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|author=Rob KeeleySylvie Cathrall|title=The Treasure A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in the Towera Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read Little Sky. There’s perhaps a new adventure from Rob - little uncertainty about the future of his life with his stories combine fast pace vet girlfriend, Livia and lots her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of action, an easy compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to read style, an unerring eye Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for children's friendships herself and rivalries, her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and always a good dollop of naughty humourputting the future on the back burner. They're all present here, in ''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Treasure Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the Towersite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'. The chance purchase apartments - when they discovered the bones of a book during child beneath a school trip sparks the whole adventuredoorway. There was no skull. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure Was this a ritual killing or murder? Jess Inevitably, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with her money and tech gadgets and willingness his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to cheat?|isbn=1800461321sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=15291244170008551324|title=Before She DisappearedThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Lisa GardnerNeil Lancaster
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani WhitehorseIt's body in her car at unusual for anyone from the bottom of Hardie family to approach the lakepolice. She knew that Neither side likes or has any respect for the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldnother. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he't have left s prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her three-year-old daughter death. This person, he promises, is someone big and run awayit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Lani was And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the fourteenth missing person remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to be located by Frankie ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and now she's moving on again, this time even prepared to Boston where theredo 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a strong Haitian community which sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was home never found and the investigation ground to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months agoa halt. FrankieNow, her mother, Helena, middle-aged and whiteher father are dead in their bed. Initially, gets it looks like a job and accommodation at Stoneystraightforward murder/suicide but there's bar something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and sets out her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to investigate be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the community which is just about exclusively blackexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=B08QDL5HDL0571379877|title=The Jeeves Collection, Vol 1Kellerby Code|author=P G WodehouseJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=HumourCrime|summary=In my youthEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, I wasn't fond of PG Wodehouse: I've never been keen on obsessed with his upper-class twits friends, Robert and I was greedyStanza. I wanted everything: I required brilliant plotsRobert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, exceptional characters handsome and laugh-out-loud humour. Age brought the realisation that you have to compromise entitled and I came back uses Edward to Wodehouse with a different mindsetrun errands for him. The humour is gentle Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and subtle: therehe's never any malice in itdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. The characterisation is two-dimensional where women are concerned: thereMost men in Robert's little in position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between old gorgons (Aunt Agatha, we're looking at you...) and young schemers such as Honoria Glossop. The plots are superficial them but gently engaging. Theyhe're fun - and s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the writing is exquisitetwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=H M LongJo Callaghan|title=Hall of SmokeLeave No Trace
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= Hessa When a man is an Eangi: a powerful priestess of found crucified on the Goddess top of War. That is until she is banished by her high priestess for not following her one order: a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to kill the traveller that visits case alongside her templesidekick, the AI detective Lock. Her whole town is burnt to the ground while she is praying for forgiveness, and Hessa – now left alone – must find this traveller to atone for her weakness and win back her goddess It' favour. On her journey, she encounters zealot soldiers, deceitful godss their first live case together, and newly awakened demons at every turnhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. It But when there is a gruelling questsecond body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and along the way, she discovers a harrowing truth: the gods are dying, and the High Halls very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the afterlife are fading. Soon Hessa's trust case in her goddess weakenstime, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and she is thrust into , potentially, out of a battle between the gods of the Old World and the New.career?|isbn=1789094984139851120X
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|authorisbn=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)1399613073|title=Kokoschka's DollMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=24.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=WellOlivia, this looked very much like Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a book I could love from the get-gocentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is why I picked my review copy up a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of ita trauma doctor. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in Anjali is the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in free spirit of the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, group and so onshe becomes a GP. It intrigued with the subterranean voice When we first meet them they're at a man hears drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, tootragedy. But youWe don've seen t know who suffered the tragedy or the star rating consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pageswill impact the three friends. This time, it was not actually caused by them's their teenage children who are involved. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697
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|authorisbn=David F Ross0241636604|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary= Years ago, Danny Garvey was If you were to bring up an image of a footballing prodigy playing for his local club. Everyone predicted a bright future – but his career city banker in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years onyour mind, convinced you're unlikely to return home by think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying motherbackground is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, Danny takes over the shambolic poverty and onceinjustice. There was no posh public school on his CV -great team but he used had been to play for the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and tries he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to reform thembe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn= 1913193500
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|isbn=15293379251035021803|title=The Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Catriona McPhersonC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It was 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the August Bank Holiday weekend English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor andCarole's close friend, as so often happenedArthur Crockleford, it was cold enough to have the fire lit is dead and Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it circumstances seem suspicious, to keep Dandy Gilver warm on say the sofaleast. The thought of work Arthur was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in Dundeebusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. She was After the publisher of split, she worked in a magazine cafe, met and had been told that married James (on the man running the Punch and Judy show in rebound from the local park had used copies of two love of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett's request life, who was simple: she wanted Gilver murdered) and Osborne to warn the man about infringement of copyright - Freya and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the same jobJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=0099551063AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Wisdom of PsychopathsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial KillersFictions that Disrupt|author=Dr Kevin DuttonBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Popular ScienceFiction|summary='' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcherOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''
