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|isbn=02419890270241636604|title=We All Have Our SecretsThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Jane CorryGary Stevenson

|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for live-If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in help as he was failing your mind, you're unlikely to cope at Willowmead House on his ownthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. His advert was fairly specific: A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke of the ability to cook a good steakfamiliar with violence, enjoy decent wine poverty and be free from any food fadsinjustice. The first person who came There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the house was Francoise, a French woman in her early twenties, who fit the bill perfectlyLondon School of Economics. She got the job but Francoise didn't know about the advert: she was there for Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a completely different reasonfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Emily Gentle is Harold's daughter and she came He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to Willowmead House because she be stupid. It was running away from his ability at what was, essentially, a problem in Londoncard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Emily's a midwife and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a complaint had been madetrader.

|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason1035021803|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'A struggling poetry zines back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, a mom-Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoodscircumstances seem suspicious, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the 2004 Olympicsvillage: Arthur, she feels, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhipslet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, a billionaire with a state-of-she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the-art S&M dungeonsplit, she worked in a man serving a life sentence in Alabamacafe, an enigmatic signature, Kmet and married James (son the rebound from the love of her life, xwho was murdered), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia.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 shape of things to come.''

This I've heard it said that 'technology' is just what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a sample 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 cast feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of characters and settings in Preposterousit is - frankly - quite frightening. As you can see Of course, some keeping I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this.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 who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=B09STS96HS

|author=Will BrookerSunny Singh|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=BiographyThrillers |summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the most successful British authors I've never knowingly readThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Now meet Will BrookerHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the two meeting each otherkilling everyone on site, as wellthere is Sam, a wartime photographer and shows how 2021 drew Abhi, the two closer and closer togetherhotel manager. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the words of her latest book she was recitinghotel, and her being in he forms a ''black lace mini-dress bond with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author Sam who refuses to be cowed by events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, a professor and keeps on venturing out of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that is Jewellher room to try to capture what's diverse outputhappened through her photography. Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through a year in Although they only ever talk over the published author's lifephone, working their friendship grows as Abhi tries to make a success of the latest title, help her keep safe and struggling with the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the resultterrorists.|isbn=1529136024086154742X

|isbn=18011092651529153298|title=The CompanionList of Suspicious Things|author=Lesley ThomsonJennie Godfrey

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'a punctual man who was inexplicably never on times not what's worrying Miv' and he was - as usual - late to pick up his sons family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, Wilburthey've been murdered, for their but to have 'boysdisappeared' day outdoesn't sound quite so frightening. These were always days which appealed more to James than Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to Wilbur and, competing for move the boyfamily 'Down South's attention. When you're from Yorkshire, his motherDown South is a frightening, Annaforeign place, promised him a roast dinner when he returnedbest avoided. The dinner For Miv, the move would never be servedmean leaving her best friend, Sharon, as James and Wilbur are the victims of a double stabbing on the beach. The case falls she'll do anything to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policeprevent that. She's feeling not worried about the pressure. You can always tell dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughto anyone.

|isbn=152941363X1398524085|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Martin WalkerNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Nobody knows what the truth is any mores fiftieth birthday party but never turned up.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis Her children, sons Niall, Paul and much of the Vézère valley Ollie and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')her daughter, the head of detectives for the départment of the DordogneEtty. They're not just policemen are all worried but - they're both deeply committed to the wellstrangely -being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Franceher husband, Alec, is not. The discovery of an oldShortly afterwards, stolen PeugeotEtty and Greg, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldnfind the body of Greg't normally have worried them so much had it not been for the strange bullets father, with Russian letters stamped on the baseDuncan Ackerley, which they found in the carriver. Oh, It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and there was a golf ball too, which didnthen committed suicide when he couldn't belong to the owner of stand the carguilt. A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniperThe Salter children are not convinced but there's weaponlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?

|isbn=02415424051035906708|title=Meredith AloneDiva|author=Claire AlexanderDaisy Goodwin

|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she's not left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'' was born to: Greek parents in factManhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she so nearly doeswas thirteen. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, she canCallas't. She simply can't force herself to leave make it more manageable in the safety of her homeStates. She's fortunate When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she has could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a good friend, Sadie, mother who visits regularly with mercilessly exploited her two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full made no secret of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in preference for her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Handselder sister, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'sJackie.

|isbnauthor=B09Y451X9KChristopher Edge|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)|author=Richard F WalkerBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= ''Anything can happen Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a birthday party, particularly when place that has the birthday boy is the young Lord nickname of the Manor'The Black Hole'. But when an eerie signal is picked up in All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the early hoursmovie starts, George and his they very quickly realise that something about this new girlfriendfilm format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the vivacious Lady Antonianext, embark can they figure out what on earth is going on a quest ? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to uncover its incredible messagetheir real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets 5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the cat out sea. The call of the bag and deep, the world goes into a state of panicanswering beat in my heart.''

