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|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=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=00083793000008517061|title=The Shadow ManDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Helen FieldsStig Abell
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Fergus Ariss is in Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his late thirties and he knows that he's dyingrustic life at Little Sky. His body is giving There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up on him, his internal organs beginning off-grid and relaxing life to putrify but before he dies he move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants a wife, a child for herself and a brother. her daughter? He's been on For the lookout for moment they’re enjoying life in the perfect people present and he's made certain preparationsputting the future on the back burner. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The flat where Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames have been painted onto site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the wallsbones of a child beneath a doorway. Angela Fernycroft There was to be his wifeno skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Her husbandIt's difficult as Ruth knows, Calbut Nelson doesn't, had taken the children - that she is pregnant with his child as a boy result of seven and a girl of five, away for the weekendone night they spent together some three months ago. UnfortunatelyHer condition will be obvious before long, it doesn't go according not least because Ruth is prone to plan and Angela diessudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=B08NZ4LV2R0008551324|title=Dark Memories The Devil You Know (DS Nikki Parekh 3D S Max Craigie)|author=Liz MistryNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=Peggy Dyson was in her sixties and hadnIt't worn wells unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. She was a drug addict and was living under Neither side likes or has any respect for the arches other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in Forster Square Station in Bradford. Her killer thought that prison and he 's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was probably doing responsible for her a favour by putting her out of her miserydeath. DS Nikki Parekh This person, he promises, is someone big and DC Sajid Malik are on it will be worth the casepolice doing what he wants. Nikki can't quite understand why she's been sent And what he wants is to be transferred to an anonymous letter with a press report of the death. It had been impossible open prison to make any progress in serve the case remainder of his sentence and the note seemed to taunt the policeget an early parole date. Then another note arrived with a report of a seemingly unconnected death in Cambridge. Not much to ask, is it? The third death - in new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the street where Nikki lived as a child other thing that Hardie demanded - brought another communication, make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with a further clue under the victim - and Nikki was sure that there was something personal in the casehim is kept well away from what's happening.
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|authorisbn=Anna Carey0008405026|title=This is Not A Stranger in the Jess ShowFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Jess is a normal 90It's teenage girl, just trying sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to navigate the usual stresses of school, and boysa halt. Now, and parent troubles. But strange things seem to be happening in her small townmother, with a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoorsHelena, and a strange metal deviceher father are dead in their bed. Initially, with an apple on it, that slips out of her friendlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's bag, but something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her friends just won't talk boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to her about. Jess feels like she might be hearing voices, an open-and her sister (who -shut case is very ill) seems to be responding to her in strange ways sometimesnow a complex double murder. Is there something going on beneath Kerrigan is convinced that the surface of Jessexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent' life?|isbn=1683691970s boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=B08LKT7HSR0571379877|title=Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)The Kellerby Code|author=Helena DixonJonny Sweet
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|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the cellar of the Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with the murder of Elowed and his halfupper-brotherclass friends, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discoveredRobert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. Kitty UnderhayHe's long search also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for her mother, who disappeared him. Edward has been in June 1916 was overlove with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Now sheMost men in Robert's determined position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the man responsible for her murder will be brought to justicetwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1782227741Jo Callaghan|title=Little Gold Ted|author=Vanessa Wiercioch, Poppy Satha and Sasha SathaLeave No Trace
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=One dayWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, Gold Ted falls into a puddleDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's quite their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a deep puddle and the water few days later, Kat is swirling. Poor Ted starts to spin around suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and around and is sucked down a drain on the side very high profile case that draws a lot of the streetunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Finding himself down Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the sewercase and, Ted starts to panic. ''OH HELP ME PLEASE'' he cries and alerts the attention of Reg the sewer ratpotentially, who plucks him out of the dirty water using his cane, which might look just a bit like an old cricket bat. Reg is a kind soul and he dries Ted off and warms him up with a nice bowl of broth.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Rob Keeley1399613073|title=The Treasure in the TowerMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary= Rob Keeley Olivia, Laura 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 back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to read be a new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and lots a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of action, an easy to read style, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalries, the group and always she becomes a good dollop of naughty humourGP. They When we first meet them they're all present here, at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don''The Treasure in t know who suffered the tragedy or the Tower''consequences. The chance purchase of a book during a school trip sparks Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the whole adventurethree friends. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure? Jess This time, her brother Mason and it's their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?|isbn=1800461321teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=15291244170241636604|title=Before She DisappearedThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Lisa GardnerGary Stevenson
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|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani WhitehorseIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's body in her car at the bottom re unlikely to think of the lakesomeone like Gary Stevenson. She knew that A hoodie and jeans replaces the twentypin-twostripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV -year-old waitress wouldn't have left her threebut he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright -yearextremely bright -old daughter and run awayhe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Lani was the fourteenth missing person He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be located by Frankie and now she's moving on againstupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, this time to Boston where there's a strong Haitian community card game which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months agogot him an internship with Citibank. FrankieEventually, middle-aged and white, gets this turned into permanent employment as a job and accommodation at Stoney's bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively blacktrader.
