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|isbn=13985075041529428289|title=Cold ReckoningA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Russ ThomasMartin 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 Suspect|author=Rob Rinder

|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that his father committed suicide and for the last sixteen years hethere's only one suspect. He's been searching for evidence to prove celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that hemust not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's rightseriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. When Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoirbusy, there was live television studio - and Brooks served a link back ragout to a cold case from 2002Holby. There didn't immediately seem Her EpiPen was nowhere to be any connection with DI Richard Tylerfound and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to midsummer on the case his father was investigating before he diedDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. Above It's all thereheaded up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's a growing sense that converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the criminality architect and work is still ongoing on parts of Det Supt Stevens the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be brought out into the opensettled and it won't be long before a body is found. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?

|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Written 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 mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of 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 part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=07278505470241645441}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=Blind Justice The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (DS McAvoy 10There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!)Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.}}{{Frontpage|author=David MarkRob Keeley|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 't even had time for breakfast when Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the call came through. A dead body had been found in of a woman on the roots edge of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullreservoir. When he gets The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the scenewhole thing bothers Lowe, and he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imagined. A young man's corpse is entangled with enlists the roots help of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesinvestigate matters further. It would seem that this was done whilst They travel across the man was still alive. McAvoy makes country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a promise link to death during the victim: I will find answers. You will know justiceSecond World War. But justice always comes at is there really a cost and this time link between the cost might be deaths? And will they manage to McAvoy's own family.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Natalia Garcia FreireDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It 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 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, 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 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse

|genre=Literary FictionPopular Science|summary= Early comments on this debut novel 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 glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, physical problems to mental illness and the work of a delightpsychiatrist. I will agree with did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the first – tremendous laughter is no understatement – but 'directed at a situation rather than a delight' person and it is perhaps using always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the expression in a way Iworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri'm not familiar withs childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. I have Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to confess my ignorance of take down the Spanish-language literary tradition content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so forgive my generalisation here. From Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the little I have read (same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|author=David Chadwick|title=Headload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= It's September 1973 in translationHicks, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a tendency towards defence contractor are the fantastical – the mystical realismmain local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until.... |isbn=0861541901B0D321VJ76

|author= Ann Sei LinTom Percival|title= Rebel SkiesThe Wrong Shoes|rating= 5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Kurara has spent her entire Will's life as a servant on the Midoriis difficult, in a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers multitude of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquestsways. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she He is a Crafter like him, someone with bullied because he has 'the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with himwrong shoes', to leave he has the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara wonwrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have any say in enough money for even the mattermost basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the Midori is destroyed by college, was working a monstrous paper spirit known as cash-in-hand job on a shikigami, building site and she is forced to flee out had an accident. Throw into that mix the worldfact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime And yet, he still has a sky-ship whose express purpose tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to hunt down shikigamithe moments of joy when he is drawing, and that feel like a whole world light at the end of adventure awaits her…a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=14063995901398527122

|author=Patrice LawrenceSylvie Cathrall|title=NeedleA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=35|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with There are few greater joys than a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken book which lives up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – to a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorantcompelling premise. And then... well, what exactly happens this is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be..one of them.|isbn=18009010110356522776

|isbn=14059409800008517061|title=The BirdcageDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Eve ChaseStig Abell

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the 7th future of January 2019 his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and we know that her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a body has been pulled out lot of the sea at Zennor compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in Cornwall. We don't know whose body it with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is. the future she wants for herself and her daughter? Four days earlier, Flora, Kat For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at putting the future on the request of their father, Charlie Finch, a famous artistback burner. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The girls are actually ''halfJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'apartments -sisters and their dates when they discovered the bones of birth are embarrassingly closea child beneath a doorway. Finch There was known for his fecundityno skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, if not for his fidelityDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's been difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a long time since result of the girls have been at Rock Point one night they spent together: just over twenty years some three months ago, at the time of the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and it's left her very wary Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of her sisterssickness.

|isbn=17876349060008551324|title=No Less the The DevilYou Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Stuart MacBrideNeil Lancaster

|summary=WeIt're s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in Oldcastle prison and Malcolm he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is in troubleburied and who was responsible for her death. He's in an abandoned house This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he's being threatened by two young peoplewants. One And what he wants is Allegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and Hugoto get an early parole date. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat Not much to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peopleask, apparently) but sheis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn'd put a tracking device in it t think so that and she and Hugo could find out where he was sleeping. It won't be long before s even prepared to do the police realise other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward 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, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in 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 left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer SaintJo Callaghan|title=ElektraLeave No Trace

