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|isbn=19160720381529428289|title=The House A Grave in the Hollow Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Talbot Saga)Suspect|author=Allie CresswellRob Rinder

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to the house in the hollowJessica Holby. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her motherShe's strengths seriously allergic and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfugecarries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, at concealing, beneath live television studio - and Brooks served a facade of respectability, the deplorable truth''ragout to Holby. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal Her EpiPen was nowhere to do as be found and she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''dead within minutes. Then we are told of the birth of a child and, It was soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshireclear that this was no accident.

|authorisbn=Matthieu Aikins0008385068|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterMidnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley

|genre=Politics and SocietyThrillers|summary=It's easy to forget midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at times that The Naked DonManor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It't Fear s all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the Water isn't actually fictionwealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at timeswas the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. This The heat is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journeyfriends. There Old scores are tense moments going to be settled and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But itwon's written with t be long before a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people describedbody is found.|isbn= B09N9157T6

|author=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas EngerAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)Wild East

|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=This Written in verse, this is the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander BlixRonny's story, a police officer, young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and Emma Ramm, start at a crime journalistmostly white school. In this book we find that when one of BlixThe move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's colleaguessafety after a tragic event, Kovicand so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, uncovers a connection between several Oslo casesnew school, she tries to contact her superior, Blixand keep himself out of trouble. Before she can reach him, however, she is murderedHe listens to music constantly, and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes has always dreamed of being murdered tooa rapper. We then find ourselves But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a few days later with Blix poetry writing workshop group and Ramm, who are being interviewed by slowly, Ronny begins to see the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot connections between rap and killed someonepoetry, and Ramm saw it all happenthe power of creativity and crafting your words. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=19145850030241645441

|authorisbn=Daniel Abraham1635866847|title=Age of AshThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=FantasyLifestyle|summary= We meet Alys under the most northerly of OldgateIt's four bridgesstrange, she has a knife in her hand and a meeting the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that she dreadsthis is the book for you. Meanwhile Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the City author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of Kithamar is at a point in the turning slice of years when chocolate cake on the worlds are at their thinnest homepage. I don't eat cakes and all things are possibledesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. It is (There's a recipe in the night between book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the funeral book and I was told to make a mess of a Prince and it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the coronation corners of his successorpages. For You suspect that smears of butter would not be a night the Kithamar is un-ruledproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=0356515427

|isbnauthor=1529095522Rob Keeley|title=The Interview|author=C M EwanChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Kate Harding is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge CommunicationsAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. ItHe's the last interview a ball of the day at happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of Londonhis greatest achievements. It's newest office buildings and Edge have fitted out their part a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the building to be something special. Maggiespirit world throws at her, Kate's recruitment agentand Edward, is keen to see that Kate approaches a spoiled lordling and the interview first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in a good state of mind: Kate assumes the Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that this even, their friendship is because Maggie will a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get a decent bonus if Kate gets each other's contact details at the job - time. But then chance brings them back together, and she they are inseparable. Something has to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlyhappened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|isbnauthor=B097XNMCRKKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Loch Torridon ''Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is'' an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the back sport where a team of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which is why it was 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 perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugsway. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto a nice little earnerUnfortunately for Kit, the only to find thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that Maccaone team has been retired, the man he thought he was working witheaten, and a new trio of questors is deadneeded. His remains would never be foundPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. The delivery is hijacked by Davie What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and Callum. As the story progresses we'll get how could he possibly hope to know them quite well.succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|isbnauthor= B09NDJ77LMSaima Mir|title=Me and My Shadow|author=Deborah StoneVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary= I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I'What happens when someone is pushed too far ve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and they begin to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if you felt it's good enough. And that no one loved you? And how far would wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you go to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries up to shake off the shadows of her past speed, and attempts to repair decades worth of painI never felt lost.''|isbn=0861541561}}

