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|isbn=14063893311529428289|title=In A Grave in the Key Woods (A Bruno, Chief of CodePolice Novel)|author=Aimee LucidoMartin Walker

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Emmy is moving with her parents halfway across America, to follow her father's dreams Because of a big break in his music career. She leaves behind her friends and her school in Wisconsinvarious property transactions, and moves to Californiapeople were searching for the grave but when they found it, knowing only what she has heard in songsit came with three sets of bones. Her struggle They dated back to settle into her new life, make friends World War II and feel happy and confident again, is agonisingly told in a way we can all relate it fell to. There are many new opportunities and setbacksBruno, taking the reader on a rollercoaster Chief of emotionsPolice for St Denis, but it to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't until Emmy joins a coding class using computer language enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that she begins have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to feel she might have release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a chance to feel like she truly belongsdevastating flood.

|isbn=1529402255152919640X|title=A Body in the Bookshop (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)The Suspect|author=Helen CoxRob Rinder|rating=34.5

|summary= Evie Bowes is very conscious The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of the scars on her faceemergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. They were acquired when Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was rescued from a car in dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the River Ouse Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Inspector HalloranFrancesca Meadows. She’d been suspected of The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the murder of her boyfriendwealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and in work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the process of clearing her name she guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and her best friendit won't be long before a body is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, Kitt Hartley developed a taste young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for detectionRonny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. Kitt developed He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a taste for Inspector Halloran Too, but they’re taking it slowlyrapper. WellBut now, in this new school, sort his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|authorisbn= Alexandra Christo1635866847|title= Into the Crooked PlaceThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensLifestyle|summary= In It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a world thriving picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with black magic, four young crooks embark on some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a quest mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to take fold down their criminal leader after they discover the plot behind his dangerous new magiccorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1250318378

|author=Kathlaine C Gill and D Clark GillRob Keeley|title=Madness Between Light and DarkChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=3.54|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=ItAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's 1912a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and at New Hope Sanatoriumhe writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, Christine Agnes Tupper not to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is fast growing upone of his greatest achievements. Abandoned there by parents who were ashamed It's a sequence of her hunchbackghost stories centring on Ellie, she's nevertheless grown up to an intelligent a stalwart young girl who can cope with a good heart. Her encounters with anything the inhabitants of the asylum swiftly take spirit world throws at her on a fascinating, thrilling and sometimes terrifying journey of self discoveryEdward, allowing Agnes to prove that, even with a twisted spine, her heart is in spoiled lordling and the right place!first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=16411107081783064617

|isbnauthor=190874572XJenny Valentine|title=Letters from Tove|author=Tove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator)Us in the Before and After

|genre=AutobiographyTeens|summary=Back Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the beginning time. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century I went on holiday -old, magical mazes, and race to Nepalthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. I met Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a wonderful Finnish woman and we became sort new trio of friendsquestors is needed. I can Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he't remember if it was on that holiday or ll enter as a later one team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that Paula told me I really had , and how could he possibly hope to read Tove Janssonsucceed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating=3. 5|genre=Thrillers|summary= I do know that it was four years later that I finally acquired instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an English translation organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The Summer Book, and fact that it was the second in a series I eagerly awaited the hadn't read didn'Sort Oft stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn' translations of the rest of Janssont be a hindrance if it's work good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and devoured them as soon as I could get my hands on themnever felt lost.|isbn=0861541561

|isbnauthor=1784742783Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The Benefit police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of Hindsight a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second 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=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (Simon SerraillerJohn Tanner)|author=Susan HillDavid Blake|rating=3.5

|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A superficial look would suggest to you that Simon Serrailer has been lucky man, covered in mud and blood - all things considered - his life is as good as it could be. He's back at work after and carrying a long break to recuperate from knife, comes into the violent incident which cost him his arm and almost his life. When police station shouting that hehasn's not t killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at work Swanton Morley church - he's spending been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his time in the cathedral roof drawing honeymoon, which coincided with the medieval angels which are being restored. There's talk of an exhibition birth of his drawingsdaughter Samantha. Lafferton seems to You would think he'd be quite settled as far as crime is concerned until one night when two local men open their front door to a couple seeking shelter. Itgrateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse's the usual story of a broken-down car, and a phone which won't make a callJohn Tanner' were made for each other. The man are generous and welcoming and have no suspicions that the couple are simply there to plan a robbery. ItHe's a serious error of judgement in sleep-deprived to the course point of this investigation which will throw Simon Serraillerfalling asleep at work but he's future into doubtdetermined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|isbn=140638853X1787333175|title=Somebody Give This Heart a PenYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Sophia ThakurBenji Waterhouse

