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<!{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}

|isbn=17863323881786482126|title=The First Day of SpringJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Nancy TuckerElly Griffiths

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy- and five 'luxury'The First Day apartments - when they discovered the bones of Spring'' was one such occasiona child beneath a doorway. The writing is superb and completely compellingThere was no skull. The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you and won't let go. So, what's the problemWas this a ritual killing or murder? WellInevitably, the problem is Chrissie, the main characterDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. When we first meet her sheIt's just eight years olddifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - is pregnant with his child as a two-year-old boy. She's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized upresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when Her condition will Steven come backbe obvious before long, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman0008551324|title=The Disappearing ActDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the cusp of successpolice. Great success Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. If But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the rumours are true, award season police where the body of a missing person is going to treat her well, acknowledging her buried and who was responsible for her latest, critically acclaimed productiondeath. She's going places but so This person, unfortunatelyhe promises, is her partnersomeone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And the places what he's going take him towards lies, deceit and a pretty young thing in wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the form remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new co-star. ItDeputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's a good time for Mia even prepared to escape, do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and pilot season in LA provides just the excuseanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1471189783

|authorisbn= Christophe Medler0008405026|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a secret plan (codeIt's sixteen years since nine-year-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer of 1642night. As She was never found and the investigation ground to a loyal servant of the Kinghalt. Now, her mother, Helena, and Head of the Secret Serviceher father are dead in their bed. Initially, it is Robertlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's duty to uncover something about the details positioning of the plan bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and follow the clues her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to uncover one of be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the most guarded secrets explanation lies in history—especially since the plot could affect the KingRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ

|authorisbn=Tasha Suri0571379877|title=The Jasmine ThroneKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= On the night of her sacred burningEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Princess Malini defies her brother Robert and refuses to step on to the pyreStanza. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with Robert's a community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waterstheatre director. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown He's also self-obsessed, demanding, decaying ruinhandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone Edward has been in love with magicStanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Instead Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of reporting her for such them kissing in a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservantdark passageway.|isbn=0356515648

|isbnauthor=B088YWF5BCJo Callaghan|title=The Lies We Tell|author=Jane CorryLeave No Trace

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up When a man is found crucified on the top of a council estate hill in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to have been a lovingthe case alongside her sidekick, stable familythe AI detective Lock. When we first meet her, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, whoIt's nearly sixteentheir first live case together, hasn't come home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in byhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. Her husband, TomBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is fast asleep: suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they're moving house be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the morning but he's still going to be going to work case and he needs his sleep. He wakes, thoughpotentially, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someone.out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Joseph Knox1399613073|title=True Crime StoryMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary= Joseph KnoxOlivia, known Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waitsa quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, has created which is a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Split into four parts, the reader Anjali is taken through the life and disappearance free spirit of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends group and professionals, such as the policeshe becomes a GP. The various accounts help the reader get When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know Zoe, who suffered the tragedy or at least the Zoe she presented to othersconsequences. However, Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shockedthree friends. This time, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricatedit's their teenage children who are involved. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova0241636604|title=No, No, No!The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer If you were to bring up an image of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. ''Nocity banker in your mind, No, No!'you' re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is based around the simplest text imaginable. ''NoEast End, nowhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no! Okayposh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, okay. Yesessentially, you maya card game which got him an internship with Citibank.'' That's it! But, like all the best picture books Eventually, this tiny snippet of text is turned into permanent employment as a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outsidetrader.|isbn=1638820457

|authorisbn=Monica Connell1035021803|title=Against a Peacock SkyThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=TravelCrime|summary= Monica Connell went It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I think it is important to know that. She went on a grant-supported trip, with a relatively specific objectiveEnglish country village where she grew up. She wasn't s back now because of a hippy wanderer looking request for Shangri-lahelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. She wasn Freya't a mere tourist passing through. She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these people s former mentor and how they lived. She also wentCarole's close friend, presumablyArthur Crockleford, with is dead and the academic discipline of how to find these things outcircumstances seem suspicious, how to organise them in her mind, how say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to "understand" them in the context of village: Arthur, she feels, let her own paradigmsdown badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, and how she has not felt able to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of be near the experience after man or pursue the eventprofession she loved. Fortunately After the split, she also went with worked in a sense of open-ness and curiosity and a willingness to muck-incafe, to break her own rules met and to truly connect with married James (on the rebound from the people love of the village where she hauled upher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1780600429

