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|author=Catherine SteadmanMax Boucherat|title=The Disappearing ActLast Life of Lori Mills

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is We meet Lori on the cusp of success. Great success. If first evening she's got the rumours are truehouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, award season is going to treat her welljust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, acknowledging her for on her latest, critically acclaimed productionlonesome. She's going places but so What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, unfortunatelyshe has one main intention, and that is her partner. And to log on to Voxminer, the places heworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's going take him towards liesworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, deceit and a pretty young thing in then she finds something even more spooky. For the form server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of his new co-startampering. It's a good time for Mia to escape When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and pilot season her safe place in LA provides just the excuse.game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=14711897830008666482

|author= Christophe MedlerJenny Lecoat|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretBeyond Summerland

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary= Set against Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the backdrop end of the English Civil Waroccupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of 1642him. As a loyal servant of the KingBritish finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and Head the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the Secret Servicetruth come as a relief, or will it is Robert's duty to uncover raise further questions around what else happened during the details of war? Who was the plan and follow informer who told the clues to uncover one of Nazis about the most guarded radio? And what other secrets in history—especially since have been kept throughout the plot could affect the King.occupation?|isbn=B095HY8SXQ1846976537

|authorisbn=Tasha Suri1529428289|title=The Jasmine ThroneA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= On Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the night grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother bones. They dated back to World War II and refuses to step on it fell to Bruno, the pyre. She is immediately sent Chief of Police for St Denis, to be imprisoned on discover the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community identities of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless watersbodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. But now As if this isn't enough to worry about, the temple Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruinflowing at record levels. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the girl saved her from an attacker problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and begs for St Denis faces the girl to become her own personal maidservantpossibility of a devastating flood.|isbn=0356515648

|isbn=B088YWF5BC152919640X|title=The Lies We TellSuspect|author=Jane CorryRob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's 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. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5

|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up It's midsummer on a council estate in Kent the Dorset coast and that she had two brothers guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and two sisterssplendid celebrations are promised. It seemed to have been a loving, stable family's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. When we first meet The Manor was her, ancestral home and she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by converted it into an impressive retreat for the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in bywealthy and famous. Her husband, TomOwen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is fast asleep: theyoppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won're moving house t be long before a body is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in the morning but heverse, this is Ronny's still going story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to be going Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to work settle in a new town, a new school, and he needs his sleepkeep himself out of trouble. He wakeslistens to music constantly, thoughand has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, when Freddie does come in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someonecrafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|authorisbn=Joseph Knox1635866847|title=True Crime StoryThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary= Joseph KnoxIt's strange, known the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"you. Before I started reading ''The story follows Lavender Companion'', I visited the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residenceauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Split into four parts, the reader is taken through the life com/ website] and disappearance there's a picture of Zoe through a slice of chocolate cake on the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends homepage. I don't eat cakes and professionals, such as the policedesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. The various accounts help (There's a recipe in the reader get to know Zoebook, or at least which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the Zoe she presented book and I was told to othersmake a mess of it. However, Notes in the twists and turns at margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the end corners of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure pages. You suspect that smears of what is true or fabricatedbutter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703

|author=Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaRob Keeley|title=No, No, No!Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest onesAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. And nothing could be truer He's a ball of this latest from Justine Averyhappy positivity, he understands children, a Bookbag favouriteand he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.

The ''No, No, No!Childish Spirits'' series is based around the simplest text imaginableone of his greatest achievements. ''No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may.'' ThatIt's it! Buta sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, like all a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the best picture booksspirit world throws at her, and Edward, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on spoiled lordling and the inside that it appears on the outside.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=16388204571783064617

|author=Monica ConnellJenny Valentine|title=Against a Peacock SkyUs in the Before and After

|genre=TravelTeens|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in social anthropologya lifetime connection. I think it is important to know that. She went They meet as children one day on a grant-supported trip, with a relatively specific objective. She wasnout but unfortunately they don't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-la. She wasnget each other't a mere tourist passing throughs contact details at the time. She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these people But then chance brings them back together, and how they livedare inseparable. She also went Something has happened though, 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 paradigmssomething terrible and tragic, and how to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of the experience after the event. Fortunatelynow they must work through their grief, she also went with a sense of open-ness and curiosity and a willingness to muck-intheir friendship, to break her own rules and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled uptogether.|isbn=17806004291471196585