|isbnauthor=1529409659Stuart Douglas|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but During location filming for his wife was now keen to do some decorating 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her motherLeggit's belongings. She was intrigued by , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the discovery dead body of a picture woman on the edge of her own house: a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it was as an old photographaccidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, taken in misty conditions and on he enlists the back it said 'dawn 1963'help of a fellow actor, some years before Ruth was bornJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. It was before her parents were married. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and They travel across the country was in lockdown. Ruth during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and Kate are restricted , seemingly, a link to death during the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate and continue with her university teaching dutiesSecond World War. The good thing was meeting Zoe, But is there really a link between the deaths? the new tenant from next door whom And will they got manage to know whilst clapping for carers.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=1847941834B0CYV674G2|title=Atomic HabitsSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=James ClearDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=I've said this before but there are some books that you seek outIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, some books that you stumble across covered in mud and blood - and some books carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that drop into your life because you really MUST read themhe hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, like, right now! which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse'and 'Atomic HabitsJohn Tanner'were made for each other. He' is in s sleep-deprived to the last categorypoint of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|isbn=B09MSC981W1787333175|title=The Woke IliadYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=George BoreasBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=General FictionPopular Science|summary=Helen I 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 popular activist. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anyway, Helen is so popular that glorious mixture of insight into the United States government has made her its Ambassador of Woke. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf workings of the governmentNHS, including humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the Shaming Conference same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for indoctrinating humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how to have it''is always delivered with empathy and understanding. Ouch!

|isbnauthor=B09D95TRKZOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Wedding Murders|author=Sarah LinleyAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Libby Steele was hoping Anuri spent her childhood on display to get a permanent job with the newspaper world, 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. Now Anuri is in her twenties and the case she was covering was is slowly trying to regain her big chance. It was even more important confidence and to get her than life back, suing her step-mother to take down the celebrity wedding she was content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to attend the following day with start her ex-rock star boyfriendPhD, Matthewundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. She was leaving her seven-year-old sonMost importantly, Patrick with she is desperately worried about her little sister, Emma, and heading off to a grand manor house hotel in who is the North Yorkshire countrysidenew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Daniel AcroydCan she save her sister, television presenter and former member of the rock band was marrying Vicky perhaps herself and Libby suspected that her relationship with her father at the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phones.same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbnauthor=1838226834David Chadwick|title=Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him: ''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go Headload of my hand.''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135362|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanNapalm

|summary=It was a long drive to the weekend retreat 's September 1973 in NorthumbriaHicks, right up near the Scottish borders and to make it worse the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morningCalifornia. Jane and Ruth had known each other for Hicks is a long time but Emily was Mojave desert town of a bit few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of an outsider. She LA and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than the other two womenLas Vegas both a significant drive away. The friendship of the group went back to school daysNot much happens in Hicks. Paul had coached rugby at A silver mine and a defence contractor are the school where Markmain local employers but otherwise, Toby there's not much of note other than dive bars and Rob were pupilsJoshua trees. Mark had married JaneLife is quiet, and Toby is Ruth's husbanduntil... And Rob? Well, Rob's dead.|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=gareth_steelTom Percival|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth SteelThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=Animals and WildlifeConfident Readers|summary=I donWill't often begin my reviews with s life is difficult, in a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriatemultitude of ways. Stories of a vet He is bullied because he has 's life have proved popular since the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can'All Creatures Great t work and Smalldoesn'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not t have enough money for even the companion volume youmost basic of things like food, and his dad can've been looking for. As a TV show t work because he lost his job at the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realismcollege, as do other similar programmeswas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Gareth Steel says Throw into that mix the book is not suitable for younger readers fact that his mum and dad are separated, and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that heWill's written it to inform and provoke thoughtlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, particularly amongst aspiring vetshe still has a tiny amount of hope. It deals with some uncomfortable He is good at art, and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivityclings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eatingdark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=1787634884Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Herd|author=Emily EdwardsA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=Our story opens in December 2019, before most of us had even heard of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to be a major issuecompelling premise. We're in Farley County Court, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash Kohli. As they were best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened And this is major and that, regardless one of the outcome, this is not going to work out well for anyonethem.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs0008517061|title=The Language of FoodDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=54|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton is Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a poet who has never had little uncertainty about the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked future of his life with writing a cookery bookhis vet girlfriend, she recruits Ann KirbyLivia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a local woman lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with a troubled home life. Together, they test, craft, refine Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and reshape her daughter? For the world of domestic cookery, reinventing moment they’re enjoying life in the recipe book present and changing putting the face of cookery writing foreverfuture on the back burner.|isbn=1398502227

