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|isbn=07603781340241636604|title=The First-Time GardenerTrading Game: Container Food GardeningA Confession|author=Pamela FarleyGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyAutobiography|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be were to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for bring up an image of a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the book you need. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow city banker in your own foodmind, what you're going unlikely to grow, what you'll grow it in (both containers think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and soil)his background is the East End, where you'll put these containershe was familiar with violence, how you'll water poverty and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshootinginjustice. There's also a good glossarywas no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. So, Stevenson is it any good?}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of uscan only envy. It is used as a way He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process thembe stupid. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'' It was his ability at what was, whether that is a home invaderessentially, a monster or a ghostcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is this turned into permanent employment as a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''trader.

|authorisbn=Amelia Estelle Dellos1035021803|title=Delilah RecoveredThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= We meet Dee at a point when her life isnIt't going as planned but things might, just might, be about s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to look the English country village where she grew up. Out She's back now because of work, about to lose a request for help from her flatbeloved aunt, Dee is up for an accountantCarole. Freya's job. But itformer mentor and Carole's not close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunterssay the least. She survives Arthur was the attack but reason why Freya had not unscathedbeen back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Witch Even though they were in business together as antique hunters? What on earth , she has that not felt able to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary womanbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, living an ordinary life. Slivers met and married James (on the rebound from the love of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her life, who was murdered) and things will never be the same...Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=B0BKYFDLLV

|isbn=0008404976AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Jane CaseyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It was because ''Opening up new ways of Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Closethinking about the shape of things to come.''

If I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a regular reader few decades of the [[Jane Caseytechnology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] youadvantageous to me but I'll have read m left with the feeling that sentence twice and wondered if it's a massive spoiler because there all getting away from me. Some of it is a delicious sexual chemistry between the two which seems very, very real- frankly - quite frightening. But (there's always a Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'butm reading someone who knows what they', isn't there?) Josh has a partner and he dotes on her son, even if re talking about or the relationship with Melissa can be a little rockylatest conspiracy theorist. As for Maeve, she's just come out of an abusive relationship which has left her more than I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a little uncertainway I could understand.

|author=Merryn GloverSunny Singh|title=The Hidden FiresHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=TravelThrillers |summary= It The Hotel Arcadia is always about a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the bookterrorists who are rampaging through, not the writerkilling everyone on site, but there are times when the author's hinterland is also Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the background hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the book and so it is necessary to understand that context, residents who are still alive in order to appreciate the book. Merryn Glover is of Australian parentagehotel, was born in Kathmanduhe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, grew up in the Annapurna and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotland. I can think keeps on venturing out of no-one better a combination her room to try to give us a re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence in the Cairngorms National Parkcapture what's happened through her photography. Merryn walks, not so much in Although they only ever talk over the shadow of Shepherdphone, but in their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her spirit. I think keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the two would have gotten along famouslyterrorists.|isbn=1846975751086154742X

|authorisbn=Alice M Ross1529153298|title=The Nowhere ThiefList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=At last there It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside townPrime Minister. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it(A woman? I mean, honestly... ) She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she has 's overheard that her father wants to move the ability to leave this worldfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worldsforeign place, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunderbest avoided. With eviction imminentFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, can Elsbeth nab and she'll do anything to actually generate custom at the shop? prevent that. Well yes, is She's not worried about the answer, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=1839943769dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=15295047751398524085|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Elsie Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her little brother David loved to go to the park and watch the red buses drive pastdaughter, Etty. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park are all worried but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David strangely - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at homehusband, Alec, is not. GraduallyShortly afterwards, David learned to stand upEtty and Greg, use find the bus for supportbody of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, and walk behind itin the river. Many decades later, Elsie brought It was an easy assumption for the bus, now damaged and rusted, police to the Repair Shop, hoping make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the experts guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there could make it so that her grandchildren could play 's little else they can do but get on with ittheir lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=18479418341035906708|title=Atomic HabitsDiva|author=James ClearDaisy Goodwin

