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|authorisbn=Will Carver1529428289|title=Psychopaths Anonymous|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing A Grave in the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she doesWoods (A Bruno, and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any Chief of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529418100|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesPolice Novel)

|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her sonBecause of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. Hunter had diabetes They dated back to World War II and this was controlled by a pump attached it fell to his stomachBruno, so her over-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiancethe Chief of Police for St Denis, Ian, was pestering her to get married discover the identities of the bodies and she thought it would be establish whether or not a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likecrime had been committed. Her friend, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for a night in a posh hotel but then he dumped her and she couldnAs if this isn't get the money backenough to worry about, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go in his placeDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. She would return home It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to find Ian dead release water and five-year-old Hunter missingSt Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.

|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q152919640X|title=Without a TraceThe Suspect|author=Jane BettanyRob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=Life hadnThe nation't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through a divorce s favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and right now it was raining hardseems that there's only one suspect. All she wanted was He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to get back to her new home Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and settle down for Brooks served a quiet eveningragout to Holby. It wasn't going Her EpiPen was nowhere to be though: when found and she went into her bedroom she found a was dead man on her bed with a knife in his chestwithin minutes. She'd It was soon clear that this was no idea who he wasaccident.

|isbn=18387748230008385068|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemThe Midnight Feast|author=S J BennettLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It's 2016 midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and the Queensplendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistbandfamous. SwimmingHer husband, he decidesOwen, is was the way to go architect and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which work is how he came to be there early one morning and discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at the side still ongoing on parts of the poolsite. There was broken glass - a crystal tumbler, by The heat is oppressive and amongst the look at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - and it looked guests are enemies as well as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled outfriends. Still, Old scores are going to be settled and it was won't be long before a shock for Sir Simonbody is found.

|isbnauthor=057136358XAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=April in Spain|author=John BanvilleWild East|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Teens|summary=Terry Tice was a hitmanWritten in verse, although he didnthis is Ronny't think of himself in those termss story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. He saw what he did as The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a matter tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of making things tidy''trouble. I couldn't resist the thought that he was an extreme version He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of Marie Kondobeing a rapper. He enjoyed But now, in this new school, his job, something which occurred to teacher encourages him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to kill be part of a lot of poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the little yellow fellows connections between rap and poetry, and had a fine old time''. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose power of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spaincreativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|authorisbn=Dave Letterfly Knoderer1635866847|title=Speedy: Hurled Through Havoc|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=How to summarise the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you know, I really don't think I can.  Dave is an author and an artist. An inspirational speaker and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholic. The son of a Lutheran minister, he's struggled with a controlling father, run away to join the circus (not a metaphor), trained horses, painted caravans, designed and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when the bottle took over.|isbn=B0965V3LLN}}{{FrontpageLavender Companion|author=Tade Thompson|title=Far From the Light of HeavenJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Science FictionLifestyle|summary=Michelle It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'Shell' Campion feel that this is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound book for the world of Bloodrootyou. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', she will essentially be a babysitter for I visited the shipauthor's AI captain[https://www.pinelavenderfarm. However, when she wakes up at the end com/ website] and there's a picture of her trip to find dozens a slice of her passengers butchered and chocolate cake on the Ragtimehomepage. I don's AI almost nont eat cakes and desserts -responsive, she begins to realise but I wanted that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtimecake viscerally. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell (There's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter recipe in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quietbook, leaving behind which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the politicking book and bureaucracy I was told to make a mess of Space Station Lagosit. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. What You get to fold down the five corners of pages. You suspect that smears of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications butter would not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.

