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|author=Hannah PeckTom Percival|title=Kate on the CaseThe Wrong Shoes|rating=3.5

|summary=Meet KateWill's life is difficult, although I got the impression she'd rather be in a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at thatmultitude of ways. For Catherine Rodriguez He is Katebullied because he has 'the wrong shoes's idol, he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the author most basic of our heroinethings like food, and his dad can's favourite possessiont work because he lost his job at the college, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Armed with a plucky father, Throw into that mix the fact that bookhis mum and dad are separated, and her talking mouse called RupertWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, she is all equipped to manage he still has a train ride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonkstiny amount of hope. However, this He is a train ride with a differencegood at art, for on board and clings to the moments of joy when he is a greedy-seeming harridan and her catdrawing, that feel like a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from light at the darkness in end of a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist..long, dark tunnel.|isbn=184812970X1398527122

|author=Darren ShanSylvie Cathrall|title=Archibald Lox and A Letter to the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|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 There are few greater joys than a book which lives up 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 besta compelling premise.... 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 awayAnd this is one of them.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ0356522776

|isbn=05713658840008517061|title=My Mess is Death in a Bit of Life: Adventures in AnxietyLonely Place|author=Georgia PritchettStig Abell

|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=Georgia Pritchett Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has always been anxious, even as a childsettled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She would worry There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the sort future of his life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few with his vet girlfriend, Livia and far between. On a visit to a therapisther daughter Diana, as an adult, when she was completely unable moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to speak about what was wrong move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her it was suggested that reservations about whether or not this is the future she should write it down wants for herself and ''My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in Anxiety'' is the result - or so we are given to believepresent and putting the future on the back burner.

|authorisbn=Alex Cotter1786482126|title=The House on the EdgeJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=FaithBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's family home is teetering on apartments - when they discovered the edge bones of a cliff, literallychild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope Was this a littleritual killing or murder? And as the house seems to be falling apart Inevitably, so is FaithDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's family. Her dad has disappeareddifficult as Ruth knows, and her mum is struggling to copebut Nelson doesn't, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in charge, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah to school, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why she is he obsessed pregnant with what he claims is a ghost in the cellar? What should she do about the house? Can she find his child as a way to raise enough money to fix it? What's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages to get funding for the house? She carries the weight result of all these worries on her constantly, and she doesn't know how much longer the cliff one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will hold togetherbe obvious before long, or how long she can keep on keeping onnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1788008626

|isbn=00082690410008551324|title=Risk of HarmThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Lucie WhitehouseNeil Lancaster

|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure It's unusual for anyone from the Met. She might have been reinstated but Hardie family to approach the whole episode left a nasty taste in her mouthpolice. She was now working Neither side likes or has any respect for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years beforeother. She But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parenthe's home into prepared to tell the police where the body of a rented house but there's still a difficult situation with missing person is buried and who was responsible for her brother Luke who has gone out death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his way sentence and to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young childget an early parole date. HeNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's married even prepared to Natalie, now do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and has a young child but heanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's still got it in for Robinhappening.

|isbn=17863323880008405026|title=The First Day of SpringA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Nancy TuckerJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly It's sixteen years since nine-year- and ''The First Day of Spring'' was old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one such occasionsummer night. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent She was never found and the plot grips you and won't let goinvestigation ground to a halt. SoNow, what's the problem? Wellher mother, the problem is ChrissieHelena, the main characterand her father are dead in their bed. When we first meet her she's just eight years oldInitially, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - it looks like a two-year-old boy. Shestraightforward murder/suicide but there's completely cold something about what she's done with the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her main memory being that whilst she boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was killing going to be an open- suffocating and- her hands seized upshut case is now a complex double murder. ThereKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's a clue that Chrissie isndisappearance: others (such as Derwent't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when will Steven come backs boss, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman0571379877|title=The Disappearing ActKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= British actress Mia Eliot Edward Jevons is on the cusp of success. Great success. If the rumours are truea working-class young man, award season is going to treat her wellobsessed with his upper-class friends, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed productionRobert and Stanza. She Robert's going places but so, unfortunately, is her partnera theatre director. And the places he He's going take him towards liesalso self-obsessed, demanding, deceit handsome and entitled and a pretty young thing uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in the form of his new colove with Stanza since their university days -starand he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. It Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a good time for Mia relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to escape, and pilot season stumble upon the two of them kissing in LA provides just the excusea dark passageway.|isbn=1471189783

|author= Christophe MedlerJo Callaghan|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretLeave No Trace

