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===[[Believe Me Unrest by J P DelaneyJesper Stein]]===
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Claire Wright wanted to be an actress, but she was penniless and living DCI Steen is assigned a puzzling case – the tortured body of a man found in New York. She might have had a scholarship to cover her school fees, cemetery in Copenhagen but she still left there during a riot – a riot that had to find the money to live area swarming in police. How could anyone have been murdered and left in the open with so many police on site? Unless the killer is one of them… As the most expensive cities in the world. There was a solutioncase becomes more and more complicated, although it didnsoon begins to take a toll on Steen't provide a regular income: she became a decoy for a firm of divorce lawyerss already troubled personal life. The job was to trap straying husbands and tape them as they propositioned her. There were rules though: she couldnHe won't hit on them directly - they had to proposition herstop until the killer is caught, whatever the consequences. There was no intention But the consequences may turn out to trap the innocent. be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[Believe Me Unrest by J P DelaneyJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[Hell's Unveiling Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Laura SolomonDominic Watson]]===
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A little while ago Even with a birthday fast approaching, I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity m still a bit young to read be reading about retirement. My next life change in the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of pipeline will be a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal''big one, but and it does involve leaving the devil is not one 9 to take defeat lying down. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth 5 behind for a yacht and particularly on Marsha (who's thought the silky blue waters of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell). Although a strong personthe Caribbean, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed but only for a crime he didn't commit year, and then I will be back, tanned and sent to juvenile detention refreshed but barely 40 and refused permission with many working years still to return to live with Marshacome. ThenAlso, of course there are all the other children who are not only targetedI like work. My job is interesting, but - worst of all - subverted I get to the deviltravel, what we do matters and it's evil endsnot badly rewarded. HeSo no, I's out m not planning to prey on their fears and weaknesses and retire just yet. But as with many foster children, their self esteem the premise of this book is very fragile. This is no small-scale operationabout planning (and if not now, either - the devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hellthen when?) I was still intrigued. [[Hell's Unveiling Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Laura SolomonDominic Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[A Necessary Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by M J TjiaLynda La Plante]]===
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Itwas February 1979 in the strike-ridden 'Winter of Discontent's 1863 and when a little girl has been found murdered at body was discovered in Peckham. It was to be the family home first of two bodies in Stoke Newington. A few two days later and a few miles across London, but the first - that of a man is young woman - would remain unidentified for some time. The second - an older lady - was found dead in a similar way outside the opulent townhouse boot of her car by her son. Jane Tennison has been promoted to Sergeant and finds herself in the midst of Heloise Chancey, courtesan an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and part-time detectivepressure to get a quick result. Could they be connected? And what Four days later and another body to add to the count, if anything, does either of them the police have to do with Heloise's maidnamed their suspect, Amah Li Leen, and the troubling events in but Tennison has her past which are threatening to resurface?doubts. [[A Necessary Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by M J TjiaLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[Apollo Broken Ground by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsVal McDermid]]===
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This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to As the Officer in Charge of the Historic Cases Unit, DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at the Moon landings and scene of the passion crime, but for once, she's in the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of this right place at the authors take right time when a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill body is dug up in the blanksHighlands. These shortcuts are Initially it looks as though the only downside death dates back to WWII, but the fact that the book. If you've ever read dead man is wearing a comic book adaptation pair of a film you will be familiar with Nikes means that the slight feeling case is Karen's. A little while later she'd come to think that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has she'd been trimmedin the wrong place at the wrong time when she overheard a conversation in a cafe. This is Intervening, she thought that she'd prevented a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too shortcrime, but what she said would come back to haunt her. [[Apollo Broken Ground by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsVal McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[The War in the Dark Half Moon Bay by Nick SetchfieldAlice LaPlante]]===
[[image:43.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyCrime|FantasyCrime]], [[:Category:Science FictionThrillers|Science FictionThrillers]]
