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|author=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)Max Boucherat|title=The Honjin Murders|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. For those who need more, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan in the 1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annex before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case has a lot of the peculiar about it.|isbn=1782275002}} == '''11 DECEMBER''' =={{Frontpage|isbn=B07XLM3SM6|title=Murder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Elowed Underhay was just twenty seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother, when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. She's always coped with the mix of holidaymakers, boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and she's done every job in the hotel. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotel.}} =='''31 DECEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0753553236|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Go on, admit it - you're not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky even loveable (to you) habits which seem to annoy other people. Other people, of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just a little bit of effort. Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the concepts. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the list.}} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''7 JANUARY 2020'''=={{Frontpage|author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Diana, being unique on her island, is the victim of a lot of taunts, and claims of nepotism. It's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of Men, and this Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more...|isbn=1401282555}} =='''9 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1786075695|title=When the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)|author=Helen Sedgwick|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It began with the discovery Last Life of a body under the swings in the children's playground. It was Dr Alexis Crosse and he was found by PC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeply, but who had reason to mistrust him. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up in Greece, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners), a community which regards anyone not born and brought up there as an outsider. DI Georgie Strachan is an outsider - you've only got to look at her skin to realise that, and her husband, Fergus, well, he's a little strange too, not entirely ''here''.}}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"<!-- Sarah Alderson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473681847.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473681847/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Ava lives a charmed life, but those things sometimes rub other people up the wrong way. One evening she returns from a night out with a friend, and before she can finish her bedtime routine, her home, and her life, are under attack: masked men have broken in and are demanding money from her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside him. In the scuffle than ensues, Ava is hurt, badly. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happened, but she knows it was life-changing. With her daughter still fighting for her life in a room down the corridor, Ava has a lot to contend with as she tries to recover, wills her daughter to recover, and attempts to piece together what happened and why. [[In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson|Full Review]]|}{{Frontpage|author= Catherine Steadman|title= Mr Nobody|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Don't you just hate it when people are multi-talented? Author Catherine Steadman is both a successful actress and writer, with this her second novel. I think in a way her acting background shows in her writing as to my mind the 'fight scene' at the end was somewhat unrealistic – you know the kind where the hero has been hurt so many times that it's virtually impossible they'd still be alive let alone able to fight off an attacker. The story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until the ending which felt overstuffed in a frenetic bid to wrap everything up in the last few chapters. It was almost as if the author wanted to keep the suspense until the last possible moment (which I liked) but then was somewhat left with too much to do in the closing stages.|isbn=1984890646}} |} =='''15 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Tanya Landman|title=Jane Eyre: a Retelling|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but that's nothing compared to the darker, more broody and even more troubled secret in the house. Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn to.|isbn=1781129126}}{{Frontpage|author=Penny Chrimes|title=Tiger HeartLori Mills

