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|author=Nicolas BouvierMax Boucherat|title=The Japanese ChroniclesLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TravelConfident Readers|summary= It never does to start a review of a book with a quote from We meet Lori on the blurb, but sometimes itfirst evening she's unavoidablegot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Le Monde reviewed this book What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, at some pointand that is to log on to Voxminer, with the words world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori''what the old master craftsmen would call s world. But first Lori has a masterpiece.tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn'' It is precisely thatt find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. A masterpiece in For the sense server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the craft as game has been doctored – well as , where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the art end of writingthe occupation. I During the war, Jean'm going to hesitate s father was arrested for listening to call it 'travel writing' because this is as much a history banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of Japanhim. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, a mythology-primer for and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the Japanese culture truth come as a relief, or will it is a personal response to living and travelling in raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the country. occupation?|isbn=19060110441846976537

|authorisbn=Genevieve Gornichec1529428289|title=The Witch's HeartA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= A modern and approachable reimagining Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worldsgrave but when they found it, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake it came with three times because sets of Odin's wrathbones. Her attempts They dated back to World War II and it fell to live in peaceBruno, howeverthe Chief of Police for St Denis, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to discover the identities of the stake—and refuses to leave her alonebodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins As if this isn't enough to fall for Loki's charmsworry about, and the two start an unusual family made of up a halfDordogne River - normally tranquil -dead daughter, a son thatis flowing at record levels. It's a wolf, not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and another son that's St Denis faces the possibility of a snakedevastating flood.|isbn=1789097061

|isbn=1788549759152919640X|title=The Distant DeadSuspect|author=Lesley ThomsonRob Rinder

|summary=It The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was December 1940 murdered live on television and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening it seems that there'with her friend Idas only one suspect. He' leaving her three-year-old son, William, at home with her parentss celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. The boy thought that Maple was his sister Everything seemed as normal - it was better for the family than the shame of illegitimacyas normal as they can be in a busy, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (live television studio - and William's) on Brooks served a better footingragout to Holby. She Her EpiPen was going nowhere to meet her well-to-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come be found and meet her family the following weekshe was dead within minutes. Later, her body would be found in the bombed-out home where he had taken herIt was soon clear that this was no accident.

|isbn=15294072490008385068|title=The Perfect LieMidnight Feast|author=Jo SpainLucy Foley

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was July 2019 's midsummer on the Dorset coast and Erin was happyguests gather at The Manor. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: thatIt's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married to a cop but she was hopefultheir opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. They It'd been married for six months and life was good with a decent apartment s all headed up by the sea in Newport, Long IslandFrancesca Meadows. The knock on the door Manor was insistent her ancestral home and when she's converted it was openedinto an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Danny's partnerOwen, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of other officersthe site. Danny took one look, turned, walked to the open window The heat is oppressive and jumped to his death from amongst the fourth floorguests are enemies as well as friends. Eighteen months later, Erin would Old scores are going to be on trial for her husbandsettled and it won's murdert be long before a body is found.

|isbnauthor=1523092734Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van CortWild East|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTeens|summary=''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs Written in her life. Again and again and again.verse, this is Ronny'' (Alma Derrickss story, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to live the life of choosing unapologetically Norwich and bravelystart at a mostly white school. It The move is to live the life youinitiated by Ronny've always wanted.s mum who is worried for Ronny'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at s safety after a time when violence against women is much tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in the newsa new town, a new school, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my deskand keep himself out of trouble. Now - He listens to be clear - this book is not music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''rapper. I've always thought that women need to rise above But now, in thisnew school, his teacher encourages him to be people who don't need protectionpart of a poetry writing workshop group and, people who claim their own space. If all women did thisslowly, those few men who are violent Ronny begins to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big mensee the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1635866847|title=Archibald Lox The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=The second trilogy in ShanIt's strange, the things that make you ''immediately''feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading 'Merge'The Lavender Companion'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in I visited the world author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the Bornhomepage. It I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's not been easya recipe in the book, explaining to his foster parents where hewhich I's been, or slipping back into ordinary life m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his bestI 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. well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben I ''loved''s clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awaythis book already.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ

|isbnauthor=0008444501Rob Keeley|title=The Answer to Everything|author=Luke KennardChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Life should have been good for EmilyAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. She had He's a lovely husbandball of happy positivity, Stevenhe understands children, who was a speech therapistand he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector. We The 'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other and don't even sleep in the same bed. It isnChildish Spirits't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that she's sharing a bed with series is one of her children as ithis greatest achievements. It's the only way to get him to sleep during the night. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and Emily has sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a job to stalwart young girl who can cope with too - she teaches drama two days anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a week. They've not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: it's a trendy area that has been gentrified spoiled lordling and it's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|isbnauthor=0241985137Jenny Valentine|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterUs in the Before and After

|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstElk and Mab are best friends, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principalor more than that even, Professor Hilary Reynoldstheir friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor They meet as children one day on a studenttrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. When Fawley arrived he was almost crossBut then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: what was Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the alleged perpetrator doing people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the room before they'd even got sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the details from exit, perhaps bothering with the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' treasure or the 'victim' big bad and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisherpoints they grant you along the way. Just to complicate matters furtherUnfortunately for Kit, Calebthe only thing he's mother seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is Petra Newsonthat one team has been retired, the local MPeaten, and Professor Fisher a new trio of questors is a big name in Artificial Intelligenceneeded. She Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by taken to the case goading from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followersteam. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipmentWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, this is going and how could he possibly hope to be ''very'' public.succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H BarkerSaima Mir|title=A Tattoo on my BrainVengeance

|genre=AutobiographyThrillers|summary=Alzheimer's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of self. I have been directly affected was instantly intrigued by the premise of this cruel disease, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a statue over time affected the elementsMuslim woman. It seems as if nature wants The fact that final victory over you and your dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who it was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I'A Tattoo ve jumped midway into a few series before (on my Brainpage and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=11088389360861541561

|isbnauthor=1635862353Stuart Douglas|title=The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel CorryLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldnDuring location filming for his 1970't really believe it, mainly because Is sitcom 'd always thought that youFloggit and Leggit'd need more equipment than , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the average home was likely to be able to contain but I was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - dead body of a small fire destroyed some woman on the edge of her shoesa reservoir. One pair had come apart The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and she could see how he enlists the sandal was constructedhelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Then she realised that she couldn't afford They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to replace all her shoesdeath during the Second World War. Could she combine these two facts to create But is there really a new and worthwhile craftlink between the deaths? She showed quite a few people her first pair and And will they all either wanted manage to know how to do it - or if she'd make them a pair. A new career was born.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=1787332098B0CYV674G2|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped WorldSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Henry ManceDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species It seemed like an open-and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on-shut case. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofasA man, foxes covered in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, mud and blood - and millions of wild animals stay out therecarrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn''somewhere,'' hopefully on t killed the next David Attenborough seriesman.A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he'' I was going s been stabbed to arguedeath. I meanDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, cows are which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for cheese (I couldnan easy answer but the words 'perverse't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling 'John Tanner' were made for the sake of iteach other. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals He's sleep- and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had deprived to choose between the company of humans and the company point of animals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me falling asleep at work but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed he's determined to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortablekeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|authorisbn=Ananda Devi1787333175|title=Eve Out of Her Ruins|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins is one of the shortest books IYou Don've read in a long while, but it's one of the most dramatic. It's also told in a way that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing and pulls very few punches, the descriptions stark and unromantic.|isbn=0993009344}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241985137|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)t Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Cara HunterBenji Waterhouse

|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=DI I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam FawleyKay's team got first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Edith Launceleve College firstHurt}}, called there by Jancis Appleby to see a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the PrincipalNHS, Professor Hilary Reynoldshumour and autobiography. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor on a student. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan 'You Don'wast Have to be Mad...'' promised the 'victim' same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisherwork of a psychiatrist. Just I did wonder whether it was acceptable to complicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, be looking for humour in this setting but the local MP, and Professor Fisher laughter is directed at a big name is Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more situation rather than £1000 a month on clothes person and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this it is going to be ''very'' publicalways delivered with empathy and understanding.