|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1786482126|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the other gods have decided theresite was going to hold seventy-five 's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile and in luxury' apartments - when they discovered the physical form bones of a middle-school kid here on Earthchild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. He It's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his parents, and Thor has come along child as well, to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother a result of the twoone night they spent together some three months ago. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and to prove it he has to write the text we read in a sentient notebook Her condition will be obvious before long, that not least because Ruth is able prone to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progress. But Loki is the kind sudden bouts of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to be a walk in the park..sickness.right?|isbn=1406399752

|isbn=00084544420008551324|title=A Flicker in the DarkThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Stacy WillinghamNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis, a medical psychologist, is completing a session with a new patientunusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe Neither side likes or has hopes of getting her through any respect for the traumaother. You see, Chloe knows what itBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's like prepared to have tell the police where the body of a traumatic childhoodmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Her father This person, he promises, is Richard Davis, someone big and it will be worth the man who murdered six girls some twenty years agopolice doing what he wants. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she remainder of his sentence and her mother handed it to the policeget an early parole date. Dick Davis Not much to ask, is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and Chloie has had nothing she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him for the last twenty years. Her mother is in a care homekept well away from what's happening.

|authorisbn=Christopher Edge0008405026|title=Escape RoomA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=35|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=IIt've seen junior variants of s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which investigation ground to a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific locationhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, and have to solve problems her father are dead in order to get their way outbed. What I Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with s something about the regular second person narrative replaced by positioning of the firstbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new What looked as though it was going to each other be an open-and booked into the game without any of their friends, are -shut case is now a team – starting out at complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the gameexplanation lies in Rosalie's main officesdisappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer Una Burt) are a world-changerless convinced. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964

|isbn=17328987310571379877|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for AdultsKellerby Code|author=Michael Albanese Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=There was Edward Jevons is a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: working-class young man, obsessed with his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art suppliesupper-class friends, stuffed toys Robert and the like: all the things which most children have in abundanceStanza. The BoyRobert's delight was in the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happya theatre director. As he grew up He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and became a Man, his life became more complicated entitled and he dealt uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with this by getting bigger Stanza since their university days - and better boxeshe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Look carefully at the pictures and youMost men in Robert'll see s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that one a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them has kissing in a padlock..dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=B09MN1526WJo Callaghan|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)|author=Liz MistryLeave No Trace

|summary=It's When a man is found crucified on the third murder in the space top of a few weeks and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagers. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on case alongside her sidekick, the outskirts of BradfordAI detective Lock. Only, this time, itIt's going to be differenttheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. The But when there is a second body appears to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephew, Haqibfound crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and she has a very public meltdownhigh profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but Will they be able to solve the body is clad case in designer clothes 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 , or will Kat find herself taken off the case and depression., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Ally Wilkes1399613073|title=All the White SpacesMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=In post-WWI EnglandOlivia, Jonathan Morgan stows away Laura and Anjali met on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randallfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. For Jonathan Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, this adventure represents which is a bonus when you aim to be a chance for cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a fresh start, perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, without free spirit of the disapproval group and constraints of his parentsshe becomes a GP. However, Jonathan isn When we first meet them they't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like re at a funeral shroud over the expedition. Guilt, mistrust drug and grief stalk the alcohol-fuelled party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced it's going to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darknessend in tragedy. If Jonathan is to make it out of We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the Arctic winter alive, he consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will have to face his demons once and for all, or risk making impact the barrenthree friends. This time, icy landscape his tombit's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1789097835

