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|isbn=B09Y451X9K0241636604|title= Greetings, aliens!The Trading Game: (do pop in for tea)A Confession|author=Richard F WalkerGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary= If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you''Anything 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 happen only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a birthday partycard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, particularly when 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|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the birthday boy English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the young Lord of circumstances seem suspicious, to say the Manorleast. But when an eerie signal is picked up in Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the early hoursvillage: Arthur, she feels, George and his new girlfriendlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the vivacious Lady Antoniaman or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, embark she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on a quest to uncover its incredible message. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets the cat out rebound from the love of the bag her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the world goes into a state shape of panicthings to come.''

Could I've heard it be? Could said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it? Have aliens reached out and contacted Earth? George and Antonia find themselves lifted out 's all getting away from me. Some of their privileged lives of parties it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and drunken shenanigans the probabilities and catapulted into end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the world of advanced science, secret agentslatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and politicians hungry for powerwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Darren ShanSunny Singh|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 Hotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary= SoThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. We're back Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the Merge with the first chapter residents who are still alive in the third volume of Darren Shan's saga of Archibald Loxhotel, he forms a young man bond with Sam who can pick the locks refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of portals from our world her room to try to another, called the ''Merge'capture what's happened through her photography. Since his last adventure, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce on Although they only ever talk over the topic of his regular disappearances. They don't ask too many questions and Archie has settled into a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winstonphone, his lock-picking mentor in the ''Merge'' their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and showing Kojo, the young guardian, around our world of they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the Bornterrorists. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD086154742X

|authorisbn=John Henry Phillips1529153298|title=The SearchList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=HistoryGeneral Fiction|summary=Archaeology cannot be childIt's play1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, when youhonestly...) She're scraping in the dirt looking to find s not what you can find's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thinghave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. This book is a case of the latter, as our author promises Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to locate move the topic of the titular searchfamily 'Down South'. And he really hasn When you't made it easy for himself – the search area re from Yorkshire, Down South is a wide onefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the target might not exist any more – ohmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and itshe's underwater, when he cannot divell do anything to prevent that. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man She's visit back to France, our author has promised to find not worried about the landing craft dangers or that delivered him to Normandy, and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial her Mum's stopped talking - to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perishedanyone. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182

|authorisbn=Fiona Longmuir1398524085|title=Looking for EmilyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|summary=Meet Lily. She Lucas and her mother have just moved from his friends are all booked in for a city to movie marathon at their local cinema, a tiny seaside town called Edgeplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, and everyone from said mother they're looking forward to her teacher are making demands lots of Lily that she make new friends. It turns out that she doesn't have any say in the matterexciting films, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emilyand many, she is unaware her neighbourmany snacks! However, Samas the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is just about to make herself knownvery different, and in a big waythey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But where does Emily come as they lurch from? Wellone film genre to the next, Lily used that name because of can they figure out what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the most mundane objectscinema, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming door, in a place calling itself 'The Museum of Emily'. Sam is completely unaware of this 'museum', too, leaving the two girls and to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behind the intrigue...their real lives?|isbn=18399427541839942738

|isbnauthor=B09XZMCDVFJames Sherwood Metts|title=Stories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F WalkerPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=''A news vendor is crying out the headlines in the middle of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; Things have been a stickler bit sticky for correct grammar goes back in the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to have around in a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team is very useful with his feet, all this technological change and awfully familiar…'' This collection starting to think of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot other, new ways to offer the eclectic readerspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Tying them together is the idea that remarkable Life was pretty much shut down and strange, even miraculousalong with it, things can happen to ordinary peopleall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. And that ordinary doesn|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We't mean boring or uninterestingll Never Know|rating=4. Form 5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and tone varies so this little treasury chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of short fiction is never boring self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and you're never quite sure what's coming nextset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1800901232A G Slatter|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve ColeThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyFantasy|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted '' 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 be enjoy it for a fashion designerwhile. Life in '' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the rural village where she lived with her family was happyworld, if not prosperouslies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, so when a family of witches who protect the smartly-dressed man town and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be missed. Some money changed hands born into her family for generations and Hanh as such since she was on young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the mini-bus to Hanoitown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. OnlyAs challenges come her way left, Hanh right and centre, Ellie uncovers the other girls were not going rare ability to work in communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a shopmaelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, they were Ellie must decide who to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery trust and beading on the legs? The ones with determine what to do as the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? ItBriar witches's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made themlegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Daisy Hildyard1529900360|title=EmergencyThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=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 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 a psychologist only worked for a while. 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 loved needed. The summary next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of this book doesn't come close a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to explaining what an Italian shoe empire and she is done with married to an extremely rich man and it's not the premiseItalian.|isbn=1913097811 But which of them was the primary target?}} {{Frontpage |authorisbn=Sally Oliver 1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Weight Secret Life of Loss a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=4 3.5|genre=Literary Fiction Animals and Wildlife|summary= Marianne is grievingSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to find strangefollow in his footsteps, thick black hairs sprouting from particularly when he considered the bones strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of her spine which steadily increase in size doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and volumewas convinced this was the job for him. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief Before long, recommends she go to stay he was at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in WalesLiverpool University. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a metamorphosis of a kindchild. As Marianne If anything, he's memories threaten d wanted to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at be a terrible price: that of identity itselfprofessional footballer.|isbn= 086154112X