Europe – 1963. The world Half Moon Bay is used to the constant tensions between the West and Russia, with the Cold War a seemingly never ending threat in the lives of everyday people. What they don't know however, is that the real cold war is fought small town on the borders west coast of this worldAmerica, far a little down from prying eyes at the edges of the lightSan Francisco. British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter is forced Jane has just moved there, to flee London start a new life after losing everything when an assassination attempt goes horribly wrong, her teenage daughter was killed and is forced into her husband left her. Although she has begun to find a tenselittle peace in the quiet, unwelcome alliance with the lethal Karina Lazarova. As the threats riseseaside town, Christopher finds himself caught in one day a quest child goes missing, bringing back painful memories for centuries old hidden knowledge – an occult secret that will give instant supremacy to whichever nation possesses it. Racing against the enemyJane of her grief and loss and, also, Christopher is taken from ruins in Bavaria through to rousing the haunted Hungarian border, all in search of something unholy – born suspicions of the power of white fire and black glass. It's a world of treachery, blood and magic. A world at war local townsfolk that she is somehow involved in the darkdisappearance. [[The War in the Dark Half Moon Bay by Nick SetchfieldAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[Run Wild by Gill Lewis]]===
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Meet Izzy Sixteen-year-old Nova is an undercity dweller and Asha. Bullied away from the local attempt at a skatepark, they find leecher - a huge waste ground futuristic kind of pickpocket who uses tech hacks to steal byts from hapless corps workers. The higher up in the shadow of a derelict gasometer to practise oncity you live, which they duly do, even though they have to drag Izzy's younger brother with themthe more sunlight you see and the easier your life. The following day they all want to returnFor leechers like Nova, as does four hundred storeys below the brother's schoolfriendsurface, despite – and of course because life is tough. But with the help of – there being a huge wolf living in the site. Can hacking program Phantom, invented by legendary anti-corps hacker the children survive living in Moth, Nova can sneak up to the urban wildernesscity, alongside such obvious dangers? leech some byts and at least make rent. v[[Run Wild Phantom by Gill LewisLeo Hunt|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by C M TaylorClaire Askew]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionCrime|General FictionCrime]]
Tony Metcalfe is As a Yorkshireman through and through and being honestnews item, school shootings always terrify me: the deaths are bad enough, Yorkshire's where he'd really like but even the young people who survive are always going to bescarred by the fact that this was done to them by one of their number. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfect It doesn't end on the day, but he's living in either. School shootings cast a mountain village just beyond very long shadow. May the 14th had the Costa Verde and running makings of being a pub. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to sell it shoot thirteen fellow students - and return one last bullet to kill himself. We follow the UK, what with story through the uncertainty lives of Brexit and everythingthree women: Moira Summers, but there are a couple the mother of problems. First off, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to the UK. She'd have you believe that she's not wellmurderer, but there's a backstory there that's not being talked about. Then there's the pubHelen Birch, which isn't doing well enough to sell. In fact Tony's cleaning the swimming pools of expats newly-promoted detective inspector who have left Spain will investigate the killings and returned homeIshbel Hodgekiss, in order to make a bit the mother of money to try and make ends at least come in sight one of each other, even if they never meetthe victims. [[Staying On All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by C M TaylorClaire Askew|Full Review]]
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===[[Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron]]===
 
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===[[The Truth About Lies by Tracy Darnton]]===''You want me to be like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the walls where it's safe, but that's an illusion. So long as there are titans out there… no one is safe''
[[image:4starIn the dystopian world of Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside. Known as titans, these enemies are impossibly tall human like creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Difficult to kill and innumerable they roam the Earth looking for prey, and whilst the walls have always kept them out, that has begun to change… [[:Category:TeensGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron|TeensFull Review]]
Jess is in a meeting with Dr Harrison, the school counsellor. Dr Harrison is hoping to help Jess come to terms with the death of her room-mate, Hanna. But he's not having much success, largely because Jess has no intention of telling him how she feels. Instead, she feigns a grief she does not feel so that he is satisfied and she gets out of there as quickly as possible. [[The Truth About Lies by Tracy Darnton|Full Review]]
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===[[The Island by M A Bennett]]===
===[[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones by Joanna Nadin]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersTeens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction]]
Bridie A contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'': a group of mismatched, modern- Birdy - Jones day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. Link is eleven and finding life rather harda fish out of water. After her mother diedNewly arrived from America, he is finding it used hard to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be just Birdy and Dad and so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad - however ancient that was okay, but now there's Birdy, Dadquad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in years, an overbearing step mum, a little sister and another baby on he immediately becomes the waybutt of every school joke. There's precious little room for Birdy any And some students are determined to make his life more and the only place she really feels happy and secure is at her grandfather's pigeon loftmiserable than others. Birdy loves pigeons. She loves caring for them, training them, and releasing them to wait for them to