|isbnauthor=0753558378Onyi Nwabineli|title=Effortless: Make It Easier Allow Me to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeownIntroduce Myself

|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri'The marginal return of working harder wass childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, in factbasically, negativemonetary gain.'' That's what happened Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to Patrick McGinnis. It's no exaggeration regain her confidence and to say that he devoted his get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the company he worked forcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, struggling throughfailing to start her PhD, even when he was ill, only to find that he was working undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for a bankrupt companydoing so. His stock had fallen by 97%Most importantly, he had lost his health and his job had she is desperately worried about her little valuesister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. He made a bargain with God; if he survivedCan she save her sister, he would make some changes. He did survive and came through stronger - perhaps herself and richer. There is, you see, a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost break.''her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbnauthor=1471181405David Chadwick|title=Nighthawking|author=Russ ThomasHeadload of Napalm

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=SheffieldIt's [http://wwwSeptember 1973 in Hicks, California.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like to visit) are an oasis Hicks is a Mojave desert town of calm in what's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the body a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a young woman was discoveredsignificant drive away. It had obviously been buried Not much happens in one of Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the beds main local employers but who would have started to dig her up? It had been in the earth for months otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and could have been undiscovered for yearsJoshua trees. The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left the two, very rareLife is quiet, gold aurei on her eyesuntil. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuries.|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|author= Jennifer Saint Tom Percival|title= Ariadne The Wrong Shoes|rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. |isbn=1472273869}} {{Frontpage|author=Gianna Pollero and Sarah Horne|title=Monster Doughnuts|rating=4.5

|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappearedWill's life is difficult, Grace and Danni have been left to run the family bakeryin a multitude of ways. But Grace needs He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the doughnuts wrong shoes because his dad can't work and sweet treats that Danni bakes doesn't have enough money for a rather unusual reason...even though shethe most basic of things like food, and his dad can's only ten years oldt work because he lost his job at the college, she is was working a monster hunter! Monsters have cash-in-hand job on a very sweet tooth, building site and Grace uses a number of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, or tricking them had an accident. Throw into eating a sweet treat that willmix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, ultimatelyand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, be their demisehe still has a tiny amount of hope. One dayHe is good at art, thoughand clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, Grace finds herself facing that feel like a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, who has light at the end of a weakness for doughnuts but doesn't seem to explode as the other monsters dolong, and so things start to get very strange…dark tunnel.|isbn=18481294321398527122

|isbnauthor=0995647895Sylvie Cathrall|title=Sadie and A Letter to the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceLuminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was There are few greater joys than a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She book which lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves up to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sarka compelling premise. ''Her class had gone And this is one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''of them. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Kristen O'Neal0008517061|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=54|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme diseaseFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her settled into his rustic lifeat Little Sky. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to There’s perhaps a bunch little uncertainty about the future of other teens living his life with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other outhis vet girlfriend, while also providing an escape to just joke Livia and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and drive relaxing life to Brigid's house move in with Livia or does Livia move to check up on Little Sky despite her. But what reservations about whether or not this is the future she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the basement – present and for that werewolf to be putting the girl she has been talking to online for future on the past few monthsback burner.|isbn=1683692349

|authorisbn=Mercedes Helnwein1786482126|title=SlingshotThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to being lonelyhold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. As Was this a secret illegitimate daughter of a man ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with a "real" familyDCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is used to not being pregnant with his child as a priority in people's livesresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot Her condition will be obvious before long, her simple existence not least because Ruth is changed for goodprone to sudden bouts of sickness. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=152905818X

|isbn=B005FM76AA0008551324|title=The Duke's ChildrenDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Anthony TrollopeNeil Lancaster

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The 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 prison and he's prepared to probably tell the worst news police where the body of all: Lady Glencora Palliser a missing person is deadburied and who was responsible for her death. Her husbandThis person, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omniumhe promises, is nearly paralysed by grief someone big and struggling - at it will be worth the same time - to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even in officepolice doing what he wants. He seeks to protect and guide his three adult children, which And what he wants is easier said than done when none of them wishes to ''be'' guided. Silverbridge (transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, but always known by his title) sentence and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and get an early parole date. Not much to run up gambling debtsask, occasionally in eye-watering sums. is it? Lady Helen has fallen in love with - The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and wishes she's even prepared to marry do the other thing that Hardie demanded - Frank Tregear, the penniless son of a poor squire, which the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos of make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about to learn that parents do not always get their wayhappening.

