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|isbnauthor=B0949Q1DC1Jenny Lecoat|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)|author=Tim SullivanBeyond Summerland|rating=54|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorderJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, quite probably AspergerJean's Syndromefather 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. He can be rudeAs the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, difficult and awkward with peoplethe war is finally over, although it's never intentional. It's just their hopes rise that he thinks differently and social niceties simply don't occur to they will finally learn what became of him. There's But will the truth come as a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and relief, or will it's that he has raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the best conviction rate with cases, ever. radio? His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to himself) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviour.And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537

|isbn=15291516001529428289|title=Give Unto OthersA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Donna LeonMartin Walker|rating=54

|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changedBecause of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. The ''pandemia'' stripped They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the city Chief of its tourists Police for nearly two years St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a lot of businesses have closedcrime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, most never to reopenthe Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. ThereIt's now a cascade of money as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end to greed. The Mafias just the local autumn rains that have liquidity problemscaused the problem: how various dams upstream on earth are they going another river have had to launder all release water and St Denis faces the money which is coming their way? Whilst he's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was possibility of a child. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and she'd like Brunetti's advicedevastating flood.

|authorisbn=Marcus Sedgwick152919640X|title=WrathThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder

|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Meet FitzThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just overJessica Holby, was murdered live on television and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when contract stated that he talks must not serve anything containing miso to his best friend, CassieJessica Holby. They were half She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earthemergencies. Is this connected with one of her eco Everything seemed as normal -warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And as normal as they can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=1800900899}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635864070|title=Knit 2 Socks be in 1|author=Safiyyah Talley|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=If you've ever started knitting a pair of socksbusy, finished the first one live television studio - and either got bored by the idea of doing the same thing all over again, or started on the second sock and lost the first before you finished it, this is the book for youBrooks served a ragout to Holby. Where is it that single socks go Her EpiPen was nowhere to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you to knit two socks in one, divide them up be found and have a perfectly finished pair of socksshe was dead within minutes. Sounds good? It's clever and well-thought-outwas soon clear that this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|author=Olivie Blake|title=The Atlas Six|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= Dark, sharp, and highly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|isbn=1529095239

|isbn=00083849830008385068|title=The Paris ApartmentMidnight Feast

|summary=''Things are not what they seem''. It was a Friday and Jess Hadley was keen to get to her half-brother's flat in Paris. She'd come across from London midsummer on Eurostar, courtesy of the money she'd stolen from Dorset coast and guests gather at The PervertManor. It's till in the Copacabana Bar in Brightontheir opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It wasn't likely that the police would be on to s all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her yet but ancestral home and she'd like to be somewhere safe and with food s converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and drink inside herfamous. She'd phoned Ben Her husband, Owen, was the architect and got work is still ongoing on parts of the address - 12 Rue des Amants - site. The heat is oppressive and he told her that amongst the apartment was on the third floorguests are enemies as well as friends. SheOld scores are going to be settled and it won's outside what's obviously t be long before a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get in touch with Benbody is found.

|isbnauthor=0760373558Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Nordic Knits|author=Sue FlandersWild East|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=I was so delighted by Sue FlandersWritten in verse, this is Ronny' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hats story, Mitten, Scarf a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and Sock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didn't need any persuading start at all to pick up her ''Nordic Knits''a mostly white school. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired The move is initiated by textiles Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and local traditions from Norwayso Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, Sweden and Icelandkeep himself out of trouble. There are He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a few sweaters or jackets but the majority rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of patterns are for smaller items such as mittensa poetry writing workshop group and, glovesslowly, hats Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and bags. All are bright poetry, and cheerful the power of creativity and very cosycrafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|isbn=19160720381635866847|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)Lavender Companion|author=Allie CresswellJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Historical FictionLifestyle|summary=We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at EcklingtonIt's strange, to the house in things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the hollowbook for you. Before I started reading ''The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her motherLavender Companion'', I visited the author's strengths [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and weaknesses: there''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath s a picture of a facade slice of respectability, chocolate cake on the deplorable truth'homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Hester is furious about Jocelyn (There's refusal to do as she was askeda recipe in the book, which has precipitated I''this violent m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and unexpected removal''I was told to make a mess of it. Then we Notes in the margins are told sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of the birth pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshireproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.

