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|isbn=13985153880241636604|title=The Boy and the DogTrading Game: A Confession|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)Gary Stevenson

|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=First If you were to bring up an image of all, it was the earthquake, deep a city banker in the ocean flooryour mind, which created you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the tsunami pin-stripe suit and thishis background is the East End, in turnwhere he was familiar with violence, caused the nuclear meltdownpoverty and injustice. The result There was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the loss London School of livelihoods was widespreadEconomics. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but Stevenson is bright - six months after the tsunami extremely bright - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered and he has a dog outside a convenience storefacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment also realised that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa most rich people expect poor people to open be stupid. It was his car door and Tamon the dog jumped inability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=15291530501035021803|title=BritainThe Antique Hunter's Best Political Cartoons 2022Guide to Murder|author=Tim BensonC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=HumourCrime|summary=Seeking some light relief from It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''BritainEnglish country village where she grew up. She's Best Political Cartoons back now because of 2022a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Sharp eyes will have noted that we're Arthur was the reason why Freya had not yet through been back to the yearvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022profession she loved. Who can imagine what there will be to come After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the 2023 edition?love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Lisa GrayAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Dark RoomAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=What if you knew someone was dead, because you'd watched them die several years ago, but then you 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come across a photograph .'' I've heard it said that seemed to show their murder happened in a different place and time? This 'technology' is what happens to Leonard in this storyafter you're eighteen. He is an ex-crime reporter for Well, I must confess that there have been more than a newspaper, and since leaving journalism he's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds old, undeveloped rolls few decades of film and develops them technology in his own dark room at homemy lifetime. One of these photographs turns out to show the murder scene of a young woman he met some years ago, and who he I've kept up reasonably well with what'thoughts advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it' he had watched die in front s all getting away from me. Some of him one night in a hotelit is - frankly - quite frightening. He'd felt guilty ever since that nightOf course, I could research the possibilities and lost everything because of it - his fiancee the probabilities and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadnend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they't really died re talking about or the night she was with him, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535Xlatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Natasha Hastings and Alex T SmithSunny Singh|title=The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost FairHotel Arcadia

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=''The River Thames had frozen to death Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in its sleepan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group.'' And thus Hiding from the Frost Fair could happen – people trading terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on the completely iced-over river, like our heroine Thomasina's father with his gingerbread and confectionery shop. Thomasina will be working the Fair too – but her twin brother won'tsite, as he dies in Chapter One. It was a tragedy she feels no small guilt forthere is Sam, and which has made her father a sullen, closed shop – wartime photographer and her bed-bound mother has spoken not a word – not even opened her eyesAbhi, more or less – in the four years since, eitherhotel manager. But into As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the dark, frosted London comes Inigohotel, he forms a bond with supreme magical powersSam who refuses to be cowed by events, and a willingness keeps on venturing out of her room to try to help Thomasinacapture what's happened through her photography. Not Although they only can he introduce her to ever talk over the fantastical Other Frost Fairphone, using the river surface at night for no end of mystical beasts and characters and their happenings, but he has a unique proposal for Thomasina, which will shake friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her world keep safe and they both wait to its coresee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=0008496056086154742X

|authorisbn=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams 1529153298|title=The Book List of Hope Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Politics and Society General Fiction|summary= The done thing It'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 been murdered, but to read a book all have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the way through before family 'Down South'. When you sit down to review it're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. I’m making an exception here For Miv, because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing bookmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, I want and she'll do anything to capture it as it hits meprevent that. And it is hitting me She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. This beautiful book has me in tears. |isbn=024147857X

|isbn=15295047671398524085|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyNicci French