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|isbn=B08QDL5HDL1035021803|title=The Jeeves Collection, Vol 1Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=P G WodehouseC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=HumourCrime|summary=In my youth, I wasnIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She't fond s back now because of PG Wodehouse: Ia request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya've never been keen on upper-class twits s former mentor and I was greedy. I wanted everything: I required brilliant plotsCarole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, exceptional characters is dead and laugh-out-loud humourthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Age brought Arthur was the realisation that you have to compromise and I came reason why Freya had not been back to Wodehouse with a different mindsetthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. The humour is gentle and subtle: there's never any malice Even though they were in itbusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. The characterisation is two-dimensional where women are concerned: there's little After the split, she worked in between old gorgons a cafe, met and married James (Aunt Agathaon the rebound from the love of her life, we're looking at you...who was murdered) and young schemers such as Honoria Glossop. The plots are superficial but gently engaging. They're fun - Freya and the writing is exquisiteJames have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=H M LongAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Hall of SmokeAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary= Hessa is an Eangi: a powerful priestess ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the Goddess shape of Warthings to come. That '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is until she is banished by her high priestess for not following her one order: to kill the traveller what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that visits her templethere have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. Her whole town is burnt I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with 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 goddessfeeling that it' favours all getting away from me. On her journey, she encounters zealot soldiers, deceitful gods, and newly awakened demons at every turnSome of it is - frankly - quite frightening. It is a gruelling quest Of course, I could research the possibilities and along the way, she discovers a harrowing truth: the gods are dying, probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the High Halls of the afterlife are fadinglatest conspiracy theorist. Soon Hessa's I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in her goddess weakens, and she is thrust into a battle between the gods of the Old World and the Newway I could understand.|isbn=1789094984
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|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Sunny Singh|title=Kokoschka's DollHotel Arcadia|rating=23.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers |summary=Well, this looked very much like The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a book I could love terrorist group. Hiding from the get-goterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, which there is why I picked my review copy up Sam, a wartime photographer and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of itAbhi, the hotel manager. I found things As Abhi continues to try to potentially delight me each time – a weird section care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the middle on darker stock paperhotel, he forms a chapter whose number was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative formbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and so keeps on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that venturing out of her room to try to capture what little I knew of it mentioned, too's happened through her photography. But you've seen Although they only ever talk over the star rating that comes with this reviewphone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and can tell that they both wait to see if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused they will be rescued before they are discovered by themthe terrorists. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697086154742X
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|authorisbn=David F Ross1529153298|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5
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|summary= Years agoIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Danny Garvey was a footballing prodigy playing for his local clubhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Everyone predicted a bright future – Well, they've been murdered, but his career in professional football never to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite worked outso frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. Thirteen years on When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, convinced to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying motherforeign place, best avoided. For Miv, Danny takes over the shambolic move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and onceshe'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking -great team he used to play for and tries to reform themanyone.|isbn= 1913193500
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|isbn=15293379251398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte 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. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Catriona McPhersonDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=It We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was the August Bank Holiday weekend andborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, as so often happenedNew York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it was cold enough to have the fire lit and Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined Callas' to leave make it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on more manageable in the sofaStates. The thought of work When she was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett back in Dundee. She Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the publisher of Nazi occupation by a magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch mother who mercilessly exploited her and Judy show in the local park had used copies of two made no secret of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and preference for her elder sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the same job, Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=0099551063Christopher Edge|title=The Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin DuttonBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=Popular ScienceConfident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole' . All big movie fans, they'Donald Trump outscores Hitler re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on psychopathic traitsearth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary='' claims Oxford University researcherI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
