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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon0241636604|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start If you were to bring up an image of her maternity leave when there is a brutalcity banker in your mind, shocking murder you're unlikely to think of an expectant woman in Dunedinsomeone like Gary Stevenson. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant womenEast End, where he was familiar with all violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfLondon School of Economics. Finding herself put on desk duties, Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which she rails against, she just most of us can't let the case go and she starts only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to follow every thread to uncover be stupid. It was his ability at what's actually happeningwas, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen nextthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=1914585577

|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?

|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Heather FawcettSion Rowlands|titlerating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Emily WildeSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's Encyclopaedia life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of Faeriesdoing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=Emily Wilde The Perfect Passion Company is an expert academic scholar on faerie lorea dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, operating as an alternative to write her life's workall the online apps in providing a more personal, the very first encyclopaedia of faeriestailored service. Whilst Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she is brilliant at research could come and speaking to faerieslook after the business, she as Ness is not so good with peopleplanning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village Katie is coming out of Hrafvsnika break up with a bad boyfriend, having somehow offended and so jumps at the village matriarchchance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, she is not sure what she has donebringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, nor how thanks to redeem herself 44 Scotland Street and put her final investigations for her book back on the right trackIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Enter Wendell BamblebyKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her dashingly very helpful (and rather handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly) neighbour, all charm and delightWilliam, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?lend a hand…|isbn=03565191201846976596

|isbn=18484584360811771741|title=Just the Nicest CoupleInstaKnits for Baby|author=Mary KubicaMelissa Leapman

|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's 'The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.InstaKnits for Baby''  gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire'Just variety. The projects are divided by the Nicest Coupletime they'' is ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scottprojects are attractive, modern and Nina and Jake Hayesuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The connection between the two Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and Lily covers high school algebrahis house gets trashed. The couples have mixed as Oh, and someone has delivered a foursome but really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's not possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a regular thingnice person. A really nice person. Christian So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a market research analyst and Jake new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wivesgood person. Lily hasn't said anything yetSpike is going to take care of Benny, but sheand will certainly take care of Benny's pregnant. She has enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesnwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge publics wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1914585402Adam Stower|title=Dashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F RossMurray and Bun

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=I reviewed David F RossMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's book [[Therea bad magician's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] cat, so his 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 regular back garden, but into a couple world of years back frightening adventure and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was. It was a gripping, emotionally wounding readto be honest, but he's turned up and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not he'll have lavished enough praise on it.to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=178563335XB0C47LV1PC|title=Sea DefencesFragility|author=Hilary TaylorMosby Woods|rating=54

|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird sheCan you make a 's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. ThelmaYo birthing person's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpejoke? And if you could, on is the Norfolk coast, question should you make it? Or is a lovely placethe question if you did, but Rachel would it land? The catch is struggling to develop a real bond with that the parish - and sheanswer for both could well be.... no. ''s in awe Fragility'' is set as the city of the vicarPortland, GailOregon, but then she's been doing cautiously begins to emerge from the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on restrictions imposed during the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Hadeer Elsbai1529431735|title=The Daughters of IzdiharWinter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= Drawing inspiration from EgyptIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'return all the more surprising. He'The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores d been exiled on the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against themdecade. Nehal The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, born into the upper class, wishes saying that she's ill and hasn't long to attend the Weaving Academy live. It's hard to learn feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to control her abilities his underwear and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have sent to a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of watery grave in the Daughters boot of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rightsstolen Ford Sierra. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is Is it a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, warning from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|isbn=0356520471Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Sarah Todd TaylorAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Spoonful The Glorious Race of SpyingMagical Beasts

|summary=[[Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for Trouble Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by Sarah Todd Taylor|Last time around]]visiting with him, Alice Eclair had to prove herself as a spy and as in the evening a master helper at all things French and fancy and fondant, as the only way to save the day involved being an expert baker dessert cafe his gran owns and icer on the French railwaysruns. HereEli lives with his lovely gran, we start on too – for there is a bateau-mouche generation missing in Paris, and even though the espionage isn't a complete success it proves to Alice and her handlers that things are afootfamily. And there will never be more feet than at the WorldA few short years ago, Eli's Fairparents were both lost to the titular race, reviving the huge expo that gave the city the Eiffel Tower and this time showing a globe-trotting adventure where all her interwar glories off entrants have to navigate the worldin the company of a magical beast. Once again Alice will have This has made the race anathema to present the front pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the world sole aim the prize of being a humble yet world-class cake decorator, while seeking out clues. At stake? Pioneering flight technology that magic at the end – the enemy just cannot be allowed only thing to smuggle out…possibly save his gran.|isbn=18399409720571382231

|authorisbn=Amanthi Harris178763681X|title=Beautiful PlaceKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= Padma, Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home countryresidential cookery school in Belgravia. This is He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a place she spent her formative yearsway of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. It is not a place she was born into, but Paul ''somehow'' got the one she thinks of as home. How she came to impression that he'd be at the Villaschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, how but it became her home, didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn' t expected was for this gentle and yet subtly violent novelsomeone to turn up dead. Padma's present fails to escape her past Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and much like everyone knows that the musical score of a film, police consider that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at person to be the Villaprime suspect.|isbn=1784631930