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Susan Charlotte Salter was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destinationdaughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. She neednShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg't have worried though as she went s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to the home of Mr make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and Mrs Russell, who then committed suicide when he couldn't have been kinder to herstand the guilt. She even had her own room - all The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to herself. Gradually think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she relaxed was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and began only moved to enjoy her lifeAthens when she was thirteen. SheHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when Callas' to make it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on more manageable in the Christmas treeStates. The best surprise happened When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the following morningNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)Christopher Edge|title=Red as BloodBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missing, Lucas and his friends are all the evidence seems to point towards her having been kidnapped. The ransom note tells him not to have any contact with the policebooked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, so instead he enlists a place that has the help nickname of Arora'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, a financial investigator. She manages they're looking forward to persuade Flosi that they will need the help lots of the policeexciting films, and she calls her detective friendmany, Danielmany snacks! However, whom she met when he was investigating her sister’s disappearance. Togetheras the movie starts, they start to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearancevery quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, trying not and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to arouse the suspicion of anyonenext, since can they have no idea who figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the kidnappers might becinema, yet the more they uncover, the more confusing things become.and to their real lives?|isbn=19145853211839942738

|isbnauthor=0861541995Rachel Greenlaw|title=Wolf Pack|author=Will DeanCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on ''I can hear the road north song of Visbergthe sea. She sees blood on The call of the road and a creature on its side near deep, the pine treesanswering beat in my heart. It will turn out to be Bronco'' Rosevear, a Swedish Elkhoundremote and partially forgotten island, who has been attacked by a wolfsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Tuva takes Bronco and his ownerMira, Bengt Nyberglike her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the vetruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Bronco didn't make it but on But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the waywrecking, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missing. Shethey capture the island'd been working at Rose Farm s leader and MoodysonMira's journalist's instincts are soon brought father. Desperate to the fore. Rose Farm save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is now home secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a group of survivalists but back family secret that lies buried deep in 1987 the then ownersea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, Johan Svenson murdered his wifeas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, and his two eldest children and then killed himself. His newborn child, just four weeks old survived. Does this have any connection Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the disappearance future of Elsa Nyberg?her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Alison HughesJames Sherwood Metts|title=FlyPlanet Storyland

|summary=This is Things have been a very impressive readbit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as it does a lot of what mainstream teen they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and tween fiction still struggles with. Its focus is courtesy starting to think of the first-person narration from Flyother, a secondary school lad with cerebral palsynew ways to spend time, a along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down-on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being a cleaner, a carer while at school, and a bundle of assumptions people lay on him. First they assume that with a broken body comes a broken mind, then they decide he's a maths savant – they even believe they can get away along with calling him Flyit, all the many daily social interactions on which isn't his real name, but everybody just uses itthey depend so heavily.|isbn=15253058321736128426

|isbnauthor=3791388398Matthew Tree|title=New European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and Pastries|author=Laurel KratochvilaWe'll Never Know

|genre=CookeryLiterary Fiction|summary=This is probably one of the most unusual baking books I've encountered. It's built around 99 recipes for breadsTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, brioches a drunk and pastries but the recipes are interwoven with some thought-provoking writing on how bread - chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and baking - have changed in the twentieth and early twenty-first centurieswho had endless crises of self confidence. We start with the basics - the equipment you'll need (there's nothing extravagant or indulgent) and the ingredientsSo Tim applied himself to his studies, where the author is particular. You might not have realised that different salts can change the flavour cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and sensation on the tongue of the finished product set himself high but, apparently, they doachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Andrew GivlerA G Slatter|title=Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Briar Book 1)of the Dead|rating=45

|summary=''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—itThere's awfula part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a blissful life in exchange for his soulwhile.''

Poor Dan! I knowWithin a remote mountain pass, I knowfar away from the world, we shouldnlies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar't feel sorry s, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for soulmagic, Ellie Briar is the first non-catching demonswitch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was 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 town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. But he really is As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a terrible salesmanmaelstrom of chaos. He never hits his targets andReeling from one family secret to another, when he fails Ellie must decide who to get even Matt trust and determine what to sign on do as the dotted lineBriar witches' legacy, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signatureeverything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=19582040211803364548

|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith1529900360|title=Super The GhostOrchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Paragon City has It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been lucky badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to have ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the great Doctor Extraordinaryhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, their very own superhero taking care of themwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Whenever She knew that the evil Captain Chaos has come up with another cunning plan (usually involving a giant robot of some description) Doctor Extraordinary has been there to thwart her mischief and save involvement was something that the dayman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. But one day Two lovers were murdered in the Doctor and swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the Captain are trapped together inside a giant robot that then explodes, heir to an Italian shoe empire and the hero she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the villain are no moreItalian. Or are they…But which of them was the primary target?|isbn=0241470536

