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 == '''5 DECEMBER9 MAY''' ==

|author=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)Tom Percival|title=The Honjin Murders|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. For those who need more, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan in the 1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annex before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case has a lot of the peculiar about it.|isbn=1782275002}} == '''11 DECEMBER''' =={{Frontpage|isbn=B07XLM3SM6|title=Murder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Elowed Underhay was just twenty seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother, when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. She's always coped with the mix of holidaymakers, boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and she's done every job in the hotel. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotel.}} =='''31 DECEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0753553236|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J FoggWrong Shoes

|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=Go onWill's life is difficult, admit it - you're not quite perfectin a multitude of ways. You still He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have those oddenough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, quirky even loveable (to you) habits which seem to annoy other peoplewas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Other peopleThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, of courseand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just he still has a little bit tiny amount of efforthope. Or put another wayHe is good at art, I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem clings to get to grips with the concepts. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack moments of willpower joy when he is another burden to add to drawing, that feel like a light at the listend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

 {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''7 JANUARY 202023 MAY'''==

|author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit SeatonOnyi Nwabineli|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic NovelAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=DianaAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, being unique thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on her islandsocial media, is the victim where she posted every step of a lot of tauntsAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, and claims of nepotismmonetary gain. It's only Now Anuri is in her unique status, twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her mother being Queen, that has confidence and to get her with any standing at alllife back, suing her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought step-mother to be a strong young womantake down the content about her. Perhaps too strong Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for the islanddoing so. Most importantly, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has she is desperately worried about her quickly leaving home for the World of Menlittle sister, and this Diana who is the heroine new focus of yet another Wonder Woman origin storyOphelia's online empire. A shipwreck disturbs Can she save her leading performance in a running racesister, but the survivor she drags from and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the waters is only going to disturb a lot more...same time?|isbn=14012825550861546873

 =='''9 JANUARY4 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=1786075695Stuart Douglas|title=When Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)|author=Helen SedgwickDress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|summary=It began with During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the discovery dead body of a body under woman on the swings in the children's playgroundedge of a reservoir. It was Dr Alexis Crosse The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he was found by PC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeplyenlists the help of a fellow actor, but who had reason John Le Breton to mistrust help himinvestigate matters further. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up in GreeceThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners)seemingly, a community which regards anyone not born and brought up there as an outsiderlink to death during the Second World War. DI Georgie Strachan But is an outsider - you've only got there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to look at her skin to realise that, and her husband, Fergus, well, he's a little strange too, not entirely ''here''.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"<!-- Sarah Alderson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473681847.jpg|link'''6 JUNE'''=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473681847/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Ava lives a charmed life, but those things sometimes rub other people up the wrong way. One evening she returns from a night out with a friend, and before she can finish her bedtime routine, her home, and her life, are under attack: masked men have broken in and are demanding money from her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside him. In the scuffle than ensues, Ava is hurt, badly. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happened, but she knows it was life-changing. With her daughter still fighting for her life in a room down the corridor, Ava has a lot to contend with as she tries to recover, wills her daughter to recover, and attempts to piece together what happened and why. [[In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson|Full Review]]|}

|author= Catherine Steadman|title= Mr Nobody|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Don't you just hate it when people are multiKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-talented? Author Catherine Steadman is both a successful actress and writer, with this her second novel. I think in a way her acting background shows in her writing as to my mind the 'fight scene' at the end was somewhat unrealistic – you know the kind where the hero has been hurt so many times that it's virtually impossible they'd still be alive let alone able to fight off an attacker. The story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until the ending which felt overstuffed in a frenetic bid to wrap everything up in the last few chapters. It was almost as if the author wanted to keep the suspense until the last possible moment (which I liked) but then was somewhat left with too much to do in the closing stages.|isbn=1984890646}} |} =='''15 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Tanya LandmanStanton|title=Jane EyreDungeon Runners: a Retelling|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but that's nothing compared to the darker, more broody and even more troubled secret in the house. Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn to.|isbn=1781129126}}{{Frontpage|author=Penny Chrimes|title=Tiger HeartHero Trial|rating=4.5

|summary=''Fly never meant to end up Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the cage with sport where a manteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-eating tiger. She just saw her chance old, magical mazes, and race to skedaddlethe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and she took itthe points they grant you along the way. And even when Unfortunately for Kit, the cloud only thing he's seen of soot cleared and she saw the golden eyes of a killer staring into herslatest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, she still didn't turn round and climb back up the chimney straightawaya new trio of questors is needed. 'Cos there was worse waiting Possibly very unfortunately indeed for her back on Kit, he has taken to the goading from the rooftoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team.'' What an opener! And there's plenty more chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to come!succeed?|isbn=15101070451839945184

=='''16 JANUARY13 JUNE'''==

|isbn=15294002791635866847|title=Six Wicked ReasonsThe Lavender Companion|author=Jo SpainJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=It was early summer 2018 and Adam Latimer returned home to Spanish Cove after an absence of ten years. The family had thought him dead - in fact's strange, the things thatmake you 's what 'immediately'' feel that this is the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told thembook for you. He was cagey about exactly where heBefore I started reading 'd been but he seemed content, if not happy, to be hope. What brought him? Well, nine years ago his mother died and he'd seen the The Lavender Companion''in memoriam, I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there' in the paper: this was s a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the first he'd heard about what had happenedhomepage. His three sisters I don't eat cakes and two brothers had mixed feelings about his return, desserts - but his father is delightedI wanted that cake viscerally. In fact(There's a recipe in the book, hewhich I's determined m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to have make a partymess of it. Only, with Frazer Latimer, what happens has Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be about hima problem. He has an announcement to make - it I 's nine years since Kathleen died and he's been lonely. Heloved's met Ana, a Polish immigrant, and they're getting marriedthis book already.

=='''23 JANUARY4 JULY'''== 

|isbnauthor=0241985110Max Boucherat|title=All the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=A very beautiful, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by a minicab driver We meet Lori on the outskirts of Oxford. She didnfirst evening she't want s got the house to go herself – no neighbour to the police station or the hospital: she pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just wanted to be taken homean avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. The driver wasn't so certain though - What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and after dropping the girl at home he went that is to log on to Voxminer, the policeworld-building, which critter-collecting game that is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford and her mothera hit in Lori's world. Both were adamant But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this was nothing stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more than an April Fool's joke which had gone wrongspooky. No crime had been committed For the server she and her bestie and Faith didn't want nobody else should be able to take the matter any furtherenter shows signs of tampering. Fawley When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and his team weren't prepared her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to leave it at that and they began investigating. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didn't seem to have much of a history.turn?|isbn=0008666482