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|isbnauthor=1401286208Tom Percival|title=Black Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGeeThe Wrong Shoes|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Dinah LanceWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and follow in his footstepsdoesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader his dad can't work because he lost his job at schoolthe college, she is desperate to find her voicewas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. But it Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's actually more life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a case tiny amount of her voice finding herhope. He is good at art, as and clings to the moments of joy when she gets frustrated or plain dissed he is drawing, that feel like a light at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it the end of a weaponlong, or a powerdark tunnel. But in order for her to call herself a superhero, there has to be a whole path of steps for her to take – one of which will be into her past…|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=1789017977Sylvie Cathrall|title=Ronnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy WilliamsA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=HistoryScience Fiction|summary=Ronnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to have been born in 1863, but he was already many years older are few greater joys than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. For a while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust book which lives up to a very different lifestylecompelling premise. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and And this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in 1942is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=15420154210008517061|title=The Royal Baths MurderDeath in a Lonely Place|author=J R EllisStig Abell|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Damian Penrose was murdered there was no shortage of suspects: he was a deeply unpleasant manFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. In fact There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the only surprising thing was that there wasn't more future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a queue waiting to do the dirty deed. What was a bit lot of a headline maker was that Penrose was a crime writer compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and that he was strangled relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the midst of Harrogate's crime writing festival. He went future she wants for a swim at the Royal Baths herself and never returned, his body being found by the receptionist. her daughter? DCI Jim Oldroyd was For the man tasked with investigating moment they’re enjoying life in the crime. It would not be present and putting the only death, and it was only because of future on the quick actions of his sergeant, Andy Carter, that Oldroyd's was not one of themback burner.
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|authorisbn=Daniel Kraus1786482126|title=Blood SugarThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=This is a difficult read. And not because of Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the dark subject matter – thatsite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'll come later – but because apartments - when they discovered the bones of the way in which it's tolda child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. This might put Was this a lot of readers offritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and to be honest it'd be hard to blame them. Kraus tells the story in a distinctive voice unlike any other I've read; an erratic dialect Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with heavy and frequent slang. The immediate effect is disorientating and distracting, and it takes some time to feel naturalDCI Harry Nelson. It's a struggle to acclimatise to Jodydifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn's voicet, to get acquainted that she is pregnant with his mannerisms, but child as a result of the story wouldn't one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be the same without itobvious before long, and somehow it works. It shouldn't, but it doesnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1789091934
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|authorisbn=Don Behrend0008551324|title=Copernicus! What Have The Devil You Done?: ...and Other Interesting QuestionsKnow (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=TriviaCrime|summary= Hello! Would this review be okay if I simply said It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'I LOVED THIS GLORIOUS LITTLE BOOK AND SO WILL YOUs prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. FIN Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what'?! Because I did. And you wills happening. |isbn=1789016770}}
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|isbn=19258200250008405026|title=Once, I was LovedA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Belinda LandsberryJane Casey|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=TockIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, the toy rabbither mother, Helena, is and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a box straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of toys the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to the charity shopbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. He realises Kerrigan is convinced that hethe explanation lies in Rosalie's not wanted any more, but muses that it wasndisappearance: others (such as Derwent't always this way. ''Once'', he sayss boss, ''I was loved''. And he tells us of all the children who have loved him over the yearsUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)0571379877|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 43.5|genre= Literary Fiction Crime|summary= Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert''It Would Be Night in Caracas'' illuminates the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuelas a theatre director. It begins with the death of Adelaida Falcon He's mother also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and chronicles Adelaida's coming uses Edward to terms run errands for him. Edward has been in love with her new solitude in this world Stanza since their university days - and her attempts he's drunkenly confided how he feels to escape itRobert. Danger stalks the shadows and, Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a society where the establishment relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is crumbling, who can you turn left to? |isbn=0062936867stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=0349423067Jo Callaghan|title=The Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances BrodyLeave No Trace|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King’s Cross, arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929 one of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of When a man, stripped naked and with no means of identification. Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called is found crucified on the services top of Kate Shackleton a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the hope that case alongside her knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them sidekick, the lead they neededAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Kate immediately But when there is a second body found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a child potential serial killer and could not come to terms with the fact a very high profile case that she was now draws a woman experienced in dealing with murderlot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. He was reluctant Will they be able to give her all solve the information which case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the police held.case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn= Stephen Baxter1399613073|title= World Engines: DestroyerMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionThrillers|summary= Hundreds of years in the futureOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on a stagnating the first day of medical school and almost empty Earth, their friendship would keep them inseparable for a space shuttle pilot from the early days quarter of the 21st a century . Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is awoken from the cryogenic sleep he entered after a devastating accident. As he comes to terms with this new world, he begins bonus when you aim to realise that their history does not match what he remembers - and that only he may be able to stop the coming catastrophe destined to destroy the planeta cardiothoracic surgeon. Until he meets Laura is a young woman who seems to have perfectionist and a drive trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of her own, the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a plandrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1473223172
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|isbn=14063893310241636604|title=In the Key of CodeThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Aimee LucidoGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Emmy is moving with her parents halfway across America, If you were to follow her father's dreams bring up an image of a big break city banker in his music careeryour mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. She leaves behind her friends A hoodie and her school in Wisconsinjeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and moves injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to California, knowing only what she has heard in songsthe London School of Economics. Her struggle to settle into her new life, make friends Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and feel happy and confident again, is agonisingly told in he has a way we facility with numbers which most of us can all relate only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people tobe stupid. There are many new opportunities and setbacks It was his ability at what was, essentially, taking the reader on a rollercoaster of emotionscard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, but it isn't until Emmy joins this turned into permanent employment as a coding class using computer language that she begins to feel she might have a chance to feel like she truly belongstrader.
