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|isbnauthor=0241985153Grady Hendrix|title=The House on the Lake|author=Nuala EllwoodSouthern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersHorror|summary=We know that something has gone wrong - badly wrong - when Women, by and large, have always been the woman subjugated sex. Throughout history, they have been confined to mere bit players who was alone occasionally help hold up the powerful man and let nothing stand in his way. Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their due. It is an ode to the house is taken away strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this by the police, but it's going having them go toe to be toe with a while before we learn exactly what has happenedpredatory male vampire who moves into their quiet cul de sac.|isbn=1683691431

|authorisbn=0008149089|title=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac The Cutting Place (illustratorDS Maeve Kerrigan)|titleauthor=Orphans of the TideJane Casey

|summary=The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off It was Kim Weldon who found the first bits of the Irish coast, might have been enough to put some guests off, but it body - she was a mudlarker on the wedding banks of the year. Will Slater (television personality, if not yet Thames and when she turned over what looked like a celebrity) stick she realised it was to marry Jules Keegana hand, online magazine publishera right hand, in the ruined chapel on the islandfact. The brideDS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent's sisterteam would later find three other body parts. Identification of the body was not going to be easy, Oliviabut eventually, it would be her only bridesmaid and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife and her husbandgiven a name - Paige Hargreaves, Freddya twenty-eight-year-old freelance journalist. They gave Her friend, Bianca Drummond, another journalist, said that she was working on a huge discount to get the couple to the island, but surely it story which she reckoned would be worth it for explosive - and she hadn't been willing to share any of the publicity?details with Bianca.

|isbnauthor=B07ZGL6B1BJenny Valentine|title=In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)|author=Marion ToddHello Now

|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It was Jude reluctantly moves to a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was stolen. They were there for the fun run small, quiet seaside town after her Mum and her most recent boyfriend split (making this their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt the race. They're against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh 13th post-breakup move) and settle into a big, old house overlooking the firm is sponsoring the fun run. It was Lisa Mitchell's scream sea - which stopped everything. Her daughterhappens to contain a strange, six-month-old Abisitting tenant named Henry, had been taken from her pram whilst no one was looking. It's who stays rooted in the house like a major incident when ghost that just won't leave – or can'any'' child t. As Jude settles into this new, seemingly mundane, reality she is abducted consumed by a longing for her old life in London and anger at another forced change – but Abi needs regular medication because of a heart problem: without itthis will be the last time, she might have only forty-eight hours to liveswears. This world is quiet, dull and yet suffocating for Jude. That is until the day Novo arrives, and her entire concept of the world changes forever.|isbn=0007466498

|isbn=1471180921B0867X8NW7|title=FirewatchingAccess Point|author=Russ ThomasT R Gabbay|rating=54|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think that heWhen we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something of a professional success: using a device of her own invention she's lucky helped a man who has been blind for decades to be there, given that he decked see an image of a superior officerhummingbird. HeShe's there because Tyler came off worse in the exchange thirty- theresix years old and her life is about to change radically as, cycling home, she's involved in an accident with a scar on his face to prove it - and the superior officer was forced to take early retirementbus. ThereIt's a suggestion too that Tyler's godmother (two years before we meet her again and in the meantime, she's on the force too) has looked after him spent 392 days in a coma and that his current boss is keen to have now walks with a tame gay to put on the town hall steps come Pridestick. Either way, he's there, but without anything really interesting A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom to get his teeth intobring in some income.

