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|isbnauthor=B088YWF5BCMax Boucherat|title=The Lies We Tell|author=Jane CorryLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Sarah Wallace said that We meet Lori on the first evening she grew up 's got 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. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a council estate in Kent blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed is to log on to have been Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a loving, stable familyhit in Lori's world. When we But first meet her, she canLori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't sleep because find herself entirely on her sonown, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in byand then she finds something even more spooky. Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house in For the morning but he's still going to server she and her bestie and nobody else should be going able to work and he needs his sleepenter shows signs of tampering. He wakesWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, thoughand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someone.where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482

|author=Joseph KnoxJenny Lecoat|title=True Crime StoryBeyond Summerland

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= Joseph KnoxJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, known Jean's father was arrested for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created listening to a new genre with his latest novelbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, "True Crime Story". The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from leaving Jean and her university halls mother waiting for years for news of residencehim. Split into four parts, As the reader is taken through British finally free the life and disappearance of Zoe through Channel islands from the eyes of her twin sisterNazis, other family, friends and professionalsthe war is finally over, such as the policetheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. The various accounts help But will the reader get to know Zoetruth come as a relief, or at least will it raise further questions around what else happened during the Zoe she presented to others. However, war? Who was the informer who told the twists and turns at Nazis about the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of radio? And what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trustother secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=08575277031846976537

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1529428289|title=NoA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, No, No!Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They say dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the best picture books are Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer identities of this latest from Justine Avery, the bodies and establish whether or not a Bookbag favouritecrime had been committed.  As if this isn''Not enough to worry about, No, No!'' the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is based around the simplest text imaginable. ''No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you mayflowing at record levels.'' That It's it! But, like all not just the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on local autumn rains that have caused the inside that it appears problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the outsidepossibility of a devastating flood.|isbn=1638820457

|author=Monica Connell|title=Against a Peacock Sky|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I think it is important to know that. She went on a grant-supported trip, with a relatively specific objective. She wasn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-la. She wasn't a mere tourist passing through. She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they lived. She also went, presumably, with the academic discipline of how to find these things out, how to organise them in her mind, how to "understand" them in the context of her own paradigms, and how to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of the experience after the event. Fortunately, she also went with a sense of open-ness and curiosity and a willingness to muck-in, to break her own rules and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled up.|isbn=1780600429}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1409181669152919640X|title=The MaidensSuspect|author=Alex MichaelidesRob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=Mariana The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was convinced murdered live on television and it seems that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and looked likely his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to get away with them bothJessica Holby. She needed to think carefully about what she knew 's seriously allergic and decide how she should proceedcarries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve as normal as they can be in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niecea busy, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend live television studio - and she was struggling Brooks served a ragout to copeHolby. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having Her EpiPen was nowhere to go to Cambridge, but be found and she caught the first fast train from King's Crosswas dead within minutes. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming It was soon clear that this was no accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.

|authorisbn=Maisie Chan0008385068|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Danny is eleven years old, It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and what he really, really loves to do is drawguests gather at The Manor. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the wordsIt's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. DannyIt's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and forget about she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the drawing, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw in secret wealthy and in peacefamous. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for himHer husband, and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with themOwen, was the architect and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping work is still ongoing on parts of the top bunk of his bunk bed! site. Danny The heat is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, oppressive and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around amongst the townguests are enemies as well as friends. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, Old scores are going to be settled and then he even has it won't be long before a falling out with Ravi..body is found.how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X

|author=Terry MilesAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=RabbitsWild East

|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heavenWritten in verse, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. Itis Ronny's also called Rabbitsstory, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has no official title, no official source, no hard to move to Norwich and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry pointstart at a mostly white school. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is the game of life worried for Ronny's safety after a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our herotragic event, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are so Ronny finds himself trying to be historians of the gamesettle in a new town, a new school, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists keep himself out of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very shorttrouble. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal He listens to music constantly, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwisehas always dreamed of being a rapper. Unfortunately for K But now, in trying to sort out what the game is doingthis new school, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might teacher encourages him to be kept safepart of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, he is only Ronny begins to find out that see the line connections between observing rap and poetry, and learning about the game, power of creativity and playing it, is a very thin one indeed..crafting your words.|isbn=15290169320241645441

