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The murder of a promising footballer and, crucially, the son of the Brighton's Chief Superintendent, means Detective Superintendent Jo Howe has a complicated and sensitive case on her hands. The situation becomes yet more desperate following devastating blackmail threats.
Howe can trust no one as she tracks the brutal killer in a city balanced on a knife edge of vigilante action and a police force riven with corruption.
An in-depth view into the role of a judge during murder proceedings in the UK. Told with compassion and frankness, Wendy Joseph QC guides the audience through the decisions she must make on a daily basis.
Lucy has tried to be perfect; she has spent years cultivating how she appears to the world around her. However, when she discovers she is adopted the façade she has been working so hard to keep in place slowly starts to fracture.
After years of living within an aquarium Marcellus, a giant Pacific Octopus is befriended by elderly cleaner Tova, who is still mourning her son Erik after his disappearance over 30 years ago.
The novel follows content moderator Kayleigh as she reviews offensive content for a social media platform. Featuring mature themes, the author explores the toll this content can take on your humanity.
When two old friends bump into each other for the first time since college, Ava, a rule abiding lawyer who has ticked all of life’s boxes, finds herself sucked into the glamorous world of counterfeit designer handbags and discovers that crime does indeed pay.
The Vanishing Triangle describes a section of Ireland where eight women have disappeared. Some of their bodies are found and some are not. The author discusses each of the cases, giving the readers a view of the complicated social/political/economic factors that may have prevented the solving of such cases.
‘The Butterfly Room’ is not a book I would usually choose for myself, however the point of book club is to try new things.
A round up of what I've been reading since lockdown was put into place.
After reading most of Alexander McCall Smith’s ‘The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency’ series, I was expecting great things from one of the author’s more recent novels. The title of this book had me interested from the beginning and I was excited to learn more about ‘The Second Worst Restaurant in France’.
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