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|isbn=1250168546|author=Sarah KozloffGrady Hendrix|title=A Queen In HidingThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating=35|genre=FantasyHorror|summary= World-building is the backbone Women, by which fantasy novels live and dielarge, have always been the subjugated sex. And what a pleasure, thenThroughout history, they have been confined to get a novel with world-building you actually want to delve intomere bit players who occasionally help hold up the powerful man and let nothing stand in his way. Sarah KozloffGrady Hendrix's debut new novel presents a startlingly rich and layered world, with a complex history of connecting nations that seems certain ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to have more Slaying Vampires'' gives women their due. It is an ode to tap, and the characters are interesting – if a little underdevelopedstrong selfless housewife. But it's Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe to toe with a world I could – and did – eagerly buy predatory male vampire who moves into, and the struggle of each Queen to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very apttheir quiet cul de sac.|isbn=1683691431

|isbn=15439878770008149089|title=Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love LifeThe Cutting Place (DS Maeve Kerrigan)|author=Dr Thomas JordanJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than It was Kim Weldon who found the first bits of the body - she was a book about love. The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is mudlarker on the opposite banks of grief: ''if you love''the Thames and when she turned over what looked like a stick she realised it was a hand, Dr Thomas Jordan tells usa right hand, ''you will inevitably grieve''in fact. Your love relationships begin the moment youDS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent're born and end only when you dies team would later find three other body parts. Whilst we all come into Identification of the world hoping body was not going to give and receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments be easy, but eventually, it would be given a name - Paige Hargreaves, a twenty-eight- sometimes repeating the same mistakes year- and this eventually becomes resignationold freelance journalist. For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedlyHer friend, Bianca Drummond, another journalist, selfsaid that she was working on a story which she reckoned would be explosive -preservation, in and she hadn't been willing to share any of the form of resignation is a necessitydetails with Bianca.

|author=Chris HautyJenny Valentine|title=Deep StateHello Now|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary= Hayley Chill is Jude reluctantly moves to a fighter. She is every kind of fightersmall, quiet seaside town after her Mum and her most recent boyfriend split (making this their 13th post-breakup move) and wellsettle into a big, old house overlooking the sea -trained which happens to contain a strange, old sitting tenant named Henry, who stays rooted in most of them. Shethe house like a ghost that just won's army infantry and she boxes for fun t leave – and she winsor can't. Always. She wins because As Jude settles into this new, seemingly mundane, reality she is focussed. She works hard, mentally consumed by a longing for her old life in London and physicallyanger at another forced change – but this will be the last time, and she knows how to deal with the painswears. She is not so much cold as controlled. This fight world is against someone she is not expected to beatquiet, dull and yet suffocating for Jude. And she That is being watcheduntil the day Novo arrives, and her entire concept of the world changes forever.|isbn=14711856050007466498

|authorisbn=H G Parry B0867X8NW7|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepAccess Point|author=T R Gabbay

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob When we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something of a professional success: using a sensible lawyer who exists in the "normal" world - and Charley device of her own invention she's helped a man who is blessed with has been blind for decades to see an ability he canimage of a hummingbird. She't fully control s thirty- one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real world. After six years of protecting Charley, Rob wants to discharge his duties old and leave Charley her life is about to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. As literary characters begin to appear everywherechange radically as, cycling home, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charleyshe's powers and intends to use them for nefarious gainsinvolved in an accident with a bus. Rob It's two years before we meet her again and Charley must team up to stop in the madness - meantime, she's spent 392 days in a battle coma and now walks with a stick. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom to win before they, the characters and the world reach The End…|isbn=0356513777bring in some income.