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|author=Alex WheatleSunny Singh|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeHotel Arcadia|rating=23.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of timesThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. He should be getting a text Hiding from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema dateterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, but his phone has packed upthere is Sam, he's chundered last night's meal a wartime photographer and his breakfast over another girl Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in classthe hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who's duffed him up in responserefuses to be cowed by events, and the wanna-bae seems keeps on venturing out of her room to try to actually be with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale hecapture what's living with his mother and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinnerhappened through her photography. I knowAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day at school their friendship grows as Abhi tries to forget, help her keep safe and everything (like his vomit) they both wait to see if they will all come out in the wash? This can't be rescued before they are discovered by the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?terrorists.|isbn=1781129495086154742X
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|authorisbn=Karen M McManus1529153298|title=The CousinsList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
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|summary= The rich It's 1979 and famous Story Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family led a life of luxury on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago when each of the Story children - Andersthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, Archerthey've been murdered, Adam and Allison - received a mysterious letter but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from their mother and were cut off completely. But nowYorkshire, Down South is a quarter of a century laterfrightening, foreign place, their children have been called to return to the island for the summer by their grandmotherbest avoided. What does she want with For Miv, the cousins? Why did she cut off move would mean leaving her children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted liesbest friend, Sharon, secrets and tragedy she'll do anything to prevent that has held . She's not worried about the Story family up - and held them apart dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - for a quarter of a century is about to come crashing downanyone.|isbn=0241376947
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|isbn=17864959021398524085|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your MindHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Isabel HardmanNicci French
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|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to shareCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She says that a friend who does know Her children, sons Niall, burst into tears Paul and healthOllie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but -care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbeliefstrangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Hardman dealt with this at Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the time by body of Greg'keeping going': s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there river. It was an easy assumption for the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then it was party conference seasoncommitted suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. One night she had to be sedated The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was wonder about what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I didreally happened.
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|authorisbn=Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez1035906708|title=The Ghost GardenDiva|author=Daisy 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' 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 mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|author=Christopher Edge
|title=Black Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=FranLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the gardenernickname of 'The Black Hole's daughter at a posh country house, is worried. SheAll big movie fans, they's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a large bonere looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, buried under the potatoes. many snacks! But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with LeoHowever, as the older child of the housemovie starts, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. She they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is due to get very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surpriseimagine. Tasked with shoving Leo around But as they lurch from one film genre to the grounds in his bathchairnext, she might have reason to be can they figure out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he on earth is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. going on? But surely that won't act as a premonition Will they ever get back to anything - not here in the sultrycinema, summery days of 1914and to their real lives?|isbn=17811290021839942738
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|isbnauthor=reed3Rachel Greenlaw|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=James ReedCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Business and FinanceTeens|summary=Six years on from ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the original editiondeep, the book is being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled answering beat in my heart.''The Future Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Workthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira' which includes an additional 10 questionss father. I've come Desperate to this some 6 years after reviewing the original book save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and my life has changed significantly with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the meantimesea. IWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler'm no longer working in middle-management having opted for a down-shift into reduced hours freelancing s territory, Mira must be determined to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. I can therefore relate stop at nothing to save the first point made in this chapter namely that independence future of her home and flexibility are core skills that employees need to havethe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|author= Deborah O'ConnorJames Sherwood Metts|title= The CaptivePlanet Storyland|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Hannah knows Things have been a bit sticky for the cageEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, intimatelyoften replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. It lurks in the corner Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of her eyeother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. SoonLife was pretty much shut down and, along with it will be occupied, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=18387726501736128426
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|isbnauthor=B08CR3WNFTMatthew Tree|title=The Therapist|author=B A ParisWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=When Leo Curtis found the house in The CircleTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a gated community, Alice Dawson was in Venice. Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the market drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have to sell her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. Alice agreed - she was tired any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of their long-distance relationshipself confidence. Now they would be able So Tim applied himself to spend most of the week together instead of just the weekends. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable thereset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1406395404A G Slatter|title=The Awesome Power Briar Book of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morganthe Dead
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|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=2020 has been '' There's a strange year: part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I doubt anyone would argue with that statementcan. Lots This secret magic of our routines have been completely dismantled and my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problemsa while. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who needs sleep? protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non- I've got loads witch to be doing) 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 others will worry unnecessarilypotions. Most peopleWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. And theretown's also leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the fact that for far too longrare ability to communicate with the dead, lack putting her at the heart of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to seem like laziness. Being up earlyanother, working late has been praised Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the ability Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=000820831X1529900360|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenGhost Orchid|author=Stuart MacBrideJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=At It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the coastal village help of Clachmaraa psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the headland is slowly eroding into involvement was something that the seaman she loved needed. Storm Trevor speeds up the processThe next case did look simple, though. A ship - the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on Two lovers were murdered in the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the house heir to see what's happening. Margaret runs after her son an Italian shoe empire and as she grabs him is married to pull him back to safety she glances across at the newly-exposed cliff front an extremely rich man and sees human bones. Gordon Smithit's home is falling into not the North Sea and the evidence of what he's been doing for decades is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson Italian. But which of LIRU can grab as he later escapes them was the tumbling ruin.primary target?