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|isbn=15294022551035021803|title=A Body in the Bookshop (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Helen CoxC L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Evie Bowes is very conscious It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of the scars on a request for help from her facebeloved aunt, Carole. They were acquired when she was rescued from a car in Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the River Ouse by Inspector Halloranleast. She’d Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been suspected of back to the murder of her boyfriendvillage: Arthur, Owenshe feels, and let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the process of clearing her name profession she and her best friend, Kitt Hartley developed a taste for detectionloved. Kitt developed After the split, she worked in a taste for Inspector Halloran Toocafe, but they’re taking it slowly. Wellmet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, sort of slowlywho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn= Alexandra ChristoAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Into the Crooked PlaceAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 45|genre= TeensScience Fiction|summary= In ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a world thriving few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with black magicthe feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, four young crooks embark on a quest to take I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down their criminal leader after rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they discover 're talking about or the plot behind his dangerous new magiclatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1250318378
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|author=Kathlaine C Gill and D Clark GillSunny Singh|title=Madness Between Light and DarkHotel Arcadia
|rating=3.5
|genre=FantasyThrillers |summary=It's 1912The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, and at New Hope Sanatoriumkilling everyone on site, Christine Agnes Tupper there is fast growing up. Abandoned there by parents who were ashamed of her hunchbackSam, she's nevertheless grown up to an intelligent girl with a good heartwartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. Her encounters with As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the inhabitants of residents who are still alive in the asylum swiftly take her on hotel, he forms a fascinatingbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, thrilling and sometimes terrifying journey keeps on venturing out of self discoveryher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, allowing Agnes their friendship grows as Abhi tries to prove that, even with a twisted spine, help her heart is in keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the right place!terrorists.|isbn=1641110708086154742X
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|isbn=190874572X1529153298|title=Letters from ToveThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Tove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator)Jennie Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=Back at the beginning of the century It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I went on holiday to Nepalmean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. I met a wonderful Finnish woman and we became sort of friends Women have been disappearing. I can Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't remember if it was on sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that holiday or her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a later one that Paula told me I really had to read Tove Janssonfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. I do know that it was four years later that I finally acquired an English translation of The Summer BookFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that I eagerly awaited the . She''Sort Of'' translations of s not worried about the rest of Janssondangers or that her Mum's work and devoured them as soon as I could get my hands on themstopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=17847427831398524085|title=The Benefit of Hindsight (Simon Serrailler)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Susan HillNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A superficial look would suggest to you that Simon Serrailer has been lucky 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 - all things considered strangely - his life her husband, Alec, is as good as it could benot. He's back at work after a long break to recuperate from Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the violent incident which cost him his arm and almost his life. When hebody of Greg's not at work he's spending his time father, Duncan Ackerley, in the cathedral roof drawing the medieval angels which are being restoredriver. There's talk of It was an exhibition of his drawings. Lafferton seems easy assumption for the police to be quite settled as far as crime is concerned until one night make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when two local men open their front door to a couple seeking shelter. Ithe couldn's t stand the usual story of a broken-down car, and a phone which won't make a callguilt. The man Salter children are generous and welcoming and have no suspicions that the couple are simply not convinced but there to plan a robbery. It's a serious error of judgement in the course of this investigation which will throw Simon Serrailler's future into doubtlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=140638853X1035906708|title=Somebody Give This Heart a PenDiva|author=Sophia ThakurDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=AnthologiesGeneral Fiction|summary=Sophia Thakur's debut anthology is a collection We tend to think of poems that are all uniqueMaria Callas as Greek, whether but she was born to Greek parents in relation to their styleManhattan, length or theme. The collection is split into four sectionsNew York, titled 'grow','wait','break'in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'grow againCallas', guiding you through a process which is one of to make it more manageable in the foundations States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the anthology is built on. Each section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of writing, ranging from a quote Nazi occupation by a Nigerian playwright, to African proverbs. This provides a nice introduction to the section before you are immersed into the beautifully written mother who mercilessly exploited her and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put made no secret of her preference for her heart and soul intoelder sister, Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=1910989460Christopher Edge|title=Flember: The Secret Book|author=Jamie SmartBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=A mysterious island. A strange Lucas and mystical power called Flember. A boy-inventor called Devhis friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, who uncovers a long forgotten secretplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. And a giant All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, red robot bear?many snacks! The sleepy village of Eden However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is about very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to descend into hilarious chaos - the next, can disastrous Dev save his brand new best friendthey figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives? Find out in this fully illustrated mad-cap adventure.|isbn=1839942738
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|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
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 the 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's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With 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's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.
