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|isbnauthor=1529125944Max Boucherat|title=City The Last Life of the Dead|author=Jonathan KellermanLori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=When you drive large vehicles for a living, you're careful and itWe meet Lori on the first evening she's not got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just about the way that you drivean avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. You restrict your alcohol intake What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and if itthat is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a trip tiny inkling that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleep. When youthis stormy night doesn're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 a.m. when the roads are quietert find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even if you have to wait up when you get to where you're goingmore spooky. And it was going well until For the men hit something in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of Los Angelestampering. The man was stark naked When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and couldn't be identified.her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482

|author=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)Jenny Lecoat|title=I May Be WrongBeyond Summerland|rating=54|genre= AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary= When Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiecewar, IJean'm inclined s father was arrested for listening to think it doesn't really matter how the rest a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of the world responds to your bookhim. I knowAs the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, having read and the book in questionwar is finally over, their hopes rise that Lindeblad would disagree with that thoughtthey will finally learn what became of him. He knows (and at core so do I) that But will the truth come as a relief, or will it matters very much how raise further questions around what else happened during the rest of war? Who was the informer who told the world responds to this book, because it tells Nazis about the truth as it is, in radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the early 21st century.occupation?|isbn=15266448271846976537

|isbn=B0949Q1DC11529428289|title=The Patient A Grave in the Woods (A DS Cross thrillerBruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Tim SullivanMartin Walker|rating=54

|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorderBecause of various property transactions, quite probably Asperger's Syndromepeople were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. He can be rudeThey dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, difficult to discover the identities of the bodies and awkward with people, although it's never intentionalestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. It's just that he thinks differently and social niceties simply donAs if this isn't occur enough to himworry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. There's a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and itIt's not just the local autumn rains that he has have caused the best conviction rate with cases, ever. His partner is DS Josie Otteyproblem: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached various dams upstream on another river have had to himself) release water and even attempts to instil some St Denis faces the possibility of those missing social niceties into Cross's behavioura devastating flood.

|isbn=1529151600152919640X|title=Give Unto OthersThe Suspect|author=Donna LeonRob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that Venice has changedthere's only one suspect. The He''pandemia'' stripped the city of its tourists for nearly two years s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and a lot of businesses have closed, most never his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to reopenJessica Holby. ThereShe's now a cascade seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of money emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as life begins again but even 125they can be in a busy,000 deaths have not put an end live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to greedHolby. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going Her EpiPen was nowhere to launder all the money which is coming their way? be found and she was dead within minutes. Whilst he's thinking about It was soon clear that this, Brunetti encounters someone he's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was a child. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and she'd like Brunetti's adviceno accident.

|authorisbn=Marcus Sedgwick0008385068|title=WrathThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley

|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at himselfThe Manor. Lockdown is only just over, It's their opening weekend and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in she's converted it when he talks to his best friendinto an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school bandOwen, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the earthsite. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying The heat is oppressive and amongst the end of the world is already a done deal? Is guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he canwon'tbe long before a body is found...|isbn=1800900899

|isbnauthor=1635864070Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah TalleyWild East|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=If youWritten in verse, this is Ronny've ever started knitting s story, a pair of socksyoung black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to 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 settle in a new town, a new school, finished the first one and either got bored by the idea keep himself out of doing the same thing all over againtrouble. He listens to music constantly, or started on the second sock and lost the first before you finished ithas always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this is the book for you. Where is it that single socks go new school, his teacher encourages him to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed be part of a system that allows you poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to knit two socks in onesee the connections between rap and poetry, divide them up and have a perfectly finished pair the power of socks. Sounds good? It's clever creativity and well-thought-outcrafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|author=Olivie Blake|title=The Atlas Six|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= Dark, sharp, and highly inquisitive, ''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensation.|isbn=1529095239}}{{Frontpage|isbn=00083849831635866847|title=The Paris ApartmentLavender Companion|author=Lucy FoleyJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you 'Things are not what they seem'immediately'. It was a Friday and Jess Hadley was keen to get to her half-brother's flat in Parisfeel that this is the book for you. SheBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''d come across from London on Eurostar, courtesy of I visited the money sheauthor'd stolen from The Perverts [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's till in a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the Copacabana Bar in Brightonhomepage. It wasnI don't likely eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the police would be on to her yet but shebook, which I'd like to be somewhere safe and m avoiding with food some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and drink inside herI was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. She'd phoned Ben and got You get to fold down the address - 12 Rue des Amants - and he told her corners of pages. You suspect that the apartment was on the third floorsmears of butter would not be a problem. SheI ''s outside whatloved's obviously a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get in touch with Benthis book already.

|isbnauthor=0760373558Rob Keeley|title=Nordic Knits|author=Sue FlandersChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=I was so delighted by Sue Flanders' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, MittenAround here, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didnwe't need any persuading at all to pick up her re big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He'Nordic Knits''. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norway, Sweden and Iceland. There are s a few sweaters or jackets but the majority ball of patterns are for smaller items such as mittenshappy positivity, gloveshe understands children, hats and bags. All are bright and cheerful and very cosy.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1916072038|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from he writes for their home at Ecklington, to the house in the hollow. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths pleasure and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectabilityenjoyment, the deplorable truth''. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal not to do as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''lecture or hector.

