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|isbn=18031363831529428289|title=Tin SoldiersA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=David ChadwickMartin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob 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

|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of a cloudthe site. What actually happened out there The heat is gossiped about oppressive and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice be settled and disgrace seems to it won't be the consensus. Wat himself long before a body is keeping his cards close to his chest, as he always doesfound.

|isbnauthor=B0C7J9D21BAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J LewisWild East

|genre=Historical FictionTeens|summary=When we first meet our heroWritten in verse, his name this is Ettore Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and he lives start at The House of Beautiful Swallowsa mostly white school. Idyllic as this might sound, itThe 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 bordello new school, and Ettore's mother died when he was bornkeep himself out of trouble. He's not been short listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of mothersbeing a rapper. But now, though - but for someone in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfia poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, it's difficult Ronny begins to obtain decent employment. The stint working with see the preparation of anchovies didn't work out connections between rap and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - poetry, and determined - the power of creativity and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some moneycrafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1635866847|title=After DeathThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary= Michael MaceIt's strange, Head of Securitythe things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', at I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when picture of a virus is released in a bioslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -hazard accidentbut I wanted that cake viscerally. Finding himself in (There's a makeshift mortuary, covered recipe in plasticthe book, he has which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a sense that something very, very bad has happened mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at fold down the shrouded bodies corners of his dead friends and former colleaguespages. As he recovers his senses, he realises You suspect that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''smears of butter would not be a problem. Michael isnI 't 'loved'Michael'' anymorethis book already.|isbn=1662500467}}

|author=Jamie LittlerRob Keeley|title=ArkspireChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|summary=Two sistersAround here, Juniper and Elodiewe're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, born fifteen minutes aparthe understands children, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter he writes for their pleasure and trader in illicit magicenjoyment, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlandsnot to lecture or hector. Elodie  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of the Watcherghost stories centring on Ellie, the closest to a ruler the district has, and one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the magic that only five people stalwart young girl who can use would definitely change cope with anything the status of the whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of spirit world throws at her own – for good, or for veryand Edward, very bad…a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=02415861431783064617

|author=Thiago de MoraesJenny Valentine|title=Old Gods New Tricks|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form Us in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods Before and so on known as the tricksters.|isbn=178845295X}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexia Casale|title=Sing if you Can't DanceAfter

|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability tooeven, but that's what Ven their friendship is dealing with after collapsing on stage a once in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her lifelifetime connection. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get back to a life thateach other's as normal as she can possibly managecontact details at the time. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort outBut then chance brings them back together, and just the day-to-day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigatethey are inseparable. So even Something has happened though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through instead?their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=05713738011471196585

|author=Helen PetersKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Friends and TraitorsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=34

|summary=England, WW2Meet Kit. Two young girls are new at Like most of the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancypeople in his world, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the female generations before her. The other is Sidneysport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, a girl from a hoitycentury-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk old, magical mazes, and cheeserace to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it sothe points they grant you along the way. But something Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is amissthat one team has been retired, eaten, and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'unnew trio of questors is needed. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecyPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, talk is made he has taken to the goading from the token bully of meetings with Germans, his world and not only that, stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a local Spitfire factory has been attackedteam. But surely the girls are wrongWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and the upper class how could never be so underhandhe possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=17880046471839945184

|isbnauthor=0241996104Saima Mir|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane CorryVengeance|rating=43.5

|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted I was instantly intrigued by the premise of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the court, after Martin receives north of England run by a life sentenceMuslim woman. The barrister tells her fact that she's received it was the second in a series I hadn'silent sentencet read didn' - shet stop me – I's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, ve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and itneedn's made worse because Nancyt be a hindrance if it's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of itgood enough. And that wasn''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet t a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spokenI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561

|isbnauthor=1529413680Stuart Douglas|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=One of During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the main events dead body of a woman on the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment edge of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friendsa reservoir. It's all been very carefully choreographed The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelinsomething about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the man playing one help of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the scripta fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. LuckilyThey travel across the country during their days off filming, his doctor is there uncovering more possible murders and , seemingly, a link to death during the man is whisked away in a helicopterSecond World War. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's But is there really a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - link between the military has stepped in. deaths? One daughter lives nearby and another, And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=1529196388B0CYV674G2|title=The TrialSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Rob RinderDavid Blake|rating=43.5

|summary=Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and honest blood - and looked up to by just about everyonecarrying a knife, so there was public uproar when comes into the police station shouting that he was murdered in plain sight hasn't killed the man. A body at the Old Bailey. Therebottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just one man in back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the frame birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for his murder - Jimmy Knight - an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with ClivedenJohn Tanner's murderwere made for each other. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and itHe's Taylorsleep-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knightdeprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylorkeep going -Cameronprobably because he can's recommendations to the contraryt get any sleep at home.