|author= A K LarkwoodBen Oliver|title= The Unspoken NameLoop|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyTeens|summary= What does it mean Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to betray someone? What if that someone a horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a god? Csorwe living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed sewn inside his heart connecting him to her god on her fourteenth birthday, yet when a trigger held by the opportunity arises, she chooses to abandon everything she knows and flee guards who can end his life with her lifeone squeeze. Who can blame her? Her god's reach Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories and Csorwe intends relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to stay far beyond it, yet fate Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a funny thing guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. With the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and when circumstances bring her back within the reach visits of her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers hersympathetic Alt guard Wren, and blames her very much indeed.can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?|isbn=12502389001912626551

|author= M G Leonard and Sam SedgmanKirsty Applebaum|title= The Highland Falcon ThiefTroofriend|rating= 4.5

|summary= Harrison Beck, or Hal as he prefers Are you tired of your child's classmates constantly being horrible to them? Do you want your child to be called, isn't exactly pleased when his parents send him off have some positive experiences with his uncle Nat, a travel writer, on a long train journey. Although, this isn't any old train; this is people? Introducing the Highland Falcon, the royal train, and this is its last ever journey before it gets sent to a museum. A number new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-of high-society figures, including film stars, millionaires and aristocrats, will be on this train, so it is quite the event on -art machines are capable of emulating the social calendarfull range of human emotions without lying, stealing or bullying. However, when an expensive brooch is stolen, Hal realises that maybe this trip wonThey't be as boring as he previously thought. As re the passengers begin perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids are beginning to turn on each other, Hal vows to get to the bottom of the mystery…before the train gets to the end of the line.develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours and have absolutely no basis in reality…right?|isbn=15290130621788003470

{{Frontpage|isbn=00082752461529123941 |title=Perfect Kill (D I Callanach)The Silent Treatment |author=Helen FieldsAbbie Greaves |rating=4.5 |genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction |summary=When we meet Professor Frank Hobbs and his wife, Maggie, Frank is playing chess against his computer, although not very successfully. Maggie Campbell realised that her son, Barton the other hand, was missing he was already 200 miles away and has just waking from a chemicallytaken some pills - eight of them, in fact -induced sleepand before long she will collapse. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrongWhen Frank rings the emergency services in Oxford he has a bit of a problem. Bart might be twenty but He has to admit that he was considerate of his mother and wouldnMaggie haven't have stayed out all night without letting her knowactually spoken for a while. BesidesHow long? Well, it's about six months since he didn't have his phone with him spoke to Maggie and he wouldncan't have gone far without that. Itreally say if it's not long before Bart realises likely that he's alone, trapped in a shipping container and on his way Maggie has tried to France, where his fate has already been decidedtake her own life.

|author= Holly RiversRob Harrell|title= Demelza and the Spectre DetectorsWink|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Demelza Clock When Ross is diagnosed with a scientistrare form of cancer, often staying up late to work on her various gadgetsaged 12, much his desperate attempts at school to her Grandma Maevejust be 's irritationnormal' become impossible. However Suddenly he is the cancer kid, and everything he does, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detectinghow he looks, and how he behaves falls under the ability to summon the ghosts scrutiny of the recently deceasedother kids in school. Under the guidance of her Grandma Maeve Ross is, understandably, Demelza begins to master her newfound skillsangry. However He is facing potential blindness, there is whilst dealing with an eye sealed in a mysterious individual on permanent wink. He has gloopy eye medicine to try to help with the prowlpain, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's up plus the need to Demelza and her best friend Percy wear a hat at all times to get protect his face due to the bottom ongoing treatment. With the sudden ghosting by one of his best friends, and a series of this..horrible memes that someone at school creates about Ross, nothing about his life is normal any more, and he has to find new ways to deal with his feelings, and survive.|isbn=19126260391471409147

|isbn=17874775331786485575|title=The Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)Magpie Lane|author=Elly GriffithsLucy Atkins

|summary=Everything has changed for Dr Ruth GallowayWhen we first meet Dee she's talking to Nick Law, the new college master. SheLaw's no longer providing assistance to lately of the police BBC and isnhe doesn't even working at the University of North Norfolk. Shecome with an entirely good reputation: he's lecturing at Cambridge a bit of a bully and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker Dee can sense something of that in Cambridgetheir first conversation. Her daughterShe had been planning to return home to Scotland before taking on a new job as a nanny, Katiebut somehow she finds herself going to see Mariah, has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped and life is looking good. Settledthe Danish wife of the master. She can't s pregnant and looking for help thinking about Harry Nelson, Katienot with the new baby but with the master's daughter by his first wife, Ana. Felicity is selectively mute: she does talk to her father, because Katie sees him regularly and there's a close relationship with his familybut to no one else. You might ''almost'' think that Ruth's life The eight-year-old is settling downgrieving for her dead mother and struggling at school.

