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|isbn=16358662431529428289|title=A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing HandbookSuspect|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth Rob Rinder

|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=The nation''I quickly discovered s favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that putting words and numbers on a page wasnthere't enoughs only one suspect. Creating a pattern He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that was correct, clear, concise, he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and consistent required carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a great deal of trial and error, patiencebusy, live television studio - and perseverance.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me Brooks served a knitting pattern for which she'd paid good moneyragout to Holby. The first line of the instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitchesHer EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes...'' It was soon clear that this was no good could come of this - the instructions didn't get any better - and (finally) PayPal obliged with a refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repayment. The pattern looked pretty, but the creator didn't have the basic knowledge and skills to enable her to connect with her knitters. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''accident.

|authorisbn=Adam Baron and Benji Davies0008385068|title=Oscar's LionThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be ready for schoolIt's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. But when he enters his parentsIt' bedroom, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on s their bed, looking sheepish, opening weekend and admitting that he wonsplendid celebrations are promised. It't be hungry for another two dayss all headed up by Francesca Meadows. But there are benefits to having a lion around – The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it can be shown as into an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party impressive retreat for Oscar the other monthwealthy and famous. And it can shapeshiftHer husband, Owen, so he can take it to school was the architect and it can get him out work is still ongoing on parts of a problemthe site. And it's wonderful to have around The heat is oppressive and amongst the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and so onguests are enemies as well as friends. OK, Old scores are going to be settled and it canwon't work be long before a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful timebody is found.|isbn=0008596751

|isbnauthor=B0BC3YTCMRAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura AyiraWild East

|genre=General FictionTeens|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'This story s mum who is not worried for everyone.Ronny'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was s safety after a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be toldtragic event, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid so Ronny finds himself trying to hug her settle in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had new town, a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math new school, and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extensionkeep himself out of trouble. She went He listens to his house music constantly, and he raped herhas always dreamed of being a rapper. In shockBut now, she even allowed in this new school, his teacher encourages him to give her be part of a lift homepoetry 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=0241645441

|authorisbn=V Castro1635866847|title=The Haunting of AlejandraLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''This was a part of her past immediately'' feel that had to stop with her. She would be this is the one to confront thisbook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'' At some point during her life, Alejandra lost herselfI visited the author's [https://www. She feels as if she is playing parts for others in her life – her husband pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and her children – without ever giving any thought to her own desires, her own future, her own identity. Day by day she goes through quotient motions without anyone seeing that there is something fundamentally wrong's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. For invisible to all I don't eat cakes and desserts - but Alejandra, there is a darkness threatening to consume herI wanted that cake viscerally. More and more she is visited by (There's a ghostrecipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a weeping woman 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 fraying white gown dripping with water, who leaves distress in her wakeproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1803365617

|author=Richard KadreyRob Keeley|title=The Pale House DevilChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principallyAround here, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names ball of cheeses. Anywayhappy positivity, Brie is shunnedhe understands children, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese writes for bedding – he displays it as art their pleasure and makes stories based on the visuals on itenjoyment, not to lecture or hector. And that story-telling will come in handy  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one night, when he feels all alone and cast outof his greatest achievements. It's almost as if there were another character from fable a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in can cope with anything the mouse communityspirit world throws at her, thoughand Edward, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have a spoiled lordling and the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=05713760101783064617

|isbnauthor=B0CDZRGT1MJenny Valentine|title=Super Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C WallfischUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesTeens|summary=''Got a minute to be amused, entertainedElk and Mab are best friends, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can read one that even, their friendship is a once in a flashlifetime connection.''''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.'' Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a flavour of They meet as children one day on a fully rounded little story if that story is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to draw trip out themes from all the flash fictions in a book of them? I but unfortunately they don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isnget each other't a fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collections contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, author Mark C Wallfisch and they are inseparable. Something has gone for a three hundred word limit. That's about a single page in your average paperbackhappened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|isbnauthor=1732898766Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Adventures of Birpus and BulbusDungeon Runners: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)Hero Trial

