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|isbn=07535532361529428289|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change EverythingA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=B J FoggMartin Walker|rating=54|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Go onBecause of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, admit it - you're not quite perfectcame with three sets of bones. You still have those odd, quirky, even loveable (They dated back to you) habits that seem World War II and it fell to annoy other people. Other peopleBruno, the Chief of coursePolice for St Denis, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a little bit of effortcrime had been committed. Or put another wayAs if this isn't enough to worry about, 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 conceptsDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack of willpower is It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another burden to add river have had to release water and St Denis faces the listpossibility of a devastating flood.

|authorisbn= B T Keaton152919640X|title= TransferenceThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= Barrabus Madzimure is about to dieThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, stranded was murdered live on a mining planet millions of light-years from home, executed for high crimes against the Church, the ruling body of Earthtelevision and it seems that there's only one suspect. Except he He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not Barrabus Madzimure, heserve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's Thaniel Kilraven seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in Barrabus Madzimure's bodycase of emergencies. Such is the magic of Transference Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, the ability to transplant a person's soul or consciousness into a different body live television studio - and Brooks served a power that the Church has exclusive control over. As if Thaniel doesn't have enough things to worry about, a Church employee named Corvus has arrived from Earth ragout to interrogate himHolby. All Thaniel wants is Her EpiPen was nowhere to see his family again, be found and he'll stop at nothing to accomplish she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this, but the Church isn't going to give in without a hell of a fight..was no accident.|isbn=B082WPHTHH

|authorisbn=Christine Brown0008385068|title=Bucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West AfricaThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley

|genre=TravelThrillers|summary=In the summer of 2008, this bookIt's author was spending her days working in an office job in midsummer on the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something elseDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. Long story short, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africa It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. Now coincidentally, in the summer of 2010, this review It's author all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was spending ''herancestral home and she'' days working in s converted it into an office job (albeit in impressive retreat for the UK) while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else, wealthy and ''she'' ended up just 3 countries away, volunteering in Sierra Leone, West Africafamous. So you can see why Her husband, when this book came upOwen, said reviewer was delighted to have the opportunity architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to read be settled and critique itwon't be long before a body is found.|isbn=171024299X

|author=Mark LinganeAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)Wild East|rating=4.5

|summary= Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a 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'Degrades mum who is worried for Ronny'' opens as it means s safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to go on - with inyerface, banging action. Poor Arid, alone settle in the desert since his parents were killeda new town, has a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight it new school, and keep himself out and his is pretty much destroyedof trouble. He finds himself rescued by the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella listens to music constantly, and onboard the ''Moonlight'' under the suspicious eyes has always dreamed of its leaderbeing a rapper. But now, in this new school, Queen Bea. Bea's eyes flash with recognition when he tells her his name - Arid Geiger - but before he can find out why that isteacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, there's an assassination attempt Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and Arid is under suspicion poetry, and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella - Queen Bea's daughter - sees Arid the power of creativity and her other daughter, Frey, stranded in the desert..crafting your words.|isbn= 099461649X0241645441

|isbn=B07XLM3SM61635866847|title=Murder at the Dolphin HotelThe Lavender Companion|author=Helena DixonJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Lifestyle|summary=Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916It's strange, leaving her daughterthe things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', Kitty, in I visited the care author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of her grandmotherchocolate cake on the homepage. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her I don't eat cakes and the conclusion was desserts - but I wanted that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwisecake viscerally. Kitty has come to terms (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with this some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and in 1933 she I was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had told to leave to look after her sister who was illmake a mess of it. She was reluctant to leave Kitty Notes in charge - and Kitty could not understand whythe margins are sanctioned. She's always coped with You get to fold down the mix corners of holidaymakers, boating people and the naval college on the edge pages. You suspect that smears of town before - and she's done every job in the hotelbutter would not be a problem. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmotherI 's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things 'loved'and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotelthis book already.

