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|authorisbn=Christopher Edge1529428289|title=Escape RoomA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=34|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=I've seen junior variants 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 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the process by which a character bodies and establish whether or characters start by being trapped in not a specific locationcrime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, and have to solve problems in order to get their way outthe Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. What I It've s not done (alongside experience one for myself – for just the local autumn rains that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with have caused the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to each other release water and booked into St Denis faces the game without any possibility of their friends, are a team – starting out at the gamedevastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's main officesfavourite daytime TV presenter, where theyJessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She're told they s seriously allergic and their quest for The Answer are a worldcarries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal -changer. But could watching people engage with such as normal as they can be in a pastimebusy, despite the rampedlive television studio -up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.

|isbn=17328987310008385068|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for AdultsMidnight Feast|author=Michael Albanese Lucy Foley

|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxesIt's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldnIt't believe s their luck! opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and the like: 's all the things which most children have in abundanceheaded up by Francesca Meadows. The BoyManor was her ancestral home and she's delight converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was in the sense architect and work is still ongoing on parts of order in his room: it made him feel happythe site. As he grew up The heat is oppressive and became a Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxesamongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Look carefully at the pictures Old scores are going to be settled and youit won'll see that one of them has t be long before a padlock..body is found.

|isbnauthor=B09MN1526WAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)|author=Liz MistryWild East|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=ItWritten in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's the third murder mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in the space of a few weeks new town, a new school, and they've all been because keep himself out of machetes used on teenagerstrouble. DS Nikki Parekh He listens to music constantly, and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts has always dreamed of Bradfordbeing a rapper. OnlyBut now, in this timenew school, it's going to be different. The body appears to Nikki his teacher encourages him to be that part of her beloved nephewa poetry writing workshop group and, Haqibslowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and she has a very public meltdown. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but the body is clad in designer clothes power of creativity and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depressioncrafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|authorisbn=Ally Wilkes1635866847|title=All the White SpacesThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorLifestyle|summary=In post-WWI EnglandIt's strange, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this adventure represents a chance is the book for a fresh startyou. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', and I visited the opportunity to live life as his authentic self author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and true gender, without there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the disapproval and constraints of his parentshomepage. However, Jonathan isn I don't the only one fleeing the confines of his past eat cakes and the shadow of the war hangs like desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a funeral shroud over recipe in the expedition. Guiltbook, mistrust and grief stalk which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the party book and, when disaster strikes and they are forced I was told to overwinter on land, make a menacing presence waits to prey on their darknessmess of it. If Jonathan is to make it out of Notes in the Arctic winter alive, he will have margins are sanctioned. You get to face his demons once and for all, or risk making fold down the barren, icy landscape his tombcorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1789097835

|author=Dean KoontzRob Keeley|title=QuicksilverChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=2.54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Meet Quinn QuicksilverAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yetball of happy positivity, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since understands children, and he was a three-day old foundlingwrites for their pleasure and enjoyment, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staffnot to lecture or hector. But when this book starts he IS now  The ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mindChildish Spirits'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out series is one of his bank and prepare for going on the lamgreatest achievements. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest heIt's a sequence of interest to them. Helped to escapeghost stories centring on Ellie, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in controla stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and Edward, a whole lot more besides.spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=15420198851783064617

|isbnauthor=0008441618Jenny Valentine|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah StovellUs in the Before and After

|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary=Jo Fairburn knew Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that she was under intense pressure even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didnchildren one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of get each other's contact details at the towntime. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association But then chance brings them back together, and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the schoolare inseparable. There was one difficulty, Something has happened though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two memberssomething terrible and tragic, in particularand now they must work through their grief, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationfriendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|author=Sarah Ann JuckesKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5

|summary=Jasper Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a little boy who has some strugglesteam of warrior, mage and whilst we're never told why exactlyhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacksrace to the exit, and has difficulty dealing perhaps bothering with change the treasure or the big bad and big emotionsthe points they grant you along the way. His big sister, Rosie Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been a huge support to him, talking him down when things were difficultretired, encouraging himeaten, and writing a book with him, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm downnew trio of questors is needed. His parents seem completely caught up in their business Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, and so it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away taken to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, and she isn't answering her phonell enter as a team. His parents won't speak to him or when they do What chance does this friendless, he doesn't understand or take muscle-free-zone have in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be rightactually managing that, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if how could he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen possibly hope to its song, as they do together every Spring.succeed?|isbn=13985108901839945184

