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|authorisbn=Natasha Hastings and Alex T Smith1786482126|title=The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost FairJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=''The River Thames had frozen Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to death in its sleep.hold seventy-five 'luxury' And thus the Frost Fair could happen – people trading on the completely icedapartments -over river, like our heroine Thomasina's father with his gingerbread and confectionery shop. Thomasina will be working when they discovered the Fair too – but her twin brother won't, as he dies in Chapter Onebones of a child beneath a doorway. It There was a tragedy she feels no small guilt for, and which has made her father skull. Was this a sullen, closed shop – and her bed-bound mother has spoken not a word – not even opened her eyes, more ritual killing or less – in the four years sincemurder? Inevitably, eitherDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. But into the darkIt's difficult as Ruth knows, frosted London comes Inigobut Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with supreme magical powers, and his child as a willingness to help Thomasinaresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Not only can he introduce her Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to the fantastical Other Frost Fair, using the river surface at night for no end sudden bouts of mystical beasts and characters and their happenings, but he has a unique proposal for Thomasina, which will shake her world to its coresickness.|isbn=0008496056
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|authorisbn=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams 0008551324|title=The Book of Hope Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society Crime|summary= The done thing 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 read tell the police where the body of a book all missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the way through before you sit down police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to review it. I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want open prison to lose any of serve the experience remainder of reading this amazing book, I want his sentence and to capture it as it hits meget an early parole date. And Not much to ask, is it ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is hitting mekept well away from what's happening. This beautiful book has me in tears. |isbn=024147857X
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|isbn=15295047670008405026|title=The Christmas Doll A Stranger in the Family (The Repair Shop StoriesMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyJane Casey
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Susan was very young when she was evacuated It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destinationbed one summer night. She needn't have worried though as she went to was never found and the home of Mr and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder investigation ground to hera halt. She even had Now, her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed mother, Helena, and began to enjoy her lifefather are dead in their bed. SheInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there'd help Mrs Russell with s something about the positioning of the baking bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and when her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it came was going to Christmas Eve Susan be an open-and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree-shut case is now a complex double murder. The best surprise happened Kerrigan is convinced that the following morningexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)0571379877|title=Red as BloodThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missingEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, all the evidence seems to point towards her having been kidnapped. The ransom note tells him not to have any contact obsessed with the police, so instead he enlists the help of Arorahis upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a financial investigatortheatre director. She manages He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to persuade Flosi that they will need the help of the police, run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and she calls her detective friend, Daniel, whom she met when he was investigating her sister’s disappearance's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Together, they start to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearance, trying Most men in Robert's 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 arouse stumble upon the suspicion two of anyone, since they have no idea who the kidnappers might be, yet the more they uncover, the more confusing things becomethem kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1914585321
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|isbnauthor=0861541995Jo Callaghan|title=Wolf Pack|author=Will DeanLeave No Trace|rating=4.5
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|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck When a man is found crucified on the road north top of Visberg. She sees blood on a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the road and a creature on its side near case alongside her sidekick, the pine treesAI detective Lock. It will turn out to be Bronco's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a Swedish Elkhoundsecond body found crucified a few days later, who has been attacked by Kat is suddenly struggling with a wolf. Tuva takes Bronco potential serial killer and his owner, Bengt Nyberg, a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to the vettheir AI Future Policing project. Bronco didn't make it but on the way, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missing. She'd been working at Rose Farm and Moodyson's journalist's instincts are soon brought Will they be able to solve the fore. Rose Farm is now home to a group of survivalists but back case in 1987 time, or will Kat find herself taken off the then ownercase and, Johan Svenson murdered his wifepotentially, and his two eldest children and then killed himself. His newborn child, just four weeks old survived. Does this have any connection to the disappearance out of Elsa Nyberga career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Alison Hughes1399613073|title=FlyMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
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|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=This is a very impressive readOlivia, as it does Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a lot quarter of what mainstream teen and tween fiction still struggles witha century. Its focus Olivia is courtesy of the first-person narration from Flyruthlessly ambitious, which is a secondary school lad with cerebral palsy, bonus when you aim to be a down-on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a cleaner, perfectionist and a carer while at school, trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a bundle of assumptions people lay on himGP. First When we first meet them they assume that with 're at a broken body comes a broken mind, then they decide hedrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's a maths savant – they even believe they can get away with calling him Fly, which isngoing to end in tragedy. We don't his real nameknow 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, but everybody just uses it's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1525305832
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|isbn=37913883980241636604|title=New European BakingThe Trading Game: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and PastriesA Confession|author=Laurel KratochvilaGary Stevenson
