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|isbn=B0BYF82CXT0008517061|title=Semi-DetachedDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Deborah StoneStig Abell
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached houseFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, stuck in has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a depressing rut little uncertainty about the future of boredom and disappointmenthis life with his vet girlfriend, when Terry Livia and Fiona – glamorousher daughter Diana, successful as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and very much relaxing life to move in love – with Livia or does Livia move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the couples befriend each other future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, in the present and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedyputting the future on the back burner.''
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|isbn=17876360031786482126|title=The Girls of SummerJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Katie BishopElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was the summer going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on they discovered the islandbones of a child beneath a doorway. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she There wasno skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, perhapsDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in herbut Nelson doesn't, that she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite is pregnant with his child as a while before he made any sort result of physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by himthe one night they spent together some three months ago. Alistair worked for Henry TaylorHer condition will be obvious before long, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partiednot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=15291353890008551324|title=The FallDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Gilly MacmillanNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nicole Booth had spent It's unusual for anyone from the morning at Hardie family to approach the county fair before she returned homepolice. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on Neither side likes or has any respect for the state-of-the-art music system installed other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in The Glass Barn. Theyprison and he'd not been in s prepared to tell the police where the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for long her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and were still getting used to all it will be worth the high-tech systems Tom had insisted uponpolice doing what he wants. Some And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of them fought with each other his sentence and didn't work as reliably as they shouldto get an early parole date. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used Not much to having that sort of moneyask, too. is it? Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the swimming pool other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with a wound to his headhim is kept well away from what's happening.
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|authorisbn=Alan Parks0008405026|title=To Die A Stranger in Junethe Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=What first seems like It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the unfortunateinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, accidental death of a homeless man on the streetsher mother, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discoveredHelena, and then anotherher father are dead in their bed. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoyInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but all there's something about the more so because his own father is a down-positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and-out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for yearsher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. At the same time What looked as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move though it was going to a different police station, be an open-and the arrival there of -shut case is now a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be foundcomplex double murder. Something feels wrong - not just with Kerrigan is convinced that the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationedexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Laura Noakes0571379877|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Number OneEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Or rather, Cosima UnfortunateRobert's a theatre director. Or ratherHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, just Cos handsome and entitled and uses Edward to her friendsrun errands for him. The practice Edward has been in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in the ledger, and theyRobert're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities s position would stay away from Stanza or suchlike tell Edward that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to be known about where she came from, as stumble upon the first ever inmate, and unique two of them kissing in having no known family in the outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institutedark passageway. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059
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|author=Thomas D LeeJo Callaghan|title=Perilous TimesLeave No Trace|rating=34|genre= FantasyCrime|summary= ''Hate When a man is found crucified on the path top of least resistance'' Set a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the near-distant futurecase alongside her sidekick, in the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a world on the verge of climate collapsefew days later, Britain Kat is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs suddenly struggling with a hero (or several) to save the day potential serial killer and rescue what little remains. What no one expected was a very high profile case that one draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the Knights case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of the Round Table would answer the call.a career?|isbn=0356518523139851120X
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|authorisbn=Madelaine Lucas1399613073|title=Thirst for SaltMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary= ''LoveOlivia, I'd readLaura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, was supposed which is a bonus when you aim to be a light cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined hertrauma doctor. Overlaid with later wisdom, Anjali is the narrator relives free spirit of the affair with group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to its sorrowful end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the summer aftertragedy or the consequences. Set against the backdrop of Twenty-five years later there will be an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details eerily similar event that will impact the 24-year-old narratorthree friends. This time, it'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 irrevocablytheir teenage children who are involved.|isbn=0861546490
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|isbn=15293828230241636604|title=The Last PassengerTrading Game: A Confession|author=Will DeanGary Stevenson
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|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you'Caz') is middlere unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-aged stripe suit and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love his background is the East End, where he was familiar with Peteviolence, poverty and injustice. They're off There was no posh public school on a cruise his CV - but he had been to New York on ''Atlantica''the London School of Economics. Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete Stevenson is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ringbright - extremely bright -shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointedhe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. They've not been a couple for He also realised that long and the trip will most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit betterinternship with Citibank. MeanwhileEventually, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe this turned into permanent employment as well as their mother who has dementiaa trader. It's going to be good, isn't it?
