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|authorisbn=Emily Critchley0241636604|title=One Puzzling AfternoonThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move If you were to another house and bring Edie to live with his familyup an image of a city banker in your mind, as Edie is starting you're unlikely to lose her memorythink of someone like Gary Stevenson. However, Edie A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is tormented by the memory of her childhood friendEast End, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years agowhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and the worry that there injustice. There was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the thing that reveals the truth London School of what happened all that time agoEconomics. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of memories coming back us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to herbe stupid. And yet as she remembers the pastIt was his ability at what was, essentially, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day lifea card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her moveEventually, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)1035021803|title=Thirty Days of DarknessThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. Sorry to leave her bottles She's back now because of red wine behind her a request for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes help from her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fictionbeloved aunt, saying heCarole. Freya's populist trash former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and only writing what anyone could writethe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Cue Arthur was the bet that reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she cannot live up to that accusationfeels, let her down badly. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to Iceland, where be near the man or pursue the profession she is put up for a wintry month away from it allloved. Just on After the point of despairing – about her writingsplit, she worked in a cafe, about met and married James (on the people and rebound from the lack love of stimulus for her plotlife, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1804545600AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The MonkAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Tim SullivanBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=The body in ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped shape of things to a chair and dumped in a ditchcome. He'd been savagely beaten. It's a while before D S George Cross and the Major Crime Unit establish  I've heard it said that this 'technology' is Father Dominicwhat happens after you're eighteen. He'd Well, I must confess that there have been missing for more than a few days and certainly hadndecades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what't asked permission s advantageous to leave his abbey. As me but I'm left with the team gradually unpick the monkfeeling that it's past all getting away from me. Some of it becomes clear that he'd been wellis - frankly -loved as an investment bankerquite frightening. Of course, brother, neighbour I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and friendend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faithI needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand. Why would someone savagely murder him?

|author=Lauren BravoSunny Singh|title=PrelovedHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionThrillers |summary= Gwen The Hotel Arcadia is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number luxury hotel in an unnamed city that starts with has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a four wartime photographer and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-fortyAbhi, the hotel manager. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the toss - Gwen finds herself having hotel, he forms a bit bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of a mid-life crisisher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is Although they only ever talk over the time phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to take back help her life'keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1398510629086154742X

|authorisbn=Cath Howe1529153298|title=My Life on FireThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=RenIt's family home 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is destroyed in a firePrime Minister. She(A woman? I mean, her parents, and her little brother lose everythinghonestly... ) She doesn't s not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have any of her clothesbeen disappearing. Well, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboardthey've been murdered, and now she is living at her grandmotherbut to have 'disappeared's house where they candoesn't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eatsound quite so frightening. When Miv's upset because she goes back 's overheard that her father wants to school she discovers that move the class are doing family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a special art projectfrightening, creating boxes of their livesforeign place, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a personbest avoided. But Ren has nothing to put in a boxFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and so she finds herself starting 'll do anything to steal thingsprevent that. Small things, things She's not worried about the dangers or that people might not really miss, not when they have so much alreadyher Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=1839942835

|isbn=00085170101398524085|title=Death Under a Little SkyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Stig AbellNicci French

|summary=The marriage had run its courseCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadn't ended in miscarriages Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but no one else was involved - certainly strangely - her husband, Alec, is not on Jake. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's side father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he didncouldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think there of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was for Faye eitherthirteen. They were still polite Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to each other and wished each other well - but didn't wish Callas' to remain married. The perfect solution arrived make it more manageable in the form of a legacy from Jake's Uncle ArthurStates. He'd been left a secluded property When she was back in the hamlet of Caelum Parvum Athens - Little Sky supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and enough money to live there without the need to workmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Jennifer SaintChristopher Edge|title=AtalantaBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they'I was re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as worthy the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as any they lurch from one of them. I would film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get on board that shipback to the cinema, I vowedand to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3. 5|genre=Teens|summary=''I would take my place, not just in can hear the name song of the goddesssea. It was for The call of the deep, the sake of answering beat in my name, tooheart. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero.