|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Saima Mir|title=Red is My HeartVengeance

|genre=Literary Fiction Thrillers|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in my housethe north of England run by a Muslim woman. And so The fact that it was this one, although the second in a series I could have spelled that more accurately hadn't read didn't stop me – this one was, I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and is, black screen) and white and redit needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideasnever felt lost.|isbn=19135471830861541561

|isbnauthor=1529135567Stuart Douglas|title=One Step Too Far|author=Lisa GardnerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=ItDuring location filming for his 1970's five years since sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the stag weekend. Five dead body of them had set out: Tim (a woman on the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Joshedge of a reservoir. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed police seem happy to wander off. The remaining four searched for him in vain and assign it was decided that Timas an accidental death, who was experienced in survival techniquesbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, would go for John Le Breton to helphim investigate matters further. When help didn't come They travel across the remaining three finally made country during their way back days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to towndeath during the Second World War. Scott followed soon after but But is there was no sign of Tim. really a link between the deaths? Every year, Tim's father, Martin, and the four friends have been back And will they manage to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tim.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|authorisbn=Gunnar StaalesenB0CYV674G2|title=Bitter FlowersSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake

|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab It seemed like an open-and is now returning to work-shut case. However, the quiet job he's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigationA man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a mystery around a missing woman. Varg finds himself not only investigating theseknife, but also looking comes into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel police station shouting that he hasn't killed the truth?|isbn=191319308X}}{{Frontpage|author=Kia Ahankoob|title=The Gold Lion and man. A body at the Tournament bottom of Sentinels|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary= When Myriad created Duniva a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he endowed 's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his children with different powershoneymoon, each which coincided with its own strength and weakeness, in the hope they birth of his daughter Samantha. You would complement think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by MyriadHe's children and their descendants. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went sleep-deprived to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost point of war too high, a solution is proposed. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV}}{{Frontpage|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and Ironskin|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Tomas. Happy to falling asleep at work with his father in the blacksmithbut he's forge, determined to keep going - probably because hecan's almost of the age to become a full apprentice, and help with the new batch of dragonswords is certainly needed. Not that there are t get any dragons, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except... Strange signals from within the forge furnace, and a peculiar invite to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the wash, that yes dragons do still exist in this world, and that Tom is rare in the ability to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with them..sleep at home.|isbn=1839940026

|isbn=15293465411787333175|title=Something You Don't Have to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novelbe Mad to Work Here|author=Elizabeth GeorgeBenji Waterhouse

|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=ItI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's late July and Deborah St James first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is at Going to Hurt}}, a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for glorious mixture of insight into the school system, a representative from workings of the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi humour and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakerautobiography. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book 'You Don'London Voices'': the meeting is an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used t Have to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesbe Mad... Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as ' promised the problem seems same elements but moved from physical problems to occur in Nigerian mental illness and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust work of the people she speaks a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to and photographs.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09Q3P283Y|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W Hooper|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up be looking for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested humour in this setting but the fight against Communism, nor laughter is he particularly interested in directed at a situation rather than a career in the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually person and it is, always delivered with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him out of the rut he's in. He's good in training empathy and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himselfunderstanding.

|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmyOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=There is no mermaid in Anuri spent her childhood on display to the millpondworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. That at least Now Anuri is what Bess in her twenties and she is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her in amongst all the other kidslife back, who have had their entire childhoods sold suing her step-mother to take down the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homecontent about her. Bess knows there Anuri is no time for friendship in a hand-battling alcoholism, failing to-mouthstart her PhD, every man undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for himself kind of existencedoing so. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot Most importantly, and despite everything that life has taught she is desperately worried about her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harmlittle sister, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there who is any truth in the existence new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the mermaidsame time?|isbn=180090049X0861546873

|isbnauthor=1785633074David Chadwick|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh BerryHeadload of Napalm

