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=='''13 OCTOBER23 MAY'''==
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|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)Onyi Nwabineli|title=Red as BloodAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missingAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, all the evidence seems thanks to point towards her having been kidnapped. The ransom note tells him not to have any contact with the policestep-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, so instead he enlists the help where she posted every step of AroraAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, a financial investigatormonetary gain. She manages Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to persuade Flosi that they will need the help of the police, regain her confidence and she calls to get her detective friendlife back, Daniel, whom she met when he was investigating suing her step-mother to take down the content about her sister’s disappearance. Together Anuri is battling alcoholism, they failing to start to her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearanceabusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, trying not to arouse the suspicion of anyoneshe is desperately worried about her little sister, since they have no idea who is the kidnappers might benew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, yet and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the more they uncover, the more confusing things become.same time?|isbn=19145853210861546873
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=='''21 OCTOBER30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams B0CYV674G2|title=The Book of Hope Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society Crime|summary= The done thing is to read It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a book all knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the way through before you sit down bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to review itdeath. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. I’m making You would think he'd be grateful for an exception here, because I don’t want easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to lose any of the experience point of reading this amazing book, I want falling asleep at work but he's determined to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tearskeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home. |isbn=024147857X
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=='''25 OCTOBER4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Lisa GrayStuart Douglas|title=The Dark RoomLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone was dead, because youDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened in woman on the edge of a different place and time? reservoir. This is what happens The police seem happy to Leonard in this story. He is assign it as an ex-crime reporter for a newspaperaccidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and since leaving journalism he's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds oldenlists the help of a fellow actor, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them in his own dark room at homeJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. One of these photographs turns out to show They travel across the murder scene of a young woman he met some years agocountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and who he ''thought'' he had watched die in front of him one night in , seemingly, a hotellink to death during the Second World War. He'd felt guilty ever since that night, and lost everything because of it - his fiancee and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't But is there really died a link between the night she was with him, what on earth actually happeneddeaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=154203535X1803368209
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=='''27 OCTOBER6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Natasha Hastings Kieran Larwood and Alex T SmithJoe Todd-Stanton|title=The Miraculous SweetmakersDungeon Runners: The Frost FairHero Trial|rating=3.54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''The River Thames had frozen to death in its sleepMeet Kit.'' And thus Like most of the Frost Fair could happen – people trading on the completely iced-over riverin his world, like our heroine Thomasina's father with his gingerbread and confectionery shop. Thomasina will be working the Fair too – but her twin brother won'tit seems, as he dies in Chapter One. It was is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a tragedy she feels no small guilt forteam of warrior, mage and which has made her father a sullenhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, closed shop – and her bed-bound mother has spoken not a word – not even opened her eyesrace to the exit, more perhaps bothering with the treasure or less – in the four years since, eitherbig bad and the points they grant you along the way. But into Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the dark, frosted London comes Inigoinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, with supreme magical powerseaten, and a willingness to help Thomasinanew trio of questors is needed. Not only can Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he introduce her has taken to the fantastical Other Frost Fair, using goading from the river surface at night for no end token bully of mystical beasts his world and characters and their happenings, but stumbled into declaring he has 'll enter as a unique proposal for Thomasinateam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, which will shake her world and how could he possibly hope to its core.succeed?|isbn=00084960561839945184
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=='''1NOVEMBER13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=19164599431635866847|title=Squeakily BabyThe Lavender Companion|author=Beth WebbJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. HeIt's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: insteadstrange, he just lies on his blanket and the things that make you ''wailsimmediately''feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing Lavender Companion''hush, hushI visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there'. Think s a picture of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have slice of chocolate cake on the sound perfectlyhomepage. The mermaids join in I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'la lou, la laym avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages.'' And for You suspect that smears of butter would not be a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyesproblem. Then a seagull I ''loved'shouts''' and we know exactly what's going to happen nextthis book already.
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 =='''1 JANUARY4 JULY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1542037239Max Boucherat|title=Death in Heels|author=Kitty MurphyThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Set against We meet Lori on the backdrop of Dublinfirst evening she's drag scenegot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, ''Death in Heels'' tells the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friendbabysitter poorly, mother at work, Robynjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae Bon her lonesome. What is meant to be could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queenblanket fort, Eveshe has one main intention, takes and that is to the stage log on to mock Mae B. As if Voxminer, the night could not get any worseworld-building, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a gutter. Fi is adamant tiny inkling that Eve was murderedthis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, yet and then she finds something even more spooky. For the drag communityserver she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the Guardsgame has been doctored – well, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself where is a girl to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeper.turn?|isbn=0008666482
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=='''2 MARCH'''==
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|author=Patrick Ness and Tea BendixJenny Lecoat|title=Different for BoysBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=Teens General Fiction|summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a standard school, banned radio and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is soldiers took him away one of four with both his best buddy from the football teamnight, leaving Jean and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days togetherher mother waiting for years for news of him. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can formBritish finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which war is confusing for Antfinally over, as he doesn't know their hopes rise that they will finally learn what his score is, where his achievements in that regard liebecame of him. He's had But will the truth come as a casual relationshiprelief, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. radio? And that's mostly because of who he's what other secrets have been having the relationship and kept throughout the sex with.occupation?|isbn=15295094911846976537
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