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|author= Grady Hendrix|title= The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Women, by and large, have always been the subjugated sex. Throughout history, they have been confined to mere bit players who 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 strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe to toe with a predatory male vampire who moves into their quiet cul de sac.|isbn=17886380261683691431}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008149089|title=Where the Innocent Die The Cutting Place (D I RidpathDS Maeve Kerrigan)|author=M J LeeJane Casey|rating=45

|summary=It was easy to assume that Kim Weldon who found the death first bits of the young Chinese girl at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicide. Her throat was cut, there body - she was a lot of blood and the knife was mudlarker on the floor at the side banks of the bed, She was due to be deported that day. But... how did the knife get into the secure centre Thames and why when she turned over what looked like a stick she realised it was the girl's room the only one which was unlocked? DI Thomas Ridpatha hand, the coroner's officer, is sent to investigate and he quickly becomes suspiciousa right hand, There's a snag though: the inquest is due to open in a couple of days' time, the girl's parents are coming over from China fact. DS Maeve Kerrigan and they want to take their daughterDI Josh Derwent's team would later find three other body home with themparts. Ridpath has just five days Identification of the body was not going to solve the casebe easy, but eventually, it would be given a name - Paige Hargreaves, a twenty-eight-year-old freelance journalist. The coroner is disinclined to delay the inquest: for herHer friend, Bianca Drummond, another journalist, itsaid that she was working on a story which she reckoned would be explosive - and she hadn's about giving closure t been willing to share any of the parentsdetails with Bianca.

|isbnauthor=1471166023Jenny Valentine|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)|author=Kate RhodesHello Now

|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=The 5th of November was D I Ben Kitto's thirtyJude reluctantly moves to a small, quiet seaside town after her Mum and her most recent boyfriend split (making this their 13th post-fifth birthday breakup move) and settle into a big, old house overlooking the occasion for the usual bonfire celebrationssea - which happens to contain a strange, old sitting tenant named Henry, but it would be marred this year by who stays rooted in the discovery of Professor Alex Rogan's body on house like a bonfire. Heghost that just won'd obviously been alive when he was put on the fire and t leave – or can only have died a terrible death't. The body was first discovered As Jude settles into this new, seemingly mundane, reality she is consumed by Jimmy Curwen, better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing a longing for her old life in London and his only concern is anger at another forced change – but this will be the welfare of the birds he looks afterlast time, she swears. His instinct This world is to cover Rogan's body quiet, dull and he uses his sheepskin coat to do thisyet suffocating for Jude. That is until the day Novo arrives, with the result that he's and her entire concept of the prime suspectworld changes forever.|isbn=0007466498

|authorisbn=Elliot ReedB0867X8NW7|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingAccess Point|author=T R Gabbay