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|isbn=B08BC4D58S1529395224|title=Winterkill (Dark Iceland)Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Ragnar JonassonSion 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 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 Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Ari Thor Arason is the police inspector in Siglufjordur and heDCI Domenic Jejeune's still living close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in the house on Eyrargata which Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he shared was facing a man armed with his wife Kristin a knife - and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do he killed a Masters degree, taking three-year-old Stefnir with herGhurka. They were supposed Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledmurder the man. It's now Now he could be facing the Thursday of Holy Week and his family is due to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoondeath penalty. Ari Thor is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to get to sleep the phone rings: the body of help as any interference from another police force could provoke a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street of the towndiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|author=Rob WintersAlexander McCall Smith|title=His Name Was WrenThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=In September 1944 something came down The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Oban WoodsEdinburgh, near run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the village of Hurstwickonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. It came down hardNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, taking the spire as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of the village church a break up with it, destroying a stone shackbad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and leaving a wide trail through the woodIsabel Dalhousie novels, but no trace of what it actually waswith some new characters who quickly begin to charm. German secret weapon was the local gossipKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there should have been an explosion 's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a crater, and there were neither of those things.hand…|isbn=B08KGVNVNB1846976596
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|authorisbn=Stephen Clarke0811771741|title=The Spy Who Inspired MeInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary=This is Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bondcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes Some will be quick knits - others are of the ladies' and who works for the secret servicelong, but cosy afternoons in the planning side front of things more than the active servicefire' variety. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called MargauxThe projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, and the pair end up stranded in Normandyfive to ten hours, with Margaux on a desperate mission ten to unearth traitors in twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the resistance networkprojects are attractive, modern and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|isbn=2952163855useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.
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|isbnauthor=3110706075Dean Koontz|title=Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Gerry BrownThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceParanormal|summary=''You're not there to run the organisationBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. You are there Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to make sure his home, and it's possible that it whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is run properlythe very last person to deserve all this bad luck.'' Gerry Brown He is passionate about a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the benefits which Independent Directors can bring delivery to his house is a board - not just a corporate board, but the board of an NHS Trustnew friend, a universitybad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a sports organisation or a charitygood person. HeSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's particularly keen that there's increased diversity on these boards enemies, if he, Benny, and feels that this would help to avoid some of the scandals Harper (Oxfam, Kids Company - wea waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny're thinking about yous wild adventure) which have occurred in recent years. For this to happen, boards need to have a wider field of people to choose from when can figure out who exactly they're looking for an IDare.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=1786495902Adam Stower|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel HardmanMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers |summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not Murray is supposed to share. She says that be a friendhumble, tidy and friendly cat, one who does knowis able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbeliefwell, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. Hardman dealt with this at the time by But he'keeping goings a bad magician': s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the next day she went to work to cover the budgetcatflap they both use can chuck them out, next there was not into the EU referendumregular back garden, the political party leadership contests but into a world of frightening adventure and then whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was party conference season. One night she had , to be sedated honest, but he's turned up and returned home he'll have to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did.do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=3030513025B0C47LV1PC|title=The Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to doFragility|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe MoraisMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceLiterary Fiction|summary=Independent Director: ''Can you make a job for which no one is qualified'' (Yo birthing person''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director joke? And if you could, is a member of the board of directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with the company, (2) question should you make it? Or is not part of the company's executive teamquestion if you did, and (3) would it land? The catch is not involved with that the day-to-day operations of the companyanswer for both could well be.... no. (Corporate Finance Institute)
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|isbn=B002SQCYWQ1529431735|title=The Complete Barchester ChroniclesWinter Visitor|author=Anthony TrollopeJames Henry|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=When I told my daughter that I didn't know what to listen to now that IIt'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense s February 1991 and SensibilityEssex is bitingly cold, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the second time more surprising. He'd been exiled on the trot she had the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles and they were in my inbox in Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a matter of minutesdecade. TheyThe return has come about because he're not s had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn'quitet long to live. It'' as well known as s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the Austen books but they're an excellent follow onboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=0008214468Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=A Time to Lie|author=Simon BerthonThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=A workman has Eli is a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of busy lad – by day an excavation on a building site. It's wrapped apprentice in part of an old shower curtain the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and is in the evening a hand, severed above helper at the wristdessert cafe his gran owns and runs. It's been Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there for about twenty-five to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Ministera generation missing in the family. HeA few short years ago, Eli's married parents were both lost to heiress Carol van Koon and they the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have two daughters, Becca and Bellato navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. Sandford's determined This has made the race anathema to be the pair – but when a better type of politician: he wants ''bad incident at the eatery leads to a government that is not just practically goodconfession from gran, but morally good.'' One of the ways he's planning on going about this Eli knows his only hope is to ban arms sales dare to dubious regimes. Henry Morland-Crossenter what he most hates, with the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor sole aim the prize of magic at the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy end – the only thing to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementpossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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