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|authorisbn=Will Carver0008551375|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Hinton HollowLeanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, population 5too,120when she posted her intentions on Facebook. It sounds like one Her friends were relieved as she was just out of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in America's mid-westan unpleasant relationship, but this particular Hinton Hollow is a small town it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in Berkshire, Englandthe last year. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereAll were experienced climbers, until something happened properly equipped for what they were doing and he ran away sensible people. None of the 'what a stupid thing to the citydo' explanations applied. HeThey were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's running away again…only this time evil is following him and is going to touch just about everyone in towna killer on the loose.|isbn=1913193306

|author=Jacqueline WilsonPaul B Preciado|title=Love FrankieDysphoria Mundi

|genre=TeensPolitics and Society|summary= Frankie ''It is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided never too late to leave her for another woman, when your older sister has turned into embrace the girliest girl who ever lived, and, above all when Sally and her mates are bullying you at school. Oh, and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you donrevolutionary optimism of childhood''t fancy him back.

Poor Frankie! Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. Rather, it is the proportional, valid response to ''the epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. The whole text is framed against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''. Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''. |isbn= 0857535897 1804271454

|author=Samantha Harvey|title=Orbital|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''Orbital'', a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the lives of a group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Through a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to see our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=17765728581529922933}}{{Frontpage|isbn=295967572X|title=How Do You Make a Baby?Pale Pieces|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)G M Stevens

|genre=Home and FamilyLiterary Fiction|summary=ItOur unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed re going and told me that she'd get me a book about itwhat the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than Django found the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldntickets 't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked abouton the floor somewhere''and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. I ''knew'' more, Why not? Not much else is clear either - but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changedwe are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.

|isbn=15420174320008551324|title=The Nidderdale MurdersDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=J R EllisNeil Lancaster|rating=34.5

|summary=It was a Friday in mid-September when 's unusual for anyone from the shoot was held on Hardie family to approach the grouse moor near Niddersgillpolice. The shooters at Neither side likes or has any respect for the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to his friends) was tell the police where the owner body of the moor and a retired judge. James Symonds was a local landowner missing person is buried and Henry Saunders who was a bankerresponsible for her death. He This person, he promises, is someone big and Fraser had known each other since their school days. The fourth member was Gideon Rawnsley, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Riponit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Rawnsley had a gripe with Fraser: And what he'd sold him wants is to be transferred to an expensive car open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and Fraser was being slow to payget an early parole date. Other people had reason Not much to comment on Fraserask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's attitude even prepared to money: his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and very difficult to work foranyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbnauthor=0241433568Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Eight Detectives|author=Alex PavesiVaim|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: heAll was strange''s going to have a rest and then he wants to talk to Megan and Henry about something serious. Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that he's been murdered. How can that have happened? There's no one else . This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in the houseNorway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, so one two of them must be the killerprotagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829

|isbn=15263627591035043092|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give ItThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Rashmi SirdeshpandeAnn Cleeves

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=What I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a relief! new life on Orkney. A book about moneyIt's been seven years since we heard from him, for childrenbut he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, with clear explanations of what it isJames, why it mattersas well as Cassie, how to acquire more the daughter of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of ithis former partner. Your reasons for wanting money donWillow't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into businesss also his boss, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an and she ''investorshould'') and there might be something you reallyon maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a storm, she can''really'' want to buyt resist getting involved. There He's also d been battered about the possibility head with a Neolithic stone - one of using to do good in the worlda pair - which had been stolen from a museum.

|isbnauthor=0008378363Thea Lenarduzzi|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneThe Tower|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=A husband is about to have his throat cut ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in his own bed. To find out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty yearsour bloodstream''.

MackenzieIn this compelling novel, Robin and Lily met when they all went to Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the same college in Monroevilleidentity of T, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best protagonist of friendsthis tale. When they first met they called themselves Just as T's story is being told, the Spicier Girls as story of a nod to second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the famous girl band daughter of a wealthy family in the day19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. Lily would be Adventure SpiceAnnie's fate is, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - wellabove all, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own lifean enticing story to T. She married OwenIt is a story which she consumes avariciously, her college sweetheart both in a quest for truth and they have a daughterknowledge, Ariaand in service of myth, who's now fifteen-year-oldfable and fantasy. |isbn=1804271799

|author=Darren ShanClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsBig Kiss, Bye-Bye

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Time Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to catch you all up with some confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of my lockdown reading this plea is Xavier, her ex- Ipartner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=1804271934}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there've been doing so much s something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|author=Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Other Girl|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=''We were born from the same body. I'm a bit late ve never really wanted to the party with actual reviewingthink about this. Oops! And where better to start than with the new series from Bookbag favourite, Darren Shan?''

Archie Ernaux's work is always very downcandid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the most intimate accounts I've read. HeErnaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, this letter will never reach her. Why? Because Annie Ernaux's lost sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a dear friend recently, few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in a tragic accidentFrance, and Archie blames himself2 years before the author was even born. He canThe large and instant void created by the jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux't face school so he takes himself for a truanting wander around London. As he strolls across a footbridge, he sees a girl who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men s process of reckoning with this giant absence in white suits. He watchesher life, aghastan absence that she has always felt but often denied. What is going on?|isbn=B086LKBHD61804271845

|author=Antony WoottenMaxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Season Reminiscences of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersBiography|summary= Tannash and her brother Geb Biographies are waiting in great excitement for often seen as the hunting party led by their uncle to returnform of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and less personal. They're hoping for I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a feast vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of mammoth meathis literary contemporaries. Geb longs for In the day he can join first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his uncle Gagba and the other warriors on a hunting party and take part in their deeds friend Gorky that: ''you write not of derring-do. But their fatherreal life as it is, the leader but of the villagewhat you yourself imagine it to be. Whom would it help to know how I see this tower, thinks that they also need an education; sea, or that knowledge Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is powerit?''. Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, giving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=19392696791804271977

|authorisbn= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May1529077745|title= Seven DevilsThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= Eris is one of A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the foremost operatives body of a man in the Novantaepark near Rosebank, a resistance movement fighting against care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she care workers who was destined due to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission: hijack work a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to shift the war effortnight before but who had never turned up. Although she's less than pleased D I Vera Stanhope is called in to discover that investigate the murder - but her former friend Eris only clue is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard disappearance of one of the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damoclesresidents, the runnerfourteen-year-up heir to old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the Empire, death but Vera thinks this is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and unlikely as the last of the free alien species. Itgirl's a race against time as the rebels move diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140Josh.

|authorisbn=Non PrattB0FK5LHKD9|title=Every Little Piece The Colour of My HeartMemory|author=Christopher Bowden

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Freya was It's been three years since we last reviewed a beautifulbook by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as so we were very glad to see a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend and the promise of the end of GCSEs just months awaynew novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. But one dayLike all Bowden's stories, on January 1st, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. So, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months after, she expects it to contain answers of some kind, but is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to there's a complete stranger, and then another layer to another person and another, each containing an item unique to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and at the promise heart of 'treasure' at the end The Colour of it allMoney''. With each parcel, We like this running theme in an author's work - take a new layer of the story mystery but give it different flavour and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and oldatmosphere each time. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=1406366943

|isbnauthor=178089922XOlga Tokarczuk|title=Invisible Girl|author=Lisa JewellHouse of Day, House of Night

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=''When you wear What's the good of a hood, you're invisible.world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?''

Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old and beautiful. By her own admissionThe title of this spellbinding work, she's a bit 'House of a boffinDay, doing and enjoying maths, physics and biology at A level. Life hasn't been easy for her: most people who have been close to her have died and sheHouse of Night's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flat. Something ''really, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten and she selfsomewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities -harmed for a long time. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was her therapist. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psychesmall, subtle changes which govern our lives, but somehow managed like the shift from day to miss that 'something reallynight, however quotidian, really bad'causing chaos. When But, the constant in that image is the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrifthouse, but she retained an interest in Roanstoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838951067henleyA|title=The Nothing ManUltimate Obsession|author=Catherine Ryan HowardDai Henley|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Jim DoyleEx-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he's about to get a shockshould be doing quite well financially. HeUnfortunately, his daughter's security at defence against a supermarket and he's watching a woman who is acting suspiciouslymurder charge drained his savings. She His wife, Laura, has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if she's planning been trying to pay for it. Suddenly it drops persuade him to the floor with the spine splayed upwardsretire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do','Nothing Man' He' by Eve Black, is s not been entirely up front about the titlestate of their savings. Why is Jim shocked? WellWhen Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, Jim was - it''is'' - s the Nothing Man who, until eighteen years ago raped and killed. The author thought of the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her mother, and then killed her, her father and her seven-year-old sister, Annamoney he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.

|authorisbn=Christina Hammonds Reed1836284683|title=The Black KidsBig Happy|author=David Chadwick

|genre=Teens Dystopian Fiction|summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel Well! This is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction to the absolution of four police officers for beating murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a black manbook, Rodney King, nearly it's nothing like I expected it to death. Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennettbe, the novel follows her evolution from and it takes me on a silent bystander when confronted wild ride. And that is just what happened with matters ''The Big Happy''. I don't want to ruin a similar experience for any of raceyou reading but I'll have to at least set the scene. Once that's done, to a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritageI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.|isbn=1471188191

|isbnauthor=0751567426Sally Rooney|title=The Wicked Sister|author=Karen DionneIntermezzo

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction |summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's an inpatient Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper Peninsulaputting it into words. She's twenty-six Her dialogue is gripping and has been there for fifteen yearsso brilliantly frustrating, convinced that she accidentally killed as her mother when she was eleven-years-old and that her father then took characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the gun fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and killed himselfPeter Koubek. Her sisterIvan, Dianaa socially awkward chess prodigy, just twenty-years-old, was left at the family homecontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a lodge successful lawyer living in the Upper Peninsula wildernessDublin. Rachel's very bright and although sheFollowing their father's passing after a voluntary patient at the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling that this is what she deserves. Perhaps, thoughlong battle with cancer, the circumstances are not as she remembersbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469

|isbn=15069094421036916375|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonPeter McArdle

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=''The greatest hatred, like Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of memories and reflections from the greatest virtue years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the worst dogsfamily history of a sea-going family, is silentwith the docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the what-might-have-been. It's a book to settle into and allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, to think of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, despite the blitz that was a constant factor in McArdle's early years. I'd never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and could appear after the all-clear was sounded.}}

{{Frontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The title Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of this enjoyable crime proceduralall, he is from German romantic an aspiring writer Jean Paul. But who are the worst dogs in de Lacey DavidsonEnglish is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. This hasn's latest novel t gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and for whom is the hatred? This mystery will last all the way she has suggested to the very last Will and carefully plotted pages but you will his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be thinking about unwarranted hatred all the way through. It sounds uncomfortable - but it isn't: it's honestbetter extended.

|authorisbn=Rob Baker1009473085|title=Toubab Tales: The Joys Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Trials of Expat Life in AfricaTom Egerton (Editors)|rating=45|genre=TravelPolitics and Society|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'"Go ' and that applies to Mali," they said''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. "The music is amazing If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions," they saidthen this isn't the book for you. "And If that's what you get ten hours of sunshine every day." So 're looking for, I diddon't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It'' Rob Baker is an ethnomusicologists a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''A what?The Conservative Effect'' I hear you cryis an entirely different beast. Well, an ethnomusicologist studies music It's the seventh book in relation to culture, so rather like a folklorist studies series which looks at the oral impact a government has made and written story traditions relating to co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a cultureseries of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024. |isbn=B089CSNFT7

|author=James PattersonJenny Valentine|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelUs in the Before and After|rating=45