|author=Nigel BainesSarah Marsh|title=A Tricky Kind Sign of MagicHer Own|rating=43.5|genre=Emerging ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Cooper loves to perform magic tricksAfter 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. His father Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a magicianschool where she is taught to lip read, and named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooperbut physically restrained from signing. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenlyFrom here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to beusing a system called Visible Speech. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to himAt the same time, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going Bell is working on anymore!other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=14449602611035401614

|isbn=15420372391803816759|title=Death in HeelsThe Unravelling|author=Kitty MurphyWill Gibson

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinIt's drag scene, ''Death in Heels'' tells 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the story wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of Fi McKinnery adventure and her best friendto get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, Robynmaking life easier for many, who is about and riots start to debut as drag queen Mae Bspread. What is meant Finally, Joe gets to be a night do some real policing. In the aftermath of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to the stage rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to mock Mae Bbring her home. As if Joe isn't the night could not get any worseonly one trying to save Suki - Dylan, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi British superfan and tech nerd, is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet also on the drag community, and case. What went wrong? Did the Guards, accept system fail or was it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeper.hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|isbn=18004652701529421284|title=The Lensky ConnectionLaying Out the Bones|author=Conrad DelacroixKate Webb

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at It was one of those flash downpours that the Serafimov Cemetry British weather often delivers in St Petersburga heatwave. He's In a pallbearer for his elder brothergully, Timura human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, whose death was drug-relatedwho had disappeared nine years earlier. Valeri and TimurHe's father, Keto, is also d been a pallbearer known drug user and he's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: helearning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's determined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's deatht convinced. Within Geary was a matter of monthstownie, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? She's determined There are connections to expose any the suicide of Holly Gilbert and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safetytwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. To her, heLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's a good source. For him, it's a way cold cases to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possibleyou and me) investigate.

|isbn=13997022890571379559|title=A World The House of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)Broken Bricks|author=Louise PennyFiona Williams

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=After a harsh winter, the tiny Canadian village ''The House of Three Pines Broken Bricks'' is enjoying the arrival story of springfour people. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the Sûreté du Québecpassage of time, storms and floods. Gamache had offered help Her husband, Richard, struggles to a young woman after grow his vegetables, to complete the murder of her mother: he'd been less certain about her charismatic brotherdelivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. For JeanThey have twin boys -GuySonny and Max, it had always been the other way aroundrainbow twins. Now theySonny're both in the village and neither can fathom whats colouring reflects his mother's happeningJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Armand will soon find People don't believe that they're not just in Three Pines but in related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his home and in mother that she's his lifenanny.

|isbn=B0BHR8KWSK1529425867|title=DukkhaLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Martin HydeSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Sam wakes up chained in a basementIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He rails against his captor and the injustice 's not any of his imprisonment? Why? those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''Why?really'' But his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of course, he knows whyshell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Sam is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down and dirty life by going You might wonder if you're being introduced to a retreat and emerging as a neophyte Buddhist monkpolice procedural written for laughs. Recently returning to join the community in his old neighbourhood Well, he knew his past would be hard to escape but he hadnyou't imagined re not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it exploding into this new life in quite such a violent fashion's problematic.

|isbnauthor=B09XWSXSKYMosby Woods|title=Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne GrodzinskiA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the time. And time The West isn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. It dominant force it once was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all Nobody in the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3756228711|title=CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer|rating=4|genre=History|summary=''The history of the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.'' Author Hans Bodmer West is quite right about that. He has chosen sure how to tell us about mend this or even if mending it is the short, but explosive, history best course of the Control Data Company, CDCaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for whom he workedclimate action there. It's a fascinating tale, told A feeling that nobody is in a mixture of technological summary and wry anecdoteactual charge. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529356660|title=The Sanctuary|author=Emma Haughton|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It was the quiet which woke Zoey up - orImagine then, rather, the absence of the noise which there was a constant in New York. Here it was silent and the heat was overwhelming. When she looked out of the window all she could see was the desert. How did she get here? Zoey was house-sitting for Uncle Dan and his two Manx cats and she remembered that she'd been out man with Franny and Rocco last nightprecognition. She knew that she'd had quite a lot to drink but how could she have got to Imagine the desert from New York? She had no memory of getting on strategic advantage in this asset; 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 mind.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Golden|title=Road man who can tell you what will happen given any set of Bones|rating=3circumstances.5|genre=Horror|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across SiberiaThat man would be valuable, it's one of right? Perhaps the world's most notorious routesvaluable asset in history. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding itImagine then, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dustthat this man loses this ability. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted What would governments do to give too many people a lesson, get it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that'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 of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…?|isbn=1803361476B0C9SNG8R1