|author=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)Rob Keeley|title=The Honjin MurdersChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=To many readersAround here, the phrase we'locked room murder mysteryre big fans of children' is enough s author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words lecture or hector.  The 'clever' or Childish Spirits'good'series is one of his greatest achievements. For those who need more, here is the extra background – weIt're in rural Japan in the 1930s. The oldest son s a sequence of an esteemed family is belatedly getting marriedghost stories centring on Ellie, although a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged spirit world throws at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as plannedand Edward, only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, spoiled lordling 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.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=17822750021783064617

|author=Cixin LiuJenny Valentine|title=Death's EndUs in the Before and After

|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary= If I'd been paying Elk and Mab are best friends, or more attention when I picked this book upthan that even, I would have put it back on the shelftheir friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. Not because I didnThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't want to read it, but because Iget each other'd have figured out that it was s contact details at the final part of a trilogytime. Coming in partway through a saga is never the easiest thing to do But then chance brings them back together, and it's particularly true in science fiction because without knowing the back-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing to you (when it's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts that you won't understandinseparable. This latter is particularly true of Cixin Liu's work – his range is phenomenal. George R R Martin Something has happened though, who knows a thing or two about world-creationsomething terrible and tragic, described it as ''a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculationnow they must work through their grief, conspiracy theory and cosmology''. All of that and moretheir friendship, together.|isbn=17849716501471196585

|isbnauthor=1780894511Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Die Alone|author=Simon KernickDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Ray Mason is in prison awaiting trial for murder and he's I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a cop, he's something north of England run by a target, but Muslim woman. The fact that it was the unit is not as secure as the inmates would have hoped and Mason is injured second in a riot. On his way to hospital heseries I hadn's broken free by armed men and an offer is made to him. Het read didn's to assassinate the man who is likely to become the countryt stop me – I's next prime minister ve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and heit needn'll then t be given a new identity so that he can start afresh abroadhindrance if it's good enough. His captors say And that theywasn're MI6t a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, but Mason has his doubts. His choices are limited though and he has personal reasons to believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was deadI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561

|author=Akwaeke EmeziStuart Douglas|title=PetLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=The people 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 town Lucille believe that all the monsters are goneedge of a reservoir. Their children are raised The police seem happy to understand that they were saved by assign it as an accidental death, but something about the angelswhole thing bothers Lowe, those who rid and he enlists the town help of evila 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 there are no monsters anymore, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But one dayis 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 (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, Jam accidentally cuts herself covered in mud and blood - and bleeds carrying a little onto one knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of her mothera freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's paintingsbeen stabbed to death. The blood awakens a bizarreDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, terrifyingwhich coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going -looking creature named Pet, who somehow comes probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{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 tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to life and declares that it Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is here Going to hunt Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the monsterworkings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. Though Jam tries ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to convince mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it that all was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the monsters are gone, Pet laughter is certain that there directed at a situation rather than a person and it is one, still, always delivered with empathy and that the monster is hiding in the home of her best friend, Redemptionunderstanding.|isbn=0571355110

|isbnauthor=1686751680Onyi Nwabineli|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarres|author=Amelie Julien and GustyawanAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Which child doesnAnuri 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 Anuri't think that their mother iss childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, wellbasically, ''weird''? monetary gain. It might be that Now Anuri is in the morning their mother doesn't like speaking much when every self-respecting child knows that that her twenties and she is when you're at your brightest with lots slowly trying to regain her confidence and to say? ''Why'' then does Mummy stick get her life back, suing her fingers in step-mother to take down the content about her ears? . Then there's Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing yoga in front of the television, which could be worrying if it wasn't so funny. We won't go into too much detail about what goes on in the bathroom and the colour changes which have occurred when Mummy emerges and frankly Most importantly, the less said the better she is desperately worried about her reactions to your artistic efforts on little sister, who is the wallnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. I meanCan she save her sister, what else would you use paint forand perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukDavid Chadwick|title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?Headload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=''The day has ended''<br>''Hasn't it been splendid?'' <br>''But now, itIt's timeSeptember 1973 in Hicks, to be sure'' <br>''For an entirely different adventure'' <br> I hope you haven't forgotten how it feels to be much too excited for bedCalifornia. If you're Hicks is a parent at least, you'll know how it is to persuade an excited small person that yes, it is in fact time for bed. ''What Wonders DoYou See...'' sets out to cater to these children. Instead Mojave desert town of trying to persuade them that night time is a calm time, it takes few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a slightly different tacksignificant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. It tells them that sleep is actually an exciting time: A silver mine and a time defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of dreams in which imagination takes over note other than dive bars and has no limitJoshua trees. But the trick in accessing this wonderful and exciting world Life is to get calm and relaxed first so that you can easily fall asleep and open the door to itquiet, until.... |isbn=194812422X B0D321VJ76

