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|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that 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 tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, 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 occupation?|isbn=14091816691846976537}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529428289|title=The MaidensA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Alex MichaelidesMartin Walker|rating=54

|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with them boththree sets of bones. She needed They dated back to think carefully about what she knew World War II and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the death identities of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed bodies and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara establish whether or not a crime had been her best friend and she was struggling to copecommitted. Mariana wasnAs if this isn't ''entirely'' happy enough to worry about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from KingDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all not just the more so by local autumn rains that have caused the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident problem: various dams upstream on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe another river have had been their surrogate daughter after to release water and St Denis faces the death possibility of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Elizaa devastating flood.

|authorisbn=Maisie Chan152919640X|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Danny is eleven years oldThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and what he really, really loves to do is drawit seems that there's only one suspect. He creates fantastical comics, whilst 's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his best friend Ravi adds the wordscontract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. DannyShe's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, seriously allergic and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw carries an EpiPen in secret and in peacecase of emergencies. But then one day his parents tell him Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they have can be in a surprise for himbusy, live television studio - and this surprise turns out Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with them, found and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk of his bunk bed! was dead within minutes. Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks It was soon clear that this was no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around the townaccident. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X

|authorisbn=Terry Miles0008385068|title=RabbitsThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley

|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=Welcome to It's midsummer on the world of Dorset coast and guests gather at The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this bookManor. It'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 their opening weekend and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry pointsplendid celebrations are promised. A bit like the game of life then It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. Yes, this is the game of life The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webswealthy and famous. People like our hero Her husband, KOwen, named like that in was the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K architect and his bezzies are trying to be historians work is still ongoing on parts of the game, site. The heat is oppressive and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game guests are in the most peculiar places, and enemies as well as friends. Old scores are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally going to be settled and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if itwon's even being played, and how his loved ones might t be kept safe, he long before a body is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed.found..|isbn=1529016932

|author=C J CareyAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=WidowlandWild East|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=ItWritten in verse, this is Ronny's April 1953story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and Adolf Hitlerstart at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around safety after a bittragic event, and watching over the sanctioned return so Ronny finds himself trying to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved settle in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know ita new town, and we are now a protectorate – wellnew school, we share enough and keep himself out of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''trouble. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenologyHe listens to music constantly, and ideas of female purpose, has put all always dreamed of that gender into being a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widowsrapper. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And But now, in this puritanical existencenew school, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature his teacher encourages him to take all encouragement for female emancipation out be part of it – after alla poetry writing workshop group and, not every book can be bannedslowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and not every story excised immediately from British civilisationpoetry, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs power of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visitcreativity and crafting your words.|isbn=152941198X0241645441

|authorisbn=Louise Beech1635866847|title=This Is How We Are HumanThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=Veronica It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is a devoted single mother to her sonthe book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', Sebastian - but she canI visited the author't give him everything he wantss [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Sebastian has decided that itcom/ website] and there's time for him to have sexa picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. But as an autistic 20 year I don't eat cakes and desserts -old, but I wanted thatcake viscerally. (There's easier said than donea recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. And it Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved''s starting to cause them both problemsthis book already. |isbn=1913193713

|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LRob Keeley|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker BittickChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Meet BosnerAround here, or, to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosnerwe're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. We never really find out if he has a first name: thereHe's merely a hint that ball of happy positivity, he had the nickname understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.  The ''SecretaryChildish Spirits' at one point. He's simply Bosner to series is one and allof his greatest achievements. When we first encounter him heIt's exploring his memories a sequence of 2008 when he was a greaser ghost stories centring on helicopters (or helosEllie, as they were called) a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at a naval establishment. The hours could be long her, and he was often working nights but at the age of twenty-oneEdward, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking spoiled lordling and eating) into his day.the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|author=Hannah WhittenJenny Valentine|title=For Us in the WolfBefore and After

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward placesIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. But A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that's London, isnhe hasn't it? Whatkilled the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, been stabbed to death. DCI Jim Daley and John Tanner is just back from his colleaguehoneymoon, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for which coincided with the airport straight awaybirth of his daughter Samantha. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the plane words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were dead before take offmade for each other. How could that be? The sort He's sleep-deprived to the point of tech which would make that possible isnfalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't available to the paying publicget any sleep at home. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?

