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|isbn=16437850361529428289|title=The Wondrous ApothecaryA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Mary E MartinWalker

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Those who have known Alexander WainwrightBecause of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the landscape artist famous Chief of Police for his Turner prize winning St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Hay Wagon'Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and Rinaldo, renowned conceptual artist would say it seems that theythere's only one suspect. He're chalk s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and cheese, if his contract stated that he must not sworn enemiesserve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. If youShe've watched the relationship, s seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as has our narrator, art dealer Jamie Helmsworth, you'd have said that they were magnetscan be in a busy, drawing live television studio - and repulsing each other in equal measureBrooks served a ragout to Holby. Wainwright Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was at the socially acceptable end of the artistic continuum, but with Rinaldo it dead within minutes. It was all too obvious soon clear that there this was but a fine dividing line between conceptual art no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and public nuisancesplendid celebrations are promised. As time has worn on, heIt's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's frequently been brought to converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the attention architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the policesite. On this latest occasion we see him charged with arson The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and theft of ''The Hay Wagon'it won't be long before a body is found.

|author=Mary H.K. ChoiAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Permanent RecordWild East|rating=4.5

|summary=PabloWritten in verse, this is Ronny's story, a college drop-out, is working young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a New York bodegamostly white school. HeThe move is initiated by Ronny's massively in debt, hemum who is worried for Ronny's avoiding his mothersafety after a tragic event, and he so Ronny finds his joy himself trying to settle in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! Whilst working one eveninga new town, he's surprised to discover that the girl he is chatting with as he serves is a super-famous pop star new school, andkeep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, as unlikely as it may seem, they start and has always dreamed of being a relationshiprapper. With one character who is trying very hard not But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be seen or noticed by anyonepart of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, and Ronny begins to see the other who is seen connections between rap and followed poetry, and hounded by everyone all over the world, it's an interesting clash as they come together. This isn't just a love story though, power of creativity and actually it's really just Pab's story, about the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smartcrafting your words.|isbn=03490034590241645441

|isbn=16098093191635866847|title=Long-Haired Cat-Boy CubThe Lavender Companion|author=Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil Jessica Dunham and Sondra Silverston (translator)Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=One day a boy It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is in the zoo with his fatherbook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', when I visited the man gets called away author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on urgent businessthe homepage. The boy isnI don't hustled into a cab eat cakes and taken home first, though, no – hedesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's given hot dog money, and taxi moneya recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to just stick around on his own and enjoy himselfmake a mess of it. Well, it's no surprise that Notes in the orphan-for-an-afternoon sensation margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the lad feels doesn't make him happy, and so he thinks corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a species name for himself, and curls himself up into an empty cage, as if he were a new exhibitproblem. And itI ''loved''s then the drama begins… this book already.

|isbnauthor=1785785516Rob Keeley|title=Fucking Good Manners|author=Simon GriffinChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=Manners maketh manAround here, they saywe're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by He's a set ball of conventionshappy positivity, he understands children, some of which are ages old and other which have evolved over time. Manners are he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not about how much to tip lecture or how you should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: theyhector.  The ''Childish Spirits''re about getting the basics right before we try to deal with more difficult mattersseries is one of his greatest achievements. Of course we all have more relaxed manners when weIt're s a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with family anything the spirit world throws at her, and friendsEdward, but it's best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives a spoiled lordling and to act appropriately. ''Fucking Good Manners'' aims to help us on the way.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|isbnauthor=0008324859Jenny Valentine|title=Fowl Twins|author=Eoin ColferUs in the Before and After

|summary=RelaxMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, everyone it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – our old friend Artemis may be off planet, but the baddies aren't getting away with skulduggery any time soon because they now have not one but two members sport where a team of the Fowl family to contend with. Those cute little twins are now eleven (warrior, mage andhealer enter specially prepared, franklycentury-old, cute no longer) and in thismagical mazes, their first independent adventure, they meet a troll and without even trying manage race to make two deadly enemies: a nobleman obsessed the exit, perhaps bothering with immortality whatever the cost (to other people), treasure or the big bad and an unusual interrogator-nunthe points they grant you along the way. The boys are chased Unfortunately for Kit, kidnappedthe only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, arrested and even killed (though not a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for long)Kit, all with he has taken to the goading from the help token bully of one trainee fairyhis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|isbnauthor=1472255798Saima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The Bad Fire fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (Bob Skinneron page and screen)and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}} {{Frontpage|author=Quintin JardineStuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=Nine years ago local councillor Marcia Brown took her own life after being accused of shoplifting from a local supermarket. ItDuring location filming for his 1970's always been assumed that she couldnsitcom 't live with Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the shame. People were surprised that she committed suicide just before the court case when she had been adamant that she would fight to clear her name. She said that she'd been set up because she was hot dead body of a woman on the trail edge of corruption in the councila reservoir. Her ex-husband has contacted Alex Skinner The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, Solicitor Advocate as well as retired Police Constable Bob Skinner's daughterbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and asked that she look into clearing Brown's name: it's something which he feels that he has enlists the help of 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 do in memory of his son uncover who was murdered recently.is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=B07X6GLQ3QB0CYV674G2|title=See Them RunSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Marion ToddDavid Blake|rating=43.5