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=This When we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something of a professional success: using a device of her own invention she's helped a man who has been blind for decades to see an image of a hummingbird. She's thirty-six years old and her life is about to change radically as, cycling home, she's involved in an accident with a bus. It's two years before we meet her again and in the meantime, she's spent 392 days in a coma and now walks with a stick. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom to bring in some income.}}{{Frontpage|author= Ben Oliver|title= The Loop|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set during the story aftermath of a young boyThird World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a horrific level by machines, William TyceThe 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 living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by the guards who can end his life with one squeeze. Luka is being raised taunted by limited access to his uncle memories and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on the death model of his mother an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. With the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and his fatherthe visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?|isbn=1912626551}}{{Frontpage|author= Kirsty Applebaum|title= Troofriend|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Are you tired of your child's abandonmentclassmates 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-art machines are capable of emulating the full range of human emotions without lying, stealing or bullying. They're the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids are beginning to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours and have absolutely no basis in reality…right?|isbn=1788003470}}{{Frontpage |isbn=1529123941 |title=The Silent Treatment |author=Abbie Greaves |rating=4.5 |genre=General Fiction |summary= When we meet Professor Frank Hobbs and his wife, Maggie, Frank is playing chess against his computer, although not very successfully. HoweverMaggie, on the other hand, has just taken some pills - eight of them, it isnin fact - and before long she will collapse. When Frank rings the emergency services in Oxford he has a bit of a problem. He has to admit that he and Maggie haven't told in the usual narrative wayactually spoken for a while. InsteadHow long? Well, the book it's about six months since he spoke to Maggie and he can't really say if it's likely that Maggie has tried to take her own life.}} {{Frontpage|author=Rob Harrell|title=Wink|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When Ross is made up diagnosed with a rare form of glossary entriescancer, aged 12, his desperate attempts at school to just be 'normal' become impossible. Suddenly he is the cancer kid, written by Williamand everything he does, how he looks, as a way and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of describing certain eventsthe other kids in school. Ross is, situations and emotionsunderstandably, angry. It runs alphabeticallyHe is facing potential blindness, starting whilst dealing with ABSENCEan eye sealed in a permanent wink. He has gloopy eye medicine to try to help with the pain, then moving plus the need to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due to ALPHABETICAL ORDERthe ongoing treatment. As I began 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 life is normal any more, and he has to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used new ways to the styledeal with his feelings, and was instead caught up in William's storysurvive.|isbn=19115454181471409147

|authorisbn=Will Dean 1786485575|title=Black River Magpie Lane|author=Lucy Atkins

|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns - When we first meet Dee she's talking to Nick Law, the new college master. Law's lately of the BBC and he doesn't come with an entirely good reputation: he's a bit of a bully and this third book Dee can sense something of that in the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal lifetheir first conversation. She had been planning to return home to Scotland before taking on a new job as a nanny, returning her but somehow she finds herself going to see Mariah, the isolated town Danish wife of Gavrik the master. She's pregnant and into a desperate search looking for her missing best friend. With help, not with the new baby but with the Midsommar sun blocked out master's daughter by the dark pines of the foresthis first wife, Ana. Felicity is selectively mute: she does talk to her father, Tuva fights but to save no one else. The eight-year-old is grieving for her frienddead mother and struggling at school. But who’ll be there to save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116

|isbnauthor=1782407480Sally Magnusson|title=Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike WebsterSealwoman's Gift

|genre=Animals and WildlifeHistorical Fiction|summary=I was There is a little perturbed when I looked at legend that God came to visit Adam & Eve in the blurb for ''Bird Love'' on a couple Garden. Eve had not finished bathing her children and ashamed of on-line booksellers: ''exploring those still not cleansed, she attempted to hide them from the sex life eyes of birds'' it said. I very nearly passed over the bookGod, but a closer examination suggested denying that she had more children that the book is about the ''family life'' of birdsthose, already bathed, which is rather differentthat she willing paraded for him. If the book God was not to be deceived, however, and decreed that what was confined sought to be hidden from the sex life eyes of birds, you God would henceforth be missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to-dayhidden from the eyes of man, bring up their families and cope in so the Elves were born: the wildhidden folk. Not They can see man, but man can only that, you have missed the treat of see them if they so many beautiful illustrations about a wide variety of birds which run through this book from the first page to the lastchoose.|isbn=1473638984

|author=Camilla BruceWendy Cheyne |title=You Let Me InFrom the Auld Rock to a Hard Place

|genre=General Historical Fiction|summary= EccentricAfter the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of Culloden, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has been missing for a year and has been pronounced legally dead by her lawyersmany Scottish estates were given to English lords. Her will instructs her niece and nephew They were not kind to enter her home their crofting tenants. Many on the mainland were cleared and find while this did not happen much on the key islands such as Shetland, the new exploitative conditions led many Shetlanders to leave - to their inheritance in an old manuscript left in her office: port cities on the last story she'll ever tellmainland, to North America and even to Australia and New Zealand.|isbn=17876331791838591753

