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<!{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HEREbut he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright -extremely bright ->and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=15291259601035021803|title=Unnatural HistoryThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Jonathan KellermanC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Donny Klement was a photographer. Well, it was Adonis, actually, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - itIt's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bedtwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. Three shots were placed neatly through his heartShe's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. The PAFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Mel GornickArthur Crockleford, is distraught dead and it falls the circumstances seem suspicious, to psychologist Alex Delaware say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to calm the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as he tries to establish what's happened. Donny had just finished a series of photographs called ''The Wishers''badly. He'd taken eight homeless people off the streets and asked them what Even though they'd really like were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to benear the man or pursue the profession she loved. They were then dressed up as their fantasyAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, photographed met and sent married James (on their way with a generous gift in dollarsthe rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Robin Birch and Jobe AndersonAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Secret Beast ClubAll Tomorrow's Futures: The Unicorns of Silver StreetFictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Jayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot 'Opening up new ways of thinking about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns shape of the world, for examplethings to come. Aisha '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out therewhat happens after you're eighteen. The problemWell, as their mothers see it, is I must confess that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the outside world have been more than a few decades of Hackney, Londontechnology in my lifetime. But when a narrowboat turns I've kept up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and reasonably well with a past involving Jaydenwhat's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including advantageous to me but I'm left with the one Aisha thinks shefeeling that it's seen on a bit all getting away from me. Some of local footageit is - frankly - quite frightening. The crew of the boatOf course, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving I could research the rare critters – possibilities and the kids unknowingly have probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the magical sight needed to join inlatest conspiracy theorist. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, I needed people I knew I could trust and her relative who lives as a figure could deliver information in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=0241573483way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1913839656Sunny Singh|title=Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey DeeHotel Arcadia

|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=Todd was excited about spending The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the weekend with his grandmotherterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, not least because she made the best beetle juicehotel manager. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection As Abhi continues to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him try to care remotely for the Friday Night Club at residents who are still alive in the local community centre hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted keeps on venturing out of her room to try to make new friendscapture what's happened through her photography. At homeAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, his only friend was his mum their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and he wondered why that could they both wait to see if they will berescued before they are discovered by the terrorists. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=17873010361529153298|title=What July KnewThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Emily KochJennie Godfrey

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 sheIt's just ten years old1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly.. .) She's a carefulnot what's worrying Miv's family, meticulous childthough. The care has Women have been taught by her fatherdisappearing. Well, Mick Hooperthey've been murdered, who is not prepared but to discuss the death of his wife, Julyhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's mother, and any hint overheard that her father wants to move the conversation family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a Lessonfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Other infractions of his requirements also lead For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to these Lessons and heprevent that. She's not even careful worried about whether the dangers or not the injuries are visible. Julythat her Mum's teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good stopped talking - to the school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for himanyone.

|authorisbn=Lucy Ashe1398524085|title=Clara and OliviaHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=The year is 1933. The place? SadlerCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's Wellsfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Ballerinas Clara Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Olivia are sistersher daughter, twins no lessEtty. Identical on the outside are all worried but not- strangely - her husband, we learnAlec, on the inside. And is not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline Shortly afterwards, attention to detail – Etty and some thingsGreg, that ''je ne sais quoi'find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that donDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't come from stand the classroomguilt. A stage presence, a charm, a The Salter children are not convinced but there''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, s little else they can do but get on with their lives and a starwonder about what really happened.|isbn=0861544080

|isbn=00084544931035906708|title=All the Dangerous ThingsDiva|author=Stacy WillinghamDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - wellWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, apart from the odd occasion when but she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. It's now a year since her sonwas born to Greek parents in Manhattan, MasonNew York, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night December 1923 and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning only moved to Athens when she thought he was sleeping inthirteen. In that year sheHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's done everything she could to raise awareness about make it more manageable in the caseStates. She does interviews and when we meet her, When she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the plane was back, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out in Athens - supposedly so that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than appropriate training for her voice - she could was raised under the Nazi occupation by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferencesmother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy GreeneChristopher Edge|title=Fritz and KurtBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their muckerslocal cinema, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market a place, helping that has the neighboursnickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, being dutiful when it comes they're looking forward to the synagogue choir lots of exciting films, and at a vocational school. many, many snacks! Kurt has to make sure However, as the lamps are turned on at their movie starts, they very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But quickly realise that something about this new film format is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's willvery different, and instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open armsthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just But as much as in Germanythey lurch from one film genre to the next, as did all the round-ups of Jews. can they figure out what on earth is going on? These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation Will they ever get back to Britain or the UScinema, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…their real lives?|isbn=024156574X1839942738