|summary=D I Clare Mackay is still relatively new to St Andrew's: she was previously at Maryhill Rd station It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in Glasgow. She's left quite mud and blood - and carrying a lot behind including a relationship knife, comes into the police station shouting that wasnhe hasn't going anywhere after Tom failed to support her when killed the chips were downman. She also left A body at the bottom of a nasty situationfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of her own making his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but not her fault, the words 'perverse' and St Andrew's is a fresh startJohn Tanner' were made for each other. Not long into the job sheHe's faced with a hit and run death and theresleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's little doubt that it wasndetermined to keep going - probably because he can't accidental - the card with the number five suggests murderget any sleep at home. Andy Robb }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I was married tempted to Sandra. read ''You could say that they had an open marriage but there seemed Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a lot glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'open' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and very little the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=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'marriages increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri' left s childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, 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- on both sidesmother to take down the content about her. 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, but would who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she want him deadsave her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbnauthor=1786540991David Chadwick|title=The Impossible Boy|author=Ben BrooksHeadload of Napalm

|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn'Oleg t have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and Emma entered their den to find his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a cardboard spaceship standing where they usually satbuilding site and had an accident. Slowly Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, the front door opened. Smoke billowed outand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And out stepped yet, he still has a boytiny amount of hope. He is good at art, dressed in and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long coat with an even longer scarf, wound around his neckdark tunnel.''|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall''"My name's Sebastian Cole," |title=A Letter to the boy said, "But you already know that."''Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science FictionAnd indeed they do. Ever since the summer, when their friend Sarah's mother had moved her away, Oleg and Emma have been unable |summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to find a new friend to take her placecompelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=14472813570008517061|title=Salvation LostDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Peter F HamiltonStig Abell

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=In Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the twentyfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-third century, humanity 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 a comparative utopia. Yet life in the present and putting the future on Earth is about to change, forever. Feriton Kane's investigative team has discovered the worst threat ever to face mankind – and we've almost no time to fight backburner. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanity, Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in order Norwich - the site was going to carry us to their god at hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the end bones of the universea child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. And It's difficult as their agents conclude schemes down on earthRuth knows, vast warships converge above to gather this cargo. Some factions push for humanity to fleebut Nelson doesn't, to live in hiding amongst that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the stars – although only a chosen few would make it out in timeone night they spent together some three months ago. But others refuse to break Her condition will be obvious before the storm. As disaster loomslong, animosities must be set aside not least because Ruth is prone to focus on just one goal: wiping this enemy from the face sudden bouts of creation. Even if it means preparing for a future this generation will never seesickness.

|isbn=14711863930008551324|title=Photographer of the LostThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Caroline ScottNeil Lancaster

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=May 1921It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Edie receives a photograph through Neither side likes or has any respect for the postother. There But Davie Hardie is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the back body of the photograph. It is a picture of her husband, Francis. Francis has been missing person is buried and who was responsible for four yearsher death. TechnicallyThis person, he has been "missingpromises, believed killed" but that is not something that a young widow can believesomeone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. She hangs on And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the word remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn'missingt think so and she', disbelieving s even prepared to do the word killedother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=17837843500008405026|title=This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted HistoryStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Esther RutterJane Casey

|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=It 's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was December never found and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing the investigation ground to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheetsa halt. The job frustrated Now, her mother, Helena, and even her knitting did not soothe her mindfather are dead in their bed. January was going to be Initially, it looks like a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the length and breadth positioning of the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and telling the story of wool's history and how her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it had made was going to be an open-and changed the landscape-shut case is now a complex double murder. She'd grown up on a sheep farm Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Suffolk - Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent' a free range child on the farm'' - and learned to spins boss, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was in her bloodUna Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=14012862080571379877|title=Black Canary: IgniteThe Kellerby Code|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGeeJonny Sweet

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his footstepsupper-class friends, Robert and seemingly lumbered with being Stanza. Robert's a cheerleader at school, she is desperate to find her voicetheatre director. But it He's actually more a case of her voice finding heralso self-obsessed, as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it a weapondemanding, or a powerhandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. But Edward has been in order for her love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to call herself Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a superhero, there has relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to be stumble upon the two of them kissing in a whole path of steps for her to take – one of which will be into her past…dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1789017977Jo Callaghan|title=Ronnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy WilliamsLeave No Trace

