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|isbn=1529428289|title=A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Lev Parikian 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=Light Rains Sometimes FallThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder

|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary= If you’re a writer yourselfThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, or an aspiring writerJessica Holby, or someone who pretends to write, then you know was murdered live on television and it seems that there are unnumbered types 's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of booksemergencies. Some you read for fun, some for distraction, some for vicarious emotion, some to learn from Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a random way, some for focussed researchbusy, live television studio - and some because they are, broadly speaking, the kind of thing you think you might like Brooks served a ragout to writeHolby. Or, indeed, are actually trying Her EpiPen was nowhere to writebe found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.|isbn=1783966386

|isbn=07515815770008385068|title=Lying Beside YouThe Midnight Feast|author=Michael RobothamLucy Foley|rating=4.5

|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthdaysplendid celebrations are promised. Voices told him to do itIt's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. Only two people survived the carnage - Elias, who The Manor was sent to Rampton, her ancestral home and his thirteen-year-old brother, Cyrus, who hid in a shed until she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the police found himwealthy and famous. Twenty years laterHer husband, Cyrus is a forensic psychologist Owen, was the architect and he's been told that his brother work is being released. Can Cyrus forgive the sinner whilst having to live still ongoing on a daily basis with the results parts of the crime? site. Can he bear to have Elias living in The heat is oppressive and amongst the same house? guests are enemies as well as friends. How will his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.

|isbnauthor=140595115XAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=A Stranger on Board|author=Cameron WardWild East

|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Right from the beginningWritten in verse, we know this will not turn out wellis 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. Eight days into the trip to deliver the superyacht ''EscapeThe 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 Antiguasettle in a new town, a new school, all 300 tonnes and six decks will be floundering without power in the Atlantickeep himself out of trouble. Those of the crew who are left will be cowering in fear a fellow crew member tries He listens to pick them offmusic constantly, one by one. Some are already dead. They are three days from shore and there is no way has always dreamed of making contactbeing a rapper. But let's go back now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to when all this startedsee the connections between rap and poetry, in Southamptonand the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|isbn=13985086321635866847|title=The Wilderness CureLavender Companion|author=Mo WildeJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5

|summary=It had been on 's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the cards book for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild foodyou. Before I started reading ''The end of NovemberLavender Companion'', particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not I visited the best time to start, in author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a world where slice of chocolate cake on the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit homepage. I don't eat cakes and a pandemicdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Wilde had (There's a few advantages: recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the area around her book and I was told to make a known habitat with a variety mess of terrainsit. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. She had electricity which allowed her You get to run a fridge, freezer and dehydratorfold down the corners of pages. She had You suspect that smears of butter would not be a car - and fuelproblem. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to I ''liveloved'' wild just to live off its producethis book already.

|isbnauthor=1635864674Rob Keeley|title=Tomato LoveChildish Spirits: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy Howard10th anniversary special edition

|genre=CookeryConfident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children'Think s author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of it as no-whining dininghappy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.''

We know itThe ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a fruit rather than sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a vegetable but stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the fact that so many people get confused just goes to show how versatile the tomato is. Then there are all the different typesspirit world throws at her, not to mention the cultivars - and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't love. I'd argue with her there - I have no affection for the ones you find in the supermarket ''next'' to the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from the ones that have obviously just been grown for profit. PersonallyEdward, I'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those - spoiled lordling and Howard makes good use of these. She's not at all precious if you get the taste.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|isbnauthor=0241989027Jenny Valentine|title=We All Have Our Secrets|author=Jane CorryUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for live-in help as he was failing to cope at Willowmead House on his own. His advert was fairly specific: he was a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke of the ability to cook a good steakElk and Mab are best friends, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fads. The first person who came to the house was Francoiseor more than that even, their friendship is a French woman once in her early twenties, who fit the bill perfectlya lifetime connection. She got the job They meet as children one day on a trip out but Francoise didnunfortunately they don't know about the advert: she was there for a completely different reason. Emily Gentle is Haroldget each other's daughter and she came to Willowmead House because she was running away from a problem in Londoncontact details at the time. Emily's a midwife But then chance brings them back together, and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had been made.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)|title=Tasting Sunlight|rating=4they are inseparable.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Sally is a teenager who Something has run away from an anorexia treatment clinic. She just wants spacehappened though, something terrible and for people to stop questioning her, tiptoeing around her, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding her. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss who is in her forties and seems to live alone. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally as she is, giving her a room to sleep intragic, and the space to just be. As now they must work together on the farmthrough their grief, a closeness develops between themand their friendship, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendshiptogether.|isbn=19145851431471196585

|author=Jennifer MasonKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=PreposterousDungeon Runners: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryHero Trial

