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|isbn=suppl_stafl0241636604|title=Supply Chain 20/20The Trading Game: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversConfession|author=Kim StaflundGary Stevenson

|genre=ReferenceAutobiography|summary=So, If you've finished writing were to bring up an image of a city banker in your book and mind, you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need unlikely to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong againthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. You presumably wrote A hoodie and jeans replaces the book because you wanted to pin- stripe suit and you had a talent for delivering his background is the written wordEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. You knew your subject back There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to frontthe London School of Economics. Now you're going to have to get to grips Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with the book supply chain, numbers which even parts most of the publishing industry believe us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and no one wants to be the first to trystupid. ThenIt was his ability at what was, essentially, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book in your handscard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to youthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=13987069061035021803|title=The LostAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Simon BeckettC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyIt's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedtwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. HeShe'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and when he wokes back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Theo had goneCarole. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later heFreya's largely come through it former mentor and heCarole's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneyclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Gavin used Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to be his best friend but it's a long time since they've spokenthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. He's obviously Even though they were in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and he asks Jonah business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to meet him at Slaughter Quaybe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. ''There's no one else I can trust''After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, he sayswho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Amanda MasonAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Hiding Place|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But thereAll Tomorrow's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect Futures: Fictions that she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{FrontpageDisrupt|author=Paul Cleave|title=The Quiet PeopleBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary= I am not a fan ''Opening up new ways of "thinking about the Prologue"shape of things to come. Most books are the worse for them'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. In this case Well, I might make an exceptionmust confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. We start I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with Luca Pittman who the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is in a hurry- frankly - quite frightening. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have Of course, I could research the possibilities and when he hurries, when he bundles things into the back of his car probabilities and tries to run end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes who could deliver information in a riskway I could understand. It ends badly.|isbn=1913193942

|author=Will CarverSunny Singh|title=Psychopaths AnonymousHotel Arcadia

|genre=Thrillers|summary=Maeve The Hotel Arcadia is a high functioning alcoholicluxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, drinking continuously and alsokilling everyone on site, curiouslythere is Sam, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing wartime photographer and critiquing Abhi, the AA steps she is mainly using the groups hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to find targets...targets care remotely for sexual encountersthe residents who are still alive in the hotel, targets he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to feed be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her desire room to try to hear of peoplecapture what's misery, and targets for happened through her violent behaviourphotography. Yet she also seems Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to be searching for others who think as she does, help her keep safe and when she's unable they both wait to find like-minded people in any of see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornterrorists.|isbn=1913193756086154742X

|isbn=15294181001529153298|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Martin WalkerJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? Imean, honestly...) She'm s not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walkerwhat's [[Martin Walkerworrying Miv's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to read have 'disappeared'Brunodoesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's Challengeupset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family ' was hard to resist and IDown South'm rather glad that I didn. When you't even tryre from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For those new to Miv, the seriesmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, thereand she'll do anything to prevent that. She's an excellent introduction not worried about the dangers or that will tell you all you need to know about whoher Mum's who and the background stopped talking - to why Bruno is in St Denisanyone.

|isbn=B09GJW49GF1398524085|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jenny O'BrienNicci French|rating=45

|summary=Hannah Thomas Charlotte Salter was having expected at her first night away from her sonhusband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Hunter had diabetes Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and this was controlled by a pump attached to his stomach, so her over-protectiveness was understandabledaughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her fiancehusband, IanAlec, was pestering her to get married and she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likeis not. Her friendShortly afterwards, MillyEtty and Greg, had arranged to take her boyfriendfind the body of Greg's father, LiamDuncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for a night in a posh hotel but the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he dumped her and she couldn't get stand the money back, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go in his placeguilt. She would return home to find Ian dead The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and five-year-old Hunter missingwonder about what really happened.

