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|author=Hannah PeckJenny Lecoat|title=Kate on the Case|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kate, although I got the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, and the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky father, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. However, this is a train ride with a difference, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=184812970X}}{{Frontpage|author=Darren Shan|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 California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry pointLas Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A bit like silver mine and a defence contractor are the game main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of life thennote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. YesLife is quiet, this until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is the game of life for difficult, in a certain tribe multitude of people – ways. He is bullied because he has 'the fan of the conspiracywrong shoes', he has the computer game, wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the hack from the darkest most basic of webs. People things like our herofood, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of dad can't work because he lost his job at the gamecollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and have studied amongst many things had an accident. Throw into that mix the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game fact that his mum and dad are in the most peculiar placesseparated, and are still very short. However this time itWill's differentlife seems bleak in every direction. This time the game seems the most dangerous And yet, nay lethalhe still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying clings to sort out what the game moments of joy when he is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safedrawing, he is only to find out that feel like a light at the line between observing and learning about the gameend of a long, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed..dark tunnel.|isbn=15290169321398527122

|author=C J CareySylvie Cathrall|title=WidowlandA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, 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 There are few greater joys than a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-book which lives up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouragedcompelling premise. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs one of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visitthem.|isbn=152941198X0356522776

|authorisbn=Louise Beech0008517061|title=This Is How We Are HumanDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Veronica is Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a devoted single mother to little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her sondaughter Diana, Sebastian as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- but grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future 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 done. And it's starting to cause them both problemsherself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner. |isbn=1913193713

|isbn=B093VPBL5L1786482126|title=Cape Henry HouseThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Jolly Walker BittickElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet Bosner, or, Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosnerhold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. We never really find out if he has Was this a first name: there's merely a hint that he had the nickname 'Secretary' at one pointritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. HeIt's simply Bosner to one and all. When we first encounter him hedifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn's exploring t, that she is pregnant with his memories child as a result of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helos, as the one night they were called) at a naval establishmentspent together some three months ago. The hours could Her condition will be obvious before long and he was often working nights but at the age of twenty-one, there was always a way not least because Ruth is prone to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his daysudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=Hannah Whitten0008551324|title=For the WolfThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=In RedIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family, to approach the first daughter becomes queen, and police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the second daughter becomes a sacrificeother. To RedBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's misfortune, she is prepared to tell the second daughter. Sent alone into police where the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods body of a missing person is a wolf, buried and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdomwas responsible for her death. If she is not a worthy sacrifice This person, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be releasedpromises, is someone big and the fabled kings he keeps hostage it will never be returned—or so worth the stories gopolice doing what he wants. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than And what he wants is to be killed within transferred to an open prison to serve the hourremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she finds 's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that the legends are lies. The wolf DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is not a monster—hekept well away from what's a manhappening.|isbn=0356516369

|authorisbn=M G Leonard0008405026|title=TwitchA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Twitch is It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a boy who loves birdshalt. He keeps pigeons at homeNow, and chickensher mother, Helena, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to that of his time her father are dead in schooltheir bed. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the runInitially, and itlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's possible that something about the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, positioning of the place where Twitch has his secret hide bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that he knows like the back of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mysteryexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=18388538040571379877|title=The Cursed GirlsKellerby Code|author=Caro RamsayJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory Edward Jevons is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the ponda working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, only to find that he'd hanged himselfRobert and Stanza. Twenty years later sheRobert's back home again and this time the occasion is no less sada theatre director. SheHe's there to say her final farewells to her sisteralso self-obsessed, Melissademanding, who is dying of anorexiahandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have Edward has been sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping in love with Melissa's husband, Jago, on Stanza since their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything university days - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem he's drunkenly confided how he feels to be a curseRobert. In addition to MelissaMost men in Robert's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, 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 suddenly three years beforeto stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?