|genre=AnthologiesPopular Science|summary=Sophia ThakurI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's debut anthology first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a collection glorious mixture of insight into the workings of poems that are all uniquethe NHS, whether in relation to their style, length or themehumour and autobiography. The collection is split into four sections, titled 'grow',You Don'waitt Have to be Mad...','break'promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and 'grow again', guiding you through the work of a process which psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is one of the foundations that the anthology directed at a situation rather than a person and it is built onalways delivered with empathy and understanding. Each section begins with a foregrounded }}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title page containing various small pieces =Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of writingAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, ranging from a quote by a Nigerian playwrightbasically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to African proverbstake down the content about her. This provides a nice introduction Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the section before you are immersed into the beautifully written new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put her heart and soul into.relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbnauthor=1910989460David Chadwick|title=Flember: The Secret Book|author=Jamie SmartHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=A mysterious islandIt's September 1973 in Hicks, California. A strange Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and mystical power called FlemberLas Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A boy-inventor called Dev, who uncovers silver mine and a long forgotten secret. And a giantdefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, red robot bear?! The sleepy village there's not much of Eden note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is about to descend into hilarious chaos - can disastrous Dev save his brand new best friend? Find out in this fully illustrated mad-cap adventurequiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=0241355222Tom Percival|title=Frostheart|author=Jamie LittlerThe Wrong Shoes

|summary=Way out Will's life is difficult, in the furthest part a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the known worldwrong shoes', a tiny stronghold exists all on its own, cut off from he has the rest of human-kin by monsters that lurk beneath the Snow Sea. There, a little boy called Ash waits wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the return most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his parentsjob at the college, singing was working a forbidden lullaby to remind him of them..cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and doing his best to avoid his verydad are separated, VERY grumpy yeti guardian, Tobu. But and Will's life is about to get a whole lot more crazy-adventurous for Ashseems bleak in every direction. When a brave rescue attempt reveals And yet, he still has amazing magical powersa tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he's whisked aboard the Frostheartis drawing, that feel like a sleigh packed full light at the end of daring explorers who could use his helpa long, dark tunnel. But can they help him find his family?|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=1913101037Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone|author=Jaclyn MoriartyA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Bronte doesn't miss her parents, and she's not particularly sad when she learns of their terrible fate at the hands of pirates. And why should she be? After all, they just dumped her on Aunt Isabelle (without even asking if it would be There are few greater joys than a convenient arrangement for either party) when she was book which lives up to a babycompelling premise. They swanned off to have adventures, and never once came back to check if their only child was healthy and happyAnd this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=14012800480008517061|title=Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic NovelDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris WildgooseStig Abell

|genre=TeensCrime|summary=The young man called Bruce Wayne is Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanderslittle uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, paparazziLivia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and suchlike – reminding him heputting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's a billionaire at apartments - when they discovered the age bones of eighteena child beneath a doorway. Feeling rather stuck There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the legacy heone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's inherited unusual for anyone from his murdered parents, he wants the Hardie family to do charitable deedsapproach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But one night, when Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit 's prepared to tell the police where the body of a criminalmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concernedpromises, is someone big and gets given it will be worth the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylumpolice doing what he wants. There And what he learns wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of some his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other people thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who also allege charitable intent – works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any tenFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-figure bank account contents they can, old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and murder the ownerinvestigation ground to a halt. Can he get close to one of them Now, her mother, Helena, and get her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the truth positioning of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a step too far for complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the young do-gooder?explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=B07W4MNBSG0571379877|title=Be Careful Who You MarryThe Kellerby Code|author=Lizzy MumfreyJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and Edward Jevons is a group of sixthworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fiftyclass friends, Robert and Stanza. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry'Robert's a theatre director. The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living in a farmhouse and having a couple of children called Will He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William entitled and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined uses Edward to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Bothamrun errands for him. The place to start Edward has been in love with Stanza since their search was obviously the Young Farmersuniversity days - and he' Halloween disco that weekends drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the classtwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Michael J MaloneJo Callaghan|title=In The Absence of MiraclesLeave No Trace

