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=='''4 MARCH30 MAY'''==

|isbn=0008336830B0CYV674G2|title=Two WrongsSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Mel McGrathDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Sondra was on her way home after work when she saw a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from the Clifton suspension bridgeIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. She talks to herA man, covered in mud and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend blood - and flatmatecarrying a knife, Nevis Smith. Nevis is unworldly and rather reserved - and she can't understand why Satnam comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't shared her problems with herkilled the man. She thought they shared everythingA body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. Satnam DCI John Tanner is taken to hospital and Nevis calls her motherjust back from his honeymoon, Honorwhich coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. TheyYou would think he've not been on good terms since a discovery Nevis d be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the previous summer point of falling asleep at work but right now, Nevis needs her motherhe's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|author=Saima MirStuart Douglas|title=The KhanLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|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 During location filming for her sisterhis 1970's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exilesitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', she is at leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the top edge of her gamea reservoir. Returning The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the city whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of her birtha fellow actor, John Le Breton to old scars help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for seemingly, a link to death during the future with her sense of honour and dutySecond 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=17860790971803368209

|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Saima Mir|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=This I was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or instantly intrigued by the nature premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the person he's addressing in his second person monologue north of England run by a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following dayMuslim woman. The mother fact that it was the second in a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (night-time on page and businessscreen) partner, and feelings of abandonment are still strongit needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to the lad's childhoodspeed, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell addressI never felt lost.|isbn=19398109650861541561

|author=Mary H K ChoiKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=YolkDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student that's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokesMeet Kit. She makes bad decisions about Like most of the men she sleeps with. She's an all-round messy character; and that's her charm. Junepeople in his world, on the other handit seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a complete contrast to Jayne. She's a typical older sister: she's smartteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, thinks she knows it allmagical mazes, and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choicesrace to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in points they grant you along the same city way. Unfortunately for Kit, the past two years. This is until June finds out sheonly thing he's sickseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and Jayne a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the only person she can turn totoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. The two sisters What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have to come together in actually managing that, and decide how far they'll go could he possibly hope to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identities.succeed?|isbn= 03490036961839945184

|isbnauthor=1529047315Jenny Valentine|title=The Lamplighters|author=Emma StonexUs in the Before and After

|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two faces. You have to take them both, he said, the good Elk and the badMab are best friends, and never turn your back on either one of them.'' In 1972or more than that even, fifteen miles off the coast of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse their friendship is a once in ''the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''a lifetime connection. Jory Martin had taken They meet as children one day on a trip out a relief keeper, the weather such that ''the boat [was] rocking and bobbing like a bath toy over the wavelets'' but unfortunately they were unable to don't get any response from each other's contact details at the Maiden Rocktime. It was broken into the next dayBut then chance brings them back together, but there was no sign of the men. The table was set for a meal for two - and the clocks were stopped at 8.45they are inseparable. Contact with the light had not been possible as the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what Something has happened to the menthough, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

=='''11 MARCH13 JUNE'''==

|isbn=15291091161635866847|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's JourneyThe Lavender Companion|author=Hannah JacksonJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''I want the image of a British farmer to simply be immediately'' feel that of a person who this is proudly employed in feeding the nationbook for you. Before I donstarted reading 't think that is too much to ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where Lavender Companion''his'' family have farmed for generations. He, I visited the author's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do[https: he knows that he'll be a farmer//www. It's not always the case thoughpinelavenderfarm. Hannah Jackson was born com/ website] and brought up on the Wirral: shethere'd never set foot on s a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had picture of a deep love slice of animalschocolate cake on the homepage. Her original intention was I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that she would become cake viscerally. (There'Dr Jacksons a recipe in the book, whale scientistwhich I' m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and she I was well on her way told to achieving this when her life changed on make a family holiday to mess of it. Notes in the Lake Districtmargins are sanctioned. She saw a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked You get to fold down the kudos corners of her original intention, she knew pages. You suspect that she wanted to smears of butter would not be a shepherdproblem. With the determination that youI ''loved''ll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambitionthis book already.

 =='''18 MARCH4 JULY'''==

|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellMax Boucherat|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|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 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 secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}} =='''14 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Polly Barton|title=Fifty Sounds|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with British finally free the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while and if Channel islands from the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this yearNazis, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in and the first essay, which war is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as beingfinally over, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|isbn=1913097501}} =='''15 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Lucy Holland|title=Sistersong|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, 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 their hopes rise that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role they will finally learn what became of womenhim. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing But will the characters to truth 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.|isbn=1529039037}}{{Frontpage|author=Goldy Moldavsky|title=The Last Girl|rating=5|genre=teens|summary= Rachel Chavez is 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 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}}  =='''17 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Joseph Knox|title=True Crime Story|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story". The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence. Split into four parts, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, radio? And what other family, friends and professionals, such as the police. The various accounts help the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. However, the twists and turns at secrets have been kept throughout the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trustoccupation?|isbn=0857527703}} =='''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. And 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.|isbn=14711897831846976537