|isbnauthor=1529421241Rachel Greenlaw|title=Stay Buried|author=Kate WebbCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that it's actually 'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a cold case unit remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and there are just two plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of them doing the jobseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Lockyer's not unduly worriedBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, though although hethey capture the island's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: sheleader and Mira's probably capable of something betterfather. It was Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a bit wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a shock when he got family secret that lies buried deep in the phone call sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from Hedy Lambert: shethe watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's in H M Prison Eastwood Park territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a bit sticky for murder - the Earthlings. AI and it was Lockyer who put her thereautomation have been proceeding apace, fourteen years agooften replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. She's keen Just as they were beginning to get used to see him all this technological change and starting to tell him that think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|genre=Dystopian Literary Fiction|summary=It was the summer Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of 2035 and on a cruise ship in Marseilles, Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth artistic passions all failed miserably and the end who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a man! He's watching the tornado - they're more common in Europe these days - that's keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierrestudies, a French journalist in cultivated his abilities rather than his thirties. He writes for a relatively new paper, the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and he's interesting if a little wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France' daydreams and 'the French'. His partner, Helen, who's English and Jewish, keeps him in check to some extentset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=057137493XA G Slatter|title=The Other Half|author=Charlotte VassellBriar Book of the Dead

|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=''The room was full There's a part of the sort me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should knowmy own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''

''The Other Half'' is Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the story protection of two menthe Briar's, both with what looks like a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the same surnameDarklands. Rupert Beauchamp Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the heir first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a baronetcy steward revolved around letters and his thirtieth birthday party is a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Town. Think Bollinger administration rather than spells and cocainepotions. His surname is pronounced When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie'Beechams cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the Metropolitan police and is bi-racial. His surname is pronounced as you see it. The two encounter each other when Caiusdead, out for putting her at the heart of a runmaelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, stumbles across Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the body of Clemmie OBriar witches'Haralegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, Rupert's girlfriend. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead is under a bushthreat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1529900360|title=White RiotThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's always the danger of making it too reactionary; too rawfault 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. Knee His assertions that there were only open-jerk observations and hot takes that don-shut cases which didn't age well or properly capture need the spirit help of the moment. It takes a truly talented writer to be able to capture the zeitgeist of psychologist only worked for a particular event or era of political historywhile. Austerity Britain Finally, the student riotsit was Robin, Donald TrumpDelaware's partner, Brexit – so much of what iswho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, and has been, written though. Two lovers were murdered in the immediate aftermath swimming pool of these phenomena has been proven by time a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to be frothy an Italian shoe empire and insubstantial she is married to an extremely rich man and ultimately it's not particularly powerful or incisivethe Italian. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction But which of this nature), the best writing about current political events is that which is written when them was the events in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective view.|isbn= 1529423376primary target?

|authorisbn=Heather Fawcett1529395224|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of Faeriesa Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia of faeriesSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Whilst she is brilliant at research His father was a GP and speaking Rowlands didn't want to faeriesfollow in his footsteps, she is not so good with peopleparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. So when she finds herself far, far North in When he was seventeen he took the small village opportunity of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations job for her book back on the right trackhim. Enter Wendell BamblebyBefore long, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustrationhe was at Liverpool University. But why is It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he here? was a child. What does If anything, he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120'd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|isbn=18484584360861541774|title=Just the Nicest CoupleA Nye of Pheasants|author=Mary KubicaSteve Burrows

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''The whole thing s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scotttaken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, and Nina and Jake HayesGuy Trueman. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach Maik was involved in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a regular thing. Christian is man armed with a market research analyst knife - and Jake is he killed a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wivesGhurka. Lily hasn't said anything yetInitially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but she's pregnantevidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. She has Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesndiplomatic incident and wouldn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge publichelp Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=1914585402Alexander McCall Smith|title=Dashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F RossThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] 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 couple while. Katie is coming out of years back a break up with a bad boyfriend, and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and affecting it wasthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. It was Katie has no experience in running a grippingbusiness, or in match-making, emotionally wounding readbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it.there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=178563335X0811771741|title=Sea DefencesInstaKnits for Baby|author=Hilary TaylorMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrafts|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird sheMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need collection of knits from toys to pick the children upblankets. Her husband, Christopher, collects sixSome will be quick knits -year-old Hannah and her elder brotherothers are of the 'long, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-cosy afternoons in-law wonfront of the fire't let her see her grandsonvariety. Holthorpe, on The projects are divided by the Norfolk coasttime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, is a lovely placefive to ten hours, but Rachel is struggling ten to develop a real bond with the parish - twenty hours and she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty yearstwenty hours. Rachel All the projects are attractive, modern and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media- it was stormy worthy projects' but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missingthat's me being picky.

