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|author=Louie StowellJenny Lecoat|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet LokiJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. The trickster god has got into trouble again During the war, so the other gods have decided thereJean's only father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one thing night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for it – he must be banished. And transformed – years for Loki is spending a month both in exile and in the physical form news of a middle-school kid here on Earthhim. He's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and Thor has come along as well, to be the more suavewar is finally over, more popular and more successful brother their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the two. Loki has truth come as a month to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the right way againrelief, or will it raise further questions around what else, and to prove it he has to write happened during the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progress. But Loki is war? Who was the kind of god informer who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to be a walk in told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the park...rightoccupation?|isbn=14063997521846976537

|isbn=00084544421529428289|title=A Flicker Grave in the DarkWoods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Stacy WillinghamMartin Walker

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe DavisBecause of various property transactions, a medical psychologistpeople were searching for the grave but when they found it, is completing a session it came with a new patient. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes three sets of getting her through the traumabones. You see, Chloe knows what They dated back to World War II and it's like fell to have a traumatic childhood. Her father is Richard DavisBruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the man who murdered six girls some twenty years agobodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging As if this isn't enough to worry about, the girls Dordogne River - trophies taken from their bodies normally tranquil - tucked away in a cupboard is flowing at home and she and her mother handed it to the policerecord levels. Dick Davis is in It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has problem: various dams upstream on another river have had nothing to do with him for release water and St Denis faces the last twenty years. Her mother is in possibility of a care homedevastating flood.

|authorisbn=Christopher Edge152919640X|title=Escape RoomThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=IThe nation've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific locations favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and have to solve problems in order to get their way out. What Iit seems that there've not done (alongside experience s only one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the firstsuspect. Here, Ami He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and four other tweenagers, all new his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to each other Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and booked into the game without any carries an EpiPen in case of their friends, are emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a team – starting out at the game's main officesbusy, where they're told they live television studio - and their quest for The Answer are Brooks served a world-changerragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964

|isbn=17328987310008385068|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for AdultsMidnight Feast|author=Michael Albanese Lucy Foley

|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxesIt's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldnIt't believe s their luck! opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and the like: 's all the things which most children have in abundanceheaded up by Francesca Meadows. The BoyManor was her ancestral home and she's delight converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was in the sense architect and work is still ongoing on parts of order in his room: it made him feel happythe site. As he grew up The heat is oppressive and became a Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxesamongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Look carefully at the pictures Old scores are going to be settled and youit won'll see that one of them has t be long before a padlock..body is found.

|isbnauthor=B09MN1526WAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)|author=Liz MistryWild East|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=ItWritten in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's the third murder mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in the space of a few weeks new town, a new school, and they've all been because keep himself out of machetes used on teenagerstrouble. DS Nikki Parekh He listens to music constantly, and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts has always dreamed of Bradfordbeing a rapper. OnlyBut now, in this timenew school, it's going to be different. The body appears to Nikki his teacher encourages him to be that part of her beloved nephewa poetry writing workshop group and, Haqibslowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and she has a very public meltdown. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but the body is clad in designer clothes power of creativity and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depressioncrafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|authorisbn=Ally Wilkes1635866847|title=All the White SpacesThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorLifestyle|summary=In post-WWI EnglandIt's strange, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this adventure represents a chance is the book for a fresh startyou. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', and I visited the opportunity to live life as his authentic self author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and true gender, without there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the disapproval and constraints of his parentshomepage. However, Jonathan isn I don't the only one fleeing the confines of his past eat cakes and the shadow of the war hangs like desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a funeral shroud over recipe in the expedition. Guiltbook, mistrust and grief stalk which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the party book and, when disaster strikes and they are forced I was told to overwinter on land, make a menacing presence waits to prey on their darknessmess of it. If Jonathan is to make it out of Notes in the Arctic winter alive, he will have margins are sanctioned. You get to face his demons once and for all, or risk making fold down the barren, icy landscape his tombcorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1789097835

|author=Dean KoontzRob Keeley|title=QuicksilverChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=2.54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Meet Quinn QuicksilverAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yetball of happy positivity, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since understands children, and he was a three-day old foundlingwrites for their pleasure and enjoyment, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staffnot to lecture or hector. But when this book starts he IS now  The ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mindChildish Spirits'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out series is one of his bank and prepare for going on the lamgreatest achievements. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest heIt's a sequence of interest to them. Helped to escapeghost stories centring on Ellie, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in controla stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and Edward, a whole lot more besides.spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=15420198851783064617