|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=Ronnie Williams was When a man is found crucified on the son top of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Walla hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. ThereIt's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to have their first live case together, having previously been born in 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few years off his age. For days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression potential serial killer and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestylehigh profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need Will they be able to be well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined solve the army at eighteen case in 1942.time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=15420154211399613073|title=The Royal Baths MurderMoral Injuries|author=J R EllisChristie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When Damian Penrose was murdered there was no shortage Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of suspects: he was a deeply unpleasant mancentury. In fact the only surprising thing was that there wasn't more of Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a queue waiting bonus when you aim to do the dirty deedbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. What was Laura is a perfectionist and a bit trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a headline maker was that Penrose was GP. When we first meet them they're at a crime writer drug and that he was strangled in the midst of Harrogatealcohol-fuelled party and it's crime writing festivalgoing to end in tragedy. He went for a swim at We don't know who suffered the Royal Baths and never returned, his body being found by tragedy or the receptionistconsequences. DCI Jim Oldroyd was the man tasked with investigating Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the crimethree friends. It would not be the only deathThis time, and it was only because of the quick actions of his sergeant, Andy Carter, that Oldroyd's was not one of themtheir teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Daniel Kraus0241636604|title=Blood SugarThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=This is If you were to bring up an image of a difficult read. And not because of the dark subject matter – that'll come later – but because of the way city banker in which it's told. This might put a lot of readers offyour mind, and to be honest ityou'd be hard re unlikely to blame themthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Kraus tells A hoodie and jeans replaces the story in a distinctive voice unlike any other I've read; an erratic dialect pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with heavy violence, poverty and frequent slanginjustice. The immediate effect There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is disorientating bright - extremely bright - and distracting, and it takes some time he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to feel naturalbe stupid. It's a struggle to acclimatise to Jody's voice, to get acquainted with was his mannerismsability at what was, but the story wouldn't be the same without itessentially, and somehow it worksa card game which got him an internship with Citibank. It shouldn't Eventually, but it doesthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=1789091934

|authorisbn=Don Behrend1035021803|title=Copernicus! What Have You Done?: ...and Other Interesting QuestionsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=TriviaCrime|summary= Hello! Would this review be okay if I simply said It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'I LOVED THIS GLORIOUS LITTLE BOOK AND SO WILL YOUs back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. FIN Freya's former mentor and Carole'?! Because I dids close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. And you will After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. |isbn=1789016770}}

|isbn=1925820025AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Once, I was LovedAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Belinda LandsberryBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=Tock, ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the toy rabbitshape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, is in I must confess that there have been more than a box few decades of toys going to the charity shoptechnology in my lifetime. He realises that heI've kept up reasonably well with what's not wanted any more, advantageous to me but muses I'm left with the feeling that it wasn't always this ways all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. ''Once''Of course, he says, ''I was lovedcould research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. And he tells us of all the children I needed people I knew I could trust and who have loved him over the yearscould deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)Sunny Singh|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= Literary Fiction Thrillers |summary= ''It Would Be Night The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in Caracas'' illuminates the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuelaan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. It begins with Hiding from the death of Adelaida Falcon's mother terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and chronicles Adelaida's coming Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to terms care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with her new solitude in this world Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her attempts room to escape ittry to capture what's happened through her photography. Danger stalks Although they only ever talk over the shadows phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and, in a society where they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the establishment is crumbling, who can you turn to? terrorists.|isbn=0062936867086154742X

|isbn=03494230671529153298|title=The Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)List of Suspicious Things|author=Frances BrodyJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (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 King’s Cross, arriving before dawn have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Gardenfamily 'Down South'. In early March 1929 one of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a manfrightening, stripped naked and with no means of identificationforeign place, best avoided. Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called on For Miv, the services of Kate Shackleton in the hope that move would mean leaving her knowledge best friend, Sharon, and connections in Yorkshire would give them the lead they neededshe'll do anything to prevent that. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could She's not come to terms with worried about the fact dangers or that she was now a woman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant her Mum's stopped talking - to give her all the information which the police heldanyone.

|authorisbn= Stephen Baxter1398524085|title= World Engines: DestroyerHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 45|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= Hundreds of years in the futureCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, on a stagnating Etty and almost empty EarthGreg, a space shuttle pilot from find the early days body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the 21st century is awoken from river. It was an easy assumption for the cryogenic sleep he entered after a devastating accident. As he comes to terms with this new world, he begins police to realise make that their history does not match what he remembers - Duncan had murdered Charlie and that only then committed suicide when he may be able to stop the coming catastrophe destined to destroy couldn't stand the planetguilt. Until he meets a young woman who seems to have a drive of her own, The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and a plan..wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1473223172

|isbn=14063893311035906708|title=In the Key of CodeDiva|author=Aimee LucidoDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Emmy is moving with her parents halfway across AmericaWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to follow her father's dreams of a big break Greek parents in his music career. She leaves behind her friends and her school Manhattan, New York, in Wisconsin, December 1923 and moves only moved to California, knowing only what Athens when she has heard in songswas thirteen. Her struggle original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to settle into her new life, make friends and feel happy and confident again, is agonisingly told it more manageable in a way we can all relate tothe States. There are many new opportunities and setbacks, taking When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the reader on Nazi occupation by a rollercoaster mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of emotionsher preference for her elder sister, but it isn't until Emmy joins a coding class using computer language that she begins to feel she might have a chance to feel like she truly belongsJackie.