|authorisbn=C J Carey1635866847|title=WidowlandThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=It's April 1953strange, and Adolf Hitlerthe things that make you ''immediately''s schedule includes going to Moscow to attend feel that this is the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallisbook for you. For yesBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', Britain caved in I visited the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didnauthor't happen as we know it, s [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and we are now there's a picture of a protectorate – well, we share enough slice of the same blood as the Germanic peoples chocolate cake on ''the mainland''homepage. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for NaziI don't eat cakes and desserts -styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of but I wanted that gender into cake viscerally. (There's a caste systemrecipe in the book, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the drudges, book and beyond those, right on down I was told to the childless, the husbandless and the widowsmake a mess of it. Female literacy is actively discouragedNotes in the margins are sanctioned. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with You get to fold down the task corners of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out pages. You suspect that smears of it – after all, butter would not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprintproblem. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil HitlerI ''loved''s visitthis book already.|isbn=152941198X

|author=Louise BeechRob Keeley|title=This Is How We Are HumanChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother to her sonAround here, Sebastian - but she canwe're big fans of children't give him everything he wantss author Rob Keeley. Sebastian has decided that itHe's time a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for him their pleasure and enjoyment, not to have sexlecture or hector. But as an autistic 20 year-old, that The ''Childish Spirits''s easier said than doneseries is one of his greatest achievements. And itIt's starting to cause them both problems. a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=19131937131783064617

|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LJenny Valentine|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker Bittick|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet Bosner, or, to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosner. We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely a hint that he had Us in the nickname 'Secretary' at one point. He's simply Bosner to one Before and all. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helos, as they were called) at a naval establishment. The hours could be long and he was often working nights but at the age of twenty-one, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his day.}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Whitten|title=For the WolfAfter

|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=In Red's familyElk and Mab are best friends, the first daughter becomes queenor more than that even, and the second daughter becomes their friendship is a once in a sacrificelifetime connection. To Red They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's misfortune, she is contact details at the second daughtertime. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her But then chance brings them back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolftogether, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdomthey are inseparable. If she is not a worthy sacrifice Something has happened though, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be releasedsomething terrible and tragic, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woodsnow they must work through their grief, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hourand their friendship, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a mantogether.|isbn=03565163691471196585

|author=M G LeonardKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=TwitchDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54

|summary=Twitch Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at hometeam of warrior, mage and chickenshealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and helping birds is easy compared to that of his time in schoolthe points they grant you along the way. But things are about to change Unfortunately for Twitch in all aspects Kit, the only thing he's seen of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber the latest race on the runinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and it's possible that the missing bank haul a new trio of questors is hidden somewhere in Aves Woodneeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the place where Twitch has token bully of his secret hide world and that stumbled into declaring he knows like the back of his hand! 'll enter as a team. Can Twitch solve the mysteryWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and find the missing millionshow could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14063893741839945184

|isbnauthor=1838853804Saima Mir|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro RamsayVengeance|rating=43.5

|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory is I was instantly intrigued by the premise of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the pond, only to find north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that he'd hanged himself. Twenty years later she's back home again and this time it was the occasion is no less sad. Shesecond in a series I hadn's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dying of anorexia. As she dies, Melissa whispers t read didn'sorryt stop me – I' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor ve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even needn't be a question? Was she asking hindrance if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissait's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be good enough. And that wasn't a curseproblem here. In addition Vengeance swiftly brings you up to Melissa's health problemsspeed, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years beforeI never felt lost. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?|isbn=0861541561

|isbnauthor=0241400120Stuart Douglas|title=The Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson Lowe and Victoria CribbLe Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and since then sheLeggit'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teacher. She was thirty years old and money was tight. Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a job in Skalar woman on the Langanes Peninsulaedge of a reservoir. There were only ten people in The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the village but help of a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation providedfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Una was They travel across the only applicant and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, hopefullyseemingly, save some money over a link to death during the winter which her contract coveredSecond World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=1846975719B0CYV674G2|title=For Any Other Truth Swanton Morley (DCI Jim DaleyJohn Tanner)|author=Denzil MeyrickDavid Blake

|summary=We learn It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that MI5 he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is having its problems just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to awkward places. But thatthe point of falling asleep at work but he's London, isndetermined to keep going - probably because he can't it? Whatget any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don's happening in Kinloch?t Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular ScienceWhen |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=This is Going to Hurt}}, a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for glorious mixture of insight into the airport straight away. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants workings of the plane were dead before take offNHS, humour and autobiography. How could that ''You Don't Have to be? The sort of tech which would make that possible isnMad...''t available promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the paying publicwork of a psychiatrist. And why have I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.

