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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir1529428289|title=Cold As HellA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary= In a red suitcase as Because 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 Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the bottom identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a fissure in a lava fieldcrime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, there the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is a bodyflowing at record levels. And It's not just the man who has put her there has just discovered local autumn rains that he is capable have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of killinga devastating flood.|isbn=1913193888

|authorisbn=Lucy Hope152919640X|title=FledglingThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop houseThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, built bit by bit over the decadesJessica Holby, and now looking imperiously down was murdered live on the village television and woods belowit seems that there's only one suspect. It He's an eccentric house, celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as weJessica Holby. She'd know it, the roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, s seriously allergic and so oncarries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. At the moment it houses an ex Everything seemed as normal -soldier with PTSD and as normal as they can be in a passion for the longbusy, live television studio -standing family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, Brooks served a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going ragout to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherubHolby. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going Her EpiPen was nowhere to be a completely great found and wonderful thing, think againshe was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident..|isbn=183994188X

|isbn=18462767720008385068|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our MindsMidnight Feast|author=Jessica NordellLucy Foley

|genre=Politics and SocietyThrillers|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise It's midsummer on the extent to which they suffer from it: itDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's simply a part of everyday lifetheir opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. White men will always come firstIt's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The able will come before Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the disabledwealthy and famous. JobsHer husband, promotionsOwen, higher salaries are was the preserve architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the white mansite. Even when those who wouldn't pass The heat is oppressive and amongst the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns guests are acknowledgedenemies as well as friends. It's personally appalling Old scores are going to be settled and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but itwon's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedt be long before a body is found.

|author=Teresa DriscollAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Her Perfect FamilyWild East|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to GemmaWritten in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who at first instance appears suddenly has to move to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, Norwich and start at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit a mostly white school. The move is all wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating initiated by Ronny''He s mum who is not who he says he is…'worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a twist new school, and keep himself out of eventstrouble. He listens to music constantly, and after has always dreamed of being a change of outfitrapper. But now, Gemma is shot in the midst this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a comapoetry writing workshop group and, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues slowly, Ronny begins to grow see the further you readconnections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=15420287520241645441

|isbn=84092901031635866847|title=If OnlyThe Lavender Companion|author=Matthew TreeJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Literary FictionLifestyle|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his fatherIt's strange, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowancebook for you. Patrick sent Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the money regularly author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a correspondence - picture of a slice of sorts - sprang up between chocolate cake on the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrickhomepage. It wasn I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that Lowry senior didncake viscerally. (There't care for his sons a recipe in the book, it which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was that he didn't care told to have him make a mess of it. Notes in this country where he might the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a danger to his wife and other childrenproblem. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his wayI ''loved'' this book already.

|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)Rob Keeley|title=The Rabbit FactorChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beingsAround here, hewe're big fans of children's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide heauthor Rob Keeley. He's not a team-memberball of happy positivity, that they'd prefer everyone to be all open-planhe understands children, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has diedwrites for their pleasure and enjoyment, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (not to lecture or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, and nothing elsehector.  The ''YouMeFunChildish Spirits'' series is so not what Henri wants to occupy one of his mindgreatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the finances – it runs spirit world throws at a steady money-moving paceher, despite some desultory staff ideasand Edward, but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, spoiled lordling and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan...first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=191319387X1783064617

|isbnauthor=1471179311Jenny Valentine|title=The Unheard|author=Nicci FrenchUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Tess, a teacher Elk and JasonMab are best friends, a headmasteror more than that even, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of the family home and Jason their friendship is now married to Emilya once in a lifetime connection. The separation was amicable - They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they had just drifted apartdon't get each other's contact details at the time. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was the family home But then chance brings them back together, and another in the flat she shares with her motherthey are inseparable. It ''seemed'' to be working well until the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing of a woman falling from a tall building Something has happened though, something terrible and she started swearingtragic, using words she was unlikely to have heard in either home. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems at nursery school. Tess turns to a therapist for helpnow they must work through their grief, then her doctor and finally the police but no one will take what she has to say seriouslytheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|isbnauthor=1471196615Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Iced|author=Felix FrancisDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Miles Pussett used to be Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past team of warrior, mage and he now gets his thrills from hurling headhealer enter specially prepared, century-first down old, magical mazes, and race to the three-quarter-mile Cresta Runexit, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. He was in St Moritz Unfortunately for Kit, the same weekend as White Turf - thatonly thing he's high-class horseracing seen of the latest race on the frozen lake inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the saddling a new trio of the horsesquestors is needed. It's seven years since Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he put horseracing behind him has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and he swore that stumbled into declaring he'd never go back to itll enter as a team. But when he sees What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that something suspicious is going on, Miles can't help but look for answers, even when it puts him in danger.and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|isbnauthor=147228612XSaima Mir|title=The Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Alan JohnsonVengeance|rating=43.5