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|genre=CookeryAutobiography|summary=This is probably one If you were to bring up an image of the most unusual baking books Ia city banker in your mind, you've encounteredre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. It's built around 99 recipes for breads, brioches A hoodie and pastries but jeans replaces the recipes are interwoven with some thought-provoking writing on how bread pin- stripe suit and baking - have changed in his background is the twentieth East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and early twentyinjustice. There was no posh public school on his CV -first centuriesbut he had been to the London School of Economics. We start with the basics Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - the equipment you'll need (there's nothing extravagant or indulgent) and the ingredients, where the author is particularhe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. You might not have He also realised that different salts can change the flavour and sensation on the tongue of the finished product butmost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, apparentlya card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, they dothis turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|authorisbn=Andrew Givler1035021803|title=Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=It''Matt s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has a terrible lifebeen back to the English country village where she grew up. Seriously—it She's awful. It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years back now because of a blissful life in exchange request for his soulhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole' Poor Dan! I knows close friend, I knowArthur Crockleford, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman. He never hits his targets dead andthe circumstances seem suspicious, when he fails to get even Matt say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to sign be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the dotted linerebound from the love of her life, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signaturewho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1958204021
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|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris SmithAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Super GhostAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Paragon City has been lucky ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have the great Doctor Extraordinary, their very own superhero taking care been more than a few decades of themtechnology in my lifetime. Whenever the evil Captain Chaos has come I've kept up reasonably well with another cunning plan (usually involving a giant robot of some description) Doctor Extraordinary has been there what's advantageous to thwart her mischief and save me but I'm left with the dayfeeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. But one day the Doctor and Of course, I could research the Captain are trapped together inside a giant robot that then explodes, possibilities and the hero probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the villain are no morelatest conspiracy theorist. Or are they…?|isbn=0241470536I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=B0B7289HKQSunny Singh|title=Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari LoyaHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=TravelThrillers |summary=Kari (The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that rhymes with ‘sorry’, has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the way) wanted to spend some time with his father terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do ithotel manager. The decision was made As Abhi continues to try to ride care remotely for the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktownresidents who are still alive in the hotel, Virginia he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to Astoriabe cowed by events, Oregon - all 4250 miles and keeps on venturing out of it - in 2015her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than Although they only ever talk over the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up phone, their friendship grows as more of a challenge that it would Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be for most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer'srescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Christopher Bowden1529153298|title=Mr MagentaThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45
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|summary= Christopher BowdenIt's latest novel 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's lifeworrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, carried out by but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her nephew after she has diedfather wants to move the family 'Down South'. The aunt who always provided When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a safe harbour frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and a little bit of indulgence she'll do anything to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation her Mum's stopped talking - to find it all outanyone. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW
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|isbn=17395939011398524085|title=22 Ideas About The FutureHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)Nicci French
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford Charlotte Salter was driving expected at her three friends home after a night out. As she passed through the darkly-wooded Devilhusband's Corridor, a figure appeared in the roadfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Olivia swerved to avoid him Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and the car smashed into a treeher daughter, leaving her trappedEtty. When she regained consciousness are all worried but - strangely - her three friends had disappearedhusband, Alec, is not. Ralph MiddletonShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, who lived in the woods helped her before river. It was an easy assumption for the police and ambulance arrived. But what to make that Duncan had happened to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole murdered Charlie and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the Stafferbury area of Wiltshireguilt. It was thought of as AveburyThe Salter children are not convinced but there's poor relationlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=39496660791035906708|title=NoemaDiva|author=Dael AkkermanDaisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'This is to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years agomother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.''}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident ReadersMaya is |summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a young girl living in movie marathon at their local cinema, a hunter-gatherer village during place that has the Mesolithic eranickname of 'The Black Hole'. Climate change is occurring All big movie fans, the Sea they're looking forward to lots of Grass encroaches further exciting films, and further into Maya's forest homemany, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, and food they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is becoming more very different, and more scarcethey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. What But as they lurch from one film genre to do? Can the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Travellernext, a spiritual can they figure who interprets out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the wisdom of All Lifecinema, provide solutionsand to their real lives? |isbn=1839942738
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|isbnauthor=194241028XRachel Greenlaw|title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael PronkoCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=''You I can't put 'good at golf' on your tombstonehear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, can you?the answering beat in my heart.''