|author=Judith EagleEle Fountain|title=The Pear AffairLost

|summary=Set Lola lives in the 1960'san Indian city with her father, and her brother, this is Amit. She lives with them in a mystery adventure storynice apartment, and although they are not rich like some of the girls at school, all they have enough money to be comfortable. Lola spends her time thinking about a little girl called Nell her school friends, and her quest trying to find her nannyfit in with them, until one day, Perrine (Pear) who left her very suddenly and then, after keeping everything in touch regularly by post, disappeared completely from her life, leaving Nell bereftchanges. ThereAfter taking a work trip away, Lola's everything in this storyfather doesn't come home. They have nobody else to help, with underground tunnels and as the playground of gangs they wait day after day, Lola wonders what will become of childrenthem until, to travel and detective workfinally, a mystery mould infecting Parisian bakeries, mysterious figures following Nell aroundthey are evicted from their flat, and a set of truly dreadful parents!she and her brother find themselves forced to live on the streets.|isbn=0571346855178269255X

|isbnauthor=B083NMCSZXN K Jemisin|title=Little Doubt (D I Kelly Porter)|author=Rachel LynchThe City We Became|rating=4|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Ella Watson was in New York is being born, the wrong place at city has reached critical mass and has matured into a living almost-breathing entity and is ready to make its way out into the wrong timeworld. She was out running in the park when she was randomly attacked Before it can be established, an ancient evil appears to attempt to destroy it just as it destroyed Atlantis and stabbed to deathother forgotten places. Her husbandThe city is not alone through the birthing process, Thomaspeople who embody the values are selected to become the living embodiment of the city, and childrensome cities have one, Jordan some have twelve and Millie were devastated and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond was outraged that a decent, middleNew York has six. Together these human-class embodiments must defeat the woman should be the victim of knife crime. Despite being a golfing partner of Thomas Jordan he declined to distance himself in white and save New York from the case and told DI Kelly Porter that he would be taking a great deal of interest in how the case was handledvery real destruction. He wasnBut these are five different boroughs which don't anywhere near as interested when a second woman was stabbed always see eye to death eye, it's a few hours later. Keira Bradley lived personality clash on the Beacon estate an epic scale and unity is both critical and Ormond's view seemed to be that anyone living there should expect this sort of thing to happen. He could hardly bring himself to mention Keira's namenot remotely guaranteed.|isbn=0356512665

|isbn=05713423530241446732|title=Rules for Perfect MurdersOur House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Peter SwansonMalena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg|rating=45|genre=CrimePolitics and Society|summary=Malcolm Kershaw The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was the co-owner an opera singer and manager Svante Thunberg took on most of the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill in Bostonparenting of their two daughters. The store specialises in crime novelsThen eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, Beata, then nine years old, but Mal has given up reading crimestruggled with what was happening. His lifeIn such circumstances, it's been pretty chaotic of late: It's five years since his wifenatural to seek a solution close to home, Claire Mallorybut eventually, died and he's never really got over it. She was driving whilst inebriated, having just been became clear to see the man with whom Kershaw suspected she was having an affair. His interest in crime fiction comes back when hefamily that they were 's approached by Special Agent Gwen Mulvey. She's interested in burned-out people on a blog post he wrote a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murdersburned-out planet''. If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radical.

|isbn=1786897148178730101X|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever (Harry McCoy)Keep Him Close|author=Alan ParksEmily Koch|rating=43.5

|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March was on his way to London with fellow band members TomAlice had two children: Benny (well, ScottBenoît, Barry actually) and JamieLouis. HeLou's seventeen and he'd had s just got his A level results and he and his brother are going out to celebrate. Someone has to get his father find something to sign celebrate in the contract for The Beatkickersletters, D, as Bobby wasn't old enoughD and E. And his father Alice has always had been reluctant a good relationship with nineteen- heyear-old Benny but it'd have preferred Bobby to get an apprenticeship, for the regular money. s a By July 1973 Bobby is back in Glasgow. The Beatkickers didn't survive touch problematic with Lou and March is on his ownbeing honest, but hardly thriving. Therehe's an obvious drug habitnot terribly likeable. Meanwhile, the police are consumed by the search for a missing girl, Alice KellyThe letters which kept coming to my mind were ADHD.