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= Set against When a man is found crucified on the backdrop top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the English Civil Warcase alongside her sidekick, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. As But when there is a second body found crucified a loyal servant of the Kingfew days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Head a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the Secret Servicecase in time, it is Robert's duty to uncover or will Kat find herself taken off the details of the plan case and follow the clues to uncover one , potentially, out of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.a career?|isbn=B095HY8SXQ139851120X

|authorisbn=Tasha Suri1399613073|title=The Jasmine ThroneMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary= On the night of her sacred burningOlivia, Princess Malini defies her brother Laura and refuses to step Anjali met on to the pyrefirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. She Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is immediately sent a bonus when you aim to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waterscardiothoracic surgeon. But now the temple Laura is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruina perfectionist and a trauma doctor. One day, Malini witnesses Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a girl kill someone with magicGP. Instead of reporting her for such When we first meet them they're at a gruesome crime, Malini claims that drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the girl saved her from consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an attacker and begs for eerily similar event that will impact the girl to become her own personal maidservantthree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=0356515648

|isbn=B088YWF5BC0241636604|title=The Lies We TellTrading Game: A Confession|author=Jane CorryGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew If you were to bring up on an image of a council estate city banker in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed your mind, you're unlikely to have been a loving, stable familythink of someone like Gary Stevenson. When we first meet her, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by A hoodie and jeans replaces the time he sort of halfpin-promised stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he'd be in bywas familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning There was no posh public school on his CV - but he's still going had been to be going to work the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he needs his sleephas a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He wakesalso realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, thoughessentially, when Freddie does come in and overhears a card game which got him tell his mother that he's killed someonean internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Joseph Knox1035021803|title=True Crime StoryThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"been back to the English country village where she grew up. The story follows the disappearance She's back now because of Zoe Nolan a request for help from her university halls of residencebeloved aunt, Carole. Split into four parts Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, the reader is taken through the life dead and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sistercircumstances seem suspicious, other family, friends and professionals, such as to say the policeleast. The various accounts help Arthur was the reader get reason why Freya had not been back to know Zoethe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or at least pursue the Zoe profession she presented to othersloved. However After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the twists and turns at rebound from the end love of each chapter leave you shockedher life, confused who was murdered) and unsure of what is true or fabricatedFreya and James have now divorced. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=No, No, No!All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=They say ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer shape of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favouritethings to come.''

I've heard it said that 'technology'Nois what happens after you're eighteen. Well, NoI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, No!I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they' is based around re talking about or the simplest text imaginablelatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}''No{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, nokilling everyone on site, no! Okaythere is Sam, okay. Yesa wartime photographer and Abhi, you maythe hotel manager.'' That's it! But, like all As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the best picture bookshotel, this tiny snippet of text is he forms a veritable tardis - so much bigger bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the inside that it appears on phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the outsideterrorists.|isbn=1638820457086154742X

|authorisbn=Monica Connell1529153298|title=Against a Peacock SkyThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her PhIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister.D (A woman? I mean, honestly. in social anthropology. I think it is important to know that. ) She went on a grant-supported trip's not what's worrying Miv's family, with a relatively specific objectivethough. Women have been disappearing. She wasn Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-lasound quite so frightening. She wasn Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South't a mere tourist passing through. She went with When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they livedfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. She also went For Miv, presumably, with the academic discipline of how to find these things out, how to organise them in move would mean leaving her mindbest friend, how to "understand" them in the context of her own paradigmsSharon, and how she'll do anything to keep enough notes and files and photos to help prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her create some greater sense of the experience after the event. Fortunately, she also went with a sense of openMum's stopped talking -ness and curiosity and a willingness to muck-in, to break her own rules and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled upanyone.|isbn=1780600429

|isbn=14091816691398524085|title=The MaidensHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Alex MichaelidesNicci French

