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=='''13 9 MAY'''==

|isbn=1788549759|title=The Distant Dead|author=Lesley Thomson|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old son, William, at home with her parents. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the family than the shame of illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William's) on a better footing. She was going to meet her well-to-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come and meet her family the following week. Later, her body would be found in the bombed-out home where he had taken her.}}=='''18 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1848458428|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary Kubica|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - again. His wife was in the habit of going out for a run late at night. It was the only time she had for herself when she didn't have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. Ten days later, a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for her.}}=='''27 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0008395594|title=Both of You|author=Adele Parks|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Then, one Monday, she went to work and never came home. Mark, Oli and Seb are shattered. Well, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best look. He's been a bit off with Leigh for 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 Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without trace.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473685745|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 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|isbn=walker14|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty years. The body of a young male was found in the woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought to justice. What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull and the resulting publicity be used to identify the young man? J-J calls 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 justice.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008404925Tom Percival|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprise. After all, it was her cross-examination of the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentence. He'd been accused of stalking the woman but it didn't take long to establish that - if anything - it was the other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster 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 they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous man.}}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= Shards of Earth|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect's reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architects, does not want to be remembered. But, when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. 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 that the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886}} =='''3 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0241400120|title=The Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria Cribb|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she'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 a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsula. There were only ten people in the village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation provided. Una was the only applicant and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract covered.}}{{Frontpage|author=M G Leonard|title=TwitchWrong Shoes

|summary=Twitch Will's life is difficult, in a boy who loves birdsmultitude of ways. He keeps pigeons at homeis bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', and chickens, and even he has swallows nesting in the wrong shoes because his bedroom! His time spent watching dad can't work and helping birds is easy compared to that doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of his time in school. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the runlike food, and ithis dad can's possible that t work because he lost his job at the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere college, was working a cash-in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has his secret hide -hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that he knows like mix the back of fact that his hand! Can Twitch solve the mystery, mum and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Whitten|title=For the Wolf|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queendad are separated, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To RedWill's misfortune, she is the second daughterlife seems bleak in every direction. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back And yet, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is he still has a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate tiny amount of their kingdomhope. If she He is not a worthy sacrificegood at art, the monsters he keeps contained and clings to the woods will be released, and the fabled kings moments of joy when he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woodsis drawing, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that feel like a light at the legends are lies. The wolf is not end of a monster—he's a manlong, dark tunnel.|isbn=03565163691398527122

 =='''10 JUNE23 MAY'''==

|author=C J CareyOnyi Nwabineli|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into 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 widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, 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 of female protest come to light, with their potential Allow Me to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198X}}{{Frontpage|author=Terry Miles|title=RabbitsIntroduce Myself

|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her sonstep-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Sebastian - but where she can't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that itposted every step of Anuri's time childhood for him sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to have sextake down the content about her. But as an autistic 20 year-old Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, that's easier said than doneundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. And it Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's starting to cause them both problemsonline empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=19131937130861546873

|isbnauthor=1409181669Stuart Douglas|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with Lowe stumbles across the death dead body of Tara Hampton a woman on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgeedge of a reservoir. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' The police seem happy about having to go to Cambridgeassign it as an accidental death, but she caught something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the first fast train from King's Crosshelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more so by the death of Mariana's husbandpossible murders and, Sebastianseemingly, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierlink to death during the Second World War. Zoe had been But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.lives?|isbn=1803368209

=='''17 6 JUNE'''==

|author=Joseph KnoxKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=True Crime StoryDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Joseph Knox, known for Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waitsworld, has created a new genre with his latest novelit seems, "True Crime Story". The story follows he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls sport where a team of residence. Split into four partswarrior, the reader is taken through the life mage and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sisterhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, other familymagical mazes, friends and professionalsrace to the exit, such as perhaps bothering with the treasure or the police. The various accounts help big bad and the reader get to know Zoe, or at least points they grant you along the Zoe she presented to othersway. However Unfortunately for Kit, the twists and turns at only thing he's seen of the latest race on the end of each chapter leave you shockedinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, confused and unsure a new trio of what questors is true or fabricatedneeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Whose accounts can we trust What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=08575277031839945184

 =='''24 13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman1635866847|title=The Disappearing ActLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary= British actress Mia Eliot It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is on the cusp of success. Great success. If the rumours are true, award season is going to treat her well, acknowledging her book for her latest, critically acclaimed productionyou. She Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''s going places but so, unfortunately, is her partner. And I visited the places heauthor's going take him towards lies, deceit [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a pretty young thing in slice of chocolate cake on the form of his new cohomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -starbut I wanted that cake viscerally. It (There's a good time for Mia to escaperecipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and pilot season I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in LA provides just the excusemargins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1471189783

=='''1 4 JULY'''==

|author=Darren ShanMax Boucherat|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 The Last Life of 3Lori Mills

|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in the world of the Born. It's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where he's been, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his best.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ}} =='''8 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Hannah Peck|title=Kate We meet Lori on the Case|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kate, although I got the impression first evening she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, and got the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky father, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped house to manage a train ride herself – no neighbour to the Arcticpop in, babysitter poorly, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. Howeverat work, this is a train ride with a differencejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them stylelonesome. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=184812970X}} =='''13 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good Neighbours|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rockerblanket fort, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled inhas one main intention, and it's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst that is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211}} =='''22 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=Girls Who Lie|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing log on the map that we're set in Akranesto Voxminer, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital cityworld-building, critter-collecting game that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, ita hit in Lori's not just in Akranes that our interests lieworld. Six months ago But first Lori has a woman failed to turn up for tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her date eveningown, and was never seen againthen she finds something even more spooky. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that For the server she could now live permanently with the couple who had given and her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, bestie and a couple nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of delighted adopterstampering. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a suddenscreen, in one and her safe place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body game has been discovereddoctored – well, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative where is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader girl to make the right oneturn?|isbn=191319373X}} =='''5 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Boyne|title=The Echo Chamber|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219}} =='''7 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Gwynne|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=03565142180008666482