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=''A struggling poetry zineMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a momteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and-pop mobile diner in race to the Northern California redwoodsexit, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the 2004 Olympicsway. Unfortunately for Kit, a womenthe only thing he's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-seen of-the-art S&M dungeonlatest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, a man serving a life sentence in Alabamaeaten, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on and a cheap oil paintingnew trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a sample of he has taken to the goading from the cast token bully of characters his world and settings stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in Preposterous. As you can seeactually managing that, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=B09STS96HS1839945184

|author=Will BrookerSaima Mir|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellVengeance|rating=3.5|genre=BiographyThrillers|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of I was instantly intrigued by the most successful British authors I've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the thousands north of less successful authors I quite confidently never have readEngland run by a Muslim woman. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. The meeting fact that it was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the words of her latest book she was reciting, and her being second in a series I hadn't read didn'black lace mini-dress with gold brocade't stop me – I' ve jumped midway into a few series before (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attendon page and screen), but pulled Brooker, and it needn't be a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that is Jewellhindrance if it's diverse outputgood enough. Brooker decides heAnd that wasn'd like nothing more than to follow her through t a year in the published author's life, working problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to make a success of the latest titlespeed, and struggling with the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the resultI never felt lost.|isbn=15291360240861541561

|isbnauthor=1801109265Stuart Douglas|title=The Companion|author=Lesley ThomsonLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a punctual man who was inexplicably never woman on time'' and he was - as usual - late to pick up his son, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'the edge of a reservoir. These were always days which appealed more The police seem happy to James than to Wilbur andassign it as an accidental death, competing for but something about the boy's attentionwhole thing bothers Lowe, his motherand he enlists the help of a fellow actor, Anna, promised John Le Breton to help him a roast dinner when he returnedinvestigate matters further. The dinner would never be servedThey travel across the country during their days off filming, as James uncovering more possible murders and Wilbur are the victims of , seemingly, a double stabbing on link to death during the beachSecond World War. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. She's feeling But is there really a link between the pressure. deaths? You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets tough.And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=152941363XB0CYV674G2|title=To Kill a Troubadour Swanton Morley (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelJohn Tanner)|author=Martin WalkerDavid Blake|rating=43.5

|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''Nobody knows what t killed the truth is any moreman.'' Bruno Courrèges is A body at the police chief for St Denis and much bottom of the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jeana freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -Jaques Jalipeau (known as he'JJ')s been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the head birth of detectives his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the départment of the Dordogne. Theywords 're not just policemen - theyperverse're both deeply committed to the well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of France. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it not been John Tanner' were made for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the careach other. Oh, and there was a golf ball too, which didnHe't belong s sleep-deprived to the owner point of the car. A golf bag would be a good place falling asleep at work but he's determined to hide a sniperkeep going - probably because he can's weapont get any sleep at home. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?

|isbn=02415424051787333175|title=Meredith AloneYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Claire AlexanderBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionPopular Science|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs itI was tempted to read 's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. SheYou Don'd t Have to be Mad to Work Here''like'after enjoying Adam Kay' s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to: in factHurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, she so nearly doeshumour and autobiography. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going You Don't Have to catch her trainbe Mad... Then, she can't. She simply can't force herself promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to leave mental illness and the safety work of her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sensepsychiatrist. In fact I did wonder whether it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does acceptable to be looking for humour in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a charity which supports people person and it is always delivered with problems such as Meredith'sempathy and understanding.

|isbnauthor=B09Y451X9KOnyi Nwabineli|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)|author=Richard F WalkerAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5

|summary= Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri'Anything can happen at a birthday partys childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, particularly when the birthday boy is the young Lord of the Manormonetary gain. But when an eerie signal Now Anuri is picked up in the early hours, George her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and his new girlfriendto get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the vivacious Lady Antoniacontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, embark on a quest failing to uncover its incredible messagestart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the cat out new focus of the bag and the world goes into a state of panicOphelia's online empire.'' Could it be? Could it? Have aliens reached out Can she save her sister, and contacted Earth? George perhaps herself and Antonia find themselves lifted out of their privileged lives of parties and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into her relationship with her father at the world of advanced science, secret agents.and politicians hungry for power.same time?|isbn=0861546873

|author=Darren ShanDavid Chadwick|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 Headload of Napalm

