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|authorisbn=Madelaine Lucas0008517061|title=Thirst for SaltDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= ''LoveFormer Metropolitan Police detective, I'd readJake Johnson, was supposed to be has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a light little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and weightless feelingher daughter Diana, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from as moving in together would mean a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the yearlot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-long relationship that once defined grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her. Overlaid with later wisdom, reservations about whether or not this is the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years future she wants for herself and her senior from its inception – daughter? For the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end moment they’re enjoying life in the summer after. Set against present and putting the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details future on the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocablyback burner.|isbn=0861546490
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|isbn=15293828231786482126|title=The Last PassengerJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Will DeanElly Griffiths
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'Cazluxury') is middleapartments -aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Petewhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. They're off on Was this a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. CazIt's sisterdifficult as Ruth knows, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she Nelson doesn't know whether , that she's relieved or disappointedis pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. They've not been a couple for that long and the trip Her condition will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhileobvious before long, Gemma not least because Ruth is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementiaprone to sudden bouts of sickness. It's going to be good, isn't it?
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|authorisbn=Lex Croucher0008551324|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Who knew that what I really needed It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But honestly, it lifted my spirits Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a most delightful waymissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! GwenThis person, you seehe promises, is in love with Bridget (someone big and it will be worth the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diariespolice doing what he wants. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the subterfuge remainder of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentshis sentence and to get an early parole date. But as their impending wedding draws ever closerNot much to ask, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=1526651793do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|authorisbn=Emily Critchley0008405026|title=One Puzzling AfternoonA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
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|summary=84 It's sixteen years since nine-year -old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house bed one summer night. She was never found and bring Edie the investigation ground to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memorya halt. HoweverNow, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friendmother, LucyHelena, who went missing over 60 years agoand her father are dead in their bed. Initially, and the worry that it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be 's something about the thing that reveals positioning of the truth of what happened all bodies that time agomakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just What looked as she though it was the last time she saw her, she starts going to find pockets of memories coming back to herbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. And yet as she remembers Kerrigan is convinced that the past, she is forgetting more and more explanation lies in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about LucyRosalie's disappearance before her move: others (such as Derwent's boss, and before her memories Una Burt) are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)0571379877|title=Thirty Days of DarknessThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The body in the woods near Bristol was Edward Jevons is a nasty shock working- a monk strapped to a chair class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and dumped in Stanza. Robert's a ditchtheatre director. He'd been savagely beaten. It's a while before D S George Cross also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominicuses Edward to run errands for him. He'd Edward has been missing for a few in love with Stanza since their university days - and certainly hadnhe't asked permission s drunkenly confided how he feels to leave his abbeyRobert. As the team gradually unpick the monkMost men in Robert's past it becomes clear position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'd been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and friends not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway. He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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|author=Lauren BravoJo Callaghan|title=PrelovedLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The marriage had run its courseWhen 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, the AI detective Lock. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadn't ended in miscarriages but no one else was involved - certainly not on Jake's side and he didn't think there was for Faye eithertheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. They were still polite to each other But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and wished each other well - but didn't wish a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to remain marriedtheir AI Future Policing project. The perfect solution arrived Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the form case and, potentially, out of a legacy from Jake's Uncle Arthur. He'd been left a secluded property in the hamlet of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - and enough money to live there without the need to work.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Jennifer Saint1399613073|title=AtalantaMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name first day of the goddess. It was medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for the sake a quarter of my namea century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, toowhich is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born Laura is a daughter rather than perfectionist and a son, Atalanta trauma doctor. Anjali is raised under the protective eye free spirit of the goddess Athemis group and fashioned into she becomes a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventureGP. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemiswe first meet them they' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is re at a whirlwind of challenges drug and discovery alcohol-fuelled party and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: s 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 if she marrieswill impact the three friends. This time, it will be her undoing's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1472292154
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|isbn=152915118X0241636604|title=Pineapple StreetThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Jenny JacksonGary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you''Pineapple Street'' is the story re unlikely to think of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgianasomeone like Gary Stevenson. Darley A hoodie and George are sisters jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and Sasha his background is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarchEast End, Tildawhere he was familiar with violence, asks Cord poverty and Sasha if they'd like injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to move into the Pineapple Street propertyLondon School of Economics. Tilda Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, he has a street or so away, facility with numbers which they ownmost of us can only envy. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight inHe also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. NominallyIt was his ability at what was, essentially, they had a choice but that wasn't the realitycard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=00085512781035021803|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Neil LancasterC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the bottom of Fyrish, English country village where she'd been doing her traininggrew up. She'd been a bit s back now because of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - and it now looks as though she could be heading request for the national squadhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. ThatFreya's former mentor and Carole's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seeclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at say the age of twelveleast. She Arthur was rescued when 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 was carrying a kilo of drugs and three years later has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she's happy with her foster familyloved. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sisterAfter the split, Melodi is she worked in a children's home in Tirana - cafe, met and anyone could get to married James (on the rebound from the love of herlife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Emily TeshAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Some Desperate GloryAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''While Earth's children live, Opening up new ways of thinking about the enemy shall fear usshape of things to come.''