|genre=HumourThrillers|summary=Members It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of Parliament like us to believe that LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the country is run by politiciansmain local employers but otherwise, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (thatthere's for those not much of you who are Eton note other than dive bars and Oxbridge educated) but the reality Joshua trees. Life is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmentquiet, until.. We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watch.|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=B09MYXSRV4Tom Percival|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya SmithWrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=When the world was madeWill's life is difficult, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become in a protectormultitude of ways. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that He is bullied because he could see has 'the present wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work anddoesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can' t work because he lost his job at the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - butcollege, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be working a cash-in -hand job on a race with Turtlebuilding site and had an accident. You might think Throw into thatmix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's not a fair contest but wait and seelife seems bleak in every direction. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.}}{{Frontpage|author=Giovanna Fletcher|title=Walking on Sunshine|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Mike's wifeAnd yet, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, still has dieda tiny amount of hope. And whilst he He is dealing with his griefgood at art, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' clings to followthe moments of joy when he is drawing, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of feel like a light at the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one end of their trips awaya long, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with himdark tunnel.|isbn=140593560X1398527122

|isbnauthor=1529393930Sylvie Cathrall|title=Making a Living: How A Letter to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochesterthe Luminous Deep

|genre=CraftsScience Fiction|summary=''Starting a creative business has never been easier.'' ''If not now, when?'' I know that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. There's a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items are few greater joys than we can sensibly use and there are a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. Selling would offset the costs, book which can be quite considerable and it could be fun to do, couldn't it? But where lives up to start? What do I need to think about? Well, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do compelling premise. And this is to read ''Making a Living''one of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Freya Marske0008517061|title=A Marvellous LightDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into a job in the Civil Service, much to his chagrinrustic life at Little Sky. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the streets future of London are threaded his life with magic. Desperate to remove his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a curse that threatens lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the countryside, where future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the hedgegrows bristle with incantations present and putting the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens future on the lives of all magicians in the British Islesback burner. |isbn=1529080886

|isbn=02414804421786482126|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition ScienceJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienElly Griffiths

|genre=CookeryCrime|summary=Emotionally, I am Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a vegan. Mentally, I am child beneath a vegandoorway. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and There was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) foodno skull. Practically, I am not Was this a vegan. ritual killing or murder? It worked for a while apart from the odd blip Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based proteinDCI Harry Nelson. It wasn's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't the taste - I know , that I can get plant-based food that tastes just she is pregnant with his child as good as anything plundered from a result of the animal kingdom - it was the ease one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare momentssickness.

|isbn=suppl_stafl0008551324|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Kim StaflundNeil Lancaster

|genre=ReferenceCrime|summary=So, youIt've finished writing your book and you think s unusual for anyone from the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need Hardie family to do now is get it published and approach the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong againpolice. You presumably wrote Neither side likes or has any respect for the book because you wanted other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to - tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and you had a talent who was responsible for delivering the written wordher death. You knew your subject back to frontThis person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. Now you're going And what he wants is to have be transferred to get an open prison to grips with serve the book supply chain, which even parts remainder of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change his sentence and no one wants to be the first to tryget an early parole date. ThenNot much to ask, when you is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'finally'' have a copy of s even prepared to do the book in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to sell it other thing that Hardie demanded - because it ''make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him iskept well away from what'' going to be down to yous happening.

|isbn=13987069060008405026|title=The LostA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Simon BeckettJane Casey|rating=45

|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyIt's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedsixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo She was playing never found and when he woke, Theo had gonethe investigation ground to a halt. It cost him his marriage Now, her mother, Helena, and his homeher father are dead in their bed. Ten years later he's largely come through Initially, it and helooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's out with his team when he gets a phone call from something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Gavin McKinneyMaeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Gavin used What looked as though it was going to be his best friend but it's an open-and-shut case is now a long time since they've spokencomplex double murder. HeKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quay. ''Theredisappearance: others (such as Derwent's no one else I can trust''boss, he saysUna Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Amanda Mason0571379877|title=The Hiding PlaceKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet

|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent lifeEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, Nell Galilee takes her husband handsome and stepdaughter entitled and uses Edward to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder Houserun errands for him. She hopes that it will be the perfect place Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to sort things outRobert. But there Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere like most men: Edward is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts left to suspect that she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}

