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|isbn=19160720381529428289|title=The House A Grave in the Hollow Woods (The Talbot SagaA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Allie CresswellMartin Walker|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=We meet part Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot They dated back to World War II and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklingtonit fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the house in identities of the hollowbodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her motherAs if this isn's strengths and weaknesses: ''She t enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is practiced at subterfuge, flowing at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, the deplorable truth''record levels. Hester is furious about Jocelyn It's refusal not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to do as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent release water and unexpected removal''. Then we are told of St Denis faces the birth possibility of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshiredevastating flood.

|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger152919640X|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder

|summary=This is the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander BlixThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, a police officerJessica Holby, was murdered live on television and Emma Ramm, a crime journalistit seems that there's only one suspect. In this book we find that when one of BlixHe's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to contact her superior, BlixJessica Holby. Before she can reach him, however, she is murdered, and BlixShe's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered tooseriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. We then find ourselves Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a few days later with Blix and Rammbusy, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot live television studio - and killed someone, Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and Ramm saw it all happenshe was dead within minutes. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover It was soon clear that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003this was no accident.

|authorisbn=Daniel Abraham0008385068|title=Age of AshThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley

|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary= We meet Alys under It's midsummer on the most northerly of OldgateDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's four bridges, all headed up by Francesca Meadows. she has a knife in The Manor was her hand ancestral home and a meeting that she dreads's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Meanwhile Her husband, Owen, was the City of Kithamar architect and work is at a point in the turning still ongoing on parts of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possiblesite. It The heat is the night between the funeral of a Prince oppressive and amongst the coronation of his successorguests are enemies as well as friends. For Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a night the Kithamar body is un-ruledfound.|isbn=0356515427

|isbnauthor=1529095522Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Interview|author=C M EwanWild East|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Kate Harding Written in verse, this is going for an interview for her dream job Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at Edge Communicationsa mostly white school. It The move is initiated by Ronny's the last interview of the day at one of Londonmum who is worried for Ronny's newest office buildings safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and Edge have fitted keep himself out their part of the building trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be something special. Maggiepart of a poetry writing workshop group and, Kate's recruitment agentslowly, is keen Ronny begins to see that Kate approaches the interview in a good state connections between rap and poetry, and the power of mind: Kate assumes that this is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets the job - creativity and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlycrafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|isbn=B097XNMCRK1635866847|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Lavender Companion|author=Neil LancasterJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Loch Torridon It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this isthe book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'' , I visited the back of beyondauthor's [https: //www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's not even any light pollution which is why it was a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugshomepage. Jimmy McLeish thought I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that he was onto cake viscerally. (There's a nice little earnerrecipe in the book, only which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to find that Macca, make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the man he thought he was working with, is deadcorners of pages. His remains You suspect that smears of butter would never not be founda problem. The delivery is hijacked by Davie and Callum. As the story progresses weI ''loved''ll get to know them quite wellthis book already.

|isbnauthor= B09NDJ77LMRob Keeley|title=Me and My Shadow|author=Deborah StoneChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He'What happens when someone is pushed too far s a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and they begin to lose he writes for their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off the shadows of her past pleasure and attempts enjoyment, not to repair decades worth of painlecture or hector.''

Rachel is in a current conversation with her psychiatrist, who pushes her to recall her life from very young childhood onwards. But Rachel The ''Childish Spirits'' series is combative with Doctor Blake, sometimes even contemptuous one of herhis greatest achievements. You can see that itIt's not an easy therapeutic relationship. Rachel's recall a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight , and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute Edward, a spoiled lordling and unforgiving clarity.the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|isbnauthor=1529409659Jenny Valentine|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsUs in the Before and After

|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating Elk and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongings. She was intrigued by the discovery of Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a picture of her own house: it was an old photograph, taken once in misty conditions and on the back it said 'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was borna lifetime connection. It was before her parents were married. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to find They meet as children one day on a trip out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the country was in lockdowntime. Ruth But then chance brings them back together, and Kate they are restricted to the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and continue with her university teaching duties. The good thing was meeting Zoetragic, the new tenant from next door whom and now they got to know whilst clapping for carersmust work through their grief, and their friendship, together.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1847941834|title=Atomic Habits|author=James Clear|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=I've said this before but there are some books that you seek out, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! ''Atomic Habits'' is in the last category.1471196585