|summary=Mariana Charlotte Salter was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them bothexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She needed to think carefully about what she knew Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and decide how she should proceedher daughter, Etty. Everything are all worried but - or so she thought strangely - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgeher husband, Alec, is not. She'd been brutally stabbed Shortly afterwards, Etty and MarianaGreg, find the body of Greg's niecefather, ZoeDuncan Ackerley, had telephoned her in distressthe river. Tara It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had been her best friend murdered Charlie and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasnthen committed suicide when he couldn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught stand the first fast train from King's Crossguilt. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of MarianaThe Salter children are not convinced but there's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident little else they can do but get on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been with their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother lives and Mariana's sister, Elizawonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Maisie Chan1035906708|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Danny is eleven years oldWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and what he really, really loves only moved to do is drawAthens when she was thirteen. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. DannyHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw it more manageable in secret and in peacethe States. But then one day his parents tell him they have When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a surprise for him, and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother mother who has come over from China to live with them, mercilessly exploited her and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk made no secret of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing preference for her around the town. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths projectelder sister, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi..Jackie.how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X

|author=Terry MilesChristopher Edge|title=RabbitsBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, Lucas and his friends are all booked in for while it ought to be capitalised to high heavena movie marathon at their local cinema, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it place that has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game nickname of life then'The Black Hole'. Yes All big movie fans, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan they're looking forward to lots of the conspiracyexciting films, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the gamemany, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boardssnacks! However, for as the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar placesmovie starts, and are still they very short. However quickly realise that something about this time it's new film format is very different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken itand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn's ever been – morally and otherwiset even imagine. Unfortunately for K But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, in trying to sort can they figure out what the game on earth is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only going on? Will they ever get back to find out that the line between observing and learning about the gamecinema, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...to their real lives?|isbn=15290169321839942738

|author=C J CareyRachel Greenlaw|title=WidowlandCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend I can hear the state funeral song of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to sea. The call of the throne of Edward VIII with his wifedeep, Queen Wallisthe answering beat in my heart. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it' Rosevear, a remote and we are now a protectorate – wellpartially forgotten island, we share enough of survives on luring ships into the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''rocks and plundering the mainland''wrecks. But this is most certainly a different BritainMira, for Nazi-styled phrenologylike her mother before her, and ideas is one of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs the seven who swim out to survey the drudges, ruins – rescuing any survivors and beyond those, right on down any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the childlesswrecking, they capture the husbandless island's leader and the widowsMira's father. Female literacy Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, as charming as he is employed secretive and with the task of bowdlerising classical literature only coordinates to take all encouragement for female emancipation out guide her, she sets off in search 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 family secret that lies buried deep in the party line before they're stamped ready for reprintsea. That is With only nine days to unearth what might save her jobfather, at least, until as her journey takes her from the first emerging signs watched streets of female protest come foreign islands to lightthe heart of the smuggler's territory, with their potential Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to spoil Hitler's visitsave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=152941198X0008664730

|author=Louise BeechJames Sherwood Metts|title=This Is How We Are HumanPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Veronica is Things have been a devoted single mother to her sonbit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, Sebastian - but she canoften replacing jobs they't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided re paid to do and other tasks that it's took time for him to have sexaccomplish. But Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an autistic 20 year-oldawful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, that's easier said than done. And along with it's starting to cause them both problems, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |isbn=19131937131736128426

|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LMatthew Tree|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker BittickWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Bosner, or, Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to give him be different from his full titlefather, Petty Officer Third Class Bosner. We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely a hint that he drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had the nickname 'Secretary' at one pointendless crises of self confidence. He's simply Bosner So Tim applied himself to one and all. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helosstudies, as they were called) at a naval establishment. The hours could be long cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and he was often working nights set himself high but at the age of twenty-one, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his dayachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Hannah WhittenA G Slatter|title=For The Briar Book of the WolfDead

|summary=In Red'' There's familya part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, the first daughter becomes queenall mine, and the second daughter becomes at last. I just want to enjoy it for a sacrificewhile. To Red's misfortune' Within a remote mountain pass, she is far away from the second daughter. Sent alone into world, lies Silverton; a town under the woods with nothing but protection of the cape on her backBriar's, Red knows what to expect: within a family of witches who protect the woods is a wolf, town and he is the one who will decide wider world from the fate of their kingdomDarklands. If Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained first non-witch to the woods will be releasedborn into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so Briar Witch, the stories gotown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. But when Red enters As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the woods, expecting nothing more than rare ability to be killed within communicate with the hourdead, she finds that putting her at the legends are liesheart of a maelstrom of chaos. The wolf Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is not a monster—he's a manunder threat.|isbn=03565163691803364548

