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=='''21 JANUARY30 MAY'''==

|isbn=1529337925B0CYV674G2|title=The Mirror Dance Swanton Morley (Dandy GilverJohn Tanner)|author=Catriona McPhersonDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It was the August Bank Holiday weekend seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, as so often happenedcovered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, it was cold enough to have comes into the fire lit and Bunty the Dalmation wasnpolice station shouting that he hasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on killed the sofaman. The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took A body at the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. She was the publisher bottom of a magazine and had freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been told that stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the man running birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the Punch words 'perverse' and Judy show in the local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show'John Tanner' were made for each other. Sandy BissettHe's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne sleep-deprived to warn the man about infringement point of copyright falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the same jobprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|author=David F RossStuart Douglas|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Years agoDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', Danny Garvey was leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a footballing prodigy playing for his local club. Everyone predicted woman on the edge of a bright future – but his career in professional football never quite worked outreservoir. Thirteen years on, convinced to return home by his "uncle" Higgy The police seem happy to visit his dying motherassign it as an accidental death, Danny takes over but something about the shambolic whole thing bothers Lowe, and once-great team he used enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to play for help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and tries , seemingly, a link to reform themdeath during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn= 19131935001803368209

|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Saima Mir|title=Kokoschka's DollVengeance|rating=2.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697}}=='''26 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529124417|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa Gardner|rating=43.5

|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in her car at the bottom north of the lakeEngland run by a Muslim woman. She knew The fact that it was the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldnsecond in a series I hadn't read didn't have left her three-year-old daughter stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and run away. Lani was the fourteenth missing person to it needn't be located by Frankie and now shea hindrance if it's moving on again, this time to Boston where theregood enough. And that wasn's t a strong Haitian community which was home problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. Frankie, middle-aged and whitespeed, gets a job and accommodation at Stoney's bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively blackI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561

|author=Rob KeeleyKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Treasure in the TowerDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary= Rob Keeley Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a new adventure from Rob team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century- his stories combine fast pace old, magical mazes, and lots of action, an easy race to read stylethe exit, an unerring eye perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for childrenKit, the only thing he's friendships and rivalriesseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and always a good dollop new trio of naughty humourquestors is needed. They're all present here Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, in ''The Treasure in he has taken to the goading from the Tower'token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. The What chance purchase of a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventure. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure? Jessdoes this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness how could he possibly hope to cheatsucceed?|isbn=18004613211839945184

|isbnauthor=B08LKT7HSRJenny Valentine|title=Murder Us in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena DixonBefore and After|rating=3.5|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 with the murder of Elowed and his half-brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's long search for her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now she's determined that the man responsible for her murder will be brought to justice.}} =='''2 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Anna Carey|title=This is Not the Jess Show|rating=4

|summary=Jess is a normal 90's teenage girl, just trying to navigate the usual stresses of school, Elk and boysMab are best friends, and parent troubles. But strange things seem to be happening in her small townor more than that even, with their friendship is a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoors, and once in a strange metal device, with an apple lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on it, that slips a trip out of her friend's bag, but that her friends just wonunfortunately they don't talk to her aboutget each other's contact details at the time. Jess feels like she might be hearing voices But then chance brings them back together, and her sister (who is very ill) seems to be responding to her in strange ways sometimesthey are inseparable. Is there Something has happened though, something going on beneath the surface of Jess' life?terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=16836919701471196585

