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|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR0241636604|title=On the BeachThe Trading Game: The Winter VisitorA Confession|author=Chris Green and Jenny FiondaGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=Kit and Teal If you were just beginning to wonder whether it was better bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab think of silvery ice drifted onto the shorelinesomeone like Gary Stevenson. On top of A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the ice East End, where he was a polar bear. As the ice bumped onto the sandfamiliar with violence, the bear woke poverty and with wobbly legs moved from the iceinjustice. Kit There was all for making a run for it, no posh public school on his CV - but Teal knew that he had been to the bear was hungry London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and gave him one apple and then anotherhe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He obviously needed also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be taken home on the bus and given stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a good meal and somewhere to sleepcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. What else would you do?Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Claire North1035021803|title=House of OdysseusThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre= Literary Fiction Crime|summary= It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'What could matter more than love?s back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole' The follow-up s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left offleast. In Arthur was the palace of Odysseusreason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without let her husbanddown badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, who sailed she has not felt able to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for be near the throne of man or pursue the Western Islesprofession she loved. Having survived – politically and physical – After the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shoressplit, she worked in a cafe, Queen Penelope is met and married James (on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with rebound from the return love of Orestes, King of Mycenaeher life, who was murdered) and Freya and his sister Elektra, seeking refugeJames have now divorced.|isbn=0356516075

|isbn=1529427045AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Girl in the EagleAll Tomorrow's TalonsFutures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Karin SmirnoffBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=''Life has more Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to offer than people - prime numbers for examplecome.''.

Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of GasskasI've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area I must confess that there have sparked been more than a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow few decades of technology in coming forwardmy lifetime. SalanderI's nieceve kept up reasonably well with what's mother is the latest woman in the area advantageous to have vanished without trace. It was only me but I'm left with reluctance the feeling that Salander became her nieceit's guardian but all getting away from me. Some of it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager - 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 whoknows what they's unaware of re talking about or the part Salander played latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in her father's deatha way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=B0CCCPJJ5BSunny Singh|title=The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew TreeHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our narrator was The Hotel Arcadia is a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finnsluxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a boarder wartime photographer and had money to throw around on a Rolex watchAbhi, vintage wines and a state-of-the-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintanceshotel manager. Finns had no intention of going on As Abhi continues to try to Universitycare remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, unlike our storyteller he forms a bond with Sam who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingfordrefuses to be cowed by events, the UKand keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's third most prestigious universityhappened through her photography. Before going up Although they only ever talk over the phone, he took up a loose invitation their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorsetsee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1529153298|title=The House at the End List of the WorldSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=When you experience overwhelming tragedy It's 1979 and feel that there Margaret Thatcher is no one on your sidePrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, you can either suck it uphonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat but to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitudehave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. ThatMiv's what Katie thought upset because she was doing when she shut down 's overheard that her old life father wants to start afresh on Jacobmove the family 'Down South'. When you's Ladder; and all re from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would have been the aforementioned peace mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and solitude were it she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing worried about the end of all mankinddangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1662453159

|authorisbn=T Kingfisher1398524085|title=ThornhedgeHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''You had a right to retake your places fiftieth birthday party but never turned up.'' T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and well belovedher daughter, Etty. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a towerare all worried but - strangely - her husband, sleeping under an eternal enchantmentAlec, Thornhedge is not her story. Instead Shortly afterwards, our protagonist is ToadlingEtty and Greg, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to find the land body of fairie where her childhood Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was spent being taught how an easy assumption for the police to draw magic from her veins make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and cast spellswonder about what really happened.|isbn=1803364238