Abandoned at birth for being born Rosevear, a daughter rather than a sonremote and partially forgotten island, Atalanta is raised under survives on luring ships into the protective eye of rocks and plundering the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntresswrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who longs for adventureswim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. When But when the opportunity comes – Council Watch lays a trap to join end the wrecking, they capture the Argonautsisland's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a fierce band bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of warriorsa family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, descendent as her journey takes her from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the chance to fight in Artemissmuggler' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through its territory, Atalanta Mira must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her undoinghome and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=14722921540008664730

|isbnauthor=152915118XJames Sherwood Metts|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny JacksonPlanet Storyland

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=''Pineapple Street'' is Things have been a bit sticky for the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and GeorgianaEarthlings. Darley AI and George are sisters automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and Sasha is married other tasks that took time to their brother Cordaccomplish. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if Just as they'd like were beginning to get used to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated all this technological change and downsized starting to another propertythink of other, a street or so awaynew ways to spend time, which they ownalong came an awful pandemic. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple StreetLife was pretty much shut down and, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominallyalong with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it depend so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=0008551278Matthew Tree|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterWe'll Never Know

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Affi Smith was snatched Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from the bottom of Fyrishhis father, where she'd been doing her training. She'd been a bit drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - and it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squad. That's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you see, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku being exceptional at the age any of twelve. She was rescued when she was carrying a kilo his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of drugs and three years later she's happy with her foster familyself confidence. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sisterSo Tim applied himself to his studies, Melodi is in a children's home in Tirana - cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and anyone could get to herset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Emily TeshA G Slatter|title=Some Desperate GloryThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionFantasy|summary=''While EarthThere's children livea part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, the enemy shall fear usall mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''

Following Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the destruction protection of the EarthBriar's, amongst a rare number family of survivorswitches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – Ellie Briar is the home of the last scraps of humanity – first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and trained relentlessly to avenge as such since she was young, her people 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 world that should have been hersBriar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. All As challenges come her lifeway left, she has been conditioned 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 fall in lineanother, Ellie must decide who to fulfil her duty trust and ensure that humanity perseveresdetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=03565218341803364548

|isbn=08615440561529900360|title=Twin TruthsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jacqueline SutherlandJonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Belle and DavidIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's twin daughters are just coming 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 end help of their first term at universitya psychologist only worked for a while. Kit's been at Bristol and JessFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who 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, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in ExeterBel Air. ItHe was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each otherItalian. Belle can't wait to have But which of them all to herself for was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a whileVet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kitfollow 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. Ivo's apparently 'older': Before long, hewas at Liverpool University. It hadn's twentyt -four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope as with thatso many students - been his dream since he was a child. And theyIf anything, he'll d wanted to be sharing a bedroomprofessional footballer.

|isbn=17856334570861541774|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges A Nye of England by Electric CarPheasants|author=Clive WilkinsonSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=TravelCrime|summary=Clive Wilkinson DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a history of travelling by unconventional means 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 man armed with a preference for slow travelknife - and he killed a Ghurka. As Initially, he neared his eightieth birthday the idea faced a charge of exploring manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageousman. In fact, it should Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a pleasant holiday for Clive diplomatic incident and his wife, Joan, shouldnwouldn't it?help Danny at all.

|author=Frederic SeagerAlexander McCall Smith|title= Jesus, the Man and the Myth: A Jewish Reading of the New TestamentThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre= Spirituality and ReligionGeneral Fiction|summary= I was brought up The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a family where religion played little or no partmore personal, tailored service. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and Welsh Methodist on look after the otherbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, nobody really discussed religion and so jumps at the adults around me ranged chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from lapsed Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to agnostic an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to atheist44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Other than the odd church wedding Katie has no experience in running a business, or baptism or the school nativity playin match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, I didnand there't think too much about faith or what people did or didn't believe.s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=B092BWWG9Y1846976596

|isbn=05713709770811771741|title=The Lock-UpInstaKnits for Baby|author=John BanvilleMelissa Leapman

|genre=Crime (Historical)Crafts|summary=ItMelissa Leapman's six months since ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the dramatic events which we read about 'long, cosy afternoons in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebefront of the fire' variety. The worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficultthan twenty hours. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when All the body of a youngprojects are attractive, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found in a lock-upmodern and useable. At first, it looked as though sheI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide's me being picky.

