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|isbn=19164599430241636604|title=Squeakily BabyThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Beth WebbGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=Much as mothers love their babiesIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, thereyou's something they all dread re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin- a squeakily babystripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. He's so tired There was no posh public school on his CV - but he can't had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - or won't extremely bright - go and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to sleep: insteadbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The sea offers Antique Hunter's Guide to helpMurder|author=C L Miller|rating=3. 5|genre=Crime|summary=It rocks Baby gently and 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the waves sing English country village where she grew up. She''hushs back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, hushCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the sound perfectlyvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. The mermaids join Even though they were in - ''la loubusiness together as antique hunters, la layshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of 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 shape of things to come.''  I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. And for Well, I must confess that there have been more than a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyesfew decades of technology in my lifetime. Then a seagull I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'shoutsm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they' re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and we know exactly what's going to happen nextwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Robin StevensSunny Singh|title=The Ministry of Unladylike ActivityHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=May Wong The Hotel Arcadia is a long way from her family luxury hotel in Hong Kongan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. She’s stuck in her schoolHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, Deepdeanthere is Sam, a wartime photographer and desperate to get awayAbhi, and do something useful to help end the war and to get homehotel manager. She just knows that she would make As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the perfect spy! And when she finds herself turned away by residents who are still alive in the Ministryhotel, she takes matters into her own hands, along he forms a bond with a boy she meets outside the Ministry, Eric. They both go undercover in a large country house, pretending Sam who refuses to be evacueescowed by events, in an attempt and keeps on venturing out of her room to prove that someone there is passing secrets try to the Naziscapture what's happened through her photography. But there is a lot more going on in Elysium Hall than either them have imagined, and suddenly Although they find themselves in only ever talk over the middle of a murder scenephone, with even more their friendship grows as Abhi tries to try help her keep safe and they both wait to unravel and solvesee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=0241429862086154742X

|authorisbn=Peter Owen Jones1529153298|title=Conversations with NatureThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Spirituality and ReligionGeneral Fiction|summary= One of the comments made when It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I was offered this beautiful book for review was that itmean, honestly...) She's not very longwhat's worrying Miv's family, though. Having read the book twice overWomen have been disappearing. Well, Ithey'm brought back inescapably ve been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the Spanish proverb that Life may be shortfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, but it Down South is broada frightening, foreign place, best avoided. In this case I For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'm brought ll do anything to the idea prevent that the length of life is . She's not worried about the point; the point is its depth. Peter Owen Jones dives deepdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1912992418

|isbn=19196350171398524085|title=A Thief to Catch a KillerHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Kitt TownsendNicci French|rating=45|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Solomon Klyne isnCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband't a bad lads fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, so why is he running around London committing a series not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? YouGreg'll have to wait to get s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an answer easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the second question because I avoid spoilersguilt. But I The Salter children are not convinced but there'll answer the first one: for his grandmother..s little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=13985153881035906708|title=The Boy and the DogDiva|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)Daisy Goodwin

|summary=First We tend to think of allMaria Callas as Greek, it but she was the earthquake, deep born to Greek parents in the ocean floorManhattan, which created the tsunami and thisNew York, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdownDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. The result Her original surname was complete and utter devastationKalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. The deaths were uncountable, and the loss of livelihoods When she was widespread. The fact back in Athens - supposedly so that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but she could get appropriate training for her voice - six months after she was raised under the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered Nazi occupation by a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door mother who mercilessly exploited her and Tamon the dog jumped inmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=1529153050Christopher Edge|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim BensonBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=HumourConfident Readers|summary=Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more Lucas and more like an adrenaline sporthis friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons a place that has the nickname of 2022'The Black Hole'. Sharp eyes will have noted that weAll big movie fans, they're not yet through looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the year: the cartoons run movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from 4 September 2021 one film genre to 31 August 2022. Who the next, can imagine they figure out what there will be on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to come in the 2023 editioncinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Lisa GrayRachel Greenlaw|title=The Dark RoomCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=What if you knew someone was dead''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, because youthe answering beat in my heart.''d watched them die several years ago Rosevear, but then you come across a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened in a different place remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and time? This plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is what happens one of the seven who swim out to Leonard in this storysurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. He is an ex-crime reporter for But when the Council Watch lays a newspapertrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and since leaving journalism heMira's found himself an unusual hobby where father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he finds oldis secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, undeveloped rolls she sets off in search of film and develops them a family secret that lies buried deep in his own dark room at homethe sea. One With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of these photographs turns out foreign islands to show the murder scene heart of a young woman he met some years ago, and who he the smuggler''thought'' he had watched die in front of him one night in a hotel. He'd felt guilty ever since that nights territory, and lost everything because Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of it - his fiancee her home and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died the night ones she was with him, what on earth actually happened?holds most dear.|isbn=154203535X0008664730