|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q1035906708|title=Without a TraceDiva|author=Jane BettanyDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she'd just come through a divorce was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and right now it only moved to Athens when she was raining hardthirteen. All she wanted Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to get back 'Callas' to her new home and settle down for a quiet eveningmake it more manageable in the States. It wasn't going to be though: when When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she went into could get appropriate training for her bedroom voice - she found was raised under the Nazi occupation by a dead man on mother who mercilessly exploited her bed with a knife in his chest. She'd and made no idea who he wassecret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=1838774823Christopher Edge|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog Problem|author=S J BennettBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It's 2016 Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the Queennickname of 'The Black Hole's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistband. SwimmingAll big movie fans, he decidesthey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, is the way to go and he can use many, many snacks! However, as the Buckingham Palace pool which movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is how he came to be there early one morning very different, and discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at the side of the poolthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. There was broken glass - a crystal tumbler, by the look at it - probably But as they lurch from one of film genre to the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled next, can they figure out. what on earth is going on? StillWill they ever get back to the cinema, it was a shock for Sir Simon.and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=057136358XRachel Greenlaw|title=April in Spain|author=John BanvilleCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Teens|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think 'I can hear the song of himself the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in those termsmy heart. He saw what he did as '' Rosevear, a matter remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist the thought seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondolies within. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him But when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got Council Watch lays a trap to end the chance to kill a lot of wrecking, they capture the little yellow fellows island's leader and had a fine old time'Mira's father. He was spending Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a lot of time bargain with Percy Antrobus - a wreck survivor who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles family secret that lies buried deep in the ''morning''? It was after Percysea. 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 death that he saw territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the benefits future of taking up a job in Spainher home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Dave Letterfly KnodererJames Sherwood Metts|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=How to summarise Things have been a bit sticky for the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you knowEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, I really donoften replacing jobs they't think I can.  Dave is an author re paid to do and an artistother tasks that took time to accomplish. An inspirational speaker Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholic. The son starting to think of a Lutheran ministerother, he's struggled with a controlling father, run away new ways to join the circus (not a metaphor)spend time, trained horsesalong came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, painted caravansalong with it, designed and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when all the bottle took overmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=B0965V3LLN1736128426

|author=Tade ThompsonMatthew Tree|title=Far From the Light of HeavenWe'll Never Know

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtimebe different from his father, bound for the world a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's AI captain. However, when she wakes up being exceptional at the end any of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut artistic passions all failed miserably and friend who had endless crises of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle self confidence. So Tim applied himself to Bloodroothis studies, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosset himself high but achievable ambitions. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Rob KeeleyA G Slatter|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!The Briar Book of the Dead|rating= 45|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. She likes carrots'' Within a remote mountain pass, broccolifar away from the world, cabbage lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and auberginesthe wider world from the Darklands. When her friends at school turn up their nosesThough she has always wished for magic, Lily Ellie Briar is keen the first non-witch to explain how good they are be born into her family for you generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and how nice to eatadministration rather than spells and potions. One dayWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, poor Lily gets tricked by JordanEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, who tells the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her that carrots grow on trees. InfuriatedAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, Lily checks Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the teacherdead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who explains that fruits grow on trees to trust and vegetables, like carrots, grow in determine what to do as the ground. Jordan saysBriar witches' legacy, "I did try everything they have sacrificed to tell hersurvive, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lilyis under threat.|isbn= B09HHN541V1803364548

|isbn=178607981X1529900360|title=Bad ApplesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Will DeanJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=Tuva Moodyson It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the side help of the roada psychologist only worked for a while. Wondering if someone needed Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she got out loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the car - heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and heard it's not the screams from deep inside the forestItalian. Determining But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the direction Bag: The Secret Life of a sound isnVet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't easy want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where a woman he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was holding her coat over seventeen he took the body opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a manvet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. HeIt hadn'd t - as with so many students - been decapitatedhis dream since he was a child. He was Arne Gustav PerssonIf anything, he'd wanted to be a resident of Visbergprofessional footballer.

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir0861541774|title=Cold As HellA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary= In DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a red suitcase as the bottom of short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a fissure in knife - and he killed a lava fieldGhurka. Initially, there is he faced a body. And charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man who has put her there has just discovered that . Now he is capable of killingcould be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1913193888

|author=Lucy HopeAlexander McCall Smith|title=FledglingThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene The Perfect Passion Company is a most peculiar hilltop housedating agency in Edinburgh, built bit run by bit over the decades, Ness and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. It's operating as an eccentric house, alternative to host eccentrics, so all the library shelving system is not as we'd know itonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the roof is retractablebusiness, there as Ness is planning to take a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so ontrip to Canada to get away for a while. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier Katie is coming out of a break up with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudlybad boyfriend, and so jumps at the dying grandma chance to our heroinecome home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, Cassiebringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, a young lass who has thanks to do all 44 Scotland Street and the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh Isabel Dalhousie novels, but it's also going with some new characters who quickly begin to house someone charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or something elsein match-making, when crashing through Cassiebut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to be lend a completely great and wonderful thing, think again...hand…|isbn=183994188X1846976596