|isbnauthor=183895015XSally Magnusson|title=A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner|author=Chris AtkinsSealwoman's Gift|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyHistorical Fiction|summary=Documentary filmmakers don't usually get There is a legend that God came to visit Adam & Eve in the run Garden. Eve had not finished bathing her children and ashamed of establishments within those still not cleansed, she attempted to hide them from the Mountbatten-Windsor Hotel Groupeyes of God, but after getting involved in an illegal tax scheme to fund his latest filmdenying that she had more children that those, already bathed, Chris Atkins was invited that she willing paraded for a five-year stayhim. The first nine months were spent in HMP WandsworthGod was not to be deceived, however, which is probably and decreed that what was sought to be hidden from the eyes of God would henceforth be hidden from the oldesteyes of man, largest and most dysfunctional prison in Europeso the Elves were born: the hidden folk. They can see man, but man can only see them if they so choose.|isbn=1473638984

|isbn=1250168546|author=Sarah KozloffWendy Cheyne |title=A Queen In HidingFrom the Auld Rock to a Hard Place|rating=34|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary= World-building is After the Jacobite defeat at the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die. And what a pleasure, thenBattle of Culloden, many Scottish estates were given to get a novel with world-building you actually want English lords. They were not kind to delve intotheir crofting tenants. Sarah Kozloff's debut novel presents a startlingly rich Many on the mainland were cleared and layered worldwhile this did not happen much on the islands such as Shetland, with a complex history of connecting nations that seems certain the new exploitative conditions led many Shetlanders to have more leave - to tap, and port cities on the characters are interesting – if a little underdeveloped. But it's a world I could – and did – eagerly buy intomainland, to North America and the struggle of each Queen even to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real Australia and very aptNew Zealand.|isbn= 1838591753

|isbnauthor=1543987877Ele Fountain|title=Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas JordanLost

|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book about loveLola lives in an Indian city with her father, and her brother, Amit. The two greatest emotions She lives with them in a nice apartment, and although they are love and grief and love is not rich like some of the opposite of grief: ''if you love''girls at school, Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''they have enough money to be comfortable. Your love relationships begin the moment you're born Lola spends her time thinking about her school friends, and end only when you dietrying to fit in with them, until one day, suddenly, everything in her life changes. Whilst we all After taking a work trip away, Lola's father doesn't come into the world hoping to give and receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simplehome. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - They have nobody else to help, and this eventually becomes resignation. For people who as they wait day after day, Lola wonders what will become of them until, finally, they are making the same mistakes repeatedlyevicted from their flat, self-preservation, in and she and her brother find themselves forced to live on the form of resignation is a necessitystreets.|isbn=178269255X

|author=Chris HautyN K Jemisin|title=Deep StateThe City We Became|rating=34|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= Hayley Chill New York is being born, the city has reached critical mass and has matured into a fighterliving almost-breathing entity and is ready to make its way out into the world. Before it can be established, an ancient evil appears to attempt to destroy it just as it destroyed Atlantis and other forgotten places. She The city is every kind not alone through the birthing process, people who embody the values are selected to become the living embodiment of fighterthe city, some cities have one, some have twelve and wellNew York has six. Together these human-trained embodiments must defeat the woman in most of themwhite and save New York from very real destruction. SheBut these are five different boroughs which don't always see eye to eye, it's army infantry a personality clash on an epic scale and she boxes for fun – unity is both critical and she winsnot remotely guaranteed. Always. She wins because she |isbn=0356512665}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241446732|title=Our House is focussed. She works hardon Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, mentally Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg|rating=5|genre=Politics and physically, Society|summary=The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and she knows how to deal with Svante Thunberg took on most of the painparenting of their two daughters. She is not so much cold as controlled Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, Beata, then nine years old, struggled with what was happening. This fight is against someone she is not expected In such circumstances, it's natural to seek a solution close to home, but eventually, it became clear to beatthe family that they were ''burned-out people on a burned-out planet''. And she is being watchedIf they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radical.|isbn=1471185605