|authorisbn=Richard Brook1787333175|title=Understanding Human Nature: A UserYou Don's Guide t Have to be Mad to LifeWork Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=LifestylePopular Science|summary= I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book Iwas tempted to read 'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit homeYou Don' in the way that it does now. I believe it came t Have to me not just because I was likely be Mad to give it a favourable review [ Work Here''full disclosure The Bookbagafter enjoying Adam Kay's u.s.p. first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomlyGoing to Hurt}}, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the bookNHS, even if it doesnhumour and autobiography. ''You Don't always turn out that wayHave to be Mad...'' ] – promised the same elements but also because moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a book I needed to read, right nowsituation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.|isbn=1800461682

|isbnauthor=B095CY7NBNOnyi Nwabineli|title=Autumn Camp|author=Barry FowlerAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|summary=It was Anuri spent her childhood on display to be Brianthe world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's last campincreasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago Now Anuri is in her twenties and had done all the organisation since but he was leaving school she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and the time had come to hand get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the reins content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to someone elsestart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. The obvious person was GaryMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who'd always been is the fun element new focus of the camps and Brian had said that on this camp, Gary should act as the leader and heOphelia'd just be there to observe. The problem with this was that Gary wasn't really an organiser, an administrator if you likes online empire. He was the entertainerCan she save her sister, the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in perhaps herself and did her relationship with her father at the organising. He handed the camp over - and then took it back. And Gary determined to have his revenge. This should have been ''his'' camp.same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbnauthor=194812467XDavid Chadwick|title=The Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=Kirelle It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for Las Vegas both a walksignificant drive away. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers Not much happens in her bright yellow wellies Hicks. A silver mine and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of a defence contractor are the hillmain local employers but otherwise, they see a big barn with a sign outside. Itthere's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders not much of note other than dive bars and customers are farmyard animalsJoshua trees. There are sheep and ducks and cowsLife is quiet, goats and chickens, and even some miceuntil... Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping. What will they buy?|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=0008404925Tom Percival|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane CaseyWrong Shoes

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of Will's life is difficult, in a surprise. After all, it was her cross-examination multitude of the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentenceways. Heis bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'd been accused of stalking , he has the woman but it didnwrong shoes because his dad can't take long to establish that - if anything - it was work and doesn't have enough money for even the other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free most basic of John Webster things like food, and then she came to see him as a threat and was forced to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance theydad can'd had to put Webster away for a long time: t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a very dangerous manbuilding site and had an accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008395594|title=Both of You|author=Adele Parks|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking Throw into that mix the fact that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband his mum and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Thendad are separated, one Monday, she went to work and never came homeWill's life seems bleak in every direction. MarkAnd yet, Oli and Seb are shatteredhe still has a tiny amount of hope. WellHe is good at art, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at clings to the stage where moments of joy when he thinks boredom is his best look. He's been drawing, that feel like a bit off with Leigh for light at the end of a while but she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independent. Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssenlong, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without tracedark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=1473685745Sylvie Cathrall|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best A Letter to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}}{{Frontpage|author=Louie Stowell|title=OtherlandLuminous Deep

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary= Myra and Rohan There 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 dayfew greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And so, every year their families get together to celebrate the two's birthday/deathday. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa this is taken by the fairy queen, they must journey to the Otherland, a magical realm full one of fairies, vampires, dragons, and Gods. It's going to be the worst night of their livesthem.|isbn=17880004630356522776

|isbn=walker140008517061|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Martin WalkerStig Abell

|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief future of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his bosslife with his vet girlfriend, chief of detectives JalipeauLivia and her daughter Diana, known as Jmoving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-J, grid and relaxing life to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty years. The body of a young male was found move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the woods but he was never identified future she wants for herself and his killer never brought to justice. her daughter? What if an artist could recreate For the face from moment they’re enjoying life in the skull present and putting the resulting publicity be used to identify the young man? J-J calls future on the skull 'Oscar' and has a picture 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 justiceback burner.

|authorisbn= Martha Leigh1786482126|title= Invisible Ink: A Family MemoirThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyCrime|summary= Martha Leigh begins her book talking about Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a childhood spent in child beneath a slightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English familydoorway. There was no skull. Her father is Was this a Cambridge donritual killing or murder? Inevitably, forever clacking away on his typewriter Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as he edits the complete correspondence of the philosopher Jean-Jacques RousseauRuth knows, his lifebut Nelson doesn's work. Her mother t, that she is pregnant with his child as a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in result of the practicalities of lifeone night they spent together some three months ago. There is love in the house but also darker undercurrents that a child does Her condition will be obvious before long, not fully understand but knows least because Ruth is thereprone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1800460384

|authorisbn=Darren Shan0008551324|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=SoIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Having done Neither side likes or has any respect for the impossible other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and unpicked he's prepared to tell the lock to police where the Forgotten Cryptbody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, from which he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the Departed communicate with police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the Merge, Archie now has ''grop'' remainder of his sentence and to think aboutget an early parole date. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, Not much to Inez's amusementask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even know what one of those is. But he manages prepared to come through do the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this serieshim is kept well away from what's happening. |isbn=B093J9TF73