|isbn=1409181669AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The MaidensAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Alex MichaelidesBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceedcome.'' Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. SheI've heard it said that 'technology'd been brutally stabbed and Marianais what happens after you's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distressre eighteen. Tara had Well, I must confess that there have been her best friend and she was struggling to copemore than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. Mariana wasnI't ve kept up reasonably well with what''entirely'' happy about having s advantageous to go to Cambridge, me but she caught I'm left with the first fast train from Kingfeeling that it's Crossall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Mariana Of course, I could research the possibilities and Zoe were close the probabilities and had been made all end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the more so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierlatest conspiracy theorist. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother I needed people I knew I could trust and Mariana's sister, Elizawho could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Maisie ChanSunny Singh|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Danny The Hotel Arcadia is eleven years old, and what he really, really loves to do is drawa luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds Hiding from the words. Danny's dadterrorists who are rampaging through, however, wants Danny to concentrate killing everyone on his mathssite, and forget about the drawingthere is Sam, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own roomwartime photographer and Abhi, where he can draw in secret and in peacethe hotel manager. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for himthe residents who are still alive in the hotel, and this surprise turns out he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with themcowed by events, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping keeps on the top bunk venturing out of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing room to try to capture what's happened through her around the townphotography. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situationAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and then he even has a falling out with Ravi..they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X086154742X

|authorisbn=Terry Miles1529153298|title=RabbitsThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=Welcome to the world of The GameIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Or should that be the game (A woman? I mean, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this bookhonestly... It) She's not what's worrying Miv's also called Rabbitsfamily, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knowsthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structurethey've been murdered, and but to the average person no obvious entry pointhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. A bit like Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the game of life thenfamily 'Down South'. Yes When you're from Yorkshire, this Down South is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our herofrightening, Kforeign place, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possiblebest avoided. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game For Miv, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boardsmove would mean leaving her best friend, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar placesSharon, and are still very short. However this time itshe's differentll do anything to prevent that. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it She's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what not worried about the game is doing, if itdangers or that her Mum's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only stopped talking - to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed..anyone.|isbn=1529016932

|authorisbn=C J Carey1398524085|title=WidowlandHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's April 1953fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to LondonOllie and her daughter, parading around a bitEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wifeAlec, Queen Wallisis not. For yesShortly afterwards, Britain caved in Etty and Greg, find the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didnbody of Greg't happen as we know its father, and we are now a protectorate – wellDuncan Ackerley, we share enough of in the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''river. But this is most certainly a different Britain, It was an easy assumption for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down police to the childless, the husbandless make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the widowsguilt. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, The Salter children are not every book convinced but there's little else they can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just do but get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, on with their potential to spoil Hitler's visitlives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=152941198X

|authorisbn=Louise Beech1035906708|title=This Is How We Are HumanDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5

|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother We tend to her sonthink of Maria Callas as Greek, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wantswas born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Sebastian has decided that Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed itto 'Callas's time for him to have sexmake it more manageable in the States. But as an autistic 20 year When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice -oldshe was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, that's easier said than done. And it's starting to cause them both problemsJackie. |isbn=1913193713

|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LChristopher Edge|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker BittickBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Meet Bosner, or, to give him Lucas and his full titlefriends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, Petty Officer Third Class Bosner. We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely a hint place that he had has the nickname of 'SecretaryThe Black Hole' at one point. HeAll big movie fans, they's simply Bosner re looking forward to one lots of exciting films, and all. many, many snacks! When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helosHowever, as the movie starts, they were called) at a naval establishmentvery 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. The hours could be long and he was often working nights but at But as they lurch from one film genre to the age of twenty-onenext, there was always a way can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to work some fun (think drinking the cinema, and eating) into his day.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Hannah WhittenRachel Greenlaw|title=For the WolfCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=In Red's family, 'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the first daughter becomes queendeep, and the second daughter becomes a sacrificeanswering beat in my heart. To Red's misfortune' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, she is the second daughter. Sent alone survives on luring ships into the woods with nothing but rocks and plundering the cape on wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her back, Red knows what is one of the seven who swim out to expect: survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within . But when the woods is Council Watch lays a wolftrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is the one who will decide the fate secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, family secret that lies buried deep in the monsters he keeps contained sea. With only nine days to the woods will be releasedunearth what might save her father, and as her journey takes her from the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so watched streets of foreign islands to the stories go. But when Red enters heart of the woodssmuggler's territory, expecting Mira must be determined to stop at nothing more than to be killed within save the future of her home and the hour, ones she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a manholds most dear.|isbn=03565163690008664730