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine ReputeMeet Kit. Their greatest fear has come about: Like most of the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hotpeople in his world, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunatelyseems, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a ladder team of moss warrior, mage and vines was lowered for themhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, they escaped. They climbed up and race to the Tree Wee homes high up in exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the tangled woods where points they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greecegrant you along the way. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birthUnfortunately for Kit, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helenaonly thing he's parents) felt seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that it would be one team has been retired, eaten, and a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritagenew trio of questors is needed. Her trip Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be goading from the first token bully of several annual visitshis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, DinaWhat chance does this friendless, but was wary muscle- and frightened free- of her grandfatherzone have in actually managing that, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family how could he possibly hope to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|author=Cody GoodfellowSaima Mir|title=VerticalVengeance

|summary= ThereI was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesnt read didn't love stop me – I've jumped midway into a good view from up high, after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere Ifew series before (on page and screen) and it needn'm intrigued to get inside t be a hindrance if it's 40 stories tallgood enough. And that wasn't a problem here. So when I picked Vengeance swiftly brings you up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – to speed, and I was instantly intriguednever felt lost.|isbn= 18033639910861541561

|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldStuart Douglas|title=Finding BearLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', April had been leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with the edge of a polar bear – that she called Bearreservoir. Back homeThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, things on but something about the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for herwhole thing bothers Lowe, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from he enlists the islands Bear was last left on. For help of a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and woundedfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Desperate to make sure he's OKThey travel across the country during their days off filming, she uncovering more possible murders and her father return , seemingly, a link to death during the Arctic and hope that in Second World War. But is there really a world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that link between the friendship can continue.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=00085820171803368209

|isbn=1804183210B0CYV674G2|title=No ReserveSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Felix FrancisDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=ThirtyIt seemed like an open-fourand-yearshut case. A man, covered in mud and blood -old Theo Jennings shouldnand carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't have been on killed the rostrum when man. A body at the colt bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radwayhe's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued birth of his sessiondaughter Samantha. To say that You would think he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would 'd be grateful for an understatement. A lovely animal - easy answer but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot He'Mitch' Mitchell were wells sleep-known and respected in deprived to the racing industry. Jennings was in one point of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up falling asleep at work but he's determined to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse was dead in its stallkeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|authorisbn=Sarah Wilson1787333175|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back You Don't Have to be Mad to connection in a fractured worldWork Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=3.5|genre= LifestylePopular Science|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks I was tempted to read ''You Don'What is it you plan t Have to be Mad to do with your one wild and precious life?Work Here'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is '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. Precisely this.'' IYou Don'm lucky enough t Have to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want toMad.. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges promised the source) she pushes us same elements but moved from physical problems to think about whether we really ''are'' living mental illness and the life we want – the best life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''work of a psychiatrist. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could did wonder whether it was acceptable to be doing more…And she's effing furious about looking for humour in this setting but the fact that we are notlaughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.|isbn=1785633848

|isbnauthor=1839948493Onyi Nwabineli|title=A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa UribeAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-General Fiction|summary=In Anuri spent her childhood on display to the interests of full disclosureworld, I must tell you that Ithanks to her step-mother Ophelia'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decadess increasingly popular presence on social media, Iwhere she posted every step of Anuri've never met one I didn't trust s childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and I've loved most of them, basically, monetary gain. I wish I felt 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 take down the same content about human beingsher. SoAnuri is battling alcoholism, any book about dogsfailing to start her PhD, I'm going to sit down undergoing therapy and devour. Then I'm going to go back secretly abusing people online and read it properlyreceiving money from them for doing so. And so it was with ''A World Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of DogsOphelia'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friendss online empire. Author Carlie Sorosiak found Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbnauthor=1405951680David Chadwick|title=The Safe House|author=Cameron WardHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5

