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|author=Darren ShanJenny Lecoat|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in the world of the Born. It's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where he's been, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his best.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571365884|title=My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia PritchettBeyond Summerland

|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always been anxiousJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, even as Jean's father was arrested for listening to a childbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. She would worry about whether As the British finally free the monsters under Channel islands from the bed were comfortable: it was Nazis, and the sort war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far betweenhim. On a visit to But will the truth come as a therapist, as an adultrelief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? when she Who was completely unable to speak the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what was wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down and ''My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is other secrets have been kept throughout the result - or so we are given to believe.occupation?|isbn=1846976537

|authorisbn=Alex Cotter1529428289|title=The House on A Grave in the EdgeWoods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Faith's family home is teetering on the edge Because of a cliffvarious property transactions, literally. Is that crack in people were searching for the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little? And as the house seems to be falling apartgrave but when they found it, so is Faith's familyit came with three sets of bones. Her dad has disappeared, They dated back to World War II and her mum is struggling it fell to copeBruno, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in charge, taking care the Chief of her little brother NoahPolice for St Denis, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah to school, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what he claims is a ghost in discover the cellar? What should she do about identities of the house? Can she find bodies and establish whether or not a way to raise crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough money to fix it? Whatworry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages to get funding for not just the house? She carries local autumn rains that have caused the weight of all these worries problem: various dams upstream on her constantly, another river have had to release water and she doesn't know how much longer St Denis faces the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping onpossibility of a devastating flood.|isbn=1788008626

|isbn=0008269041152919640X|title=Risk of HarmThe Suspect|author=Lucie WhitehouseRob Rinder

|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from the MetThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. She might have been reinstated but the whole episode left a nasty taste in her mouthHe's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years before's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. She and her fifteenEverything seemed as normal -yearas normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio -old daughter have moved out of her parent's home into and Brooks served a rented house but there's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone out of his way ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to make life difficult for Robin since be found and she was a young childdead within minutes. He's married to Natalie, now and has a young child but he's still got it in for RobinIt was soon clear that this was no accident.

|isbn=17863323880008385068|title=The First Day of SpringMidnight Feast|author=Nancy TuckerLucy Foley

|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and ''guests gather at The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasionManor. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you It's their opening weekend and won't let gosplendid celebrations are promised. So, whatIt's the problem? Well, the problem is Chrissie, the main characterall headed up by Francesca Meadows. When we first meet The Manor was her ancestral home and she's just eight years old, small converted it into an impressive retreat for her age the wealthy and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boyfamous. She's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she Her husband, Owen, was killing - suffocating - her hands seized upthe architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in The heat is oppressive and amongst the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? guests are enemies as well as friends. HasnOld scores are going to be settled and it won't he been dead for be long enough?before a body is found.

|author=Catherine SteadmanAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Disappearing ActWild East

|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary= British actress Mia Eliot Written in verse, this is on the cusp Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of successtrouble. Great success He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. If the rumours are true But now, in this new school, award season is going his teacher encourages him to treat her wellbe part of a poetry writing workshop group and, acknowledging her for her latestslowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, critically acclaimed productionand the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4. She5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's going places but so, unfortunatelystrange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is her partnerthe book for you. And Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the places heauthor's going take him towards lies, deceit [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a pretty young thing in picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the form of his new cohomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -starbut I wanted that cake viscerally. It (There's a good time for Mia to escaperecipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and pilot season I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in LA provides just the excusemargins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1471189783

|author= Christophe MedlerRob Keeley|title=MadrigalChildish Spirits: A Closely Guarded Secret10th anniversary special edition

|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary= Set against the backdrop of the English Civil WarAround here, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer we're big fans of 1642children's author Rob Keeley. As He's a loyal servant ball of the Kinghappy positivity, he understands children, and Head of the Secret Servicehe writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, it not to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is Robertone of his greatest achievements. It's duty to uncover the details a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the plan spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and follow the clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=B095HY8SXQ1783064617

|author=Tasha SuriJenny Valentine|title=The Jasmine ThroneUs in the Before and After|rating=45|genre=FantasyTeens|summary= On the night of her sacred burningElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyretheir friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned They meet as children one day on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the mysterious deathless waterstime. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrownthen chance brings them back together, decaying ruinand they are inseparable. One day Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crimeand now they must work through their grief, Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservanttheir friendship, together.|isbn=03565156481471196585