Could it be? Could it? Have aliens reached Rosevear, a 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 the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and contacted Earth? George any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Antonia find themselves lifted out Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of their privileged lives a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of parties and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into foreign islands to the world heart of advanced sciencethe smuggler's territory, secret agents.Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and politicians hungry for powerthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Darren ShanJames Sherwood Metts|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 Planet Storyland

|summary= SoThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. WeAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're back paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to the Merge with the first chapter in the third volume of Darren Shan's saga think of Archibald Loxother, a young man who can pick the locks of portals from our world new ways to anotherspend time, called the ''Merge''. Since his last adventure, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce on the topic of his regular disappearancesalong came an awful pandemic. They don't ask too many questions Life was pretty much shut down and Archie has settled into a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winston, his lock-picking mentor in the ''Merge'' and showing Kojoalong with it, all the young guardian, around our world of the Bornmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD1736128426

|author=John Henry PhillipsMatthew Tree|title=The SearchWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryLiterary Fiction|summary=Archaeology cannot Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be child's playdifferent from his father, when you're scraping in the dirt looking to find what you can find, 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 thing. This book is a case drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of the latter, as our author promises to locate the topic his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of the titular searchself confidence. And he really hasn't made it easy for So Tim applied himself – the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandyhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perishedset himself high but achievable ambitions. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Fiona LongmuirA G Slatter|title=Looking for EmilyThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=Meet Lily'' 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. She and her mother have I just moved want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a city to town under the protection of the Briar's, a tiny seaside family of witches who protect the town called Edge, and everyone the wider world from said mother to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friendsthe Darklands. It turns out that Though she doesn't have any say in has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the matter, first non-witch to be born into her family for while pretending when phoning home that generations and as such since she was with someone called Emilyyoung, she is unaware her neighbourtraining as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, SamEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, is just about to make herself knownthe town's leader, and in a big wayEllie takes her place beside her. But where does Emily As challenges come from? Wellher way left, right and centre, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the most mundane objectsdead, in some converted houses behind putting her at the heart of a most unassuming door, in a place calling itself 'The Museum maelstrom of Emily'chaos. Sam is completely unaware of this 'museum'Reeling from one family secret to another, too, leaving the two girls Ellie must decide who to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding trust and determine whatto do as the Briar witches's behind the intrigue..legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=18399427541803364548

|isbn=B09XZMCDVF1529900360|title=Stories: 13 tantalising talesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Richard F WalkerJonathan Kellerman

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|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'A news vendor is crying out t need the headlines in the middle help of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; psychologist only worked for a stickler while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for correct grammar goes back in time to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the ideal person to have around man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team is very useful with his feet, and awfully familiar…'' This collection swimming pool of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot to offer the eclectic readerremote property in Bel Air. Tying them together is He was the idea that remarkable and strange, even miraculous, things can happen heir to ordinary people. And that ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form an Italian shoe empire and tone varies so this little treasury of short fiction she is never boring married to an extremely rich man and you're never quite sure whatit's coming nextnot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=18009012321529395224|title=Stitched UpLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Steve ColeSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designerSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Life His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperoushis footsteps, so particularly when he considered the smartlystrain that being on-dressed man and woman came to call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the village to offer Hahn opportunity of doing work experience with a job in Hanoi it family friend who was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands a vet and Hanh was on convinced this was the mini-bus to Hanoijob for him. OnlyBefore long, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factoryhe was at Liverpool University. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones It hadn't - as with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfullyso many students -placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? been his dream since he was a child. ItIf anything, he's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made themd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Daisy Hildyard0861541774|title=EmergencyA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The summary of this book doesnDCI Domenic Jejeune't come s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to explaining what is done 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 knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the premiseman. Now he could 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=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Weight of Loss Perfect Passion Company|rating=4 .5|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary= Marianne The Perfect Passion Company is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sistera dating agency in Edinburgh, she awakes run by Ness and operating as an alternative to find strangeall the online apps in providing a more personal, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of tailored service. Ness has asked her spine which steadily increase in size younger cousin Katie if she could come and volume. Her GPlook after the business, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as Ness is planning to take a physical reaction trip to Canada to her griefget away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, recommends she go and so jumps at the chance to come home to stay at NedeEdinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening Edinburgh we already love, thanks to Marianne 44 Scotland Street and the other patients at Nede: Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a metamorphosis of a kind. As Mariannebusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's memories threaten to overwhelm always hervery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at to lend a terrible price: that of identity itself.hand…|isbn= 086154112X 1846976596

