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=='''22 JULY28 OCTOBER'''==

|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir Antti Tuomainen and Victoria Cribb David Hackston (translator)|title=Girls Who LieThe Rabbit Factor|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowMeet Henri. You think, seeing With a mind so much more focused on the map that we're set in Akranes, maths and finding calculations than itis other human beings, he's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims perfect for his job in the usual small-town feel, itinsurance company – until they decide he's not just in Akranes a team-member, that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed they'd prefer everyone to turn up for her date eveningbe all open-plan, holistic and was never seen againkeen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back'everything' is just an adventure park, and a couple of delighted adoptersnothing else. But it left our three detectives at ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a quandary little when he sees huge holes in the finances – mobile phone use was it runs at a high level until it stopped all of a suddensteady money-moving pace, in one placedespite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the womanamount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it's car was found miles away in been turned into a second place, and gambling debt that has also now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted inherited by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depressionHenri, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader activities of these guys are not conducive to make the right one?getting a cheap life insurance plan...|isbn=191319373X191319387X

|author=Claire NorthTeresa Driscoll|title=Notes from the Burning AgeHer Perfect Family|rating=45|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' The novel begins by Claire North is a spy thrillerintroducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. Howeverthe familiar horrifying realisation, as with at the best novelseleventh hour, it wears many masks and its most affecting one that her graduation outfit is that of a new and timely genreall wrong. Suddenly, cli-fiGemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', or climate change fictionpaving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. North's novel tells In a twist of events, and after a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of outfit, Gemma is shot in the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons midst of mass destructionher graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, intensive farming). There what follows is a growing unhappiness complex whodunit with this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims a list of suspects that continues to master these processes no matter grow the cost to the Earthfurther you read.|isbn=03565147571542028752

=='''3 AUGUST4 NOVEMBER'''==

|author=Darren ShanLucy Hope|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Fledgling

|summary=SoBavaria, 1900. Having done Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the impossible decades, and unpicked now looking imperiously down on the lock village and woods below. It's an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the Forgotten Cryptlibrary shelving system is not as we'd know it, from which the Departed communicate roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so on. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the Mergelong-standing family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, Archie now has ''grop'' and the dying grandma to think about. But before thatour heroine, soirees. Soirees! ArchieCassie, much a young lass who has to Inezdo all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's amusementalso going to house someone or something else, doesnwhen crashing through Cassie't even know what s bedroom window one of those stormy day isa cherub. But he manages And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to come through the fancy party unscathedbe a completely great and wonderful thing, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this seriesthink again... |isbn=B093J9TF73183994188X

=='''5 AUGUST25 NOVEMBER'''==

|author=John BoyneWill Carver|title=The Echo ChamberPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219}}{{Frontpage|author=Louise Candlish|title=The Heights|rating=43.5

|summary=Ellen doesn't expect Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to see Kieran that dayattending numerous AA groups. She's on site, visiting is also a client for a lighting consultation when self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she spies him in a building across is mainly using the waygroups to find targets. There are lots of things..targets for sexual encounters, lots targets to feed her desire to hear of people's misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, you might see and when you look out across London, but this isnshe't one Ellen expected that day or s unable to find like-minded people in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two yearsof the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murderthus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=14711834831913193756

=='''19 AUGUST9 DECEMBER'''==

|author=Doug JohnstoneFreya Marske|title=The Great SilenceA Marvellous Light

|genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=For those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does Robin Blyth is nudged into a good job of bringing in the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creatureCivil Service, though it sounds as though it ought much to be, it is merely his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the surname streets of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a family of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinctcurse that threatens to swallow him, she married a scot and ended up helping Robin follows Edwin to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in countryside, where the family for generations. Recently widowed hedgegrows bristle with incantations and now involved the people shimmer with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisonerpower. And grand-daughter is about to graduate with There they uncover a first-class physics degree and join sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the academic staff next termBritish Isles.|isbn=19131938371529080886

=='''2 SEPTEMBER6 JANUARY 2022'''==

|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave Lucy Strange and Tom de FrestonPam Smy|title=Julia and The Mermaid in the SharkMillpond|rating=4.5

|summary=JuliaThere is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, our prewho have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from owners by the family London workhouse they used to call home . Bess knows there is no time for friendship in SW England a hand-to be lighthousekeepers -mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a summer, kindred spirit in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikingsslight little Dot, and despite everything that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be automating a glimmer of companionship in the lantern, which tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career any truth in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.existence of the mermaid?|isbn=1510107789180090049X

|author=Ian Mark and Louis GhibaultChristopher Edge|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersEscape Room|rating=4.53

|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about I've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a character or characters start by being fearless and nimble and quick, for he's trapped in a slight boyspecific location, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses have to solve problems in order to let him get their way out of his sight. ThatWhat I's because Jack's mother knew all about monstersve not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, Ami and look what happened four other tweenagers, all new to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point each other and booked into the game without any of viewtheir friends, are a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jackteam – starting out at the game's father also goes AWOLmain offices, Jack will fluke the ogrewhere they's deathre told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, a dwarfish wizarddespite the ramped-type will make him an apprentice monster hunterup threat levels, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about change much in the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's nameworld of literature? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=07555019421788007964

|author=Emma CarrollLouie Stowell|title=The Week at WorldLoki: A Bad God's EndGuide to Being Good|rating=4.5

|summary=FirstMeet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the title. We're in Worldother gods have decided there's End Close, only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog month both in exile and with in the boy over the roadphysical form of a middle-school kid here on Earth. But we could also be at WorldHe's Endguarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded and Thor has come along as America tries well, to reduce be the risk of nuclear missiles offshoremore suave, more popular and not much else is able to make more successful brother of the newstwo. That said, Vie Loki has news of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna hasmonth to redeem his reputation, in no short timeand get his moral compass pointing the right way again, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Closeor else, said she'd locate something she wanted and leaveto prove it he has to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, failed that is able to leavecry foul of his lies, and implied her life was at riskjudge his progress. But surely this Loki is the kind of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit of intrigue has got nothing more virtuously for a month is going to do with what be a walk in the Cold War is doing miles awaypark...right?|isbn=05713644381406399752

=='''7 OCTOBER3 MARCH'''==

|author=John GwynneMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Shadow Of The GodsWrath|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn SagaMeet Fitz, set in the era a young Scottish lad full of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to seefrustration at himself. This story Lockdown is the ultimate in High Fantasyonly just over, and John Gwynne certainly does justice he should be free to the genredo what he wants, to go where he wants and with mythical creatureswhom he wants, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=0356514218}}{{Frontpage|author=Peter Papathanasiou|title=The Stoning|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=In a town sleazy enough it when he talks to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparisonhis best friend, Cassie. They were half of a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolleydesultory school band, and but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she's been taped to could hear a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were subhuman hum coming from the world's tallest cricket stumpsearth. When she's discovered by Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the town gossip everyone, including end of the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place world is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and already a done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival dreaming of George Manolis, a higher rank from ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the citytruth? Well, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the lawnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=15294169731800900899