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|authorisbn=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton1529428289|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=34|genre=TeensCrime|summary=DianaBecause of various property transactions, being unique on her island, is people were searching for the victim of a lot of tauntsgrave but when they found it, and claims it came with three sets of nepotismbones. It's only her unique status, They dated back to World War II and her mother being Queenit fell to Bruno, that has her with any standing at allthe Chief of Police for St Denis, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a strong young womancrime had been committed. Perhaps too strong for the islandAs if this isn't enough to worry about, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of Men, and this Diana Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin storyflowing at record levels. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but It's not just the survivor she drags from local autumn rains that have caused the waters is only going problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to disturb release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a lot more..devastating flood.|isbn=1401282555

|isbn=1786075695152919640X|title=When the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)The Suspect|author=Helen SedgwickRob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=It began with the discovery of a body under the swings in the childrenThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's playgroundonly one suspect. It was Dr Alexis Crosse He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he was found by PC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeply, but who had reason must not serve anything containing miso to mistrust himJessica Holby. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in Greece, but such professions are misunderstood case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in Burrowhead (along with foreigners)a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a community which regards anyone not born ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and brought up there as an outsidershe was dead within minutes. DI Georgie Strachan is an outsider - youIt 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've only got to look s midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her skin to realise that, ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and her famous. Her husband, FergusOwen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well, heas friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won's t be long before a little strange too, not entirely ''here''body is found.

|author=Alastair ChisholmAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Orion LostWild East

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Thirteen-Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year-old Beth boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and her parents board the transport ship Orion ready for start at a new life on Eos Fivemostly white school. Their new home The move is still being terra-formed and life there isn't going to be easy, but it 'initiated by Ronny's mum who isworried for Ronny'' going s safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to be settle in a new town, a fresh startnew school, and keep himself out of trouble. As Beth's mum puts it He listens to music constantly, ''There's and has always dreamed of being a future waiting for usrapper. A chance But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to make our own decisionsbe part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, create our own livesRonny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.''|isbn=17880059290241645441

|isbn=07535532361635866847|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change EverythingLavender Companion|author=B J FoggJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5

|summary=Go onIt's strange, admit it - the things that make you're not quite perfect'immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. You still have those oddBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', quirky, even loveable (to you) habits that seem to annoy other peopleI visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Other people, com/ website] and there's a picture of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just a little bit slice of effortchocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Or put another way(There's a recipe in the book, which I get cross 'm avoiding with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than difficulty!!) Then I should started reading the book and no matter how I try was told to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to grips with fold down the conceptscorners of pages. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failingYou suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the listI ''loved'' this book already.

|author= B T KeatonRob Keeley|title= TransferenceChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating= 4|genre= Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= Barrabus Madzimure is about to dieAround here, stranded on we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a mining planet millions ball of light-years from homehappy positivity, executed he understands children, and he writes for high crimes against the Churchtheir pleasure and enjoyment, the ruling body of Earthnot to lecture or hector. Except he The ''s not Barrabus Madzimure, heChildish Spirits's Thaniel Kilraven in Barrabus Madzimure's body. Such series is the magic one of Transference, the ability to transplant a personhis greatest achievements. It's soul or consciousness into a different body - and sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a power that stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the Church has exclusive control over. As if Thaniel doesn't have enough things to worry aboutspirit world throws at her, and Edward, a Church employee named Corvus has arrived from Earth to interrogate him. All Thaniel wants is to see his family again, spoiled lordling and he'll stop at nothing to accomplish this, but the Church isn't going to give in without a hell of a fight...first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=B082WPHTHH1783064617

|author=Christine BrownJenny Valentine|title=Bucket Showers Us in the Before and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West AfricaAfter|rating=4.5|genre=TravelTeens|summary=In the summer of 2008Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, this booktheir 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 author was spending her days working in an office job in contact details at the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something elsetime. Long story short But then chance brings them back together, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africaand they are inseparable. Now coincidentally, in the summer of 2010, this review's author was spending ''her'' days working in an office job (albeit in the UK) while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else Something has happened though, doing something elseterrible and tragic, and ''she'' ended up just 3 countries awaynow they must work through their grief, volunteering in Sierra Leoneand their friendship, West Africa. So you can see why, when this book came up, said reviewer was delighted to have the opportunity to read and critique ittogether.|isbn=171024299X1471196585