|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=I've said this before We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but there are some books that you seek outshe was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, some books that you stumble across in December 1923 and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'Atomic Habits'' to make it more manageable in the States. is When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the last categoryNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Natasha FarrantChristopher Edge|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54

|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the author nickname of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk'The Black Hole'. Ravenwood is an old houseAll big movie fans, in the North they're looking forward to lots of Englandexciting films, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. many, many snacks! They are part of a complex, extended family arrangementHowever, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leothe movie starts, and Raffy they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is there with his mumvery different, and they are living together as a family. They have grown swept up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the placeinto an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure they lurch from his other two brothers one film genre to sell the property to a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? The children find themselves worrying not only about where Will they're going ever get back to live, but if they'll even be togetherthe cinema, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.to their real lives?|isbn=05713487851839942738

|author=Nick BrooksRachel Greenlaw|title=Promise BoysCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=When ''I can hear the principal (headmaster) song of Urban Promise Prep school the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is murderedone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, three boys find themselves called into they capture the police station as suspectsisland's leader and Mira's father. EachDesperate to save him from death, seeminglyMira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, has she sets off in search of a grudge family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of some description against Principal Moorethe smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and each could 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 there at a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of his murderother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. But who killed himLife was pretty much shut down and, and whyalong with it, and if any of all the boys are innocent, will many daily social interactions on which they be able to clear their names?depend so heavily.|isbn=10350031551736128426

|author=G K HollowayMatthew Tree|title=In the Shadows of CastlesWe'll Never Know

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary= We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and on the day chronic underachiever whose dreams of William being exceptional at any of Normandy's coronation as King his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of England. William's position is not secure and the new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is importantself confidence. And William is right So Tim applied himself to worry. While the previous kinghis studies, Harold, is dead cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and the likelihood of more pitched battles is over, the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to recognise a new overlordset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1800422466B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=0008506337A G Slatter|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Georgina MooreBriar Book of the Dead

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that RichardThere's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle part of Wight. Margo did go me that wants to Oxford and went on keep this just to become a well-respected journalistmyself for however long I can. The couple had three children: RachelThis secret magic of my own, all mine, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wightlast. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able I just want to leave him in chargeenjoy it for a while.''.

Then Richard Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left them, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1529900360|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the start help of her maternity leave when there is a brutalpsychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedinwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Suddenly She knew that the involvement was something that the man she finds herself embroiled loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the hunt for swimming pool of a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfremote property in Bel Air. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let He was the case go heir to an Italian shoe empire and she starts is married to follow every thread to uncover whatan extremely rich man and it's actually happening, and not the increasingly disturbing worry Italian. But which of just what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577them was the primary target?

