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|authorisbn=Matt Haig0241636604|title=The Midnight Library|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Between life and death there is a library. And so, 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, she finds herself in the Midnight Library. Everything that could've gone wrong in Nora's life has. Her cat died, she lost her job, her brother won't speak to her, her parents are dead, the boy she teaches piano to no longer cares about piano, she called off her wedding, and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her help. She gave up on all the things that would've let her escape the wet, cold town of Bedford and given her life some purposeful direction. So at 23Trading Game:22, she realises that she isn't made for life and decides to die. But instead of death, she finds the library. Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each book providing a chance to try another life she could have lived, in a parallel time. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday the 18th of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life she could've.|isbn=1786892731}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0349423083|title=Death and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)A Confession|author=Frances BrodyGary Stevenson

|genre=Crime (Historical)Autobiography|summary=Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in Woodhouse and her housekeeperyour mind, Mrs Sugden. Sheyou's been approached by William Lofthouse re unlikely to think of the Barleycorn Brewery in Mashamsomeone like Gary Stevenson. Something A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is going wrong the East End, where he was familiar with his business violence, poverty and he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he's hoping that injustice. There was no posh public school on his nephew and rightCV -hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip but he had been to Germany before longthe London School of Economics. James went to see what the continental brewers were doing Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and what changes Barleycorn might need to makehe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. William is worried He also realised that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is going to bring back a German bride but he'd like the business most rich people expect poor people to be ship-shape before stupid. It was his nephew returnsability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Caroline Scott1035021803|title=When I Come Home Again|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses The Antique Hunter's Guide to give a name, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he is. Eventually, they determine this isn't willful obstinance, he doesn't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being on the road for a long time and being frightened, and some of the faces from the road, but other than that – everything that came before has gone. They need a name for the forms and so they call him Adam and, because he was found in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galilee. A fanciful name for a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he is, where he is or how he got there.|isbn=1471192172}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529410347|title=Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)Murder|author=Helen CoxC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Kitt HartleyIt's assistant, Grace Edwards, twenty years since Freya Lockwood has left her library job and taken a place on been back to the Venerable Bede AcademyEnglish country village where she grew up. She's vocational library studies course in Durhamback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. ItFreya's former mentor and Carole's an unusual place to study as students with government grants are not acceptedclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, so most of is dead and the people attending are scions of the seriously rich, scholarship students - or they've managed, somehowcircumstances seem suspicious, to scrape together say the moneyleast. GraceArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, who's 22she feels, comes into the last categorylet her down badly. Her parents agreed Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to fund be near the man or pursue the course but told her that if that was what profession she chose to do then they were finished with herloved. Not long after she started After the coursesplit, Kitt Hartley came for she worked in a visit - cafe, met and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance married James (on the rebound from the love of a student from a year agoher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Vincent PanettiereAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=These Thy GiftsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=''2006 is a tumultuous year for the Catholic Church. Reports Opening up new ways of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled. He worries for thinking about the future shape of the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church and hit closer things to home than he ever imaginedcome.''

As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense of the child sexual abuse scandal I've heard it said that 'technology' is rocking his beloved Catholic churchwhat happens after you're eighteen. Well, he discovers I must confess that one child in his own parish has there have been abused by more than a priest sent by his bishopfew decades of technology in my lifetime. And this isn I't just any boy: this is Steveve kept up reasonably well with what's grandson whose mother is advantageous to me but I'm left with the offspring of a long past relationship between Steve and a gangsterfeeling that it's widowall getting away from me. Steve Some of it is determined to seek justice for this boy - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and all children victimised by priests end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who have been protected by his churchknows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. But he must also face up to his own failings, going right back to his breaking of the celibacy vows I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1503199886}}