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|authorisbn=Lex Croucher1035021803|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Who knew that what I really needed It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to read right the English country village where she grew up. She's back now was because of a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestlyrequest for help from her beloved aunt, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful wayCarole. In this storyFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Gwen Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur have was the reason why Freya had not been betrothed since back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were tinyin business together as antique hunters, much she has not felt able to their mutual disgust! be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. GwenAfter the split, you seeshe worked in a cafe, is in love with Bridget met and married James (on the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers rebound from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge love of falling in love with each otherher life, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentswho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=1526651793
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|authorisbn=Emily CritchleyAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=One Puzzling AfternoonAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants shape of things to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is starting to lose her memorywhat happens after you're eighteen. HoweverWell, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry I must confess that there was have been more than a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth few decades of what happened all that time agotechnology in my lifetime. After I'seeingve kept up reasonably well with what' Lucy in s advantageous to me but I'm left with the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of memories coming back to herit is - frankly - quite frightening. And yet as she remembers Of course, I could research the past, she is forgetting more possibilities and the probabilities and more in her day to day lifeend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, I needed people I knew I could trust and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)Sunny Singh|title=Thirty Days of DarknessHotel Arcadia
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Hannah presents as The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unlikeableunnamed 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, bitter womana wartime photographer and Abhi, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsthe hotel manager. Sorry As Abhi continues to try to leave her bottles of red wine behind her care remotely for an afternoon at the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a book fairbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, she flukes and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her way into a public argument with photography. Although they only ever talk over the latest hot shot in 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 world terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of crime fictionSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, saying hehonestly...) She's populist trash and only writing not what anyone could write's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Cue the bet Miv's upset because she's overheard that she cannot live up her father wants to that accusationmove the family 'Down South'. Her publisher duly books her flights When you're from Denmark to IcelandYorkshire, where she Down South is put up for a wintry month away from it allfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Just on For Miv, the point of despairing – about move would mean leaving her writingbest friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more dangers or less about everything – word comes that the landladyher Mum's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615stopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=18045456001398524085|title=The MonkHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Tim SullivanNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The body in the woods near Bristol Charlotte Salter was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditchexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. He'd been savagely beatenHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. It's a while before D S George Cross and the Major Crime Unit establish that this are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is Father Dominicnot. He'd been missing for a few days Shortly afterwards, Etty and certainly hadnGreg, find the body of Greg't asked permission to leave his abbeys father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. As It was an easy assumption for the team gradually unpick the monk's past it becomes clear police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn'd been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and friendt stand the guilt. HeThe Salter children are not convinced but there'd also been very wealthy s little else they can do but had given it all up for his faithget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. Why would someone savagely murder him?
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|authorisbn=Lauren Bravo1035906708|title=PrelovedDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary= Gwen is pressing 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 middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-my-God-Ifather changed it to 'Callas'm-nearly-fortyto make it more manageable in the States. Having been made unexpectedly redundant When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - any HR officer worth their salt would argue she was raised under the toss - Gwen finds herself having Nazi occupation by a bit mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of a mid-life crisisher preference for her elder sister, Jackie. Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the time to take back her life'|isbn=1398510629
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|author=Cath HoweChristopher Edge|title=My Life on FireBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Ren's family home is destroyed Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a firemovie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. SheAll big movie fans, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesnthey't have any of her clothes, or any re looking forward to lots of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboardexciting films, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anythingmany, or do anythingmany snacks! However, or even eat as the foods movie starts, they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers very quickly realise that the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their livessomething about this new film format is very different, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a personswept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But Ren has nothing as they lurch from one film genre to put in a boxthe next, and so she finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when can they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds figure out what she on earth is doinggoing on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=18399428351839942738
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|isbnauthor=0008517010Rachel Greenlaw|title=Death Under a Little Sky|author=Stig AbellCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=The marriage had run its course. 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 either. They were still polite to each other and wished each other well - but didn't wish to remain married. The perfect solution arrived in I can hear the form song of a legacy from Jake's Uncle Arthurthe sea. He'd been left a secluded property in the hamlet The call of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - and enough money to live there without the need to work.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that shipdeep, I vowed. I would take my place, not just the answering beat in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, tooheart. Atalanta''
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|isbnauthor=152915118XJames Sherwood Metts|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny JacksonPlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=''Pineapple Street'' is Things have been a bit sticky for the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and GeorgianaEarthlings. Darley AI and George are sisters automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and Sasha is married other tasks that took time to their brother Cordaccomplish. 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 matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if Just as they'd like were beginning to get used to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated all this technological change and downsized starting to another propertythink of other, a street or so awaynew ways to spend time, which they ownalong came an awful pandemic. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple StreetLife was pretty much shut down and, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominallyalong with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it depend so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=0008551278Matthew Tree|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterWe'll Never Know
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|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Affi Smith was snatched Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from the bottom of Fyrishhis father, where she'd been doing her training. She'd been a bit drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - and it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squad. That's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you see, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku being exceptional at the age any of twelve. She was rescued when she was carrying a kilo his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of drugs and three years later she's happy with her foster familyself confidence. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sisterSo Tim applied himself to his studies, Melodi is in a children's home in Tirana - cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and anyone could get to herset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=Emily TeshA G Slatter|title=Some Desperate GloryThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionFantasy|summary=''While EarthThere's children livea part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, the enemy shall fear usall mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''
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|isbn=08615440561529395224|title=Twin TruthsLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Jacqueline SutherlandSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Belle Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and DavidRowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's twin daughters are just coming to life. When he was seventeen he took the end opportunity of their first term at universitydoing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Kit's been Before long, he was at Bristol and Jess's in ExeterLiverpool University. It's not only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle canhadn't wait to have them all to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home as with her? Belle would prefer that so many students - been his dream since he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kitwas a child. Ivo's apparently 'older': If anything, he's twenty-four d wanted to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroomprofessional footballer.
