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|isbn=B0949Q1DC10241636604|title=The Patient (Trading Game: A DS Cross thriller)Confession|author=Tim SullivanGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably AspergerIt's Syndrometwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. He can be rude, difficult and awkward with people, although itShe's never intentionalback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. ItFreya's just that he thinks differently former mentor and social niceties simply donCarole't occur s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to himsay the least. There's a Arthur was the reason why he's Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in Bristol's Major Crime Unit and it's that he business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the best conviction rate with cases, everman or pursue the profession she loved. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: After the split, she regards Cross with affection worked in a cafe, met and married James (not an emotion he would recogniseon the rebound from the love of her life, or welcome being attached to himselfwho was murdered) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviourFreya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1529151600AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Give Unto OthersAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Donna LeonBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changed''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. The ''pandemia I've heard it said that ' stripped the city of its tourists for nearly two years and technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a lot few decades of businesses have closed, most never to reopentechnology in my lifetime. ThereI've kept up reasonably well with what's now a cascade advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of money as life begins again but even 125,000 deaths have not put an end to greedit is - frankly - quite frightening. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all Of course, I could research the possibilities and the money which is coming their way? Whilst heprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's thinking about this, Brunetti encounters m reading someone hewho knows what they's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was a childre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Elisabetta Foscarini has I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a problem and she'd like Brunetti's adviceway I could understand.

|author=Marcus SedgwickSunny Singh|title=WrathHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=TeensThrillers |summary=Meet Fitz, The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himselfterrorist group. Lockdown Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is only just overSam, a wartime photographer and he should be free Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to do what he wantscare remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, to go where he wants and forms a bond with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks Sam who refuses to his best friendbe cowed by events, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one and keeps on venturing out of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music sheroom to try to capture what's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the truth? Wellphone, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't..their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1800900899086154742X

|isbn=16358640701529153298|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1The List of Suspicious Things|author=Safiyyah TalleyJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=CraftsGeneral Fiction|summary=If youIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've ever started knitting a pair of socksbeen murdered, finished but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the first one and either got bored by the idea of doing the same thing all over again, or started on the second sock and lost the first before family 'Down South'. When you finished it're from Yorkshire, this Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the book for you. Where is it that single socks go move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system prevent that allows you to knit two socks in one, divide them up and have a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds good? It She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's clever and wellstopped talking -thought-outto anyone.

|authorisbn=Olivie Blake1398524085|title=The Atlas SixHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= DarkCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sharpsons Niall, Paul and Ollie and highly inquisitiveher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Atlas SixSalter children are not convinced but there'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensations little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1529095239

|isbn=00083849831035906708|title=The Paris ApartmentDiva|author=Lucy FoleyDaisy Goodwin

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=''Things are not what they seem''. It We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was a Friday born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and Jess Hadley only moved to Athens when she was keen to get to her half-brother's flat in Paristhirteen. She'd come across from London on Eurostar, courtesy of the money sheHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'd stolen from The PervertCallas's till to make it more manageable in the Copacabana Bar in BrightonStates. It wasn't likely When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that the police would be on to her yet but she'd like to be somewhere safe and with food and drink inside could get appropriate training for her. She'd phoned Ben and got the address voice - 12 Rue des Amants - and he told her that the apartment she was on raised under the third floor. She's outside what's obviously Nazi occupation by a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get in touch with Benmother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=0760373558Christopher Edge|title=Nordic Knits|author=Sue FlandersBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=I was so delighted by Sue FlandersLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hat. All big movie fans, Mittenthey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around many, many snacks! However, as the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] movie starts, they very quickly realise that I didnsomething about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't need any persuading at all to pick up her ''Nordic Knits''even imagine. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions But as they lurch from Norwayone film genre to the next, Sweden and Iceland. can they figure out what on earth is going on? There are a few sweaters or jackets but Will they ever get back to the majority of patterns are for smaller items such as mittens, glovescinema, hats and bags. All are bright and cheerful and very cosy.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=1916072038Rachel Greenlaw|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie CresswellCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionTeens|summary=We meet part ''I can hear the song of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811sea. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at EcklingtonThe call of the deep, to the house answering beat in the hollowmy heart. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses:'