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|isbnauthor=0241355222James Sherwood Metts|title=Frostheart|author=Jamie LittlerPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Way out in Things have been a bit sticky for the furthest part of the known worldEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, a tiny stronghold exists all on its own, cut off from the rest of human-kin by monsters often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that lurk beneath the Snow Seatook time to accomplish. There, a little boy called Ash waits for the return Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of his parentsother, singing a forbidden lullaby new ways to remind him of them..spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and doing his best to avoid his very, VERY grumpy yeti guardianalong with it, Tobuall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We'll Never Know|rating=4. But life is about 5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to get a whole lot more crazy-adventurous for Ash. When a brave rescue attempt reveals he has amazing magical powers, he's whisked aboard the Frostheartbe different from his father, a sleigh packed full drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of daring explorers being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who could use had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his helpdaydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. But can they help him find his family?|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1913101037A G Slatter|title=The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures Briar Book of Bronte Mettlestone|author=Jaclyn Moriartythe Dead
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=Bronte doesn't miss her parents, and she' There's not particularly sad when she learns a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of their terrible fate my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the hands world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of piratesthe Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. And why should Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be? After all, they just dumped born into her on Aunt Isabelle (without even asking if it would be a convenient arrangement family for either party) when 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 Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a babymaelstrom of chaos. They swanned off Reeling from one family secret to have adventuresanother, Ellie must decide who to trust and never once came back determine what to check if their only child was healthy and happydo as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=14012800481529900360|title=Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic NovelGhost Orchid|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris WildgooseJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=TeensCrime|summary=The young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzifelt 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 suchlike – reminding him he-shut cases which didn's a billionaire at t need the age help of eighteena psychologist only worked for a while. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy heFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's inherited from his murdered parentspartner, he wants to do charitable deedswho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. But one nightThe next case did look simple, when he speeds off though. Two lovers were murdered in his posh new car in pursuit the swimming pool of a criminal, he goes too far as far as remote property in Bel Air. He was the authorities are concerned, heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and gets given it's not the most unlikely stretch Italian. But which of community service instead – cleaning them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the home for violent criminals strain that is Arkham Asylumbeing on-call put on his father's life. There When he was seventeen he learns took the opportunity of some other people doing work experience with a family friend who also allege charitable intent – was a vet and was convinced this was the Nightwalkersjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and murder the ownerchild. Can If anything, he get close 'd wanted to one of them and get the truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-gooder?professional footballer.
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|isbn=B07W4MNBSG0861541774|title=Be Careful Who You MarryA Nye of Pheasants|author=Lizzy MumfreySteve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a 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 knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. 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 diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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|author=Alexander McCall Smith
|title=The Perfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It was coming up The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to Halloween all the online apps in 1987 providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a group trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fiftya break up with a bad 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 the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. When youKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there're only seventeen that seems positively ancients always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, but Liz was convinced that to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby''your entire life depends on who you marrygives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire'variety. The only eligible boys were projects are divided by the Young Farmers time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the idea of living in a farmhouse projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a couple of children called Will terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and Olly appealed someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to Charlottehis home, and it's possible that whoever or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who whatever was determined to marry inside is the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. thing that has trashed his house! The place thing is, Benny is the very last person to start their search was obviously deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekenddelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the classSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|author=Adam Stower
|title=Murray and Bun
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…
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|isbn=B0C47LV1PC
|title=Fragility
|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.