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|isbn=17856334570861541774|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges A Nye of England by Electric CarPheasants|author=Clive WilkinsonSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=TravelCrime|summary=Clive Wilkinson DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a history of travelling by unconventional means short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a preference for slow travelknife - and he killed a Ghurka. As Initially, he neared his eightieth birthday the idea faced a charge of exploring manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageousman. In fact, it should Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a pleasant holiday for Clive diplomatic incident and his wife, Joan, shouldnwouldn't it?help Danny at all.
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|author=Frederic SeagerAlexander McCall Smith|title= Jesus, the Man and the Myth: A Jewish Reading of the New TestamentThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre= Spirituality and ReligionGeneral Fiction|summary= I was brought up The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a family where religion played little or no partmore personal, tailored service. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and Welsh Methodist on look after the otherbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, nobody really discussed religion and so jumps at the adults around me ranged chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from lapsed Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to agnostic an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to atheist44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Other than the odd church wedding Katie has no experience in running a business, or baptism or the school nativity playin match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, I didnand there't think too much about faith or what people did or didn't believe.s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=B092BWWG9Y1846976596
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|isbn=05713709770811771741|title=The Lock-UpInstaKnits for Baby|author=John BanvilleMelissa Leapman
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Crafts|summary=ItMelissa Leapman's six months since ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the dramatic events which we read about 'long, cosy afternoons in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebefront of the fire' variety. The worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficultthan twenty hours. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when All the body of a youngprojects are attractive, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found in a lock-upmodern and useable. At first, it looked as though sheI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide's me being picky.
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|author=Julia BartzDean Koontz|title=The Writing RetreatBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary= Roza ValloBenny is having a terrifically bad day. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Writers want Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to be herhis home, agents want to represent her. Sheand it's something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that started with her breakthrough novelhas trashed his house! The thing is, published when she was barely 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 of childhood. Alexthat the delivery to his house is a new friend, a writer-slash-editorbad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is more than clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a little obsessed with Rozagood person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and is stunned whenwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, following and Harper (a series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of her month-long writerswaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny' retreats wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=08615444391662500491
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|author=Patrick Ness and Tea BendixAdam Stower|title=Different for BoysMurray and Bun
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|genre=Teens Confident Readers |summary=Ant Murray is in Year Eleven at quite supposed to be a standard schoolhumble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is surprised able to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructuredsleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, so whatever takes his desk is one fancy next of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As theyBut he's a bad magician're all fired ups cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, straining at and the leash only a single-sex school catflap they both use can formchuck them out, not into the talk in class regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and out often turns to sexwhiffs. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score isThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationshiptroll hunter is expected – well, a secret onemuch bigger than Murray was, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced'to be honest, but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who turned up and he's been having the relationship and the sex with.ll have to do…|isbn=15295094910008561249
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|authorisbn=M R CareyB0C47LV1PC|title=Infinity GateFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary= ICan you make a 'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a genre I dislike – nothing of the sort. My standards are high precisely because itYo birthing person's a hard genre to get right – and when it's badjoke? And if you could, is the question should you make it's often terrible. But ? Or is the premise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: question if you did, would it was done land? The catch is that the answer for both could well, it'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise... no.|isbn=0356518043''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|isbn=13985095821529431735|title=The FavourWinter Visitor|author=Nicci FrenchJames Henry
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|summary=It was 2 am's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, not long after A levels, when which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the car crash happened. It would cause problems for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he and Jude Winter were togethermore surprising. She was utterly driven by her determination to go to medical school. Liam was He'd been exiled on the reverseCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. He just acted The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she'as if life just rolled him over s ill and carried him along'hasn't long to live. A bit of weed hereIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a few drinks there: watery grave in the legal effects boot of the car crash really didn't worry him at alla stolen Ford Sierra. The relationship broke up soon after that - Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any more.a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=0857051741Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Sins Glorious Race of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only Eli is a few weeks to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate busy lad – by day an apprentice in the case of a body found wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a freezer helper at the home of a deceased alcoholicdessert cafe his gran owns and runs. The problem Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is that the case has long passed the statute of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace generation missing in 1962. He was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Stromfamily. Rebecka wants nothing A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to do with the titular race, a fiftyglobe-year-old case on which she can take no action: trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the problem is that this is company of a dying man's wishmagical beast. The situation changes This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkaribad 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 dead alcoholic, was also murderedend – the only thing to possibly save his gran. Is there a connection between the two deaths?|isbn=0571382231
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|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni178763681X|title=Her Deadly GameKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the lifeChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's work t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due getting both men and women to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clientsdo what he wanted. Along with an indisputable talent for Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the lawschool to assist Paul, Patsy also has who had a gift for drinking himself to oblivion broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and inevitably the latter problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was beginning for someone to overshadow the formerturn up dead. Enter Keera DugganUnfortunately, former competitive chess prodigy he was the person who discovered the body and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in everyone knows that the hideous position of asking her father for a job at police consider that person to be the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southprime suspect.|isbn=1662500181
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