in Bristoloverheard that her father wants to move the family 's Major Crime Unit and itDown South'. When you's that he has re from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best conviction rate with casesfriend, Sharon, everand she'll do anything to prevent that. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (She's not an emotion he would recognise, worried about the dangers or welcome being attached to himself) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Crossthat her Mum's behaviourstopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=15291516001398524085|title=Give Unto OthersHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Donna LeonNicci French
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changedCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. The ''pandemia'' stripped the city of its tourists for nearly two years Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and a lot of businesses have closedher daughter, most never to reopenEtty. There's now a cascade of money as life begins again are all worried but even 125- strangely - her husband,000 deaths have Alec, is not put an end to greed. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the money which is coming their way? Whilst hebody of Greg's thinking about thisfather, Duncan Ackerley, Brunetti encounters someone in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was a childt stand the guilt. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and she'd like BrunettiThe Salter children are not convinced but there's advicelittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Marcus Sedgwick1035906708|title=WrathDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full We tend to think of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just overMaria Callas as Greek, and he should be free but she was born to do what he wantsGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to go where he wants and with whom he wants, Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in her father changed it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie When she was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying back in Athens - supposedly so that she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of get appropriate training for her ecovoice -warrior parents saying the end of she was raised under the world is already Nazi occupation by a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Wellher preference for her elder sister, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't..Jackie.|isbn=1800900899
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|isbnauthor=1635864070Christopher Edge|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah TalleyBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=If you've ever started knitting Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a pair place that has the nickname of socks'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, finished the first one and either got bored by the idea they're looking forward to lots of doing the same thing all over againexciting films, or started on the second sock and lost many, many snacks! However, as the first before you finished itmovie 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 book for you. Where next, can they figure out what on earth is it that single socks go to hidegoing on? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you Will they ever get back to knit two socks in onethe cinema, divide them up and have a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds goodto their real lives? It's clever and well-thought-out.|isbn=1839942738
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|author=Olivie BlakeRachel Greenlaw|title=The Atlas SixCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary= Dark''I 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 wrecks. Mira, sharplike her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and highly inquisitiveany treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'The Atlas Six'' s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensationbargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in 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 determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=15290952390008664730
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|isbnauthor=0008384983James Sherwood Metts|title=The Paris Apartment|author=Lucy FoleyPlanet Storyland
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=''Things are not what have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they seem''re paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. It was a Friday Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and Jess Hadley was keen starting to get think of other, new ways to her half-brother's flat in Paris. She'd come across from London on Eurostarspend time, courtesy of the money she'd stolen from The Pervert's till in the Copacabana Bar in Brightonalong came an awful pandemic. It wasn't likely that the police would be on to her yet but she'd like to be somewhere safe Life was pretty much shut down and , along with food and drink inside her. She'd phoned Ben and got it, all the address - 12 Rue des Amants - and he told her that the apartment was many daily social interactions on the third floor. She's outside what's obviously a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get in touch with Benwhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=0760373558Matthew Tree|title=Nordic Knits|author=Sue FlandersWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsLiterary Fiction|summary=I was so delighted by Sue Flanders' [[Cozy Knits: 30 HatTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, Mitten, Scarf a drunk and Sock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didn't need chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any persuading at of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to pick up her ''Nordic Knits''. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norwayhis studies, Sweden cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and Iceland. There are a few sweaters or jackets set himself high but the majority of patterns are for smaller items such as mittens, gloves, hats and bags. All are bright and cheerful and very cosyachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1916072038A G Slatter|title=The House in Briar Book of the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie CresswellDead|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary=We meet '' There's a part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home This secret magic of my own, all mine, at Ecklington, last. I just want to the house in the hollowenjoy it for a while. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses:'
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|authorisbn=Matthieu Aikins1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Naked Don't Fear the WaterSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Politics Animals and SocietyWildlife|summary=ItSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn's easy t want to forget at times follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that The Naked Donbeing on-call put on his father't Fear s life. When he was seventeen he took the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like opportunity of doing work experience with a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen family friend who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts was a vast vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at times painful journeyLiverpool University. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But it It hadn's written t - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader child. If anything, he'd wanted to perfectly envisage the environments and people describedbe a professional footballer.|isbn= B09N9157T6