|isbnauthor=B088YWF5BCKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Lies We Tell|author=Jane CorryDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a council estate in Kent team of warrior, mage and that she had two brothers healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and two sisters. It seemed race to have been a lovingthe exit, stable familyperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. When we first meet herUnfortunately for Kit, she canthe only thing he't sleep because her sons seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, Freddieeaten, who's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time he sort and a new trio of half-promised he'd be in byquestors is needed. Her husbandPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's still going has taken to be going to work the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he needs his sleep'll enter as a team. He wakesWhat chance does this friendless, thoughmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that how could he's killed someone.possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|author=Joseph KnoxSaima Mir|title=True Crime StoryVengeance|rating=43.5

|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"Muslim woman. The story follows fact that it was the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence. Split second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into four parts, the reader is taken through the life a few series before (on page and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends screen) and professionals, such as the policeit needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. The various accounts help the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented to othersAnd that wasn't a problem here. However, the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave Vengeance swiftly brings you shockedup to speed, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricatedI never felt lost. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=08575277030861541561

|author=Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaStuart Douglas|title=No, No, No!Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=They say During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the best picture books are dead body of a woman on the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer edge of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favouritereservoir. ''No The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, Nobut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, No!'' is based around and he enlists the simplest text imaginablehelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. ''No They travel across the country during their days off filming, nouncovering more possible murders and, no! Okayseemingly, okay. Yes, you maya link to death during the Second World War.'' That's it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is there really a veritable tardis - so much bigger on link between the inside that it appears on the outside.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=16388204571803368209

|authorisbn=Monica ConnellB0CYV674G2|title=Against a Peacock SkySwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=TravelCrime|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph.DIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in social anthropology. I think it is important to know that. She went on mud and blood - and carrying a grant-supported tripknife, with a relatively specific objective. She wasncomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a hippy wanderer looking for Shangrifreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -la. She wasnhe't a mere tourist passing throughs been stabbed to death. She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they lived. She also went, presumablyDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the academic discipline birth of how to find these things out, how to organise them in her mind, how to "understand" them in his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the context of her own paradigms, words 'perverse' and how 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of the experience after the event. Fortunately, she also went with a sense point of open-ness and curiosity and a willingness falling asleep at work but he's determined to muckkeep going -in, to break her own rules and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled upprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1780600429

|isbn=14091816691787333175|title=The MaidensYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Alex MichaelidesBenji Waterhouse

|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=Mariana I was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely tempted to read ''You Don't Have to get away with them both. She needed be Mad to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. SheWork Here''d been brutally stabbed and Marianaafter enjoying Adam Kay's niecefirst book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, Zoea glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend humour and she was struggling to copeautobiography. Mariana wasn't 'You Don'entirelyt Have to be Mad...'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, promised the same elements but she caught the first fast train moved from King's Cross. Mariana physical problems to mental illness and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death work of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierpsychiatrist. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the death of Zoe's mother laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and Mariana's sister, Elizaunderstanding.

|author=Maisie ChanOnyi Nwabineli|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Danny is eleven years old, and what he reallyAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, really loves thanks to do is draw. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. Dannyher step-mother Ophelia's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate increasingly popular presence on his mathssocial media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own roombasically, where he can draw in secret and in peacemonetary gain. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, Now Anuri is in her twenties and this surprise turns out she is slowly trying to be his grandmother who has come over from China regain her confidence and to live with themget her life back, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on suing her step-mother to take down the top bunk of his bunk bed! content about her. Danny Anuri is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no Englishbattling alcoholism, and Danny finds himself forced into being failing to start her babysitterPhD, undergoing therapy and showing secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her around little sister, who is the townnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situationCan she save her sister, and then he even has a falling out perhaps herself and her relationship with Ravi...how on earth will things ever get betterher father at the same time?!|isbn=180078001X0861546873

|author=Terry MilesDavid Chadwick|title=RabbitsHeadload of Napalm

|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called RabbitsSeptember 1973 in Hicks, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry pointCalifornia. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this Hicks is the game a Mojave desert town of life for a certain tribe of few thousand people – the fan with its nearest neighbours of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of websLA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. People like our hero, K, named like that Not much happens in the least Kafkaesque manner possibleHicks. K A silver mine and his bezzies a defence contractor are trying to be historians of the gamemain local employers but otherwise, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time itthere's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally not much of note other than dive bars and otherwiseJoshua trees. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game Life is doingquiet, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeeduntil....|isbn=1529016932B0D321VJ76