|isbn=B0B7289HKQ1529395224|title=Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along Letting the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture Cat Out of the Soul Bag: The Secret Life of Americaa Vet|author=Kari LoyaSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=TravelAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, by particularly when he considered the way) wanted to spend some time with 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 period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do itjob for him. The decision Before long, he was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015at Liverpool University. They had 73 days to do it It hadn't - slightly less than the recommended time as with so many students - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of been his dream since he was a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it onchild. Merv Loya was 75 years old and If anything, he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer'sd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Christopher Bowden0861541774|title=Mr MagentaA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Christopher BowdenDCI Domenic Jejeune's latest novel is close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's lifeshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, carried out by her nephew after she has diedGuy Trueman. The aunt who always provided Maik was involved in a safe harbour 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 little bit charge of indulgence manslaughter but evidence came to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than light that suggested that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems he might have planned to him an obligation murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to find it help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all out. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW

|isbnauthor=1739593901Alexander McCall Smith|title=22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=''Our future will be The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more complex than we expectedpersonal, tailored service. Instead of flying carsNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets as Ness is planning to track grandma.'' I've got take a couple of confessions trip to Canada to makeget away for a while. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read Katie is coming out of a break up with a few stories bad boyfriend, and then forget so jumps at the chance to return come home to the bookEdinburgh. There's got And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to be a very compelling hook an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's 44 Scotland Street and the technology which takes centre stage along Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with the world-buildingsome new characters who quickly begin to charm. ItKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's human beings who fascinate me: the technology always her very helpful (and the world scape are purely incidental. Sorather handsome) neighbour, William, what did I think of to lend a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=14059511840811771741|title=The Girls Who DisappearedInstaKnits for Baby|author=Claire DouglasMelissa Leapman

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Back in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a night outcollection of knits from toys to blankets. As she passed through Some will be quick knits - others are of the darkly-wooded Devil's Corridorlong, a figure appeared cosy afternoons in front of the roadfire' variety. Olivia swerved The projects are divided by the time they'll take to avoid him and the car smashed into a treecomplete - less than five hours, leaving her trapped. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappeared. Ralph Middletonfive to ten hours, who lived in the woods helped her before the police ten to twenty hours and ambulance arrivedmore than twenty hours. But what had happened to Sally ThorneAll the projects are attractive, Tamsin Cole modern and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in the Stafferbury area of Wiltshireuseable. It was thought of as AveburyI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's poor relationme being picky.

|isbnauthor=3949666079Dean Koontz|title=Noema|author=Dael AkkermanThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=''This Benny is having a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years agoterrifically bad day.'' Maya is a young girl living in a hunter-gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring He loses his job, the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest homehe loses his fiancee, and food is becoming more and more scarcehis house gets trashed. What to do? Can the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller Oh, and someone has delivered a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Lifereally weird, provide solutions? }}{{Frontpage|isbn=194241028X|title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael Pronko|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''You can't put 'good at golf' on your tombstonedisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, can you?'' When we meet Patrick Walsh heand it's outside his family's home in possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the Azabu district of Tokyo, hoping thing that has trashed his key will still work but prepared house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to break in if it doesn'tdeserve all this bad luck. He's there is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to remove his daughtershouse is a new friend, Jenna and Kiria bad weather friend called Spike, and take them back who has been sent to Honoluluhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. It's a quick day tripSpike is going to take care of Benny, with just one purpose in mind. Patrickand will certainly take care of Benny's employed by Nine Dragons Wealth Management and for the past yearenemies, if he's been working in Wyoming because the privacy laws there are conducive to the business he's in. His wife, MiyukiBenny, hasn't been in Wyoming with him and is in the process of divorcing him after photographs sent to her anonymously suggested that Patrick had not been faithful to her. PatrickHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's plan didn't work wild adventure) can figure out and he finds himself on the run in Tokyo with the two girlswho exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=B09SGWCXQ8Adam Stower|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterMurray and Bun

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=Fergus Grigor went out for Murray is supposed to be a run. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Head. Was it suicidehumble, or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall tidy and fall friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his death? Or was fancy next of the two. But he pushed? On balance's a bad magician's cat, it looked like an accident but then so his 'accident' was linked to favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the deaths regular back garden, but into a world of others associated with himfrightening adventure and whiffs. Scott Paterson This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was released after a 'not-proven' verdict meant that Scotland, to be honest, but he's most notorious criminal wasnturned up and he't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigor's last client.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=0989715337B0C47LV1PC|title=Papa on the MoonFragility|author=Marco NorthMosby Woods

|summary=Can you make a ''Some frogs had gotten into 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 the answer for both could wellbe.... no.''

