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|isbnauthor=183885410XJenny Lecoat|title=The Dark Remains|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinBeyond Summerland|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Bobby Carter was a lawyer and consigliere to one of the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgow. DC Jack Laidlaw is Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the CID team charged with end of the investigationoccupation. I say ''on During the teamwar, Jean'' but Laidlaw never really seems s father was arrested for listening to be a part banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of ithim. He does his own thingAs the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, goes his own way and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth of why Bobby Carter's body come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubs.the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537

|isbn=19424102551529428289|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 FulbrightChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her schoolAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's animal rights project leader a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and she he writes for their pleasure and her friend are producing a competition entry enjoyment, not to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal worldlecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. She gets It's a great deal sequence of support from her family: father Pip Harrisonghost stories centring on Ellie, a lecturer stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at Imperial Collegeher, Londonand Edward, mother Kate a spoiled lordling 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 information: five soft toys.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|author= Angharad WalkerJenny Valentine|title= The Ash HouseUs in the Before and After|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his nameElk and Mab are best friends, or why he more than that even, their friendship is there a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but he is used to unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the systemtime. But then chance brings them back together, used to different places and different facesthey are inseparable. He meets Dom who names him Sol Something has happened though, something terrible 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 tragic, and now they must remember work through their Niceness grief, and complete their choresfriendship, 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 againtogether.|isbn=19126269771471196585

|author=Yancey Williams|title=Crosshairs of the Devil|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections Kieran Larwood 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-inJoe Todd-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|author=Philip ReeveStanton|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the DeepDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54

|summary=In a wordMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, rich. There he is certainly an abundance avid fan of riches in this story set on Dungeon Running – the sport where a peculiar island called Wildseateam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, British but way westmagical mazes, beyond and race to the Scillies. There are troll people on itexit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and sea-witchesthe points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, and legends the only thing he's seen of the Dark family latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has to keep watch for magical islands been retired, eaten, and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare saila new trio of questors is needed. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, who he has taken to keep notes of activity the goading from the Hidden Lands, token bully of his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, world and Andrewestumbled into declaring he's foundling daughterll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himselfmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=17884523721839945184

|author=Erling KaggeSaima Mir|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeVengeance|rating=3.5|genre= LifestyleThrillers|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced was instantly intrigued by the number premise of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with novel – an apology to organised crime syndicate in the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was your book not mine. In my defence, the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I will say that as 've jumped midway into a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired few series before (provided on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it is subtle – I'll allow creased cornerss good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as and I have finished telling you why)never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}}

Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to {{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the South PoleDress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the North Pole and dead body of a woman on the summit edge of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walkingreservoir. However The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, this isn't a travelogue but something about any the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of those epic journeysa fellow actor, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means John Le Breton to walkhelp him investigate matters further. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and I haven't counted. In small format paperback, each essay is only seemingly, a few pages longlink to death during the Second World War. Perhaps then, better thought of as But is there really a meditation rather than an essay.link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=02413577051803368209

|authorisbn=Ian Mark and Louis GhibaultB0CYV674G2|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet JackIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless A man, covered in mud and nimble blood - and quickcarrying a knife, for comes into the police station shouting that hehasn's t killed the man. A body at the bottom of a slight boy, and although freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - 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 been stabbed to her – she dieddeath. Luckily or unluckily thenDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, depending on your point which coincided with the birth of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jackdaughter Samantha. You would think he's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke d be grateful for an easy answer but the ogrewords 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's death, a dwarfish wizardsleep-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs deprived to know about the perils point of falling asleep at work but he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners'determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home...|isbn=0755501942

|authorisbn=Keith Gray1787333175|title=The ClimbersYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=Sully I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the best tree climber in workings of the villageNHS, humour and autobiography. He has what 's known amongst the kids as 'reachYou Don't Have to be Mad. But what happens when ..'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a new kid shows up psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of this setting but the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully laughter is worried that his status directed at a situation rather than a person and it is being threatened, always delivered with empathy and not only that, that his chance to name the final, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his handsunderstanding. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so?|isbn=1781129991

|author=Emma CarrollOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Week at World's EndAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=FirstAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, the title. We're in Worldthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's End Closeincreasingly popular presence on social media, a mediocre set where she posted every step of houses, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and with the boy over the road. But we could also be at WorldAnuri's Endchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis in her twenties and she is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries slowly trying to regain her confidence and to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshoreget her life back, and not much else is able suing her step-mother to make take down the newscontent about her. That said Anuri is battling alcoholism, Vie has news of failing to start her own – AnnaPhD, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shedundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Anna has Most importantly, in no short timeshe is desperately worried about her little sister, taken a strong interest in who is the American airforce base behind the Close, said shenew focus of Ophelia'd locate something s online empire. Can she wanted save her sister, and leave, failed to leave, perhaps herself and implied her life was relationship with her father at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles awaysame time?|isbn=05713644380861546873