|authorisbn=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)0241396840|title=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy TalesKeeper|author=Jessica Moor

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Curses. TheyKatie Straw worked in the women're s refuge and the women who lived there throughout tales of faery liked and respected her. She treated them well and other fantastical folk – people being cursed seemed to do this, or not to be able to do thathave an understanding of what they were going through. Children can be cursed, as can princesses on Why then did she jump from the local suicide spot into the verge of marrying, river below? There had been no signs that she was unhappy and she and her boyfriend seemed to have been content together - and older people too. It seems in Noah has a way decent alibi for the time when she died, but what other explanation could therebe for her death? The police are convinced that it's no escaping it. Which is why suicide, but the theme of this book of short stories is such a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed character, that demonised place, and that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrongwomen who knew her believed otherwise.|isbn=1789091500

|authorisbn=Sara Holland1838880658|title=HavenfallMurder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)|author=Helena Dixon

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Maddie Morrow is supposed to spending It's the summer with of 1933 and Kitty Underhay is on her Grandma Ellen. But after a way to visit to her mother in prison, Maddie wants nothing more than to go to Havenfall to see her uncle, Marcus. It's the only place family which she never knew she feels truly had, at homeEnderley Hall. Maddie's fatherHer grandmother, understandablyMrs Treadwell, and Great Aunt Livvy are back at the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth. Kitty gets easily bored working at the Dolphin - every day is not keen on Maddie spending time with much the same - but her mother's family - because the crime Maddie's mum real reason for going away is languishing that she needs a break after her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack and an attempt on death row for committing is the murder of Maddie's brother..her life.|isbn=1547603798

|authorisbn=Baye Hartshorne1788638026|title=Ghosted: The Treason House TrilogyWhere the Innocent Die (D I Ridpath)|author=M J Lee

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary='Julia Crawley has lost her job on ''Celebrity'' magazine and so she decides It was easy to assume that the death of the young Chinese girl at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicide. Her throat was cut her losses , there was a lot of blood and return home to the village knife was on the floor at the side of Monmouth Cove on the Jersey Shorebed, hoping She was due to return to her harder hitting journalistic roots via local newsbe deported that day. But.. She'll be staying with her grandmother - a woman always ready to help younger relatives in need of a hand. Therehow did the knife get into the secure centre and why was the girl's room the only one problem with that: creepy Uncle Dexwhich was unlocked? DI Thomas Ridpath, who doesnthe coroner't always keep his hands s officer, is sent to himself.|isbn= B0829CP5BM}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0648684806|title=Clara Colbyinvestigate and he quickly becomes suspicious, There's a snag though: The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=The path the inquest is due to open in a couple of Clara Dorothy Bewickdays's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasnthe girl't allowed to sail with her s parents are coming over from China and three brothers. Instead, she remained they want to take their daughter's body home with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in and out of schoolthem. She was the only child in Ridpath has just five days to solve the household and her childhood was gloriouscase. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of the United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went The coroner is disinclined to join delay the family. Clara would only know her mother for a few monthsinquest: she was married for fifteen yearsher, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As it's about giving closure to the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakeningparents.

|authorisbn=Kathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick1471166023|title=Nine Ways to Empower TweensBurnt Island (Ben Kitto)|author=Kate Rhodes