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|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |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 rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the 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, and 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, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=08615440561529153298|title=Twin TruthsThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jacqueline SutherlandJennie Godfrey
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Belle and DavidIt's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) KitShe's been at Bristol and Jessnot what's worrying Miv's in Exeterfamily, though. It's not only the first time Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been away from their parents for any length of time - murdered, but theyto have 'disappeared' doesn've also been apart from each othert sound quite so frightening. Belle canMiv's upset because she't wait s overheard that her father wants to have them all to herself for move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a whilefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Then Kit rings up - can For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want ll do anything to upset Kitprevent that. IvoShe's apparently 'older': henot worried about the dangers or that her Mum's twentystopped talking -four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroomanyone.
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|isbn=17856334571398524085|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric CarHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Clive WilkinsonNicci French
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|genre=TravelCrime|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travelCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. As he neared his eightieth birthday Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the idea body of exploring Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the edges of England in river. It was an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday easy assumption for Clive the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and his wife, Joan, shouldnthen committed suicide when he couldn't it?stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Frederic Seager1035906708|title= Jesus, the Man and the Myth: A Jewish Reading of the New TestamentDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre= Spirituality and ReligionGeneral Fiction|summary= I We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was brought up born to Greek parents in a family where religion played little or no part. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side and Welsh Methodist on the otherManhattan, New York, nobody really discussed religion in December 1923 and the adults around me ranged from lapsed only moved to agnostic Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to atheist'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. Other than When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the odd church wedding or baptism or the school nativity playNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, I didn't think too much about faith or what people did or didn't believeJackie.|isbn=B092BWWG9Y
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|isbnauthor=0571370977Christopher Edge|title=The Lock-Up|author=John BanvilleBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=It's six months since the dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] Lucas and Dr Quirke is now back his friends are all booked in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughterfor a movie marathon at their local cinema, Phoebe. The worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this a place that has made the already strained relationship between them more difficultnickname of 'The Black Hole'. TheyAll big movie fans, they're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body looking forward to lots of a youngexciting films, and many, Jewish scholarmany snacks! However, Rosa Jacobsas the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is found in a lock-very different, and they are swept upinto an adventure they couldn't even imagine. At firstBut as they lurch from one film genre to the next, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke can they figure out what on earth is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide.going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|author=Julia BartzRachel Greenlaw|title=The Writing RetreatCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary= Roza Vallo''I can hear the song of the sea. Anyone The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the world of publishing knows rocks and plundering the namewrecks. Writers want to be Mira, like her mother before her, agents want is one of the seven who swim out to represent hersurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. SheBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's something of leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a legend bargain with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out sets off in search of childhooda family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. AlexWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, a writer-slash-editoras her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, is more than Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a little obsessed with Rozabit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and is stunned when, following a series other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of unexpected eventsother, she is invited new ways to be part of her month-long writers' retreatspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=08615444391736128426
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|author=Patrick Ness and Tea BendixMatthew Tree|title=Different for BoysWe'll Never Know
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|genre=Teens Literary Fiction|summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to find be different from his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructuredfather, so his desk is one a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of four with both his best buddy from the football team, artistic passions all failed miserably and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days togetherwho had endless crises of self confidence. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns So Tim applied himself to sex. Which is confusing for Anthis studies, as he doesn't know what cultivated his score is, where abilities rather than his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, daydreams and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', set himself high but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex withachievable ambitions.|isbn=1529509491B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=M R CareyA G Slatter|title=Infinity GateThe Briar Book of the Dead
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|genre=Science FictionFantasy|summary= I'm annoyingly picky when it comes ' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to science fictionmyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. Not because I just want to enjoy itfor a while.'s ' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a genre I dislike – nothing town under the protection of the sort. My standards are high precisely because itBriar's , a hard genre family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to get right – be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and when itpotions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's badcousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, itthe town's often terribleleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. But As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the premise heart of a maelstrom of Infinity Gate had me hookedchaos. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done wellReeling from one family secret to another, itEllie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches'd be fantastic. So this legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is where I sum up that premiseunder threat.|isbn=03565180431803364548
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|isbn=13985095821529900360|title=The FavourGhost Orchid|author=Nicci FrenchJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 2 am, not long hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after A levelsAlex recovered, when Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the car crash happenedhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. It would cause problems Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he and Jude Winter were togetherhelp again. She knew that the involvement was utterly driven by her determination to go to medical schoolsomething that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Liam was Two lovers were murdered in the reverseswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He just acted ''as if life just rolled him over was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and carried him along'it's not the Italian. A bit of weed here, a few drinks there: the legal effects But which of them was the car crash really didn't worry him at all. The relationship broke up soon after that - or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any more.primary target?