|authorisbn=Goldy Moldavsky0008405026|title=The Last GirlA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesnIt't belongs sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, was never found and most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as investigation ground to a source of comforthalt. She struggles to find anyone to connect with Now, her mother, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie styleHelena, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed her father are dead in the competitiontheir bed. But as the pranks escalate Initially, and Rachel finally feels it looks like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the pranks, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and people begin her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to get hurtbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. When Kerrigan is convinced that the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before itexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's too lateboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=0755501527

|authorisbn=Polly Barton0571379877|title=Fifty SoundsThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Where do I start? I could start Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with where Barton herself startshis upper-class friends, with the question Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He'Why Japan?'' Japan s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been on my radar for a while in love with Stanza since their university days - and if the world hadnhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert't gone into melt-down I s position would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but I am he's not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect two of the question them kissing in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''a dark passageway.|isbn=1913097501

|author=Lucy HollandJo Callaghan|title=SistersongLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Sistersong When a man is part found crucified on the top of a genre I particularly enjoyhill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the modern retelling of folk and fairy talesAI detective Lock. These stories, for most of us It's their first live case together, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold having previously been very successful with fresh eyes and a fresh perspectiveseveral cold cases. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong But when there is a perfect example of second body found crucified a modern retelling done wellfew days later, the plot Kat is handled suddenly struggling with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to come their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to lifesolve the case in time, to feel real or will Kat find herself taken off the case and human, most importantly they feel relatable in potentially, out of a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.career?|isbn=1529039037139851120X

|isbn=15291242551399613073|title=The WhispersMoral Injuries|author=Heidi PerksChristie Watson

|summary=We know straight away that there's going 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 bodycardiothoracic surgeon. It's on Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the beach under Crayne's Cliff near free spirit of the town of Clearwater group and it's new year's dayshe becomes a GP. To understand what happened When wefirst meet them they're going to have to go back to the previous September. Grace Goodwin has at a soft Australian accent drug and alcohol- she's lived there since her teens fuelled party and now, in her mid-thirties, sheit's returned going to her home town to liveend in tragedy. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the lovely apartment she's foundconsequences. Grace's best friend, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater and she has an eightTwenty-year-old child too. Ethan's in the class Matilda five years later there will be joiningan eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. ItThis time, it's perfect!their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon0241636604|title=The SourceTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=1996If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Essex There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Thirteen Stevenson is bright -yearextremely bright -old schoolgirl Carly lives in and he has a disenfranchised town dominated by facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a military basecard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, struggling this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to care the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingebeloved aunt, Carole. When her squaddie brother brings food Freya's former mentor and treatsCarole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and offers an exclusive invitation the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to army partiesthe village: Arthur, things start she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to look be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a little less bleak..cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1913193594AllTomorrowsFutureCover|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, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=B004O37B6ASunny Singh|title=The Prime Minister|author=Anthony TrollopeHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers |summary=Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, The Hotel Arcadia is the prime minister of a coalition government but he's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand Lopezluxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Lopex Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is exotic - some describe him as JewishSam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, others as Portuguese but the truth is that no one knows and Lopez is not going to explainhotel manager. The ladies of society, even Palliser's own wife, Lady Glencora, As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed still alive in the position hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of having her room to support his wifetry to capture what's actions when Lopez loses a by-electionhappened through her photography. The Duke's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to stem gossip about his wife see if they will come back to haunt himbe rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Jessie Greengrass1529153298|title=The High HouseList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirsIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. However (A woman? I mean, that train of thought is slowly seems to have fallen out of favourhonestly... Today) She's not what's worrying Miv's young generation are discovering that their parents and their parentsfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they' parents did not seem ve been murdered, but to think that far aheadhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it Miv's not my problem" or "thereupset because she's nothing I can do". Raising a child and living in a world on overheard that her father wants to move the precipice of catastrophe is what drives family 'Down South'The High House. When you'' by Jessie Greengrass. This re from Yorkshire, Down South is not a science-fiction novelfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. This is our reality For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. This is She's not worried about the life our children and their children will have dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to liveanyone.|isbn=1800750072