|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonDavid Chadwick|title=Julia and the SharkHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=JuliaIt's September 1973 in Hicks, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with her parents its nearest neighbours of LA and their cat from the family home Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for Hicks. A silver mine and a summer, in defence contractor are the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikingsmain local employers but otherwise, that kind there's not much of Scottish islandnote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Dad Life is going to be automating the lanternquiet, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland sharkuntil... And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789B0D321VJ76

|author=Freya SampsonTom Percival|title=The Last LibraryWrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=I am always a little nervous to start a story about a libraryWill's life is difficult, since I am in a librarianmultitude of ways. I always grit my teeth slightly at He is bullied because he has 'the thought of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this storywrong shoes', he has the main character, June, does put her hair in a bun, wrong shoes because his dad can't work and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didndoesn't immediately throw have enough money for even the book out most basic of the windowthings like food, and his dad can't work because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used to be a librarian he lost his job at the village librarycollege, but when she got sick, June gave up was working a cash-in-hand job on going to University a building site and stayed at home to take care of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at had an accident. Throw into that mix the local library. And even though her fact that his mum sadly died some years agoand dad are separated, she is still working there, still eating her mumand Will's favourite takeaway meallife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, and he still reading her mum's old bookshas a tiny amount of hope. June He is stuckgood at art, but little does she knowand clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, everything in her life is about that feel like a light at the changeend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=183877369X1398527122

|isbnauthor=0008370982Sylvie Cathrall|title=Rock Paper Scissors|author=Alice FeeneyA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her There are few greater joys than a weekend away in book which lives up to a converted chapel in Scotlandcompelling premise. Her husband, Adam, isn't so keen on the idea. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he's hoping to adapt than with her. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the dogs, many of whom have been abused, And this is never easy. Still - she's won the weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat - and then doing the same thing to come back a couple one of days laterthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Doug Johnstone0008517061|title=The Great SilenceDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=For those whoFormer Metropolitan Police detective, like meJake Johnson, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed little uncertainty about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it is merely the surname future of a family of undertakers. Undertakers his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and private investigators. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instincther daughter Diana, she married as moving in together would mean a scot lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and ended up helping relaxing life to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the family future she wants for generations. Recently widowed herself 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 to graduate with a first-class physics degree ? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and join putting the future on the academic staff next termback burner.|isbn=1913193837

|isbn=19015149781786482126|title=There's a Problem With DadThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Carlos AlbaElly Griffiths

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Life is different for George Lovelace and he canBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 't really understand why. Heluxury's always done everything he ought to: steady worker, husband and father apartments - and when they discovered the bones of a father who child beneath a doorway. There was always there for school plays and sports daysno skull. So why is he never quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why is someone with such Was this a ''good'' mind unable to progress at work ritual killing or to relate to his colleaguesmurder? Why does he make so many breath-taking gaffes? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's almost become a cliche these days to suggest difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that someone who she is pregnant with his child as a little different is 'on result of the spectrum'one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, but George Lovelace has all the symptoms not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of Asperger's Syndrome: high-functioning autismsickness.

|authorisbn=Louise Candlish0008551324|title=The HeightsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Ellen doesnIt't expect s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to see Kieran that dayapproach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. SheBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's on site, visiting prepared to tell the police where the body of a client missing person is buried and who was responsible for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the waypolice doing what he wants. There are lots And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of thingshis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London, but this isnis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't one Ellen expected think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that day or in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murderanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1471183483

|isbn=00084217140008405026|title=Mrs MarchA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Virginia FeitoJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George MarchIt's most successful novel to datesixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on She was never found and the last page) seemed investigation ground to either be reading it or had already done soa halt. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morningNow, her mother, Patricia askedHelena, as she was wrapping the breadand her father are dead in their bed. Initially, ''it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but isnthere't this s something about the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned positioning of the bodies that Johanna, the principal character had 'makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her mannerisms''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. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact Kerrigan is convinced that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'a weaks boss, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchUna Burt) are less convinced.''

|authorisbn=John Boyne0571379877|title=The Echo ChamberKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He Edward Jevons is selfa working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a criminal record"theatre director. 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 sadalso self-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoeverobsessed, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signallingdemanding, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants handsome and entitled and uses Edward to save the world's homeless run errands for him. Edward has been in love with out-ofStanza since their university days -date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thinghe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Add Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that 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 relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the modern worldtwo of them kissing in a dark passageway. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219

|isbnauthor=0241989094Jo Callaghan|title=The Perfect Life|author=Nuala EllwoodLeave No Trace