|isbnauthor=1444776185Ben Oliver|title=Haven't they Grown|author=Sophie HannahThe Loop|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her son, Ben, Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbotshorrific level by machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. ActuallyIn a world of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, It's he is trapped inside a little disingenuous living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to say 'found herself' as Beth had made a deliberate detour on trigger held by the grounds that she didn't find herself in this neck guards who can end his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories and relentlessly drained of the woods very often and she was curious energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to see Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a family who'd come into money had lived before they'd all lost contact twelve years agoguinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. And it might have gone no further than that had Beth not seen a car draw up and her friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas and EmilyHis prison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. Beth remembered With the names well - but these children were about three only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and five and Flora's children - Thomas and Emily - would now the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, can Luka ever be fifteen and seventeen.free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?|isbn=1912626551

|isbnauthor=1529123763Kirsty Applebaum|title=Miss Austen|author=Gill HornbyTroofriend|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=ItAre you tired of your child's long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most classmates constantly being horrible to them? Do you want your child to have some positive experiences with people? Introducing the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-of -the letters which she and other members -art machines are capable of emulating the extensive Austen family had exchanged with full range of human emotions without lying, stealing or about her sister Janebullying. What is not known is They''why'' she did this re the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids are beginning to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours and at this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane's death - a definitive answer is unlikely to forthcoming. Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers have absolutely no basis in a book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expecting.reality…right?|isbn=1788003470

{{Frontpage|authorisbn=Rory Clements1529123941 |title=Hitler's SecretThe Silent Treatment |author=Abbie Greaves |rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction |summary=SoWhen we meet Professor Frank Hobbs and his wife, Maggie, Frank is playing chess against his computer, Hitler had a secret? although not very successfully. TwoMaggie, if you include on the reproductive detail mentioned in a certain singother hand, has just taken some pills -song aspersion. But this is a secret that is counter to thateight of them, and in fact is a secret that Hitler himself doesn't even know about- and before long she will collapse. His neice, Geli Raubal, When Frank rings the attractive young woman emergency services in Oxford he seemed to be very close to in the early 1930s, had had his daughter behind his backhas a bit of a problem. Protected under a false identity ever since, the girl is completely ignorant of her past, He has to admit that he and the truth is Maggie haven't actually spoken for a very rare thingwhile. Martin BormannHow long? Well, the 'gatekeeperit' s about six months since he spoke to Hitler Maggie and his right hand man, knows – and is desperately intent on wiping the slate clean and removing all connected with her existence from the Reich. So he can't really say if it's down to Tom Wilde, an American history professor at Oxbridge, likely that Maggie has tried to go in and extract take her, in this most shadowy race against timeown life.|isbn=1838770275

|isbnauthor=0241985110Rob Harrell|title=All the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterWink

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=A very beautiful, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by When Ross is diagnosed with a minicab driver on the outskirts rare form of Oxford. She didn't want cancer, aged 12, his desperate attempts at school to go to the police station or the hospital: she just wanted to be taken home'normal' become impossible. The driver wasn't so certain though - Suddenly he is the cancer kid, and everything he does, how he looks, and after dropping how he behaves falls under the girl at home he went to scrutiny of the policeother kids in school. Ross is, which is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford and her motherunderstandably, angry. Both were adamant that this was nothing more than He is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an April Fool's joke which had gone wrongeye sealed in a permanent wink. No crime had been committed and Faith didn't want He has gloopy eye medicine to try to help with the pain, plus the need to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due to take the matter any furtherongoing treatment. Fawley With the sudden ghosting by one of his best friends, and a series of horrible memes that someone at school creates about Ross, nothing about his team weren't prepared life is normal any more, and he has to find new ways to leave it at that deal with his feelings, and they began investigating. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didn't seem to have much of a historysurvive.|isbn=1471409147

|isbn=15294002791786485575|title=Six Wicked ReasonsMagpie Lane|author=Jo SpainLucy Atkins|rating=4.5

|summary=It was early summer 2018 and Adam Latimer returned home When we first meet Dee she's talking to Spanish Cove after an absence of ten yearsNick Law, the new college master. The family had thought him dead - in fact, thatLaw's what lately of the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told them. He was cagey about exactly where BBC and hedoesn'd been but t come with an entirely good reputation: he seemed content, if not happy, to be home. What brought him? Well, nine years ago his mother died 's a bit of a bully and he'd seen the ''in memoriam'' Dee can sense something of that in the paper: this was the their first he'd heard about what had happenedconversation. His three sisters and two brothers She had mixed feelings about his been planning to returnhome to Scotland before taking on a new job as a nanny, but his father is delightedsomehow she finds herself going to see Mariah, the Danish wife of the master. In fact, heShe's determined to have a party. Onlypregnant and looking for help, not with Frazer Latimerthe new baby but with the master's daughter by his first wife, what happens has Ana. Felicity is selectively mute: she does talk to be about him. He has an announcement her father, but to make - it's nine years since Kathleen died and he's been lonelyno one else. He's met Ana, a Polish immigrant, The eight-year-old is grieving for her dead mother and they're getting marriedstruggling at school.