|authorisbn=Essie Fox1787333175|title=The FascinationYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=Historical FictionPopular Science|summary= The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to more than a few writers mishandling it. ThereWork Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's such first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glut glorious mixture of media set in insight into the era that workings of the hallmarks weNHS, humour and autobiography. 've come 'You Don't Have to associate with it are familiar be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the point work of being cliched, hackneyed evena psychiatrist. All I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is simply to illustrate that directed at a situation rather than a person and it would be an easy thing to do poorly. But despite that, something about it still grabs me – is always delivered with empathy and something about this book's description did as wellunderstanding.|isbn=1914585526

|author=Andrew CartmelOnyi Nwabineli|title=Death in Fine ConditionAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fictionAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, and in particular a series called Sleuth Hound. She spends thanks to her time hunting out copies that she can sell step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on for profitsocial media, sometimes where she posted every step of Anuri'tweaking' thems childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, to add valuebasically, in somewhat fraudulent waysmonetary gain. One day Now Anuri is in her twenties and she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the background of a photograph on content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her drug dealer's living room wallPhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so . Most importantly, she sets is desperately worried about discovering where this collection her little sister, who is, and how she can steal it! Itthe new focus of Ophelia's a next-level step in online empire. Can she save her petty crime career, but has she reached too farsister, and what will happen when perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the owner of the collection comes looking for their bookssame time?|isbn=17890989470861546873

|isbnauthor=1529507987David Chadwick|title=The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Headload of Napalm

|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard daySeptember 1973 in Hicks, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worthCalifornia. You see, the value Hicks is in what these possessions are worth to the a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people who own them with its nearest neighbours of LA and the memories they holdLas Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. No expense appears to be spared A silver mine and a defence contractor are the experts spend as main local employers but otherwise, there's not much time of note other than dive bars and effort as Joshua trees. Life is required to achieve the desired resultquiet, until... Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. But how did they start?|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|author=Nicole JarvisTom Percival|title=A Portrait in ShadowThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=Will''I want all s life is difficult, in a multitude of Florence to know my nameways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art he has the wrong shoes because his dad can find a home 't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and where her future his dad can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from 't work because he lost his job at the powerful Accademiacollege, the selfwas working a cash-in-proclaimed guardians of hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the healing magics fact that through paintings have the power to protect the city his mum and its citizens from plagues dad are separated, and cursesWill's life seems bleak in every direction. The all-male Accademia And yet, he still has hoarded power over a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art , and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To themclings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their societydark tunnel.|isbn=18033623401398527122

|isbnauthor=B0BVDC2VWHSylvie Cathrall|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William FrankA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a Witching Forestcompelling premise. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive this is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout one of a man is toleratedthem. |isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=024162343X0008517061|title=Stolen HistoryDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Sathnam SangheraStig Abell|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I was the bad company other people got Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at schoolLittle Sky. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of There’s perhaps a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after little uncertainty about the end future of WWIIhis life with his vet girlfriend, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (Livia and occasional failuresher daughter Diana, but we didn't dwell on those) as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in what came with Livia or does Livia move to be called 'Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the colonies' as want to dispute what right future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the army had to be there moment they’re enjoying life in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked present and putting the maturity to approach 'future on the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''back burner.

|authorisbn=Amanda Craig1786482126|title=Three GracesThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the statesite was going to hold seventy-offive 'luxury' apartments -when they discovered the-nation novelbones of a child beneath a doorway. Therewas no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture itdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig she is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous pregnant with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such his child as a gift for weaving the ongoing issues result of the day into the lives one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselvessickness.|isbn= 140871468X

|isbn=14483093790008551324|title=Flesh and Blood The Devil You Know (DS McAvoy 11D S Max Craigie)|author=David MarkNeil Lancaster|rating=34.5

|summary=It's something of a surprise unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to find that you're dead, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on a break with your wife approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and children, but thathe's what happened prepared to DS Aector McAvoytell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Whilst he was relieved to find that This person, he was still, officially, alivepromises, is someone big and it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoahwill be worth the police doing what he wants. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early hours of the morning when parole date. Not much to ask, is it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, was not. ? Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoyThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's doppelganger even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and not everyone anyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aectorworks with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=09571811670008405026|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian LewisA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Alan MarshallJane Casey

|genre=ArtCrime|summary=There are few positive things which can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, in trying to avoid looking at a problem I It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls - and was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewisinvestigation ground to a halt. I searched online Now, her mother, Helena, and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and the print I wanted was ‘not available’her father are dead in their bed. OhInitially, dear - then it looks like a few doors down from straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the apartment, I found a gift shop with a stack positioning of brand new books the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open- and -shut case is now a framed print of complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the picture I wantedexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Simon Fox0571379877|title=DeadlockThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Late one night Graham Blake Edward Jevons is late back from a working-class young man, obsessed with his shift on the forceupper-class friends, Robert and then suddenly rings ArchieStanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, handsome and join entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him on the run. They get together, Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father he's not like most men: Edward is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express left to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and stumble upon the bearer two of them kissing in a whole heap of questionsdark passageway.|isbn=1839944420