|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating= 4|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetablesAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. She likes carrotsHe's a ball of happy positivity, broccolihe understands children, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up he writes for their nosespleasure and enjoyment, Lily not to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eatone of his greatest achievements. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by JordanIt's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks can cope with anything the teacherspirit world throws at her, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetablesEdward, like carrots, grow in a spoiled lordling and the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= B09HHN541V1783064617

|isbnauthor=178607981XJenny Valentine|title=Bad Apples|author=Will DeanUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of the roadonce in a lifetime connection. Wondering if someone needed help she got They meet as children one day on a trip out of the car - and heard the screams from deep inside the forest. Determining the direction of a sound isnbut unfortunately they don't easy when you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where a woman was holding her coat over get each other's contact details at the body of a mantime. He'd been decapitatedBut then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. He was Arne Gustav Persson Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, a resident of Visbergtogether.|isbn=1471196585

|author=Lilja SigurdadottirKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Cold As HellDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Bavaria, 1900Meet Kit. Our scene is a Like most peculiar hilltop houseof the people in his world, built bit by bit over the decadesit seems, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. It's he is an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so avid fan of Dungeon Running – the library shelving system is not as we'd know itsport where a team of warrior, the roof is retractablemage and healer enter specially prepared, there is a steamcentury-poweredold, hand-operated lift system cut through itmagical mazes, and so on. At race to the moment it houses an ex-soldier exit, perhaps bothering with PTSD the treasure or the big bad and a passion the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the long-standing family hobby only thing he's seen of taxidermythe latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, a woman who does nothing but quibbleeaten, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroinea new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, Cassie, a young lass who he has taken to do all the maintenance goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this bizarre machinefriendless, muscle-free-like abode. Oh but it's also going to house someone or something elsezone have in actually managing that, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going and how could he possibly hope to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again...succeed?|isbn=183994188X1839945184

|isbnauthor=1846276772Saima Mir|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica NordellVengeance|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man3. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.}}{{Frontpage|author=Teresa Driscoll|title=Her Perfect Family|rating=5

|summary=The novel begins I was instantly intrigued by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the eleventh hour, north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn'He is not who he says he is…t stop me – I'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In ve jumped midway into a twist of events, few series before (on page and screen) and after it needn't be a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremonyhindrance if it's good enough. With Gemma then in And that wasn't a comaproblem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you readand I never felt lost.|isbn=15420287520861541561

|isbnauthor=8409290103Stuart Douglas|title=If Only|author=Matthew TreeLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by During location filming for his father1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the young man got dead body of a woman on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him edge of a monthly allowancereservoir. Patrick sent The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the money regularly whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his sonfellow actor, it was that he didn't care John Le Breton to have help him in this investigate matters further. They travel across the country where he might be during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a danger link to his wife and other childrendeath during the Second World War. The alcohol problem was obvious even But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|authorisbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston Swanton Morley (translatorJohn Tanner)|titleauthor=The Rabbit FactorDavid Blake

|summary=Meet HenriIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. With A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beingsknife, comes into the police station shouting that hehasn's perfect for his job in t killed the man. A body at the insurance company – until they decide bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's not a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone been stabbed to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshoppingdeath. This DCI John Tanner is when he finds just back from his brother has diedhoneymoon, having a heart attack while busy changing which coincided with the birth of his Volvodaughter Samantha. You would think he's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that d be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'everythingperverse' is just an adventure park, and nothing else. 'John Tanner'YouMeFunwere made for each other. He'' is so not what Henri wants s sleep-deprived to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs point of falling asleep at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, work 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 – ithe's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive determined to getting a cheap life insurance plan..keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=191319387X

|isbn=14711793111787333175|title=The UnheardYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Nicci FrenchBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersPopular Science|summary=Tess, a teacher and JasonI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a headmaster, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out glorious mixture of insight into the family home and Jason is now married to Emily. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was workings of the family home NHS, humour and another in the flat she shares with her motherautobiography. It ''seemedYou Don't Have to be Mad...' ' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to be working well until mental illness and the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing work of a woman falling from a tall building and she started swearing, using words she psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was unlikely acceptable to have heard be looking for humour in either home. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems this setting but the laughter is directed at nursery school. Tess turns to a therapist for help, then her doctor situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and finally the police but no one will take what she has to say seriouslyunderstanding.

