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=='''29 OCTOBER9 MAY'''==
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|isbn=0349423083|title=Death and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. She's been approached by William Lofthouse of the Barleycorn Brewery in Masham. Something is going wrong with his business and he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip to Germany before long. James went to see what the continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to make. William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is going to bring back a German bride but he'd like the business to be ship-shape before his nephew returns.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838773169Tom Percival|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor Knot|author=S J BennettWrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=ItWill's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II life is at Windsor for the Easter Courtdifficult, in a multitude of ways. SheHe is bullied because he has 's having a dine and sleep at the request of Prince Charleswrong shoes', whohe has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn's attempting to raise t have enough money from some rich Russians for one even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his pet projectsjob at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to Throw into that mix the evening fact that his mum and dad are separated, and one of the performers brought in to play the piano has been found dead Will's life seems bleak in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesevery direction. The immediate reaction is that one And yet, he still has a tiny amount of the guests is responsiblehope. The Queen mentally rules out her racing managerHe is good at art, an ex-ambassador and clings to Moscowthe moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the Archbishop end of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn't bear to go down any of ''those'' roadsa long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Caroline ScottOnyi Nwabineli|title=When I Come Home AgainAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses Anuri spent her childhood on display to give a namethe world, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he is. Eventually, they determine this isnthanks to her step-mother Ophelia't willful obstinances increasingly popular presence on social media, he doesn't answer because he doesnwhere she posted every step of Anuri't know. He remembers being on the road s childhood for a long time sponsorships and influencer deals and being frightened, and some of the faces from the roadbasically, but other than that – everything that came before has gonemonetary gain. They need a name for the forms Now Anuri is in her twenties and so they call him Adam she is slowly trying to regain her confidence andto get her life back, because he was found in suing her step-mother to take down the Galilee Chapelcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, it becomes Adam Galileeundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. A fanciful name for a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he Most importantly, she isdesperately worried about her little sister, where he who is or how he got therethe new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=14711921720861546873
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 =='''1 NOVEMBER4 JUNE'''== 
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|author= Susi Holliday Stuart Douglas|title= The Last Resort |rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance Lowe and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}}=='''5 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R Black|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old universityLe Breton Mysteries -student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 Death at Ferngate Bridge. There was a furious storm going on and she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in a big vehicle. We'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven off. There has been no sign of her - or her body - in the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and she's not going to be stopped.}}  =='''12 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1472255917|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)|author=Quintin JardineDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=On New YearDuring location filming for his 1970's Evesitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the golf club with his wife, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner and dead body of a woman on the man with whom she shares edge of a house, Dominic Jacksonreservoir. Jackson would be better-known The police seem happy to the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh assign it as Lennie Plenderleith an accidental death, but he's reformed and something about the new name reflects a new man. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse whole thing bothers Lowe, and are dropped home not long into the new year. Skinner's tempted to let the phone ring but knows that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene in enlists the centre help of Edinburgha fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Skinner's not technically with They travel across the police now - he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and experience.}}{{Frontpage|author= Claire McGowan|title=The Push|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at a prenatal class. It's NCT ''style'', but not the proper NCT. This bit is importantseemingly, but you have to wait a little link to see whydeath during the Second World War. This being London, such a class attracts But is there really a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of link between the ladies the thing deaths? And will they have in common manage to uncover who is it's responsible before more people lose their first baby. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.lives?|isbn=15420199901803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Roxanne BouchardKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Coral BrideDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - a female fisherwoman, making her living Meet Kit. Like most of the people in a man's his world. When her lobster trawler , it seems, he is found drifting off an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the coast sport where a team of Quebecwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, Detective Morales is called in magical mazes, and race to come the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and head the investigationpoints they grant you along the way. Although Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister inn TV equivalent is going onthat one team has been retired, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendaseaten, fishing histories and secret family feudsa new trio of questors is needed. At the same time as trying to run his investigationPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he also has taken to the goading from the token bully of his grown up sonworld and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, Sebastien arriving at his doormuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, weighed down with personal problems that and how could he is unable to talk possibly hope to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficulties.succeed?|isbn=19131933221839945184
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=='''13 NovemberJUNE'''==
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|isbn=18388873341635866847|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)The Lavender Companion|author=Angela MarsonsJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingIt's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The need for coffee overtook Stone - Lavender Companion'', I visited the course had been author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a complete waste slice of time for her as she knew chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that she was equally rude to everyonecake viscerally. It was (There's a recipe in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of a little girl clutching a teddy bear it. Notes in the absence of her mothermargins are sanctioned. Stone and Bryant didn't realise the extent You get to which this case was going to occupy their minds as fold down the body corners of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours laterpages. Her neck had been broken and it had all the hallmarks You suspect that smears of a quick, functional kill, but who butter would do that to not be a young mother out shopping with her child?problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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 =='''26 NOVEMBER4 JULY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1838770046Max Boucherat|title=Body Language|author=A K TurnerThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is We meet Lori on the senior mortuary technician and not only does first evening she talk to 's got the dead, she also hears what they have house to say herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on herlonesome. It's not something she's inclined to share with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction will be. What could possibly go wrong? She's certainly not going to share it with the new pathologistSnuggled in a blanket fort, Dr Archie Chuffshe has one main intention, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harrovian. He's very conscious of his position and isn't even inclined to ask for the view of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that they have a lot more experience than him and he has only a limited amount of time is to spend log on each body. That will prove to be Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a mistake.}}==hit in Lori'''4 FEBRUARY 2021'''=={{Frontpage|author=Helen Fisher|title=Space Hopper|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very youngs world. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from But first Lori has a cold tiny inkling that got worsethis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and although they were kind and very good to her then she of course missed her mum enormouslyfinds something even more spooky. So when, unexpectedly, For the server she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70's and her mum, she revels in the chance to create some memories bestie and get nobody else should be able to know the woman who meant so much to herenter shows signs of tampering. The time travelling, however, is neither easy nor safeWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to place in the past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's deathgame has been doctored – well, or will it change her own future forever where is a girl to attempt itturn?|isbn=14711886630008666482
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=='''28 FEBRUARY'''==
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|author=Rob Keeley
|title=The Treasure in the Tower
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read a new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace and lots of action, an easy to read style, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalries, and always a good dollop of naughty humour. They're all present here, in ''The Treasure in the Tower''. The chance purchase of a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventure. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure? Jess, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?
|isbn=1800461321
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