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=='''18 9 MAY'''==

|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=walker14Tom Percival|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=0008404925|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 a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at homedifficult, and chickens, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to that a multitude of his time in schoolways. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there He is a dangerous bank robber on bullied because he has 'the run, and itwrong shoes's possible that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, he has the place where Twitch has wrong shoes because his secret hide dad can't work and that he knows like doesn't have enough money for even the back most basic of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mysterythings like food, and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Whitten|title=For the Wolf|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In Redhis dad can's family, t work because he lost his job at the first daughter becomes queencollege, and the second daughter becomes was working a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape cash-in-hand job on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, building site and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdomhad an accident. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, Throw into that mix the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, fact that his mum and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends dad are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=0356516369}} =='''10 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953separated, and Adolf HitlerWill'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 Wallislife seems bleak in every direction. For yesAnd yet, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now he still has a protectorate – well, we share enough tiny amount of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''hope. But this He 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 drudgesgood at art, and beyond those, right on down clings to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy moments of joy when he is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existencedrawing, 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 that feel like a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, light at least, until the first emerging signs end of female protest come to lighta long, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visitdark tunnel.|isbn=152941198X1398527122

|author=Terry MilesOnyi Nwabineli|title=RabbitsAllow Me to Introduce 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

|author=Maisie ChanKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5

|summary=Danny Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is eleven years an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and what he reallyrace to the exit, really loves to do is drawperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. He creates fantastical comicsUnfortunately for Kit, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. Dannyonly thing he's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate seen of the latest race on his maths, and forget about the drawinginn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own roomeaten, where he can draw in secret and in peacea new trio of questors is needed. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise Possibly very unfortunately indeed for himKit, and this surprise turns out he has taken to be his grandmother who has come over the goading from China to live with them, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk token bully of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, world and Danny finds himself forced stumbled into being her babysitter, and showing her around the towndeclaring he'll enter as a team. Poor DannyWhat chance does this friendless, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situationmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and then how could he even has a falling out with Ravi...how on earth will things ever get betterpossibly hope to succeed?!|isbn=180078001X1839945184

 =='''17 13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Joseph Knox1635866847|title=True Crime Story|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story". The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence. Split into four parts, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as the police. The various accounts help the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. However, the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703}} =='''24 JUNE'''=={{FrontpageLavender Companion|author=Catherine Steadman|title=The Disappearing ActJessica 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 ShanWe meet Lori on the first evening she's ''Merge'' saga opens with our herogot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, Archiebabysitter poorly, back in London in the world of the Born. It's not been easymother at work, explaining to his foster parents where he's beenjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Mergeon her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, but Archie she has done his best.... wellone main intention, 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 is to log on to Voxminer, the Case|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kateworld-building, although I got the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at critter-collecting game that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Katea hit in Lori's idol, and the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''world. Armed with But first Lori has a plucky father, tiny inkling that bookthis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and her talking mouse called Rupert, then she is all equipped to manage a train ride to finds something even more spooky. For the Arctic, server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonksenter shows signs of tampering. However, this is a train ride with a differenceWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief safe place in the game has been doctored – and two glowing eyeswell, shining from the darkness in where is a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...girl to turn?|isbn=184812970X0008666482