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 =='''24 23 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|isbn=B083Z3ZZ61|title=Broken Silence (DS Nikki Parekh 2)|author=Liz Mistry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When we first meet him Stefan Marcovici has been in the UK with his daughter Maria for a while. He came expecting to work as a gardener and Maria was to be a nanny. Stefan ends up doing slave labour in a chicken factory: you can imagine what happens to an eighteen-year-old girl.}} =='''26 MAY'''== 

|isbnauthor=1787477681Onyi Nwabineli|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It was a couple of days after old Driant's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from his son. Gaston's father had sold the family farm in order Allow Me to buy an insurance policy which he had used to secure a life of luxury at an expensive retirement home near Sarlat, owned by a Russian oligarch. Before he even got to go there he died, apparently of a heart attack, and the retirement home collected the proceeds of the policy and Gaston and Claudette Driant were left with just the contents of the farmhouse. The family hadn't exactly fallen out, but Gaston lived some way away and Claudette had fallen out of favour when she announced that she was gay, but they weren't expecting to be almost completely disinherited.}}{{Frontpage|author=Amin Maalouf|title=The DisorientedIntroduce Myself

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary= Adam has lived in Paris for yearsAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, speaks French more easily than his native Arabic. In fact he hasnwhere she posted every step of Anuri't been back to his homeland s childhood for 25 yearssponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. An old friend Now Anuri is dying…or as Adam prefers in her twenties and she is slowly trying to think of him a former-friendregain her confidence and to get her life back, perhaps not as harsh as an exsuing her step-friend, or maybemother to take down the content about her. The falling out was a long time agoAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and Adam's partner has no idea what it was about, even so she urges him to go knowing that he'll regret not secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Not knowing whether he's going because he needs or wants toMost importantly, or simply because he was askedshe is desperately worried about her little sister, hewho is the new focus of Ophelia's on online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the next plane. same time?|isbn=B07ZQSK9CY0861546873

 =='''28 30 MAY'''==

|isbn=0008273790B0CYV674G2|title=Remain SilentSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Susie SteinerDavid Blake|rating=43.5

|summary=When we first meet Matis It seemed like an open-and Dimitri-shut case. A man, Matis is covered in mud and blood - and carrying a bad wayknife, vomiting and obviously traumatisedcomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. When A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's able been stabbed to speak he tells Dimitri that ''Lukas death. DCI John Tanner is dead''just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. Lukas was in his late teens and You would think he and Matis had come to Cambridgeshire from Klaipeda in Lithuania. They'd answered be grateful for an advert offering good money and accommodation in return for their labour: they could have a decent life easy answer but the words 'perverse'and'John Tanner' send money home to their familieswere made for each other. Sadly, it doesnHe't work out like that. When they arrive in the UK - on an old, uncomfortable bus, s sleep- they're dropped at a filthy house where several men have deprived to share rooms and sleep on dirty mattresses on the floor. Itpoint of falling asleep at work but he's modern slavery, which isndetermined to keep going - probably because he can't uncommon amongst agricultural workersget any sleep at home.

=='''29 MAY4 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=B07S6DBCFTStuart Douglas|title=Little Girls Tell Tales|author=Rachel BennettLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=In 2004 Rosalie, Beth and Dallin were walking in the boggy wetlands by Rosalie and DallinDuring location filming for his 1970's cottage. Beth sitcom 'Floggit and DallinLeggit', both twelve-years-old, got ahead leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of ten-year-old Rosalie and it wasn't long before she realised that she was losta reservoir. Trying to find her way back The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the main path she found help of a skeletonfellow actor, but when she finally got John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the road she could never find her way back country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the bog when she'd seen the bodySecond World War. Most people didn't believe her, putting But is there really a link between the story down deaths? And will they manage to her vivid imagination.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

=='''2 6 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=PronkoKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Tokyo Traffic (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael PronkoDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=There were three young women, girls really if you wanted to be pedantic about their agesMeet Kit. Sukayana was Thai Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and she'd come race to Japan in the belief that she'd be able to pick up exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the documentation to get to points they grant you along the Statesway. Celeste was just fourteen and when we meet her sheUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's already dead seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a heart attack caused by an overdose new trio of amphetaminesquestors is needed. Then there's RatanaPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, who's he has taken to the goading from the de facto leader token bully of the group, but shehis world and stumbled into declaring he's disappeared too with the group's passportsll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, leaving Sukayana muscle-free-zone have in the midst of a scene of carnage at the Jack actually managing that, and Jill Studios. The dead bodies are definitely not props though.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|isbn=07278892301635866847|title=The Red, Red SnowLavender Companion|author=Caro RamsayJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=In GlasgowIt's strange, Eric Callaghan of Inkermann Tattoo Parlour had been to the ice show with his wife, Geraldine and daughter, Lisa when he was stabbed in Planet Burgerthings that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. He died within minutesBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', but his murder seemed motiveless I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there were no clues's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. He was a genuine man I don't eat cakes and a talented artist: those investigating his death had hit a dead enddesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There were two deaths to investigate 's a recipe in the north of Scotland: it wasnbook, which I't thought wise to involve m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the local murder team as someone on the Glen Riske police force book and I was indirectly involved told to make a mess of it. Notes in the casemargins are sanctioned. Christmas - and You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a lot of snow were rapidly approachingproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.