|author=Matthieu AikinsRob Keeley|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary=ItAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's easy a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to forget at times that lecture or hector.  The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at timesChildish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. This is not by any means It's a criticismsequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen stalwart young girl who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and can cope with anything the spirit world throws at times painful journey. There are tense moments her, and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But it's written with Edward, a haunting spoiled lordling and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people described.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= B09N9157T61783064617

|author=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas EngerJenny Valentine|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix Us in the Before and Ramm)After|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=This is the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, Elk and Emma RammMab are best friends, a crime journalist. In this book we find or more than that when one of Blix's colleagueseven, Kovic, uncovers their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection between several Oslo cases, she tries to contact her superior, Blix. Before she can reach him, however, she is murdered, and BlixThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's daughter Iselin who shares contact details at the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered tootime. We But then find ourselves a few days later with Blix chance brings them back together, and Ramm, who they are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix inseparable. Something has shot happened though, something terrible and tragic, and killed someonenow they must work through their grief, and Ramm saw it all happentheir friendship, together. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=19145850031471196585

|author=Daniel AbrahamKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Age of AshDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary= We meet Alys under the Meet Kit. Like most northerly of Oldgate's four bridgesthe people in his world, it seems, she has he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a knife in her hand team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and a meeting that she dreadsthe points they grant you along the way. Meanwhile Unfortunately for Kit, the City only thing he's seen of Kithamar the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is at that one team has been retired, eaten, and a point in the turning new trio of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possiblequestors is needed. It is Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the night between goading from the funeral token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a Prince and the coronation of his successorteam. For a night the Kithamar is unWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-ruled.zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=03565154271839945184

|isbnauthor=1529095522Saima Mir|title=The Interview|author=C M EwanVengeance|rating=43.5

|summary=Kate Harding is going for I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an interview for her dream job at Edge Communications. It's organised crime syndicate in the last interview north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the day at one of Londonsecond in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I's newest office buildings ve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and Edge have fitted out their part of the building to it needn't be something special. Maggie, Katea hindrance if it's recruitment agent, is keen to see that Kate approaches the interview in a good state of mind: Kate assumes enough. And that this is because Maggie will get wasn't a decent bonus if Kate gets the job - problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlyI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561

|isbnauthor=B097XNMCRKStuart Douglas|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=Loch Torridon During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'is'Floggit and Leggit' , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the back dead body of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which is why it was a woman on the perfect place to land illegal deliveries edge of drugsa reservoir. Jimmy McLeish thought that The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he was onto enlists the help of a nice little earnerfellow actor, only John Le Breton to find that Macca, help him investigate matters further. They travel across the man he thought he was working withcountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, is dead. His remains would never be founda link to death during the Second World War. The delivery But is hijacked by Davie and Callum. there really a link between the deaths? As the story progresses we'll get And will they manage to know them quite well.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn= B09NDJ77LMB0CYV674G2|title=Me and My ShadowSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Deborah StoneDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= ''What happens when someone is pushed too far It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and they begin to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that no one loved you? And how far would you go to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off he hasn't killed the man. A body at the shadows bottom of her past and attempts a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to repair decades worth of paindeath.'' Rachel DCI John Tanner is in a current conversation with her psychiatristjust back from his honeymoon, who pushes her to recall her life from very young childhood onwards. But Rachel is combative which coincided with Doctor Blake, sometimes even contemptuous the birth of herhis daughter Samantha. You can see that itwould think he's not d be grateful for an easy therapeutic relationshipanswer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. RachelHe's recall sleep-deprived to the point of her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute and unforgiving clarityfalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|isbn=15294096591787333175|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Elly GriffithsBenji Waterhouse

|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=It I was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen tempted to read ''You Don't Have to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered be Mad to clear out her motherWork Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's belongings. She was intrigued by first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the discovery workings of a picture of her own house: it was an old photographthe NHS, taken in misty conditions humour and on the back it said autobiography. ''dawn 1963You Don', some years before Ruth was bornt Have to be Mad.. It was before her parents were married. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to find out what was behind '' promised the photograph same elements but Covid intervened moved from physical problems to mental illness and the country was in lockdownwork of a psychiatrist. Ruth and Kate are restricted I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the cottage laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with Ruth attempting to home school Kate empathy and continue with her university teaching duties. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carersunderstanding.