Then we are told The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of the birth his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a child stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, andEdward, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame a spoiled lordling and isolation in Yorkshire.the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|author=Matthieu AikinsJenny Valentine|title=The Naked Don't Fear Us in the WaterBefore and After|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTeens|summary=It's easy to forget at times Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fictioneven, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This their friendship is not by any means a criticism, but rather once in a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at times painful journeythe time. There But then chance brings them back together, and they are tense moments inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way now they must work through. But it's written with a haunting their grief, and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people describedtheir friendship, together.|isbn= B09N9157T61471196585

|author=Jorn Lier Horst Kieran Larwood and Thomas EngerJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=This is Meet Kit. Like most of the third book people in a series of stories featuring Alexander Blixhis world, a police officer, and Emma Rammit seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a crime journalist. In this book we find that when one team of Blix's colleagueswarrior, Kovicmage and healer enter specially prepared, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries to contact her superior, Blix. Before she can reach him, howevercentury-old, she is murderedmagical mazes, and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares race to the same apartmentexit, narrowly escapes being murdered too. We then find ourselves a few days later perhaps bothering with Blix the treasure or the big bad and Ramm, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenpoints they grant you along the way. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003}}{{Frontpage|author=Daniel Abraham|title=Age of Ash|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary= We meet Alys under Unfortunately for Kit, the most northerly of Oldgateonly thing he's four bridgesseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile, the City new trio of Kithamar questors is at a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possibleneeded. It is Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the night between goading from the funeral token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a Prince and the coronation of his successorteam. For a night the Kithamar is unWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-ruled.zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=03565154271839945184

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a warning but little uncertainty about the future of his life with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of a his vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great girlfriend, Livia and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realismher daughter Diana, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and - after reading - I agree relaxing life to move in with him. He says that he's written it Livia or does Livia move to inform Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eatingputting the future on the back burner.

|isbn=17876348841786482126|title=The HerdJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Emily EdwardsElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Our story opens Builders were demolishing an old house in December 2019, before most Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of us had even heard of Covid a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or realised murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that whether or she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not we should be vaccinated would come least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to be a major issueapproach the police. WeNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he're in Farley County Court, s prepared to tell the police where Elizabeth the body of a missing person is buried and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and Ash Kohliit will be worth the police doing what he wants. As they were best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened And what he wants is major to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and thatto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, regardless of is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the outcome, this other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is not going to work out kept well for anyoneaway from what's happening.

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

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

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

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

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

|authorisbn=Christopher Edge1399613073|title=Escape RoomMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=I've seen junior variants Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – free spirit of the process by which group and she becomes a character or characters start by being trapped in GP. When we first meet them they're at a specific location, drug and alcohol-fuelled party and have it's going to solve problems end in order to get their way outtragedy. What I We don've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with t know who suffered the regular second person narrative replaced by tragedy or the firstconsequences. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to each other and booked into Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the game without any of their three friends. This time, are a team – starting out at the gameit's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer teenage children who are a world-changerinvolved. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964

|isbn=17328987310241636604|title=The Boy Who Loved BoxesTrading Game: A Children's Book for AdultsConfession|author=Michael Albanese Gary Stevenson

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

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

|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the third murder in the space of a few weeks and theyEnglish country village where she grew up. She've all been s back now because of machetes used on teenagersa request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. DS Nikki Parekh Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first circumstances seem suspicious, to arrive on say the least. Arthur was the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on reason why Freya had not been back to the outskirts of Bradfordvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. OnlyEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, this time, it's going she has not felt able to be differentnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. The body appears to Nikki to be that After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her beloved nephewlife, Haqibwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, and she has I must confess that there have been more than a very public meltdownfew decades of technology in my lifetime. It isnI't Haqib: there are similarities ve kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the body feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is clad in designer clothes - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and comes from an obviously monied backgroundend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety I needed people I knew I could trust and depressionwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Ally WilkesSunny Singh|title=All the White SpacesHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=HorrorThrillers |summary=In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an Arctic expedition led unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathanterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, this adventure represents a chance wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a fresh start, and the opportunity bond with Sam who refuses to live life as his authentic self and true genderbe cowed by events, without the disapproval and constraints keeps on venturing out of his parentsher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. However, Jonathan isn't the Although they only one fleeing ever talk over the confines of his past phone, 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 shadow terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expeditionSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... Guilt) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, mistrust and grief stalk the party andthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land've been murdered, a menacing presence waits but to prey on their darknesshave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. If Jonathan is Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to make it out of move the Arctic winter alivefamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, he will have to face his demons once and for allbest avoided. For Miv, or risk making the barrenmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, icy landscape his tomband she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1789097835