|author=M G LeonardJames Sherwood Metts|title=TwitchPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=Twitch is Things have been a boy who loves birdsbit sticky for the Earthlings. He keeps pigeons at home, AI and chickensautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His other tasks that took time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to that of his time in schoolaccomplish. But things are about Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change for Twitch in all aspects and starting to think of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the runother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and , along with it's possible that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, all the place where Twitch has his secret hide and that he knows like the back of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mystery, and find the missing millions?many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=14063893741736128426

|isbnauthor=1838853804Matthew Tree|title=The Cursed GirlsWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= 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 his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=Caro RamsayA G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=Megan Melvick'' There's earliest memory is a part of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down me that wants to keep this just to the pondmyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, only at last. I just want to find that heenjoy it for a while.'d hanged himself. Twenty years later she's back home again and this time  Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the occasion is no less sad. SheBriar's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, a family of witches who is dying of anorexiaprotect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. As Though she dieshas always wished for magic, Melissa whispers 'sorry' Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to Megan but what did be born into her family for generations and as such since she mean? There were lots of thingswas young, minor her training as a steward revolved around letters and major crueltiesadministration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissathe town's husbandleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, Jagoright and centre, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem Ellie uncovers the rare ability to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a cursemaelstrom of chaos. In addition Reeling from one family secret to Melissa's health problemsanother, Megan was deaf Ellie must decide who to trust and their motherdetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, Betheverything they have sacrificed to survive, had left suddenly three years beforeis under threat. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=02414001201529900360|title=The Girl Who DiedGhost Orchid|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Una 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 not thriving in Reykjavik: reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then sheRobin, Delaware'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teachers partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was thirty years old and money was tightsomething that the man she loved needed. Her friend, SaraThe next case did look simple, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsulathough. There Two lovers were only ten people murdered in the village but swimming pool of a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation providedremote property in Bel Air. Una He was the only applicant heir to an Italian shoe empire and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik is married to an extremely rich man and, hopefully, save some money over it's not the winter Italian. But which her contract covered.of them was the primary target?

|isbn=18469757191529395224|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Denzil MeyrickSion Rowlands

|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward placesSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. But thatHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn's Londont want to follow in his footsteps, isn't it? Whatparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's happening in Kinloch? life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley vet and his colleaguewas convinced this was the job for him. Before long, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight awayhe was at Liverpool University. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the plane were dead before take offhadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. How could that be? The sort of tech which would make that possible isnIf anything, he't available d wanted to the paying publicbe a professional footballer. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?

|authorisbn=Richard Brook0861541774|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeNye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary= I am 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 firm believer street brawl - he would later maintain that sometimes we choose books, he was facing a man armed with a knife - and sometimes books choose ushe killed a Ghurka. In my caseInitially, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some he faced a charge of it interesting, manslaughter but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it evidence came to me not just because I was likely light that suggested that he might have planned to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's umurder the man.s Now he could be facing the death penalty.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesndiplomatic incident and wouldn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right nowhelp Danny at all.|isbn=1800461682

|isbnauthor=B095CY7NBNAlexander McCall Smith|title=Autumn Camp|author=Barry FowlerThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=It was The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to be Brian's last campall the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since but he was leaving school Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the time had come business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to hand the reins Canada to someone elseget away for a while. The obvious person was GaryKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, who'd always been the fun element of the camps and Brian had said that on this camp, Gary should act as so jumps at the leader and he'd just be there chance to come home to observeEdinburgh. The problem with And so begins this was that Gary wasn't really new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an organiserEdinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, an administrator if you likebut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. He was the entertainerKatie has no experience in running a business, the person who basked or in the spotlight and made things fun match- so Brian stepped making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and did the organising. He handed the camp over - there's always her very helpful (and then took it back. And Gary determined rather handsome) neighbour, William, to have his revenge. This should have been ''his'' camp.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=194812467X0811771741|title=The Farm ShopInstaKnits for Baby|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicMelissa Leapman

|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a walkcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top front of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. Itfire's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animalsvariety. There The projects are sheep and ducks and cowsdivided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, goats and chickensfive to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and even some micemore than twenty hours. Excited All the projects are attractive, Kirelle modern and Sam go shoppinguseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky. What will they buy?