|authorisbn= Adrian Tchaikovsky0008405026|title= Shards of EarthA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= Eighty It's sixteen years ago, Earth since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by never found and the moon-sized aliens known as the Architectsinvestigation ground to a halt. Humanity is scattered Now, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect's reshaping. Thenher mother, just when they had the human race on the runHelena, the Architects vanishedand her father are dead in their bed. And so Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the memories positioning of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselvesher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architects, does not want What looked as though it was going to be remembered. But, when he an open-and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he -shut case is thrust back into the spotlightnow a complex double murder. As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise Kerrigan is convinced that the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=18484584280571379877|title=Local Woman MissingThe Kellerby Code|author=Mary KubicaJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Eleven years ago, Edward Jevons is a working-class young man regularly came home to his wife , obsessed with lipstick marks on his collar upper-class friends, Robert and lame excuses as to why he was late - againStanza. His wife was in the habit of going out for Robert's a run late at nighttheatre director. It was the only time she had for herself when she didnHe't have to look after her baby s also self- but when she was out she would meet up with a manobsessed, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeareddemanding, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband handsome and entitled and uses Edward to look after her disabled babyrun errands for him. Ten Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days later, a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and shehe'd seemed s drunkenly confided how he feels to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or soRobert. Her body was eventually found Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a seedy motel - it appeared that sherelationship had begun between them but he'd committed suicide. She s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for herdark passageway.

|author=Nicolas BouvierJo Callaghan|title=The Japanese ChroniclesLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=TravelCrime|summary= It never does to start When a review man is found crucified on the top of a book with a quote from hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the blurbcase alongside her sidekick, but sometimes itthe AI detective Lock. It's unavoidabletheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Le Monde reviewed this book, at some point But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with the words ''what the old master craftsmen would call a masterpiece.'' It is precisely potential serial killer and a very high profile case that. A masterpiece in the sense draws a lot of the craft as well as the art of writingunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. I'm going Will they be able to hesitate to call it 'travel writing' because this is as much a history of Japansolve the case in time, a mythology-primer for or will Kat find herself taken off the Japanese culture as it is case and, potentially, out of a personal response to living and travelling in the country. career?|isbn=1906011044139851120X

|authorisbn=Genevieve Gornichec1399613073|title=The Witch's HeartMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary= A modern Olivia, Laura and approachable reimagining Anjali met on the first day of the Norse myths that centres around 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 witch named Angrbodacardiothoracic surgeon. She hides in Laura is a perfectionist and a forest at trauma doctor. Anjali is the edge free spirit of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that group and she was survived burnt becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at the stake three times because of Odina drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's wrath. Her attempts going to live end in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her alonetragedy. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki We don's charms, and t know who suffered the tragedy or the two start consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son eerily similar event that's a wolfwill impact the three friends. This time, and another son thatit's a snaketheir teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1789097061

|isbn=17885497590241636604|title=The Distant DeadTrading Game: A Confession|author=Lesley ThomsonGary Stevenson

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=It was December 1940 If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and twentyjeans replaces the pin-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for stripe suit and his background is the evening 'East End, where he was familiar with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old sonviolence, William, at home with her parentspoverty and injustice. The boy thought that Maple There was no posh public school on his sister CV - it was better for the family than the shame of illegitimacy, but Maple he had high hopes been to the London School of putting her life (Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and William's) on he has a better footingfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. She He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was going to meet her well-to-do fiancé, hoping to persuade essentially, a card game which got him to come and meet her family the following weekan internship with Citibank. LaterEventually, her body would be found in the bombed-out home where he had taken herthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=15294072491035021803|title=The Perfect LieAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Jo SpainC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happy's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's always back now because of a dangerous thing to do when yourequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya're married to a cop but she was hopeful. Theys former mentor and Carole'd been married for six months s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and life was good with a decent apartment by the sea in Newportcircumstances seem suspicious, Long Islandto say the least. The knock on Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the door was insistent and when it was openedvillage: Arthur, Danny's partnershe feels, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officerslet her down badly. Danny took one look Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, turned, walked she has not felt able to be near the open window and jumped to his death from man or pursue the fourth floorprofession she loved. Eighteen months laterAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, Erin would be met and married James (on trial for the rebound from the love of her husband's murderlife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1523092734AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=A WomenAll Tomorrow's Guide to Claiming SpaceFutures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Eliza Van CortBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and againOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)

I've heard it said that 'technology'To claim space is to live the life what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of choosing unapologetically and bravelytechnology in my lifetime. It is I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to live me but I'm left with the life youfeeling that it've always wanteds all getting away from me. Some of it is - 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 knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a time when violence against women is much luxury hotel in the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my deska terrorist group. Now - to be clear - this book Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is not Sam, a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effectivewartime photographer and Abhi, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''hotel manager. I've always thought that women need As Abhi continues to try to rise above thiscare remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be people who doncowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what't need protection, people who claim their own spaces happened through her photography. If all women did thisAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, those few men who are violent their friendship grows as Abhi tries to women would realise that we are not just an easy target help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be used to prove that rescued before they are big mendiscovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529153298|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 The List of 3Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=The second trilogy in ShanIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what'Merges worrying Miv'' saga opens with our heros family, Archiethough. Women have been disappearing. Well, back in London in the world of the Born. Itthey's not ve been easymurdered, explaining but to his foster parents where hehave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's beenoverheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Mergeforeign place, but Archie has done his bestavoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben She's clock tower and except for fiddling with not worried about the dangers or that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awayher Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