|isbnauthor=0008441618Jenny Valentine|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah StovellUs in the Before and After

|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary=Jo Fairburn knew Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that she was under intense pressure even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didnchildren one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of get each other's contact details at the towntime. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association But then chance brings them back together, and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the schoolare inseparable. There was one difficulty, Something has happened though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two memberssomething terrible and tragic, in particularand now they must work through their grief, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationfriendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|author=Sarah Ann JuckesKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5

|summary=Jasper Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a little boy who has some strugglesteam of warrior, mage and whilst we're never told why exactlyhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacksrace to the exit, and has difficulty dealing perhaps bothering with change the treasure or the big bad and big emotionsthe points they grant you along the way. His big sister, Rosie Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been a huge support to him, talking him down when things were difficultretired, encouraging himeaten, and writing a book with him, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm downnew trio of questors is needed. His parents seem completely caught up in their business Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, and so it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away taken to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, and she isn't answering her phonell enter as a team. His parents won't speak to him or when they do What chance does this friendless, he doesn't understand or take muscle-free-zone have in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be rightactually managing that, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if how could he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen possibly hope to its song, as they do together every Spring.succeed?|isbn=13985108901839945184

|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Saima Mir|title=Red is My HeartVengeance

|genre=Literary Fiction Thrillers|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in my housethe north of England run by a Muslim woman. And so The fact that it was this one, although the second in a series I could have spelled that more accurately hadn't read didn't stop me – this one was, I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and is, black screen) and white and redit needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideasnever felt lost.|isbn=19135471830861541561

|isbnauthor=1529135567Stuart Douglas|title=One Step Too Far|author=Lisa GardnerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=ItDuring location filming for his 1970's five years since sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the stag weekend. Five dead body of them had set out: Tim (a woman on the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Joshedge of a reservoir. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed police seem happy to wander off. The remaining four searched for him in vain and assign it was decided that Timas an accidental death, who was experienced in survival techniquesbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, would go for John Le Breton to helphim investigate matters further. When help didn't come They travel across the remaining three finally made country during their way back days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to towndeath during the Second World War. Scott followed soon after but But is there was no sign of Tim. really a link between the deaths? Every year, Tim's father, Martin, and the four friends have been back And will they manage to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tim.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|authorisbn=Gunnar StaalesenB0CYV674G2|title=Bitter FlowersSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake

|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in rehab mud and is now returning to work. Howeverblood - and carrying a knife, comes into the quiet job police station shouting that hehasn's supposedly taken on caretaking someonet killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, and a mystery around a missing womanbeen stabbed to death. Varg finds himself not only investigating theseDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, but also looking into an old, cold case which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an eight year old girl who disappeared one night easy answer but the words 'perverse' and was never found'John Tanner' were made for each other. Somehow, these disparate cases appear He's sleep-deprived to be linked, the point of falling asleep at work but what is the link, and how he's determined to keep going - probably because he can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308X't get any sleep at home.

|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Kia AhankoobBenji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=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=The Gold Lion This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the Tournament same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of Sentinelsa psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsGeneral Fiction|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, each with its own strength where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and weakeness, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the hope they would complement each other content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and collaborate, creating a dynamic secretly abusing people online and prosperous societyreceiving money from them for doing so. Each power Most importantly, she is contained within a magical ring belonging to one desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of eight countries led by MyriadOphelia's children online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and their descendantsher relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|author=David Chadwick|title=Headload of Napalm|rating=4. But it didn5|genre=Thrillers|summary= It't quite work out like thats September 1973 in Hicks, California. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of them LA and the eight countries went to warLas Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. Having fought themselves into an endless A silver mine and ruinous stalemate and finding a defence contractor are the cost main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of war too highnote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, a solution is proposeduntil.. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva.|isbn=B09MMQJFPVB0D321VJ76

|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsTom Percival|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45

|summary=Meet TomasWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. Happy to work with his father in He is bullied because he has 'the blacksmithwrong shoes's forge, hehas the wrong shoes because his dad can's almost t work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the age to become college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a full apprentice, building site and help with had an accident. Throw into that mix the new batch of dragonswords is certainly needed. Not fact that there his mum and dad are any dragonsseparated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except..hope. Strange signals from within the forge furnaceHe is good at art, and a peculiar invite clings to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the washmoments of joy when he is drawing, that yes dragons do still exist in this world, and that Tom is rare in feel like a light at the ability to summon themend of a long, share magical attributes, and ride with them..dark tunnel.|isbn=18399400261398527122

|isbnauthor=1529346541Sylvie Cathrall|title=Something A Letter to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth Georgethe Luminous Deep