|isbnauthor=0241400120Jo Callaghan|title=The Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbLeave No Trace

|summary=Una was not thriving When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Reykjavik: it was some years since Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teachersidekick, the AI detective Lock. She was thirty years old and money was tightIt's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Her friendBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Sara, showed her an advert for Kat is suddenly struggling with a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsula. There were only ten people in the village but potential serial killer and a teacher was required for two children: very high profile case that draws a salary would be paid and accommodation providedlot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Una was Will they be able to solve the only applicant and case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik case and, hopefullypotentially, save some money over the winter which her contract covered.out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=18469757191399613073|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)Moral Injuries|author=Denzil MeyrickChristie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=We learn that MI5 Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves a bonus when you aim to awkward placesbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. But thatAnjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they's London, isn't re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it? What's happening going to end in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight awaytragedy. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the plane were dead before take offconsequences. How could that Twenty-five years later there will be? The sort of tech which would make an eerily similar event that possible isn't available to will impact the paying publicthree friends. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in This time, it's their clothes?teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Richard Brook0241636604|title=Understanding Human NatureThe Trading Game: A User's Guide to LifeConfession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary= I am If you were to bring up an image of a firm believer that sometimes we choose bookscity banker in your mind, and sometimes books choose usyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. In my case, this A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is one of the latter. Not so very long agoEast End, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interestingwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but it would not have 'hit home' in he had been to the way that it does nowLondon School of Economics. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's ufacility with numbers which most of us can only envy.s.p. is He also realised that most rich people chose their own books rather than getting them randomlyexpect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the bookcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is this turned into permanent employment as a book I needed to read, right nowtrader.|isbn=1800461682

|isbn=B095CY7NBN1035021803|title=Autumn CampThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Barry FowlerC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to be Brianthe English country village where she grew up. She's last campback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. HeFreya'd founded the organisation some four years ago s former mentor and had done all the organisation since but he was leaving school Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the time had come circumstances seem suspicious, to hand say the reins to someone elseleast. The obvious person Arthur was Gary, who'd always the reason why Freya had not been back to the fun element of the camps and Brian had said that on this campvillage: Arthur, she feels, Gary should act as the leader and he'd just be there to observelet her down badly. The problem with this was that Gary wasn't really an organiserEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, an administrator if you likeshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. He was After the entertainersplit, the person who basked she worked in the spotlight a cafe, met and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did married James (on the organising. He handed rebound from the camp over - love of her life, who was murdered) and then took it back. And Gary determined to Freya and James have his revenge. This should have been ''his'' campnow divorced.

|isbn=194812467XAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Farm ShopAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery Benjamin Greenaway and Ema TepicStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=Kirelle and her best friend Sam ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the cat decide shape of things to go for a walkcome. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, they see a big barn with 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 cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.'

What will I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they buy?'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.

|isbnauthor=0008404925Sunny Singh|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane CaseyHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a surpriseterrorist group. After allHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, it was her cross-examination of the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentencehotel manager. He'd been accused of stalking As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the woman but it didn't take long to establish that - if anything - it was residents who are still alive in the other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be free cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of John Webster and then she came her room to try to see him capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as a threat and was forced Abhi tries to remember that the police officer at his trial had told help her that this was the best chance keep safe and they'd had both wait to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous mansee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=00083955941529153298|title=Both The List of YouSuspicious Things|author=Adele ParksJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband It's 1979 and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoresMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Then(A woman? I mean, one Mondayhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, she went to work and never came homethough. Mark, Oli and Seb are shatteredWomen have been disappearing. Well, Mark and Seb are they've been murdered, but Olito have 's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best lookdisappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. HeMiv's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but upset because she put it down 's overheard that her father wants to him growing up and starting to become independentmove the family 'Down South'. SebWhen you's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hardre from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Then Daan JanssenFor Miv, a wealthy Dutch businessmanthe move would mean leaving her best friend, reports his wifeSharon, Kai missingand she'll do anything to prevent that. She too has vanished without trace's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=14736857451398524085|title=Unbreak Your HeartHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Katie MarshNicci French|rating=45|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth Charlotte Salter was doing expected at her best to apologise for having knocked Simonhusband's sonfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, Jakesons Niall, off his bikePaul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. He wasn't hurt are all worried but Jake has history- strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. He has HLHS - thatShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronymsfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. When he It was born, an easy assumption for the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and he needed open-heart surgery then committed suicide when he was a few days oldcouldn't stand the guilt. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isnThe Salter children are not convinced but there't looking where s little else they're drivingcan do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.