''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealingRosevear, beneath a facade of respectabilityremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the deplorable truth''rocks and plundering the wrecks. Hester Mira, like her mother before her, is furious about Jocelyn's refusal one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to do as she was askedend the wrecking, which has precipitated they capture the island''this violent s leader and unexpected removal'Mira's father. Then we are told of the birth of Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a child wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive andwith only coordinates to guide her, soon aftershe 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, Hester Talbot departsas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, leaving Jocelyn in shame Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and isolation in Yorkshirethe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Matthieu AikinsJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterPlanet Storyland

|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary=ItThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's easy re paid to forget at times do and other tasks that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at timestook time to accomplish. This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament Just as they were beginning to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided get used to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast all this technological change and at times painful journeystarting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. There are tense moments Life was pretty much shut down and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But , along with it's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows , all the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people describedmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn= B09N9157T61736128426

|author=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas EngerMatthew Tree|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)We'll Never Know

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=This is the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander BlixTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a police officer, drunk and Emma Ramm, a crime journalist. In this book we find that when one chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of Blix's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries to contact her superior, Blix. Before she can reach him, however, she is murdered, his artistic passions all failed miserably and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered toohad endless crises of self confidence. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and Ramm, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someoneSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and Ramm saw it all happenset himself high but achievable ambitions. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Daniel AbrahamA G Slatter|title=Age The Briar Book of Ashthe Dead|rating=4.5

|summary= We meet Alys '' 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.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the most northerly protection of Oldgatethe Briar's four bridges, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has a knife in always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her hand family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a meeting that she dreadssteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. MeanwhileWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the City of Kithamar is at a point in Briar Witch, the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest town's leader, and all things are possibleEllie takes her place beside her. It is As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the night between dead, putting her at the funeral heart of a Prince and the coronation maelstrom of his successorchaos. For a night Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Kithamar Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is un-ruledunder threat.|isbn=03565154271803364548

|isbn=15290955221529900360|title=The InterviewGhost Orchid|author=C M EwanJonathan Kellerman

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Kate Harding is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge Communications. Ithadn's the last interview of the day at one of Londont been Lt Milo Sturgis's newest office buildings fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and Edge have fitted out their part even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of the building to be something speciala psychologist only worked for a while. Maggie Finally, Kateit was Robin, Delaware's recruitment agentpartner, is keen to see who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that Kate approaches the interview man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in a good state the swimming pool of mind: Kate assumes that this is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets remote property in Bel Air. He was the job - heir to an Italian shoe empire and she has is married to admit that life has an extremely rich man and it's not been easy for her recentlythe Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=B097XNMCRK1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Secret Life of a Vet|author=Neil LancasterSion 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 want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=Loch Torridon ''is'' the back of beyond: thereDCI Domenic Jejeune's not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to land illegal deliveries of drugsmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Jimmy McLeish thought Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was onto facing a nice little earnerman armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, only he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to find light that Macca, suggested that he might have planned to murder the man he thought he was working with, is dead. His remains would never Now he could be foundfacing the death penalty. The delivery is hijacked by Davie Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and Callum. As the story progresses wewouldn'll get to know them quite wellt help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor= B09NDJ77LMAlexander McCall Smith|title=Me and My Shadow|author=Deborah StoneThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary= ''What happens when someone The Perfect Passion Company is pushed too far a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and they begin to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go to be happy? Accompany Rachel operating as she tries an alternative to shake off all the shadows of online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her past younger cousin Katie if she could come and attempts look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to repair decades worth of painCanada to get away for a while.'' Rachel Katie is in coming out of a current conversation break up with her psychiatrista bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who pushes her quickly begin to recall her life from very young childhood onwardscharm. But Rachel is combative with Doctor Blake Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, sometimes even contemptuous of but Ness has full confidence in her. You can see that itabilities, and there's not an easy therapeutic relationship. Rachel's recall of always her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight very helpful (and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute and unforgiving clarity.rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=15294096590811771741|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Elly GriffithsMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her motherMelissa Leapman's belongings''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. She was intrigued by Some will be quick knits - others are of the discovery of a picture of her own house: it was an old photograph'long, taken cosy afternoons in misty conditions and on front of the back it said fire'dawn 1963variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, some years before Ruth was born. It was before her parents were married. When she returned five to Norfolk she was determined ten hours, ten to find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened twenty hours and the country was in lockdownmore than twenty hours. Ruth and Kate All the projects are restricted to the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate attractive, modern and continue with her university teaching dutiesuseable. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carersI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1847941834Dean Koontz|title=Atomic Habits|author=James ClearThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=LifestyleParanormal|summary=I've said this before but there are some books that you seek outBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you someone has delivered a really MUST read themweird, likedisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, right nowand it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! ''Atomic Habits'' The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is in a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the last categorydelivery to his house 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. Spike is going to take 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