|isbnauthor=1847941834Onyi Nwabineli|title=Atomic Habits|author=James ClearAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|summary=Helen is a popular activist. Or should we call Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her a step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anywaydeals and, basically, Helen monetary gain. Now Anuri is so popular that 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 United States government has made content about her its Ambassador of Woke. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of the government Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, including the Shaming Conference undergoing therapy and the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''for indoctrinating secretly abusing people online and legislating against summer fun receiving money from them for any doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who still knew how to have it'is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Ouch! Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbnauthor=B09D95TRKZDavid Chadwick|title=The Wedding Murders|author=Sarah LinleyHeadload of Napalm

|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a permanent job Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with the newspaper its nearest neighbours of LA and the case she was covering was her big chanceLas Vegas both a significant drive away. It was even more important to her than the celebrity wedding she was to attend the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, MatthewNot much happens in Hicks. She was leaving her seven-year-old son, Patrick with her sister, Emma, A silver mine and heading off to a grand manor house hotel in defence contractor are the North Yorkshire countryside. Daniel Acroydmain local employers but otherwise, television presenter and former member there's not much of the rock band was marrying Vicky note other than dive bars and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phonesJoshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=1838226834Tom Percival|title=Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed BoxallThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=It was one Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparentsways. They He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn're there to undo all t have enough money for even the good that parents domost basic of things like food, so and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the trips out were always so much funcollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. A young boy was going to Throw into that mix the carnival with fact that his Grandadmum and dad are separated, who told him: and Will''It'll be brilliants life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, just rememberhe still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, don't let go and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of my handa long, dark tunnel.''|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=1529135362Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=It was There are few greater joys than a long drive to the weekend retreat in Northumbria, right book which lives up near the Scottish borders and to make it worse the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morning. Jane and Ruth had known each other for a long time but Emily was a bit of an outsidercompelling premise. She and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than the other two women. The friendship And this is one of the group went back to school days. Paul had coached rugby at the school where Mark, Toby and Rob were pupils. Mark had married Jane, and Toby is Ruth's husband. And Rob? Well, Rob's deadthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=gareth_steel0008517061|title=Never Work With AnimalsDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Gareth SteelStig Abell

|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary=I don't often begin my reviews Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a warning but lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems Livia or does Livia move to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great in the present and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not putting the future on the companion volume you've been looking forback burner. As a TV show the }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes=Elly Griffiths|rating=4. Gareth Steel says that 5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the book is not suitable for younger readers and site was going to hold seventy- after reading five 'luxury' apartments - I agree when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with himDCI Harry Nelson. He says that he It's written it to inform and provoke thoughtdifficult as Ruth knows, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it Nelson doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be best choosing between reading and eatingobvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=17876348840008551324|title=The HerdDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Emily EdwardsNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Our story opens It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in December 2019, before most prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of us had even heard of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come to be a major issuemissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. We're in Farley County CourtThis person, he promises, where Elizabeth is someone big and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and Ash Kohlito get an early parole date. As they were best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened Not much to ask, is major 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, regardless of the outcome, this DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is not going to work out kept well for anyoneaway from what's happening.

|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs0008405026|title=The Language of FoodA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never had found and the slightest inclination investigation ground to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home lifehalt. Together Now, they testher mother, craftHelena, refine and reshape her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the world positioning of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and changing her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the face of cookery writing foreverexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1398502227

|authorisbn=Louie Stowell0571379877|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet LokiEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there Robert's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile and in the physical form of a middle-school kid here on Earththeatre director. He's guarded by a giant also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and a god in disguise as his parents, entitled and Thor has come along as well, uses Edward to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother of the tworun errands for him. Loki Edward has a month to redeem his reputation, been in love with Stanza since their university days - and get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and to prove it he has 's drunkenly confided how he feels to write the text we read Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a sentient notebook, that relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is able left to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progress. But Loki is stumble upon the kind two of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for them kissing in a month is going to be a walk in the parkdark passageway...right?|isbn=1406399752

|isbnauthor=0008454442Jo Callaghan|title=A Flicker in the Dark|author=Stacy WillinghamLeave No Trace