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In August 2018 we meet When a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing man is found crucified on the top of a house hill in Goring-on-Thames and telling Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the estate agent about case alongside her three childrensidekick, Lavenderthe AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, Freddie and Barclayhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. The boys are But when there is a bit of second body found crucified a handful which few days later, Kat is why she's making this trip on her ownsuddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The house would Will they be perfect for them. It's able to solve the same month but now we're case in Wimbledon and we encounter time, or will Kat find herself taken off the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting case and living in her sister, Georgie'spotentially, spare room, where she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1399613073|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=So. Having done Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the impossible first day of medical school and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypttheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, from which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the Departed communicate with free spirit of the Merge, Archie now has ''gropgroup and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it' s going to think about. But before that, soireesend in tragedy. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez's amusement, doesn We don't even know what one of those iswho suffered the tragedy or the consequences. But he manages to come through Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the fancy party unscathedthree friends. This time, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this seriesit's their teenage children who are involved. |isbn=B093J9TF73

|isbn=B07GZ81J7C0241636604|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and MendedThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Peter CottonGary Stevenson

|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=Meet Fred. Well, actuallyIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're going unlikely to be meeting Fredthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quicklystripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. But I'm getting ahead There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about FredEconomics. Fred Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a snake and even those facility with numbers which most of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to himcan only envy. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so also realised that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, most rich people expect poor people to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walkbe stupid. And that It was his ability at what was where the problem started, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakesEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1035021803|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn'ts 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, as any parent will tell youCarole. But really Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why shouldn't it be? We all have Freya had not been back to learn about our bodily functions just the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as we have antique hunters, she has not felt able to learn about everything else when we are smallbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as After the split, sayshe worked in a cafe, learning about why the sun met and married James (on the moon take turns in rebound from the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHHlove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1787634493AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Her FaultTomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Andrea MaraBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=It had seemed like one ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of those serendipitous events which sometimes happenthings to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Marissa Irvine had Well, I must confess that there have been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on more than a play datefew decades of technology in my lifetime. She was concerned I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that he didnit't have any friends at his new schools all getting away from me. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob Some of it is - frankly - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little laterquite frightening. What Of course, I could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at research the possibilities and the house, expecting to meet Jacobprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, m reading someone who didnknows what they't know Jenny re talking about or Jacobthe latest conspiracy theorist. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nannyI needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Claire NorthSunny Singh|title=Notes from the Burning AgeHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers |summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Flemingterrorist group. However Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, as with the best novelskilling everyone on site, it wears many masks and its most affecting one there is that of Sam, a new wartime photographer and timely genreAbhi, cli-fi, or climate change fictionthe hotel manager. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced As Abhi continues to try to start anew and live alongside nature without any of care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuelshotel, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is he forms a growing unhappiness bond with this limiting worldSam who refuses to be cowed by events, and one group, keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the Brotherhoodphone, aims their friendship grows as Abhi tries to master these processes no matter the cost help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the Earthterrorists.|isbn=0356514757086154742X

|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)1529153298|title=Girls Who LieThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=35|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers It's 1979 and crime books before nowMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. You think(A woman? I mean, seeing on the map that wehonestly...) She's not what're set in Akranes, and finding its worrying Miv's only twenty kilometres from the capital cityfamily, that this author is clutching at the few final straws leftthough. Women have been disappearing. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feelWell, itthey's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed ve been murdered, but to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen againhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed Miv's upset because she's overheard that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for father wants to move the girl back, and a couple of delighted adoptersfamily 'Down South'. 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 womanWhen you's car was found miles away in a second placere from Yorkshire, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in Down South is a thirdfrightening, even more remote foreign place, best avoided. MeanwhileFor Miv, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depressionthe move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and very little maternal feeling in her bodyshe'll do anything to prevent that. Is She's not worried about the assumption dangers or that is so easy for the reader her Mum's stopped talking - to make the right one?|isbn=191319373Xanyone.

|isbn=B0925KS87N1398524085|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Neil LancasterNicci French|rating=45

|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and it took some finding - in an overgrown old cemetery. It Charlotte Salter was a strange thing for Scotlandexpected at her husband's premier criminal to do, fiftieth birthday party but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted to donever turned up. OnlyHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found the grave Etty. are all worried but - the one which said that it shouldn't be opened strangely - and his three sons began to worryher husband, Alec, is not. Tam JuniorShortly afterwards, Frankie Etty and Dave wouldn't normally go to Greg, find the police but they werenbody of Greg't certain where their s father had been and they were worried.}}{{Frontpage|author=Emily Critchley|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all , Duncan Ackerley, in the hallmarks of something goodriver. I It was intrigued by an easy assumption for the plot, liked the design of the book, police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and thought then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the authorguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promisinglittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091