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|authorisbn=Jamie Littler1529428289|title=ArkspireA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Two sistersBecause of various property transactions, Juniper and Elodiepeople were searching for the grave but when they found it, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheeseit came with three sets of bones. Juniper is an eager hunter They dated back to World War II and trader in illicit magicit fell to Bruno, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts Chief of ArkspirePolice for St Denis, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit discover the power identities of the Watcher, the closest bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to a ruler the district hasworry about, and one of the five major victors in said earlier warDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. Being trained in It's not just the magic local autumn rains that only five people can use would definitely change have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the status possibility of the whole familya devastating flood. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143

|authorisbn=Thiago de Moraes152919640X|title=Old Gods New TricksThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapesThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, larks was murdered live on television and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when sheit seems that there's being told that by her only one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changessuspect. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the schoolHe's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and all his contract stated that powers the Internet, just for our conveniencehe must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of power from usemergencies. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form be in stealing from the Godsa busy, ie the semilive television studio -deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the trickstersBrooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.|isbn=178845295X

|authorisbn=Alexia Casale0008385068|title=Sing if you Can't DanceThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing midsummer on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her lifeDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, It's their opening weekend and desperate to get back to a life thatsplendid celebrations are promised. It's as normal as she can possibly manageall headed up by Francesca Meadows. Meanwhile thereThe Manor was her ancestral home and she's a new (cute!) boy in schoolconverted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort outOwen, was the architect and just work is still ongoing on parts of the day-to-day traumas of all site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigateguests are enemies as well as friends. So even though she canOld scores are going to be settled and it won't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=0571373801long before a body is found.

|author=Helen PetersAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Friends and TraitorsWild East|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=EnglandWritten in verse, WW2. Two this is Ronny's story, a young girls are new black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at the country pile called Stanbrooka mostly white school. One The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is Nancyworried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, destined and so Ronny finds himself trying to be settle in service all her life it seems, like the female generations before her. The other is Sidneya new town, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding new school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths, and keep himself out of trouble. The girls are chalk and cheeseHe listens to music constantly, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it sohas always dreamed of being a rapper. But something is amissnow, and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecypoetry writing workshop group and, talk is made of meetings with Germansslowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and not only thatpoetry, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely and the girls are wrong, power of creativity and the upper class could never be so underhand?crafting your words.|isbn=17880046470241645441

|isbn=02419961041635866847|title=Coming to Find YouThe Lavender Companion|author=Jane CorryJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=NancyIt's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brotherstrange, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentencethings that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The barrister tells her that sheLavender Companion's received a 'silent sentence, I visited the author' - shes [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's not been found guilty a picture of a slice of anything chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her lifeI wanted that cake viscerally. Of course, it(There's made worse because Nancya recipe in the book, which I's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the papers margins are making sanctioned. You get to fold down the most corners of itpages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''Farmhouse slaughter daughterloved'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spokenthis book already.

|isbnauthor=1529413680Rob Keeley|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the Around here, we're-enactment of the liberation big fans of the town from the English in 1370 and Brunochildren's there to see the show with some friendsauthor Rob Keeley. ItHe's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong whena ball of happy positivity, Kerquelinhe understands children, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when and he departs from the scriptwrites for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector. Luckily, his doctor  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is there and the man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend one of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as hegreatest achievements. It's a senior government employeesequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, the man a stalwart young girl who runs Frenchelon - can cope with anything the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby spirit world throws at her, and anotherEdward, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|isbnauthor=1529196388Jenny Valentine|title=The Trial|author=Rob RinderUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyoneeven, so there was public uproar when he was murdered their friendship is a once in plain sight at the Old Baileya lifetime connection. There's just They meet as children one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and itday on a trip out but unfortunately they don's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Clivedent get each other's murdercontact details at the time. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers But then chance brings them back together, and it's Taylor-Cameron they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and his pupiltragic, Adam Greenand now they must work through their grief, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guiltyand their friendship, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrarytogether.|isbn=1471196585