''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.Fragility'' How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in set as the form city of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musingPortland, turning on a sixpence. And author Marco NorthOregon, who has cautiously begins to emerge from the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to go on.restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=140639131X1529431735|title=A Practical Present for Philippa PheasantThe Winter Visitor|author=Briony May SmithJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Philippa Pheasant was It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'tiredreturn all the more surprising. He'' of nearly getting squished d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as she tried to cross the Old Oak Roada wanted drug smuggler for a decade. She wrote to the mayor The return has come about the problem but didnbecause he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't even get a replylong to live. Philippa wasnIt't a bird s hard to sit back on her tail feathers feel any sympathy when there was Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a problem which needed solving: she saw watery grave in the benefits boot of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herselfa stolen Ford Sierra. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up problem closer to provide a safe path overnight.home?

|isbnauthor=000837936XAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Last Girl to Die|author=Helen FieldsGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved to Tobermory, on Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the Isle of Mullwondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in search of the evening a new lifehelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. It was a bit of a change from Las VegasEli lives with his lovely gran, but the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing too – for there is a social life - until she disappeared. The local police demonstrated little interest generation missing in the case (could it have been because Adriana's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagersfamily. BrandonA few short years ago, AdrianaEli's twinparents were both lost to the titular race, was upset and surly. Foura globe-year-old Luna just knew that she missed her big sistertrotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. It took four days, This has made the race anathema to the pair – but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnon's Cave. She'd been murdered and it looked like when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a ritual killingconfession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=1509889612178763681X|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Ann CleevesOrlando Murrin|rating=54

|summary=ItChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's fifty years since t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a group way of teenagers went on a weekend retreat getting both men and women to Holy Islanddo what he wanted. Some of them found Paul ''somehow'' got the Only Connect course transformative and theyimpression that he've been coming back for a reunion every five years since then. There was a tragedy d be at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close school to high tide and her car was swept awayassist Paul, who had a broken arm, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with the group each year as her husband, Ken, was one of it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the original teenagersproblems - are all his own. Ken now has Alzheimer's and The one thing hehadn's a shadow of the man he used t expected was for someone to beturn up dead. Philip Robson now a priest Unfortunately, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone in was the person who discovered the chapel. Annie Laidler lives locally body and she provides much of everyone knows that the food: her deli is famous in police consider that person to be the areaprime suspect.