|author=Julia BartzDean Koontz|title=The Writing RetreatBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary= Roza ValloBenny is having a terrifically bad day. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Writers want Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to be herhis home, agents want to represent her. Sheand it's something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that started with her breakthrough novelhas trashed his house! The thing is, published when she was barely Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out of childhood. Alexthat the delivery to his house is a new friend, a writer-slash-editorbad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is more than clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a little obsessed with Rozagood person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and is stunned whenwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, following and Harper (a series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of her month-long writerswaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny' retreats wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=08615444391662500491

|author=Patrick Ness and Tea BendixAdam Stower|title=Different for BoysMurray and Bun

|genre=Teens Confident Readers |summary=Ant Murray is in Year Eleven at quite supposed to be a standard schoolhumble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is surprised able to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructuredsleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, so whatever takes his desk is one fancy next of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As theyBut he's a bad magician're all fired ups cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, straining at and the leash only a single-sex school catflap they both use can formchuck them out, not into the talk in class regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and out often turns to sexwhiffs. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score isThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationshiptroll hunter is expected – well, a secret onemuch bigger than Murray was, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced'to be honest, but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who turned up and he's been having the relationship and the sex with.ll have to do…|isbn=15295094910008561249

|authorisbn=M R CareyB0C47LV1PC|title=Infinity GateFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary= ICan you make a 'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a genre I dislike – nothing of the sort. My standards are high precisely because itYo birthing person's a hard genre to get right – and when it's badjoke? And if you could, is the question should you make it's often terrible. But ? Or is the premise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: question if you did, would it was done land? The catch is that the answer for both could well, it'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise... no.|isbn=0356518043''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=13985095821529431735|title=The FavourWinter Visitor|author=Nicci FrenchJames Henry

|summary=It was 2 am's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, not long after A levels, when which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the car crash happened. It would cause problems for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he and Jude Winter were togethermore surprising. She was utterly driven by her determination to go to medical school. Liam was He'd been exiled on the reverseCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. He just acted The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she'as if life just rolled him over s ill and carried him along'hasn't long to live. A bit of weed hereIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a few drinks there: watery grave in the legal effects boot of the car crash really didn't worry him at alla stolen Ford Sierra. The relationship broke up soon after that - Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any more.a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=0857051741Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Sins Glorious Race of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only Eli is a few weeks to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate busy lad – by day an apprentice in the case of a body found wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a freezer helper at the home of a deceased alcoholicdessert cafe his gran owns and runs. The problem Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is that the case has long passed the statute of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace generation missing in 1962. He was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Stromfamily. Rebecka wants nothing A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to do with the titular race, a fiftyglobe-year-old case on which she can take no action: trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the problem is that this is company of a dying man's wishmagical beast. The situation changes This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkaribad 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 sole aim the prize of magic at the dead alcoholic, was also murderedend – the only thing to possibly save his gran. Is there a connection between the two deaths?|isbn=0571382231

|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni178763681X|title=Her Deadly GameKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=54

|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the lifeChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's work t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due getting both men and women to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clientsdo what he wanted. Along with an indisputable talent for Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the lawschool to assist Paul, Patsy also has who had a gift for drinking himself to oblivion broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and inevitably the latter problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was beginning for someone to overshadow the formerturn up dead. Enter Keera DugganUnfortunately, former competitive chess prodigy he was the person who discovered the body and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in everyone knows that the hideous position of asking her father for a job at police consider that person to be the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southprime suspect.|isbn=1662500181

|author= Rob KeeleySarah Marsh|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other StoriesA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley 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 time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is back with sent to a return 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 short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new talesdeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, each as fun to read as his previous offeringsand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn= B0BVW69N1G1035401614