|author=Penny ChrimesSally Magnusson|title=Tiger HeartThe Sealwoman's Gift

|genre=Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary=''Fly never meant There is a legend that God came to end up visit Adam & Eve in the cage with a man-eating tigerGarden. She just saw Eve had not finished bathing her chance children and ashamed of those still not cleansed, she attempted to skedaddlehide them from the eyes of God, and denying that she had more children that those, already bathed, that she took itwilling paraded for him. And even when God was not to be deceived, however, and decreed that what was sought to be hidden from the cloud eyes of soot cleared and she saw God would henceforth be hidden from the golden eyes of a killer staring into hersman, she still didn't turn round and climb back up so the chimney straightawayElves were born: the hidden folk. 'Cos there was worse waiting for her back on the roof They can see man, but man can only see them if they so choose.''What an opener! And there's plenty more to come!|isbn=15101070451473638984

|author=Tanya LandmanWendy Cheyne |title=Jane Eyre: From the Auld Rock to a RetellingHard Place|rating=54|genre=TeensHistorical Fiction|summary=A young womanAfter the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of Culloden, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – many Scottish estates were given to English lords. They were not kind to have something like their crofting tenants. Many on the life she wants – mainland were cleared and with only one jobwhile this did not happen much on the islands such as Shetland, the new exploitative conditions led many Shetlanders to tutor a young halfleave -French girl, whose father is almost always absent. When he does turn up he seems to be darkport cities on the mainland, brooding and troubled – but that's nothing compared to the darker, more broody North America and even more troubled secret in the house. Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn toAustralia and New Zealand.|isbn=17811291261838591753

|author= T R HendrickEle Fountain|title= What if They KnewLost|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionConfident Readers|summary= It's 2025Lola lives in an Indian city with her father, and her brother, Amit. Underneath a lodge in the Blue Mountain resort She lives with them in Pennsylvania, is a secret facility. Herenice apartment, Dr Benton and his team although they are making not rich like some critical scientific advances on behalf of the Benefactorgirls at school, their anonymous funderthey have enough money to be comfortable. Already Lola spends her time thinking about her school friends, the team have succeeded and trying to fit in teleporting small primates from with them, until one place to anotherday, suddenly, everything in her life changes. But After taking a work trip away, unbeknownst Lola's father doesn't come home. They have nobody else to the Benefactorhelp, and as they wait day after day, Dr Benton has also coded for another type Lola wonders what will become of teleportation altogether - travel through time. And he's ready them until, finally, they are evicted from their flat, and she and her brother find themselves forced to testlive on the streets. If successful, Benton has a very specific use for his technology in mind|isbn=1734277211178269255X

|author= Catherine SteadmanN K Jemisin|title= Mr NobodyThe City We Became

|genre= ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= Don't you just hate it when people are multi-talented? Author Catherine Steadman New York is both being born, the city has reached critical mass and has matured into a successful actress living almost-breathing entity and writer, with this her second novel. I think in a is ready to make its way her acting background shows in her writing as to my mind out into the 'fight scene' at the end was somewhat unrealistic – you know the kind where the hero has been hurt so many times that world. Before it's virtually impossible they'd still can be alive let alone able established, an ancient evil appears to attempt to fight off an attackerdestroy it just as it destroyed Atlantis and other forgotten places. The story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until city is not alone through the birthing process, people who embody the ending which felt overstuffed in a frenetic bid values are selected to wrap everything up in become the living embodiment of the last few chapterscity, some cities have one, some have twelve and New York has six. It was almost as if Together these human-embodiments must defeat the author wanted to keep the suspense until the last possible moment (woman in white and save New York from very real destruction. But these are five different boroughs which I liked) but then was somewhat left with too much don't always see eye to do in the closing stageseye, it's a personality clash on an epic scale and unity is both critical and not remotely guaranteed.|isbn=19848906460356512665