=='''16 JUNE4 JULY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ashley Poston|title= Bookish and the Beast|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set after the ExcelsiCon, we are introduced to Rosie Thorne, a Small Town, USA girl who has recently lost her mother and is entering her final year of high school. Things keep piling up for Rosie, and when she follows a stray dog into what she thinks is an abandoned castle in her town, things just get worse. Rosie accidentally destroys a rare book and with her mother's hospital and funeral costs she has no money to cover the damage. She finds herself working for Vance Reigns, Hollywood royalty on a paparazzi escape, to repay the debt.  For most Starfield superfans this would be a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance is a jerk - and he isn't too fond of her either. However, as the two are forced to get to know each other, their guards begin to lower and they discover that maybe this situation might not be so terrible after all. |isbn=1683691938}}

|author= Joan HeMax Boucherat|title= Descendant The Last Life of the Crane|rating=5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''Heroes cannot be forged without villains''Princess Hesina of the kingdom of Yan has never wanted the throne. Instead of craving power, she has always considered the crown her inescapable duty and shrank away from the responsibilities of being Queen. To her, it has always been a distant, faraway future. Until that is, it isn't. When her beloved father suddenly dies, she is thrust into ruling. But contrary to the official report, Hesina knows all is not as it seems, her father didn't die. He was murdered.Determined to seek the truth and discover her father's killer, Princess Hesina will stop at nothing to find justice, even committing treason. Under the cover of darkness, her feet lead her to a soothsayer to learn what happened that day and who killed the King.|isbn=1789094046}}{{Frontpage|author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered HopesLori Mills

|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary=I never really followed We meet Lori on the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out first evening she's got the house to herself – someone no neighbour to pop in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man imagebabysitter poorly, mother at work, I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protestjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either sideher lonesome. This book is practically flawless What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in giving a general browser's context for the whole season of protests back in 1989.|isbn=1684056993}} =='''18 JUNE'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ukamaka Olisakwe|title= Ogadinma Orblanket fort, Everything Will Be All Right|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at the trauma and heartache of being a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title is ''Ogadinma Orshe has one main intention, Everything Will Be All Right''. Ogadinma is the eponymous heroine of the story. We are with her in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads the story, although Olisakwe writes in the third person. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights the isolation of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her father's home and sent to Lagos where she is married to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escape.|isbn=1911648160}}=='''25 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0008214700|title=Cut log on to Voxminer, the Bone (DI Meg Dalton)|author=Roz Watkins|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DI Meg Dalton and Ds Jai Sanghera are dealing with the case of a missing teenager. Violet Armstrong is wellworld-known as a vlogger - championing the cause of meat-eating. She barbeques meat wearing only a bikini and has attracted the attention of animal rights activists. The meatbuilding, critter-eaters (they wear meat suits) are determined collecting game that Meg Dalton is corrupt and not running a decent investigation (''obviously'' she only got the job because shehit in Lori's a woman) because she's a vegetarianworld. As if the case wasnBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't enough, Meg's father is coming to stay with find herself entirely on her despite having had little to do with her for fifteen years and Jai's convinced that his girlfriendown, Suki, doesn't like his children and that then she wants finds something even more, but he doesn'tspooky.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1780899858|title=To Tell You For the Truth|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old server she crept out and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of the house on the night of the summer solstice to watch the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woodstampering. Her four-year-old brotherWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, Teddy, would have woken the house if she hadn't taken him with and her. But safe place in the early hours of the morning, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping that he would have got home before her. He hadn't and no one game has seen him since. Lucy's story was crucial to the police investigationbeen doctored – well, but it keeps subtly changing. Lucy where is being advised by her imaginary friend, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell the police.a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482

|isbnauthor=B0859115X5Jenny Lecoat|title=Lies to Tell (DI Clare Mackay)|author=Marion ToddBeyond Summerland

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=When we meet up Jean lives on Jersey with DI Clare Mackay again she's at Daisy Cottage on her mother where they are celebrating the outskirts end of St Andrews with her English Bull Terrier, Benjythe occupation. SheDuring the war, Jean's just had a postcard from Geoffrey Dark and he's in Provincetown, Cape Cod. He wishes that she father was there, but Clare's struggling arrested for listening to think of what he ''actually'' is to her now. Is he her boyfriend? Her ex-boyfriend? She can't work it out a banned radio and thinks that Geoffrey probably can't either. Work's about to get very busy and she can't work out why DCI Alastair Gibson has cancelled a meeting she'd arranged without discussing it with her first. They're off somewhere top secret.}} =='''9 JULY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Helly Acton|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amy, she's in a relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change soldiers took him. Ahaway one night, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells leaving Jean and her to pack mother waiting for years for a surprise tripnews of him. Could this be it? Is he '' As the British finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was free the work (and Channel islands from the wait) worth it?|isbn=1838770879}}{{Frontpage|author=Kat Ellis|title=Harrow Lake|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old Lola, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan NoxNazis, she is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residents. But when she the war is found by her father's assistant and forced to come homefinally over, she arrives to find an unlocked door, a trail their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of blood, and her father dying in his studyhim. And so, while he recovers, she is sent off to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, But will the small 1920s town in Indiana that served truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the location for war? Who was the film that made her parents famous. But something about this place isn't right. There's a darkness inside informer who told the people here. Secrets Nazis about her mother and dark tales of the town's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every corner, and disturbing happenings plague Lola. But with every passing hour, radio? And what other secrets long buried come painfully to light and she begins to think that these stories may not be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lake.|isbn=0241397049}} =='''20 AUGUST'''== {{Frontpage|author=Jacqueline Wilson|title=Love Frankie|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has have been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided to leave her for another woman, when your older sister has turned into kept throughout the girliest girl who ever lived, and, above all when Sally and her mates are bullying you at school. Oh, and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you don't fancy him back. Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897 }}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= The Doors of Eden|rating= 4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= Wow – this novel is gigantic, in every sense of the word. "Epic" is a word that's thrown around a lot these days, but if a book ever earned the name it's this one. It's a doorstopper full of big ideas, and at times it almost felt too big for my brain.occupation?|isbn=15098658881846976537