|isbnauthor=1409181669Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them bothMeet Kit. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with Like most of the death people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Tara Hampton on Dungeon Running – the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed sport where a team of warrior, mage and Mariana's niecehealer enter specially prepared, century-old, Zoemagical mazes, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling race to copethe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to CambridgeUnfortunately for Kit, but she caught the first fast train from Kingonly thing he's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all seen of the more so by latest race on the death of Mariana's husbandinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, Sebastianeaten, in and a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earliernew trio of questors is needed. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the death token bully of Zoe's mother his world and Marianastumbled into declaring he's sisterll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, Eliza.and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|author=Maisie ChanSaima Mir|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Danny is eleven years old, and what he really, really loves to do is draw. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the wordsnorth of England run by a Muslim woman. Danny's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget about The fact that it was the drawing, because he says nobody can make second in a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw in secret and in peace. But then one day his parents tell him they have series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a surprise for him, few series before (on page and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with them, screen) and who will not only it needn't be sharing Dannya hindrance if it's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around the towngood enough. Poor Danny, stuck on And that wasn't a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situationproblem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi..I never felt lost.how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X0861541561

|author=Terry MilesStuart Douglas|title=RabbitsLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, During location filming for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. Ithis 1970's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard sitcom 'Floggit and fast structureLeggit', and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the game dead body of life then. Yes, this is a woman on the game edge of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of websreservoir. People like our hero The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of but something about the gamewhole thing bothers Lowe, and have studied amongst many things he enlists the most unique help of high score boardsa fellow actor, for John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar placescountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethalseemingly, a link to death during the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwiseSecond World War. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game But is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line there really a link between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is a very thin one indeed...responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=15290169321803368209

|authorisbn=C J CareyB0CYV674G2|title=WidowlandSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It's April 1953, seemed like an open-and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend 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 Wallis-shut case. For yesA man, Britain caved covered in the leadmud and blood -up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now carrying a protectorate – wellknife, we share enough of comes into the same blood as the Germanic peoples on 'police station shouting that he hasn't killed the mainland''man. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all A body at the bottom of that gender into a caste system, ranging from highfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -brow office bigwigs he's been stabbed to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widowsdeath. Female literacy DCI John Tanner is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existencejust back from his honeymoon, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed which coincided with the task birth of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, an easy answer but the words 'perverse' 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 John Tanner' were made for reprinteach other. That is her job, at least, until He's sleep-deprived to the first emerging signs point of female protest come falling asleep at work but he's determined to light, with their potential to spoil Hitlerkeep going - probably because he can's visitt get any sleep at home.|isbn=152941198X

|authorisbn=Louise Beech1787333175|title=This Is How We Are HumanYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=General FictionPopular Science|summary=Veronica 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 devoted single mother to her songlorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, Sebastian - but she canhumour and autobiography. ''You Don't give him everything he wantsHave to be Mad. Sebastian has decided that it..''s time for him promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to have sexmental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. But as an autistic 20 year-old, that's easier said I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than done. And a person and it's starting to cause them both problemsis always delivered with empathy and understanding. |isbn=1913193713

|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LOnyi Nwabineli|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker BittickAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet BosnerAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, orwhere she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, to give him his full titlebasically, Petty Officer Third Class Bosnermonetary gain. We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely a hint that he had Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the nickname 'Secretary' at one pointcontent about her. He's simply Bosner Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to one start her PhD, undergoing therapy and allsecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. When we first encounter him heMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helos, as they were called) at a naval establishmentonline empire. The hours could be long Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and he was often working nights but her relationship with her father at the age of twenty-one, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his day.same time?|isbn=0861546873

|author=Hannah WhittenDavid Chadwick|title=For the WolfHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=In RedIt's family, the first daughter becomes queenSeptember 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and the second daughter becomes Las Vegas both a sacrificesignificant drive away. To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughterNot much happens in Hicks. Sent alone into A silver mine and a defence contractor are the woods with nothing main local employers but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolfotherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdomJoshua trees. If she Life is not a worthy sacrificequiet, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories gountil.. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=0356516369B0D321VJ76