|author=Hadeer ElsbaiDean Koontz|title=The Daughters of IzdiharBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyParanormal|summary= Drawing inspiration from EgyptBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more differenthe loses his fiancee, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against themhis house gets trashed. Nehal Oh, born into the upper classand someone has delivered a really weird, wishes disturbing coffin-sized object to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities his home, and then join it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the militarything that has trashed his house! The thing is, but instead she Benny is forced into an arranged marriage with Nicothe very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. Giorgina on So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the other hand did not have delivery to his house is a new friend, a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to provide help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – being a group campaigning for women's rightsgood person. Giorgina also happens Spike is going to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story take care of an unjust societyBenny, filled with hypocrisy and crueltywill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, from which blossoms if he, Benny, and Harper (a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacleswaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=03565204711662500491

|author=Sarah Todd TaylorAdam Stower|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Spoonful of SpyingMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=[[Alice EclairMurray is supposed to be a humble, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for Trouble by Sarah Todd Taylor|Last time around]]tidy and friendly cat, Alice Eclair had one who is able to prove herself as a spy sleep and eat and as a master at all things French eat and fancy sleep and fondant, as the only way to save well, whatever takes his fancy next of the day involved being an expert baker and icer on the French railwaystwo. HereBut he's a bad magician's cat, we start on so his favourite bun has been turned into a bateau-mouche in Parishyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and even though the espionage isn't catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a complete success it proves to Alice world of frightening adventure and her handlers that things are afootwhiffs. And there will never This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be more feet than at the Worldhonest, but he's Fair, reviving the huge expo that gave the city the Eiffel Tower turned up and this time showing all her interwar glories off to the world. Once again Alice will he'll have to present the front to the world of being a humble yet world-class cake decorator, while seeking out clues. At stake? Pioneering flight technology that the enemy just cannot be allowed to smuggle out…do…|isbn=18399409720008561249

|authorisbn=Amanthi HarrisB0C47LV1PC|title=Beautiful PlaceFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54

|summary= Padma, Can you make a young Sri Lankan''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, has returned to is the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is a place she spent her formative years. It question should you make it? Or is not a place she was born into, but the one she thinks of as home. How she came to be at the Villaquestion if you did, how would it became her home, and the machinations land? The catch is that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the answer for both could well be.... no. ''scoreFragility'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like is set as the musical score city of a filmPortland, Oregon, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the Villa.|isbn=1784631930covid pandemic

|author=Nigel Baines|title=A Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, and named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to be. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|isbn=1444960261}}{{Frontpage|isbn=15420372391529431735|title=Death in HeelsThe Winter Visitor|author=Kitty MurphyJames Henry

|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinIt's drag sceneFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'return all the more surprising. He'Death in Heels'' tells d been exiled on the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friend, Robyn, who is about to debut Costa del Sol as drag queen Mae Ba wanted drug smuggler for a decade. What is meant to be a night of excitement soon takes The return has come about because he's had a downward turn when fellow drag queenletter from his ex-wife, Eve, takes saying that she's ill and hasn't long to the stage live. It's hard to mock Mae B. As if the night could not get feel any worse, sympathy when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi Hopkins is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet the drag communityabducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the Guards, accept it as an accidentboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Fi takes Is it upon herself a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeper.home?

|isbnauthor=1800465270Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Lensky Connection|author=Conrad DelacroixGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=When Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we first meet Major Valeri Grozkystart by visiting with him, it's June 1995 and he's in the evening a helper at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburgdessert cafe his gran owns and runs. He's a pallbearer for Eli lives with his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. Valeri and Timur's father, Ketolovely gran, too – for there is also a pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had becomegeneration missing in the family. Valeri thinks differently: heA few short years ago, Eli's determined parents were both lost to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Within the titular race, a matter of months, his obsession will globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, navigate the world in the company of a journalistmagical beast. She's determined This has made the race anathema to expose any and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to be about her own safety. To hera confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he's a good source. For himmost hates, it's a way with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possiblepossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=1399702289178763681X|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Louise PennyOrlando Murrin|rating=54