|summary=''Fly never meant to end up in We meet Lori on the cage with a man-eating tiger. She just saw her chance to skedaddle, and she took it. And even when the cloud of soot cleared and first evening she saw the golden eyes of a killer staring into hers, she still didn't turn round and climb back up s got the chimney straightaway. 'Cos there was worse waiting for her back on the roof.''What an opener! And there's plenty more house to come!|isbn=1510107045}}=='''16 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529400279|title=Six Wicked Reasons|author=Jo Spain|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was early summer 2018 and Adam Latimer returned home herself – no neighbour to Spanish Cove after an absence of ten years. The family had thought him dead - pop in fact, that's what the private detective his babysitter poorly, mother had insisted upon had told them. He was cagey about exactly where he'd been but he seemed contentat work, if not happyjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, to be hopeon her lonesome. What brought himcould possibly go wrong? Well, nine years ago his mother died and he'd seen the ''Snuggled in memoriam'' in the paper: this was the first he'd heard about what had happened. His three sisters and two brothers had mixed feelings about his return, but his father is delighted. In fact, he's determined to have a party. Onlyblanket fort, with Frazer Latimer, what happens she has to be about him. He has an announcement to make - it's nine years since Kathleen died and he's been lonely. He's met Ana, a Polish immigrantone main intention, and they're getting married.}} =='''23 JANUARY'''== {{Frontpage|isbn=0241985110|title=All the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=A very beautiful, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by a minicab driver that is to log on the outskirts of Oxford. She didn't want to go to the police station or Voxminer, the hospital: she just wanted to be taken home. The driver wasn't so certain though world- and after dropping the girl at home he went to the policebuilding, which critter-collecting game that is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford and her mother. Both were adamant that this was nothing more than an April Fool's joke which had gone wrong. No crime had been committed and Faith didn't want to take the matter any further. Fawley and his team weren't prepared to leave it at that and they began investigating. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didn't seem to have much of a history.}}{{Frontpage|author=Rory Clements|title=Hitlerhit in Lori's Secret|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=So, Hitler had a secret? Two, if you include the reproductive detail mentioned in a certain sing-song aspersionworld. But this is first Lori has a secret tiny inkling that is counter to that, and in fact is a secret that Hitler himself this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even know aboutmore spooky. His neice, Geli Raubal, For the attractive young woman he seemed to server she and her bestie and nobody else should be very close able to in the early 1930s, had had his daughter behind his back. Protected under a false identity ever since, the girl is completely ignorant enter shows signs of her past, and the truth is a very rare thingtampering. Martin Bormann, the 'gatekeeper' to Hitler and his right hand man, knows – and is desperately intent When malevolent eyes spark up on wiping the slate clean and removing all connected with her existence from the Reich. So it's down to Tom Wilde, an American history professor at Oxbridgephone screen, to go in and extract her, safe place in this most shadowy race against time.|isbn=1838770275}} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''6 FEBRUARY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Holly Rivers|title= Demelza and the Spectre Detectors|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Demelza loves science - she loves it so much that she's game has been known to stay up late to work on her peculiar inventions! But Demelza discovers she has inherited a distinctly un-scientific set of skills: Spectre Detecting. Like her grandmotherdoctored – well, she can summon the ghosts of the dead. But when Grandma where is kidnapped by a mysterious villain, she knows Spectre Detecting has something girl to do with it. Only Demelza and her pasty best friend, Percy, can solve the deadly mystery ...|isbn=1912626039}} =='''11 FEBRUARY'''== {{Frontpage|author= A K Larkwood|title= The Unspoken Name|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone is a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to her god on her fourteenth birthday, yet when the opportunity arises, she chooses to abandon everything she knows and flee with her life. Who can blame herturn? Her god's reach is limited and Csorwe intends to stay far beyond it, yet fate is a funny thing and when circumstances bring her back within the reach of her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers her, and blames her very much indeed.|isbn=12502389000008666482

|author=Sara HollandJenny Lecoat|title=HavenfallBeyond Summerland

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Maddie Morrow is supposed to spending the summer Jean lives on Jersey with her Grandma Ellen. But after a visit to her mother in prison, Maddie wants nothing more than to go to Havenfall to see her uncle, Marcuswhere they are celebrating the end of the occupation. It's During the only place she feels truly at home. Maddiewar, Jean's fatherwas arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, understandably, is not keen on Maddie spending time with leaving Jean and her mother's family - because the crime Maddie's mum is languishing on death row waiting for years for committing is the murder news of Maddie's brother..him.|isbn=1547603798 }}{{Frontpage|author=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)|title=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Curses. They're there throughout tales of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do this, or not to be able to do that. Children can be cursed, as can princesses on As the British finally free the Channel islands from the verge of marryingNazis, and older people too. It seems in a way there's no escaping it. Which is why the theme of this book of short stories war is such a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed characterfinally over, their hopes rise that demonised place, and that other bewitched personthey will finally learn what became of him. We'd be very wrong.|isbn=1789091500}}  {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''12 MARCH'''== {{Frontpage|author=Will Dean |title=Black River |rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns - and this third book in But will the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal lifetruth come as a relief, returning her to or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the isolated town of Gavrik and into a desperate search for her missing best friend. With informer who told the Midsommar sun blocked out by Nazis about the dark pines of radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the forest, Tuva fights to save her friend. But who’ll be there to save Tuvaoccupation?|isbn=17860771161846976537