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=='''17 FEBRUARY30 MAY'''==

|isbn=000845552XB0CYV674G2|title=Where Ravens RoostSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Karin NordinDavid Blake|rating=43.5

|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from his fatherIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, Stenarcovered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, for more than a decade but when he got comes into the rather muddled phone call from him saying police station shouting that he'd seen a murder in the barn on his land he didnhasn't hesitate to drop everything and go to Varsund. Actually, 'drop everything' rather overstates killed the situationman. Nygaard was on suspension following A body at the shooting bottom of a suspect in the Aubuchon murder enquiry. There had freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been a complication: the Kattegat Killer turned out stabbed to be Nils Hedin, Nygaard's best frienddeath. StillDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg in the south birth of Sweden to Varsund in the far north shouldnhis daughter Samantha. You would think he't d be underestimated.}}==grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse'and '18 FEBRUARYJohn Tanner'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1471187179|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburbwere made for each other. The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her motherHe's expectations and find a nice young man sleep-deprived to marry, produce children and spend the rest point of her days looking after her husband and their home. Unfortunately, this isnfalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't what she wants to do get any sleep at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Partyhome.

|author=Hannah GoldStuart Douglas|title=The Last Bear|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=April's father, a scientist, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, Lowe and he accepts Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the job deciding to take his daughter April with him. They live alone anyway, since April's mother died some time before, and he feels it will be educational for her to experience the island and all its natural beauty. April already has an affinity with nature, and she's excited to travel with her father, thinking of all the fun things they will be able to experience together on the island. But when they get there, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of his time, and so April is left to explore by herself. Her father had reassured her 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 he is injured, to befriend and help him.|isbn=000841128X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1472276140|title=What Will Burn (Inspector McLean)|author=James OswaldDress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|summary=When Cecily SlaterDuring location filming for his 1970's body was foundsitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', she'd already been leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead for body of a week - in woman on the edge of a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburghreservoir. Heavy rain had washed away most of the evidenceThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but DI Tony McLeansomething about the whole thing bothers Lowe, demoted and just returned from suspensionhe enlists the help of a fellow actor, is reluctant John Le Breton to accept that this is nothing more than a careless accidenthelp him investigate matters further. There were indications that Slater had been savagelyThey travel across the country during their days off filming, almost ritualistically beaten before uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the fireSecond World War. But who would hate is there really a ninety-year-old woman to link between the extent of doing something like thatdeaths? She was a virtual recluse: And will they manage to uncover who could she have upset to that extentis responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

=='''4 MARCH6 JUNE'''==

|title=The KhanVengeance|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived I was instantly intrigued by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in her rise through the criminal justice system and north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the time she is called home for her sistersecond in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is at the top of her gamegood enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Returning Vengeance swiftly brings you up to the city of her birth, to old scars and fresh woundsspeed, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and dutyI never felt lost.|isbn=17860790970861541561

|author=Andrea Bajani Kieran Larwood and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Joe Todd-Stanton|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me a little conflictedMeet Kit. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or the nature Like most of the person he's addressing people in his second person monologue of a narrationworld, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeurit seems, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother he is buried an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the following day. The mother was sport where a businesswomanteam of warrior, who clearly left northern Italy mage and settled in Romania with her (nighthealer enter specially prepared, century-time old, magical mazes, and business) partnerrace to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and feelings of abandonment are still strongthe points they grant you along the way. And so we flit from current (well Unfortunately for Kit, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the ladonly thing he's childhoodseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and see just what a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to tell her the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a private farewell addressteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=19398109651839945184

|author=Mary H.K. ChoiJenny Valentine|title=YolkUs in the Before and After

|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student that'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; Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that's her charm. June, on the other handeven, their friendship is a complete contrast to Jayneonce in a lifetime connection. She They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don's a typical older sister: shet get each other's smartcontact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, thinks she knows it alland they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choicestragic, 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 sicknow they must work through their grief, and Jayne is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come their friendship, together and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identities.|isbn= 03490036961471196585

 =='''18 MARCH13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll1635866847|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Meet Stella and her family. TheyIt're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in togethers strange, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different the things, mind – when that make you ''poofimmediately'' everything goes blankfeel that this is the book for you. And itBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''s not just their home, but I visited the entire south-western village author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of Mousehole, and not just that, either, but chocolate cake on the whole country, if not worldhomepage. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping theyI don're first to get a screen back, t eat cakes and not what they were constantly doing on them beforedesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Toasters can toast(There's a recipe in the book, but TVs cannot do which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the V part of their job, book and no computer can show its computations. You might think this is going I was told to be make a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but nomess of it. For Notes in the family finally remember Stella's grandma, and see if they can get across country to hermargins are sanctioned. Hence this has You get to go fold down as a road-trip bookthe corners of pages. But You suspect that smears of butter would not just that, be a slapstick road-trip comedyproblem. And more than that, too – for itI ''loved''s a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will lovethis book already.|isbn=1471196887

 =='''23 MARCH4 JULY'''==

|author=Dean KoontzMax Boucherat|title=The Other EmilyLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between We meet Lori on the two US coasts. Itfirst evening she's got the western coast we're concerned withhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a place he blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to return log on toVoxminer, the world-building, and critter-collecting game that is a place he has to be able to leavehit in Lori's world. 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 embodimentgame has been doctored – well, 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 chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burovasoldiers took him away one night, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist leaving Jean and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo waiting for the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession for news of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billiehim. Just who is she, and who delivered As the British finally free the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|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, Channel islands from 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 charactersNazis, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong war is a perfect example of a modern retelling done wellfinally over, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly their hopes rise that they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece will finally learn what became of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to endhim.|isbn=1529039037}}{{Frontpage|author=Goldy Moldavsky|title=The Last Girl|rating=5|genre=teens|summary= Rachel Chavez is But will the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesn't belong. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, and most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies truth come as a source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect withrelief, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie style, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before or will it's too late.|isbn=0755501527}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Sultoon|title=The Source|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak...|isbn=1913193594}} =='''27 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kristen O'Neal|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess raise further questions around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in else happened during the basement – and for that werewolf to be war? Who was the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|isbn=1683692349}} =='''29 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author= Jennifer Saint |title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is informer who told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing Nazis about the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. |isbn=1472273869}}  =='''24 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Catherine Steadman|title=The Disappearing Act|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on the cusp of success. Great success. If the rumours are true, award season is going to treat her well, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed production. She's going places but so, unfortunately, is her partner. radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the places he's going take him towards lies, deceit and a pretty young thing in the form of his new co-star. It's a good time for Mia to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just the excuse.occupation?|isbn=14711897831846976537