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary= So. WeIt're back to the Merge with the first chapter s September 1973 in the third volume of Darren Shan's saga of Archibald LoxHicks, California. Hicks is a young man who can pick the locks Mojave desert town of portals from our world to another, called the ''Merge''. Since his last adventure, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce on the topic few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of his regular disappearancesLA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. They don't ask too many questions A silver mine and Archie has settled into a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winstondefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, his lock-picking mentor in the ''Merge'there' s not much of note other than dive bars and showing KojoJoshua trees. Life is quiet, the young guardian, around our world of the Bornuntil.... |isbn= B09Z2MTCZDB0D321VJ76

|author=John Henry PhillipsTom Percival|title=The Search|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in the dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is a case of the latter, as our author promises to locate the topic of the titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perished. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182}}{{Frontpage|author=Fiona Longmuir|title=Looking for EmilyWrong Shoes

|summary=Meet Lily. She and her mother have just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town called Edge, and everyone from said mother to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friends. It turns out that she doesnWill't have any say in the matter, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she is unaware her neighbour, Sam, s life is just about to make herself knowndifficult, and in a big waymultitude of ways. But where does Emily come from? Well, Lily used that name He is bullied because of what shehe has 'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of the most mundane objects, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming door, in a place calling itself 'The Museum of Emily'. Sam is completely unaware of this 'museumwrong shoes', too, leaving he has the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding whatwrong shoes because his dad can's behind the intrigue...|isbn=1839942754}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B09XZMCDVF|title=Stories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F Walker|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=t work and doesn''A news vendor is crying out t have enough money for even the headlines in the middle most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the night; college, was working a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around cash-in his imagination; -hand job on a stickler for correct grammar goes back in time to correct building site and had an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves accident. Throw into that mix the ideal person to have around in a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team is very useful with fact that his feetmum and dad are separated, and awfully familiar…Will'' This collection of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker s life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a lot tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to offer the eclectic reader. Tying them together moments of joy when he is the idea that remarkable and strangedrawing, even miraculous, things can happen to ordinary people. And that ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form and tone varies so this little treasury feel like a light at the end of short fiction is never boring and you're never quite sure what's coming nexta long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=1800901232Sylvie Cathrall|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve ColeA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyScience Fiction|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be There are few greater joys than a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going book which lives up to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factorycompelling premise. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Daisy Hildyard0008517061|title=EmergencyDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The summary of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the premiseFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the death future of her sisterhis life with his vet girlfriend, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of Livia and her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GPdaughter Diana, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as moving in together would mean a physical reaction lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her grief, recommends reservations about whether or not this is the future she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne the present and putting the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itselffuture on the back burner.|isbn= 086154112X

|authorisbn=1786482126|title=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett The Janus Stone (translatorDr Ruth Galloway)|titleauthor=Little DrummerElly Griffiths|rating=34.5

|summary=Part of Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is a mixture of police procedural and thriller. Beginning with site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the death bones of a young woman in child beneath a carpark, that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into doorway. There was no skull. Was this a far-reaching investigation of ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, fraudDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolichbut Nelson doesn't, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich that she is led to Africa pregnant with his child as they follow the twists and turns a result of the investigationone night they spent together some three months ago. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious Her condition will be obvious before long, chasing down the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard not least because Ruth is prone to uncover the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is going onsudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1914585127

|isbn=00085414770008551324|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Lauren ChildNeil Lancaster

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=It was a hot summer day right at 's unusual for anyone from the beginning of Hardie family to approach the summer holidays and Clarice Bean was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except police. Neither side likes or has any respect for sometimesthe other... And only on rare-sh occasions, which But Davie Hardie is hardly ever.'' There are seven members of the Bean family living struggling in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because prison and he's wobbly), Mum prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and Dadwho was responsible for her death. This person, Clarice's older brotherhe promises, Kurt is someone big and younger brother, Minal Cricketit will be worth the police doing what he wants. There's also Marcie, who's main claim And what he wants is to be transferred to fame seems an open prison to be that she steals serve the batteries from Clarice's torch, which means that she can't read in the airing cupboardremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Clarice would love Not much to have someone who listened to herask, rather than wanting is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to talk, but do the only one who does other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that is Granny DS Max Craigie and she lives in New York. The Bean family anyone who works with him is kept well away from what''different''s happening.

|isbn=07112662040008405026|title=The Secret Life of BirdsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Jane Casey

