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=='''26 JANUARY9 MAY'''==

|isbn=1529124417|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa Gardner|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car at the bottom of the lake. She knew that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left her three-year-old daughter and run away. Lani was the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and now she's moving on again, this time to Boston where there's a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. Frankie, middle-aged and white, gets a job and accommodation at Stoney's bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively black.}}=='''28 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Rob KeeleyTom Percival|title=The Treasure in the TowerWrong Shoes|rating=45

|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 childrenWill's friendships and rivalrieslife is difficult, and always in a good dollop multitude of naughty humourways. They He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes're all present here, in he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn'The Treasure in t have enough money for even the Towermost basic of things like food, and his dad can''. The chance purchase of t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a book during cash-in-hand job on a school trip sparks the whole adventurebuilding site and had an accident. Who can follow Throw into that mix the clues best fact that his mum and find the treasure? Jessdad are separated, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and tech gadgets and willingness clings to cheat?the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=18004613211398527122

=='''1 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B08LKT7HSR|title=Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the cellar of the Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the murder of Elowed and his half-brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's long search for her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now she's determined that the man responsible for her murder will be brought to justice.}} =='''2 FEBRUARY23 MAY'''==

|author=Anna CareyOnyi Nwabineli|title=This is Not the Jess Show|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jess is a normal 90's teenage girl, just trying Allow Me to navigate the usual stresses of school, and boys, and parent troubles. But strange things seem to be happening in her small town, with a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoors, and a strange metal device, with an apple on it, that slips out of her friend's bag, but that her friends just won't talk to her about. Jess feels like she might be hearing voices, and her sister (who is very ill) seems to be responding to her in strange ways sometimes. Is there something going on beneath the surface of Jess' life?|isbn=1683691970}}=='''4 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529378648|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick HerronIntroduce Myself

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Someone is killing secret service agents, past and present, from Anuri spent her childhood on display to the Slough House team. Jackson Lamb can't understand it. Wellworld, what he actually can't understand is why, having seen them, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up and something needs thanks to be done. After all her step-mother Ophelia''when things went awry s increasingly popular presence on Spook Streetsocial media, they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'' Over at Regentwhere she posted every step of Anuri's Parkchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, Diana Taverner basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured her twenties and one dead) dispatched. It isn't just the message that was sent: she's also delighted that she managed is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to fund the operation off take down the books. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant content about this.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008379300|title=The Shadow Man|author=Helen Fields|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that he's dyingher. His body Anuri is giving up on himbattling alcoholism, his internal organs beginning failing to putrify but before he dies he wants a wifestart her PhD, a child undergoing therapy and a brother. He's been on the lookout for the perfect secretly abusing people online and he's made certain preparations. The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husband, Cal, had taken the children - a boy of seven and a girl of five, away receiving money from them for the weekenddoing so. UnfortunatelyMost importantly, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela dies.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178089905X|title=Serpentine|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming she is desperately worried about: a death from thirty-six years ago and her little sister, who is the daughter new focus of the woman who died wanted some answers. She had money and money translated into clout and so the problem was dropped onto MiloOphelia's toes. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died in a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flamesonline empire. It turned out that Can she wasn't actually married to the man with whom she'd left save her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barkersister, optometrist, was a good man and he took out adoption papers for Ellie - perhaps herself and she took his name. Ellie was three when her mother left her relationship with Dr Barker and she has nothing of her but one photograph of her mother and father and a necklace made of serpentine.at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbnauthor=1471191303Stuart Douglas|title=The Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of Death at the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Fisher|title=Space HopperDress Rehearsal

|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and theyLeggit're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that there's treasure to be found. Unfortunately, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the youngest of the group, twenty-one-year-old Troy Evans, finds the dead body of a man floating woman on the incoming tideedge of a reservoir. After pulling The police seem happy to assign it ashoreas an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, they call and he enlists the policehelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. DCI Nelson thinks that it's probably They travel across the body of an asylum seeker but there's no evidence of any activity country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to be had from death during the coastguardSecond World War. The dead man turns out But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to be Jem Taylor, a North Norfolk man recently released from prison.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

=='''18 FEBRUARY6 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=1471187179Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel HoreDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburbMeet Kit. The book Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is set in an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the 1930s sport where a team of warrior, mage and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and find a nice young man race to marrythe exit, produce children perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their homepoints they grant you along the way. Unfortunatelyfor Kit, this isnthe only thing he't what she wants to do at all s seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and neither does she want to continue working as a secretarynew trio of questors is needed. As a result of a chance meetingPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for he has taken to the goading from the secret service token bully of his world and effectively living stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britainteam. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made What chance does this friendless, muscle-free- zone have in actually managing that, and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|authorisbn=Hannah Gold1635866847|title=The Last BearLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=AprilIt's fatherstrange, a scientist, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with himthings that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. They live alone anywayBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', since AprilI visited the author's mother died some time before, [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and he feels it will be educational for her to experience there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the island homepage. I don't eat cakes and all its natural beautydesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. April already has an affinity with nature(There's a recipe in the book, and shewhich I's excited to travel m avoiding with her father, thinking of all some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the fun things they will be able book and I was told to experience together on make a mess of it. Notes in the islandmargins are sanctioned. But when they You get there, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording to fold down the temperatures just takes up too much corners of his time, and so April is left to explore by herselfpages. Her father had reassured her You suspect that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches smears of butter would not be a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find the Bear, and then when she sees he is injured, to befriend and help himproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=000841128X

=='''4 MARCHJULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=The Khan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is at the top of her game. Returning to the city of her birth, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and duty.|isbn=1786079097}}

|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Max Boucherat|title=If You Kept a Record The Last Life of SinsLori Mills

|summary=Meet Stella and her family. TheyWe meet Lori on the first evening she're just innocently trying s got the house to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film herself – using three different screens no neighbour to watch three different thingspop in, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their homebabysitter poorly, but the entire south-western village of Mouseholemother at work, and not just that, either, but the whole countryan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them beforeher lonesome. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. What could possibly go wrong? You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck Snuggled in such a Luddite experience against their willblanket fort, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandmashe has one main intention, and see if they can get across country that is to her. Hence this has log on to go down as a road-trip book. But not just thatVoxminer, a slapstick roadthe world-trip comedy. And more than thatbuilding, too – for it's a slapstick, highcritter-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart collecting game that kids of all ages will love.|isbn=1471196887}} =='''23 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Other Emily|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. Ita hit in Lori's the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leaveworld. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from But first Lori has a remote road late at tiny inkling that this stormy night. Hedoesn's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lectert find herself entirely on her own, and has a dozen and then she finds something even more unfound Jane Does on his recordspooky. David is trying to pry For the connection between the murderer server she and her bestie and his girl from the man's mind, but nobody else should be able to no avail. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, enter shows signs of his love. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958}} =='''1 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Remy is feeling miserabletampering. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small When malevolent eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind spark up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. Soon her phone screen, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ruth Hogan|title=Madame Burova|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life her safe place in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have game has been called then)doctored – well, where is a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this timeturn?|isbn=152937331X0008666482