find their way home. [[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones The Island by Joanna NadinM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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Elizabeth Klehfoth's debut novel is a mystery thriller written Reeling from the perspective of Charlie Calloway, a teenage girl in her final years at boarding school who is plagued by her mother’s disappearance. As the story progresses she begins tragedy and unable to learn more about what happened cope, unemployed actor Arlo decides to her mother, finding out along the way that not everyone was who she thought they were. Titled ''All These Beautiful Strangers'' it really makes you question whether you are surrounded by strangers tooget on a plane and go somewhere new. [[All These Beautiful Strangers Colour Me In by Elizabeth KlehfothLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[When The Curtain Falls A Treachery of Spies by Carrie Hope FletcherManda Scott]]===
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A thoroughlyWhen Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's puzzled – whilst the identity of the woman has been erased, magical and riveting story it's clear that hooks you she has been killed in from the first page and takes you on a roller coaster ride towards same way that traitors to the lastresistance were executed in World War Two. Fletcher weaves together a dash of ''Whodunit'' Solving the thrill of romance, (mystery will lead Inès deep into the course history of which never runs smoothly,) this woman – and an unpredictable ghost. The ghost appears once back to a year, time when the principal star men and women of her very own show1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and more secrets come to meet with light, Inès discovers that there are many in the love of her life present who would rather their past stay buried – and re-enact her death. many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[A tragic accident with the roots buried deep within the whole array Treachery of human nature. Love, joy, care, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, all laid bare on centre stage.Spies by Manda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver The Anomaly by Naomi NovikMichael Rutger]]===
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Miryem comes from a long line Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the Youtube era. Join the intrepid (if rather inept) team of moneylenders – but her Father isninternet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly''t very good at it at allonly to (spoilers) actually find one. Lending freely and rarely collectingImagine if, he leaves the family on the edge instead of povertybeing scared by their own acting, until Miryem must step in. Hardening her heart Derek Acorah and collecting what Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is owed from local villagers, she becomes the starting point of this book. Deep in a person cave within the Grand Canyon our team of great interest when she borrows adventurers find themselves trapped in a pouch Stephen King plot with added levels of silver pennies from her Grandfather paranoia and returns it full of gold, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creatures, from conspiracy thrown into the dark beings that haunt the wood through to a King who's eager to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… blend. [[Spinning Silver The Anomaly by Naomi NovikMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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Rachel wakes up Nick is in a strange bedroom, with the worst hangover she's ever had middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and no memory of the night before. And even though she has no memory, she knows at take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the core building of her being that something very bad has happened to her at her neighbour's New Yeara children's Eve partyhospital. But with everyone there appearing to be hiding something and He has no one giving her a straight answer to her questions, will Rachel ever find out idea what happened at the party? he is getting himself into. [[The Party Water Thief by Lisa HallClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[The Con Artist Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Fred Van LentePeter Lovesey]]===
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Comic-Cons are Children love wrecking balls, so the young lad wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to watch one hit a place building through one of wonder those very tempting holes in fencing which you find around building sites. The problem was that when the dust settled a skeleton, sitting in an armchair and sanctuary for many peopleclad in clothes which looked to be a few hundred years old, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comicwas visible in the loft of the half-Con, hedemolished building. The lad's looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and creators, plus hurried the chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his exboy away. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. However, when his rival is found dead Viewing the corpse from a cherry picker, Mike is forced an unfortunate adjustment to navigate every dark corner of the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans controls left him eye to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing soer, may just unravel eye socket with the corpse and the picture was caught by a dark secret behind a legendary industry creatorpress photographer. It was too good not to go viral. [[The Con Artist Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Fred Van LentePeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Boyd TonkinKatherine Webber]]===