|isbn= B0CCCVRSGX1035906708|title=Stories 2Diva|author=Richard F WalkerDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary= This is Richard F Walker's second volume We tend to think of short stories. There are thirteen Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in all December 1923 and I took something from each of themonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. There isn Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 't a single one that doesnCallas't deserve to be among the others or brings down make it more manageable in the overall qualityStates. It can be tricky to review short stories without giving too much away, When she was back in Athens - supposedly so I'll just pick two to talk about that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and I think they give a general flavourmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=1787636607Christopher Edge|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan HowardBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It's a scene replicated Lucas and his friends are all too often booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the early hours nickname of the morning'The Black Hole'. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and All big movie fans, they're looking for a way forward to get home. Some are lucky lots of exciting films, and manage to get one of the few taxis available. many, many snacks! Others squash onto However, as the night bus movie starts, they very quickly realise that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem'something about this new film format is very different, particularly in the light of 'the missing womenand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. For But as they lurch from one young womanfilm genre to the next, the final stop can they figure out what on earth is going on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. ? She had intended Will they ever get back to ring someone to come the cinema, and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=1405957174Rachel Greenlaw|title=A Death at the Party|author=Amy StuartCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=From ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the first pagedeep, we know that Nadine Walshthe answering beat in my heart.''s party will not end well Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. The victim - a man - Mira, like her mother before her, is dying one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort the Council Watch lays a trap to call end the wrecking, they capture the ambulance he so desperately needsisland's leader and Mira's father. What we don't know Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is who the man as charming as he is or why Nadine prefers secretive and with only coordinates to have him die. I'd better give you guide her, she sets off in search of a little more background so family secret that you can understand lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth whatmight save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's happeningterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Tania UnsworthJames Sherwood Metts|title=Nowhere IslandPlanet Storyland

|summary=Meet GilThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. Just twelveAI and automation have been proceeding apace, he is so determined often replacing jobs they're paid to escape the care system – the system do and other tasks that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a home for himselftook time to accomplish. He is en route Just as they were beginning to get used to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, all this technological change and lets it ride him to his future. That future seems starting to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag think of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorwayother, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough new ways to provide for their safety spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and seclusion. Them, and a mute girl also finding a home therealong with it, albeit all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so much more successfullyheavily. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=18045400801736128426

|isbnauthor=0008530025Matthew Tree|title=Murder in the Family|author=Cara HunterWe'll Never Know

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and found the body chronic underachiever whose dreams of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden being exceptional at any of their West London home. He his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had an injury on the back endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating studies, cultivated his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with abilities rather than his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence daydreams and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewinghimself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|authorisbn=Judith Eagle1529900360|title=The Stolen SongbirdGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=CaroIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's motherfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, a worldSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Her other motherFinally, Ronnieit was Robin, Delaware's partner, is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwellnudged Milo into asking for help again. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, She knew that the involvement was something that the man she feels frustrated and confused and worriedloved needed. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's houseThe next case did look simple, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there toothough. But she soon finds herself caught up Two lovers were murdered in a mystery, as she discovers a painting the swimming pool of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising peopleremote property in Bel Air. Is He was the painting somehow linked heir to the gang? And what has happened an Italian shoe empire and she is married to Caroan extremely rich man and it's mother? not the Italian. Is she somehow involved in But which of them was the mystery tooprimary target?|isbn=0571363148

|isbn=15291959771529395224|title=None Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of this is Truea Vet|author=Lisa JewellSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie FairSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. She, too, His father was out celebrating her 45th birthdaya GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out particularly when he considered the strain that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Marybeing on-call put on his father's hospitallife. That's where When he was seventeen he took the similarities end, though: Alix, opportunity of doing work experience with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends family friend who was a vet and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdywas convinced this was the job for him. Before long, they're enjoying themselveshe was at Liverpool University. Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the sense that WalterIt hadn's not too happyt - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. HeIf anything, he's not used d wanted to spending this much money on be a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after allprofessional footballer.