|author=Michael HarrisTom Percival|title=Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded WorldThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary= This Will's life is not the book I was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another self-help manual on how to find calmdifficult, how to step outside the mainstream, but it is not that at allin a multitude of ways. Instead of telling us how it He is more about bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can'whyt work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Harries examines how weThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will're eroding solitude, which used to be a natural part of our human s life, and why that mattersseems bleak in every direction. Of course And yet, he talks about how some people have found solitude and what still has come a tiny amount of thathope. He is good at art, and eventually in clings to the final chapter moments of joy when he talks about his own experience is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of having deliberately sought it outa long, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that his thinking about this lost art led himdark tunnel.|isbn=18479476621398527122

|author=Andy BriggsSylvie Cathrall|title=Ctrl+SA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|summary= Life in the near future's not all bad. We've reversed global warming and fixed the collapsing bee population. We even created SPACE, There are few greater joys than a virtual-sensory universe where average guys like Theo Wilson can do almost anything they desire. But almost anything isn't enough for some. Every day, normal people are being taken, their emotions harvested - and book which lives traded - up to create death-defying thrills for the rich and twisted. Now Theo’s mother has disappeareda compelling premise. And as he follows her breadcrumb trail this is one of clues, he'll come up against the most dangerous SPACE has to offer: police, AI Bots and anarchists - as well as a criminal empire that will kill to stop him finding her . . them.|isbn=14091846410356522776

|isbn=16098093780008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future 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-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 putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Rabbits' RebellionJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Ariel Dorfman and Chris RiddellElly Griffiths

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=WeBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury're in apartments - when they discovered the realm bones of a 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. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the rabbitsone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, only 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 unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the foxes body of a missing person is buried and wolves have taken overwho was responsible for her death. King WolfThis person, His Wolfinesshe promises, has declared is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the rabbits donremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't exist, but think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the pesky birds have spread rumours Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from awing that her bed one summer night. She was never found and the bunnies investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in fact still aroundtheir bed. Demanding a propaganda spreeInitially, King Wolf orders it looks like a humble monkey straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be his official portrait photographer, but whatever an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the poor innocent monkey prints out explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his darkroom there is upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a distinct leporine hinttheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Can King Wolf succeed Edward has been in proving himself victorious, can the rabbits show love with Stanza since their continued existence university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to all who need Robert. 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 know stumble upon the two of it – and what can the poor monkey caught them kissing in between do?a dark passageway.

|author=Innosanto NagaraJo Callaghan|title=M is for MovementLeave No Trace

|genre=Emerging ReadersCrime|summary=Set When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in IndonesiaNuneaton, in DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the not too distant pastcase alongside her sidekick, this is a story about social changethe AI detective Lock. Dealing It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, the book is neither boring nor preachyseveral cold cases. It educates gentlyBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with vibrant, challenging illustrations, a potential serial killer and it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems a very high profile case that they will faildraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The message is a positive one; that Will they be able to solve the case in an increasingly uncertain worldtime, we do still have or will Kat find herself taken off the power to instigate change.case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1609809351139851120X

|isbn=17807240471399613073|title=A Dictionary of Interesting and Important DogsMoral Injuries|author=Peter J ConradiChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=PetsThrillers|summary=I struggle Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to resist be a book about dogs, but I did wonder why this one was so ''thin'': given that I've never encountered cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a dog who wasn't interesting or important - perfectionist and probably both, I was expecting a massive tometrauma doctor. But ''A Dictionary Anjali is the free spirit of Interesting the group and Important Dogs'' is actually 'she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a rich compendium of the world's most significant drug and beloved dogs'' alcohol-fuelled party and it's certainly a rich treasure trovegoing to end in tragedy. We begin with Peter J Conradidon's four collies: Cloudy, Skyt know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Bradley and Max Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogsThis time, but what comes over is Conradiit's love for each and every one of them. I knew that I was in safe handstheir teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=17857692940241636604|title=Man at the Window (Detective Cardellini)The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Robert JeffreysGary Stevenson

|summary=It's when we read that a young boy is creeping reluctantly twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to a teacherthe English country village where she grew up. She's bedroom one October night that we realise something is badly wrongback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Nowadays you Freya's former mentor and Carole'might'' hope that something would be done about it fairly quickly but this was 1965 s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and child abuse the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was generally regarded as malicious mischief on the part of reason why Freya had not been back to the childvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. The boy would be safe that night Even though - albeit they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the most horrific fashionman or pursue the profession she loved. When he reached Captain Edmund's bedroom he found After the man dead split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the floor, rebound from the top love of his skull missing. The school's initial reaction her life, who was that this was a dreadful accident: there had been a cull of kangaroos in some nearby fields murdered) and Freya and it was obviously a stray bullet that had killed the CaptainJames have now divorced.