|authorisbn=H G Parry 178730101X|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepKeep Him Close|author=Emily Koch|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Brothers Rob Alice had two children: Benny (well, Benoît, actually) and Charley have struggled Louis. Lou's seventeen and he's just got his A level results and he and his brother are going out to see eye celebrate. Someone has to eye for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists find something to celebrate in the "normal" world - letters, D, D and Charley E. Alice has always had a man who is blessed good relationship with an ability he can't fully control nineteen- one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real world. After years of protecting Charley, Rob wants to discharge his duties and leave Charley to his own devices year- old Benny but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. As literary characters begin to appear everywhere, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's powers a touch problematic with Lou and intends being honest, he's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming to use them for nefarious gainsmy mind were ADHD. Rob and Charley must team up to stop the madness - in a battle to win before they, the characters and the world reach The End…|isbn=0356513777

|isbn=14447761850241396840|title=Haven't they GrownKeeper|author=Sophie HannahJessica Moor

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her son, Ben, to a football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane Katie Straw worked in Hemingford Abbots. Actually, Itthe women's a little disingenuous to say 'found herself' as Beth had made a deliberate detour on refuge and the grounds that she didn't find herself in this neck of the woods very often women who lived there liked and respected her. She treated them well and she was curious seemed to see where a family who'd come into money had lived before have an understanding of what they'd all lost contact twelve years agowere going through. And it might have gone Why then did she jump from the local suicide spot into the river below? There had been no further than signs that had Beth not seen a car draw up she was unhappy and she and her friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas boyfriend seemed to have been content together - and Emily. Beth remembered Noah has a decent alibi for the names well - time when she died, but these children were about three and five and Florawhat other explanation could there be for her death? The police are convinced that it's children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and seventeensuicide, but the women who knew her believed otherwise.

|isbn=15291237631838880658|title=Murder at Enderley Hall (Miss AustenUnderhay)|author=Gill HornbyHelena Dixon|rating=54|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=It's long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most the summer of 1933 and Kitty Underhay is on her way to visit the letters family which she never knew she had, at Enderley Hall. Her grandmother, Mrs Treadwell, and other members of Great Aunt Livvy are back at the extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister JaneDolphin Hotel in Dartmouth. What is not known is ''why'' she did this and Kitty gets easily bored working at this stage the Dolphin - more than two hundred years after Jane's death every day is much the same - a definitive answer but her real reason for going away is unlikely to forthcoming. Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in that she needs a book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expectingbreak after her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack and an attempt on her life.

|authorisbn=Rory Clements1788638026|title=Hitler's SecretWhere the Innocent Die (D I Ridpath)|author=M J Lee|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=SoIt was easy to assume that the death of the young Chinese girl at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicide. Her throat was cut, Hitler had there was a secret? Twolot of blood and the knife was on the floor at the side of the bed, if you include the reproductive detail mentioned in a certain sing-song aspersion. But this is a secret that is counter She was due to be deported that, and in fact is a secret that Hitler himself doesn't even know aboutday. His neice, Geli Raubal, But... how did the attractive young woman he seemed to be very close to in knife get into the early 1930s, had had his daughter behind his back. Protected under a false identity ever since, secure centre and why was the girl is completely ignorant of her past, and 's room the truth is a very rare thing. only one which was unlocked? Martin BormannDI Thomas Ridpath, the coroner'gatekeeper' s officer, is sent to Hitler investigate and his right hand manhe quickly becomes suspicious, knows – and There's a snag though: the inquest is desperately intent on wiping due to open in a couple of days' time, the slate clean girl's parents are coming over from China and removing all connected they want to take their daughter's body home with her existence from them. Ridpath has just five days to solve the Reichcase. So The coroner is disinclined to delay the inquest: for her, it's down about giving closure to Tom Wilde, an American history professor at Oxbridge, to go in and extract her, in this most shadowy race against timethe parents.|isbn=1838770275