|authorisbn=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)0811771741|title=Little DrummerInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=34|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a mixture collection of police procedural and thrillerknits from toys to blankets. Beginning with the death of a young woman in a carpark, that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into a far Some will be quick knits -reaching investigation others are of murder, fraud, and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolichthe 'long, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains cosy afternoons in Norway whilst Frolich is led to Africa as they follow the twists and turns front of the investigationfire' variety. Gunnarstranda and Frolich The projects are tenacious, chasing down divided by the truth in increasingly difficulttime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, frustrating circumstancesfive to ten hours, trying hard ten to uncover twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the truth as they projects are sure that something much biggerattractive, modern and much more dangerous, is going onuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1914585127

|isbnauthor=0008541477Dean Koontz|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!|author=Lauren ChildThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=It was Benny is having a hot summer terrifically bad day right at the beginning of the summer holidays and Clarice Bean was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except for sometimes... And only on rare-sh occasions He loses his job, which is hardly ever.'' There are seven members of the Bean family living in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because he's wobbly)loses his fiancee, Mum and Dadhis house gets trashed. Oh, Clarice's older brother, Kurt and younger brothersomeone has delivered a really weird, Minal Cricket. There's also Marciedisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, whoand it's main claim to fame seems to be possible that she steals whoever or whatever was inside is the batteries from Clarice's torchthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, which means that she can't read in Benny is the airing cupboardvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. Clarice would love He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to have someone who listened to herhis house is a new friend, rather than wanting to talka bad weather friend called Spike, but the only one who does that has been sent to help him since Benny is Granny and she lives in New Yorkclearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. The Bean family 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'different''s wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=0711266204Adam Stower|title=The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield Murray and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers |summary=I have recently discovered Murray is supposed to be a great pleasure: I sit humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and watch eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basistwo. An hour can pass without my noticing. IBut he's a bad magician've established which species feed from s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the groundcatflap they both use can chuck them out, which pop to not into the feeders for regular back garden, but into a quick snatch world of some food frightening adventure and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeablewhiffs. It would have been wonderful ifThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, as where a childtroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, I'd had access to a book such as be honest, but he's turned up and he'The Secret Life of Birds''. So – what is it?ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1737030942B0C47LV1PC|title=Bag O'GoodiesFragility|author=Jolly Walker BittickMosby Woods

|genre= AnthologiesLiterary Fiction|summary=Sometimes, Can you deserve make a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's 'Yo birthing person'Bag O'Goodies''. I first encountered his writing about a year agojoke? And if you could, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, a rollicking tale of what happens when five young men find a base would it land? The catch is that the answer for their partyingboth could well be. Right now, I didn't want a full-length novel, so I turned to this anthology of verse and short stories. Bittick's writing has matured - and so have his characters. Well.no.. most  ''Fragility'' is set as the city of them!Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Caryl Lewis and George Ermos1529431735|title=SeedThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his lifeIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, and they both might be thought of which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as complete embarrassmentsa wanted drug smuggler for a decade. His grandfather runs an allotment, and manages to stink the entire town out The return has come about because he's had a letter from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetables. His mother somehow combines the dual roles of housebound failure and hoarder – while ex-wife, saying that she seems to do nothing 's ill and hasn't left the building in years she has still managed long to fill it to the brim with junklive. What Marty It's classmates don't know about this they can draw lines hard to from how poor Marty always looksfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, with stripped to his one school uniform built from lost property. We see him as once again the council threaten her underwear and him with eviction, and as he celebrates his birthday with sent to a watery grave in the gift from his grandfather boot of a solitary plant seedstolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=1529077664 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Sophie CameronAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Our Sister, AgainThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5

|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora dies, her family struggle to find Eli is a way forward. In particular, Isla's mum who can’t seem to be able to let her daughter go. When Isla passes her mum's details onto a support group she finds online, she thinks they might be able to help. But actually, it turns out they are part of busy lad – by day an experimental company who offer apprentice in the family the chance to have Flora back againwondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in robot form. But this won't just be the evening a look-a-likehelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. They use all of Flora's online history, and interviews Eli lives with family and friendshis lovely gran, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possible. But what will it really mean too – for there is a generation missing in the family, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398507504|title=Cold Reckoning|author=Russ Thomas|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for the last sixteen A few short years heago, Eli's been searching for evidence parents were both lost to prove that he's right. When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoirthe titular race, there was a link back globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a cold case from 2002magical beast. There didn't immediately seem This has made the race anathema to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death the pair – but Adam Tyler senses when a link bad incident at the eatery leads to the case a confession from gran, Eli knows his father was investigating before only hope is to dare to enter what he died. Above all there's a growing sense that most hates, with the sole aim the criminality prize of Det Supt Stevens is going magic at the end – the only thing to be brought out into the openpossibly save his gran. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=0727850547178763681X|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=David MarkOrlando Murrin

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't even really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had time for breakfast when the call came through. A body had been found in the roots a way of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hull. When he gets getting both men and women to the scene, he will find do what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedwanted. A young manPaul 's corpse is entangled with 'somehow'' got the roots of impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a newlybroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching -fallen tree – and the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through problems - are all his eyesown. It would seem that this The one thing he hadn't expected was done whilst the man was still alivefor someone to turn up dead. McAvoy makes a promise to Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at a cost body and this time everyone knows that the cost might police consider that person to be to McAvoy's own familythe prime suspect.

|author=Natalia Garcia FreireSarah Marsh|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include TremendousAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a delightworld of silence, everything about her life changes. I will agree with Living in a time when the first – tremendous use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is no understatement – but 'sent to a delight' school where she is perhaps using the expression in a way I'm not familiar withtaught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. I have to confess my ignorance of From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation heredeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. From At the little I have read (same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismcomplicated tangle of espionage. |isbn=08615419011035401614

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin1803816759|title= Rebel SkiesThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating= 54|genre= TeensScience Fiction|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as It's 2038 and Joe is a servant on bored cop policing the Midori, wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers bit of the Empire come adventure and to drink and make merry between their conquestsget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. HoweverBut then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like himmaking life easier for many, someone with the power and riots start to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empirespread. He asks her to come with himFinally, Joe gets to leave do some real policing. In the life aftermath of dreary servitude that the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is all she has knownassigned to bring her home. Well, soon Kurara wonJoe isn't have any say in the matteronly one trying to save Suki - Dylan, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigamiBritish superfan and tech nerd, and she is forced to flee out into also on the worldcase. She joins Himura aboard What went wrong? Did the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose system fail or was it hacked? And how is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Patrice Lawrence1529421284|title=NeedleLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=BraveIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. Charlene In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people body to likebe Lee Geary, characters and readers bothwho had disappeared nine years earlier. Kicked out of multiple homes He'd been a known drug user and schoolshad learning disabilities, she's fostering with so it could have been a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while hesimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's at unit convinced. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of Geary was a comfort blankettownie, you might perhaps think, and so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the creation of one such item is part suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, time. Lockyer and is making something full DC Gemma Broad of love for her younger sister – a younger sister shethe Major Crimes Review Unit (that's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, cold cases to you and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be) investigate...|isbn=1800901011

|isbn=14059409800571379559|title=The BirdcageHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Eve ChaseFiona Williams|rating=45|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=It's 'The House of Broken Bricks'' is the 7th of January 2019 and we know that a body has been pulled out story of the sea at Zennor in Cornwallfour people. We donTess Hembry't know whose body it iss roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Four days earlierInsubstantial as it might look, Florait's stood the passage of time, Kat storms and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at the request of their fatherfloods. Her husband, Richard, Charlie Finchstruggles to grow his vegetables, a famous artistto complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. The girls are actually ''half''They have twin boys -sisters Sonny and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closeMax, the rainbow twins. Finch was known for Sonny's colouring reflects his fecundity, if not for mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his fidelityfather. ItPeople don't believe that they's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years ago, at the time of the total eclipsere related, something happened. Kat much less twins and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and itthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's left her very wary of her sistershis nanny.

|isbn=17876349061529425867|title=No Less the DevilLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Stuart MacBrideSimon Mason

|summary=We're in Oldcastle 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 Ryan and Malcolm father of Ryan, is in troublenot. He's in an abandoned house and henot any of those things. He's being threatened by two young people. One is Allegra white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (wereading'll soon learn that shes not 's Allegra Dean-Edwards'really'' his thing) and Hugohis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) but sheThey'd put a tracking device re usually in it so that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepinglime green or acid yellow. It wonYou might wonder if you't be long before the re being introduced to a police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not many other people . The two men are going to have just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backscombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|author=Jennifer SaintMosby Woods|title=ElektraA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|summary=The West isn'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells t the story of three women who live dominant force it once was. Nobody in the heavily male-dominated world West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of Ancient Greeceaction. CassandraGovernments are flailing. A war here, Clytemnestraa push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, and Elektra are all bit players there was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in the story this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the Trojan Warmost valuable asset in history. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us Imagine then, that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furiesthis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=1472273915B0C9SNG8R1