|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Helen Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a popular activistteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anyway Unfortunately for Kit, Helen the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is so popular that the United States government one team has made her its Ambassador been retired, eaten, and a new trio of Wokequestors is needed. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the government, including goading from the Shaming Conference token bully of his world and the Permissible Entertainment Committee stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free- ''for indoctrinating zone have in actually managing that, and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how could he possibly hope to have it''. Ouch!succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|isbnauthor=B09D95TRKZSaima Mir|title=The Wedding Murders|author=Sarah LinleyVengeance|rating=43.5

|summary=Libby Steele I was hoping to get a permanent job with instantly intrigued by the newspaper and premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the case she was covering was her big chancenorth of England run by a Muslim woman. It The fact that it was even more important to her than the celebrity wedding she was to attend the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthew. She was leaving her seven-year-old son, Patrick with her sister, Emma, second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and heading off to it needn't be a grand manor house hotel in the North Yorkshire countrysidehindrance if it's good enough. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter and former member of the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected And that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phonesa problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561

|isbnauthor=1529135362Stuart Douglas|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It was a long drive to the weekend retreat in NorthumbriaDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', right up near leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the Scottish borders and to make it worse dead body of a woman on the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morningedge of a reservoir. Jane and Ruth had known each other for a long time The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but Emily was a bit of an outsider. She something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than he enlists the other two women. The friendship help of the group went back a fellow actor, John Le Breton to school dayshelp him investigate matters further. Paul had coached rugby at They travel across the school where Markcountry during their days off filming, Toby uncovering more possible murders and Rob were pupils, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. Mark had married Jane, and Toby But is Ruth's husband. there really a link between the deaths? And Robwill they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives? Well, Rob's dead.|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=gareth_steelB0CYV674G2|title=Never Work With AnimalsSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Gareth SteelDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary=I donIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriatekilled the man. Stories A body at the bottom of a vetfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is definitely not just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the companion volume youbirth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he've been looking d be grateful for. As a TV show an easy answer but the author would argue that words 'perverse'All Creaturesand 'John Tanner' lacked realism, as do were made for each other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that He's sleep-deprived to the book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that point of falling asleep at work but he's written it determined to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesnkeep going - probably because he can't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eatingget any sleep at home.

|isbn=17876348841787333175|title=The HerdYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Emily EdwardsBenji Waterhouse

|genre=General FictionPopular Science|summary=Our story opens in December 2019I 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}}, before most a glorious mixture of us had even heard insight into the workings of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be a major issueMad... We're in Farley County Court, where Elizabeth ' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash Kohlithe work of a psychiatrist. As they were best friends until just I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a few months ago we know that whatever has happened person and it is major always delivered with empathy and that, regardless of the outcome, this is not going to work out well for anyoneunderstanding.

|author=Annabel AbbsOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Language of FoodAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had Anuri spent her childhood on display to the slightest inclination world, thanks to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery bookher step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she recruits Ann Kirbyposted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, a local woman with a troubled home basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her lifeback, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Together Anuri is battling alcoholism, they testfailing to start her PhD, craftundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, refine and reshape who is the world new focus of domestic cookeryOphelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, reinventing the recipe book and changing perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the face of cookery writing forever.same time?|isbn=13985022270861546873

|author=Louie StowellDavid Chadwick|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodHeadload of Napalm

|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe DavisSeptember 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a medical psychologist, is completing Mojave desert town of a session few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a new patientsignificant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. Lacey is suffering mentally A silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but Chloe has hopes of getting her through the trauma. You seeotherwise, Chloe knows what itthere's like to have a traumatic childhoodnot much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Her father Life is Richard Davisquiet, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years agountil. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed it to the police. Dick Davis is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for the last twenty years. Her mother is in a care home.|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|author=Christopher EdgeTom Percival|title=Escape RoomThe Wrong Shoes|rating=35