|author=Richard BrookOnyi Nwabineli|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide Allow Me to LifeIntroduce Myself

|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary= I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose booksAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, and sometimes books choose us. In my casethanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, this is one where she posted every step of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book IAnuri'd have skimmed its childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, found some of it interestingbasically, but it would not have 'hit home' monetary gain. Now Anuri is in the way that it does now. I believe it came her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to me not just because I was likely get her life back, suing her step-mother to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.ptake down the content about her. Anuri is that battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people chose their own books rather than getting online and receiving money from them randomlyfor doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, so there who is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesnnew focus of Ophelia't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to reads online empire. Can she save her sister, right now.and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=18004616820861546873

|isbnauthor=B095CY7NBNDavid Chadwick|title=Autumn Camp|author=Barry FowlerHeadload of Napalm

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=It was to be Brian's last campSeptember 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago A silver mine and had done all a defence contractor are the organisation since main local employers but he was leaving school and the time had come to hand the reins to someone else. The obvious person was Garyotherwise, whothere'd always been the fun element s not much of the camps note other than dive bars and Brian had said that on this camp, Gary should act as the leader and he'd just be there to observe. The problem with this was that Gary wasn't really an organiser, an administrator if you likeJoshua trees. He was the entertainerLife is quiet, the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did the organisinguntil. He handed the camp over - and then took it back. And Gary determined to have his revenge. This should have been ''his'' camp.|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=194812467XTom Percival|title=The Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicWrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for Will's life is difficult, in a walkmultitude of ways. Kirelle He is dressed bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies even the most basic of things like food, and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of dad can't work because he lost his job at the hillcollege, they see was working a big barn with cash-in-hand job on a sign outsidebuilding site and had an accident. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all Throw into that mix the stallholders fact that his mum and customers dad are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cowsseparated, goats and chickensWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, and even some micehe still has a tiny amount of hope. Excited He is good at art, Kirelle and Sam go shoppingclings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. What will they buy?|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=0008404925Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane CaseyA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surpriseFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. After allThere’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, it was Livia and her cross-examination of the 'victim' which saved him from daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lengthy prison sentence. He'd been accused lot of stalking the woman but it didn't take long to establish that compromise: does Jake give up his off- if anything - it was the other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster grid and then she came relaxing life to see him as a threat and was forced move in with Livia or does Livia move to remember that the police officer at his trial had told Little Sky despite her that reservations about whether or not this was is the best chance they'd had to put Webster away future she wants for a long time: he was a very dangerous manherself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.

|isbn=00083955941786482126|title=Both of YouThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Adele ParksElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoresBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. Then, one Monday, she went to work and never came homeThere was no skull. MarkWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Oli and Seb are shatteredDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. WellIt's difficult as Ruth knows, Mark and Seb are but OliNelson doesn's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom t, that she is pregnant with his best look. He's been child as a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independentresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan JanssenHer condition will be obvious before long, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without tracenot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=14736857450008551324|title=Unbreak Your HeartThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Katie MarshNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked SimonIt's son, Jake, off his bikeunusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. He wasn't hurt but Jake Neither side likes or has historyany respect for the other. He has HLHS - thatBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those prepared to tell the police where the body of you a missing person is buried and who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronymswas responsible for her death. When This person, he was bornpromises, is someone big and it will be worth the left side police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his heart hadn't developed properly sentence and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days oldto get an early parole date. SoNot much to ask, Simon has every right is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to be overdo the other thing that Hardie demanded -protective particularly when someone isnmake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what't looking where they're drivings happening.

|authorisbn=Louie Stowell0008405026|title=OtherlandA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Myra It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loudthe investigation ground to a halt. Now, bright and hates rulesher mother, while Rohan is very politeHelena, serious and worries about the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer's dayher father are dead in their bed. And so Initially, every year their families get together to celebrate the two's birthdayit looks like a straightforward murder/deathday. But when Rohansuicide but there's little sister Shilpa is taken by something about the fairy queen, they must journey to positioning of the Otherland, a magical realm full of fairies, vampires, dragons, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and Godsher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It's 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 worst night of their livesexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1788000463

