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=='''18 30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=1848458428B0CYV674G2|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary Kubica|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - again. His wife was in the habit of going out for a run late at night. It was the only time she had for herself when she didn't have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. Ten days later, a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for her.}}=='''27 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0008395594|title=Both of You|author=Adele Parks|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Then, one Monday, she went to work and never came home. Mark, Oli and Seb are shattered. Well, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best look. He's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independent. Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without trace.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473685745|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=walker14|title=The Coldest Case Swanton Morley (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelJohn Tanner)|author=Martin WalkerDavid Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies police station shouting that chief of police Bruno Courreges had he hasn't killed the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty yearsman. The A body at the bottom of a young male was found in the woods but freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he was never identified and his killer never brought 's been stabbed to justicedeath. What if an artist could recreate the face DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the skull and the resulting publicity birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be used to identify grateful for an easy answer but the young man? J-J calls the skull words 'Oscarperverse' and has a picture on his door: 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he sees it every time 's determined to keep going - probably because he leaves his office: he doesncan't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justiceget any sleep at home.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008404925Stuart Douglas|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane CaseyLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a surprise. After all, it was her cross-examination woman on the edge of the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentencereservoir. He'd been accused of stalking the woman but it didn't take long The police seem happy to establish that - if anything - assign it was as an accidental death, but something about the other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Webster and then she came Le Breton to see help him as investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a threat and was forced link to remember that death during the police officer at his trial had told her that this was Second World War. But is there really a link between the best chance deaths? And will they'd had manage to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous man.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author= Adrian TchaikovskySaima Mir|title= Shards of EarthVengeance|rating= 43.5|genre= Science FictionThrillers|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth I was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape instantly intrigued by the moon-sized aliens known as premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the Architectsnorth of England run by a Muslim woman. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to The fact that it was the architectsecond in a series I hadn's reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race t read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, page and humanity begins to fracture screen) and fight among themselvesit needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. Idris Telemmier, And that wasn't a man genetically engineered problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to try and communicate with the Architectsspeed, does not want to be remembered. But, when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlightI never felt lost. As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=15290518860861541561
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|isbnauthor=0241400120Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Twitch Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at hometeam of warrior, mage and chickenshealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and helping birds is easy compared to that of his time in schoolthe points they grant you along the way. But things are about to change Unfortunately for Twitch in all aspects Kit, the only thing he's seen of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber the latest race on the runinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and it's possible that the missing bank haul a new trio of questors is hidden somewhere in Aves Woodneeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the place where Twitch has token bully of his secret hide world and that stumbled into declaring he knows like the back of his hand! 'll enter as a team. Can Twitch solve the mysteryWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and find the missing millionshow could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14063893741839945184
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|author=Hannah WhittenJenny Valentine|title=For Us in the WolfBefore and After
|rating=5
|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, Elk and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrificeMab are best friends, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing or more than to be killed within the hourthat even, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf their friendship is not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=0356516369}} =='''10 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around once in a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallislifetime connection. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen They meet as we know it, and we are now children one day on a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the mainland''time. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenologythen chance brings them back together, and ideas of female purpose, they are inseparable. Something has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudgeshappened though, something terrible and beyond those, right on down to the childlesstragic, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be bannednow they must work through their grief, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisationtheir friendship, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visittogether.|isbn=152941198X1471196585
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Terry Miles1635866847|title=RabbitsThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Science FictionLifestyle|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbitsstrange, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the game of life book for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracyyou. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the computer game, the hack from the darkest of websauthor's [https://www. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possiblepinelavenderfarm. K com/ website] and his bezzies are trying to be historians there's a picture of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists a slice of who has successfully won chocolate cake on the game are in the most peculiar places, homepage. I don't eat cakes and are still very shortdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. However this time it (There's different. This time a recipe in the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethalbook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the most broken book and I was told to make a mess of it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, Notes in trying the margins are sanctioned. You get to sort out what fold down the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeedproblem. I ''loved'' this book already..|isbn=1529016932
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|author=Louise Beech|title=This Is How We Are Human|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother to her son, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that it's time for him to have sex. But as an autistic 20 year-old, that's easier said than done. And it's starting to cause them both problems. |isbn=1913193713}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1409181669Max Boucherat|title=The Maidens|author=Alex Michaelides|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.}}=='''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, 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 the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trust?|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=1471189783}} =='''1 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Darren Shan|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 Last Life of 3Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The second trilogy in ShanWe meet Lori on the first evening she's ''Merge'' saga opens with our herogot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, Archiejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, back in London on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world of the Born. It-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where heworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's beent find herself entirely on her own, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and his other friends in the Mergenobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, but Archie and her safe place in the game has done his best.... been doctored – well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.where is a girl to turn?|isbn=B093H8DPQZ0008666482
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|author=Hannah PeckJenny Lecoat|title=Kate on the Case|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kate, although I got the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, and the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky father, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. However, this is a train ride with a difference, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=184812970X}} =='''13 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good NeighboursBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and it's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211}} =='''22 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=Girls Who Lie|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, and a couple of delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X}} =='''5 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Boyne|title=The Echo Chamber|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks Jean lives on Jersey with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who mother where they are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save celebrating the world's homeless with out-end of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingoccupation. Add in a few other characters – therapists During the war, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections Jean's father was arrested for listening to his lifea banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the modern world. What suggests Channel islands from the farcical approach even moreNazis, however, is and the fact this war is bloody funnyfinally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him.|isbn=0857526219}} =='''7 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Gwynne|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is But will the first installment of the Bloodsworn Sagatruth come as a relief, set in or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the era of war? Who was the Vikings in informer who told the shadow of Ragnarok, when Nazis about the Gods radio? And what other secrets have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to been kept throughout the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.occupation?|isbn=03565142181846976537
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