|isbnauthor=0008404925Dean Koontz|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane CaseyBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of Benny is having a surpriseterrifically bad day. After allHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, it was her cross-examination of the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentenceand his house gets trashed. He'd been accused of stalking the woman but Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it didn't take long to establish s possible that - if anything - it whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the other way aroundvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him as He is a threat and was forced to remember nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the police officer at delivery to his trial had told her that this was the best chance they'd had house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to put Webster away help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a long time: good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he was , Benny, and Harper (a very dangerous manwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=0008395594Adam Stower|title=Both of You|author=Adele ParksMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=You could Murray is supposed to be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband a humble, tidy and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Thenfriendly cat, one Monday, she went who is able to work sleep and never came home. Mark, Oli eat and Seb are shattered. Well, Mark eat and Seb are but Oli's sixteen sleep and at , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the stage where he thinks boredom is his best looktwo. HeBut he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a bit off with Leigh for hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a while but she put it down to him growing up world of frightening adventure and starting to become independentwhiffs. SebThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's only twelve turned up and Leighhe's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without trace.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1473685745B0C47LV1PC|title=Unbreak Your HeartFragility|author=Katie MarshMosby Woods

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked SimonCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s sonjoke? And if you could, Jakeis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, off his bikewould it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be... He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - thatno. 's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not 'Fragility'au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, is set as the left side city of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. SoPortland, Oregon, Simon has every right cautiously begins to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|author=Louie Stowell|title=Otherland|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Myra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loud, bright and hates rules, while Rohan is very polite, serious and worries about the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer's day. And so, every year their families get together to celebrate the two's birthday/deathday. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queen, they must journey to the Otherland, a magical realm full of fairies, vampires, dragons, and Gods. It's going to be the worst night of their lives.|isbn=1788000463}}{{Frontpage|isbn=walker141529431735|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Winter Visitor|author=Martin WalkerJames Henry

|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in s February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had more surprising. He'd been exiled on the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known Costa del Sol as J-J, to solve a case that had haunted him wanted drug smuggler for thirty yearsa decade. The body of return has come about because he's had a young male was found in the woods but he was never identified letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and his killer never brought hasn't long to justicelive. What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and the resulting publicity be used sent to identify a watery grave in the young man? boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' and has Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want problem closer to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justice.home?

|author= Martha LeighAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= Invisible Ink: A Family Memoir|rating= 5|genre= Biography|summary= Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent in a slightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Her father is a Cambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the complete correspondence of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his life's work. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in the practicalities of life. There is love in the house but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows is there.|isbn=1800460384}}{{Frontpage|author=Darren Shan|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 The Glorious Race of 3Magical Beasts|rating=4.5

|summary=So. Having done Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the impossible wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and unpicked in the lock to evening a helper at the Forgotten Cryptdessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, from which too – for there is a generation missing in the Departed communicate with the Mergefamily. A few short years ago, Archie now has ''grop'Eli' s parents were both lost to think about. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archiethe titular race, much a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to Inez's amusement, doesn't even know what one navigate the world in the company of those isa magical beast. But he manages This has made the race anathema to come through the fancy party unscathedpair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, even after an uncomfortable encounter with KurtisEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume sole aim the prize of this seriesmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran. |isbn=B093J9TF730571382231

|authorisbn= Adrian Tchaikovsky178763681X|title= Shards of EarthKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 4|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the ArchitectsChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls He didn't really want to the architect's reshaping. Then, just when they but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had the human race on the run, the Architects vanisheda way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. And so, Paul ''somehow'' got the memories of impression that he'd be at the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins school to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmierassist Paul, who had a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architectsbroken arm, does not want to be rememberedbut it didn't turn out that way. But, when he The teaching - and the crew of the salvage ship problems - are all his own. The one thing he calls home discover what appears hadn't expected was for someone to be recent Architect activityturn up dead. Unfortunately, suddenly he is thrust back into was the person who discovered the spotlight. As he body and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret everyone knows that the police and rich slavers, he slowly begins consider that person to realise that be the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886prime suspect.