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|author=Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=19424102551846976537}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529428289|title=Tokyo Zangyo A Grave in the Woods (Detective HiroshiA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Michael PronkoMartin Walker|rating=4.5

|summary=''Zangyo: overtime workBecause of various property transactions, often unpaid'' It's people were searching for the culturegrave but when they found it, isn't it? came with three sets of bones. The hours for which you're paid are really just a statement of the minimum you'll be required They dated back to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done World War II and done it fell to Bruno, the satisfaction Chief of bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. When he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or griefPolice for St Denis, even from his family, but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from discover the roof identities of the building bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been assisted in his descentcommitted. Gossip revolves around As if this isn't enough to worry about, the fact that he left the roof Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the exact same spot local autumn rains that an employee, Mayu Yamase, have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had committed suicide some three years earlier. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her to release water and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount St Denis faces the possibility of overtimea devastating flood.

|isbn=0241425425152919640X|title=The Man Who Died TwiceSuspect|author=Richard OsmanRob Rinder

|summary=Elizabeth Best The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was a little surprised when she received the letter. It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames murdered live on television and who had never existed but then this is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basis. When she visits the sender of the letter (he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise seems that itthere's someone with whom she has a long professional history - and who used to be her husbandonly one suspect. He's made a bad mistake - something celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to do with a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and a few death threatsJessica Holby. HeShe's now seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as well normal as being an incompetent waitress.}}{{Frontpage|author=Andrew Sharp|title=The Chefthey can be in a busy, the Bird live television studio - and the Blessing|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - is, in his mind, the head chef of Brooks served a safari business catering ragout to VIP guests in an unnamed African countryHolby. Mozzy is earnest and dedicated Her EpiPen was nowhere to his task be found and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American cityshe was dead within minutes. Even to win a Michelin star. He is thwarted in It was soon clear that this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the housewas no accident.|isbn=B09926MK8H

|authorisbn=Alex Foulkes0008385068|title=Rules for VampiresThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or It'Leo' for short) is a Vampire. She drinks blood, she sleeps during s midsummer on the day, Dorset coast and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back)guests gather at The Manor. Pretty cool stuff. Now, on the night of her hundredth birthnight, she has to go out It's their opening weekend and hunt her first humansplendid celebrations are promised. However, instead she ends It's all headed up killing two humans by accident Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and burning down she's converted it into an orphanageimpressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Oops! And to make things worse Her husband, Owen, was the ghosts of one architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the orphans site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt herguests are enemies as well as friends. So, not only does Leo have Old scores are going to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do be settled and it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, therewon's t be long before a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955Xbody is found.

|author=Tori BovalinoAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Devil Makes ThreeWild East

|summary= Working all summer Written in her boarding schoolverse, this is Ronny's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets story, a request for over a hundred books that she young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to deliver herselfmove to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. What makes it worse The move is the man initiated by Ronny's mum who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding schoolis worried for Ronny's headmastersafety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a man Tess hates. As new town, a petty act of revenge for making her find new school, and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think keep himself out oftrouble. They're never meant He listens to reach himmusic constantly, and has always dreamed of coursebeing a rapper. Her plan is But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to get her anger out like thisbe part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would bepoetry, if someone hadn't delivered them for herand the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=17890981300241645441

|isbn= B09BG8V3Q61635866847|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)The Lavender Companion|author= Justine Avery Jessica Dunham and Seema AmjadTerry Barlin Vesci

|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary= It's strange, the things that make you 'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'immediately'' feel that this is the latest release in the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'Everybody Potties!', I visited the author' series from Justine Averys [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. This series com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of fun picture books aims to take chocolate cake on the pain out of potty training children homepage. I don't eat cakes and replace it with some fundesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. It (There's a worthy aimrecipe in the book, as any frustrated parent will tell youwhich I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a 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 problem. I ''loved'' this book already.