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells When a man is found crucified on the story top of three women who live a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the heavily male-dominated world of Ancient Greececase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Cassandra It's their first live case together, Clytemnestrahaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Elektra are all bit players in the story a very high profile case that draws a lot of the Trojan Warunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often Will they be able to solve the silent women have case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the most compelling stories case and the most extreme furies., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1472273915139851120X

|isbn=15291498001399613073|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce WasteMoral Injuries|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyThrillers|summary=We begin with a telling story. All the birds Olivia, Laura and animals fled when Anjali met on the forest fire took hold first day of medical school and most their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of them stood and watcheda century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, unable which is a bonus when you aim to think of anything they could dobe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. The tiny hummingbird flew to Anjali is the river and began taking tiny amounts free spirit of water the group and flying back to drop them into the fireshe becomes a GP. The animals laughed: what good was that doingWhen we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don''I'm doing t know who suffered the best I can'', said tragedy or the hummingbirdconsequences. And Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event thatwill impact the three friends. This time, reallyit's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the only way that we will solve East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the problem London School of climate change – by each Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us doing what we can, however small only envy. He also realised that might most rich people expect poor people to bestupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=17765743381035021803|title=LeilongThe Antique Hunter's Too Long!Guide to Murder|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Every morning Leilong, It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking English country village where she grew up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks donShe't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out s back now because of the window and slide down his necka request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. ItFreya's former mentor and Carole's perfectclose friend, isn't it? Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. What could be a more fun way of going Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to school? There is a problemthe village: Arthur, she feels, thoughlet her down badly. Leilong isn't happy Even though they were in the city: he's always having business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to cafe, met and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be married James (on the rebound from the bus anymorelove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=303091657XAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Disaster in the BoardroomAll Tomorrow's Futures: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandFictions that Disrupt|author=Gerry Brown Benjamin Greenaway and Randall S PetersonStephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Business and FinanceScience Fiction|summary=Boards must act in ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the best interests shape of their stakeholders and ensure things to come.'' I've heard it said that they are well-managed and financially secure'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. This might seem obvious but Well, I must confess that there have been more than a series of disasters - some few decades of which have resulted technology in death or my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the collapse feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of a major company it is - frankly - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingquite frightening. Where were they? Occasionally Of course, I could research the possibilities and the boards were unaware of probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance 're talking about or criminalitythe latest conspiracy theorist. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown I needed people I knew I could trust and Randall S Peterson give us who could deliver information in a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very littleway I could understand.

|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 wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=15293379681529153298|title=In Place The List of FearSuspicious Things|author=Catriona McPhersonJennie Godfrey

|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=It's July 1948 1979 and Helen Crowther Margaret Thatcher is due Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the NHS is bornfamily 'Down South'. SheWhen you'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healthre from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. The hardest part of For Miv, the job will be to persuade people that the services move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she offers really are free and that they don't have to ll do anything to qualify for themprevent that. Some of She's not worried about the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of dangers or that her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummatedMum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1398524085|title=GalaxyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=SparkCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, who is an elite pilot with the Space AcademyPaul and Ollie and her daughter, barely makes it through a battle aliveEtty. His coare all worried but -pilot was strangely - her husband, Alec, is not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years Shortly afterwards, he remembers little Etty and is Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in no physical shape the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to resume his duties. But Earth is under threat make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he mustcouldn't stand the guilt. Returned by his superiors to the space station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity - and The Salter children are not just from the alien threats against it, convinced but there's little else they can do but also from its own sins against itselfget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W

|authorisbn=Lissa Evans1035906708|title=WishedDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=When things contrive We tend to force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanGreek parents in Manhattan, Miss FileyNew York, for a week of half-term, they're not looking forward in December 1923 and only moved to it. For one thing, Athens when she thinks Wi-Fi is a special brand of biscuitwas thirteen. They donHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas't particularly take to Willard either, make it more manageable in the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywhereStates. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candles, and manage to work out When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come true. How will things change she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a second time when they realise that, having used up three mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of themher preference for her elder sister, these should really be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202XJackie.