|isbn=14736818470241446732|title=In Her EyesOur House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Sarah AldersonMalena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg

|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=Ava lives a charmed life, but those things sometimes rub other people up The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the wrong wayparenting of their two daughters. One evening she returns from a night out with a friend, Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and before she can finish her bedtime routinesister, her homeBeata, and her lifethen nine years old, are under attack: masked men have broken in and are demanding money from her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside himstruggled with what was happening. In the scuffle than ensuessuch circumstances, Ava is hurtit's natural to seek a solution close to home, badly. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happenedbut eventually, but she knows it was lifebecame clear to the family that they were ''burned-out people on a burned-changingout planet''. With her daughter still fighting for her life in If they were to find a room down the corridor, Ava has a lot way to contend with as she tries live happily again their solution would need to recover, wills her daughter to recover, and attempts to piece together what happened and whybe radical.

|author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Diana, being unique on her island, is the victim of a lot of taunts, and claims of nepotism. It's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of Men, and this Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more...|isbn=1401282555}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786075695178730101X|title=When the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)Keep Him Close|author=Helen SedgwickEmily Koch|rating=3.5

|summary=It began with the discovery of a body under the swings in the Alice had two children: Benny (well, Benoît, actually) and Louis. Lou's seventeen and he's playground. It was Dr Alexis Crosse just got his A level results and he was found by PC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeply, but who had reason and his brother are going out to mistrust himcelebrate. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up Someone has to find something to celebrate in Greecethe letters, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners)D, a community which regards anyone not born D and brought up there as an outsiderE. DI Georgie Strachan is an outsider Alice has always had a good relationship with nineteen-year- youold Benny but it've only got to look at her skin to realise that, s a touch problematic with Lou and her husband, Fergus, wellbeing honest, he's a little strange too, not entirely ''here''terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming to my mind were ADHD.

|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm0241396840|title=Orion LostKeeper|author=Jessica Moor

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Thirteen-year-old Beth Katie Straw worked in the women's refuge and the women who lived there liked and respected her parents board the transport ship Orion ready for a new life on Eos Five. Their new home is still being terra-formed She treated them well and life there isn't seemed to have an understanding of what they were going through. Why then did she jump from the local suicide spot into the river below? There had been no signs that she was unhappy and she and her boyfriend seemed to be easyhave been content together - and Noah has a decent alibi for the time when she died, but it ''is'' going to what other explanation could there be a fresh start. As Beth's mum puts for her death? The police are convinced that it, ''There's a future waiting for us. A chance to make our own decisionssuicide, create our own livesbut the women who knew her believed otherwise.''|isbn=1788005929

|isbn=07535532361838880658|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change EverythingMurder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)|author=B J FoggHelena Dixon|rating=54|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Go It's the summer of 1933 and Kitty Underhay is on, admit it - you're not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky, even loveable (her way to you) habits that seem to annoy other people. Other people, of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws visit the family which they could so easily correctshe never knew she had, if only they would make just a little bit of effortat Enderley Hall. Or put another wayHer grandmother, Mrs Treadwell, I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with Great Aunt Livvy are back at the conceptsDolphin Hotel in Dartmouth. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself Kitty gets easily bored working at the Dolphin - every day is much the same - but her real reason for failing. Lack of willpower going away is another burden to add to the listthat she needs a break after her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack and an attempt on her life.

|authorisbn= B T Keaton1788638026|title= TransferenceWhere the Innocent Die (D I Ridpath)|author=M J Lee|rating= 4|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= Barrabus Madzimure is about It was easy to dieassume that the death of the young Chinese girl at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicide. Her throat was cut, stranded on there was a mining planet millions lot of light-years from home, executed for high crimes against blood and the knife was on the Church, floor at the ruling body side of Earththe bed, She was due to be deported that day. Except he But... how did the knife get into the secure centre and why was the girl's not Barrabus Madzimureroom the only one which was unlocked? DI Thomas Ridpath, hethe coroner's Thaniel Kilraven in Barrabus Madzimureofficer, is sent to investigate and he quickly becomes suspicious, There's body. Such a snag though: the inquest is the magic due to open in a couple of Transferencedays' time, the ability girl's parents are coming over from China and they want to transplant a persontake their daughter's soul or consciousness into a different body - and a power that the Church has exclusive control overhome with them. As if Thaniel doesn't have enough things to worry about, a Church employee named Corvus Ridpath has arrived from Earth just five days to interrogate himsolve the case. All Thaniel wants The coroner is disinclined to see his family againdelay the inquest: for her, and heit'll stop at nothing s about giving closure to accomplish this, but the Church isn't going to give in without a hell of a fight.parents..|isbn=B082WPHTHH