|author=Shalini BolandJo Callaghan|title=The Silent BrideLeave No Trace|rating=34|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Alice and Seth are When a man is found crucified on the top of a match made hill in heavenNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. He is everything she has It's their first live case together, having previously been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-materialvery successful with several cold cases. She But when there is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successfulsecond body found crucified a few days later, confident… and so the inevitable proposal Kat is eagerly accepted by Alice suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and the wedding is planned and seta very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. When Will they be able to solve the much-anticipated day arrivescase in time, Alice is walked down or will Kat find herself taken off the aisle by her father, beaming with pride case and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar ispotentially, who is waiting for her to become his wife.out of a career?|isbn=1662507089139851120X

|authorisbn=Mark Edwards1399613073|title=Keep Her SecretMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|summary= Matthew Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first metfriendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches Olivia is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this momentruthlessly ambitious, even if it kills her… which it nearly does is a bonus when the edge of you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a ravine gives way perfectionist and Helena finds herself clinging to a trauma doctor. Anjali is the rockface with just free spirit of the snagged strap of her rucksack between her group and she becomes a 500 foot drop to certain death belowGP. Convinced she is When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to die, Helena must purge herself of end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthewconsequences. Just moments Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helenateenage children who are involved.|isbn=166250893X

|isbn=B0BYF82CXT0241636604|title=Semi-DetachedThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Deborah StoneGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you''Bill re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and Amanda are living in a semijeans replaces the pin-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom stripe suit and disappointmenthis background is the East End, when Terry and Fiona – glamorouswhere he was familiar with violence, successful poverty and very much in love – move in next doorinjustice. Despite their different outlooks There was no posh public school on life, his CV - but he had been to the couples befriend each other London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and life appears he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to improve for both pairsbe stupid. But all is not It was his ability at what it seemswas, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedythis turned into permanent employment as a trader.''

|isbn=17876360031035021803|title=The Girls of SummerAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Katie BishopC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Caroline went backpacking around Greece Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and arrived on the islandcircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she Arthur wasthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, perhapsshe feels, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest let her down badly. Even though they were in herbusiness together as antique hunters, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach has not felt able to her and by that time be near the man or pursue the profession she was obsessed by himloved. Alistair After the split, she worked for Henry Taylorin a cafe, looking after his interests met and married James (on the island rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partiedFreya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1529135389AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The FallAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Gilly MacmillanBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Nicole Booth had spent ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the morning at the county fair before she returned homeshape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. There was no sign Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of her husband technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but opera was playing on I'm left with the state-feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some ofit is -thefrankly -art music system installed in The Glass Barnquite frightening. They'd not been in Of course, I could research the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long possibilities and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other probabilities and didnend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I't work as reliably as m reading someone who knows what they should're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win I needed people I knew I could trust and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead who could deliver information in the swimming pool with a wound to his headway I could understand.

|author=Alan ParksSunny Singh|title=To Die in JuneHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=What first seems like The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the unfortunateterrorists who are rampaging through, accidental death of a homeless man killing everyone on the streetssite, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body there is discoveredSam, a wartime photographer and then anotherAbhi, the hotel manager. This is worrying enough As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for detective Harry McCoythe residents who are still alive in the hotel, but all the more so because his own father is he forms a down-and-out alcoholic, bond with no fixed abodeSam who refuses to be cowed by events, and he has been for yearskeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. At Although they only ever talk over the same time phone, their friendship grows as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move Abhi tries to a different police station, help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be foundterrorists. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784086154742X

|authorisbn=Laura Noakes1529153298|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Number OneIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Or rather(A woman? I mean, Cosima Unfortunatehonestly. ..) Or ratherShe's not what's worrying Miv's family, just Cos to her friendsthough. Women have been disappearing. The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledgerWell, and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilitiesve been murdered, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly uponbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. But Cosima bears the tag as a surname Miv's upset because nothing else seems she's overheard that her father wants to be known about where she came from, as move the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in the outside world'Down South'. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes When you're from the kitchen one afternoonYorkshire, she discovers Down South is a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institutefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. But whyFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and what does she'll do anything to prevent that body entail? . And could it possibly bring Cos closer She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059anyone.

|authorisbn=Thomas D Lee1398524085|title=Perilous TimesHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=35|genre= FantasyCrime|summary= Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Hate s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the path body of least resistanceGreg'' Set in the near-distant futures father, Duncan Ackerley, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great perilriver. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) It was an easy assumption for the police to save make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the day guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and rescue wonder about what little remainsreally happened. What no one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|isbn=0356518523

|authorisbn=Madelaine Lucas1035906708|title=Thirst for SaltDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd readWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was supposed born to be a light Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and weightless feeling, only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but I had always longed for gravityher father changed it to 'Callas' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels to make it more manageable in the yearStates. When she was back in Athens -long relationship supposedly so that once defined she could get appropriate training for her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives voice - she was raised under the affair with Nazi occupation by a man twenty years mother who mercilessly exploited her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop and made no secret of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst her preference for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older loverelder sister, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocablyJackie.|isbn=0861546490