|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WAdam Stower|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=Helen Murray is supposed to be a popular activisthumble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. Or should we call her But he's a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anywaybad magician's cat, Helen is so popular that the United States government his favourite bun has made her its Ambassador of Woke. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the governmentcatflap they both use can chuck them out, including not into the Shaming Conference regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and the Permissible Entertainment Committee - whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'for indoctrinating and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how ll have to have it''. Ouch!do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=B09D95TRKZB0C47LV1PC|title=The Wedding MurdersFragility|author=Sarah LinleyMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get Can you make a permanent job with ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the newspaper and question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the case she was covering was her big chanceanswer for both could well be... It was even more important to her than the celebrity wedding she was to attend the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthew. She was leaving her seven-year-old son, Patrick with her sister, Emma, and heading off to a grand manor house hotel in the North Yorkshire countrysideno. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter and former member of the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't  ''quiteFragility'' is set as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phones.the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=18382268341529431735|title=Carried Away With the CarnivalThe Winter Visitor|author=Ed BoxallJames Henry

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo s February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the good that parents do, so more surprising. He'd been exiled on the trips out were always so much funCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. A young boy was going to the carnival with The return has come about because he's had a letter from his Grandadex-wife, who told him: saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It'll be brilliants hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, just remember, don't let go stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of my handa stolen Ford Sierra.'' Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1529135362Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It was Eli is a long drive to busy lad – by day an apprentice in the weekend retreat in Northumbriawondrous library we start by visiting with him, right up near the Scottish borders and to make it worse in the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - had to delay making evening a helper at the trip until the Saturday morningdessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Jane and Ruth had known each other Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a long time but Emily was a bit of an outsidergeneration missing in the family. She and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten A few short years younger than ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the other two womencompany of a magical beast. The friendship of This has made the group went back race anathema to school days. Paul had coached rugby the pair – but when a bad incident at the school where Markeatery leads to a confession from gran, Toby and Rob were pupils. Mark had married Jane, and Toby Eli knows his only hope is Ruth's husband. And Rob? Wellto dare to enter what he most hates, Rob's deadwith the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=gareth_steel178763681X|title=Never Work With AnimalsKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Gareth SteelOrlando Murrin

|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary=I donChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't often begin my reviews with really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems way of getting both men and women to be appropriatedo what he wanted. Stories of a vet Paul 's life have proved popular since 'somehow'All Creatures Great and Small'got the impression that he' d be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show the author would argue t turn out that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmesway. Gareth Steel says that The teaching - and the book is not suitable for younger readers and problems - after reading - I agree with himare all his own. He says that The one thing hehadn's written it t expected was for someone to inform and provoke thoughtturn up dead. Unfortunately, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable he was the person who discovered the body and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would everyone knows that the police consider that person to be best choosing between reading and eatingthe prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=1787634884Sarah Marsh|title=The Herd|author=Emily EdwardsA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5