|isbnauthor=1800321104Sunny Singh|title=The Body on the Island|author=Nick LouthHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefield, heading for HMP Spring HillThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright Hiding from the terrorists who was 67 years old are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and had served six years for Abhi, the manslaughter of his wifehotel manager. Only that wasn't who he was. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the murder of five boys between residents who are still alive in the ages of ten hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and seventeen. He was being ghosted keeps on venturing out of Wakefield and into a new identity set up in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts of the body of one of his victimsher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. The Bogeyman was going Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to be set free on 2 July 2019. He appeared help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be a reformed character but he had a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revengerescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=14736924071529153298|title=The Book List of Two WaysSuspicious Things|author=Jodi PicoultJennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=Dawn Edelstein is a death doula: thatIt's someone who 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is there for the person who is dyingPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, to make their passage to whatever they believe in as easy as possible and to support their carershonestly... ) ItShe's not what's worrying Miv's a rewardingfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, caring occupation and Dawn puts her heart and soul into it but this wasnto have 'disappeared' doesn't always sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her lifefather wants to move the family 'Down South'. Some fifteen years ago she was When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an Egyptologistfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, she was working with the move would mean leaving her supervisorbest friend, Professor Ian DumphriesSharon, on the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egyptand she'll do anything to prevent that. Then she was Dawn McDowell: She's not worried about the dangers or that was her maiden name, the name she published underMum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Delia Owens1398524085|title=Where The Crawdads SingHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|summary= In 1952We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, Kya's mother disappeared up the dirt track but she was born to townGreek parents in Manhattan, wearing her alligator heelsNew York, in December 1923 and never came homeonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Then one by one her siblings left, ran from the shack on the North Carolina marsh that served as home and the life that would lead to nothing Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken father. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed changed it to 'Marsh-GirlCallas' – still yearns for a mother that would never return and grew up far too fast for a girl who can neither read nor write. Finally, one night her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone to survive on make it more manageable in the marshStates. Eventually, as the years drift painfully by, the time comes when Kya, now an emotional and vastly intelligent young woman, yearns When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for company besides the gulls and the land, yearning to be loved and to be held. So, when 2 boys from the town of Barkley Cove find their way to her, voice - she finds was raised under the Nazi occupation by a new way of life. But in 1969, the body of former star quarterback mother who mercilessly exploited her and new husband Chase Andrews is found lying in the mud made no secret of the marsh, and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysteriousher preference for her elder sister, run-down Marsh-GirlJackie. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=1472154665

|author=David C MasonChristopher Edge|title=Pandora's GardenerBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=34|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary= John Cranston is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a gardenermovie marathon at their local cinema, although what he did before he became a gardenerplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, he claimsthey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is classifiedvery different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. That is just But as well because he is about they lurch from one film genre to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plotthe next, where only he can save they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the day. cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=09561805231839942738

|isbn=0356512479|author= Alix E HarrowRachel Greenlaw|title= The Once Compass and Future WitchesBlade|rating= 3.5|genre= FantasyTeens|summary=''There's no such thing as witchesI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, but there used to bethe answering beat in my heart.''

In 1893Rosevear, after a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the purges rocks and plundering the burningswrecks. Mira, witching has been reduced like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to little more than weak charms survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and simple spellsany treasure that lies within. If women want But when the Council Watch lays a trap to hold power in their handsend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to have their voices heardsave him from death, it Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is now through womensecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's suffrageterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Onjali Q RaufJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Night Bus HeroPlanet Storyland

|summary=Hector is Things have been a bullybit sticky for the Earthlings. Egged on by his two 'friends'AI and automation have been proceeding apace, he takes other childrenoften replacing jobs they's sweets, harasses re paid to do and threatens, plays pranks at school, and gets into trouble at every turnother tasks that took time to accomplish. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isn't his fault, but then he isn't believed Just as everyone expects him they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to be telling lies. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely homethink of other, and seem new ways to only care about his perfect sister and his annoying little brother when they arespend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and his teachers have abandoned him as a lost cause. So what happens when, in trying to tell the truth & fight to be believedalong with it, Hector finds himself embroiled with all the police; first trying to accuse, and then trying to save a homeless man from his local park?many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=15101067741736128426