|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven't taken much notice I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of themEngland run by a Muslim woman. They live quiet, uneventful lives and stay mostly under The fact that it was the radar. In second in a city like London, thatseries I hadn't read didn's quite easy - and even Garyt stop me – I's three flatmates largely ignore him. The highlight of his day is watching ve jumped midway into a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work few series before (on the train each morning: hepage and screen) and it needn'd love to ask her for t be a date but he doesnhindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't have the couragea problem here. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks Vengeance swiftly brings you up to him and asks for his help. Before long he finds himself on the run from mobstersspeed, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan policeI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561

|author=Claire McGowanStuart Douglas|title=I Know YouLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Then:Floggit and Leggit'' Casey returns from , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a walk with woman on the babyedge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, Carsonbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and comes he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across three bodiesthe country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, almost a whole family taken downlink to death during the Second World War. ''Now:'' Rachel But is out for there really a walk with her dog, Brandy, when she comes across a body in link between the woods.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=15420199741803368209

|isbn=1529148251B0CYV674G2|title=Misfits: A Personal ManifestoSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Michaela CoelDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rapeIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, malpractice covered in mud and blood - and povertycarrying a knife, yet still compartmentalise? Itcomes into the police station shouting that he hasn's as though I were telling t killed the truth whilst simultaneously running away from itman.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame A body at the bottom of mind. You're not going to read a book of essays or a selffreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -help book. Youhe're going s been stabbed to read writing death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within coincided with the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festivalbirth of his daughter Samantha. You might would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse'readingand 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the book point of falling asleep at work but you need to ''listen'he' s determined to the words as though youkeep going - probably because he can're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writingt get any sleep at home.

|isbn=00084336311787333175|title=Next of KinYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Kia AbdullahBenji Waterhouse

|genre=ThrillersPopular Science|summary=It I was the sort of thing that happened every day, although not tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Leila Syed. SheWork Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay'd never driven her nephew, Max, s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to school before but his fatherHurt}}, Andrew Hansona glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, had rung her in a panichumour and autobiography. He was supposed ''You Don't Have to be taking Max to school but heMad...''d been called into work and promised the delay in getting there could lead same elements but moved from physical problems to financial losses. As mental illness and the school was only five minutes out work of Leila's way, could she drop him off? Of course, she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her carpsychiatrist. On I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic laughter is directed at her work too, with a problem which could put situation rather than a multi-million-pound contract at riskperson and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.

|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaOnyi Nwabineli|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary= TootsAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, trumpsthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, farts. Whatever your word where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for themsponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funnymonetary gain. Funny Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to talk about regain her confidence and joke aboutto get her life back, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at suing her step-mother to take down the wrong timecontent about her. In class Anuri is battling alcoholism, sayfailing to start her PhD, when everyone will hear it undergoing therapy and everyone will laughsecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. At you. Justine Avery Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's latest entry in online empire. Can she save her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting sister, and gently perhaps herself and calmly, her relationship with her father at the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!same time?|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W0861546873}}

|isbnauthor=1784165263David Chadwick|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma CurtisHeadload of Napalm

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Martin CurranIt's wifeSeptember 1973 in Hicks, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the fact that she was actually painting one California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of their properties prior to it being letLA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. If she didn't get home, there would be troubleNot much happens in Hicks. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic A silver mine and confined to a wheelchairdefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, but don't be too quick to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in Elizathere's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the lease not much of flat 2note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableuntil....|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=1784742775Tom Percival|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan HillThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Drugs hadnWill't really been that much of a problem s life is difficult, in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste multitude of timeways. They still were He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', to a great extent, but Serrailler knew that something had to be done. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport he has the drugs wrong shoes because his dad can't work and the operation running the county lines was tight. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldndoesn't be have enough money for even the correct one) most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the person who college, was running him but he certainly wouldnworking a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will't know anything about those higher up s life seems bleak in the organisationevery direction. The police might catch And yet, he still has a few tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=B09FS89KX9Sylvie Cathrall|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her A Letter to leave her job at the diner. Then there was the fact that he would be violent, both to her and to other people.}}{{Frontpage|author=John Gwynne|title=The Shadow Of The GodsLuminous Deep