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The 5th of November was D I Ben Kitto''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a selfs thirty-help book fifth birthday and the occasion for tweensthe usual bonfire celebrations, setting out to show them vital #lifeskillsbut it would be marred this year by the discovery of Professor Alex Rogan's body on a bonfire. Don He't groan! I know there d obviously been alive when he was put on the fire and can only have died a terrible death. The body was first discovered by Jimmy Curwen, better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing and his only concern is a market glut the welfare of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, but there the birds he looks after. His instinct is a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger cover Rogan's body and younger children for material for tweens toohe uses his sheepskin coat to do this, with the result that he's the prime suspect. |isbn= 0228818826

|author= Katie FfordeElliot Reed|title= A Springtime AffairKey to Treehouse Living|rating= 4|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - This is the story of a warmyoung boy, cosy read focused on romanceWilliam Tyce, family who is being raised by his uncle after the death of his mother and friendshipshis father's abandonment. This provided two romances for However, it isn't told in the usual narrative way. Instead, the price book is made up of oneglossary entries, written by William, as a way of describing certain events, situations and emotions. It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!' but it was actually the family element as opposed I soon grew used to the romance that I really enjoyedstyle, and was instead caught up in William's story. |isbn=17808975611911545418

|isbn=1838593187|title=Guess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her face. Dad's come to collect her and her brother and he ''has'' to try to guess what she found in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. Dad wants to know how school was, but ''obviously'' that's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to guess.}}{{Frontpage|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed|title= Yes No Maybe So |rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= ''We might give it our all and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for, don't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for a special election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassing, he can't think of anything worse. However, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician and decides there is no time like the present to conquer his fear of speaking to the public. Maya is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through a separation, she has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things and her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy her, her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassing. The pair could possibly be the worst canvassing duo in history, as neither of them really want to be there, but as the campaign goes on they discover that they care, a lot, about the election - and maybe even about each other?|isbn=1471184668}}{{Frontpage|author=Gregg HurwitzWill Dean |title=Into The FireBlack River

|summary=For Janet Tuva Moodyson returns - and Chuck, it was a hiking break this third book in the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off the beaten track Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal life, returning her to find a stick. What he found was a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called in, along with Sergeant D D Warren. Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on the services isolated town of Keith Edgar, Gavrik and into a computer analyst, and Flora Dane who brought something unique to desperate search for her missing best friend. With the table. Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days Midsommar sun blocked out by the notorious killerdark pines of the forest, Jacob NessTuva fights to save her friend. If Ness had anything to do with the current discoveries then what Flora had But who’ll be there to say could be invaluable.save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116

|isbn=15290096771782407480|title=A Window BreaksBird Love: The Family Life of Birds|author=C M EwanWenfei Tong and Mike Webster|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. ItI was a little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for ''Bird Love''s not just the usual growing apart after more than on a decade couple of marriage. Their son, Michael, was killed in a car crash some months beforeon-line booksellers: he was driving his father's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to driveexploring the sex life of birds'' it said. Not only did he kill himself when I very nearly passed over the car rammed into a treebook, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom cana closer examination suggested that the book is about the ''family life''t think about Michael without a sense of shame and guiltbirds, which is rather different. Rachel is broken, but she wants If the book was confined to forgive Michael. To give some space, Tom's moved out the sex life of the family homebirds, but stresses you would be missing an opportunity to his thirteenunderstand how birds live day-yearto-old daughterday, Hollybring up their families and cope in the wild. Not only that, that it is only you have missed the treat of so many beautiful illustrations about a trial separationwide variety of birds which run through this book from the first page to the last.

|isbnauthor=0241985153Camilla Bruce|title=The House on the Lake|author=Nuala EllwoodYou Let Me In|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=We know that something Eccentric, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has gone wrong - badly wrong - when the woman who was alone in the house is taken away by the police, but it's going to be been missing for a while before we learn exactly what year and has happenedbeen pronounced legally dead by her lawyers.}}{{Frontpage|author=Struan Murray Her will instructs her niece and nephew to enter her home and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=Orphans of the Tide|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= In the last city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned find the world - who has come key to wreak havoc on their inheritance in an old manuscript left in her office: the last of humanity. When a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse of a whale, the citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, a girl inventor. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the boy, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets..story she'll ever tell.|isbn=02413844351787633179