|isbnauthor=B098FFFBH9Rob Keeley|title=Snowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal world. She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, Nick. Kate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of informationChildish Spirits: five soft toys.}}{{Frontpage|author= Angharad Walker|title= The Ash House|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his name, or why he is there but he is used to the system, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same again.|isbn=1912626977}}{{Frontpage|author=Yancey Williams|title=Crosshairs of the Devil10th anniversary special edition|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=5

|summary=In a wordAround here, richwe're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. There is certainly an abundance He's a ball of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on ithappy positivity, and sea-witcheshe understands children, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch he writes for magical islands their pleasure and their monster approaching from even further westenjoyment, where no ship dare sailnot to lecture or hector.  The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewegreatest achievements. It's foundling daughtera sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who washed up out of can cope with anything the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himselfspirit world throws at her, and Edward, both his sullen brother a spoiled lordling and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=17884523721783064617

|author=Erling KaggeJenny Valentine|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeUs in the Before and After

|genre= LifestyleTeens|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that how much I loved even, their friendship is a once in a book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not minelifetime connection. In my defence, I will say that They meet as children one day on a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – Itrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for s contact details at the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why)time. Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole But then chance brings them back together, the North Pole and the summit of Everestthey are inseparable. He knows a thing or two about walking. However Something has happened though, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeyssomething terrible and tragic, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to walk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page and I haven't counted. In small format paperbacknow they must work through their grief, each essay is only a few pages long. Perhaps thenand their friendship, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essaytogether.|isbn=02413577051471196585

|author=Ian Mark Kieran Larwood and Louis Ghibault|title=Monster Hunting For Beginners|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he's a slight boy, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sight. That's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, and look what happened to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the ogre's death, a dwarfish wizardJoe Todd-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=0755501942}}{{Frontpage|author=Keith GrayStanton|title=The ClimbersDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Sully is the best tree climber in the villageMeet Kit. He has what's known amongst Like most of the kids as 'reach'. But what happens when a new kid shows up people in town? A new kidhis world, called Nottinghamit seems, who clambers up some he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatenedsport where a team of warrior, mage and not only thathealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, that his chance and race to name the finalexit, unnamed perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big tree in bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the park by being latest race on the first inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to conquer it, might be snatched the goading from the token bully of his handsworld and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend What chance does this friendless, or maybe even all of his friendsmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to do sosucceed?|isbn=17811299911839945184

|author=Emma CarrollSaima Mir|title=The Week at World's EndVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=First, I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the titlenorth of England run by a Muslim woman. WeThe fact that it was the second in a series I hadn're in Worldt read didn't stop me – I's End Close, ve jumped midway into a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie few series before (Vie to her friendson page and screen) finds fun only with the family dog and with the boy over the road. But we could also it needn't be at Worlda hindrance if it's End, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact good enough. And that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, and not much else is able to make the news. That said, Vie has news of her own – Anna, wasn't a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shedproblem here. Anna has, in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Close, said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed Vengeance swiftly brings you up to leavespeed, and implied her life was at riskI never felt lost. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=05713644380861541561

|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonStuart Douglas|title=Julia Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the SharkDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroineDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', has been packed off with her parents and their cat from leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for dead body of a summer, in woman on the far NE edge of the Scottish islandsa reservoir. Here be VikingsThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, that kind and he enlists the help of Scottish islanda fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Dad is going to be automating They travel across the lanterncountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, which is his specialist thingseemingly, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind a link to hunt death during the elusive Greenland sharkSecond World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=15101077891803368209

|authorisbn=Freya SampsonB0CYV674G2|title=The Last LibrarySwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=I am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, since I am a librarianIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought of the incoming cardigan-wearingA man, hair covered in a bun, catmud and blood -owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main character, June, does put her hair in a bun, and she does own carrying a cat (called Alan Bennett)knife, and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating comes into the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didnpolice station shouting that he hasn't immediately throw killed the book out of the window, because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she didman. Her mum used to be a librarian A body at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home to take care bottom of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant freshly dug grave at the local librarySwanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she DCI John Tanner is still working therejust back from his honeymoon, still eating her mumwhich coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mum'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's old books. June is stuck, sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but little does she know, everything in her life is about the changehe's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=183877369X

|isbn=00083709821787333175|title=Rock Paper ScissorsYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Alice FeeneyBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersPopular Science|summary=Amelia Wright is forty-two and it I was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Her husband, Adam, isntempted to read ''You Don't so keen on the idea. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: heHave to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a screenwriter glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and heautobiography. 's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels heYou Don's hoping t Have to adapt than with herbe Mad... Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - ' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and working with the dogs, many work of whom have been abused, is never easya psychiatrist. Still - she's won the weekend away, even if I did wonder whether it does mean driving was acceptable to be looking for eight hours humour in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with Adam beside her in the passenger seat - empathy and then doing the same thing to come back a couple of days laterunderstanding.