|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is There are few greater joys than a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together which lives up to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battlecompelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn=03565142180356522776

|isbn=B09HTWX47X0008517061|title=Endless ObsessionDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Dai HenleyStig Abell

|summary=It's some years since we last caught up with Andy FloodFormer Metropolitan Police detective, formerly a DCI in the Met but now a well-respected private investigator. He's married to LauraJake Johnson, formerly has settled into his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratoryrustic life at Little Sky. Flood's daughtersThere’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Gemma Livia and Pippaher daughter Diana, have flown the nest, Pippa as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to Australia, from where she has very little contact move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the family, future she wants for herself and Gemma to married life. her daughter? She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married For the moment they’re enjoying life will provide in the support she needs. Flood's business is going well present and that was why he felt able to turn down putting the future on the case of Lisa Blackback burner.

|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou1786482126|title=The StoningJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous Builders were demolishing an old house in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she's been taped Norwich - the site was going to a tree and shehold seventy-five 's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the worldluxury's tallest cricket stumps. When she's apartments - when they discovered by the town gossip everyonebones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home toDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it It's only fairdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival pregnant with his child as a result of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything outone night they spent together some three months ago. Because such an aggrieved Her condition will be obvious before long, insular community not least because Ruth is really going prone to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law..sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1529416973

|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H0008551324|title=The Mystery of HealingDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=A P McGrathNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the second century of police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the common era other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the physician on duty at police where the munus - the games put on body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the amusement of the populacepolice doing what he wants. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the doctor a feeling remainder of virtue his sentence and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to liveget an early parole date. ItNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's quite a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands t think so and when we first see them, theyshe're sprinkling gold dust onto s even prepared to do the lions' manes to other thing that Hardie demanded - make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers certain that DS Max Craigie and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals anyone who are going to fight for their lives works with the wild animals. Today, ithim is kept well away from what's the crocodileshappening.

|authorisbn=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie Blackall0008405026|title=The Beatryce ProphecyA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=It''Stories have joy s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and surprises in them''the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, we and her father are told heredead in their bed. And none more so than in this wondrous story Initially, which feels an instant classic with the freshness and the agelessness it has in equal proportion. We start with looks like a group of monks, straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the Order positioning of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, and the demonic goat bodies that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and biting the poor Brothers. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girl, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memoryboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Elsewhere sits a King in his castle, desperate What looked as though it was going to find the girl, for it be an open-and-shut case is prophesied that now a young child can unseat the throne and cause great changecomplex double murder. Who foretold Kerrigan is convinced that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simpleexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=1529500893Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=B09FFJF8YS0571379877|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)The Kellerby Code|author=Justine Avery and Kate ZhoidikJonny Sweet

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" Edward Jevons is a cry (the bigworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-girl kind!) of toilet triumph class friends, Robert and persevering panty prideStanza. Robert''  And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates s a little girltheatre director. He's final goodbye to nappies and pullalso self-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dogobsessed, her catdemanding, her stuffed rabbit handsome and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear superentitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boyand he's certainly can'tdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. She Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a big girl now and she wants everyone relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to know it!stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}

|author=Nick Lake and Emily GravettJo Callaghan|title=Locked Out LilyLeave No Trace|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Lily When a man isfound crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, or was, or has been, very ill, and DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to give the case alongside her parents relief shesidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been told to stay very successful with her grandma for several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days. The parents need the relief as Lily's baby sibling later, Kat is just about to be born – suddenly struggling with a child Lily swears she hates already potential serial killer and wants nothing a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to do withtheir AI Future Policing project. But on tracking back home for word of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parents, and the babe-in-arms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to Will they be ousted able to get solve the family back intactcase in time, even if it's not or will Kat find herself taken off the family Lily wants – case and all she has to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Molepotentially, Mouse and Snake.out of a career?|isbn=1471194833139851120X

|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith1399613073|title=The Great Dream RobberyMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Maya's father is a professor who invented an amazing dream machine. But something went wrongOlivia, Laura and now he can't wake upAnjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Or at least Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, that's what Maya has been toldwhich is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. In Laura is a rather strange dream one night Maya makes perfectionist and a new friend, trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and discovers that the only way to save her dad may be by being asleepshe becomes a GP. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams When we first meet them they're at a drug and reality collidealcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends.really...and there This time, it's everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051Xtheir teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=18004644950241636604|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby MathsThe Trading Game: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of MathsA Confession|author=Emma SmithGary Stevenson