|isbnauthor=1471196615Onyi Nwabineli|title=Iced|author=Felix FrancisAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Miles Pussett used Anuri spent her childhood on display to be a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Runworld, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. He was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf thanks to her step- thatmother Ophelia's high-class horseracing increasingly popular presence on the frozen lake social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the saddling of the horses, basically, monetary gain. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and he swore that he'd never go to get her life back , suing her step-mother to ittake down the content about her. But when he sees that something suspicious Anuri is going onbattling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, Miles can't help but look undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for answersdoing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, even when it puts him in dangerwho is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbnauthor=147228612XDavid Chadwick|title=The Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Alan JohnsonHeadload of Napalm

|summary=We all know It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven't taken with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much notice of themhappens in Hicks. They live quiet, uneventful lives A silver mine and stay mostly under a defence contractor are the radar. In a city like Londonmain local employers but otherwise, thatthere's quite easy - not much of note other than dive bars and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himJoshua trees. The highlight of his day Life is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work on the train each morning: he'd love to ask her for a date but he doesn't have the couragequiet, until.. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and asks for his help. Before long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan police.|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|author=Claire McGowanTom Percival|title=I Know YouThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can'Then:t work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can' Casey returns from t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a walk with cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the baby, Carsonfact that his mum and dad are separated, and comes across three bodiesWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, almost he still has a whole family taken downtiny amount of hope. ''Now:'' Rachel He is out for a walk with her doggood at art, Brandyand clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, when she comes across that feel like a body in light at the woodsend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=15420199741398527122

|isbnauthor=1529148251Sylvie Cathrall|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela CoelLetter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of mind. You're not going to read There are few greater joys than a book of essays or a self-help book. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture lives up to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festivala compelling premise. You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud And this is one of exquisite writingthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=00084336310008517061|title=Next of KinDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Kia AbdullahStig Abell|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It was the sort of thing that happened every dayFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, although not to Leila Syedhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She'd never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his fathervet girlfriend, Andrew HansonLivia and her daughter Diana, had rung her as moving in together would mean a panic. He was supposed to be taking Max lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to school but he'd been called into work and the delay move in getting there could lead with Livia or does Livia move to financial losses. As Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the school was only five minutes out of Leila's way, could future she drop him offwants for herself and her daughter? Of course, she could For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into putting the future on the back of her car. On the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskburner.

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1786482126|title=Everybody Toots! The Janus Stone (Everybody Potties!Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= TootsBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, trumps, fartsDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Whatever your word for them It's difficult as Ruth knows, find us a child that but Nelson doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that she is. But horribly embarrassing if you let pregnant with his child as a result of the one go at the wrong timenight they spent together some three months ago. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone Her condition will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attachedbe obvious before long, explains that tooting not least because Ruth is perfectly normalprone to sudden bouts of sickness. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}}

|isbn=17841652630008551324|title=Invite Me InThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Emma CurtisNeil Lancaster

|summary=Martin CurranIt's wife, Eliza knew that she had unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to be home to make his lunch approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for one othe other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'clock on s prepared to tell the dot, despite police where the fact that she body of a missing person is buried and who was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letresponsible for her death. If she didn't get homeThis person, he promises, there would is someone big and it will be troubleworth the police doing what he wants. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined And what he wants is to a wheelchair, but don't be too quick transferred to be understandingan open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in Elizat think so and she's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about even prepared to leave: he wanted do the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=17847427750008405026|title=A Change of Circumstance Stranger in the Family (Simon SerraillerMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Susan HillJane Casey

|summary=Drugs hadnIt't really been that much of s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a problem halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of timetheir bed. They still were Initially, to it looks like a great extent, straightforward murder/suicide but Serrailler knew there's something about the positioning of the bodies that something had to be donemakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Children What looked as young as nine were being recruited though it was going to transport the drugs be an open-and the operation running the county lines was tight-shut case is now a complex double murder. A mule might know Kerrigan is convinced that the name explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (although it probably wouldnsuch as Derwent't be the correct ones boss, Una Burt) of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch a few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upare less convinced.

|isbn=B09FS89KX90571379877|title=Fall On MeThe Kellerby Code|author=Penelope PottsJonny Sweet