|isbn=1786695227AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Invisible in a Bright LightAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Sally GardnerBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=The beginning ''Opening up new ways of this excellent story will leave thinking about the reader shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a little confused: who is the man in the green suit, what is the Reckoning, and why are rows few decades of people technology in a cave? my lifetime. But stick I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it – Ms's all getting away from me. Gardner Some of it is very cleverly letting us experience - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the same disorientation as our heroine. We watch in dismay as possibilities and the strange man, probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who seems to have no eyes, does his best to persuade her to answer his questionsknows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. But for some reason, Celeste, despite her bewilderment, remains wary I needed people I knew I could trust and gives nothing awaywho could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1912374854Sunny Singh|title=Violet|author=S J I HollidayHotel Arcadia

|genre=Thrillers|summary=I've never been but understand that travelling The Hotel Arcadia is all about meeting new people and forming instantaneous bonds with people a luxury hotel in often chance situationsan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Well Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, that's exactly what happens when the two main/only characters meet in a travel agency in Beijing - Carrie there is unsuccessfully trying to get Sam, a refund on an extra ticket for wartime photographer and Abhi, the Trans-Siberian train and Violet is trying hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to unsuccessfully buy a ticket care remotely for the same sold-out journey. As residents who are still alive in the two team uphotel, travelling through Mongoliahe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, Serbia and into Russia, it couldkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what've been s happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the start of a beautiful phone, their friendship but this a thriller after all so it quickly becomes a tale of obsession, manipulation, grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and toxic friendshipsthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=19123748381529153298|title=Nothing Important Happened TodayThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Will CarverJennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=Nothing Important Happened Today It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a darkPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, twistedhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, difficult readthough. Women have been disappearing. Stories about cults often are Well, they've been murdered, but this is different; itto have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's written with a sense of style overheard that is quite unlike anything Iher father wants to move the family 'Down South've read before. I can When you't remember ever having read re from Yorkshire, Down South is a novel with such an oddfrightening, distinctive narrative voiceforeign place, best avoided. While a slim For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and relatively small book, she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the slowdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking -moving nature of the plot makes it feel far larger than its 276 pagesto anyone.

|isbn= williamabbey1398524085|title=The Pursuit of William AbbeyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Claire NorthNicci French|rating=3.5|genre=ParanormalCrime|summary=When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a young boy in 1880Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's South Africafiftieth 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, he finds himself cursed by the grieving motheris not. A naïve English Doctor Shortly afterwards, he slowly learns Etty and Greg, find the weight body of the curse upon himGreg's father, as the shadow of the dead boy begins to follow him across the world. Never stoppingDuncan Ackerley, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of Williamthe river. As he finds himself unable It was an easy assumption for the police to resist speaking the truths make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he hears in others, he also learns that couldn't stand the dark shadow is deadly – guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and seeks to kill the one he loves the most…wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=16437850361035906708|title=The Wondrous ApothecaryDiva|author=Mary E MartinDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5

|summary=Those who have known Alexander WainwrightWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, the landscape artist famous for his Turner prize-winning ''The Hay Wagon''but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, and RinaldoNew York, the renowned conceptual artist would say that they're chalk in December 1923 and cheese, if not sworn enemiesonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. If youHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 've watched the relationship, as has our narrator, art dealer Jamie Helmsworth, youCallas'd have said that they were magnets, drawing and repulsing each other to make it more manageable in equal measurethe States. Wainwright When she was at the socially acceptable end of the artistic continuum, but with Rinaldo, it was all too obvious back in Athens - supposedly so that there she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was but raised under the Nazi occupation by a fine dividing line between conceptual art mother who mercilessly exploited her and public nuisance. As time has worn on, he's frequently been brought to the attention made no secret of the police. On this latest occasionher preference for her elder sister, we see him charged with arson and theft of ''The Hay Wagon''Jackie.