|summary=IWill've seen junior variants s life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'Choose Your Own Adventure, he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can' format cover escape rooms – t work because he lost his job at the process by which college, was working a character or characters start by being trapped cash-in -hand job on a specific locationbuilding site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and have to solve problems Will's life seems bleak in order to get their way outevery direction. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen And yet, he still has a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the firsttiny amount of hope. Here He is good at art, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new clings to each other and booked into the game without any moments of their friendsjoy when he is drawing, are that feel like a team – starting out light at the game's main officesend of a long, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerdark tunnel. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=17880079641398527122

|isbnauthor=1732898731Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxes. He had are few greater joys than a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and the like: all the things book which most children have in abundance. The Boy's delight was in the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happy. As he grew lives up and became to a Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt with compelling premise. And this by getting bigger and better boxes. Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that is one of them has a padlock...|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=B09MN1526W0008517061|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Liz MistryStig Abell

|summary=It's the third murder in the space of a few weeks and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagersFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts future of Bradford. Onlyhis life with his vet girlfriend, this timeLivia and her daughter Diana, it's going as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to be different. The body appears move in with Livia or does Livia move to Nikki to be that of Little Sky despite her beloved nephew, Haqib, reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and she has a very public meltdown. her daughter? It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but For the body is clad moment they’re enjoying life in designer clothes the present and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be putting the future on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depressionthe back burner.

|authorisbn=Ally Wilkes1786482126|title=All the White SpacesThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=In postBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randallsite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. For Jonathan, There was no skull. Was this adventure represents a chance for a fresh startritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and the opportunity to live life Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as his authentic self and true genderRuth knows, without the disapproval and constraints of his parents. However, Jonathan isnbut Nelson doesn't the only one fleeing the confines of , that she is pregnant with his past and the shadow child as a result of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expeditionone night they spent together some three months ago. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land Her condition will be obvious before long, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan not least because Ruth is prone to make it out sudden bouts of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tombsickness.|isbn=1789097835

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0008551324|title=QuicksilverThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. HeIt's not had unusual for anyone from the chance Hardie family to get to be a mercurial character yet, approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for he's lived the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in a nun-run orphanage since prison and he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject prepared to sudden or unpredictable changes tell the police where the body of mood or mind'', a missing person is buried and who was responsible for something – call it unearthly intuitionher death. This person, call it mind-controlhe promises, call is someone big and it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he go wants is to be transferred to an open prison to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash serve the value of it out remainder of his bank sentence and prepare for going on the lamto get an early parole date. And all this Not much to ask, is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and suggest heshe's of interest even prepared to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by do the other instances of thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besideskept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1542019885

|isbn=00084416180008405026|title=Other ParentsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Sarah StovellJane Casey

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didnIt't live up to s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the townbed one summer night. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association She was never found and the funds which they raised were investigation ground to a considerable benefit to the schoolhalt. There was one difficultyNow, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable''her mother, with two membersHelena, and her father are dead in particular, causing problems for the headtheir bed. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to JoInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's restrictions on something about the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was just going to be an open-and-shut case is now a warm-up act for their real gripecomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: LGBTQ educationothers (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Sarah Ann Juckes0571379877|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Jasper Edward Jevons is a little boy who has some strugglesworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and whilst weStanza. Robert's a theatre director. He're never told why exactlys also self-obsessed, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacksdemanding, handsome and has difficulty dealing with change entitled and big emotionsuses Edward to run errands for him. His big sister, Rosie, Edward has been a huge support to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, in love with Stanza since their university days - and writing a book with him, all about birds, that he can read when 's drunkenly confided how he gets scared feels to help him calm downRobert. His parents seem completely caught up Most men in their business, and so it Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is Rosie he always turns left tostumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway. Even though she has gone away }}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to University nowthe case alongside her sidekick, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs herthe AI detective Lock. But now he can It't find Rosies their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. She hasn't come home But when she said she wouldthere is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and she isn't answering her phonea very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. His parents won't speak to him or when Will they do, he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems be able to be right, and solve the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosiecase in time, and if they can or will Kat find herself taken off the nightingale case and listen to its song, as they do together every Spring.potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1398510890139851120X

|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)1399613073|title=Red is My HeartMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Fiction Thrillers|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black Olivia, Laura and white Anjali met on the first day of medical school and read in my housetheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is, black the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and white alcohol-fuelled party and redit's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Yes, he has Twenty-five years later there will be an artistic collaborator on this pieceeerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideastheir teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1913547183

|isbn=15291355670241636604|title=One Step Too FarThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Lisa GardnerGary Stevenson