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAutobiography|summary=''Babies seem If you were to be born with bring up an amazing number sense: understanding shapes image of a city banker in the wombyour mind, being aware you're unlikely to think of quantities at seven hours oldsomeone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, assessing probability at six months oldwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months oldinjustice.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability There was no posh public school on entry his CV - but he had been to school the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a strong predictor facility with numbers which most of later achievement, double us can only envy. He also realised that of literacy skillsmost rich people expect poor people to be stupid.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories It was his ability at what was, teaching pen gripsessentially, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start schoolcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. But do we think the same way about maths Eventually, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children this turned into permanent employment as a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialtrader.

|isbn=15293793851035021803|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Louise PennyC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=In the Canadian village of Three Pines, weIt're post-pandemic: the scars are still there but life is starting to get s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to normalthe English country village where she grew up. The villagers are beginning to return to the Bistro and the AubergeShe's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. TheyFreya're visiting each others former mentor and Carole's homes close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and having friends and relatives the circumstances seem suspicious, to staysay the least. A young Sudanese woman who has Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been nominated for back to the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she soon proves that has not all saints are necessarily pleasant people felt able to be around - near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a bit like Vincent Gilbertcafe, known in met and married James (on the village as rebound from the Asshole Saintlove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn= B09F4CTKJRAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Flights for FreedomAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author= Steven BurgauerBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Science Fiction|summary=It's 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the later stages shape of World War things to come.'' I and the United States has just entered the conflict've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Petrol Petronus is Well, I must confess that there have been more than a young American who has signed few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up and joined reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the 17 Aero Squadronfeeling that it's all getting away from me. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in CanadaSome of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the first to be attached to possibilities and the RAF probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camela way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=183885410XSunny Singh|title=The Dark Remains|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinHotel Arcadia

|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Bobby Carter was 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 lawyer wartime photographer and consigliere Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to one of care remotely for the major crime families residents who are still alive in nineteen seventies Glasgowthe 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. DC Jack Laidlaw is on Although they only ever talk over the CID team charged with 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 investigationterrorists. |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? I say mean, honestly...) She's not what'on the teams worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they' ve been murdered, but Laidlaw never really seems to be a part of ithave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. He does his own thing, goes his own way and Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'The Dark RemainsDown South'. When you' uncovers re from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the truth of why Bobby Cartermove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's body was found behind one of Glasgownot worried about the dangers or that her Mum's seedier pubsstopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=19424102551398524085|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Michael PronkoNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Zangyo: overtime works 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, often unpaid'' It's the cultureAlec, isn't it? is not. The hours for which you're paid are really just a statement of the minimum you'll be required to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done Shortly afterwards, Etty and done to Greg, find the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. When he was found dead in front body of Senden CentralGreg's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or grieffather, even from his familyDuncan Ackerley, but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from in the roof of the building or been assisted in his descentriver. Gossip revolves around It was an easy assumption for the fact police to make that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide some three years earlierwhen he couldn't stand the guilt. SheThe Salter children are not convinced but there'd accused Onizuka of bullying her s little else they can do but get on with their lives and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtimewonder about what really happened.

|isbn=02414254251035906708|title=The Man Who Died TwiceDiva|author=Richard OsmanDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Best We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was a little surprised born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she received the letterwas thirteen. It came from a man whose body she had helped Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to pull from make it more manageable in the Thames and who had never existed but then this is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basisStates. When she visits the sender of the letter (he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise was back in Athens - supposedly so that it's someone with whom she has could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a long professional history - and mother who used to be mercilessly exploited her husband. He's and made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within the range no secret of a CCTV camera on a raidher preference for her elder sister, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and a few death threats. He's now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressJackie.