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=='''18 23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1848458428Onyi Nwabineli|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary KubicaAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Eleven years agoAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, a man regularly came home thanks to his wife with lipstick marks her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on his collar social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and lame excuses as to why he was late - again, basically, monetary gain. His wife was Now Anuri is in the habit of going out for a run late at night. It was the only time her twenties and she had for herself when she didn't have is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to look after get her life back, suing her baby step- but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful for mother to take down the unquestioning affection he gave content about her. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappearedAnuri is battling alcoholism, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband failing to look after start her disabled baby. Ten days laterPhD, a local woman undergoing therapy and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula secretly abusing people online and she'd seemed to be under some strain receiving money from them for the last couple of weeks or doing so. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that Most importantly, sheis desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia'd committed suicides online empire. She left a note saying that Can she save her daughtersister, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for perhaps herself and her relationship with her.father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''27 30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=0008395594B0CYV674G2|title=Both of You|author=Adele Parks|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Then, one Monday, she went to work and never came home. Mark, Oli and Seb are shattered. Well, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best look. He's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independent. Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without trace.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473685745|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=4|genre=Women's 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 Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=walker14|title=The Coldest Case Swanton Morley (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelJohn Tanner)|author=Martin WalkerDavid Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies police station shouting that chief of police Bruno Courreges had he hasn't killed the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty yearsman. The A body at the bottom of a young male was found in the woods but freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he was never identified and his killer never brought 's been stabbed to justicedeath. What if an artist could recreate the face DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the skull and the resulting publicity birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be used to identify grateful for an easy answer but the young man? J-J calls the skull words 'Oscarperverse' and has a picture on his door: 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he sees it every time 's determined to keep going - probably because he leaves his office: he doesncan't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justiceget any sleep at home.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008404925Stuart Douglas|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane CaseyLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprise. After all, it was her cross-examination of the During location filming for his 1970'victims sitcom ' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentence. HeFloggit and Leggit'd been accused , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of stalking the a woman but it didn't take long to establish that - if anything - it was on the other way aroundedge of a reservoir. Soon Ingrid never seemed The police seem happy to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him assign it 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 to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous man.}}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= Shards of Earth|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scatteredaccidental death, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to but something about the architect's reshaping. Thenwhole thing bothers Lowe, just when they had and he enlists the human race on the runhelp of a fellow actor, the Architects vanishedJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. And so, the memories of They travel across the war fadescountry during their days off filming, heroes are forgottenuncovering more possible murders and, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmierseemingly, a man genetically engineered link to try and communicate with death during the Architects, does not want to be rememberedSecond World War. But, when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into there really a link between the spotlight. As he and his allies bounce from star system deaths? And will they manage to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war uncover who is only just getting started…responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=15290518861803368209
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=='''3 6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=0241400120Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Twitch Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at hometeam of warrior, mage and chickenshealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and helping birds is easy compared to that of his time in schoolthe points they grant you along the way. But things are about to change Unfortunately for Twitch in all aspects Kit, the only thing he's seen of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber the latest race on the runinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and it's possible that the missing bank haul a new trio of questors is hidden somewhere in Aves Woodneeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the place where Twitch has token bully of his secret hide world and that stumbled into declaring he knows like the back of his hand! 'll enter as a team. Can Twitch solve the mysteryWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and find the missing millionshow could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14063893741839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Hannah Whitten1635866847|title=For the WolfThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyLifestyle|summary=In RedIt's familystrange, the first daughter becomes queenthings that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', and I visited the second daughter becomes a sacrificeauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. To Redcom/ website] and there's misfortune, she is a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the second daughterhomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Sent alone into (There's a recipe in the woods book, which I'm avoiding with nothing but some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the cape on her back, Red knows what book and I was told to expect: within the woods is make a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate mess of their kingdomit. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, Notes in the monsters he keeps contained margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories gocorners of pages. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds You suspect that the legends are lies. The wolf is smears of butter would not be a monster—heproblem. I ''loved''s a manthis book already.|isbn=0356516369
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=='''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 to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198X}}{{Frontpage|author=Terry Miles|title=Rabbits|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this 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 hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932}}{{Frontpage|author=Louise Beech|title=This Is How We Are Human|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother to her son, Sebastian - but she canJULY't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that it's time for him to have sex. But as an autistic 20 year-old, that'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 and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew 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, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.}}
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|author=Maisie ChanMax Boucherat|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Danny is We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven years year old, and what he really, really loves to do is drawon her lonesome. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. What could possibly go wrong? Danny's dadSnuggled in a blanket fort, howevershe has one main intention, wants Danny and that is to concentrate log on his mathsto Voxminer, and forget about the drawingworld-building, because he says nobody can make critter-collecting game that is a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw hit in secret and in peaceLori's world. But then one day his parents tell him they have first Lori has a surprise for him, and tiny inkling that this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with themstormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but then she will also be sleeping on finds something even more spooky. For the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, server she and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, bestie and showing her around the townnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Poor Danny, stuck When malevolent eyes spark up on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situationher phone screen, and then he even her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a falling out with Ravi...how on earth will things ever get bettergirl to turn?!|isbn=180078001X0008666482
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|author=Joseph KnoxJenny Lecoat|title=True Crime StoryBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the few television personalities over occupation. During the age of fifty without war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells banned radio and soldiers took him she's carrying his childaway one night, but then his author wife is getting leaving Jean and her kicks with mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withwar is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. They have three children, who are But will the truth come as a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoeverrelief, a girl who hangs or will it raise further questions around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who wants to save told the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing Nazis about the gay hustle thing. Add in a few radio? And what other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you secrets have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is been kept throughout the fact this is bloody funny.occupation?|isbn=08575262191846976537
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