=='''4 FEBRUARY13 JUNE'''==

|isbn=00083793001635866847|title=The Shadow ManLavender Companion|author=Helen FieldsJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that heIt's dying. His body is giving up on himstrange, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child and a brother. Hethe things that make you ''immediately''s been on feel that this is the lookout book for the perfect people and he's made certain preparationsyou. Before I started reading ''The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtainsLavender Companion'', and pictures in frames have been painted onto I visited the wallsauthor's [https://www. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wifepinelavenderfarm. Her husband, Cal, had taken the children - com/ website] and there's a boy picture of seven and a girl slice of five, away for chocolate cake on the weekendhomepage. Unfortunately, it doesnI don't go according to plan eat cakes and Angela dies.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178089905X|title=Serpentine|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death from thirtydesserts -six years ago and the daughter of the woman who died but I wanted some answersthat cake viscerally. She had money and money translated into clout and so the problem was dropped onto Milo(There's toes. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died a recipe in a car the book, which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flames. It turned out that she wasnI't actually married to m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the man with whom she'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man and he took out adoption papers for Ellie - book and she took his name. Ellie I was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing of her but one photograph of her mother and father and told to make a necklace made mess of serpentine.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=The Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big differenceit. Isobel lived with her parents Notes in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happymargins are sanctioned. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move You get to fold down the far side corners of the citypages. This part You suspect that smears of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Fisher|title=Space Hopper|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from butter would not be a cold that got worse, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormouslyproblem. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70I 's and her mum, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to her. The time travelling, however, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe whatloved's happening and so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to the pastthis book already. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663

 =='''18 FEBRUARY4 JULY'''==

|author=Hannah GoldMax Boucherat|title=The Last BearLife of Lori Mills

|summary=AprilWe meet Lori on the first evening she's father, a scientist, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, and he accepts got the job deciding house to herself – no neighbour to take his daughter April with him. They live alone anywaypop in, babysitter poorly, since April's mother died some time beforeat work, and he feels it will be educational for her to experience the island and all its natural beauty. April already has just an affinity with natureavidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and she's excited to travel with on her father, thinking of all the fun things they will be able to experience together on the islandlonesome. But when they get thereWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of his timeshe has one main intention, and so April that is left to explore by herself. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living log on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find the BearVoxminer, and then when she sees he is injured, to befriend and help him.|isbn=000841128X}} =='''4 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=The Khan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in selfworld-imposed exilebuilding, she is at the top of her critter-collecting game. Returning to the city of her birth, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and duty.|isbn=1786079097}}{{Frontpage|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)|title=If You Kept a Record of Sins|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me is a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person he's addressing hit in his second person monologue of a narration, we see him picked up by his motherLori's chauffeur, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following dayworld. The mother was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, and feelings of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the lad's childhood, and see just what he But first Lori has to tell her as a private farewell address.|isbn=1939810965}}{{Frontpage|author=Mary H.K. Choi|title=Yolk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student tiny inkling thatthis stormy night doesn's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. She's an all-round messy character; and that's her charm. June, t find herself entirely on the other hand, is a complete contrast to Jayne. She's a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows it all, and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choicesown, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. This is until June then she finds out she's sick, and Jayne is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – something even if it means swapping identities.|isbn= 0349003696}} =='''23 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Other Emily|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coastsmore spooky. It's For the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, server she and her bestie and a place he has to nobody else should be able to leaveenter shows signs of tampering. David lost contact with his partner there ten years agoWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. He's paying for contact with and her safe place in the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and game has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's mindbeen doctored – well, but to no avail. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his love. What where is a man girl to doturn?|isbn=15420199580008666482

|isbnauthor=B08R7LXQ9SJenny Lecoat|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalBeyond Summerland

|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connectedoccupation. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then)During the war, a girl in a humdrum job wanting Jean's father was arrested for listening to become a singer, banned radio and chieflysoldiers took him away one night, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist leaving Jean and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front boothmother waiting for years for news of him. The singer, As the British finally free the scryer and Channel islands from the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday campNazis, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for and the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years laterwar is finally over, in possession of a pair of letters their hopes rise that they will change everything for a woman called Billiefinally learn what became of him. Just who is she, and who delivered But will the secrets about her to Imeldatruth come as a relief, and why did or will it have to remain a secret all this timeraise further questions around what else happened during the war?|isbn=152937331X}} =='''15 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Lucy Holland|title=Sistersong|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, Who was the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating informer who told the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, Nazis about the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.occupation?|isbn=15290390371846976537