|author=Doug JohnstoneOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Great Silence|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=For those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it is merely the surname of a family of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married a scot and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about Allow Me to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1901514978|title=There's a Problem With Dad|author=Carlos AlbaIntroduce Myself

|summary=Life is different for George Lovelace and he canAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia't really understand why. Hes increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's always done everything he ought to: steady worker, husband childhood for sponsorships and father - influencer deals and a father who was always there for school plays and sports days, basically, monetary gain. So why Now Anuri is he never quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why her twenties and she is someone with such a ''good'' mind unable slowly trying to progress at work or regain her confidence and to relate get her life back, suing her step-mother to his colleagues? take down the content about her. Why does he make Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so many breath-taking gaffes? . It's almost become a cliche these days to suggest that someone who Most importantly, she is a desperately worried about her little different sister, who is 'on the spectrum', but George Lovelace has all the symptoms new focus of AspergerOphelia's Syndrome: high-functioning autismonline empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|author=Louise CandlishDavid Chadwick|title=The HeightsHeadload of Napalm

|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. SheIt's on siteSeptember 1973 in Hicks, visiting California. Hicks is a client for Mojave desert town of a lighting consultation when she spies him few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a building across defence contractor are the way. There are lots of thingsmain local employers but otherwise, lots there's not much of people, you might see when you look out across London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any note other daythan dive bars and Joshua trees. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two yearsLife is quiet, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murderuntil....|isbn=1471183483B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=0008421714Tom Percival|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia FeitoThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George MarchWill's most successful novel to datelife is difficult, in a multitude of ways. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on He is bullied because he has 'the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morningwrong shoes', Patricia asked, as she was wrapping he has the bread, wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn'but isnt have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't this work because he lost his job at the first time he's based college, was working a character cash-in-hand job on you?'' a building site and had an accident. She mentioned Throw into that mix the fact that Johannahis mum and dad are separated, the principal character had 'her mannerisms'and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. Perhaps this would not have matteredHe is good at art, except for and clings to the fact moments of joy when he is drawing, that Johanna is feel like a light at the whore end of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, patheticlong, unloved, unloveable wretchdark tunnel.''|isbn=1398527122

|author=John BoyneSylvie Cathrall|title=The Echo ChamberA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the There are few television personalities over the age of fifty without greater joys than a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants which lives up to save the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern worldcompelling premise. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact And this is bloody funnyone of them.|isbn=08575262190356522776

|isbn=02419890940008517061|title=The Perfect LifeDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Nuala EllwoodStig Abell

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three childrenFormer Metropolitan Police detective, LavenderJake Johnson, Freddie and Barclayhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The boys are There’s perhaps a bit little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a handful which lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is why the future she's making this trip on wants for herself and her own. daughter? The house would be perfect for them. It's For the same month but now we're moment they’re enjoying life in Wimbledon the present and we encounter putting the future on the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and living in her sister, Georgie's, spare room, where she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connorback burner.

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1786482126|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=So. Having done Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the impossible and unpicked the lock site was going to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has hold seventy-five 'luxury'grop'' to think aboutapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. But before that Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, soireesDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez It's amusementdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't even know what , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one of those night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is. But he manages prone to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume sudden bouts of this seriessickness. |isbn=B093J9TF73

|isbn=B07GZ81J7C0008551324|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and MendedThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Peter CottonNeil Lancaster

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Meet FredIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Well, actually, youNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he're going s prepared to be meeting Fred-Fred tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for reasons which her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will become all too obvious very quicklybe worth the police doing what he wants. But I'm getting ahead And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fredhis sentence and to get an early parole date. Fred Not much to ask, is a snake it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even those of us prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to works with himis kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. He arrived as She was never found and the investigation ground to a present halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a box with holes so straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that he could breathe makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and immediately became part of -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the familyexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, to the extent that they would take Fred out obsessed with them when they went out for his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a walktheatre director. And that was where the problem startedHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Fred didnEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he't have any road senses drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Or brakesMost 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.