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James is at There are few greater joys than a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school system, a representative from the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out book which lives up to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakercompelling premise. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting is an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which And this is causing concern in some communities. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the problem seems to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust one of the people she speaks to and photographsthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=B09Q3P283Y0008517061|title=ShadebringerDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Grayson W HooperStig Abell

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam WarFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. He's not really that invested in There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the fight against Communismfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, nor is he particularly interested Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a career 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 the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices future she wants for herself and this one, at least, gets him out of her daughter? For the rut he's moment they’re enjoying life in. He's good in training the present and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himselfputting the future on the back burner.

|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy1786482126|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=There is no mermaid Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold site was going to the millhold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments -owners by when they discovered the London workhouse they used to call homebones of a child beneath a doorway. Bess knows there is There was no time for friendship in skull. Was this a hand-to-mouthritual killing or murder? Inevitably, every man for himself kind of existenceDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be she is pregnant with his child as a glimmer result of companionship in the tired-out mill workersone night they spent together some three months ago. But surely that doesn't mean there Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is any truth in the existence prone to sudden bouts of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049Xsickness.

|isbn=17856330740008551324|title=Staggering HubrisThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Josh BerryNeil Lancaster

|genre=HumourCrime|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (thatIt's unusual for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but anyone from the reality is that Hardie family to approach the ''prime'' movers are police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmentother. We are But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the privileged position of having access to police where the memoirs body of Rafe Hubris, the man a missing person is buried and who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020responsible for her death. You might not know the name now but This person, he promises, is someone big and it will certainly be worth the man police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to watchbe transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder 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's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=B09MYXSRV40008405026|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Cordellya SmithJane Casey|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When the world was made, the animals were given giftsIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Bear She was given strength so that he could become never found and the investigation ground to a protectorhalt. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burnNow, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Owl had excellent sight so Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that he could see the present ''makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and'' the futureher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use What looked as though it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came going to be in an open-and-shut case is now a race with Turtlecomplex double murder. You might think Kerrigan is convinced thatthe explanation lies in Rosalie's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always disappearance: others (such as they seem. IDerwent'll tell you how it came abouts boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Giovanna Fletcher0571379877|title=Walking on SunshineThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen yearsEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, has died. And whilst he is dealing obsessed with his grief, so are their best upper-class friends, Vicky Robert and ZazaStanza. But Pia left them all some Robert'ruless a theatre director. He' to follows also self-obsessed, demanding, knowing that she was dying handsome and entitled and that they would need help uses Edward to carry on livingrun errands for him. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling Edward has been in love with Stanza since their grief university days - and their own life troubles, decide he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most 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 drop everything stumble upon the two of them kissing in their own lives, and go along with hima dark passageway.|isbn=140593560X

|isbn=1529393930|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=''Starting a creative business has never been easier.'' ''If not now, when?'' I know that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. There's a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. Selling would offset the costs, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun to do, couldn't it? But where to start? What do I need to think about? Well, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making a Living''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Freya MarskeJo Callaghan|title=A Marvellous LightLeave No Trace

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Robin Blyth When a man is nudged into found crucified on the top of a job hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Civil Servicecase alongside her sidekick, much to his chagrinthe AI detective Lock. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with magicseveral cold cases. Desperate to remove But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a curse very high profile case that threatens draws a lot of unwanted attention to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the countrysidecase in time, where or will Kat find herself taken off the hedgegrows bristle with incantations case and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover , potentially, out of a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles. career?|isbn=1529080886139851120X

|isbn=02414804421399613073|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition ScienceMoral Injuries|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienChristie Watson

|genre=CookeryThrillers|summary=EmotionallyOlivia, I am Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a vegancentury. MentallyOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, I am which is a bonus when you aim to be a vegancardiothoracic surgeon. I read [[How to Love Animals in Laura is a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] perfectionist and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) fooda trauma doctor. Practically, I am not Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a veganGP. It worked for When we first meet them they're at a while apart from the odd blip with regard drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often end in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based proteintragedy. It wasnWe don't know who suffered the tragedy or the taste - I know that I can get plantconsequences. Twenty-based food five years later there will be an eerily similar event that tastes just as good as anything plundered from will impact the animal kingdom - three friends. This time, it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=suppl_stafl0241636604|title=Supply Chain 20/20The Trading Game: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversConfession|author=Kim StaflundGary Stevenson