|author=M G LeonardTom Percival|title=TwitchThe Wrong Shoes

|summary=Twitch Will's life is difficult, in a boy who loves birdsmultitude of ways. He keeps pigeons at homeis bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and chickensdoesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and even has swallows nesting his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in his bedroom! -hand job on a building site and had an accident. His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to Throw into that mix the fact that of his time mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in schoolevery direction. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects And yet, he still has a tiny amount of his life as there hope. He is a dangerous bank robber on the rungood at art, and it's possible that clings to the missing bank haul moments of joy when he is hidden somewhere in Aves Wooddrawing, the place where Twitch has his secret hide and that he knows feel like a light at the back end of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mysterya long, and find the missing millions?dark tunnel.|isbn=14063893741398527122

|isbnauthor=1838853804Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro RamsayA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himselfa compelling premise. Twenty years later she's back home again and And this time the occasion is no less sad. She's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dying one of anorexiathem. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa'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 a curse. In addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years before. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=02414001200008517061|title=The Girl Who DiedDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbStig Abell

|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation 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 since then she'd given up her medical studies and retrained daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a teacher. She was thirty years old lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and money was tight. Her friend, Sara, showed relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her an advert for a job in Skalar on reservations about whether or not this is the Langanes Peninsula. There were only ten people in the village but a teacher was required future she wants for two children: a salary would be paid herself and accommodation provided. her daughter? Una was For the only applicant moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over future on the winter which her contract coveredback burner.

|isbn=18469757191786482126|title=For Any Other Truth The Janus Stone (DCI Jim DaleyDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Denzil MeyrickElly Griffiths|rating=34.5

|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to awkward placeshold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. But that's London, isn't itWas this a ritual killing or murder? What's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airportInevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Jim Daley and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight awayHarry Nelson. It soon becomes evident though 's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that both occupants she is pregnant with his child as a result of the plane were dead before take offone night they spent together some three months ago. How could that Her condition will be? The sort obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of tech which would make that possible isn't available to the paying publicsickness. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?

|authorisbn=Richard Brook0008551324|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary= I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose usIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. In my case, this is one of Neither side likes or has any respect for the latterother. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' But Davie Hardie is struggling in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbagprison and he's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting prepared to like tell the police where the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it body of a missing person is a book I needed to read, right now.|isbn=1800461682}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B095CY7NBN|title=Autumn Camp|author=Barry Fowler|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It buried and who was to be Brian's last campresponsible for her death. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago This person, he promises, is someone big and had done all it will be worth the organisation since but police doing what he wants. And what he was leaving school and the time had come wants is to be transferred to hand the reins an open prison to someone else. The obvious person was Gary, who'd always been serve the fun element remainder of the camps and Brian had said that on this camp, Gary should act as the leader his sentence and he'd just be there to observeget an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The problem with this was that Gary wasnnew Deputy Police Constable doesn't really an organiser, an administrator if you like. He was the entertainer, the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - think so Brian stepped in and did she's even prepared to do the organising. He handed the camp over other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and then took it back. And Gary determined to have his revenge. This should have been anyone who works with him is kept well away from what''his'' camps happening.

|isbn=194812467X0008405026|title=The Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema Tepic|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers A Stranger in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping. What will they buy?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008404925|title=The Killing KindFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)

|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprisehalt. After allNow, her mother, it was Helena, and her cross-examination of the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentencefather are dead in their bed. HeInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there'd been accused s something about the positioning of stalking the woman but it didn't take long to establish bodies that - if anything - makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was the other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed going to be free of John Webster an open-and then she came to see him as -shut case is now a threat and was forced to remember complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance theyexplanation lies in Rosalie'd had to put Webster away for a long times disappearance: he was a very dangerous manothers (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=00083955940571379877|title=Both of YouThe Kellerby Code|author=Adele ParksJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. ThenEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, one Mondayobsessed with his upper-class friends, she went to work Robert and never came homeStanza. Mark, Oli and Seb are shatteredRobert's a theatre director. WellHe's also self-obsessed, Mark demanding, handsome and Seb are but Oli's sixteen entitled and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best lookuses Edward to run errands for him. He's Edward has been a bit off in love with Leigh for a while but she put it down to him growing up Stanza since their university days - and starting he's drunkenly confided how he feels to become independentRobert. SebMost men in Robert's only twelve and Leighposition would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without tracedark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1473685745Jo Callaghan|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie MarshLeave No Trace