|isbn=18033651100861541774|authortitle=Chuck TingleA Nye of Pheasants|titleauthor=Camp DamascusSteve Burrows|rating=3.54|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Love is love; although humans continue to be confused by this sentiment. Gay conversion therapy is ongoing. The UK government ruled out plans to make it a crime DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend andformer colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in the USSingapore to meet up with an old ally, nearly 700 000 adults have received itGuy Trueman. Although it is both Maik was involved in a secular street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a religious prejudiceGhurka. Initially, Chuck Tingle, in his new horror, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back the skin he faced a charge of Christian ''pray the gay away'' camps manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to show murder the reader man. Now he could be facing the horror lurking withindeath penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=1803136383Alexander McCall Smith|title=Tin Soldiers|author=David ChadwickThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= Wat Tyler The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a cloudwhile. What actually happened Katie is coming out there is gossiped about of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and nobody is sure exactly what took placeso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, but bringing us to an act of heroism leading Edinburgh we already love, thanks to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice 44 Scotland Street and disgrace seems the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to be the consensuscharm. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, as he and there's always does. her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=B0C7J9D21B0811771741|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)InstaKnits for Baby|author=A J LewisMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrafts|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, itMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was borncollection of knits from toys to blankets. HeSome will be quick knits - others are of the 's not been short of motherslong, though - but for someone cosy afternoons in front of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, itthe fire's difficult to obtain decent employmentvariety. The stint working with projects are divided by the preparation of anchovies didntime they't work out ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and bastards more than twenty hours. All the projects are considered bad luck on fishing boatsattractive, modern and useable. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social- and determined media- and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some moneyworthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|title=After DeathThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, Benny is among 55 people who die when having a virus is released in a bio-hazard accidentterrifically bad day. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuaryHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, covered in plasticand his house gets trashed. Oh, he and someone has delivered a sense that something veryreally weird, very bad has happened disturbing coffin-sized object to him – his home, and only him – as he sits up and looks around at it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the shrouded bodies of thing that has trashed his dead friends and former colleagues. house! As he recovers his sensesThe thing is, he realises that there Benny is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everythingthe very last person to deserve all this bad luck. ''Everything''He is a nice person. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymoreA really nice person.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=Arkspire|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Two sisters So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, Juniper and Elodiea bad weather friend called Spike, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing who has been sent to be chalk and cheese. Juniper help him since Benny is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics clearly under attack from prior major wars left out in the Badlandsnefarious forces for being a good person. Elodie Spike is intent on getting closer going to power in one take care of the religious districts Benny, and will certainly take care of ArkspireBenny's enemies, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of the Watcherif he, the closest to a ruler the district hasBenny, and one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the magic that only five people Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can use would definitely change the status of the whole familyfigure out who exactly they are. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=02415861431662500491

|author=Thiago de MoraesAdam Stower|title=Old Gods New TricksMurray and Bun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapesMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, larks one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powdersleep and, well, she could almost be thought a young goddess whatever takes his fancy next of nuisancethe two. But just when shehe'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 schoolbad magician's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phonescat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and all that powers the Internetcatflap they both use can chuck them out, just for our convenience's sake). Trixienot into the regular back garden, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power but into a world of power from usfrightening adventure and whiffs. And so she begins her epic questThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, to gather all the people that can steal it back where a troll hunter is expected – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Godswell, ie the semi-deitiesone much bigger than Murray was, giantsto be honest, half-gods but he's turned up and so on known as the tricksters.he'll have to do…|isbn=178845295X0008561249

|authorisbn=Alexia CasaleB0C47LV1PC|title=Sing if you Can't DanceFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=ItCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that joke? And if you're having to navigate a life-changing disability toocould, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid question should you make it? Or is the pity staresquestion if you did, and desperate to get back to a life would it land? The catch is thatthe answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility''s is set as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in schoolthe city of Portland, Oregon, her music A Level performance piece cautiously begins to try to sort out, and just emerge from the day-to-day traumas of all restrictions imposed during the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=0571373801covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Helen Peters1529431735|title=Friends and TraitorsThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=34|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=EnglandIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, WW2. Two young girls are new at which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the country pile called Stanbrookmore surprising. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like He'd been exiled on the female generations before herCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The other is Sidney, return has come about because he's had a girl letter from a hoityhis ex-toity Sussex boarding school wife, saying that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk she's ill and cheese, and if we hadnhasn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it solong to live. But something It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is amissabducted, stripped to his underwear and first separately and then sent to a watery grave in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be boot of a rum 'unstolen Ford Sierra. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhandproblem closer to home?|isbn=1788004647