|authorisbn=Christine Brown1471166023|title=Bucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West AfricaBurnt Island (Ben Kitto)|author=Kate Rhodes

|genre=TravelCrime|summary=In The 5th of November was D I Ben Kitto's thirty-fifth birthday and the occasion for the summer of 2008usual bonfire celebrations, but it would be marred this bookyear by the discovery of Professor Alex Rogan's author body on a bonfire. He'd obviously been alive when he was spending her days working in an office job in put on the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something elsefire and can only have died a terrible death. Long story short The body was first discovered by Jimmy Curwen, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africa. Now coincidentally, in better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing and his only concern is the summer welfare of 2010, this reviewthe birds he looks after. His instinct is to cover Rogan's author was spending ''her'' days working in an office job (albeit in the UK) while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else, body and ''she'' ended up just 3 countries away, volunteering in Sierra Leone, West Africa. So you can see why, when he uses his sheepskin coat to do this book came up, said reviewer was delighted to have with the result that he's the opportunity to read and critique itprime suspect.|isbn=171024299X

|author=Mark LinganeElliot Reed|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)A Key to Treehouse Living

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= ''Degrade'' opens as it means to go on - with inyerfaceThis is the story of a young boy, banging action. Poor AridWilliam Tyce, alone in who is being raised by his uncle after the desert since death of his parents were killed, has a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight it out mother and his is pretty much destroyedfather's abandonment. He finds himself rescued by However, it isn't told in the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella and onboard usual narrative way. Instead, the ''Moonlight'' under the suspicious eyes book is made up of glossary entries, written by William, as a way of its leaderdescribing certain events, situations and emotions. It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, Queen Beathen moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. Bea As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!'s eyes flash with recognition when he tells her his name - Arid Geiger - but before he can find out why that isI soon grew used to the style, thereand was instead caught up in William's an assassination attempt and Arid is under suspicion and imprisonedstory. An escape facilitated by Ella - Queen Bea's daughter |isbn=1911545418}}{{Frontpage|author=Will Dean |title=Black River |rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns - sees Arid and this third book in the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her other daughterpersonal life, Frey, stranded in returning her to the desert.isolated town of Gavrik and into a desperate search for her missing best friend.With the Midsommar sun blocked out by the dark pines of the forest, Tuva fights to save her friend.But who’ll be there to save Tuva?|isbn= 099461649X1786077116

|isbn=B07XLM3SM61782407480|title=Murder at the Dolphin HotelBird Love: The Family Life of Birds|author=Helena DixonWenfei Tong and Mike Webster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Animals and Wildlife|summary=Elowed Underhay I was just twentya little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for ''Bird Love'' on a couple of on-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in line booksellers: ''exploring the care sex life of her grandmotherbirds'' it said. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and I very nearly passed over the conclusion was book, but a closer examination suggested that she was deadthe book is about the ''family life'' of birds, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwisewhich is rather different. Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running If the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. She book was reluctant confined to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. She's always coped with the mix sex life of holidaymakersbirds, boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before you would be missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to- day, bring up their families and she's done every job cope in the hotelwild. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends Not only that, you have been roped in missed the treat of so many beautiful illustrations about a wide variety of birds which run through this book from the first page to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotellast.

|author=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)Camilla Bruce|title=The Honjin MurdersYou Let Me In

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=To many readersEccentric, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. For those who need more, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan in the 1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. She only been missing for a year and has an uncle representing been pronounced legally dead by her family, for one thinglawyers. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for Her will instructs her niece and nephew to enter her home and find the wedded couple key to be slashed to death their inheritance in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being an old manuscript left in her office: the neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case has a lot of the peculiar about itlast story she'll ever tell.|isbn=17822750021787633179