|author=Essie FoxKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The FascinationDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary= The Victorian era Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is incredibly overan avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched onlyold, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhapsbothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, by the Second World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. Thereonly thing he's such a glut seen of media set in the era latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to goading from the point token bully of being cliched, hackneyed evenhis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. All What chance does this is simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. But despite friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, something about it still grabs me – and something about this book's description did as well.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=19145855261839945184

|author=Andrew CartmelSaima Mir|title=Death in Fine ConditionVengeance|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime fiction, and syndicate in particular the north of England run by a series called Sleuth HoundMuslim woman. She spends her time hunting out copies The fact that she can sell on for profit, sometimes it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn'tweakingt stop me – I' them, to add value, in somewhat fraudulent ways. One day she discovers ve jumped midway into a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in the background of a photograph few series before (on her drug dealer's living room wall, page and so she sets about discovering where this collection is, screen) and how she can steal it! Itneedn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a next-level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too farproblem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and what will happen when the owner of the collection comes looking for their books?I never felt lost.|isbn=17890989470861541561

|isbnauthor=1529507987Stuart Douglas|title=The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books Lowe and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I love During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'The Repair Shop'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. It's my go-The police seem happy to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard dayassign it as an accidental death, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You seebut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the value is in what these possessions are worth help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to the people who own them and the memories they holdhelp him investigate matters further. No expense appears to be spared and They travel across the experts spend as much time country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and effort as is required , seemingly, a link to achieve death during the desired resultSecond World War. Regular viewers know But is there really a link between the experts and deaths? And will they're all brilliant at explaining what it manage to uncover who is they're doing. But how did they startresponsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|authorisbn=Nicole JarvisB0CYV674G2|title=A Portrait in ShadowSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking It seemed like an oasis in which her art can find a home open-and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate-shut case. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful AccademiaA man, the selfcovered in mud and blood -proclaimed guardians of and carrying a knife, comes into the healing magics police station shouting that through paintings have he hasn't killed the man. A body at the power bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to protect death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the city and its citizens from plagues and cursesbirth of his daughter Samantha. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture You would think he'd be grateful for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble easy answer but the words 'perverse' and change – has no place amongst them and their society'John Tanner' were made for each other.|isbn=1803362340}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. ItHe's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants sleep- its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of deprived to the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear point of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, selffalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going -indulgent, lazy lout of a man is toleratedprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|isbn=024162343X1787333175|title=Stolen HistoryYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Sathnam SangheraBenji Waterhouse

|genre=Children's Non-FictionPopular Science|summary=I was the bad company other people got 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 at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence workings of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessonsNHS, it was probably worse stillhumour and autobiography. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didnYou Don't dwell on those) in what came Have to be called Mad...'the colonies' as want to dispute what right promised the army had same elements but moved from physical problems to be there in mental illness and the first placework of a psychiatrist. Looking back, I still believe I did wonder whether it was right - acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.

|author=Amanda CraigOnyi Nwabineli|title=Three GracesAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like Anuri spent her childhood on display to the stateworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of-the-nation novel. ThereAnuri's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and capture itto get her life back, crafting an image of suing her step-mother to take down the country as it stands in one particular momentcontent about her. To say that Amanda Craig Anuri is skilled at battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: so. Most importantly, sheis desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this pointonline empire. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of Can she save her characters in a way that feels natural sister, and perhaps herself and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling her relationship with issues far larger than themselves.her father at the same time?|isbn= 140871468X0861546873

|isbnauthor=1448309379David Chadwick|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=David MarkHeadload of Napalm|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It's something September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a surprise to find that you're dead, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a break with your wife significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and childrena defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, but thatthere's what happened to DS Aector McAvoynot much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Whilst he was relieved to find that he was stillLife is quiet, officially, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoahuntil. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in the early hours of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aector.|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=0957181167Tom Percival|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian Lewis|author=Alan MarshallWrong Shoes