|author=Natasha Hastings and Alex T SmithJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost FairPlanet Storyland|rating=34.5

|summary=''The River Thames had frozen to death in its sleepThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings.'' And thus the Frost Fair could happen – people trading on the completely iced-over riverAI and automation have been proceeding apace, like our heroine Thomasinaoften replacing jobs they's father with his gingerbread re paid to do and confectionery shopother tasks that took time to accomplish. Thomasina will be working the Fair too – but her twin brother won't, Just as he dies in Chapter One. It was a tragedy she feels no small guilt for, they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and which has made her father a sullenstarting to think of other, closed shop – and her bed-bound mother has spoken not a word – not even opened her eyesnew ways to spend time, more or less – in the four years since, eitheralong came an awful pandemic. But into the dark, frosted London comes InigoLife was pretty much shut down and, along with supreme magical powersit, and a willingness to help Thomasina. Not only can he introduce her to all the fantastical Other Frost Fair, 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, many daily social interactions on which will shake her world to its corethey depend so heavily.|isbn=00084960561736128426

|author=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams Matthew Tree|title=The Book of Hope We'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society Literary Fiction|summary= The done thing is Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to read be different from his father, a book drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all the way through before you sit down to review itfailed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want So Tim applied himself to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing bookhis studies, I want to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tearscultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. |isbn=024147857XB0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1529504767A G Slatter|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyBriar Book of the Dead

|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary=Susan was very young when she was evacuated '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from London in 1939 the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and nervous about how the wider world from the Darklands. Though she would has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be greeted when born into her family for generations and as such since she got to was young, her final destinationtraining as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. She neednWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't have worried though as she went to s cousin Audra becomes the home of Mr and Mrs RussellBriar Witch, who couldnthe town't have been kinder to s leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. She even had As challenges come her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed way left, right and began centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to enjoy communicate with the dead, putting her lifeat the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and when it came determine what to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put do as the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morningBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)1529900360|title=Red as BloodThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missingIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, all the evidence seems Sturgis was reluctant to point towards her having been kidnappedask for his help on difficult cases. The ransom note tells him not to have any contact with the police, so instead he enlists His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of Aroraa psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, a financial investigatorwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She manages to persuade Flosi knew that the involvement was something that they will need the help man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the police, heir to an Italian shoe empire and she calls her detective friend, Daniel, whom she met when he was investigating her sister’s disappearance. Together, they start is married to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearance, trying an extremely rich man and it's not to arouse the suspicion Italian. But which of anyone, since they have no idea who the kidnappers might be, yet the more they uncover, them was the more confusing things become.|isbn=1914585321primary target?

|isbn=08615419951529395224|title=Wolf PackLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Will DeanSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The story began Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on he considered the road north of Visberg. She sees blood strain that being on the road and a creature -call put on its side near his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the pine trees. It will turn out to be Bronco, opportunity of doing work experience with a Swedish Elkhound, family friend who has been attacked by was a wolfvet and was convinced this was the job for him. Tuva takes Bronco and his ownerBefore long, Bengt Nyberg, to the vethe was at Liverpool University. Bronco didnIt hadn't make it but on the way, Nyberg told Tuva that - as with so many students - been his dream since he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missinga child. SheIf anything, he'd been working at Rose Farm and Moodyson's journalist's instincts are soon brought to the fore. Rose Farm is now home wanted to be a group of survivalists but back in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wife, and his two eldest children and then killed himself. His newborn child, just four weeks old survivedprofessional footballer. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?