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were a man is found crucified on opposite ends the top of an angry exchange - wella hill in Nuneaton, Simon was angry and Beth was doing DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's sonsidekick, Jake, off his bikethe AI detective Lock. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - thatIt's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' their first live case together, having previously been very successful with your medical acronymsseveral cold cases. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery But when he was there is a second body found crucified a few days oldlater, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. SoWill they be able to solve the case in time, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1399613073|title=OtherlandMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary= Myra Olivia, Laura and Rohan are like Yin Anjali met on the first day of medical school and Yang – Myra their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is loudruthlessly ambitious, bright which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and hates rules, while Rohan a trauma doctor. Anjali is very polite, serious the free spirit of the group and worries about the tiniest thingsshe becomes a GP. Their only connection? Being born When we first meet them they're at a drug and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummeralcohol-fuelled party and it's day. And so, every year their families get together going to celebrate the two's birthday/deathdayend in tragedy. But when Rohan We don's little sister Shilpa is taken by t know who suffered the tragedy or the fairy queen, they must journey to consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the Otherland, a magical realm full of fairiesthree friends. This time, vampires, dragons, and Gods. Itit's going to be the worst night of their livesteenage children who are involved.|isbn=1788000463

|isbn=walker140241636604|title=The Coldest Case (Trading Game: A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Confession|author=Martin WalkerGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth DaynesIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you' work in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief re unlikely to think of police Bruno Courreges had someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the idea which he thought might help pin-stripe suit and his bossbackground is the East End, chief of detectives Jalipeauwhere he was familiar with violence, known as J-J, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty yearspoverty and injustice. The body of a young male There was found in the woods no posh public school on his CV - but he was never identified and his killer never brought had been to justicethe London School of Economics. What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull and the resulting publicity be used to identify the young man? JStevenson is bright - extremely bright -J calls the skull 'Oscar' and he has a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to forget Oscar until be stupid. It was his killer has been brought to justiceability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn= Martha Leigh1035021803|title= Invisible Ink: A Family MemoirThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 3.5|genre= BiographyCrime|summary= It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. Martha Leigh begins She's back now because of a request for help from her book talking about a childhood spent in a slightly eccentricbeloved aunt, immediately recognisable upper middle class English familyCarole. Her father Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is a Cambridge dondead and the circumstances seem suspicious, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits to say the least. Arthur was the complete correspondence of reason why Freya had not been back to the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseauvillage: Arthur, his life's workshe feels, let her down badly. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Neither parent is hugely interested After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the practicalities rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. There is love in the house but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows is there.|isbn=1800460384

|authorisbn=Darren ShanAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Archibald Lox All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=So. Having done ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the impossible and unpicked the lock shape of things to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has come.'' I've heard it said that 'groptechnology'is what happens after you' to think aboutre eighteen. But before Well, I must confess that, soireesthere have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. Soirees! Archie, much I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to Inezme but I'm left with the feeling that it's amusementall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, doesnI could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I't even know m reading someone who knows what one of those isthey're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in the first volume of this seriesa way I could understand. |isbn=B093J9TF73

|author= Adrian TchaikovskySunny Singh|title= Shards of EarthHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= Science FictionThrillers |summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unrecognisable shape unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architectsa terrorist group. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to Hiding from the architect's reshaping. Thenterrorists who are rampaging through, just when they had the human race killing everyone on the runsite, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the Architects vanishedhotel manager. And so, As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the memories of residents who are still alive in the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmierhotel, he forms a man genetically engineered to try and communicate bond with the Architects, does not want Sam who refuses to be remembered. Butcowed by events, when he and the crew keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. As he help her keep safe and his allies bounce from star system they both wait to star system, chased see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…terrorists.|isbn=1529051886086154742X

|isbn=18484584281529153298|title=Local Woman MissingThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Mary KubicaJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar It's 1979 and lame excuses as to why he was late - againMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. His wife was in the habit of going out for a run late at night(A woman? I mean, honestly... ) It was the only time she had for herself when she didnShe's not what's worrying Miv't s family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to look after have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful for father wants to move the unquestioning affection he gave herfamily 'Down South'. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappearedWhen you're from Yorkshire, seemingly without Down South is a tracefrightening, foreign place, leaving her husband to look after her disabled babybest avoided. Ten days laterFor Miv, a local woman and the move would mean leaving her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula best friend, Sharon, and she'd seemed ll do anything to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared prevent that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying 's not worried about the dangers or that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for herMum's stopped talking - to anyone.