|summary=Our story opens in December 2019After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, before most Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of us had even heard silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to be a major issueschool where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. We're From here, she ends up in Farley County Court, where Elizabeth another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash Kohliusing a system called Visible Speech. As they were best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened At the same time, Bell is major working on other inventions and thatideas, regardless and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of the outcome, this is not going to work out well for anyoneespionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs1803816759|title=The Language of FoodUnravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=54|genre=Historical Science Fiction|summary=Eliza Acton It's 2038 and Joe is a poet who has never had bored cop policing the slightest inclination wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to boil an eggget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. When tasked But then something goes horribly wrong with writing a cookery bookthe AI system that now runs everything, she recruits Ann Kirbymaking life easier for many, a local woman with a troubled home lifeand riots start to spread. TogetherFinally, they test, craft, refine Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and reshape Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the world of domestic cookeryonly one trying to save Suki - Dylan, reinventing the recipe book a British superfan and changing tech nerd, is also on the face of cookery writing forevercase.|isbn=1398502227What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1529421284|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet LokiIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. The trickster god has got into trouble again In a gully, so a human skeleton came to the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile surface and in forensic testing proved the physical form of a middle-school kid here on Earthbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He's guarded by d been a giant known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother simple case of the twomisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Loki has Geary was a month to redeem his reputationtownie, and get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and to prove it so what was he has doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul suicide of his lies, Holly Gilbert and judge his progressto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. But Loki is Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the kind of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to be a walk in the parkyou and me) investigate...right?|isbn=1406399752

|isbn=00084544420571379559|title=A Flicker in the DarkThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Stacy WillinghamFiona Williams|rating=45|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis, a medical psychologist, 'The House of Broken Bricks'' is completing a session with a new patientthe story of four people. Lacey is suffering mentally Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but Chloe has hopes instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of getting her through the traumabroken bricks. You seeInsubstantial as it might look, Chloe knows what it's like to have a traumatic childhoodstood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her father is husband, Richard Davis, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the girls - trophies taken from their bodies delivery rounds - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed it to the policebring in sufficient money. Dick Davis is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary They have twin boys - Sonny and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for Max, the last twenty yearsrainbow twins. Her Sonny's colouring reflects his mother is in a care home's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Escape Room|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I People don've seen junior variants of the t believe that they'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific locationre related, much less twins and have to solve problems in order to get their way out. What Ithere've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) s an assumption when Max is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, out with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to each other and booked into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at the gamehis mother that she's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerhis nanny. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964

|isbn=17328987311529425867|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: Lost and Never Found (A Children's Book for AdultsD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Michael Albanese Simon Mason

|summary=It's the third murder in the space In 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 a few weeks Ryan and they've all been because father of machetes used on teenagersRyan, is not. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts He's not any of Bradfordthose things. OnlyHe's white, this timeoriginated from a trailer park, itbarely educated (reading's going to be differentnot ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. The body appears You might wonder if you're being introduced to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephew, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdownpolice procedural written for laughs. It isnWell, you't Haqib: there re not. The two men are similarities but just different sides of the body is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied backgroundsame policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. What Sometimes it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depression's problematic.

|author=Ally WilkesMosby Woods|title=All the White SpacesA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=HorrorLiterary Fiction|summary=In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, and the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true gender, without the disapproval and constraints of his parents. However, Jonathan The West isn't the only one fleeing dominant force it once was. Nobody in the confines of his past and West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the shadow best course of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expeditionaction. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they Governments are forced to overwinter on landflailing. A war here, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darknesspush for climate action there. If Jonathan A feeling that nobody is to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.|isbn=1789097835}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=Quicksilver|rating=2in actual charge.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yetImagine then, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he there was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staffman with precognition. But when Imagine the strategic advantage in this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it asset; a supernatural urge – has demanded man who can tell you what will happen given any set of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortunecircumstances. That man would be valuable, cash right? Perhaps the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just most valuable asset in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to themhistory. Helped to escapeImagine then, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besidesthis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=1542019885B0C9SNG8R1