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Consider, if you will, translated fiction. Some say Though it's impossible – that if a book was so good in one tongue it could never survive being put into another. Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and ''Breath''been 5 years since Mika died, but he could translate his own worksReiko still sees the ghost of her sister every day, and other equally complex pieces can cross bordersforever 14. It's something that brings her comfort, but also a market constant reminder that she has to make up for being one when there should have been two. She has actually doubled in sales volume between 2000 and 2016 (thanksto shine bright enough for both of them. When she befriends outsider Seth, ''Millennium Trilogy'')he presents her with an escape. NovelsFrom her family, in particular, in translationher friends, are – as the introduction here so smartly puts it – ''a privileged means of passing border posts, a sort of universal passport issued by grief and loss that Utopian state, the Republic of Letters''continue to scar them all. Seth is instantly smitten with her. We here at the 'Bag regularly try and give equal credit to the translatorAfter all, without whom we who wouldn't be reading what we have in our hands. But all that saidfall for gorgeous, do we really need one of those list books about the subjectpopular Reiko Smith-Mori? I got given a book But while she falls in love with the other year detailing 1001 places to go to before I dieescape that he represents from her grief, and I might even then have missed out a zero. It would take as long as a fortnightit's holiday to wade through, and even though this is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, itso clear that she's not a short thingfalling in love with him. Should it take our time? [[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Boyd TonkinKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of the Orphan by Dr Nat Tanoh]]===
===[[Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionConfident Readers|General FictionConfident Readers]]
Saga Samkad is eighteen and, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening living high up in the mountainous Philippine jungle just as the nineteenth century turns to what his mum calls ''hop-hip'', eating copious amounts the twentieth. But Samkad has no idea about any of food, and learning about girlsthat. Living in an affluent, liberal He has never met anyone from outside his own small tribe and protected suburb, he has his thoughts are focused on becoming a good lifeman. However, He's desperate for the suburb is in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When his friends and family are dragged into Elders to permit him to join the conflict raging around ranks of the dictatorship that Saga lives underwarriors who protect his tribe from their headhunting enemies, even though he is forced to become an unlikely revolutionaryknows it will mean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behind. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of the soldiers desperate to stop him? [[The Day of the Orphan Bone Talk by Dr Nat TanohCandy Gourlay|Full Review]]
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===[[Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi]]===
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Fionn is off to spend some time with his grandfather on the island of Arranmore. His older sister Tara is going with him. Tara is well into adolescence and she can be quite dismissive of her rather green younger brother. The siblings need some time away because their mother isn't coping well with the death of their father and needs time alone to get better. Grandfather is a strange, eccentric old man who lives in a tiny cottage full of candles. He has a crabby but wicked sense of humour and sometimes has trouble keeping hold of his memories. But he makes the candles dance and his eyes contain depths that hold the secret of the seas. [[The Storm Keeper’s Island by Catherine Doyle|Full Review]]<!-- Makkai K D Knight -->
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===[[Going To The Great Believers Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Rebecca MakkaiK D Knight]]===
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In the opening story a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, but comes away with cash in his pocket - and his wife. In ''The Great BelieversA Grey Day'' follows a group an owner struggles with the problem of friends whose lives are devastated by whether or not to run his horse in the AIDS crisis in Chicago during Gold Cup when the late 1980’sground is against him. Beginning in 1985 My favourite was ''The Story of H'', the reader follows Yale and his friends story of Foinavon. H is depicted as they come a kind horse who only wanted to terms with please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and considered a no-hoper. In one of the most dramatic runnings of the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their communityrace, alongside their demonisation a pile up occured at the hands of a conservative America23rd fence. Thirty years later Fiona Foinavon, a devoted friend who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and galloped to Yalethe line, is searching for her estranged daughter on winning the streets race at odds of Paris, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurt100/1. [[Going To The Great Believers Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Rebecca MakkaiK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy Who Hit Play by Chloe Daykin]]===
===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersFor Sharing|Confident ReadersFor Sharing]] ''Biriwita the blue frog longs to be accepted at Croak College, the most famous school for frogs in Malawi, but the other students all turn their backs on him. He is just too different!''
Elvis Crampton Lucas was foundBiriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a home there, including frogs. For some reason that nobody can remember, as a babyall the Lake Ticklewater frogs are blue. They think nothing of it. So, on when Biriwita wins a bench place at the zoo. He knows little else about himselfCroak College, other than that's where his father found him one day and he took him home and named him after the first three vinyl records he took down from the shelf! Elvis' life has been Ticklewater frog to manage such a happy onefeat, but as his twelfth birthday comes around he finds himself suddenly wanting to know, is filled with excitement and needing to know, the truth about who left him on the bench and why. Elvis' quest takes him far away, to a new country, facing challenges his only worry is how much he'd never imagined in will miss his desire to know the truthfriends and family. [[The Boy Frog Who Hit Play Was Blue by Chloe DaykinFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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