|author=C J CareyTom Percival|title=WidowlandThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=ItWill's April 1953life is difficult, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around in a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne multitude of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallisways. For yesHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', Britain caved in he has the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didnwrong shoes because his dad can't happen as we know it, work and we are now a protectorate – well, we share doesn't have enough of the same blood as money for even the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenologybasic of things like food, and ideas of female purposehis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, has put all of that gender into was working a caste system, ranging from highcash-in-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right hand job on down to the childless, the husbandless a building site and the widowshad an accident. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with Throw into that mix the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be bannedfact that his mum and dad are separated, and not Will's life seems bleak in every story excised immediately from British civilisationdirection. And yet, and so they just get he still has a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprinttiny amount of hope. That He is her job, good at leastart, until and clings to the first emerging signs moments of female protest come to joy when he is drawing, that feel like a lightat the end of a long, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visitdark tunnel.|isbn=152941198X1398527122

|author=Louise BeechSylvie Cathrall|title=This Is How We Are HumanA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=Veronica is There are few greater joys than a devoted single mother book which lives up to her son, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that it's time for him to have sex. But as an autistic 20 year-old, that's easier said than donea compelling premise. And it's starting to cause this is one of them both problems. |isbn=19131937130356522776

|isbn=B093VPBL5L0008517061|title=Cape Henry HouseDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Jolly Walker BittickStig Abell

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet BosnerFormer Metropolitan Police detective, orJake Johnson, to give him has settled into his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosnerrustic life at Little Sky. We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely There’s perhaps a hint that he had little uncertainty about the nickname 'Secretary' at one point. He's simply Bosner to one future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and all. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helosher daughter Diana, as they were called) at moving in together would mean a naval establishment. The hours could be long and he was often working nights but at the age lot of twentycompromise: does Jake give up his off-one, there was always a way grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to work some fun (think drinking Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and eating) into his dayputting the future on the back burner.

|authorisbn=Hannah Whitten1786482126|title=For the WolfThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=In RedBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's family, luxury' apartments - when they discovered the first daughter becomes queenbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and the second daughter becomes a sacrificeDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. To Red It's misfortunedifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods pregnant with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is his child as a wolf, and he is result of the one who will decide the fate of their kingdomnight they spent together some three months ago. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods Her condition will be releasedobvious before long, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than not least because Ruth is prone to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are liessudden bouts of sickness. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=0356516369

|authorisbn=M G Leonard0008551324|title=TwitchThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Twitch 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 boy missing person is buried and who loves birdswas responsible for her death. He keeps pigeons at homeThis person, and chickenshe promises, is someone big and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! it will be worth the police doing what he wants. His time spent watching and helping birds And what he wants is easy compared to that be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his time in schoolsentence and to get an early parole date. But things are about Not much to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there ask, is a dangerous bank robber on the run, it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and itshe's possible even prepared to do the other thing that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has his secret hide and Hardie demanded - make certain that he knows like the back of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mystery, DS Max Craigie and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=18388538040008405026|title=The Cursed GirlsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Caro RamsayJane Casey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Megan MelvickIt's earliest memory is of sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himselfbed one summer night. Twenty years later she's back home again She was never found and this time the occasion is no less sadinvestigation ground to a halt. She's there to say Now, her final farewells to her sistermother, MelissaHelena, who is dying of anorexiaand her father are dead in their bed. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of thingsInitially, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even looks like a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissastraightforward murder/suicide but there's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant something about the positioning of the County bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and money her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was never in short supply - but there did seem going to be an open-and-shut case is now a cursecomplex double murder. In addition to MelissaKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's health problemsboss, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years beforeUna Burt) are less convinced. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?

|isbn=02414001200571379877|title=The Girl Who DiedKellerby Code|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and since then sheStanza. Robert'd given up her medical studies and retrained as s a teachertheatre director. She was thirty years old He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and money was tightuses Edward to run errands for him. Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a job Edward has been in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsulalove with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. There were only ten people Most men in the village Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but a teacher was required for two childrenhe's not like most men: a salary would be paid and accommodation provided. Una was Edward is left to stumble upon the only applicant and the job meant that she could let her flat two of them kissing in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract covereda dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1846975719Jo Callaghan|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Denzil MeyrickLeave No Trace|rating=3.54