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0241636604|title=QuicksilverThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance If you were to get to be bring up an image of a mercurial character yetcity banker in your mind, for heyou's lived in a nunre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-run orphanage since stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was a three-day old foundlingfamiliar with violence, poverty and now is starting a career injustice. There was no posh public school on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mindhis CV -control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that but he go had been to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value London School of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lamEconomics. And all this Stevenson is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up bright - extremely bright - and suggest he's has a facility with numbers which most of interest us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to thembe stupid. Helped to escape It was his ability at what was, essentially, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of a card game which got him acting without being in controlan internship with Citibank. Eventually, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and this turned into permanent employment as a whole lot more besidestrader.|isbn=1542019885

|isbn=00084416181035021803|title=Other ParentsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Sarah StovellC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the new head of West Burntridge First School: if English country village where she didngrew up. She't live up to s back now because of a request for help from her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the townbeloved aunt, Carole. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit circumstances seem suspicious, to say the schoolleast. There Arthur was one difficultythe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particularbusiness together as antique hunters, causing problems for she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the headprofession she loved. Laura Spence After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions married James (on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that rebound from the love of her life, who was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Sarah Ann JuckesAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Jasper ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is a little boy who has some struggles, and whilst wewhat happens after you're never told why exactlyeighteen. Well, we can see I must confess that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotions. His big sister, Rosie, has there have been more than a huge support few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, and writing a book me but I'm left with him, the feeling that it's all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm downgetting away from me. His parents seem completely caught up in their business, and so Some of it is Rosie he always turns to- frankly - quite frightening. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and she isnend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in m reading someone who knows what they're sayingtalking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Nothing seems to be right, I needed people I knew I could trust and the only who could deliver information in a way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its song, as they do together every SpringI could understand.|isbn=1398510890

|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Sunny Singh|title=Red is My HeartHotel Arcadia

|genre=Literary Fiction Thrillers |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been black and white and read in my houseviolently taken over by a terrorist group. And so was this one Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one waskilling everyone on site, and there isSam, black a wartime photographer and white and redAbhi, the hotel manager. Yes As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceforms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and I think itkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's possible happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to say not one page lacks see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the influence of some striking visual ideasterrorists.|isbn=1913547183086154742X

|isbn=15291355671529153298|title=One Step Too FarThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Lisa GardnerJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's five years since the stag weekend1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmenA woman? I mean, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggyhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, Neil and Joshthough. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander offWomen have been disappearing. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that TimWell, who was experienced in survival techniquesthey've been murdered, would go for helpbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. When help didnMiv's upset because she't come s overheard that her father wants to move the remaining three finally made their way back to townfamily 'Down South'. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of TimWhen you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Every yearFor Miv, Tim's fatherthe move would mean leaving her best friend, MartinSharon, and the four friends have been back she'll do anything to continue prevent that. She's not worried about the search although they do now acknowledge dangers or that theyher Mum're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tims stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1398524085|title=Bitter FlowersHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5

|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is now returning to worknot. However Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the quiet job hebody of Greg's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigationfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and a mystery around a missing womanthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Varg finds himself The Salter children are not only investigating these, convinced but there's little else they can do but also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night get on with their lives and was never foundwonder about what really happened. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308X

|authorisbn=Kia Ahankoob1035906708|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsGeneral Fiction|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging We tend to one think of eight countries led by Myriad'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 to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high, a solution is proposed. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known Maria Callas as sentinelsGreek, but she was born 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 work with his father Greek parents in the blacksmith's forgeManhattan, he's almost of the age to become a full apprenticeNew York, in December 1923 and help with the new batch of dragonswords is certainly needed. Not that there are any dragons, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except..only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Strange signals from within the forge furnace, and a peculiar invite Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom 'Callas' to puzzle over – until make it all comes out more manageable in the wash, that yes dragons do still exist States. When she was back in this world, and Athens - supposedly so that Tom is rare in she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the ability to summon themNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, share magical attributes, and ride with them..Jackie.|isbn=1839940026