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=='''25 23 MAY'''==
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|author=Alan ParksOnyi Nwabineli|title=To Die in June|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down-and-out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move Allow Me to a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Gilly MacmillanIntroduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his head.
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|isbn=1787636003
|title=The Girls of Summer
|author=Katie Bishop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It was Anuri spent her childhood on display to the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and Caroline went backpacking around Greece influencer deals and arrived on the island, basically, monetary gain. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but Now Anuri is in her twenties and she wasis slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-yearsuing her step-old Alistair Wright started mother to take an interest in down the content about her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and by that time receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she was obsessed by himis desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Alistair worked for Henry TaylorCan she save her sister, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Mark EdwardsB0CYV674G2|title=Keep Her SecretSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Matthew It seemed like an open-and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first metshut case. The alien-landscape of the lava fields A man, covered in mud and black beaches is breathblood -taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this momentcarrying a knife, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when comes into the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to police station shouting that he hasn't killed the rockface with just man. A body at the snagged strap bottom of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to certain death below. Convinced she DCI John Tanner is going to diejust back from his honeymoon, Helena must purge herself which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the shocking secret she has been keeping words 'perverse' and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to safety and Matthew is left wondering what keep going - probably because he just learned about Helenacan't get any sleep at home.|isbn=166250893X
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1787636003Stuart Douglas|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie BishopLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived dead body of a woman on the islandedge of a reservoir. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started The police seem happy to take assign it as an interest in heraccidental death, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he made any sort enlists the help of physical approach a fellow actor, John Le Breton to her and by that time she was obsessed by help himinvestigate matters further. Alistair worked for Henry TaylorThey travel across the country during their days off filming, looking after his interests on the island uncovering more possible murders and in particular in , seemingly, a link to death during the bar where all Second World War. But is there really a link between the girls either worked or partied.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''1 6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Shalini Boland|title=The Silent Bride|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Alice Kieran Larwood and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husbandJoe Todd-material. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|isbn=1662507089}}{{Frontpage|author=Simon FoxStanton|title=DeadlockDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Late one night Graham Blake Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is late back from his shift on an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the forcesport where a team of warrior, mage and then suddenly rings Archiehealer enter specially prepared, demanding he fetch something from a secret placecentury-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and join him on the runpoints they grant you along the way. They get togetherUnfortunately for Kit, but barely begin to smell the whiff only thing he's seen of Southern trains when the father latest race on the inn TV equivalent is arrestedthat one team has been retired, leaving Archie on the late express to Brightoneaten, toting and a tin his father was determined new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to keep away the goading from the token bully of his colleagues, world and the bearer of stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a whole heap of questionsteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=18399444201839945184
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=='''8 13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Amanda Craig1635866847|title=Three GracesThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary= Few styles It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-a slice of-chocolate cake on thehomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -nation novelbut I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of a recipe in the atmosphere of book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the day book and capture it, crafting an image I was told to make a mess of the country as it stands . Notes in one particular momentthe margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. To say You suspect that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this smears of butter would not be embarrassingly inadequate: shea problem. I ''loved''s practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this pointbook already. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X
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 =='''6 4 JULY'''==
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|author=Thiago de MoraesMax Boucherat|title=Old Gods New TricksThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding We meet Lori on the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when first evening she's being told that by her onegot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-last-chance-giving headteacherbreaking eleven year old, the world changeson her lonesome. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a power-outblanket fort, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phonesshe has one main intention, and all that powers is to log on to Voxminer, the Internetworld-building, just for our conveniencecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's sake)world. TrixieBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, luckily, realises what has happened – and then she finds something even more spooky. For the ancient Gods have taken the power server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of power from ustampering. And so she begins When malevolent eyes spark up on her epic questphone screen, to gather all and her safe place in the people that can steal it back game has been doctored namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Godswell, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.where is a girl to turn?|isbn=178845295X0008666482
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=='''28 SEPTEMBER'''==
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|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldJenny Lecoat|title=Finding BearBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been Jean lives on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship Jersey with a polar bear – that she called Bearher mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. Back home, things on During the domestic and family front are a bit advancedwar, but not perfect Jean's father was arrested for herlistening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and so can easily be ignored when word comes through her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot Nazis, and woundedthe war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. Desperate to make sure he's OK, she and her father return to But will the Arctic and hope that in truth come as a world of very white and very dangerous thingsrelief, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the friendship can continue.occupation?|isbn=00085820171846976537
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