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|isbnauthor=B09SGWCXQ8James Sherwood Metts|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterPlanet Storyland
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Fergus Grigor went out Things have been a bit sticky for a runthe Earthlings. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Headaccomplish. Was it suicideJust as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall and fall new ways to his death? Or spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was he pushed? On balancepretty much shut down and, along with it looked like an accident but then his 'accident' was linked to , all the deaths of others associated with him. Scott Paterson was released after a 'not-proven' verdict meant that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigor's last clientmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=0989715337Matthew Tree|title=Papa on the Moon|author=Marco NorthWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around himfather, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down being exceptional at the strange noise any of the buckets as he filled them.'' How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct his artistic passions all failed miserably and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. And author Marco North, who has the most wonderful turn had endless crises of phraseself confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, starts as he means to go oncultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=140639131XA G Slatter|title=A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May SmithThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary=Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'There' s a part of nearly getting squished as she tried me that wants to keep this just to cross the Old Oak Roadmyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. She wrote I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the mayor about protection of the problem but didnBriar't even get s, a replyfamily of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Philippa wasn't a bird Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to sit back on be born into her tail feathers when there family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the lollipop lady at Briar Witch, the school crossing town's leader, and decided that she would set up something similar herselfEllie takes her place beside her. Her uniform As challenges come her way left, right and lollipop stick were both a little amateur centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to start communicate with but the benefits were obviousdead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. All Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to provide a safe path overnightsurvive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=000837936X1529900360|title=The Last Girl to DieGhost Orchid|author=Helen FieldsJonathan Kellerman|rating=54
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|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana ClarkeIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's family moved fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to Tobermory, ask for his help on the Isle of Mull, in search of a new lifedifficult cases. It was a bit His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a change from Las Vegas, but the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing psychologist only worked for a social life - until she disappearedwhile. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could Finally, it have been because Adrianawas Robin, Delaware's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banffpartner, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagersnudged Milo into asking for help again. Brandon, Adriana's twin, She knew that the involvement was upset and surly. Four-year-old Luna just knew something that the man she missed her big sisterloved needed. It took four daysThe next case did look simple, but Sadie found Adriana though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Mackinnon's CaveBel Air. She'd been murdered He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it looked like a ritual killing's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=15098896121529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)Secret Life of a Vet|author=Ann CleevesSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=ItSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Islandlife. Some When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of them found the Only Connect course transformative and they've been coming back for doing work experience with a reunion every five years since then. There family friend who was a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide vet and her car was swept away, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with convinced this was the group each year as her husband, Kenjob for him. Before long, he was one of the original teenagersat Liverpool University. Ken now has AlzheimerIt hadn's and t - as with so many students - been his dream since he's was a shadow of the man child. If anything, he used 'd wanted to be. Philip Robson now a priest, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone in the chapel. Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much of the food: her deli is famous in the areaprofessional footballer.
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|isbn=14736808830861541774|title=The Skeleton KeyA Nye of Pheasants|author=Erin KellySteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''The Golden Bones is going s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to follow me around for the rest of my lifemeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to you!'' Nell didn't want to go to the reunion to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of ''The Golden Bones''. She'd had no benefit from it Maik was involved in a street brawl - in fact, it had made her life precarious and unbelievably challenging. I'd better explain. ''The Golden Bones'' he would later maintain that he was facing a treasure quest book painted man armed with a knife - and written by Frank and Cora Churcherhe killed a Ghurka. The story revolved around murdered Elinore whose golden and bejewelled bones were hidden around Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the countryman. The clues - some of them quite tortuous - were disguised in the words and pictures of Now he could be facing the book - and all the parts were discovered except for the pelvisdeath penalty. As with such quests, some people were obsessive Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and the theories became more and more outlandishwouldn't help Danny at all.
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|author=Holly WebbAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Story of GreenriverPerfect Passion Company
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Silken The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and Sedge, for operating as an alternative to all their differencesthe online apps in providing a more personal, have a lot in commontailored service. Silken Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a girl whose father is the Master Builder of what might be the finest beaver lodge on the Greenrivertrip to Canada to get away for a while. Unfortunately she Katie is also coming out of a kind of runt figure, and as break up with a result is patronisedbad boyfriend, and given so jumps at the most tokenistic tasks when it comes chance to fetching wood and shoring the dam up. She also stands out for the unique artistic ability come home to singEdinburgh. Otters like Sedge singAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, but he toobringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, as the son of the lady of thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the holtIsabel Dalhousie novels, has pressure on him but with some new characters who quickly begin to be a bit less feckless and more attentive to classcharm. HeKatie has no experience in running a business, after allor in match-making, will eventually inherit the job of keeping the otters safe from the wolf that both animal species fear the mostbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and from dreaded events like there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a Dark Spring.hand…|isbn=15101096251846976596