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger0861541774|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is the third book 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 series of stories featuring Alexander Blix, street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a police officer, knife - and Emma Ramm, he killed a crime journalistGhurka. In this book we find that when one of Blix's colleaguesInitially, Kovic, uncovers he faced a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to contact her superior, Blixmurder the man. Before she can reach him, however, she is murdered, and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares Now he could be facing the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered toodeath penalty. We then find ourselves Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a few days later with Blix diplomatic incident and Ramm, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it wouldn't help Danny at all happen. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|author=Daniel AbrahamAlexander McCall Smith|title=Age of AshThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= We meet Alys under The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridgesonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. she Ness has a knife in asked her hand younger cousin Katie if she could come and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhilelook after the business, the City of Kithamar as Ness is at planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possiblewhile. It Katie is the night between the funeral coming out of a Prince break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. 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 coronation of his successorIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. For Katie has no experience in running a night the Kithamar is unbusiness, or in match-ruled.making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=03565154271846976596
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|isbn=15290955220811771741|title=The InterviewInstaKnits for Baby|author=C M EwanMelissa Leapman
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=Kate Harding is going Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for an interview for her dream job at Edge CommunicationsBaby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. It Some will be quick knits - others are of the 's the last interview long, cosy afternoons in front of the day at one of Londonfire's newest office buildings and Edge have fitted out their part of variety. The projects are divided by the building time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to be something specialtwenty hours and more than twenty hours. Maggie All the projects are attractive, Katemodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's recruitment agentme being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, is keen and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to see his home, and it's possible that Kate approaches whoever or whatever was inside is the interview in a good state of mind: Kate assumes thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the job - and she has delivery to admit that life his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has not been easy sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for her recentlybeing a good person. Spike is going to 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 who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=B097XNMCRKAdam Stower|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=Loch Torridon ''Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who isable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician' s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the back of beyond: there's catflap they both use can chuck them out, not even any light pollution which is why it was into the perfect place to land illegal deliveries regular back garden, but into a world of drugsfrightening adventure and whiffs. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto This time round it drops them into a nice little earnerViking land, only to find that Maccawhere a troll hunter is expected – well, the man he thought he one much bigger than Murray was working with, is dead. His remains would never to be found. The delivery is hijacked by Davie honest, but he's turned up and Callum. As the story progresses wehe'll get have to know them quite well.do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn= B09NDJ77LMB0C47LV1PC|title=Me and My ShadowFragility|author=Deborah StoneMosby Woods
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person''What happens when someone is pushed too far and they begin to lose their grip on realityjoke? How would you cope And if you felt that no one loved could, is the question should youmake it? And how far Or is the question if you did, would you go to be happyit land? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off The catch is that the shadows of her past and attempts to repair decades worth of painanswer for both could well be.... no.''
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|isbn=15294096591529431735|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)Winter Visitor|author=Elly GriffithsJames Henry|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating 's February 1991 and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her motherEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins's belongingsreturn all the more surprising. She was intrigued by He'd been exiled on the discovery of Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a picture of her own house: it was an old photographletter from his ex-wife, taken in misty conditions saying that she's ill and on the back it said hasn'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was bornt long to live. It was before her parents were married. When she returned 's hard to Norfolk she was determined feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened his underwear and the country was sent to a watery grave in lockdown. Ruth and Kate are restricted to the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate and continue with her university teaching dutiesboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant Is it a warning from next door whom they got a Spanish gang or a problem closer to know whilst clapping for carers.home?
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|isbnauthor=1847941834Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Atomic Habits|author=James ClearThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=I've said this before but there are some books that you seek outEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themin the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, liketoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, right now! ''Atomic Habits'Eli' s parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is in to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the last categoryonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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|isbn=B09MSC981W178763681X|title=The Woke IliadKnife Skills for Beginners|author=George BoreasOrlando Murrin
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Helen is Chef Paul Delamare took a popular activistteaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a popular franchise owner? Anyway, Helen is so popular that the United States government has made her its Ambassador way of Wokegetting both men and women to do what he wanted. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the governmentschool to assist Paul, including the Shaming Conference and the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''for indoctrinating and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how to have had a broken arm, but itdidn''t turn out that way. Ouch!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09D95TRKZ|title=The Wedding Murders|author=Sarah Linley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get a permanent job with the newspaper teaching - and the case she was covering was her big chanceproblems - are all his own. It was even more important to her than the celebrity wedding she The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to attend the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthewturn up dead. She Unfortunately, he was leaving her seven-year-old son, Patrick with her sister, Emma, and heading off to a grand manor house hotel in the North Yorkshire countryside. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter person who discovered the body and former member of everyone knows that the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected police consider that person to be the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phonesprime suspect.
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