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=='''27 MAY25 APRIL'''==

|isbnauthor=0008404925Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane CaseyA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of There are few greater joys than a surprise. After all, it was her cross-examination of the 'victim' book which saved him from a lengthy prison sentence. He'd been accused of stalking the woman but it didn't take long to establish that - if anything - it was the other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him as a threat and was forced to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance they'd had lives up to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous mancompelling premise.}} =='''3 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1838853804|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himself. Twenty years later she's back home again and And this time the occasion is no less sad. She's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dying one of anorexia. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a curse. In addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years beforethem. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1846975719|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Denzil Meyrick|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward places. But that's London, isn't it? What's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight away. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the plane were dead before take off. How could that be? The sort of tech which would make that possible isn't available to the paying public. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?0356522776

|isbnauthor=0241400120Tom Percival|title=The Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria Cribb|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teacher. She was thirty years old and money was tight. Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsula. There were only ten people in the village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation provided. Una was the only applicant and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract covered.}}{{Frontpage|author=M G Leonard|title=TwitchWrong Shoes

|summary=Twitch Will's life is difficult, in a boy who loves birdsmultitude of ways. He keeps pigeons at homeis bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and chickensdoesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and even has swallows nesting his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in his bedroom! -hand job on a building site and had an accident. His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to Throw into that mix the fact that of his time mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in schoolevery direction. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects And yet, he still has a tiny amount of his life as there hope. He is a dangerous bank robber on the rungood at art, and it's possible that clings to the missing bank haul moments of joy when he is hidden somewhere in Aves Wooddrawing, the place where Twitch has his secret hide and that he knows feel like a light at the back end of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mysterya long, and find the missing millions?dark tunnel.|isbn=14063893741398527122

|author=Hannah WhittenOnyi Nwabineli|title=For the Wolf|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=0356516369}} =='''10 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, 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 to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. 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, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just 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, with their potential Allow Me to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198X}}{{Frontpage|author=Terry Miles|title=RabbitsIntroduce Myself

|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her son, Sebastian step- but she can't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that itmother Ophelia's time for him to have sex. But as an autistic 20 year-oldincreasingly popular presence on social media, thatwhere she posted every step of Anuri's easier said than done. And it's starting to cause them both problems. |isbn=1913193713}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1409181669|title=The Maidens|author=Alex Michaelides|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders childhood for sponsorships and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew influencer deals and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoebasically, had telephoned her in distressmonetary gain. Tara had been Now Anuri is in her best friend twenties and she was struggling is slowly trying to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having regain her confidence and to go get her life back, suing her step-mother to Cambridge, but she caught take down the first fast train from King's Crosscontent about her. Mariana Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and Zoe were close secretly abusing people online and had been made all the more receiving money from them for doing so by . Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the death new focus of MarianaOphelia's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlieronline empire. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's Can she save her sister, Eliza.and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|author=Maisie Chan|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Danny is eleven years old, and what he really, really loves to do is draw. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. Danny's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw in secret and in peace. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with them, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, Kieran Larwood and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around the town. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X}} =='''17 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Joseph KnoxJoe Todd-Stanton|title=True Crime StoryDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Meet KateKit. Like most of the people in his world, although I got it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the impression she'd rather be sport where a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idolteam of warrior, mage and the author of our heroine's favourite possessionhealer enter specially prepared, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky fathercentury-old, that bookmagical mazes, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride race to the Arcticexit, to see her scientist mother for perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the first time in yonksway. HoweverUnfortunately for Kit, this the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is a train ride with a differencethat one team has been retired, eaten, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyesnew trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, shining he has taken to the goading from the darkness in a blink-token bully of his world and-youstumbled into declaring he'llenter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-missfree-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=184812970X1839945184

 =='''13 JULYJUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Sarah Langan1635866847|title=Good NeighboursThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary= If youIt're of a certain vintages strange, it's hard to read the words things that make you ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song immediately''feel that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street this is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbsbook for you. They Before I started reading 're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (heThe Lavender Companion's an ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and itI visited the author's all going ok[https://www. Until it isn'tpinelavenderfarm. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. Itcom/ website] and there's a revolting mess picture of dirt and chaos, but for the residents a slice of Maple Street, chocolate cake on the worst is yet to comehomepage.|isbn=1789098211}} == I don'''22 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir t eat cakes and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=Girls Who Lie|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking desserts - but I wanted that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowcake viscerally. You think, seeing on the map that we(There're set s a recipe in Akranesthe book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and finding I was told to make a mess of it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because Notes in the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests liemargins are sanctioned. Six months ago a woman failed You get to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with fold down the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, and a couple corners of delighted adopterspages. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all You suspect that smears of butter would not be a sudden, in one place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote placeproblem. Meanwhile, I ''loved'' this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her bodybook already. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X

=='''3 AUGUST4 JULY'''==

|author=Darren ShanMax Boucherat|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides The Last Life of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Lori Mills

|summary=So. Having done We meet Lori on the impossible and unpicked first evening she's got the lock house to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has ''grop'' herself – no neighbour to think about. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archiepop in, much to Inez's amusementbabysitter poorly, doesn't even know what one of those is. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathedmother at work, even after just an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this series. |isbn=B093J9TF73}} =='''5 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Boyne|title=The Echo Chamber|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is selfavidly rule-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 childbreaking eleven year old, but then his author wife is getting on her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withlonesome. They have three children, who are What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoeverblanket fort, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signallingshe has one main intention, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants and that is to log on to save Voxminer, the world's homeless with out-ofbuilding, critter-date food, and collecting game that is a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thinghit in Lori's world. Add in But first Lori has a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – tiny inkling that all have two very different connections to his lifethis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and you have then she finds something that suggests an almost farcical approach even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to the modern worldenter shows signs of tampering. What suggests When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the farcical approach even more, howevergame has been doctored – well, where is the fact this is bloody funny.a girl to turn?|isbn=08575262190008666482