|isbn=18462767720811771741|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our MindsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Jessica NordellMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrafts|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: itMelissa Leapman's simply ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a part collection of everyday lifeknits from toys to blankets. White men Some will always come firstbe quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The able will come before projects are divided by the disabled. Jobstime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, promotionsfive to ten hours, higher salaries are the preserve of the white manten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. Even when those who wouldn't pass All the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views projects are heardattractive, that their concerns are acknowledgedmodern and useable. ItI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but itthat's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedme being picky.

|author=Teresa DriscollDean Koontz|title=Her Perfect Family|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a twist of events, and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752}}{{Frontpage|isbn=8409290103|title=If Only|author=Matthew TreeBad Weather Friend

|genre=Literary FictionParanormal|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his fatherjob, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked loses his accountant, Mr Patrickfiancee, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowancehis house gets trashed. Patrick sent the money regularly Oh, and someone has delivered a correspondence - of sorts really weird, disturbing coffin- sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has sized object to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his sonhome, and it 's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that he didn't care has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to have him in deserve all this country where he might be bad luck. He is a danger nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his wife and other childrenhouse is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed Spike is going to get the young man on his waytake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)Adam Stower|title=The Rabbit Factor|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, Murray and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan...|isbn=191319387X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471179311|title=The Unheard|author=Nicci FrenchBun

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=TessMurray is supposed to be a humble, a teacher tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and Jason, a headmasterwell, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out whatever takes his fancy next of the family home and Jason is now married to Emilytwo. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has her bedroom in what was the family home been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and another in the flat she shares with her mother. It ''seemed'' to be working well until catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the day that Poppy came home with regular back garden, but into a menacing drawing world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a woman falling from Viking land, where a tall building and she started swearingtroll hunter is expected – well, using words she one much bigger than Murray was unlikely , to have heard in either home. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems at nursery school. Tess turns to a therapist for helpbe honest, then her doctor but he's turned up and finally the police but no one will take what she has he'll have to say seriously.do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1471196615B0C47LV1PC|title=IcedFragility|author=Felix FrancisMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Miles Pussett used to be Can you make a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the three-quarter-mile Cresta Runquestion if you did, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. He was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - would it land? The catch is that's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the saddling of the horsesanswer for both could well be.... no. It ''Fragility's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore that he'd never go back to it. But when he sees that something suspicious is going onset as the city of Portland, Miles can't help but look for answersOregon, even when it puts him in danger.cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=147228612X1529431735|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillWinter Visitor|author=Alan JohnsonJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We all know people like Gary NelsonIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, although we probably havenwhich made Bruce Hopkins't taken much notice of themreturn all the more surprising. They live quiet, uneventful lives and stay mostly under He'd been exiled on the radarCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. In The return has come about because he's had a city like Londonletter from his ex-wife, saying thatshe's quite easy - ill and even Garyhasn's three flatmates largely ignore himt long to live. The highlight of his day It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes abducted, stripped to work on the train each morning: he'd love his underwear and sent to ask her for a date but he doesn't have watery grave in the courage. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and asks for his helpboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Before long he finds himself on the run Is it a warning from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan police.a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Claire McGowanAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=I Know YouThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns from Eli is a walk busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the baby, Carson, dessert cafe his gran owns and comes across three bodiesruns. Eli lives with his lovely gran, almost too – for there is a whole generation missing in the family taken down.  A few short years ago, Eli''Now:'' Rachel is out for s parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a walk with her dogconfession from gran, BrandyEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, when she comes across a body in with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the woodsonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=15420199740571382231