|genre=ArtConfident Readers|summary=There are few positive things which can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this timeWill's life is difficult, in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple multitude of pictures on ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the walls - wrong shoes because his dad can't work and was completely taken by doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work of Brian Lewisbecause he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. I searched online Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book dad are separated, and the print I wanted was ‘not available’Will's life seems bleak in every direction. OhAnd yet, dear - then he still has a few doors down from tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the apartmentmoments of joy when he is drawing, I found that feel like a gift shop with a stack light at the end of brand new books - and a framed print of the picture I wantedlong, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|author=Simon FoxSylvie Cathrall|title=DeadlockA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a secret place, and join him on the runcompelling premise. They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father And this is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap one of questionsthem.|isbn=18399444200356522776

|authorisbn=Shalini Boland0008517061|title=The Silent BrideDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=34|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsomeFormer Metropolitan Police detective, accomplishedJake Johnson, clever, funny; total and utter husband-materialhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She is all he could possibly want in There’s perhaps a wife; beautifullittle uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, successfulLivia and her daughter Diana, confident… as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and so the inevitable proposal relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned future she wants for herself and set. her daughter? When For the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down moment they’re enjoying life in the aisle by her father, beaming with pride present and excitement as she surveys putting the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who future on the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wifeback burner.|isbn=1662507089

|authorisbn=Mark Edwards1786482126|title=Keep Her SecretThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Matthew and Helena are Builders were demolishing an old house in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twentyNorwich -odd years after they first met. The alienthe site was going to hold seventy-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breathfive 'luxury' apartments -taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when they discovered the edge bones of a ravine gives way and Helena child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself clinging to the rockface working with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death belowDCI Harry Nelson. Convinced It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is going to die, Helena must purge herself pregnant with his child as a result of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthewone night they spent together some three months ago. Just moments later their heroicHer condition will be obvious before long, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena not least because Ruth is prone to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helenasudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=166250893X

|isbn=B0BYF82CXT0008551324|title=Semi-DetachedThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Deborah StoneNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It'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 prison and he'Bill and Amanda are living in s prepared to tell the police where the body of a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom missing person is buried and disappointmentwho was responsible for her death. This person, when Terry and Fiona – glamoroushe promises, successful is someone big and very much in love – move in next doorit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Despite their different outlooks on life, And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the couples befriend each other remainder of his sentence and life appears to improve for both pairsget an early parole date. But all Not much to ask, is not what it seems, ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=17876360030008405026|title=The Girls of SummerA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Katie BishopJane Casey

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It 's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she never found and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the islandinvestigation ground to a halt. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she wasNow, perhapsher mother, naiveHelena, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest 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, she was flattered rather than waryboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It What looked as though it was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach going to her be an open-and by that time she was obsessed by him-shut case is now a complex double murder. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on Kerrigan is convinced that the island and explanation lies in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partiedRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=15291353890571379877|title=The FallKellerby Code|author=Gilly MacmillanJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned homeEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass BarnRobert's a theatre director. TheyHe'd not been in the architects also self-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and were still getting used uses Edward to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted uponrun errands for him. Some of them fought Edward has been in love with each other Stanza since their university days - and didnhe't work as reliably as they shoulds drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. It Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to having that sort stumble upon the two of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead them kissing in the swimming pool with a wound to his headdark passageway.