|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaJo Callaghan|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)Leave No Trace

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It often isn'ts their first live case together, as any parent will tell youhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But reallywhen there is a second body found crucified a few days later, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to learn about everything else when we are smalltheir AI Future Policing project. Why shouldn't potty training Will they be as much fun asable to solve the case in time, say, learning about why or will Kat find herself taken off the sun case and the moon take turns in the sky, potentially, out of a career? |isbn= B098BJZYHH139851120X

|isbn=17876344931399613073|title=All Her FaultMoral Injuries|author=Andrea MaraChristie Watson

|summary=It had seemed like one Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of those serendipitous events which sometimes happena century. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, MiloOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to go on be a play datecardiothoracic surgeon. She was concerned that he didn't have any friends at his new schoolLaura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - Anjali is the free spirit of the group and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove she becomes a little laterGP. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived When we first meet them they're at the house, expecting to meet Jacoba drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didngoing to end in tragedy. We don't know Jenny who suffered the tragedy or Jacobthe consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The phone number sheTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you'd been given for Jenny re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was not recognisedfamiliar with violence, poverty and injustice. Milo There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had disappearedbeen to the London School of Economics. And so had Jenny's nannyStevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Claire North1035021803|title=Notes from the Burning AgeThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=At its core It''Notes From s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the Burning AgeEnglish country village where she grew up. She'' by Claire North is s back now because of a spy thrillerrequest for help from her beloved aunt, with as many double crosses, interrogations Carole. Freya's former mentor and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. HoweverCarole's close friend, as with the best novelsArthur Crockleford, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of a new dead and timely genrethe circumstances seem suspicious, cli-fi, or climate change fictionto say the least. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been forced back to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (readvillage: fossil fuelsArthur, weapons of mass destructionshe feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, intensive farming)she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. There is After the split, she worked in a growing unhappiness with this limiting worldcafe, met and one group, married James (on the rebound from the Brotherhoodlove of her life, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earthwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=0356514757

|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir Benjamin Greenaway and Victoria Cribb Stephen Oram (translatorEditors)|title=Girls Who Lie|rating=35|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=You might be forgiven for ''Opening up new ways of thinking that all about the dark corners shape of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowthings to come. You think, seeing on the map '' I've heard it said that we'technology' is what happens after you're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital cityeighteen. Well, I must confess that this author is clutching at the there have been more than a few final straws leftdecades of technology in my lifetime. However just because I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the book aims for the usual small-town feel, feeling that it's not just in Akranes that our interests lieall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date eveningOf course, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she I could now live permanently with research the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for possibilities and the girl back, probabilities and a couple of delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the womanend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, re talking about or the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote placelatest conspiracy theorist. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother I needed people I knew I could trust and who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling could deliver information in her bodya way I could understand. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X

|isbnauthor=B0925KS87NSunny Singh|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and it took some finding - The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an overgrown old cemeteryunnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. It was Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to dowartime photographer and Abhi, but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted to dothe hotel manager. OnlyAs Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found the grave - the one which said that it shouldn't forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be opened - cowed by events, and his three sons began keeps on venturing out of her room to try to worrycapture what's happened through her photography. Tam JuniorAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, Frankie their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and Dave wouldn't normally go they both wait to the police but see if they weren't certain where their father had been and will be rescued before they were worriedare discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1529153298|title=The Tiny Gestures List of Small FlowersSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=35

|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something goodIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I was intrigued by mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the plotfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, liked the design of the bookmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and thought she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the authordangers or that her Mum's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promisingstopped talking - to anyone. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}}

|authorisbn=Sarah Langan1398524085|title=Good NeighboursHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, itCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street Her children, thoughsons Niall, Arlo Paul and Ollie and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbsher daughter, Etty. They're one of 18 households on the crescentare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlieris not. They're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rocker Shortly afterwards, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends Etty and their kids have settled inGreg, and itfind the body of Greg's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammyfather, stickyDuncan Ackerley, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across river. It was an easy assumption for the waypolice to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. It The Salter children are not convinced but there's a revolting mess of dirt little else they can do but get on with their lives and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to comewonder about what really happened.|isbn=1789098211