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|isbnauthor=1786332388Max Boucherat|title=The First Day Last Life of Spring|author=Nancy TuckerLori Mills

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasion. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and We meet Lori on the plot grips you and won't let go. So, whatfirst evening she's got the problem? Wellhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, the problem is Chrissiebabysitter poorly, the main character. When we first meet her she's just eight years oldmother at work, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a twoan avidly rule-breaking eleven year-old boy, on her lonesome. She's completely cold about what What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she's done with her has one main memory being intention, and that whilst she was killing is to log on to Voxminer, the world- suffocating building, critter- her hands seized upcollecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. There's But first Lori has a clue tiny inkling that Chrissie isnthis stormy night doesn't completely responsible for find herself entirely on her actions a little later in own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the book: when will Steven come back, server she wonders? and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Hasn't he When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been dead for long enoughdoctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482

|author=Catherine SteadmanJenny Lecoat|title=The Disappearing ActBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the cusp end of successthe occupation. Great success. If During the rumours are truewar, award season is going Jean's father was arrested for listening to treat her wella banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, acknowledging leaving Jean and her mother waiting for her latest, critically acclaimed productionyears for news of him. She's going places but so, unfortunately, is her partner. And As the British finally free the Channel islands from the places he's going take him towards liesNazis, deceit and a pretty young thing in the form war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of his new co-starhim. It's But will the truth come as a good time for Mia to escaperelief, and pilot season in LA provides just or will it 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 excuse.occupation?|isbn=14711897831846976537

|authorisbn= Christophe Medler1529428289|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretGrave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= Set against Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the backdrop grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the English Civil WarChief of Police for St Denis, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in to discover the summer identities of 1642the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As a loyal servant of the Kingif this isn't enough to worry about, and Head of the Secret Service, it Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is Robertflowing at record levels. It's duty to uncover not just the details of local autumn rains that have caused the plan problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and follow St Denis faces the clues to uncover one possibility of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the Kinga devastating flood.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ

|authorisbn=Tasha Suri152919640X|title=The Jasmine ThroneSuspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= On the night of her sacred burningThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, Princess Malini defies her brother was murdered live on television and refuses to step on 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 the pyreJessica Holby. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: 's seriously allergic and carries an ancient temple that was once filled with a community EpiPen in case of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless watersemergencies. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, decaying ruinlive television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims It was soon clear that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservantthis was no accident.|isbn=0356515648

|isbn=B088YWF5BC0008385068|title=The Lies We TellMidnight Feast|author=Jane CorryLucy 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 ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine AveryAround here, a Bookbag favourite. ''No, No, No!we're big fans of children' is based around the simplest text imaginables author Rob Keeley. He''Nos a ball of happy positivity, nohe understands children, no! Okayand he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, okaynot to lecture or hector. Yes, you may.''

ThatThe ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It'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 the inside that it appears on spoiled lordling and 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 Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is one struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of the lattera missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it This person, found some of it interestinghe promises, but is someone big and it would not have 'hit home' in will be worth the way that it does nowpolice doing what he wants. I believe it came And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to me not just because I was likely serve the remainder of his sentence and to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's uget an early parole date.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly Not much to ask, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't always turn out think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that wayHardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right nows happening.|isbn=1800461682

|isbn=B095CY7NBN0008405026|title=Autumn CampA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Barry FowlerJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was to be Brian's last campsixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since but he She was leaving school never found and the time had come investigation ground to hand the reins to someone elsea halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. The obvious person was GaryInitially, whoit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there'd always been s something about the fun element positioning of the camps and Brian had said bodies that on this camp, Gary should act as the leader makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and he'd just be there to observeher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The problem with this What looked as though it was that Gary wasn't really going to be an organiser, an administrator if you like. He was the entertainer, the person who basked in the spotlight open-and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did the organisingshut case is now a complex double murder. He handed Kerrigan is convinced that the camp over - and then took it back. And Gary determined to have his revenge. This should have been explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'his'' camps boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=194812467X0571379877|title=The Farm ShopKellerby Code|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Kirelle Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and her best friend Sam the cat decide uses Edward to go run errands for a walkhim. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers Edward has been in her bright yellow wellies love with Stanza since their university days - and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk he's drunkenly confided how he feels to the top of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outsideRobert. It Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a farm shop! But this relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animalsdark passageway. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping. What will they buy?