|authorisbn=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)0861541774|title=Little DrummerA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=34

|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives seriesDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, this crime story is has taken a mixture of police procedural and thrillershort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Beginning with the death of a young woman Maik was involved in a carpark, street brawl - he would later maintain that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into he was facing a man armed with a farknife -reaching investigation of murder, fraud, and international pharmaceutical dealingshe killed a Ghurka. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich Initially, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to Africa as they follow murder the twists and turns of man. Now he could be facing the investigationdeath penalty. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to uncover the truth help as they are sure that something much bigger, any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and much more dangerous, is going onwouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1914585127

|isbnauthor=0008541477Alexander McCall Smith|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!|author=Lauren ChildThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=It was The Perfect Passion Company is a hot summer day right at dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the beginning of online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the summer holidays and Clarice Bean was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for sometimesa while... And only on rare-sh occasions, which Katie is hardly ever.'' There are seven members coming out of the Bean family living in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because he's wobbly)a break up with a bad boyfriend, Mum and Dad, Clarice's older brother, Kurt and younger brother, Minal Cricketso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. There's also MarcieAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, who's main claim bringing us to fame seems an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to be that she steals 44 Scotland Street and the batteries from Clarice's torchIsabel Dalhousie novels, which means that she can't read in the airing cupboardbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Clarice would love to have someone who listened to herKatie has no experience in running a business, rather than wanting to talkor in match-making, but the only one who does that is Granny Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and she lives in New York. The Bean family is there''different''.s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=07112662040811771741|title=The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders InstaKnits for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. So – what is it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1737030942|title=Bag O'GoodiesBaby|author=Jolly Walker BittickMelissa Leapman

|genre= AnthologiesCrafts|summary=Sometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker BittickMelissa Leapman's ''Bag O'GoodiesInstaKnits for Baby''gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. I first encountered his writing about a year agoSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], a rollicking tale cosy afternoons in front of what happens when five young men find a base for their partyingthe fire' variety. Right now, I didnThe projects are divided by the time they't want a fullll take to complete -length novelless than five hours, so I turned five to ten hours, ten to this anthology of verse twenty hours and short storiesmore than twenty hours. Bittick's writing has matured - All the projects are attractive, modern and so have his charactersuseable. Well.I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.. most of them!

|author=Caryl Lewis and George ErmosDean Koontz|title=SeedThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Marty has two parental figures in Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his lifefiancee, and they both might be thought of as complete embarrassmentshis house gets trashed. His grandfather runs an allotment Oh, and manages to stink the entire town out from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to fertilise his vegetables. His mother somehow combines the dual roles of housebound failure home, and hoarder – while she seems to do nothing and hasnit't left s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the building in years she thing that has still managed trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to fill deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it to turns out that the brim with junk. What Marty's classmates don't know about this they can draw lines delivery to from how poor Marty always lookshis house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, with his one school uniform built who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from lost propertynefarious forces for being a good person. We see him as once again the council threaten her Spike is going to take care of Benny, and him with evictionwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and as he celebrates his birthday with the gift from his grandfather of Harper (a solitary plant seedwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=15290776641662500491

|author=Sophie CameronAdam Stower|title=Our Sister, AgainMurray and Bun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora dies, her family struggle Murray is supposed to find be a way forward. In particularhumble, tidy and friendly cat, Isla's mum one who can’t seem to be is able to let her daughter go. When Isla passes her mum's details onto a support group she finds onlinesleep and eat and eat and sleep and, she thinks they might be able to help. But actuallywell, it turns out they are part whatever takes his fancy next of an experimental company who offer the family the chance to have Flora back again, in robot formtwo. But this wonhe't just be s a look-a-like. They use all of Florabad magician's online historycat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and interviews with family and friendsthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possiblewhiffs. But what will This time round it really mean for the familydrops 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'll have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?to do…|isbn=17889539160008561249

|isbn=1398507504B0C47LV1PC|title=Cold ReckoningFragility|author=Russ ThomasMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that his father committed suicide and for the last sixteen years he's been searching answer for evidence to prove that he's rightboth could well be.... When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back to a cold case from 2002no. There didn 't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to the case his father was investigating before he died. Above all thereFragility''s a growing sense that is set as the criminality city of Det Supt Stevens is going Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to be brought out into emerge from the open. Perhaps Tyler is going to get restrictions imposed during the answers he needs?covid pandemic

|isbn=07278505471529431735|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)The Winter Visitor|author=David MarkJames Henry