|author=Mark LinganeKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= ''Degrade'' opens as it means to go on - with inyerface, banging actionMeet Kit. Poor Arid, alone Like most of the people in the desert since his parents were killedworld, it seems, has he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a narrow escape as two megateam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-rigs fight it out old, magical mazes, and his is pretty much destroyed. He finds himself rescued by race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella big bad and onboard the ''Moonlight'' under points they grant you along the suspicious eyes of its leaderway. Unfortunately for Kit, Queen Bea. Beathe only thing he's eyes flash with recognition when he tells her his name - Arid Geiger - but before he can find out why seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that isone team has been retired, eaten, there's an assassination attempt and Arid a new trio of questors is under suspicion needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and imprisonedstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. An escape facilitated by Ella What chance does this friendless, muscle- Queen Bea's daughter free- sees Arid zone have in actually managing that, and her other daughter, Frey, stranded in the desert...how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn= 099461649X1839945184

|isbnauthor=B07XLM3SM6Saima Mir|title=Murder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena DixonVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers|summary=Elowed Underhay I was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the care north of her grandmotherEngland run by a Muslim woman. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her The 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 (on page and screen) and the conclusion was it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwisewasn't a problem here. Kitty has come Vengeance swiftly brings you up to terms with this speed, and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was illI never felt lost. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge |isbn=0861541561}} {{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - and Kitty could not understand whyDeath at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3. She5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's always coped with sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the mix dead body of holidaymakers, boating people and the naval college a woman on the edge of town before - a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and she's done every job in he enlists the hotelhelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired , seemingly, a link to take charge of security at death during the hotelSecond 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

|authorisbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai Swanton Morley (translatorJohn Tanner)|titleauthor=The Honjin MurdersDavid Blake|rating=43.5

|summary=To many readersIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the phrase police station shouting that he hasn'locked room murder mysteryt killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he' s been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is enough to make just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the book one to read; preferably quantified by birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'cleverperverse' or and 'goodJohn Tanner'were made for each other. For those who need more, here is the extra background – weHe're in rural Japan in s sleep-deprived to the 1930s. The oldest son point of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged falling asleep at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple work but he's determined 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, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at the time of the crime, this case has a lot of the peculiar about ithome.|isbn=1782275002

|authorisbn=Cixin Liu1787333175|title=DeathYou Don's Endt Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse

|genre=Popular Science Fiction|summary= If Iwas tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here''d been paying more attention when I picked this after enjoying Adam Kay's first book up{{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, I would have put it back on a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the shelfNHS, humour and autobiography. Not because I didn''You Don't want Have to read it, be Mad...'' promised the same elements but because moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I'd have figured out that did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the final part of laughter is directed at a trilogy. Coming in partway through situation rather than a saga person and it is never 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 easiest thing world, thanks to do and ither step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's particularly true childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in science fiction because without knowing the her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing mother to you (when it's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts that you won't understandtake down the content about her. This latter Anuri is particularly true of Cixin Liu's work – his range is phenomenalbattling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. George R R MartinMost importantly, who knows a thing or two she is desperately worried about world-creationher little sister, described it as ''a unique blend who is the new focus of scientific and philosophical speculation, conspiracy theory and cosmology'Ophelia's online empire. All of that Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and more.her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=17849716500861546873

|isbnauthor=1780894511David Chadwick|title=Die Alone|author=Simon KernickHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5

|summary=Ray Mason It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in prison awaiting trial for murder Hicks. A silver mine and he's in a defence contractor are the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a copmain local employers but otherwise, hethere's something not much of a target, but the unit is not as secure as the inmates would have hoped note other than dive bars and Mason Joshua trees. Life is injured in a riotquiet, until.... On his way to hospital he|isbn= B0D321VJ76}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's broken free by armed men and an offer life is made to himdifficult, in a multitude of ways. Heis bullied because he has 's to assassinate the man who is likely to become wrong shoes', he has the countrywrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn's next prime minister t have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he'll then be given lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a new identity so that he can start afresh abroadbuilding site and had an accident. His captors say Throw into that theymix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will're MI6s life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, but Mason he still has his doubtsa tiny amount of hope. His choices are limited though He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he has personal reasons to believe is drawing, that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was deadfeel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|author=Akwaeke EmeziSylvie Cathrall|title=PetA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=The people of the town Lucille believe that all the monsters There are gone. Their children are raised few greater joys than a book which lives up to understand that they were saved by the angels, those who rid the town of evil, and there are no monsters anymore. But one day, Jam accidentally cuts herself and bleeds a little onto one of her mother's paintingscompelling premise. The blood awakens a bizarre, terrifying-looking creature named Pet, who somehow comes to life and declares that it is here to hunt the monster. Though Jam tries to convince it that all the monsters are gone, Pet is certain that there And this is one, still, and that the monster is hiding in the home of her best friend, Redemptionthem.|isbn=05713551100356522776

|isbn=16867516800008517061|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarresDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Amelie Julien and GustyawanStig Abell