|isbnauthor=0241996104Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane CorryThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Nancy's mother Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and step-father were brutally stabbed in the evening a helper at their Sussex farmhouse the dessert cafe his gran owns and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murderruns. We first meet Nancy outside the courtEli lives with his lovely gran, after Martin receives too – for there is a life sentencegeneration missing in the family. The barrister tells her that sheA few short years ago, Eli's received parents were both lost to the titular race, a 'silent sentence' globe- she's not been found guilty of anything but will trotting adventure where all entrants have to live with what happened for navigate the world in the rest company of her lifea magical beast. Of course, it's This has made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from her mother - and gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the papers are making sole aim the most prize of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spokenmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=1529413680178763681X|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Martin WalkerOrlando Murrin

|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of the town from the English in 1370 getting both men and Bruno's there women to see the show with some friendsdo what he wanted. ItPaul ''somehow''s all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, got the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when impression that he departs from 'd be at the scriptschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. Luckily, his doctor is there The teaching - and the man is whisked away in a helicopterproblems - are all his own. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as The one thing hehadn's a senior government employeet expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the man person who runs Frenchelon - discovered the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby body and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holidayeveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=1529196388Sarah Marsh|title=The Trial|author=Rob RinderA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Grant Cliveden was After a hero: bout of scarlet fever as a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyonechild, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old BaileyEllen Lark loses her hearing. There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in courtSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, charged with Cliveden's murdereverything about her life changes. Knight was told that Living in a time when the best barrister for him use of sign language was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupilseen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, Adam Greenbut physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who eventually represent himhas been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. Knight's determined to plead not guiltyAt the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contraryand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Essie Fox1803816759|title=The FascinationUnravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre=Historical Science Fiction|summary= The Victorian era It's 2038 and Joe is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by bored cop policing the Second World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling itwealthy and peaceful New York City. There's such Joe longs for a glut bit of media set in adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the era AI system that the hallmarks we've come now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to associate with it are familiar spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the point aftermath of being cliched, hackneyed even. All this the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is simply assigned to illustrate that it would be an easy thing bring her home. Joe isn't the only one trying to do poorlysave Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case. But despite that, something about What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it still grabs me – and something about this bookhacked? And how is Suki's description did as well.|isbn=1914585526kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1529421284|title=Death in Fine ConditionLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5

|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in particular a series called Sleuth Houndheatwave. She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking' themIn a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to add valuebe Lee Geary, in somewhat fraudulent wayswho had disappeared nine years earlier. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in the background of He'd been a photograph on her known drug dealer's living room walluser and had learning disabilities, and so she sets about discovering where this collection is, and how she can steal it! could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. It's Geary was a next-level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too fartownie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and what will happen when to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the owner time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.

|isbn=15295079870571379559|title=The Repair Shop Craft BookHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Fiona Williams|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Literary Fiction|summary=I love ''The Repair ShopHouse of Broken Bricks''is the story of four people. ItTess Hembry's my go-to programme when I want to roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be cheered uphappier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. After a hard dayInsubstantial as it might look, thereit's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worthstood the passage of time, storms and floods. You seeHer husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, the value is in what these possessions are worth to complete the people who own them delivery rounds - and the memories they holdto bring in sufficient money. No expense appears to be spared They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the desired resultrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Regular viewers know the experts and People don't believe that they're all brilliant at explaining what it related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is theyout with his mother that she're doings his nanny. But how did they start?

|authorisbn=Nicole Jarvis1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A Portrait in ShadowD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=''In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I want all Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Florence to know my nameRyan, is not. He's not any of those things. He' Cast out s white, originated from Romea trailer park, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnatepolice procedural written for laughs. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia Well, the self-proclaimed guardians you're not. The two men are just different sides of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect same policing coin. Sometimes the city and its citizens from plagues and cursescombination works brilliantly well. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard Sometimes it above all else's problematic. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|isbn=1803362340

|isbnauthor=B0BVDC2VWHMosby Woods|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William FrankA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. ItWest isn's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And t the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicinesdominant force it once was. The black wood of Nobody in the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and West is quite sure how to mend this or even gallows, if needed. The fear of being buried alive mending it is an existential superstition in the village and best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the reason Volushka, strategic advantage in this asset; a drunkenman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, self-indulgentright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, lazy lout of a that this man is toleratedloses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1