|author=M G Leonard|title=Twitch|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Twitch is a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at home, and chickens, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to that 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 run, and it's possible that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has his secret hide and that he knows like the back of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mystery, and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838853804|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himself. Twenty years later she's back home again and this time the occasion is no less sad. She's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dying of anorexia. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a curse. In addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years before. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=02414001201529900360|title=The Girl Who DiedGhost Orchid|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Una It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was not thriving in Reykjavik: reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then sheRobin, Delaware'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teachers partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was thirty years old and money was tightsomething that the man she loved needed. Her friend, SaraThe next case did look simple, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsulathough. There Two lovers were only ten people murdered in the village but swimming pool of a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation providedremote property in Bel Air. Una He was the only applicant heir to an Italian shoe empire and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik is married to an extremely rich man and, hopefully, save some money over it's not the winter Italian. But which her contract covered.of them was the primary target?

|isbn=18469757191529395224|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Denzil MeyrickSion Rowlands

|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward placesSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. But thatHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn's Londont want to follow in his footsteps, isn't it? Whatparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's happening in Kinloch? life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley vet and his colleaguewas convinced this was the job for him. Before long, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight awayhe was at Liverpool University. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the plane were dead before take offhadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. How could that be? The sort of tech which would make that possible isnIf anything, he't available d wanted to the paying publicbe a professional footballer. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?

|authorisbn=Richard Brook0861541774|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeNye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary= I am DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a firm believer street brawl - he would later maintain that sometimes we choose books, he was facing a man armed with a knife - and sometimes books choose ushe killed a Ghurka. In my caseInitially, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some he faced a charge of it interesting, manslaughter but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it evidence came to me not just because I was likely light that suggested that he might have planned to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's umurder the man.s Now he could be facing the death penalty.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesndiplomatic incident and wouldn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right nowhelp Danny at all.|isbn=1800461682

|isbnauthor=B095CY7NBNAlexander McCall Smith|title=Autumn Camp|author=Barry FowlerThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=It was The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to be Brian's last campall the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since but he was leaving school Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the time had come business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to hand the reins Canada to someone elseget away for a while. The obvious person was GaryKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, who'd always been the fun element of the camps and Brian had said that on this camp, Gary should act as so jumps at the leader and he'd just be there chance to come home to observeEdinburgh. The problem with And so begins this was that Gary wasn't really new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an organiserEdinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, an administrator if you likebut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. He was the entertainerKatie has no experience in running a business, the person who basked or in the spotlight and made things fun match- so Brian stepped making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and did the organising. He handed the camp over - there's always her very helpful (and then took it back. And Gary determined rather handsome) neighbour, William, to have his revenge. This should have been ''his'' camp.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=194812467X0811771741|title=The Farm ShopInstaKnits for Baby|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicMelissa Leapman

|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a walkcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coatfront of the fire' variety. As The projects are divided by the time they walk 'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the top of the hillprojects are attractive, they see modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a big barn with terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a sign outside. Itreally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's a farm shoppossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! But The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a farm shop with nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animalsgood person. There are sheep Spike is going to take care of Benny, and ducks and cowswill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, goats and chickensif he, and even some mice. ExcitedBenny, Kirelle and Sam go shoppingHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. What will they buy?|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=0008404925Adam Stower|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane CaseyMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=Difficult clients were nothing new Murray is supposed to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of be a surprise. After allhumble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, it was her cross-examination whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he'victim' which saved him from s a lengthy prison sentence. Hebad magician'd s cat, so his favourite bun has been accused of stalking turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the woman regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it didn't take long to establish that - if anything - it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was the other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed , to be free of John Webster honest, but he's turned up 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 theyhe'd had ll have to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous man.do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=0008395594B0C47LV1PC|title=Both of YouFragility|author=Adele ParksMosby Woods

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=You Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could , is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well 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. no. '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. SebFragility's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessmanis set as the city of Portland, reports his wifeOregon, Kai missing. She too has vanished without trace.cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=14736857451529431735|title=Unbreak Your HeartThe Winter Visitor|author=Katie MarshJames Henry

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=When Beth Carlyle It's February 1991 and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - wellEssex is bitingly cold, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simonwhich made Bruce Hopkins's son, Jake, off his bikereturn all the more surprising. He wasn't hurt but Jake has historyd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. He The return has HLHS come about because he's had a letter from his ex- wife, saying thatshe's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ill and hasn''au fait'' with your medical acronymst long to live. When he was bornIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the left side boot of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days oldstolen Ford Sierra. So, Simon has every right Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}}home?