|isbn=02419851101471166023|title=All the Rage Burnt Island (D I FawleyBen Kitto)|author=Cara HunterKate Rhodes

|summary=A very beautifulThe 5th of November was D I Ben Kitto's thirty-fifth birthday and the occasion for the usual bonfire celebrations, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up it would be marred this year by the discovery of Professor Alex Rogan's body on a minicab driver bonfire. He'd obviously been alive when he was put on the outskirts of Oxfordfire and can only have died a terrible death. She didn't want to go to The body was first discovered by Jimmy Curwen, better known on St Agnes as the police station Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing and his only concern is the welfare of the hospital: she just wanted to be taken homebirds he looks after. The driver wasnHis instinct is to cover Rogan't so certain though - s body and after dropping he uses his sheepskin coat to do this, with the girl at home result that he went 's the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|author=Elliot Reed|title=A Key to Treehouse Living|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=This is the policestory of a young boy, which William Tyce, who is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford being raised by his uncle after the death of his mother and her mother. Both were adamant that this was nothing more than an April Foolhis father's joke which had gone wrongabandonment. No crime had been committed and Faith didnHowever, it isn't want to take told in the matter any furtherusual narrative way. Fawley Instead, the book is made up of glossary entries, written by William, as a way of describing certain events, situations and his team werenemotions. It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!'t prepared but I soon grew used to leave it at that the style, and they began investigating. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didninstead caught up in William't seem to have much of a historys story.|isbn=1911545418

|isbnauthor=1529400279Will Dean |title=Six Wicked Reasons|author=Jo SpainBlack River |rating=4.5

|summary=It was early summer 2018 Tuva Moodyson returns - and Adam Latimer returned home to Spanish Cove after an absence of ten years. The family had thought him dead - this third book in fact, that's what the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told them. He was cagey about exactly where he'd been but he seemed content, if not happyTuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal life, returning her to be homethe isolated town of Gavrik and into a desperate search for her missing best friend. What brought him? Well, nine years ago his mother died and he'd seen With the ''in memoriam'' in Midsommar sun blocked out by the paper: this was dark pines of the first he'd heard about what had happened. His three sisters and two brothers had mixed feelings about his return, but his father is delighted. In factforest, he's determined Tuva fights to have a partysave her friend. Only, with Frazer Latimer, what happens has to But who’ll be about him. He has an announcement there to make - it's nine years since Kathleen died and he's been lonely. He's met Ana, a Polish immigrant, and they're getting married.save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116

|authorisbn=Penny Chrimes1782407480|title=Tiger HeartBird Love: The Family Life of Birds|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike Webster

|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I was a little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for ''Bird Love''Fly never meant to end up in the cage with on a mancouple of on-eating tigerline booksellers: ''exploring the sex life of birds'' it said. She just saw her chance to skedaddle I very nearly passed over the book, but a closer examination suggested that the book is about the ''family life'' of birds, and she took itwhich is rather different. And even when If the book was confined to the cloud sex life of soot cleared birds, you would be missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to-day, bring up their families and she saw cope in the wild. Not only that, you have missed the golden eyes treat of so many beautiful illustrations about a killer staring into hers, she still didn't turn round and climb back up wide variety of birds which run through this book from the chimney straightaway. 'Cos there was worse waiting for her back on first page to the rooflast.''What an opener! And there's plenty more to come!|isbn=1510107045

|author=Tanya LandmanCamilla Bruce|title=Jane Eyre: a RetellingYou Let Me In|rating=54|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=A young womanEccentric, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has been missing for a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – year and with only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absenthas been pronounced legally dead by her lawyers. When he does turn up he seems Her will instructs her niece and nephew to be dark, brooding enter her home and troubled – but that's nothing compared find the key to the darker, more broody and even more troubled secret their inheritance in an old manuscript left in her office: the house. Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you donlast story she't, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn toll ever tell.|isbn=17811291261787633179