|isbn=15291259601529395224|title=Unnatural HistoryLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Jonathan KellermanSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn 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 life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the 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=Donny Klement DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a photographerman armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Well, it was Adonis, actually Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but Donny had stuck unless evidence came to light that suggested that he got Danny but whichever - it's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bedmight have planned to murder the man. Three shots were placed neatly through his heartNow he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The PAPerfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, Mel Gornicktailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is distraught and it falls planning to psychologist Alex Delaware take a trip to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as he tries Canada to establish what's happenedget away for a while. Donny had just finished Katie is coming out of a series of photographs called ''The Wishers''break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. He'd taken eight homeless people off And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the streets and asked them what they'd really like Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to becharm. They were then dressed up as their fantasyKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, photographed and sent on their way with there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a generous gift in dollars.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson0811771741|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver StreetInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=JaydenMelissa Leapman's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns collection of the world, for exampleknits from toys to blankets. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might Some will be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they quick knits - others are never 'out there' themselves, exploring of the outside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's cousinlong, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many cosy afternoons in front of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks shefire's seen on a bit of local footagevariety. The crew of projects are divided by the boattime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, including a living gargoylefive to ten hours, are tasked with saving the rare critters – ten to twenty hours and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join inmore than twenty hours. Dare they side with Leila, All the woman on boardprojects are attractive, modern and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=0241573483useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1913839656Dean Koontz|title=Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey DeeThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=For SharingParanormal|summary=Todd was excited about spending the weekend with Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his grandmotherfiancee, not least because she made the best beetle juiceand his house gets trashed. He packed two pairs of dungarees Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his favourite hat home, and then gathered together it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his button collection house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to show his grandmotherdeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. She had promised to take him to So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted delivery to make his house is a new friendsfriend, 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 good person. At homeSpike is going to take care of Benny, his only friend was his mum and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1787301036Adam Stower|title=What July Knew|author=Emily KochMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's Murray is supposed to be a carefulhumble, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hoopertidy and friendly cat, one who is not prepared able to discuss the death of his wifesleep and eat and eat and sleep and, July's motherwell, and any hint that whatever takes his fancy next of the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a Lessontwo. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and But he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. Julya bad magician's teacher is concerned cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and brings up the possibility of abuse with catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the head regular back garden, but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to the schoolbe honest, has but he's turned up and he not? The playground wouldn't ll have been resurfaced but for him.to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Lucy AsheB0C47LV1PC|title=Clara and OliviaFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=The year Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is 1933. The placethe question should you make it? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on Or is the outside but notquestion if you did, we learn, on would it land? The catch is that the insideanswer for both could well be... And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancerno. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that  ''je ne sais quoiFragility''is set as the city of Portland, that don't come Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|isbn=0861544080restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=00084544931529431735|title=All the Dangerous ThingsThe Winter Visitor|author=Stacy WillinghamJames Henry|rating=4.5

|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnIt't really slept for a year - wells February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, apart from which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a momentdecade. ItThe return has come about because he's now had a year since her son, Mason, was stolen letter from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt ex-wife, saying that she heard nothing 's ill and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping inhasn't long to live. In that year sheIt's done everything she could hard to raise awareness about the case. She does interviews and feel any sympathy when we meet herHopkins is abducted, she's just been stripped to his underwear and sent to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentationwatery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. On the plane back, she's approached by Is it a warning from a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do Spanish gang or a podcast and get problem closer to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.home?

|author=Jeremy Dronfield Alex Bell and David Ziggy GreeneTim McDonagh|title=Fritz and KurtThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary=We Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurthim, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping evening a helper at the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir dessert cafe his gran owns and at a vocational schoolruns. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as there is a light switchgeneration missing in the family. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to HitlerA few short years ago, Eli's willparents were both lost to the titular race, and instead of having a national vote globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to keep navigate the Nazis out, invite them world in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups company of Jewsa magical beast. These in their turn leave This has made the race anathema to the younger Kurt pair – but when a bad incident at home with his mother and sisters anxious the eatery leads to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the USa confession from gran, while Fritz and Eli knows his father are, unknown initially only hope is to dare to each otherenter what he most hates, packed off on with the same train to Buchenwald and sole aim the stone quarry there. And us wondering how prize of magic at the titular event for end – the adult variant of all this could come about…only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=024156574X0571382231

|isbn=1529421241178763681X|title=Stay BuriedKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Kate WebbOrlando Murrin|rating=54