|genre=ReferenceAutobiography|summary=So, If you've finished writing were to bring up an image of a city banker in your book and mind, you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need unlikely to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong againthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. You presumably wrote A hoodie and jeans replaces the book because you wanted to pin- stripe suit and you had a talent for delivering his background is the written wordEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. You knew your subject back There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to frontthe London School of Economics. Now you're going to have to get to grips Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with the book supply chain, numbers which even parts most of the publishing industry believe us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and no one wants to be the first to trystupid. ThenIt was his ability at what was, essentially, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book in your handscard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to youthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=13987069061035021803|title=The LostAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Simon BeckettC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyIt's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedtwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. HeShe'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and when he wokes back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Theo had goneCarole. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later heFreya's largely come through it former mentor and heCarole's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneyclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Gavin used Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to be his best friend but it's a long time since they've spokenthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. He's obviously Even though they were in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and he asks Jonah business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to meet him at Slaughter Quaybe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. ''There's no one else I can trust''After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, he sayswho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Amanda MasonAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Hiding Place|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But thereAll Tomorrow's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect Futures: Fictions that she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{FrontpageDisrupt|author=Paul Cleave|title=The Quiet PeopleBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary= I am not a fan ''Opening up new ways of "thinking about the Prologue"shape of things to come. Most books are the worse for them'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. In this case Well, I might make an exceptionmust confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. We start I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with Luca Pittman who the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is in a hurry- frankly - quite frightening. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have Of course, I could research the possibilities and when he hurries, when he bundles things into the back of his car probabilities and tries to run end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes who could deliver information in a riskway I could understand. It ends badly.|isbn=1913193942

|author=Will CarverSunny Singh|title=Psychopaths AnonymousHotel Arcadia

|genre=Thrillers|summary=Maeve The Hotel Arcadia is a high functioning alcoholicluxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, drinking continuously and alsokilling everyone on site, curiouslythere is Sam, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing wartime photographer and critiquing Abhi, the AA steps she is mainly using the groups hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to find targets...targets care remotely for sexual encountersthe residents who are still alive in the hotel, targets he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to feed be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her desire room to try to hear of peoplecapture what's misery, and targets for happened through her violent behaviourphotography. Yet she also seems Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to be searching for others who think as she does, help her keep safe and when she's unable they both wait to find like-minded people in any of see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornterrorists.|isbn=1913193756086154742X

|isbn=15294181001529153298|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Martin WalkerJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=IIt'm not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories s 1979 and forget to pick it up again - but Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I am a fan of Martin Walkermean, honestly...) She's [[Martin Walkernot what's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to read ''Brunoworrying Miv's Challengefamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have ' was hard to resist and Idisappeared'm rather glad that I didndoesn't even trysound quite so frightening. For those new to the series, thereMiv's upset because she's an excellent introduction overheard that will tell you all you need her father wants to know about whomove the family 'Down South's who and the background to why Bruno is in St Denis.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09GJW49GF|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)|author=Jenny O When you'Brien|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away re from her son. Hunter had diabetes and this was controlled by Yorkshire, Down South is a pump attached to his stomachfrightening, so her over-protectiveness was understandable, but her fianceforeign place, Ian, was pestering her to get married and she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likebest avoided. Her friendFor Miv, Milly, had arranged to take the move would mean leaving her boyfriendbest friend, LiamSharon, for a night in a posh hotel but then he dumped her and she couldn't get the money back, so Hannah was offered the opportunity ll do anything to go in his placeprevent that. She would return home to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missing.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q|title=Without a Trace|author=Jane Bettany|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through a divorce and right now it was raining hard. All she wanted was to get back to s not worried about the dangers or that her new home and settle down for a quiet evening. It wasnMum't going s stopped talking - to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed with a knife in his chest. She'd no idea who he wasanyone.

|isbn=18387748231398524085|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=S J BennettNicci French

|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's 2016 fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and the Queen's Private Secretaryher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistbandnot. SwimmingShortly afterwards, he decidesEtty and Greg, is the way to go and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to be there early one morning and discovered find the body of Cynthia Harris at Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the side of the poolriver. There It was broken glass - a crystal tumbler, by an easy assumption for the look at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris police to make that Duncan had slipped murdered Charlie and cut herself so badly that she had bled outthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Still, it was a shock for Sir SimonThe Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.