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=='''4 FEBRUARY30 MAY'''==

|isbn=1529378648B0CYV674G2|title=Slough House Swanton Morley (Jackson Lamb 7John Tanner)|author=Mick HerronDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Someone is killing secret service agents, past and present, from the Slough House team. Jackson Lamb can't understand it. Well, what he actually can't understand is why, having seen them, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up and something needs to be done. After all ''when things went awry on Spook Street, they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'' Over at Regent's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatched. It isn't just the message that was sent: she's also delighted that she managed to fund the operation off the books. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about this.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008379300|title=The Shadow Man|author=Helen Fields|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that he's dying. His body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child and a brother. He's been on the lookout for the perfect people and he's made certain preparations. The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husband, Cal, had taken the children - a boy of seven and a girl of five, away for the weekend. Unfortunately, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela dies.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178089905X|title=Serpentine|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=5

|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death from thirtyseemed like an open-six years ago and the daughter of the woman who died wanted some answers-shut case. She had money A man, covered in mud and money translated into clout blood - and so the problem was dropped onto Milo's toes. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died in carrying a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst knife, comes into flames. It turned out the police station shouting that she wasnhe hasn't actually married to killed the man . A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with whom shethe birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd left her daughter be grateful for an easy answer but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man the words 'perverse' and he took out adoption papers 'John Tanner' were made for Ellie each other. He's sleep- and she took his name. Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing deprived to the point of her falling asleep at work but one photograph of her mother and father and a necklace made of serpentinehe's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|isbnauthor=1471191303Stuart Douglas|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 difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - 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 happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of Death at the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Fisher|title=Space HopperDress Rehearsal

|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and theyLeggit're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that there's treasure to be found. Unfortunately, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the youngest of the group, twenty-one-year-old Troy Evans, finds the dead body of a man floating woman on the incoming tideedge of a reservoir. After pulling The police seem happy to assign it ashoreas an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, they call and he enlists the policehelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. DCI Nelson thinks that it's probably They travel across the body of an asylum seeker but there's no evidence of any activity country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to be had from death during the coastguardSecond World War. The dead man turns out But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to be Jem Taylor, a North Norfolk man recently released from prison.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|author=Francesca Simon and Steve MaySaima Mir|title=Two Terrible VikingsVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=Emerging ReadersThrillers|summary=In I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be Muslim woman. The fact that it was the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at me – I've jumped midway into a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a troll, and undertake hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Biteyspeed, and their crazy cast of friendsI never felt lost.|isbn=05713494980861541561

|isbnauthor=1471187179Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel HoreDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=April's fatherMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, a scientistit seems, has been given he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a job on a remote island called Bear Islandteam of warrior, mage and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with him. They live alone anywayhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, since April's mother died some time beforemagical mazes, and he feels it will be educational for her race to experience the island exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and all its natural beautythe points they grant you along the way. April already has an affinity with natureUnfortunately for Kit, and shethe only thing he's excited to travel with her father, thinking seen of all the fun things they will be able to experience together latest race on the islandinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. But when they get therePossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording he has taken to the goading from the temperatures just takes up too much token bully of his time, world and so April is left to explore by herselfstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Her father had reassured her What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find the Bear, and then when she sees how could he is injured, possibly hope to befriend and help him.succeed?|isbn=000841128X1839945184

|author=Saima MirJenny Valentine|title=The KhanUs in the Before and After

|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men Elk and four times Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet 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 sisterchildren one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is contact details at the top of her gametime. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Returning to the city of her birth Something has happened though, to old scars something terrible and fresh woundstragic, Jia and now they must confront her past work through their grief, and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and dutytheir friendship, together.|isbn=17860790971471196585

|authorisbn=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)1635866847|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Literary FictionLifestyle|summary=This was an incredibly readable novellaIt's strange, but one the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that left me a little conflictedthis is the book for you. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person hethere's addressing in his second person monologue a picture of a narration, we see him picked up by his motherslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don's chauffeur, t eat cakes and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following daydesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. The mother was (There's a businesswomanrecipe in the book, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania which I'm avoiding with her (night-time and businesssome difficulty!!) partner, Then I started reading the book and feelings I was told to make a mess of abandonment are still strongit. And so we flit from current (well, this came out Notes in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the ladcorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell address' this book already.|isbn=1939810965

|author=Mary H.K. ChoiMax Boucherat|title=YolkThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student that's barely getting by4. 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, 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 choices, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. This is until June 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 – even if it means swapping identities.|isbn= 0349003696}} =='''18 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=The Day the Screens Went Blank|rating=5

|summary=Meet Stella and her family. TheyWe meet Lori on the first evening she're just innocently trying s got the house to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film herself – using three different screens no neighbour to watch three different thingspop in, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their homebabysitter poorly, but the entire south-western village of Mouseholemother at work, and not just thatan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, either, but the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them beforeher lonesome. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. What could possibly go wrong? You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck Snuggled in such a Luddite experience against their willblanket fort, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandmashe has one main intention, and see if they can get across country that is to her. Hence this has log on to go down as a road-trip book. But not just thatVoxminer, a slapstick roadthe world-trip comedy. And more than thatbuilding, too – for it's a slapstick, highcritter-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart collecting game that kids of all ages will love.|isbn=1471196887}} =='''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 coasts. Ita hit in Lori's the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leaveworld. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from But first Lori has a remote road late at tiny inkling that this stormy night. Hedoesn's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lectert find herself entirely on her own, and has a dozen and then she finds something even more unfound Jane Does on his recordspooky. David is trying to pry For the connection between the murderer server she and her bestie and his girl from the man's mind, but nobody else should be able to no availenter shows signs of tampering. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imageWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the very embodiment, the virtual resurrectiongame has been doctored – well, 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 chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Readersoldiers took him away one night, 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 daywar is finally over, fifty years later, 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 sheBut will the truth come as a relief, and or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who delivered told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this timebeen kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=152937331X1846976537