|authorisbn=Alison Hughes0861541774|title=FlyA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=This is a very impressive readDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, as it does has taken a lot of what mainstream teen and tween fiction still struggles short holiday in Singapore to meet up withan old ally, Guy Trueman. Its focus is courtesy of the firstMaik was involved in a street brawl -person narration from Fly, he would later maintain that he was facing a secondary school lad man armed with cerebral palsy, a downknife -on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being and he killed a cleanerGhurka. Initially, he faced a carer while at school, and a bundle charge of assumptions people lay on himmanslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. First they assume that with a broken body comes a broken mind, then they decide Now he's could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a maths savant – they even believe they can get away with calling him Fly, which isndiplomatic incident and wouldn't his real name, but everybody just uses ithelp Danny at all.|isbn=1525305832

|isbnauthor=3791388398Alexander McCall Smith|title=New European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and Pastries|author=Laurel KratochvilaThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=CookeryGeneral Fiction|summary=This The Perfect Passion Company is probably one a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the most unusual baking books I've encounteredchance to come home to Edinburgh. It's built around 99 recipes for breadsAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, brioches thanks to 44 Scotland Street and pastries the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but the recipes are interwoven with some thoughtnew characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-provoking writing on how bread - and baking - have changed making, but Ness has full confidence in the twentieth her abilities, and early twenty-first centuries. We start with the basics - the equipment you'll need (there's nothing extravagant or indulgentalways her very helpful (and rather handsome) and the ingredientsneighbour, where the author is particular. You might not have realised that different salts can change the flavour and sensation on the tongue of the finished product butWilliam, apparently, they do.to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Andrew Givler0811771741|title=Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=FantasyCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'Matt has ' gives us a terrible lifecollection of knits from toys to blankets. Seriously—it Some will be quick knits - others are of the 's awfullong, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. It is so bad that Dan The projects are divided by the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his soul.time they'' Poor Dan! I know, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soulll take to complete -catching demons. But he really is a terrible salesman. He never hits his targets andless than five hours, when he fails five to get even Matt ten hours, ten to sign on twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the dotted lineprojects are attractive, hemodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 's so desperate social-media-worthy projects' but that he simply forges Matt's signatureme being picky.|isbn=1958204021

|author=Greg James and Chris SmithDean Koontz|title=Super GhostThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Paragon City Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has been lucky delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to have his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the great Doctor Extraordinarything that has trashed his house! The thing is, their Benny is the very own superhero taking care of themlast person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. Whenever So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the evil Captain Chaos has come up with another cunning plan (usually involving delivery to his house is a new friend, a giant robot of some description) Doctor Extraordinary bad weather friend called Spike, who has been there sent to thwart her mischief and save the dayhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. But one day the Doctor Spike is going to take care of Benny, and the Captain are trapped together inside a giant robot that then explodeswill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and the hero and the villain Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are no more. Or are they…?|isbn=02414705361662500491

|isbnauthor=B0B7289HKQAdam Stower|title=Conversations Across America: A Father Murray and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari LoyaBun|rating=4.5|genre=TravelConfident Readers |summary=Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’Murray is supposed to be a humble, by the way) wanted tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to spend some time with sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his father and fancy next of the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. The decision was made to ride But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktowncatflap they both use can chuck them out, Virginia to Astorianot into the regular back garden, Oregon - all 4250 miles but into a world of it - in 2015frightening adventure and whiffs. They had 73 days to do This time round it - slightly less drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than the recommended time - Murray was, to be honest, but there were factors which pointed this he's turned up as more of a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Christopher BowdenB0C47LV1PC|title=Mr MagentaFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Christopher BowdenCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's lifejoke? And if you could, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and is the question should you make it seems to him an obligation to find ? Or is the question if you did, would it all out. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1739593901|title=22 Ideas About land? The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Our future will catch is that the answer for both could well be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''.. no.