|authorisbn= Michael Grothaus1803816759|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre= Literary Science Fiction|summary= It''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 fearing then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and having it come riots start to pass are two different thingsspread. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happenFinally, or we can take steps Joe gets to change itdo some real policing.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around In the question aftermath of identity the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and acceptanceJoe is assigned to bring her home. Of what it means Joe isn't the only one trying to be human. Of what is real save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and what tech nerd, is artificial, and whether also on the case. What went wrong? Did the development of technology system fail or was it hacked? And how is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564XSuki's kidnapping connected?

|isbn=B09BLBP3P81529421284|title=Neville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940Laying Out the Bones|author=Frederic SeagerKate Webb

|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=Received wisdom and simplified narrative It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often lead delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to misconceptions about history. One such is the scrubbing from surface and forensic testing proved the popular imagination of the early days of World War II from 1939-40body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known as the ''Phoney War'drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler Geary was a townie, war breaking so what was he doing out, on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and Churchill coming in to save two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the daytime. Very little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections Lockyer and yet, as Frederic Seager argues in this book, it was DC Gemma Broad of vital significance in how the war played outMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.

|isbn=07603781340571379559|title=The First-Time Gardener: Container Food GardeningHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Pamela FarleyFiona Williams

|genre=Home and FamilyLiterary Fiction|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this The House of Broken Bricks'' is the book you needstory of four people. ItTess Hembry's comprehensiveroots are in Jamaica: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own foodtemperamentally she might be happier there, what you're going to growbut instead, what you'll grow it she lives in (both containers and soil)the house on the riverbank, where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part built of the book with a handy section on troubleshootingbroken bricks. ThereInsubstantial as it might look, it's also a good glossarystood the passage of time, storms and floods. SoHer husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, 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 us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions complete the delivery rounds - and how we as humans react and process themto bring in sufficient money. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible They have twin boys - Sonny andMax, by the end of the story, beatablerainbow twins. Eric LaRocca Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don'The Trees Grew Because I Bled Theret believe that they're related, much less twins and there' s an assumption when Max is not like out with his mother that. It is 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'she's his nanny.

|authorisbn=Amelia Estelle Dellos1529425867|title=Delilah Recovered|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. But it's not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her Lost and things will never be the same....|isbn=B0BKYFDLLV}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008404976|title=The Close Never Found (DS Maeve KerriganA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Jane CaseySimon Mason|rating=4.5

|summary=It was because In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Closefather of Ryan, is not. If you He're a regular reader s not any of the [[Jane Caseythose things. He's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read that sentence twice and wondered if it's a massive spoiler because there is white, originated from a delicious sexual chemistry between the two which seems verytrailer park, very real. But barely educated (therereading's always a not ''butreally', isn't there?his thing) Josh has a partner and he dotes on her son, even his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if the relationship with Melissa can be you're being introduced to a little rockypolice procedural written for laughs. As for MaeveWell, sheyou's re not. The two men are just come out different sides of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertainthe same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|author=Merryn GloverMosby Woods|title=The Hidden FiresA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=TravelLiterary Fiction|summary= It is always about The West isn't the book, not dominant force it once was. Nobody in the writer, but there are times when the author's hinterland West is also the background quite sure how to the book and so mend this or even if mending it is necessary to understand the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that context, nobody is in order to appreciate the bookactual charge. Merryn Glover is of Australian parentageImagine then, there was born in Kathmandu, grew up in a man with precognition. Imagine the Annapurna and Himalayan and now lives strategic advantage in Badenoch in Scotland. I this asset; a man who can think tell you what will happen given any set of no-one better a combination to give us a re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the first Writer in Residence most valuable asset in the Cairngorms National Parkhistory. Merryn walksImagine then, not so much in the shadow of Shepherd, but in her spiritthat this man loses this ability. I think the two What would have gotten along famously.governments do to get it back?|isbn=1846975751B0C9SNG8R1