|isbnauthor=0008404925Jo Callaghan|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane CaseyLeave No Trace|rating=54

|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something When a man is found crucified on the top of a surprise. After allhill in Nuneaton, it was DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her cross-examination of sidekick, the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentenceAI detective Lock. HeIt'd s their first live case together, having previously been accused very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of stalking the woman but it didn't take long unwanted attention to establish that - if anything - it was the other way aroundtheir AI Future Policing project. Soon Ingrid never seemed to Will they be free of John Webster and then she came to see him as a threat and was forced able to remember that solve the police officer at his trial had told her that this was case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the best chance they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was case and, potentially, out of a very dangerous man.career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=00083955941399613073|title=Both of YouMoral Injuries|author=Adele ParksChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=You could be forgiven Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoresa quarter of a century. ThenOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, one Monday, she went which is a bonus when you aim to work and never came homebe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Mark, Oli Laura is a perfectionist and Seb are shattereda trauma doctor. Well, Mark Anjali is the free spirit of the group and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best lookshe becomes a GP. HeWhen we first meet them they's been re at a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it down to him growing up and starting 's going to become independentend in tragedy. SebWe don's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hardt know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missingTwenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. She too has vanished without traceThis time, it's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=14736857450241636604|title=Unbreak Your HeartThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Katie MarshGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionAutobiography|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they If you were on opposite ends to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of an angry exchange someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin- wellstripe suit and his background is the East End, Simon where he was angry familiar with violence, poverty and Beth injustice. There was doing her best no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bikethe London School of Economics. He wasn't hurt but Jake Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has historya facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He has HLHS - also realised that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronymsmost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. When he It was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he ability at what was , essentially, a few days oldcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. SoEventually, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're drivingthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1035021803|title=Otherland|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Myra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loud, bright and hates rules, while Rohan is very polite, 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 day. And so, every year their families get together to celebrate the two's birthday/deathday. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queen, they must journey to the Otherland, a magical realm full of fairies, vampires, dragons, and Gods. ItThe Antique Hunter's going Guide to be the worst night of their lives.|isbn=1788000463}}{{Frontpage|isbn=walker14|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Murder|author=Martin WalkerC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might a request for help his bossfrom her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, chief of detectives JalipeauArthur Crockleford, known as J-Jis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty yearssay the least. The body of a young male Arthur was found in the woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought reason why Freya had not been back to justicethe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull and the resulting publicity Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be used to identify near the young man? or pursue the profession she loved. J-J calls After the skull 'Oscar' split, she worked in a cafe, met and has a picture married James (on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justicethe rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn= Martha LeighAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Invisible InkAll Tomorrow's Futures: A Family MemoirFictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 5|genre= BiographyScience Fiction|summary= Martha Leigh begins her book talking ''Opening up new ways of thinking about a childhood spent in a slightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English familythe shape of things to come. Her father '' 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 Cambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the complete correspondence 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 philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his lifefeeling that it's workall getting away from me. Her mother Some of it is a concert pianist - 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 practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in knows what they're talking about or the practicalities of lifelatest conspiracy theorist. There is love I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in the house but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully way I could understand but knows is there.|isbn=1800460384

|author=Darren ShanSunny Singh|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Hotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=SoThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Having done Hiding from the impossible terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and unpicked Abhi, the lock hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the Forgotten Crypthotel, from which the Departed communicate he forms a bond with the MergeSam who refuses to be cowed by events, Archie now has ''grop'' and keeps on venturing out of her room to think about. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much try to Inezcapture what's amusement, doesn't even know what one of those ishappened through her photography. But he manages to come through Although they only ever talk over the fancy party unscathedphone, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the first volume of this seriesterrorists. |isbn=B093J9TF73086154742X

|authorisbn= Adrian Tchaikovsky1529153298|title= Shards The List of EarthSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 45|genre= Science General Fiction|summary= Eighty years agoIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architectshonestly... Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect) She's not what's worrying Miv's reshapingfamily, though. Then Women have been disappearing. Well, just when they had the human race on the run've been murdered, the Architects vanishedbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. And so, Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselvesfamily 'Down South'. Idris Telemmier When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architectsfrightening, foreign place, does not want to be rememberedbest avoided. But, when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity For Miv, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. As he and his allies bounce from star system to star systemmove would mean leaving her best friend, chased by alien crime syndicatesSharon, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins she'll do anything to realise prevent that . She's not worried about the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.