|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that itChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's actually t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a cold case unit way of getting both men and there are just two of them doing the jobwomen to do what he wanted. LockyerPaul 's not unduly worried, though although he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: shesomehow''s probably capable of something better. It was a bit of a shock when got the impression that he got 'd be at the phone call from Hedy Lambert: sheschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder t turn out that way. The teaching - and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years agothe problems - are all his own. SheThe one thing he hadn's keen t expected was for someone to see him turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and to tell him everyone knows that the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out police consider that person to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesthe prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=B0BQXSYYTFSarah Marsh|title=Just Looking|author=Matthew TreeA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Dystopian General Fiction|summary=It was the summer After a bout of 2035 and on scarlet fever as a cruise ship in Marseilleschild, Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and the end Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found silence, everything about her life changes. Living in the same sentence by a man! He's watching time when the tornado - they're more common in Europe these days - that's keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierreuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a French journalist in his thirtiesschool where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. He writes for a relatively new paperFrom here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' deaf and he's interesting if using a little wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France' and 'the French'system called Visible Speech. His partnerAt the same time, HelenBell is working on other inventions and ideas, who's English and Jewish, keeps him Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in check to some extenta complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=057137493X1803816759|title=The Other HalfUnravelling|author=Charlotte VassellWill Gibson|rating=54|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It''The room was full 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 some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the sort of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should knowAI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing.'' ''The Other Half'' is In the story aftermath of two men, both with what looks like the same surname. Rupert Beauchamp rioting global pop star Suki is the heir to a baronetcy kidnapped and his thirtieth birthday party Joe is a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Townassigned to bring her home. Think Bollinger and cocaine. His surname is pronounced 'BeechamJoe isn'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with t the Metropolitan police and is bionly one trying to save Suki -racial. His surname is pronounced as you see it. The two encounter each other when CaiusDylan, out for a runBritish superfan and tech nerd, stumbles across is also on the body of Clemmie O'Hara, Rupertcase. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's girlfriend. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under a bush.kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1529421284|title=White RiotLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics there's always the danger It was one of making it too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes those flash downpours that don't age well or properly capture the spirit of the momentBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. It takes In a gully, a truly talented writer human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be able to capture the zeitgeist of 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 particular event or era simple case of political historymisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Austerity Britain, the student riots Geary was a townie, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much of what is, and has been, written in was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the immediate aftermath suicide of these phenomena has been proven by time Holly Gilbert and to be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately two other deaths which were not particularly powerful or incisiveconsidered suspicious at the time. Inevitably ( Lockyer and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction DC Gemma Broad of this nature), the best writing about current political events is Major Crimes Review Unit (that which is written when the events in question are no longer current 's cold cases to you and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective viewme) investigate.|isbn= 1529423376

|authorisbn=Heather Fawcett0571379559|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia The House of FaeriesBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde ''The House of Broken Bricks'' 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 story of faeriesfour people. Whilst Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeriesmight be happier there, but instead, she is not so good with peoplelives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. So when she finds herself farInsubstantial as it might look, far North in it's stood the small village passage of Hrafvsniktime, storms and floods. Her husband, having somehow offended the village matriarchRichard, she is not sure what she has donestruggles to grow his vegetables, nor how to redeem herself complete the delivery rounds - and put her final investigations for her book back on the right trackto bring in sufficient money. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome They have twin boys - Sonny and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedlyMax, all charm and delightthe rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much to Emilyless twins and there's frustration. But why an assumption when Max is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on out with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120his mother that she's his nanny.

|isbn=18484584361529425867|title=Just the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone Lost and Never Found (A D I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1914585402|title=Dashboard Elvis is DeadWilkins Mystery)|author=David F RossSimon Mason

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I reviewed David F RossWilkins. 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's book [[Therenot any of those things. He's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|Therewhite, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of years back shell suits and remember trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it wasintroduced to a police procedural written for laughs. It was a gripping Well, emotionally wounding read, and rereading my review you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it's problematic.

|isbnauthor=178563335XMosby Woods|title=Sea Defences|author=Hilary TaylorA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54

|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird sheThe West isn's a trainee vicar, sitting t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need the West is quite sure how to pick mend this or even if mending it is the children upbest course of action. Governments are flailing. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, JamieA war here, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishionerpush for climate action there. Thelma's daughter-A feeling that nobody is in-law won't let her see her grandsonactual charge. HolthorpeImagine then, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop there was a real bond man with precognition. Imagine the parish - and she's strategic advantage in awe this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of the vicarcircumstances. That man would be valuable, Gail, but then she's been doing right? Perhaps the job for more than thirty yearsmost valuable asset in history. Rachel and Christopher hoped Imagine then, that a walk on the beach this man loses this ability. What would governments do them some good - to get it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1