|summary=After Chef Paul Delamare took a harsh winter, the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of springteaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québecwomen to do what he wanted. Gamache had offered help to a young woman after Paul ''somehow'' got the murder of her mother: impression that he'd been less certain about her charismatic brotherbe at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. For JeanThe teaching -Guy, it had always been and the other way aroundproblems - are all his own. Now theyThe one thing he hadn're both in t expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the village body and neither can fathom what's happening. Armand will soon find everyone knows that the police consider that they're not just in Three Pines but in his home and in his lifeperson to be the prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=B0BHR8KWSKSarah Marsh|title=Dukkha|author=Martin HydeA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=Sam wakes up chained After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a basement. He rails against his captor and time when the injustice use of his imprisonment? Why? ''Why?'' But of coursesign language was seen as something only savages do, he knows why. Sam Ellen is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down and dirty life by going sent to a retreat school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and emerging as using a neophyte Buddhist monksystem called Visible Speech. Recently returning to join At the community in his old neighbourhoodsame time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, he knew his past would be hard to escape but he hadn't imagined it exploding into this new life and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in quite such a violent fashioncomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=B09XWSXSKY1803816759|title=Maestro Orpheus and the World ClockThe Unravelling|author=Robert Penee and Joanne GrodzinskiWill Gibson

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldnIt't sleeps 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. A tune, rather like the ticking Joe longs for a bit of a clock was playing over adventure and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfatherget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. He hadn't really wanted to come; after allBut then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal riots start to him anymorespread. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is tell the timeassigned to bring her home. And time Joe isn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at the clock beside only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the bedcase. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight What went wrong? Did the clock chimed only six times. There system fail or was nothing for it but to go and find grandad - but where was hehacked? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve ohow is Suki'clocks kidnapping connected?

|isbn=37562287111529421284|title=CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'Laying Out the Bones|author=Hans BodmerKate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=''The history It was one of those flash downpours that the development of IT British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the 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 fill books have been a simple case of several hundred pages.'misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn' Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about thatt convinced. He has chosen Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to tell us about the short, but explosive, history suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Control Data Company, CDC, for whom he workedtime. It Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's a fascinating tale, told in a mixture of technological summary cold cases to you and wry anecdoteme) investigate.

|isbn=15293566600571379559|title=The SanctuaryHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Emma HaughtonFiona Williams|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=It was ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the quiet which woke Zoey up - orstory of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, ratherbut instead, she lives in the absence house on the riverbank, built of the noise which was a constant in New Yorkbroken bricks. Here Insubstantial as it might look, it was silent 's stood the passage of time, storms and the heat was overwhelmingfloods. When she looked out of Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the window all she could see was the desertdelivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. How did she get here? Zoey was houseThey have twin boys -sitting for Uncle Dan Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his two Manx cats mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and she remembered that shethere'd been s an assumption when Max is out with Franny and Rocco last night. She knew his mother that she'd had quite a lot to drink but how could she have got to the desert from New York? She had no memory of getting on a plane but as she thought back, a memory of sirens, flashing lights and of being pushed into a car snagged on the edge of her minds his nanny.

|authorisbn=Christopher Golden1529425867|title=Road of BonesLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Bones'… the R504Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Stretching for over a thousand miles across SiberiaD I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, itis not. He's one not any of the world's most notorious routesthose things. For months of the year itHe's white, originated from a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding ittrailer park, while its barely educated (reading's not ''really'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dustshell suits and trackies. I donThey't think google streetview updates it very oftenre usually in lime green or acid yellow. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted You might wonder if you're being introduced to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it coverspolice procedural written for laughs. You can easily find documentaries about it onlineWell, but thatyou's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some re not. The two men are just different sides of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projectssame policing coin. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at Sometimes the guide's childhood villagecombination works brilliantly well. And thatSometimes it's where things start to go awry…|isbn=1803361476problematic.

|isbnauthor=1838776184Mosby Woods|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most Royal|author=S J BennettA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=The West isn''The Queen, like t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the sunrise and West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the tidesbest course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, was generally a reliable way of marking timepush for climate action there.'' It seemed to begin as a coldA feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Hardly surprisingImagine then, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering for there was a couple of days but seemed to be getting betterman with precognition. Hopefully, Imagine the Queen thought, her cold would go the same way. She'd probably caught it from one strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of the great-grandchildrencircumstances. UnfortunatelyThat man would be valuable, it didn't get better and when right? Perhaps the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown flumost valuable asset in history. She and the Duke were due to go to Sandringham by train that day but the doctor put his foot down. He'd have preferred that the queen have a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had to be satisfied with the thought Imagine then, that they'd go by helicopter the following daythis man loses this ability. It was annoying: people What would be ready for her today and Her Majesty did not like governments do to disappoint.get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1