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis, When a medical psychologist, man is completing found crucified on the top of a session with a new patient. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes of getting hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her through sidekick, the traumaAI detective Lock. You see, Chloe knows what itIt's like to have a traumatic childhoodtheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Her father But when there is Richard Davisa second body found crucified a few days later, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in Kat is suddenly struggling with a cupboard at home potential serial killer and she and her mother handed it a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to the policetheir AI Future Policing project. Dick Davis is Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the Louisiana State Penitentiary case and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for the last twenty years. Her mother is in , potentially, out of a care home.career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Christopher Edge1399613073|title=Escape RoomMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=I've seen junior variants Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – free spirit of the process by which group and she becomes a character or characters start by being trapped in GP. When we first meet them they're at a specific location, drug and alcohol-fuelled party and have it's going to solve problems end in order to get their way outtragedy. What I We don've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with t know who suffered the regular second person narrative replaced by tragedy or the firstconsequences. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to each other and booked into Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the game without any of their three friends. This time, are a team – starting out at the gameit's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer teenage children who are a world-changerinvolved. 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=17328987310241636604|title=The Boy Who Loved BoxesTrading Game: A Children's Book for AdultsConfession|author=Michael Albanese Gary Stevenson

|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=There was If you were to bring up an image of a Boy who loved boxescity banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. He had a box for everything A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began familiar with art suppliesviolence, stuffed toys poverty and the like: all the things which most children have in abundanceinjustice. The Boy's delight There was in no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the sense London School of order in his room: it made him feel happyEconomics. As Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he grew up and became has a Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt facility with this by getting bigger and better boxesnumbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. Look carefully It was his ability at the pictures and you'll see that one of them has what was, essentially, a padlock.card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=B09MN1526W1035021803|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Liz MistryC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the third murder in the space of a few weeks and theyEnglish country village where she grew up. She've all been s back now because of machetes used on teenagersa request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. DS Nikki Parekh Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first circumstances seem suspicious, to arrive on say the least. Arthur was the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on reason why Freya had not been back to the outskirts of Bradfordvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. OnlyEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, this time, it's going she has not felt able to be differentnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. The body appears to Nikki to be that After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her beloved nephewlife, Haqibwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, and she has I must confess that there have been more than a very public meltdownfew decades of technology in my lifetime. It isnI't Haqib: there are similarities ve kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the body feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is clad in designer clothes - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and comes from an obviously monied backgroundend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. What it does mean though I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that Nikki has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is going Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on sick leave for some time with anxiety venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and depressionthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Ally Wilkes1529153298|title=All the White SpacesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=In post-WWI EnglandIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randallthough. Women have been disappearing. For Jonathan Well, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh startthey've been murdered, and the opportunity but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to live life as his authentic self and true gender, without move the disapproval and constraints of his parentsfamily 'Down South'. However When you're from Yorkshire, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like Down South is a funeral shroud over the expeditionfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Guilt For Miv, mistrust and grief stalk the party andmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, when disaster strikes and they are forced she'll do anything to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darknessprevent that. If Jonathan is to make it out of She's not worried about the Arctic winter alive, he will have dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to face his demons once and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tombanyone.|isbn=1789097835

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1398524085|title=QuicksilverHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=2.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. HeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yetfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, for he's lived in a nunEtty. are all worried but -run orphanage since he was a threestrangely -day old foundlingher husband, Alec, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staffnot. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'' Shortly afterwards, for something – call it unearthly intuitionEtty and Greg, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded find the body of him that he go to a derelict dinerGreg's father, find a gold coin worth a fortuneDuncan Ackerley, cash in the value of it out of his bank and prepare river. It was an easy assumption for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types police to turn up make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and suggest then committed suicide when hecouldn's of interest to themt stand the guilt. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is The Salter children are not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and a whole lot more besideswonder about what really happened.|isbn=1542019885