|isbnauthor=1849767343Matthew Tree|title=Count on Me|author=Miguel TancoWe'll Never Know

|genre=Children's Non-Literary Fiction|summary=The title Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and format chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journeyhis artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. It isn't: it's a hymn of praise So Tim applied himself to maths. It's about why maths is so wonderful his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and how you meet it in everyday lifeset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1849766920A G Slatter|title=Everything is MINE|author=Andrea D'AquinoThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson is a schnauzer: what else could you be with a name like that? He knows that you'll realise that he' There's kinda part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, clever and loyalall mine, at last. You'll also need I just want to know that everything is '''MINE'''enjoy it for a while. And he means ''everything''. It begins with  Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the slipper: mum still has one. Why would she need more? You sense that Marcello feels that heBriar's being generous in allowing that. Then it was , a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the pork chopDarklands. WellThough she has always wished for magic, did you see anyone's name on it? ''And'' he left Ellie Briar is the carrots first non-witch to be born into her family for Leogenerations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. ThatWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's another example of Marcellocousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's generosityleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. There was As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the acorn which squirrel was gnawing at: there was no documentation rare ability to prove ownership. And talking of ownership communicate with the tree would provide all dead, putting her at the sticks he could ever want heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to chew. Theredo as the Briar witches's nothing unreasonable in any of thatlegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is there?under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=18497670091529900360|title=It Isn't Rude to be NudeThe Ghost Orchid|author=Rosie HaineJonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=This could have It hadn't been one of those books which Lt Milo Sturgis'preaches s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to the choirask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn': t need the help of a psychologist only people whoworked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware'll buy it are the people s partner, who know nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' involvement was something that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bustman she loved needed. ButThe next case did look simple, though... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a book about not wearing clothesremote property in Bel Air. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and small she is married to an extremely rich man and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. Theyit're fines not the Italian. In fact, they're wonderful.But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=02412959551529395224|title=TrioLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=William BoydSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It was 1968: the year when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinatedSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. It's also the year when YSK Films are making His father was a movie in Brighton. It's called ''Emily BracegirdleGP and Rowlands didn's Extremely Useful Ladder t want to the Moon''follow in his footsteps, or ''Ladder particularly when he considered the Moon'' as itstrain that being on-call put on his father's known on setlife. Anny Viklund is When he was seventeen he took the female star in opportunity of doing work experience with a production which is proving to be just family friend who was a little bit racketyvet and was convinced this was the job for him. There are odd pressures on the producerBefore long, Talbot Kyddhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, to employ this old actor friend for a couple of days because he needs the money, allow a fading star 'd wanted to use his catchphrase, or include be a song from the leading man, whose musical star is fadingprofessional footballer.

|isbn=B08B39QNRH0861541774|title=The Curious History A Nye of Writer's Cramp: Solving an age-old problemPheasants|author=Michael PritchardSteve Burrows

|genre=Popular ScienceCrime|summary=''Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word''. I came to Michael PritchardDCI Domenic Jejeune's ''The Curious History of Writer's Cramp'' by close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a rather strange routeshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting': I prefer the word 'painful' but I have an interest Maik was involved in the way a street brawl - he would later maintain that hands workhe was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. An exploration of the history of Initially, he faced a problem which has defeated some charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it proved, with man. Now he could be facing the book being death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as much about the doctors treating the sufferers any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and the changing medical attitudes as the problem itselfwouldn't help Danny at all.

|author=Blake Nuto and Charlotte AgerAlexander McCall Smith|title=Child of GalaxiesThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=What does it mean The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to be alive? all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. What are we made ofNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, and where are we going? as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. ''Child Katie is coming out of Galaxies'' is a lovely children's picture book that deals break up with all a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the big questionschance to come home to Edinburgh. Written as a poemAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, the lyrical words don't shy away from darknessbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, nor talk down thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the children you are reading Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin tocharm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather than work beautifully together with the illustrations handsome) neighbour, William, to create lend a powerful, uplifting reading experience.hand…|isbn=19124974251846976596