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=ItIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's five years since the stag weekendre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Five of them had set out: Tim (A hoodie and jeans replaces the groom) pin-stripe suit and his four groomsmen, Scotbackground is the East End, Miguel (who where he was usually called Miggy)familiar with violence, Neil poverty and Joshinjustice. The first night they There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had plenty been to the London School of alcohol Economics. Stevenson is bright - too much really extremely bright - and in the night Scot managed to wander offhe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided He also realised that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. When help didn't come the remaining three finally made their way back most rich people expect poor people to townbe stupid. Scott followed soon after but there It was his ability at what was no sign of Tim, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Every year, Tim's father, MartinEventually, and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1035021803|title=Bitter FlowersThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning been back to workthe English country village where she grew up. However She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, the quiet job heCarole. Freya's supposedly taken on caretaking someoneformer mentor and Carole's house quickly turns into a murder investigationclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and a mystery around a missing womanthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Varg finds himself Arthur was the reason why Freya had not only investigating thesebeen back to the village: Arthur, but also looking into an oldshe feels, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never foundlet her down badly. Somehow Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, these disparate cases appear she has not felt able to be linkednear the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, but what is she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the linklove of her life, who was murdered) and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308XFreya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Kia AhankoobAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Gold Lion All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and the Tournament of SentinelsStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Graphic NovelsScience Fiction|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the hope they would complement each other and collaborateshape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, creating I must confess that there have been more than a dynamic and prosperous societyfew decades of technology in my lifetime. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to one of eight countries led by Myriadme but I'm left with the feeling that it's children and their descendantsall getting away from me. But Some of it didn't is - frankly - quite work out like thatfrightening. Rivalries developed 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're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Enmities grew out of them I needed people I knew I could trust and the eight countries went to warwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3. Having fought themselves into 5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the cost of war too highterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a solution is proposedwartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. Each of As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the eight countries will send their greatest warriorshotel, known as sentinelshe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to a single combat tournamenttry to capture what's happened through her photography. The winner will take possession of all Although they only ever talk over the rings phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and become they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the supreme ruler of Dunivaterrorists.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV086154742X

|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps1529153298|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet TomasIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly. Happy to work with his father in the blacksmith..) She's not what's forge, heworrying Miv's almost of the age to become a full apprenticefamily, and help with the new batch of dragonswords is certainly neededthough. Women have been disappearing. Not that there are any dragons Well, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except.'ve been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. Strange signals When you're from within the forge furnaceYorkshire, and Down South is a peculiar invite to become an apprentice clerk insteadfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the washmove would mean leaving her best friend, that yes dragons do still exist in this worldSharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that Tom is rare in . She's not worried about the ability dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with themanyone...|isbn=1839940026

|isbn=15293465411398524085|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Elizabeth GeorgeNicci French

|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's late July fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Deborah St James is at a meeting with Dominique ShawOllie and her daughter, Undersecretary for the school systemEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, a representative from the NHSAlec, Mr Oh from Barnardosis not. Shortly afterwards, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi Etty and Narissa CameronGreg, a filmmaker. It follows on from find the success body of DeborahGreg's book ''London Voices'': father, Duncan Ackerley, in the meeting is river. It was an exploration of easy assumption for the possibility of the idea behind police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesguilt. DeborahThe Salter children are not convinced but there's uncertain little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about quite how successful what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she could be as the problem seems was born to occur Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in Nigerian December 1923 and Somali communities as only moved to Athens when she relies on getting was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the trust of States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the people she speaks to Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and photographsmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.