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Which child doesn't think that their mother isFormer Metropolitan Police detective, wellJake Johnson, ''weird''? has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. It might be that There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in the morning their mother doesn't like speaking much when every selftogether would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-respecting child knows that that is when you're at your brightest grid and relaxing life to move in with lots Livia or does Livia move to say? ''Why'' then does Mummy stick Little Sky despite her fingers in reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her earsdaughter? Then there's doing yoga in front of For the television, which could be worrying if it wasn't so funny. We won't go into too much detail about what goes on moment they’re enjoying life in the bathroom present and putting the colour changes which have occurred when Mummy emerges and frankly, the less said the better about her reactions to your artistic efforts future on the wallback burner. I mean, what else would you use paint for?

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk1786482126|title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'The day has ended''<br>''Hasn't it been splendidapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder?'' <br>''But now Inevitably, itDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's timedifficult as Ruth knows, to be sure'' <br>''For an entirely different adventure'' <br> I hope you havenbut Nelson doesn't forgotten how it feels to be much too excited for bed. If you're a parent at least, you'll know how it is to persuade an excited small person that yes, it she is in fact time for bed. ''What Wonders DoYou See...'' sets out to cater to these children. Instead pregnant with his child as a result of trying to persuade them that the one night time is a calm timethey spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, it takes a slightly different tack. It tells them that sleep not least because Ruth is actually an exciting time: a time prone to sudden bouts of dreams in which imagination takes over and has no limit. But the trick in accessing this wonderful and exciting world is to get calm and relaxed first so that you can easily fall asleep and open the door to itsickness. |isbn=194812422X

|authorisbn=Michael Harris0008551324|title=Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded WorldThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary= This is not It's unusual for anyone from the book I was expecting it Hardie family to be. For some reason I expected it to be another self-help manual on how to find calm, how to step outside approach the mainstream, but it is not that at allpolice. Instead of telling us how it is more about Neither side likes or has any respect for the ''why''other. Harries examines how weBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he're eroding solitude, which used s prepared to be tell the police where the body of a natural part of our human life, missing person is buried and why that matterswho was responsible for her death. Of course This person, he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of thatpromises, is someone big and eventually in it will be worth the final chapter police doing what he talks about wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his own experience of having deliberately sought sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it out, but mostly he wanders down ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the alleys and byother thing that Hardie demanded -ways make certain that his thinking about this lost art led DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with himis kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1847947662

|authorisbn=Andy Briggs0008405026|title=Ctrl+SA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary= Life in the near futureIt's not all badsixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. We've reversed global warming She was never found and fixed the collapsing bee populationinvestigation ground to a halt. We even created SPACE Now, 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 dayher mother, Helena, normal people and her father are being takendead in their bed. Initially, their emotions harvested - and lives traded - to create death-defying thrills for it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the rich bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and twistedher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Now Theo’s mother has disappeared. And What looked as he follows her breadcrumb trail of clues, he'll come up against the most dangerous SPACE has though it was going to offer: police, AI Bots be an open-and anarchists - as well as shut case is now a criminal empire complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that will kill to stop him finding her . . the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1409184641

|isbn=16098093780571379877|title=The Rabbits' RebellionKellerby Code|author=Ariel Dorfman and Chris RiddellJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=We're in the realm of the rabbitsEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, only the foxes Robert and wolves have taken overStanza. King Wolf, His Wolfiness, has declared the rabbits donRobert't exist, but the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that the bunnies are in fact still arounds a theatre director. Demanding a propaganda spreeHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, King Wolf orders a humble monkey handsome and entitled and uses Edward to be his official portrait photographer, but whatever the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom there is a distinct leporine hintrun 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=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? Imean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've never been murdered, but understand to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that travelling her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is all about meeting new people and forming instantaneous bonds with people in often chance situationsa frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Well For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's exactly what happens when not worried about the two main/only characters meet in a travel agency in Beijing dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte 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 - Carrie her husband, Alec, is unsuccessfully trying to get a refund on not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an extra ticket easy assumption for the Trans-Siberian train police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and Violet is trying to unsuccessfully buy a ticket for then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the same sold-out journeyguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4. As the two team up5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, travelling through MongoliaNew York, Serbia in December 1923 and into Russia, only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it couldto 'Callas've been to make it more manageable in the start of a beautiful friendship but this a thriller after all States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so it quickly becomes that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a tale mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of obsessionher preference for her elder sister, manipulation, and toxic friendshipsJackie.