|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OKIt's September 1973 in Hicks, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake California. Hicks is a luxury property in the Australian outback for Mojave desert town of a couple few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of monthsLA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. After the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the break she neededNot much happens in Hicks. She was no longer A silver mine and a data analyst for defence contractor are the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of her birth note other than dive bars and in need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with CharlesJoshua trees. Life is quiet, until... A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|author=Rachel HarrisonTom Percival|title=Bad DollsThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=ItWill's been some time since I've read any horrorlife is difficult, in a multitude of ways. I had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to He is bullied because he has 'the point that I couldnwrong shoes't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of , he has the vampires outside! Donwrong shoes because his dad can't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It work and doesn't have those jump scaresenough money for even the most basic of things like food, and I didnhis dad can't have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepywork because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and I found most of had an accident. Throw into that feeling came from mix the fact that these his mum and dad are stories about women, living normal livesseparated, and that at least Will's life seems bleak in partevery direction. And yet, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as he still has a breakuptiny amount of hope. He is good at art, trying a new dieting appand clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, going to that feel like a hen party and light at the end of a coping with grieflong, dark tunnel.|isbn=18033639321398527122

|isbnauthor=1394159544Sylvie Cathrall|title=Recycling for Dummies|author=Sarah WinklerA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to 16a compelling premise.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling And this is one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut downthem.'' If you send an apple core to landfill, it will take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' come in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and dropping it in the kerbside bin. Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible.s|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Lauren St John0008517061|title=Finding WonderDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Roo's Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life has become almost impossibly difficultat Little Sky. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the middle future of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. When asked what other family she haslife with his vet girlfriend, she can only name Livia and her auntdaughter Diana, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly as moving in together would mean a lot of. But she has no one else, compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and so off she goes relaxing life to live move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for Roo, as when she herself and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the middle of nowhere present and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169putting the future on the back burner.

|isbn=14483097431786482126|title=The Devil Janus Stone (DCI Christine CaplanDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Caro RamsayElly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=In Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the village of Cronchie on site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the West coast of Scotland, five members bones of a wealthy family are found murderedchild beneath a doorway. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn HouseThere was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, death will followDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The only suspects are known Satanists It's difficult as Ruth knows, but in many waysNelson doesn't, that's an easy conclusion given that two she is pregnant with his child as a result of them 'discovered' the bodyone night they spent together some three months ago. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears Her condition will be obvious before long, DCI Christine Caplan not least because Ruth is pulled in prone to 'shadow' himsudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn= Kay Chronister0008551324|title= Desert CreaturesThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= Dystopian FictionCrime|summary= With 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's prepared to tell the police where the body of a world that missing person is becoming increasingly inhospitable buried and who was responsible for humanityher death. This person, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrillhe promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. Whether it And what he wants is a robotic takeover, a world devoid to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of water or a nuclear holocausthis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of posts even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -apocalyptic fiction make certain that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is a shocking novel that still manages to find hopekept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1803364998

|authorisbn=Christopher Fowler0008405026|title=Word MonkeyA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary= It's the first of August in the middle of a cool wet sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer in East Anglianight. I decided not to swim at She was never found and the pool in favour of going investigation ground to my beach huta halt. The weather closed inNow, her mother, rain arrivedHelena, and I decided not to do 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 eithermakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. When I finished reading this book, I realised What looked as though it was because (a) I wanted going to finish reading this book be an open-and (b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shack-shut case is now a complex double murder. No spoiler alerts, Kerrigan is convinced that the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler explanation lies in Rosalie'wass 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 his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosisStanza. There is something very strange about being made to laugh by Robert's a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dyingtheatre 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 you know he actually is at that point, because 's drunkenly confided how he doesfeels to Robert. He didMost 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.|isbn=0857529625

|isbnauthor=1529077699Jo Callaghan|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann CleevesLeave No Trace|rating=4.5