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=John DochertyWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's mother has their first live case together, having previously been taken into very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a nursing home following second body found crucified a massive stroke. It few days later, Kat is thought unlikely suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that she will ever be able draws a lot of unwanted attention to live independently againtheir AI Future Policing project. Faced with having Will they be able to sell solve the family home case in order to pay for her nursing caretime, Docherty starts or will Kat find herself taken off the clear case and, potentially, out. In the attic he finds a childhood picture of himself, holding a toddler – a toddler he knows nothing about. He also finds a blood-stained shoe.career?|isbn=191237479X139851120X

|isbn=06928535451399613073|title=The Things We DoMoral Injuries|author=Kay PfaltzChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=It's 2015 Olivia, Laura and Dr Eleanor Hartley is a prison psychologist at Anjali met on the state penitentiary first day of medical school and she knows that her next patient their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is not going a bonus when you aim to be easya cardiothoracic surgeon. 'Jane Doe' has been convicted Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the murder of two men - one group and she becomes a police officerGP. She pleaded guilty When we first meet them they're at a drug and since then has been silent: even her identity is alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in doubttragedy. She was carrying identification as Jane Dunlap when she was arrested, but itWe don's been proved to be falset know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. There seem to Twenty-five years later there will be no family or an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends who are missing her. EleanorThis time, it's task is to get Jane talking, to find out why a seemingly normal young woman would murder two mentheir teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Patti Smith0241636604|title=Year of the MonkeyThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=On the coast If you were to bring up an image of Santa Cruza city banker in your mind, Patti Smith enters the lunar year you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the monkey pin- one packed stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with mischief, sorrowviolence, poverty and unexpected momentsinjustice. In a stranger's words, ''Anything is possible: after all, it's There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the year London School of the monkey''Economics. As Smith wanders the coast Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of Santa Cruz in solitudeus can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss and aging are faced head oncard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as it the shifting political waters in Americaa trader. |isbn=1526614758

|authorisbn=Margaret Atwood1035021803|title=The TestamentsAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Dystopian FictionCrime|summary= Finally! Almost forty It's twenty years on, we have a sequel since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. [[The HandmaidShe's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaidback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's Tale]]. I don't want to tell you too much about the plot because itformer mentor and Carole's a novel that close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is entirely plot driven. Suffice it dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into a van, the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not knowing what will happen next. It's told by three narratorsbeen back to the village: Aunt LydiaArthur, she feels, who is secretly writing let her memoirs down badly. Even though they were in Ardua Hall; Agnesbusiness together as antique hunters, a girl brought up in Gilead with she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the expectation split, she will marry worked in a commander; Daisycafe, a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only met and married James (on the rebound from school lessons and its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the store owned by love of her parentslife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced...|isbn=1784742325

|author=Anne BodenSunny Singh|title=The Money RevolutionHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre= Business and FinanceThrillers |summary= Money The Hotel Arcadia is changing. It might not be a luxury hotel in the ways you think. We’re not an unnamed city that has suddenly getting been violently taken over by a 3p or £3 coin (and have you ever even found a country that offers anything different to terrorist group. Hiding from the 1terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, 2there is Sam, 5 model?) We’re getting a lot more digital with paymentswartime photographer and Abhi, which seems the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to suit most people apart from charity collectors and care remotely for the homeless on residents who are still alive in the streethotel, but although this book has the subtitle that includes the word ‘’digital’’he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, it’s not really about this eitherand keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Instead it’s about Although they only ever talk over the ‘’management’’ of your financesphone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and how they both wait to take controlsee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1789660610086154742X

|isbn=147117316X1529153298|title=Guilty Not GuiltyThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Felix FrancisJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=The Honourable William Herbert Millgate Gordon-Russell It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (Bill Russell A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to those who knew him well) was acting as a volunteer steward at Warwick Racecourse when he was told of the violent death of his much-loved wifehave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. It would get worse though: the successful insurance actuary would be accused of killing Miv's upset because she's overheard that her and hounded by father wants to move the mediafamily 'Down South'. Then When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. he For Miv, the move would lose his job and his home. His mean leaving her best friends would turn against himfriend, Sharon, as they came and she'll do anything to believe him guilty of the murderprevent that. Yet there was no really compelling evidence She's not worried about the dangers or that he was guiltyher Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=19087458191398524085|title=SurfacingHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Kathleen JamieNicci French

|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it'Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Mostly we take them at their word Her children, or notsons Niall, but rarely do we ask them why they thought soPaul and Ollie and her daughter, unless it turns out that we didn't like the book. That's a rare experienceEtty. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your nameall worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, rarely get it wrong. In this case I was told whyis not. The blurb speaks of Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the author considering ''an older, less tethered sense body of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. ThatGreg's not a bad description of where I amfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Add It was an easy assumption for the police to make that my love of Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the natural world, of those aspects of the poetic and lyrical that guilt. The Salter children are about style not form, convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and substance most of all, wonder about connectionwhat really happened. Of course this book had my name on it}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4. It 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was written for me. It would have found its way born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to me eventuallyAthens when she was thirteen. I am pleased Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to have make it fall onto my path more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so quicklythat she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.