|author=Paul CleaveJo Callaghan|title=The Quiet PeopleLeave No Trace|rating=54

|summary= I am not When a fan man is found crucified on the top of "a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Prologue". Most books are case alongside her sidekick, the worse for themAI detective Lock. In this It's their first live case I might make an exceptiontogether, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. We start But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with Luca Pittman who is in a hurrypotential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. He has Will they be able to hurry because he has children that he should not havesolve the case in time, and when he hurries, when he bundles things into or will Kat find herself taken off the back of his car case and tries to run and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things therepotentially, he takes out of a risk. It ends badly.career?|isbn=1913193942139851120X

|authorisbn=Will Carver1399613073|title=Psychopaths AnonymousMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5

|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholicOlivia, drinking continuously Laura and alsoAnjali 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, curiously, addicted which is a bonus when you aim to attending numerous AA groupsbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. She Laura is also a self-acknowledged psychopathperfectionist and a trauma doctor. Whilst analysing Anjali is the free spirit of the group and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targetsbecomes a GP...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people When we first meet them they's misery, re at a drug and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, alcohol-fuelled party and when sheit's unable going to find likeend in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-minded people in any of five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the groups she decides to set up her ownthree friends. This time, hoping to encounter others it's their teenage children who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornare involved.|isbn=1913193756

|isbn=15294181000241636604|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Martin WalkerGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesAutobiography|summary=IIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you'm not usually a fan re unlikely to think of short stories someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin- I find it all too easy to put stripe suit and his background is the book down between stories East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and forget injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to pick it up again the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - but I am and he has a fan facility with numbers which most of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' be stupid. It was his ability at what was hard to resist and I'm rather glad that I didn't even try, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. For those new to the seriesEventually, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who's who and the background to why Bruno is in St Denisthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=B09GJW49GF1035021803|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Jenny O'BrienC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her sonbeloved aunt, Carole. Hunter had diabetes Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and this the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was controlled by a pump attached the reason why Freya had not been back to his stomachthe village: Arthur, so her over-protectiveness was understandableshe feels, but let her fiancedown badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, Ian, was pestering her she has not felt able to get married and be near the man or pursue the profession she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likeloved. Her friendAfter the split, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for a night she worked in a posh hotel but then he dumped her cafe, met and she couldn't get married James (on the rebound from the money backlove of her life, so Hannah who was offered the opportunity to go in his place. She would return home to find Ian dead murdered) and Freya and five-year-old Hunter missingJames have now divorced.

|isbn=B09GV3WS1QAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Without a TraceAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Jane BettanyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Life hadn't '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 there have been easy for Ruth Prendergast: shemore than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they'd just come re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|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 divorce wartime photographer and right now it was raining hardAbhi, the hotel manager. All she wanted was As Abhi continues to get back try to her new home and settle down care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a quiet evening. It wasn't going bond with Sam who refuses to be though: when she went into cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her bedroom she found a dead man on room to try to capture what's happened through her bed with a knife in his chestphotography. She'd no idea who he wasAlthough 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

|isbn=18387748231529153298|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemThe List of Suspicious Things|author=S J BennettJennie Godfrey

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's 2016 1979 and the QueenMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's Private Secretaryfamily, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistbandthough. Women have been disappearing. SwimmingWell, he decidesthey've been murdered, is the way but to go and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to be there early one morning and discovered move the body of Cynthia Harris at the side of the poolfamily 'Down South'. There was broken glass - When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a crystal tumblerfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, by the look at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly she'll do anything to prevent that she had bled out. Still, it was a shock for Sir SimonShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=057136358X1398524085|title=April in SpainHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=John BanvilleNicci French

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Terry Tice Charlotte Salter was a hitman, although he didnexpected at her husband't think of himself in those termss fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. He saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy''Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. I couldn't resist Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the thought that he was an extreme version body of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his jobGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''river. He It was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know an easy assumption for the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he wouldncouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in stand the ''morning''? guilt. It was after PercyThe Salter children are not convinced but there's death that he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spainlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Dave Letterfly Knoderer1035906708|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=How We tend to summarise the life think of Dave Letterfly Knodererv Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you knowManhattan, New York, I really don't think I can.  Dave is an author in December 1923 and an artistonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. An inspirational speaker and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholic. The son of a Lutheran minister, he Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's struggled with a controlling father, run away to join make it more manageable in the circus (not States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a metaphor), trained horses, painted caravans, designed mother who mercilessly exploited her and painted theatre setsmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, and hit rock bottom when the bottle took overJackie.|isbn=B0965V3LLN