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)0811771741|title=BetrayalInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=34|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Meet Ursula, the stand-in minister, drafted in Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from outside the leading party toys to cover the post for a yearblankets. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, and the children who Some will be quick knits - others are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs in the foreign aid charity sector. You'll meet her ministry's cleanerlong, who bizarrely has fallen into cosy afternoons in front of the task of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profilefire' variety. YouThe projects are divided by the time they'll certainly meet a homeless tramptake to complete - less than five hours, who has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursulafive to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and, knowing her of old, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside hermore than twenty hours. You'll meet All the ministerial bodyguard projects are attractive, modern and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to acceptuseable. But as for the first ministerial case, of a woman demanding her daughterI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects's rape get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursulabut that's meeting with the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403me being picky.

|author=Tania UnsworthDean Koontz|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerBad Weather Friend

|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Elsie Benny is an ordinary sort of girlhaving a terrifically bad day. The sort of small girl who often gets overlookedHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and forgottenhis house gets trashed. She is quietOh, and compliantsomeone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and makes it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the best of whatever happens very last person to herdeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So when her parents forget fortunately for Benny it turns out that her school holidays have started before they are free the delivery to take care of herhis house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, they have who has been sent to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a weekgood person. Poor Elsie, forgotten again, just decides Spike is going to make the best take care of things. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India as a boyBenny, and he has an enormous tiger rug on the floor will certainly take care of one of the rooms. When Elsie asks him about the rug Benny's enemies, if he seems unhappy, Benny, and he says he has to keep it because he was the one Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who shot the tiger when he was 12 years old, and he says it was the worst thing he ever did. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years old, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tiger, in order to put something right that happened a long time agoroped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=17885417071662500491

|isbnauthor=1472127013Adam Stower|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to Trot|author=M C Beaton Murray and R W GreenBun

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=Raisin Investigations had quite Murray is supposed to be a bit humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of work on handthe two. The chairman of Philpott Electronics was concerned about But he's a bad magician's cat, so his managing directorfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, Harold Cheesemanand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like it thereinto the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was unusual, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went to Australia. Then there was the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced that his wifebe honest, Sheratonbut he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, was seeing another man. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations to instal listening devices in is the staff canteen: he wanted to know what question should you make it? Or is the staff were saying about him and his secretaryquestion if you did, who was from Genevawould it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be... Apparently, the staff called her The Swiss Roll. Then there was the murderno.

|isbn=00084203861529431735|title=Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrongThe Winter Visitor|author=Elizabeth DayJames Henry

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=What do Malcolm GladwellIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? Theywhich made Bruce Hopkins've return all failed and - the more importantly - theysurprising. He've d been willing to appear exiled on Elizabeth Daythe Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's podcast had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwardslive. YouIt'll find s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the results boot of these discussions in ''Failosophy''a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=0571362672Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Snow|author=John BanvilleThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=''Well, at least you're Eli is a Wexford man.'' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master of busy lad – by day an apprentice in the Keelmore Hounds wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and had done something memorable with in the Inniskilling Dragoons evening a helper at Dunkirkthe dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. The niceties had to be established even when Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there was is a Catholic priest dead on generation missing in the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missingfamily. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and thisA few short years ago, along with his good-but-shabby suit, marked him out as of OsborneEli's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstownparents were both lost to the titular race, who a globe- despite trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the different religions - was world in the habit company of spending time at Ballyglass Housea magical beast. His horse was stabled thereThis has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=1787477630178763681X|title=The Postscript MurdersKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Elly GriffithsOrlando Murrin

|summary=When Chef Paul Delamare took a 90-year-old-woman with teaching job at a heart condition dies peacefully residential cookery school in her armchair, it really shouldnBelgravia. He didn't be suspicious really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and that was the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke women to Peggy Smith's carerdo what he wanted. Natalka Kolisnyk was adamant Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that there was more he'd be at the school to Peggyassist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn's death than met t turn out that way. The teaching - and the eye problems - particularly as she knew that there are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was no heart condition and that Peggy had worried that she was being followedfor someone to turn up dead. Then there Unfortunately, he was the fact person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that Peggy was a 'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need person to knowbe the prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=0008330131Sarah Marsh|title=The Stolen Sisters|author=Louise JensenA Sign of Her Own