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|author=Alex WheatleJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakePlanet Storyland|rating=24.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be Things have been a bit sticky for the best of timesEarthlings. He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night's meal AI and his breakfast over another girl in classautomation have been proceeding apace, whooften replacing jobs they's duffed him up in response, re paid to do and the wanna-bae seems other tasks that took time to actually be with someone else anywayaccomplish. On a bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad Just as they're resorting were beginning to get used to having cabbage for dinner. I know, right? But surely all this is just a bliptechnological change and starting to think of other, a day at school new ways to forgetspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and everything (like his vomit) will , along with it, all come out in the wash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=17811294951736128426
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|author=Karen M McManusMatthew Tree|title=We'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The CousinsBriar Book of the Dead
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|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary= The rich and famous Story family led '' There's a life part of luxury on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago when each me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of the Story children - Andersmy own, Archerall mine, Adam and Allison - received at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a mysterious letter remote mountain pass, far away from their mother and were cut off completely. But nowthe world, lies Silverton; a quarter town under the protection of the Briar's, a century laterfamily of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, their children have been called to return Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to 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 potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the island for Briar Witch, the summer by their grandmothertown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. What does she want As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the cousins? Why did she cut off dead, putting her children all those years ago? Are at the deaths on Gull Cove Island really heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they seem? have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The dark web of twisted liesGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=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, secrets and tragedy Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that has held the Story family up there were only open- and held them apart - shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a quarter while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a century remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is about married to come crashing downan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.|isbn=0241376947 But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=17864959021529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your MindSecret Life of a Vet|author=Isabel HardmanSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=LifestyleAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to shareSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. She says that His father was a friend who does know, burst into tears GP and health-care professionalsRowlands didn' jaws have sagged t want to follow in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at his footsteps, particularly when he considered the time by strain that being on-call put on his father'keeping going': s life. When he was seventeen he took the next day she went to opportunity of doing work to cover the budget, next there experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the EU referendumjob for him. Before long, the political party leadership contests and then it he was party conference seasonat Liverpool University. One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long It hadn't - as with so many students -term sick leavebeen his dream since he was a child. That was what brought me If anything, he'd wanted to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I didbe a professional footballer.
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|authorisbn=Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez0861541774|title=The Ghost GardenA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Fran, the gardenerDCI Domenic Jejeune's daughter at close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a posh country houseshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, is worriedGuy Trueman. She's just cracked her garden fork through quite Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a grim discovery knife - and he killed a large bone, buried under the potatoesGhurka. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with LeoInitially, the older child he faced a charge of the house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. She is due manslaughter but evidence came to get even more worried when she finds something else light that suggested that also seems he might have planned to foretell a surprisemurder the man. Tasked with shoving Leo around Now he could be facing the grounds in his bathchair, she might have reason death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to be out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking - help as any interference from another police force could provoke a long-forgotten burial chamber. But surely that wondiplomatic incident and wouldn't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?|isbn=1781129002help Danny at all.