|author=Alan ParksJo Callaghan|title=To Die in JuneLeave No Trace

|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of When a homeless man is found crucified on the streetstop of a hill in Nuneaton, suddenly starts DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to feel like something more sinister as another the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is discovered, suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and then anothera very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoyWill they be able to solve the case in time, but all or will Kat find herself taken off the more so because his own father is a down-case and-, potentially, out alcoholic, with no fixed abodeof a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and he has been their friendship would keep them inseparable for yearsa quarter of a century. At the same time as facing these possible murdersOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, Harry which is also dealing with a move bonus when you aim to be a different police station, cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the arrival there free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a woman drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of suffered the tragedy or the boy having existed can be foundconsequences. Something feels wrong Twenty- not just with five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationedthree friends. This time, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784it's their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Laura Noakes0241636604|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Meet Number One. Or ratherIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos you're unlikely to her friendsthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. The practice in A hoodie and jeans replaces the home she lives in pin-stripe suit and his background is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledgerEast End, and they're all Unfortunates – young people where he was familiar with disabilitiesviolence, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly uponpoverty and injustice. But Cosima bears There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the tag as London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a surname because nothing else seems facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be known about where she came fromstupid. It was his ability at what was, as the first ever inmateessentially, and unique in having no known family in the outside worlda card game which got him an internship with Citibank. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoonEventually, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – this turned into permanent employment as a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institutetrader. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059

|authorisbn=Thomas D Lee1035021803|title=Perilous TimesThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre= FantasyCrime|summary= It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'Hate s back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the path of least resistance'' Set . Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the near-distant futuresplit, she worked in a world cafe, met and married James (on the verge rebound from the love of climate collapseher life, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or severalwho was murdered) to save the day and rescue what little remains. What no one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the callFreya and James have now divorced.|isbn=0356518523

|authorisbn=Madelaine LucasAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Thirst for SaltAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravitycome.''

Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship I've heard it said that once defined her'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Overlaid with later wisdom Well, the narrator relives the affair with I must confess that there have been more than a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer afterfew decades of technology in my lifetime. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town I've kept up reasonably well with what'Thirst for Salts advantageous to me but I'' details m left with the 24-year-old narratorfeeling that it's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its allgetting away from me. Some of it is -consuming naturefrankly - quite frightening. Of course, how it changed her perspective on both romantic I could research the possibilities and familial relationships the probabilities and how it altered her irrevocablyend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=0861546490

|isbnauthor=1529382823Sunny Singh|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will DeanHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') The Hotel Arcadia is middle-aged and a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on suddenly been violently taken over by a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''terrorist group. Caz's sisterHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, Gemmakilling everyone on site, reckons that Pete there is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted Sam, a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket wartime photographer and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointedAbhi, the hotel manager. They've not been a couple As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for that long and the trip will residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be an excellent opportunity cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to get try to know him a bit bettercapture what's happened through her photography. MeanwhileAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe their friendship grows as well as their mother who has dementia. It's going Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be good, isn't it?rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Lex Croucher1529153298|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomComIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? But I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful waythough. In this story, Gwen and Arthur Women have been betrothed since disappearing. Well, they were tiny've been murdered, much but to their mutual disgust! have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdomMiv's upset because she's only female knight) - something overheard that Art discovers from her private diariesfather wants to move the family 'Down South'. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant alliesfrightening, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each otherforeign place, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentsbest avoided. But as their impending wedding draws ever closerFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselvesSharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or are they destined that her Mum's stopped talking - to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=1526651793anyone.

|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1398524085|title=One Puzzling AfternoonHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45

|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her whole lifedaughter, Etty. are all worried but now she is facing a move as - strangely - her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his familyhusband, Alec, as Edie is starting to lose her memorynot. HoweverShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, Edie is tormented by find the memory body of her childhood friendGreg's father, LucyDuncan Ackerley, who went missing over 60 years ago, and in the worry that there was a secret she river. It was keeping an easy assumption for Lucy that somehow might be the thing police to make that reveals Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the truth of guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in the high streetManhattan, New York, just as in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was the last time she saw thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her, she starts father changed it to find pockets of memories coming back 'Callas' to hermake it more manageable in the States. And yet as When she remembers the past, was back in Athens - supposedly so that she is forgetting more and more in could get appropriate training for her day to day life. Will voice - she uncover was raised under the truth about Lucy's disappearance before Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her move, and before made no secret of her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250preference for her elder sister, Jackie.