|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it When a man is. Jem Rosco blew into found crucified on the local pub one evening in the middle top of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, hill in a small boatNuneaton, anchored in Scully Cove close DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the village of Greystonecase alongside her sidekick, in Devonthe AI detective Lock. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurerIt's their first live case together, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''having previously been very successful with several cold cases. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find outBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, he could be more than Kat is suddenly struggling with a little bit close with money potential serial killer and his background isn't exactly an open booka very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Where did he get Will they be able to solve the money for his first boat? How did he finance case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the tripcase and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR1399613073|title=On the Beach: The Winter VisitorMoral Injuries|author=Chris Green and Jenny FiondaChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warmOlivia, or frozen cold Laura and building sand sculptures Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a snowy beach quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shorelinecardiothoracic surgeon. On top of the ice was Laura is a perfectionist and a polar beartrauma doctor. As Anjali is the ice bumped onto the sand, free spirit of the bear woke group and with wobbly legs moved from the iceshe becomes a GP. Kit was all for making When we first meet them they're at a run for drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it, but Teal knew that 's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then anotherconsequences. He obviously needed to Twenty-five years later there will be taken home on an eerily similar event that will impact the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleepthree friends. What else would you do?This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Claire North0241636604|title=House of OdysseusThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre= Literary Fiction Autobiography|summary= ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up If you were to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks bring up an image of a few months after where we left offcity banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. In A hoodie and jeans replaces the palace of Odysseuspin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husbandviolence, who sailed to war at Troy poverty and then by divine intervention never returned homeinjustice. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the throne London School of the Western IslesEconomics. Having survived – politically Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and physical – the chaotic storm he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that Clytemnestra brought most rich people expect poor people to Ithaca's shoresbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peacecard game which got him an internship with Citibank. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes Eventually, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refugethis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=0356516075

|isbn=15294270451035021803|title=The Girl in the EagleAntique Hunter's TalonsGuide to Murder|author=Karin SmirnoffC L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=It''Life s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north been back to the small town of Gasskas, English country village where the so-far-untapped natural resources she grew up. She's back now because of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forwardrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. SalanderFreya's nieceformer mentor and Carole's mother close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the latest woman in circumstances seem suspicious, to say the area to have vanished without traceleast. It Arthur was only with reluctance that Salander became the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is 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 split, she worked in a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of the part Salander played in her father's deathlife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5BAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Last Person in the WorldAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Matthew TreeBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finnsshape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was Well, I must confess that there have been more than a boarder and had money few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to throw around on a Rolex watch, vintage wines and a state-me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some ofit is -thefrankly -art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintancesfrightening. Finns had no intention of going on to UniversityOf course, unlike our storyteller I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, knows what they're talking about or the UK's third most prestigious universitylatest conspiracy theorist. Before going up, he took up I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorsetway I could understand.

|author=Dean KoontzSunny Singh|title=The House at the End of the WorldHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel 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 no one on your sideSam, you can either suck it upa wartime photographer and Abhi, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a small chain of tiny dots bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on the map and live venturing out your days in peace and solitude. That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down of her old life room to start afresh on Jacobtry to capture what's Ladder; and all would have been happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrockphone, the neighbouring island their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the end of all mankindterrorists.|isbn=1662453159086154742X

|authorisbn=T Kingfisher1529153298|title=ThornhedgeThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they'You had a right ve been murdered, but to retake your placehave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv'' T Kingfishers upset because she's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale overheard that is well known and well belovedher father wants to move the family 'Down South'. But whilst there When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a princess trapped in a towerfrightening, foreign place, sleeping under an eternal enchantmentbest avoided. For Miv, Thornhedge is not the move would mean leaving her story. Insteadbest friend, our protagonist is ToadlingSharon, who was stolen away by fairies when and she was a new-born baby and secreted away 'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the land of fairie where dangers or that her childhood was spent being taught how Mum's stopped talking - to draw magic from her veins and cast spellsanyone.|isbn=1803364238

|isbn= B0CCCVRSGX1398524085|title=Stories 2Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Richard F WalkerNicci French|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary= This is Richard F WalkerCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's second volume of short storiesfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. There are thirteen in all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and I took something from each Greg, find the body of themGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. There isn't a single one It was an easy assumption for the police to make that doesnDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't deserve to be among stand the others or brings down the overall qualityguilt. It The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can be tricky to review short stories without giving too much away, so I'll just pick two to talk do but get on with their lives and wonder about and I think they give a general flavourwhat really happened.

|isbn=17876366071035906708|title=The TrapDiva|author=Catherine Ryan HowardDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs December 1923 and looking for a way only moved to get homeAthens when she was thirteen. Some are lucky and manage Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problemCallas', particularly to make it more manageable in the light of 'the missing women'States. For one young woman, the final stop on When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the bus leaves her Nazi occupation by a long way short of mother who mercilessly exploited her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect made no secret of her - but preference for her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoeselder sister, Jackie.