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|isbnauthor=reed3Alexander McCall Smith|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=James ReedThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=Six years on from The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the original editiononline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the book business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is being re-issued coming out of a break up with a bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of Work'' which includes an additional 10 questions. I've bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this some 6 years after reviewing the original book new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and my life has changed significantly in the meantimeIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. I'm Katie has no longer working experience in middle-management having opted for running a downbusiness, or in match-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on other making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (not necessarily payingand rather handsome) work. I can therefore relate neighbour, William, to the first point made in this chapter namely that independence and flexibility are core skills that employees need to have.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor0811771741|title= The CaptiveInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersCrafts|summary=Hannah knows 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 cage'long, intimatelycosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. It lurks in The projects are divided by the corner of her eyetime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. Soon All the projects are attractive, it will be occupiedmodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650
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|isbnauthor=B08CR3WNFTDean Koontz|title=The Therapist|author=B A ParisBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=When Leo Curtis found the Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house in The Circlegets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a gated communityreally weird, Alice Dawson was in Venice. Leo wanted disturbing coffin-sized object to move quickly on the property as his home, and it 's possible that whoever or whatever was on inside is the market at such a reasonable price thing that Alice wouldn't have has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to sell her cottage in Harlestone deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for them Benny it turns out that the delivery to be able his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to afford ithelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Alice agreed - she was tired of their long-distance relationship. Now they would be able Spike is going to spend most take care of the week together instead Benny, and will certainly take care of just the weekends. Leo had some work done on the house: Benny's enemies, if he made two bedrooms , Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into one and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didnBenny't feel comfortable theres wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=1406395404Adam Stower|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola MorganMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers |summary=2020 has been Murray is supposed to be a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled humble, tidy and for some teenagers this will have brought about friendly cat, one who is able to sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs and eat and eat and sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have well, whatever takes his fancy next of the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worsetwo. And thereBut he's a bad magician's also the fact that for far too longcat, lack of sleep so his favourite bun has been lauded as turned into a virtue hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and sleep made to seem like lazinessthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. Being 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 early, working late has been praised and the ability he'll have to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=000820831XB0C47LV1PC|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenFragility|author=Stuart MacBrideMosby Woods
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|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=At Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the coastal village of Clachmaraquestion if you did, the headland would it land? The catch is slowly eroding into that the seaanswer for both could well be.. Storm Trevor speeds up the process. A ship - the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of the house to see what's happening. Margaret runs after her son and as she grabs him to pull him back to safety she glances across at the newly-exposed cliff front and sees human bonesno. Gordon Smith ''Fragility''s home is falling into set as the North Sea and city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the evidence of what he's been doing for decades is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes restrictions imposed during the tumbling ruin.covid pandemic
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|isbn=B08BC4D58S1529431735|title=Winterkill (Dark Iceland)The Winter Visitor|author=Ragnar JonassonJames Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ari Thor Arason It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the police inspector in Siglufjordur and Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's still living in the house on Eyrargata which he shared with had a letter from his ex-wife Kristin , saying that she's ill and son Stefnir before Kristin left hasn't long to go to Sweden to do a Masters degree, taking three-year-old Stefnir with her. They were supposed to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledlive. It's now the Thursday of Holy Week and his family is due hard to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoon. Ari Thor feel any sympathy when Hopkins is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed abducted, stripped to get his underwear and sent to sleep a watery grave in the phone rings: the body boot of a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street of the townstolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|author=Rob WintersAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=His Name Was WrenThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In September 1944 something came down Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in Oban Woods, near the village of Hurstwick. It came down hard, taking the spire of the village church wondrous library we start by visiting with ithim, destroying a stone shack, and leaving in the evening a wide trail through helper at the wood, but no trace of what it actually wasdessert cafe his gran owns and runs. German secret weapon was the local gossipEli lives with his lovely gran, but there should have been an explosion and a crater, and too – for there were neither of those things.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB}}{{Frontpage|author=Stephen Clarke|title=The Spy Who Inspired Me|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=This is a spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleminggeneration missing in the family. But it features a man called Ian LemmingA few short years ago, who dresses well and Eli'likes s parents were both lost to the ladies' and who works for titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the secret service, but world in the planning side company of things more than the active servicea magical beast. Lemming finds himself put on This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a mission with bad incident at the eatery leads to a female spy called Margauxconfession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, and with the sole aim the prize of magic at the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in – the resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying only thing to keep up with her!possibly save his gran.|isbn=29521638550571382231
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