|isbnauthor=1473680883Sarah Marsh|title=The Skeleton Key|author=Erin KellyA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=''The Golden Bones is going to follow me around for the rest After a bout of my lifescarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to you!'' Nell didn't want to go to the reunion to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication Suddenly plunged into a world of ''The Golden Bones''. She'd had no benefit from it - in factsilence, it had made everything about her life precarious and unbelievably challengingchanges. I'd better explain. ''The Golden Bones'' Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a treasure quest book painted and written by Frank and Cora Churcherschool where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. The story revolved around murdered Elinore whose golden and bejewelled bones were hidden around the country. The clues - some of them quite tortuous - were disguised From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the words deaf and pictures of the book - and all the parts were discovered except for the pelvisusing a system called Visible Speech. As with such questsAt the same time, some people were obsessive Bell is working on other inventions and the theories became more ideas, and more outlandishEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Holly Webb1803816759|title=The Story of GreenriverUnravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Silken It's 2038 and Sedge, for all their differences, have a lot in common. Silken Joe is a girl whose father is bored cop policing the Master Builder of what might be the finest beaver lodge on the Greenriverwealthy and peaceful New York City. Unfortunately she is also Joe longs for a kind bit of runt figureadventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, and as a result is patronisedmaking life easier for many, and given the most tokenistic tasks when it comes riots start to fetching wood and shoring the dam upspread. She also stands out for the unique artistic ability Finally, Joe gets to singdo some real policing. Otters like Sedge sing, but he too, as In the son aftermath of the lady of rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the holtonly one trying to save Suki - Dylan, has pressure on him to be a bit less feckless British superfan and more attentive to class. Hetech nerd, after all, will eventually inherit is also on the job of keeping case. What went wrong? Did the otters safe from the wolf that both animal species fear the most, and from dreaded events like a Dark Spring.|isbn=1510109625system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Anna Kemp and David Wyatt1529421284|title=Into Goblyn WoodLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Hazel. For It was one of those flash downpours that the last nine of her eleven years, she has been stuck as a foundling British weather often delivers in a horrid, Victorian institution, generally peeling vegetables or acting as heatwave. In a servant. She'd arrived at the place at the same time as Petegully, and they're inseparably good friends now, until a chance for them both human skeleton came to escape, the surface and enter forensic testing proved the outside worldbody to be Lee Geary, does not go to planwho had disappeared nine years earlier. There had always He'd been the idea of a life idyllic in the nearby forestsknown drug user and had learning disabilities, Goblyn Wood, and so it could have been a tribe simple case of Wild Childrenmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, but none of that comes so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to pass, as Hazel finds herself in the care suicide of a professor Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Natural History Museumtime. But life with him is not anything like what she might have expected it to be – Lockyer and Hazel is determined to return to DC Gemma Broad of the Woods, restore her friendship with Pete – and Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to work out just what is going on in the forest, both the light you and the shade, and the deathly darkme) investigate...|isbn=1398503835

|isbn=02419901650571379559|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)The House of Broken Bricks|author=Cara HunterFiona Williams

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It began rather oddly''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in an isolated the house but on the call hadnriverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it't come from s stood the householderpassage of time, storms and floods. A couple of PCs went Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to make certain that everything was alright complete the delivery rounds - and it took quite a while for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come bring insufficient money. In the kitchen there was a body on the floor: the head had been blown off with a shotgun They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the corpse was holding a knife in its right handrainbow twins. Richard Swann told the police that heSonny's colouring reflects his mother'd heard sounds of an intruder and had come downstairs to investigates Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. The ignorant young lout had called him People don't believe that they'Grandadre related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she' and come at him with a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defences his nanny.

|authorisbn= Kit De Waal1529425867|title= Without Warning Lost and Only SometimesNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating= 4.5|genre= AutobiographyCrime|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put itIn Oxford, “They f*** you upthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, your mum Balliol educated and dad/ They may not mean toalways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, but they do” Without Warning son of Ryan and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea father of parenthood and the bonds that bind familyRyan, is not. This book is a memoir focussing on the author’s formative years as a teenager living in a lower class area He's not any of Birminghamthose things. Her father is He's white, originated from St. Kitts in the Caribbean a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and marrying a black mantrackies. This intersectionality plays a large role They're usually in the autobiographylime green or acid yellow. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due You might wonder if you're being introduced to her racea police procedural written for laughs. Well, her class and her genderyou're not. Her parents loom large and The two men are written with care, love, and just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the kind of anger only a child can express to their parentscombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|isbn=1472284836

|author=David LagercrantzMosby Woods|title=Dark MusicA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=34|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=How far from The West isn't the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before dominant force it once was. Nobody in the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart of what little investigating West is going on, but there quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelength. For one, the main focus best course of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MDaction. Governments are flailing. She's a Chilean in the Stockholm policeA war here, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of old, push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, and just outside the stadiumactual charge. Beppe, the suspectImagine then, there was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogationa man with precognition. When some disreputable coppers (Imagine the kind strategic advantage in this asset; a man who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told to go and see tell you what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks will happen given any set of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is a shamblescircumstances. But taken off the caseThat man would be valuable, she can no longer help solve the crime, and with Rekke right? Perhaps the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it allvaluable asset in history. UntilImagine then, that may be, she manages this man loses this ability. What would governments do to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt...get it back?|isbn=1529413192B0C9SNG8R1