|summary=We learn that MI5 When a man is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to awkward placesthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. But thatIt's Londontheir first live case together, isn't it? having previously been very successful with several cold cases. What's happening in Kinloch? When But when there is a second body found crucified a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airportfew days later, DCI Jim Daley Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight away. It soon becomes evident though a very high profile case that both occupants draws a lot of the plane were dead before take offunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. How could that Will they be? The sort of tech which would make that possible isn't available able to solve the paying public. And why have case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothescase and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Richard Brook1399613073|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary= I am Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a firm believer that sometimes we choose booksquarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and sometimes books choose usa trauma doctor. In my case, this Anjali is one the free spirit of the lattergroup and she becomes a GP. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I When we first meet them they'd have skimmed it, found some of re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' s going to end in the way that it does nowtragedy. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ We don''full disclosure The Bookbag's ut know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences.s.p. is Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like will impact the bookthree friends. This time, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right nows their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1800461682

|isbn=B095CY7NBN0241636604|title=Autumn CampThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Barry FowlerGary Stevenson

|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=It was If you were to be Brianbring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's last campre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. He'd founded A hoodie and jeans replaces the organisation some four years ago pin-stripe suit and had done all his background is the organisation since but East End, where he was leaving school familiar with violence, poverty and the time had come to hand the reins to someone elseinjustice. The obvious person There was Gary, who'd always no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the fun element London School of the camps and Brian had said that on this camp, Gary should act as the leader and he'd just be there to observeEconomics. The problem with this was that Gary wasn't really an organiser, an administrator if you like. He was the entertainer, the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - so Brian stepped in and did the organisinghe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He handed the camp over - and then took it backalso realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. And Gary determined to have It was his revengeability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. This should have been ''his'' campEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=194812467X1035021803|title=The Farm ShopAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Kirelle It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and her best Carole's close friend Sam , Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the cat decide circumstances seem suspicious, to go for a walksay the least. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coatdown badly. As Even though they walk were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the top of profession she loved. After the hillsplit, they see a big barn with she worked in a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cowscafe, goats met and chickensmarried James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle Freya and Sam go shoppingJames have now divorced. What will they buy?

|isbn=0008404925AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Killing KindAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Jane CaseyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Difficult clients were nothing ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprisecome. After all, '' I've heard it was her cross-examination of the said that 'technology'victimis what happens after you' which saved him from re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a lengthy prison sentencefew decades of technology in my lifetime. HeI've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'd been accused of stalking m left with the woman but feeling that it didn't take long to establish that s all getting away from me. Some of it is - if anything frankly - it was the other way aroundquite frightening. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster Of course, I could research the possibilities and then she came to see him as a threat the probabilities and was forced to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they'd had to put Webster away for re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a long time: he was a very dangerous manway I could understand.

|isbnauthor=0008395594Sunny Singh|title=Both of You|author=Adele ParksHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoressuddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. ThenHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, one Mondaythere is Sam, she went to work a wartime photographer and never came home. MarkAbhi, Oli and Seb are shatteredthe hotel manager. Well, Mark and Seb As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are but Oli's sixteen and at still alive in the stage where hotel, he thinks boredom is his best look. He's been forms a bit off bond with Leigh for a while but she put it down Sam who refuses to him growing up be cowed by events, and starting keeps on venturing out of her room to become independent. Seb's only twelve and Leightry to capture what's absence hits him hardhappened through her photography. Then Daan JanssenAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without tracetheir 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

|isbn=14736857451529153298|title=Unbreak Your HeartThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Katie MarshJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=When Beth Carlyle It's 1979 and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - wellMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simonhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's sonfamily, Jake, off his bikethough. Women have been disappearing. He wasnWell, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't hurt but Jake has historysound quite so frightening. He has HLHS - thatMiv's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'au faitDown South'' with your medical acronyms. When he was bornyou're from Yorkshire, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was Down South is a few days oldfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. SoFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, Simon has every right and she'll do anything to be over-protective particularly when someone isnprevent that. She't looking where theys not worried about the dangers or that her Mum're drivings stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1398524085|title=OtherlandHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Myra Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Rohan her daughter, Etty. are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loudall worried but - strangely - her husband, bright and hates rulesAlec, while Rohan is very politenot. Shortly afterwards, serious Etty and worries about Greg, find the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummerbody of Greg's day. And sofather, Duncan Ackerley, every year their families get together to celebrate in the two's birthday/deathdayriver. But It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when Rohanhe couldn's little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queen, they must journey to t stand the Otherland, a magical realm full of fairies, vampires, dragons, and Godsguilt. It The Salter children are not convinced but there's going to be the worst night of little else they can do but get on with their livesand wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1788000463