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|authorisbn=Anna Kemp and David Wyatt0811771741|title=Into Goblyn WoodInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=Meet Hazel. For the last nine of her eleven years, she has been stuck as a foundling in a horrid, Victorian institution, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servant. SheMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'd arrived at the place at the same time as Pete, and they're inseparably good friends now, until gives us a chance for them both to escape, and enter the outside world, does not go collection of knits from toys to planblankets. There had always been the idea Some will be quick knits - others are of a life idyllic in the nearby forests, Goblyn Wood, and a tribe of Wild Children'long, but none of that comes to pass, as Hazel finds herself cosy afternoons in the care front of a professor at the Natural History Museumfire' variety. But life with him is not anything like what she might have expected it The projects are divided by the time they'll take to be – and Hazel is determined to return complete - less than five hours, five to the Woodsten hours, restore her friendship with Pete – and ten to work out just what is going on in the forest, both the light twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the shadeprojects are attractive, modern and the deathly darkuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky..|isbn=1398503835
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|isbnauthor=0241990165Dean Koontz|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=It began rather oddlyBenny is having a terrifically bad day. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house but the call hadn't come from the householdergets trashed. A couple of PCs went Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to make certain his home, and it's possible that everything whoever or whatever was alright and it took quite a while for inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the elderly householder very last person to answer the doordeserve all this bad luck. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come inis a nice person. A really nice person. In So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the kitchen there was delivery to his house is a new friend, a body on the floor: the head had bad weather friend called Spike, who has been blown off with a shotgun and the corpse was holding sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a knife in its right handgood person. Richard Swann told the police that he'd heard sounds Spike is going to take care of an intruder Benny, and had come downstairs to investigate. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'will certainly take care of Benny' s enemies, if he, Benny, and come at him with Harper (a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defencewaitress 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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|author= Kit De WaalAdam Stower|title= Without Warning Murray and Only SometimesBun|rating= 4.5|genre= AutobiographyConfident Readers |summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put itMurray is supposed to be a humble, “They f*** you uptidy and friendly cat, your mum one who is able to sleep and eat and dad/ They may not mean toeat and sleep and, well, but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea whatever takes his fancy next of parenthood and the bonds that bind familytwo. This book is But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a memoir focussing on hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the author’s formative years as a teenager living in regular back garden, but into a lower class area world of Birmingham. Her father is from St. Kitts in the Caribbean and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by frightening adventure and marrying a black manwhiffs. This intersectionality plays time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a large role in the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to her racetroll hunter is expected – well, her class and her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with careone much bigger than Murray was, loveto be honest, but he's turned up and the kind of anger only a child can express he'll have to their parents.do…|isbn=14722848360008561249
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|authorisbn=David LagercrantzB0C47LV1PC|title=Dark MusicFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=34|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=How far from the original can Can you make a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the allusion breaksquestion should you make it? This does have a wonder-mind at Or is the heart of what little investigating is going onquestion if you did, but there would it land? The catch is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans the answer for both could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthwell be.... For one, the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MD. She ''Fragility''s a Chilean in the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad is set as she knows the prime suspect of old, in a case where a referee city of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the matchPortland, and just outside the stadium. BeppeOregon, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic cautiously begins to emerge from the ref restrictions imposed during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogation. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is a shambles. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve the crime, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it all. Until, that may be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt...|isbn=1529413192covid pandemic
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|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM1529431735|title=The Calculations of Rational MenWinter Visitor|author=Daniel GodfreyJames Henry|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marrmore surprising. Just to put what happens in context, He'd been exiled on the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's mindsCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The world return has barely come about because he's had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marrletter from his ex-wife, it's not the missile crisis saying thatshe's at the front of his mind. Heill and hasn's been convicted of murdert long to live. With the current state of medical knowledge, itIt's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Benchfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, a relatively new prison. He's just getting used stripped to his roommate, Mervyn, underwear and learning sent to be wary a watery grave in the boot of the McArthur brothersa stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=1846976146Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Bone Road|author=N E SolomonsGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Heather BishopEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the former Olympic cyclist, flew to Bosnia to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnonevening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. She even took their bikes so they could have Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a few days' break generation missing in the regionfamily. It was a little worrying that he didnA few short years ago, Eli't seem exactly pleased s parents were both lost to see her: she even wondered if he had the titular race, a woman globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the hotel roomcompany of a magical beast. Heather had This has made the race anathema to give up competitive cycling after the pair – but when a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but her reactions and her memory were not up bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the standard she would need end – the only thing to race again. Sometimes she couldn't be certain about what she had or hadn't done and she simply couldn't cope in difficult situations. She didn't entirely trust herselfpossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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|authorisbn=Judith Eagle178763681X|title=The Accidental StowawayKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Patch is Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a little girl way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who has been passed from one relation to anotherhad a broken arm, until but it seems didn't turn out that there is nobody left for her to go toway. Her father died when she was very young, The teaching - and her mother ran awaythe problems - are all his own. The family lawyer, after consultation with ‘someone’, arranges one thing he hadn't expected was for her to go someone to a school in Liverpool, but on her arrival there, she gets caught turn up in an adventure with a little boy called Turo who works on a steamshipdead. During a chase with him (when she is both trying to get her rollerskate back and running away from Unfortunately, he was the police!) she winds up on person who discovered the steamship hiding in a lifeboat, body and before she everyone knows it, that the ship has left police consider that person to be the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!|isbn=0571363121prime suspect.
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