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|isbn=08570517411529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Sins Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn 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 life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of Our Fathers: doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationNye of Pheasants|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Steve Burrows|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lars Pohjanen DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has only taken a few weeks short holiday in Singapore to live but meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he's determined would later maintain that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate the case of he was facing a body found in man armed with a freezer at the home of knife - and he killed a deceased alcoholicGhurka. The problem is Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the case has long passed the statute of limitationsman. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He was Now he could be facing the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Stromdeath penalty. Rebecka wants Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is that this is help as any interference from another police force could provoke a dying mandiplomatic incident and wouldn's wisht help Danny at all. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, the dead alcoholic, was also murdered. Is there a connection between the two deaths?
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|author=Robert DugoniAlexander McCall Smith|title=Her Deadly GameThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances all the online apps in defence of his clientsproviding a more personal, tailored service. Along with an indisputable talent for Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the lawbusiness, Patsy also has as Ness is planning to take a gift trip to Canada to get away for drinking himself to oblivion a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and inevitably so jumps at the latter was beginning chance to overshadow the formercome home to Edinburgh. Enter Keera DugganAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, former competitive chess prodigy thanks to 44 Scotland Street and proven Seattle Prosecutor the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who finds herself quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with running a senior colleaguebusiness, Miller Ambroseor in match-making, had gonebut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather spectacularlyhandsome) neighbour, south.William, to lend a hand…|isbn=16625001811846976596
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|authorisbn= Rob Keeley0811771741|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other StoriesInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley Benny is back with having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a return really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the short story formatthing that has trashed his house! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to eleven his house is a new talesfriend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, each as fun one who is able to read as 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 previous offeringsfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn= B0BVW69N1G0008561249
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|authorisbn= Michael GrothausB0C47LV1PC|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleFragility|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''But fearing something and having Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen? Or is the question if you did, or we can take steps to change would itland? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.''
''Beautiful Shining PeopleFragility'' revolves around is set as the question city of identity and acceptance. Of what it means Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether emerge from the restrictions imposed during the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564Xcovid pandemic
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|isbn=B09BLBP3P81529431735|title=Neville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940The Winter Visitor|author=Frederic SeagerJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=Received wisdom It's February 1991 and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the scrubbing from more surprising. He'd been exiled on the popular imagination of the early days of World War II Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from 1939his ex-40wife, known as the saying that she's ill and hasn'Phoney Wart long to live. It''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking outs hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and Churchill coming sent to a watery grave in to save the dayboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Very little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections and yet, as Frederic Seager argues in this book, Is it was of vital significance in how the war played out.a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=0760378134Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela FarleyGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the garden wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and pick some fruit in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and vegetables runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is generation missing in the book you needfamily. ItA few short years ago, Eli's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own foodparents were both lost to the titular race, what you're going a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to grow, what you'll grow it navigate the world in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part company of the book with a handy section on troubleshootingmagical beast. There's also This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a good glossary. Soconfession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is it any good?to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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{{frontpageFrontpage|isbn=1803363002178763681X|authortitle= Eric LaRoccaKnife Skills for Beginners|titleauthor= The Trees Grew Because I Bled ThereOrlando Murrin|rating= 54|genre= HorrorCrime|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within usChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. It is used as He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process themdo what he wanted. Most horror fiction feature a Paul ''Big Badsomehow'', whether got the impression that is a home invaderhe'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a monster or a ghostbroken arm, but it usually something tangible didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and, by the end of the story, beatableproblems - are all his own. Eric LaRocca's '' The Trees Grew Because I Bled Thereone thing he hadn'' is not like thatt expected was for someone to turn up dead. It is a collection of short stories more interested in Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the horrors of illness, grief body and humiliation. Horrors everyone knows that the police consider that linger and are harder person to defeat than any ''Big Bad''be the prime suspect.
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