|isbn=walker140571379877|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Kellerby Code|author=Martin WalkerJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his bossupper-class friends, chief of detectives JalipeauRobert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, known as J-Jdemanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to solve a case that had haunted run errands for him for thirty years. The body of a young male was found Edward has been in the woods but love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he was never identified and his killer never brought feels to justiceRobert. What if an artist could recreate the face Most men in Robert's position would stay away from the skull and the resulting publicity be used to identify the young man? J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' and has Stanza or tell Edward that a picture on his door: relationship had begun between them but he sees it every time he leaves his office's not like most men: he doesn't want Edward is left to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justicestumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author= Martha LeighJo Callaghan|title= Invisible Ink: A Family MemoirLeave No Trace|rating= 54|genre= BiographyCrime|summary= Martha Leigh begins her book talking about When a childhood spent in a slightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Her father man is a Cambridge don, forever clacking away found crucified on his typewriter as he edits the complete correspondence top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseaucase alongside her sidekick, his lifethe AI detective Lock. It's worktheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Her mother But when there is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is hugely interested in the practicalities suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of lifeunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. There is love Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the house but also darker undercurrents that case and, potentially, out of a child does not fully understand but knows is there.career?|isbn=1800460384139851120X

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

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

|authorisbn= Adrian Tchaikovsky0241636604|title= Shards of EarthThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionAutobiography|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into If you were to bring up an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scatteredimage of a city banker in your mind, constantly fleeing as world after world falls you're unlikely to the architect's reshapingthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Then, just when they had A hoodie and jeans replaces the human race on pin-stripe suit and his background is the runEast End, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgottenwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselvesinjustice. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to try and communicate with the Architects, does not want to be rememberedLondon School of Economics. But, when Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he and the crew has a facility with numbers which most of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlightstupid. As he and It was his allies bounce from star system to star systemability at what was, chased by alien crime syndicatesessentially, human secret police and rich slaversa card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=18484584281035021803|title=Local Woman MissingThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Mary KubicaC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Eleven It's twenty years ago, a man regularly came home since Freya Lockwood has been back to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - againthe English country village where she grew up. His wife was in the habit She's back now because of going out a request for a run late at nighthelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. It was Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the only time she had for herself when she didn't have circumstances seem suspicious, to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful for say the unquestioning affection he gave herleast. The locality Arthur was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappearedthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, seemingly without a traceshe feels, leaving her husband to look after let her disabled babydown badly. Ten days laterEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed has not felt able to be under some strain for near the last couple of weeks man or sopursue the profession she loved. Her body was eventually found After the split, she worked in a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her daughter, Delilahlife, who was safe murdered) and Freya and there was no point in looking for herJames have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Nicolas BouvierAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Japanese ChroniclesAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=TravelScience Fiction|summary= It never does to start a review ''Opening up new ways of a book with a quote from thinking about the blurb, but sometimes shape of things to come.'' I've heard itsaid that 'technology' is what happens after you's unavoidablere eighteen. Le Monde reviewed this book, at some point 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 the words what's advantageous to me but I'what m left with the old master craftsmen would call a masterpiecefeeling that it's all getting away from me.'' It Some of it is precisely that- frankly - quite frightening. A masterpiece in Of course, I could research the sense of possibilities and the craft as well as the art of writing. probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm going to hesitate to call it 'travel writingreading someone who knows what they' because this is as much a history of Japan, a mythology-primer for re talking about or the Japanese culture as it is a personal response to living latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and travelling who could deliver information in the countrya way I could understand. |isbn=1906011044

|author=Genevieve GornichecSunny Singh|title=The Witch's HeartHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyThrillers |summary= A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that centres around has suddenly been violently taken over by a witch named Angrbodaterrorist group. She hides in Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a forest at the edge of the nine worldswartime photographer and Abhi, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrathhotel manager. Her attempts As Abhi continues to live try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in peacethe hotel, howeverhe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from and keeps on venturing out of her chest before she was tied room to the stake—and refuses try to leave capture what's happened through her alonephotography. After an initial period of mistrust Although they only ever talk over the phone, Angrboda begins their friendship grows as Abhi tries to fall for Loki's charms, help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and another son that's a snaketerrorists.|isbn=1789097061086154742X

|isbn=17885497591529153298|title=The Distant DeadList of Suspicious Things|author=Lesley ThomsonJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was December 1940 's 1979 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what'with her friend Idas worrying Miv' leaving her three-year-old sons family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, Williamthey've been murdered, at home with her parentsbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. The boy thought Miv's upset because she's overheard that Maple was his sister - it was better for her father wants to move the family than the shame of illegitimacy'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William's) on Down South is a better footingfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. She was going to meet For Miv, the move would mean leaving her well-to-best friend, Sharon, and she'll do fiancé, hoping anything to persuade him to come and meet her family the following weekprevent that. Later, She's not worried about the dangers or that her body would be found in the bombedMum's stopped talking -out home where he had taken herto anyone.