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and Edward Jevons is a working- three years later class young man, obsessed with his upper- was still working at BBclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's dinera theatre director. Bob He's also self- the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good bossobsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Hollie had moved Edward has been in love with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great Stanza since their university days - and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all s drunkenly confided how he wanted her feels to leave her job at the dinerRobert. Then there was the fact Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he would be violent, both 's not like most men: Edward is left to her and to other peoplestumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=John GwynneJo Callaghan|title=The Shadow Of The GodsLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods When a man is found crucified on the first installment top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Bloodsworn Sagacase alongside her sidekick, set in the era AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the Vikings case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the shadow case and, potentially, out of Ragnaroka career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, when Laura and Anjali met on the Gods have battled first day of medical school and their bones lie scattered friendship would keep them inseparable for all a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to seebe a cardiothoracic surgeon. This story Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the ultimate free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-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. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in High Fantasyyour mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and John Gwynne certainly does justice to his background is the genreEast End, where he was familiar with mythical creaturesviolence, archaic language poverty and battles galoreinjustice. This There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a thick book, facility with an intricate plot and fascinating characters numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that are woven together most rich people expect poor people to create be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in card game which our heroes must do battlegot him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=0356514218

|isbn=B09HTWX47X1035021803|title=Endless ObsessionThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Dai HenleyC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=It's some twenty years since we last caught Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up with Andy Flood, formerly a DCI in the Met but now a well-respected private investigator. HeShe's married to Laura, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but back now working in because of a forensics laboratoryrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. FloodFreya's daughtersformer mentor and Carole's close friend, Gemma Arthur Crockleford, is dead and Pippathe circumstances seem suspicious, have flown to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the nestvillage: Arthur, she feels, Pippa to Australialet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, from where she has very little contact with not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the familysplit, she worked in a cafe, met and Gemma to married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. She}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Laura hope Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that married life will provide the support she needsthere have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. FloodI've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's business all getting away from me. Some of it is going well - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and that was why he felt able to turn end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the case of Lisa Blacklatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Peter PapathanasiouSunny Singh|title=The StoningHotel Arcadia

|genre=Thrillers|summary=In The Hotel Arcadia is a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous luxury hotel in comparison, a teacher an unnamed city that has suddenly been transported across town at night in violently taken over by a shopping trolley, and she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumpsterrorist group. When she's discovered by Hiding from the town gossip terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyoneon site, including the local copsthere is Sam, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – a wartime photographer and it's only fairAbhi, is the general opinion, hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the occupants residents who are often setting their own fires still alive in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolishotel, he forms a higher rank from the citybond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to sort everything outtry to capture what's happened through her photography. Because such an aggrieved Although they only ever talk over the phone, insular community is really going their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the law..terrorists.|isbn=1529416973086154742X

|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H1529153298|title=The Mystery List of HealingSuspicious Things|author=A P McGrathJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era It's 1979 and heMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populacenot what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. The remuneration isnWell, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't high but the work gives the doctor a feeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wantsto move the family 'Down South' the warriors to live. ItWhen you's quite re from Yorkshire, Down South is a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see themfrightening, foreign place, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to make them look more impressivebest avoided. The sagitarii are For Miv, the archers move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going she'll do anything to fight for their lives with the wild animalsprevent that. Today, itShe's not worried about the crocodilesdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie Blackall1398524085|title=The Beatryce ProphecyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Stories have joy s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and surprises in them''her daughter, we Etty. are told hereall worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. And none more so than in this wondrous story Shortly afterwards, which feels an instant classic with the freshness Etty and the agelessness it has in equal proportion. We start with a group of monksGreg, find the Order body of the Chronicles of SorrowingGreg's father, and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upendingDuncan Ackerley, trampling on and biting in the poor Brothersriver. Things change drastically when It was an easy assumption for the beast takes a totally maternal approach police to a homeless girl, one who has survived some trauma make that has blocked her past from her memoryDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Elsewhere sits a King in his castle, desperate to find the girl, for it is prophesied that a young child The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can unseat the throne do but get on with their lives and cause great changewonder about what really happened. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simple, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=1529500893

|isbn=B09FFJF8YS1035906708|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)Diva|author=Justine Avery and Kate ZhoidikDaisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=''For the bigWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, grownup girls out thereNew York, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph December 1923 and persevering panty prideonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'  And so to make it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pullmore manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens -ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her around as voice - she proudly explains to was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her dog, and made no secret of her cat, preference for her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fishelder sister, nor the birdsJackie. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!