I've got a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories Fragility'' is set as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. There's got city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: emerge from the technology and restrictions imposed during the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. covid pandemic

|isbn=14059511841529431735|title=The Girls Who DisappearedWinter Visitor|author=Claire DouglasJames Henry

|summary=Back in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after a night out. As she passed through the darkly-wooded DevilIt's CorridorFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, a figure appeared in which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the roadmore surprising. Olivia swerved to avoid him and He'd been exiled on the car smashed into Costa del Sol as a tree, leaving her trappedwanted drug smuggler for a decade. When she regained consciousness her three friends The return has come about because he's had disappeared. Ralph Middletona letter from his ex-wife, who lived in the woods helped her before the police saying that she's ill and ambulance arrivedhasn't long to live. But what had happened It's hard to Sally Thornefeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Tamsin Cole stripped to his underwear and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening sent to a watery grave in the Stafferbury area boot of Wiltshirea stolen Ford Sierra. It was thought of as Avebury's poor relation.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=3949666079Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Noema|author=Dael AkkermanThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=''This Eli is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years agobusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs.'' Maya Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a young girl living generation missing in a hunter-gatherer village during the Mesolithic erafamily. Climate change is occurring A few short years ago, the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into MayaEli's forest homeparents were both lost to the titular race, and food is becoming more and more scarce. What a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to do? Can navigate the law givers world in the federation company of villages muster peaceful ways a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to cope? Can the Travellerpair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, a spiritual figure who interprets Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the wisdom prize of All Life, provide solutions? magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=194241028X178763681X|title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Michael PronkoOrlando Murrin|rating=54

|summary=''You can't put 'good Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at golf' on your tombstone, can you?'' When we meet Patrick Walsh he's outside his family's home in the Azabu district of Tokyo, hoping that his key will still work but prepared to break a residential cookery school in if it doesn'tBelgravia. Hedidn's there t really want to remove his daughters, Jenna but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and Kiri, and take them back women to Honoluludo what he wanted. ItPaul ''somehow's a quick day trip, with just one purpose in mind. Patrick's employed by Nine Dragons Wealth Management and for got the past year, impression that he's been working in Wyoming because d be at the privacy laws there are conducive school to the business he's in. His wifeassist Paul, Miyukiwho had a broken arm, hasnbut it didn't been in Wyoming with him turn out that way. The teaching - and is in the process of divorcing him after photographs sent to her anonymously suggested that Patrick had not been faithful to herproblems - are all his own. Patrick's plan didnThe one thing he hadn't work out expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and he finds himself on everyone knows that the run in Tokyo with police consider that person to be the two girlsprime suspect.

|isbnauthor=B09SGWCXQ8Sarah Marsh|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for After a runbout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. The lawyer Living in a time when the use of sign language was on his honeymoon seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but his body was found dashed to pieces below physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the cliffs at Dunnett Headdeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. Was it suicide At the same time, or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall Bell is working on other inventions and fall to his death? Or was he pushed? On balanceideas, it looked like an accident but then his 'accident' was linked to the deaths and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of others associated with him. Scott Paterson was released after a 'not-proven' verdict meant that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigor's last clientespionage.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=09897153371803816759|title=Papa on the MoonThe Unravelling|author=Marco NorthWill Gibson

|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=It''Some frogs had gotten s 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into the wellsome really gritty crime detection.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in But then something goes horribly wrong with the fragrant waterAI system that now runs everything, naked except making life easier for his beaten leather hatmany, and riots start to spread. Long strands of their eggs wove around himFinally, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside themJoe gets to do some real policing. Two In the aftermath of the dogs leaned over the opening rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled themJoe is assigned to bring her home.Joe isn'' How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in t the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic only one trying to wistful save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and musingtech nerd, turning is also on a sixpencethe case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And author Marco North, who has the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to go on.how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|isbn=140639131X1529421284|title=A Practical Present for Philippa PheasantLaying Out the Bones|author=Briony May SmithKate Webb