|isbn=1529148251178763681X|title=Misfits: A Personal ManifestoKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Michaela CoelOrlando Murrin|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn''How am I able t really want to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? women to do what he wanted. It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.Paul '' Before you start reading somehow''Misfitsgot the impression that he'' you need d be at the school to be in assist Paul, who had a certain frame of mindbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. You're not going to read a book of essays or a selfThe teaching - and the problems -help bookare all his own. YouThe one thing he hadn're going to read writing which t expected was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture for someone to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festivalturn up dead. You might be ''reading'' Unfortunately, he was the book but you need to ''listen'' to person who discovered the words as though you're in body and everyone knows that the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll police consider that person to be carried on a cloud of exquisite writingthe prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=0008433631Sarah Marsh|title=Next A Sign of Kin|author=Kia AbdullahHer Own|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=It was the sort After a bout of thing that happened every dayscarlet fever as a child, although not to Leila SyedEllen Lark loses her hearing. She'd never driven her nephew, MaxSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung everything about her in a paniclife changes. He was supposed to be taking Max to school but he'd been called into work and the delay Living in getting there could lead to financial losses. As a time when the school use of sign language was seen as something only five minutes out of Leila's waysavages do, could Ellen is sent to a school where she drop him off? is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Of courseFrom here, she could ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her carsystem called Visible Speech. On At the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work toosame time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, with and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskcomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1803816759|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)The Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary= Toots, trumps, fartsIt's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Whatever your word Joe longs for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny bit of adventure and to talk about and joke about, that isget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly embarrassing if you let one go at wrong with the wrong time. In classAI system that now runs everything, saymaking life easier for many, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laughriots start to spread. At youFinally, Joe gets to do some real policing. Justine Avery's latest entry in In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting t the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and gently and calmlytech nerd, with is also on the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normalcase. Everybody does What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it: hacked? And how is Suki''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2Ws kidnapping connected?}}

|isbn=17841652631529421284|title=Invite Me InLaying Out the Bones|author=Emma CurtisKate Webb

|summary=Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the fact that she It was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letthose flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. If she didn't get homeIn a gully, there would a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be troubleLee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. There was some excuse: Martin was He'd been a paraplegic known drug user and confined to had learning disabilities, so it could have been a wheelchair, simple case of misadventure but donDI Matt Lockyer wasn't be too quick to be understandingconvinced. He Geary was also a very unpleasant person: townie, so what was he once told Eliza ''you're good doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at being a disappointment''the time. All this was in ElizaLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about cold cases to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road you and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableme) investigate.

|isbn=17847427750571379559|title=A Change The House of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)Broken Bricks|author=Susan HillFiona Williams

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Drugs hadn't really been that much 'The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of a problem four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of drugs ops broken bricks. Insubstantial as a bit of a waste it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. They still were Her husband, Richard, struggles to a great extentgrow his vegetables, but Serrailler knew that something had to be donecomplete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport the drugs They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the operation running the county lines was tightrainbow twins. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn Sonny's colouring reflects his mother't be the correct one) of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldns Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch a few of the runners but believe that they'd never get anywhere near those higher upre related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.

|isbn=B09FS89KX91529425867|title=Fall On MeLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Penelope PottsSimon Mason|rating=34.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. She was just going into the final year D I Ryan Wilkins, son of her veterinary degree Ryan and - three years later - was still working at BBfather of Ryan, is not. He's dinernot any of those things. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was He's white, originated from a good bosstrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well They're usually in his careerlime green or acid yellow. Hollie wasnYou might wonder if you't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted re being introduced to control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the dinera police procedural written for laughs. Then there was the fact that he would be violentWell, both to her and to other peopleyou're not.}}{{Frontpage|author=John Gwynne|title= The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow two men are just different sides of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to seesame policing coin. This story is Sometimes the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galorecombination works brilliantly well. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle Sometimes it's problematic.|isbn=0356514218

|isbnauthor=B09HTWX47XMosby Woods|title=Endless Obsession|author=Dai HenleyA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=ItThe West isn's some years since we last caught up with Andy Floodt 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, formerly a DCI push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in the Met but now actual charge. Imagine then, there was a well-respected private investigatorman with precognition. He's married to Laura, formerly his DS in Imagine the Murder Squad but now working strategic advantage in this asset; a forensics laboratoryman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. Flood's daughters, Gemma and PippaThat man would be valuable, have flown right? Perhaps the nestmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, Pippa to Australia, from where she has very little contact with the family, and Gemma to married life. She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide the support she needsthis man loses this ability. Flood's business is going well and that was why he felt able What would governments do to turn down the case of Lisa Black.get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1