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on investigation ground to a daily basishalt. An hour can pass without my noticingNow, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. IInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there've established which species feed from s something about the ground, which pop to positioning of the feeders for a quick snatch of some food bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeableher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It would have been wonderful if, What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a child, Icomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'd had access to a book 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'The Secret Life of Birdss 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. So – what 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 it?left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1737030942Jo Callaghan|title=Bag O'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker BittickLeave No Trace

|genre= AnthologiesCrime|summary=SometimesWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker BittickDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's ''Bag O'Goodies''their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. I first encountered his writing about But when there is a second body found crucified a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a rollicking tale lot of what happens when five young men find a base for unwanted attention to their partyingAI Future Policing project. Right nowWill they be able to solve the case in time, I didn't want a full-length novelor will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, so I turned to this anthology out of verse and short stories. Bittick's writing has matured - and so have his characters. Well... most of them!a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Caryl Lewis and George Ermos1399613073|title=SeedMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his lifeOlivia, Laura and they both might be thought Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of as complete embarrassmentsa century. His grandfather runs an allotment Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, and manages to stink the entire town out from it which is a bonus when he douses it in fish guts each spring you aim to fertilise his vegetablesbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. His mother somehow combines Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the dual roles free spirit of housebound failure the group and hoarder – while she seems to do nothing becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and hasnit't left the building s going to end in years she has still managed to fill it to the brim with junktragedy. What Marty's classmates We don't know about this they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always looks, with his one school uniform built from lost propertywho suffered the tragedy or the consequences. We see him as once again Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the council threaten her and him with evictionthree friends. This time, and as he celebrates his birthday with the gift from his grandfather of a solitary plant seedit's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1529077664

|authorisbn=Sophie Cameron0241636604|title=Our Sister, AgainThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora dies, her family struggle If you were to find bring up an image of a way forward. In particularcity banker in your mind, Islayou's mum who can’t seem re unlikely to be able to let her daughter gothink of someone like Gary Stevenson. When Isla passes her mum's details onto a support group she finds online A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, she thinks they might be able poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to helpthe London School of Economics. But actually, it turns out they are part Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of an experimental company who offer the family the chance us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to have Flora back again, in robot form. But this won't just be a look-a-likestupid. They use all of Flora's online history It was his ability at what was, essentially, and interviews a card game which got him an internship with family and friendsCitibank. Eventually, and through this data they will recreate Flora turned into permanent employment as closely as possiblea trader. But what will it really mean for the family, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916

|isbn=13985075041035021803|title=Cold ReckoningThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Russ ThomasC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for the last sixteen years heIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been searching for evidence back to prove that hethe English country village where she grew up. She's right. When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back to now because of a cold case request for help from 2002her beloved aunt, Carole. There didn Freya't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tylers former mentor and Carole's death but Adam Tyler senses a link close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the case his father least. Arthur was investigating before he diedthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Above all there's a growing sense that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be brought out into near the openman or pursue the profession she loved. Perhaps Tyler is going to get After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the answers he needs?love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=0727850547AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=David MarkBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadn't even had time for breakfast when 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the call came throughshape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. A body had Well, I must confess that there have been found more than a few decades of technology in the roots of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullmy lifetime. When he gets to the scene, he will find I've kept up reasonably well with what greets him is even worse than he could have imagined. A young man's corpse is entangled advantageous to me but I'm left with the roots feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of a newlyit is - frankly -fallen tree – quite frightening. Of course, I could research the roots have grown through him – possibilities and the probabilities and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyes. It would seem that this was done whilst end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the man was still alivelatest conspiracy theorist. McAvoy makes I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a promise to the victim: way I will find answerscould understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3. You will know justice5|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. But justice always comes at Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a cost wartime photographer and this time Abhi, the cost might 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 McAvoytry to capture what's own familyhappened 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

|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire1529153298|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include TremendousIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, a delightthough. Women have been disappearing. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'a delightdisappeared' is perhaps using the expression in a way Idoesn'm not familiar witht sound quite so frightening. I have Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to confess my ignorance of move the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation herefamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. From For Miv, the little I have read (in translationmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, I donand she't read Spanish) there does seem ll do anything to be a tendency towards prevent that. She's not worried about the fantastical – the mystical realismdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. |isbn=0861541901

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin1398524085|title= Rebel SkiesHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara has spent Charlotte Salter was expected at her entire life as a servant on the Midorihusband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink Paul and Ollie and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like himdaughter, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after Etty. are all across the Empire. He asks worried but - strangely - her to come with himhusband, Alec, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has knownnot. Well Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, soon Kurara wonfind the body of Greg't have any say s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the matter, because river. It was an easy assumption for the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and she is forced to flee out into then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the worldguilt. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Patrice Lawrence1035906708|title=NeedleDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people We tend to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out think of multiple homes and schoolsMaria Callas as Greek, but she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutorwas born to Greek parents in Manhattan, AnnieNew York, in December 1923 and has taken up residence in only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her son Blakefather changed it to 's old room while heCallas's at unito make it more manageable in the States. Such a tempestuous personality may be When she was back in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the plot here, as Charlene is Nazi occupation by a wonder knitter, mother who mercilessly exploited her and is making something full made no secret of love her preference for her younger sister – a younger elder 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 ignorant. And then..Jackie. well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=1800901011