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Philippa Pheasant It was ''tired'' one of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross those flash downpours that the Old Oak RoadBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. She wrote In a gully, a human skeleton came to the mayor about surface and forensic testing proved the problem body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but didnDI Matt Lockyer wasn't even get a replyconvinced. Philippa wasn't Geary was a bird townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits suicide of the lollipop lady Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herselftime. Her uniform Lockyer and lollipop stick were both a little amateur DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing you and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnightme) investigate.

|isbn=000837936X0571379559|title=The Last Girl to DieHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Helen FieldsFiona Williams

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved to Tobermory, on 'The House of Broken Bricks'' is the Isle story of Mull, in search of a new lifefour people. It was a bit of a change from Las VegasTess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs riverbank, built of developing a social life - until she disappearedbroken bricks. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could Insubstantial as it might look, it have been because Adriana's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob stood the passage of time, storms and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagersfloods. BrandonHer husband, Richard, Adriana's twinstruggles to grow his vegetables, was upset to complete the delivery rounds - and surlyto bring in sufficient money. FourThey have twin boys -year-old Luna just knew that she missed her big sisterSonny and Max, the rainbow twins. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana in MackinnonSonny's colouring reflects his mother's CaveJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. ShePeople don't believe that they'd been murdered re related, much less twins and it looked like a ritual killingthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.

|isbn=15098896121529425867|title=The Rising Tide Lost and Never Found (A D I Vera StanhopeWilkins Mystery)|author=Ann CleevesSimon Mason|rating=4.5

|summary=It's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy IslandIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Some Raymond Wilkins is of them found the Only Connect course transformative Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and they've been coming back for a reunion every five years since thenalways exquisitely dressed. There was a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and her car was swept awayfather of Ryan, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with the group each year as her husband, Ken, was one is not. He's not any of the original teenagersthose things. Ken now has AlzheimerHe's and hewhite, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's a shadow not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of the man he used shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to bea police procedural written for laughs. Philip Robson now a priest Well, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone in the chapelyou're not. Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much The two men are just different sides of the food: her deli is famous in same policing coin. Sometimes the areacombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|isbnauthor=1473680883Mosby Woods|title=The Skeleton Key|author=Erin KellyA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=''The Golden Bones is going to follow me around for the rest of my life. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to you!'' Nell didnWest isn't want to go to the reunion to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of ''The Golden Bones''. She'd had no benefit from dominant force it - in fact, it had made her life precarious and unbelievably challenging. I'd better explain. ''The Golden Bones'' once was a treasure quest book painted and written by Frank and Cora Churcher. The story revolved around murdered Elinore whose golden and bejewelled bones were hidden around Nobody in the country. The clues - some of them West is quite tortuous - were disguised in sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the words and pictures best course of the book - and all the parts were discovered except for the pelvisaction. As with such quests, some people were obsessive and the theories became more and more outlandishGovernments are flailing.}}{{Frontpage|author=Holly Webb|title=The Story of Greenriver|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Silken and SedgeA war here, a push for all their differences, have a lot in commonclimate action there. Silken A feeling that nobody is a girl whose father is the Master Builder of what might be the finest beaver lodge on the Greenriverin actual charge. Unfortunately she is also a kind of runt figureImagine then, and as there was a result is patronised, and given the most tokenistic tasks when it comes to fetching wood and shoring the dam upman with precognition. She also stands out for Imagine the unique artistic ability to singstrategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. Otters like Sedge singThat man would be valuable, but he too, as right? Perhaps the son of the lady of the holt, has pressure on him to be a bit less feckless and more attentive to classmost valuable asset in history. He, after allImagine then, will eventually inherit the job of keeping the otters safe from the wolf that both animal species fear the most, and from dreaded events like a Dark Springthis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=1510109625B0C9SNG8R1