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know that twenty-years on from After a bout of scarlet fever as a dreadful event they are all healthy adultschild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. WellSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, they're healthy in the physical sense, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD and Marie drinkseverything about her life changes. They're Living in a time when the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Carly use of sign language was thirteen-years-old and she was in charge of her sistersseen as something only savages do, the eight-year-old twins. Much as Ellen is sent to a school where she loved them Carly was desperate is taught to get a text lip read, but physically restrained from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attentionsigning. Leah From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and Marie were nattering about using a lost ball and a fleece which had been left outsidesystem called Visible Speech. The gate wasn't shut properly At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and Brunoideas, their boxer dog, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two menand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Stephen Fabes1803816759|title=Signs of LifeThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=54|genre=TravelScience Fiction|summary= I was brought up on maps It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and first-person narratives peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of tales of far away placesadventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. I was birth-righted wanderlust But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and curiosityriots start to spread. UnfortunatelyFinally, I didnJoe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts only one trying to simply go out save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and do tech nerd, is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it. I also didnhacked? And how is Suki't inherit s kidnapping connected?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the kind Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of steady nervethose flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, ability a human skeleton came to talk the surface and forensic testing proved the body to strangers be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and basic practicality that would had learning disabilities, so it could have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottlea simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. In order words I'm not Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the sort suicide of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not come home for six yearsconsidered suspicious at the time. Fabes did precisely Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|isbn=1788161211

|authorisbn=Arvin Ahmadi0571379559|title=How It All Blew UpThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction| summary=18-year-old Amir ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is American Iranianthe story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, a Muslimit's stood the passage of time, storms and gayfloods. He Her husband, Richard, struggles with to grow his identityvegetables, unable to face telling his parents who he really is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening complete the delivery rounds - and to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and runs awayMax, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage.Max takes after his father.to Italy! So begins a journey for Amir, and his family, where People don't believe that they all discover more about him're related, much less twins and who he really there's an assumption when Max is, and who he really wants to beout with his mother that she's his nanny.|isbn=1471409929

|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain1529425867|title=The Readers RoomLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|genreauthor=General FictionSimon Mason|rating=34.5|genre=Crime|summary=ViolaineIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's publishing house has had white, originated from a great successtrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and it was through the slush pile his wardrobe consists mainly of unsolicited manuscriptsshell suits and trackies. The three people who work in the ReadersThey' Room to sift through what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor re usually in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smash, and so it has provenlime green or acid yellow. But there are several 'howeversYou might wonder if you' re being introduced to thata police procedural written for laughs. As inWell, however – Violaine herself is you're not having life all her own way, for she has been involved in a near-fatal accident, and starts this book coming round from a coma. And, however – despite all urging, the author The two men are just different sides of the book has never once made themselves known to same policing coin. Sometimes the publishers in person, and in fact offered up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailcombination works brilliantly well. What is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of Sometimes it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?|isbn=1910477974's problematic.

|isbnauthor=1948124572Mosby Woods|title=Think Outside the Box|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=The West isn''Whenever you find t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a problem <br>''Wherever push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there's was a puzzle to solve <br>''However you get stuck man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a sticky situation <br>''Just think outside man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the box'' And so begins the latest picture book from Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiukmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. It's a clarion call What would governments do to children to use their imaginations and not logic alone when get it comes to solving problems.back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1