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnIt't even had time for breakfast when s February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the call came throughmore surprising. A body had He'd been found in exiled on the roots of Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hulldecade. When The return has come about because he gets 's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to the scene, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedlive. A young manIt's corpse hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is entangled with abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the roots boot of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesstolen Ford Sierra. It would seem that this was done whilst the man was still alive. McAvoy makes Is it a warning from a promise to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at Spanish gang or a cost and this time the cost might be problem closer to McAvoy's own family.home?

|author=Natalia Garcia FreireAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include TremendousEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a delighthelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. I will agree Eli lives with the first his lovely gran, too – tremendous for there is no understatement – but a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a delight' is perhaps using globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the expression world in the company of a way I'm not familiar withmagical beast. I have This has made the race anathema to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From pair – but when a bad incident at the little I have read (in translationeatery leads to a confession from gran, I don't read Spanish) there does seem Eli knows his only hope is to dare to be a tendency towards enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the fantastical end – the mystical realismonly thing to possibly save his gran. |isbn=08615419010571382231

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin178763681X|title= Rebel SkiesKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 54|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as Chef Paul Delamare took a servant on the Midori, teaching job at a massive dining hall floating residential cookery school in the sky where soldiers Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of the Empire come getting both men and women to drink and make merry between their conquestsdo what he wanted. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that she is a Crafter like him, someone with he'd be at the power school to form paper into whatever she desires – assist Paul, who had a power sought after all across the Empirebroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. He asks her to come with him, to leave The teaching - and the life of dreary servitude that is problems - are all she has knownhis own. Well, soon Kurara won The one thing he hadn't have any say in expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the matter, because person who discovered the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, body and she is forced everyone knows that the police consider that person to flee out into be the worldprime suspect. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590

|author=Patrice LawrenceSarah Marsh|title=NeedleA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' After a bout of this piece is extremely hard for some people to likescarlet fever as a child, characters and readers bothEllen Lark loses her hearing. Kicked out Suddenly plunged into a world of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutorsilence, Annie, and has taken up residence in everything about her son Blake's old room while he's at unilife changes. Such a tempestuous personality may be Living in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and time when the creation of one such item is part use of the plot here, sign language was seen as Charlene is a wonder knittersomething only savages do, and Ellen is making something full of love for her younger sister – sent to a younger sister school where she's allowed contact with no moreis taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorantusing a system called Visible Speech. And then... well At the same time, what exactly happens Bell is not for me to sayworking on other inventions and ideas, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be..Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=18009010111035401614

|isbn=14059409801803816759|title=The BirdcageUnravelling|author=Eve ChaseWill Gibson

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the 7th of January 2019 wealthy and we know that peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a body has been pulled out bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the sea at Zennor in Cornwall. We don't know whose body it is. Four days earlierAI system that now runs everything, Floramaking life easier for many, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the request aftermath of their father, Charlie Finch, a famous artistthe rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. The girls are actually ''half'Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki -sisters and their dates of birth are embarrassingly close. Finch was known for his fecundityDylan, if not for his fidelity. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years agoBritish superfan and tech nerd, at is also on the time of case. What went wrong? Did the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren system fail or was a victim and ithacked? And how is Suki's left her very wary of her sisters.kidnapping connected?

|isbn=17876349061529421284|title=No Less Laying Out the DevilBones|author=Stuart MacBrideKate Webb

|summary=We're It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in Oldcastle a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and Malcolm is in troubleforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He's in an abandoned house d been a known drug user and hehad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's being threatened by two young peoplet convinced. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugo. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm Geary was a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peopletownie, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that she what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. It won't be long before Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the police realise Major Crimes Review Unit (that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going 's cold cases to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsyou and me) investigate.

|authorisbn=Jennifer Saint0571379559|title=ElektraThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45

|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of three women who live four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the heavily male-dominated world house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of Ancient Greecetime, storms and floods. Cassandra Her husband, ClytemnestraRichard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and Elektra are all bit players to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the story of the Trojan Warrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us People don't believe that often the silent women have the most compelling stories they're related, much less twins and the most extreme furiesthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|isbn=1472273915

|isbn=15291498001529425867|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change Lost and Reduce WasteNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=We begin with a telling storyIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. All the birds Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and animals fled when the forest fire took hold always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and most father of them stood and watchedRyan, unable to think is not. He's not any of anything they could dothose things. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and began taking tiny amounts his wardrobe consists mainly of water shell suits and flying back to drop them into the firetrackies. The animals laughed: what good was that doingThey're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you'I'm doing re not. The two men are just different sides of the best I can'', said same policing coin. Sometimes the hummingbirdcombination works brilliantly well. And that, really, is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might beSometimes it's problematic.

|isbnauthor=1776574338Mosby Woods|title=Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Every morning Leilong, The West isn't the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goesdominant force it once was. Children who live at Nobody in the top of tower blocks don't West is quite sure how to mend this or even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out if mending it is the best course of the window and slide down his neckaction. Governments are flailing. It's perfectA war here, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a problem, thoughman with precognition. Leilong isn't happy Imagine the strategic advantage in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than this asset; a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled upman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. The school decides that he can't That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the bus anymoremost valuable asset in history.Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1