|summary=Hawk has been waiting on the same street cornerElk and Mab are best friends, every dayor more than that even, for yearstheir friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. She is waiting for her parents to come and They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get hereach other's contact details at the time. They left her there when she was just tinyBut then chance brings them back together, and although she's almost certain that they are never coming back for herinseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, she continues together.|isbn=1471196585}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I was tempted to head back there each dayread ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, just in casehumour and autobiography. Hawk isn''You Don't your ordinary street urchin thoughHave to be Mad...she has wings, '' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and can fly! the work of a psychiatrist. Since she I did wonder whether it was abandoned she's been living with acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a group of other children, all person and it is always delivered with interesting characteristics of their own empathy and together they've made their own familyunderstanding. But now the city }}{{Frontpage|author=Mariana Enriquez|title=A Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is seemingly even more troubled than usualdisturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to an urban planning mishap, there's an overcrowded homeless shelter and a mysterious childcrime-killer who has been brought to the prison next door to ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the children live, and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family has been taken awaysupernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture. Where have they been taken, and can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?|isbn=15291200041803511230

|isbn=17857656981529934753|title=Shed No TearsThe Protest|author=Caz FrearRob Rinder

|summary=In November 2012 Christopher MastersFor a little while, the man who would become known it looked as 'though Sir Max Bruce, the roommate killercountry's most famous living artist, strangled three women in a fortnight. When he was arrested he admitted not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the killingsRoyal Academy. A fourth death was attributed to him - that of Holly Kemp - and on occasionsStill, Masters admitted to he arrived in the killingnick of time, then he denied it - then admitted itcomplete with his two wives and six children, then denied itone of whom filmed what happened. He played with the policeBeing an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was sufficient evidence on a record of the protest. Lexi Williams, an intern at the first three killings to put him away for RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a long time chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the CPS were not convinced about face, whilst shouting ''Stop the Holly Kemp caseWar''. There It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was no body different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and once Masters Sir Max Bruce was murdered in prison, no hope of progressing the case furtherdead.

|isbnauthor=1473682401Ariel Saramandi|title=The Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPhersonPortrait of an Island on Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Politics and Society|summary=Those who were with us at In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the end sociopolitical fabric of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged colonialism and slavery to Mallory Dunnochexpose how these legacies still shape modern life. TheySaramandi describes the country at one stage as 're now married and Mallory is having twins. When they arrive no one can doubt 'rotting'', a blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the charms malignant forces of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brotherracism, patriarchy, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying with Dandy environmental degradation and Hughgovernmental dysfunction. Dandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up the chance to look into Each essay in this collection serves as a problem at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to them twice beforekind of diagnostic, but suddenly charting the possibility of being out of various diseases afflicting the house at Gilverton seems irresistibleisland state.|isbn=1804271616

|isbnauthor=B07WWSCGVSPekka Harju-Autti|title=The Lies You Told|author=Harriet TyceLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse|rating=54|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start a new school. SheIt's left the school she loved in New York eighteenth century, a time of discovery and now she's going Britain is expanding its foreign trade. Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to Ashams the Andaman Islands in North Londonhis endeavour. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth Along with his son, Peter, and as the pupils have all been there ''forever''their cat, Michi, they have their established groups. Robin's going set off on a perilous voyage to be an outsiderthese faraway lands. And why is this happening? Well, over a matter of a few days her parents' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying The islands are beautiful and stunning in New York - he works for a securities firm - their scenery and her motherthe islanders' leader, Sadie RoperAarav, has come back is keen to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearsestablish good relations.|isbn=B0DS1VGHH3

|isbnauthor=1408712415Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Cry Baby|author=Mark BillinghamLili is Crying

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It's June 1996 and football's European Championships are about to start First published in 1953 in London. DS Tom Thorne French, this novel is having a nightmare timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and it's one he has regularly. It relates to a case sentences from ten years earlier when he ''knew'' that a man was guilty, but didn't take any action until their proper position on the man's wife page and three children had been murdered and the man had killed himselfpositions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. Cat Coyne and Maria Ashton are with their sons Kieron and Josh. It's a happy combination in that Like the boys are devoted to each other and - despite differences in the where and how lives of her characters, they live - the women are best friends. The boys are seven-year-old and they play on the swings in the park and then dash off to play hide and seek in Highgate Wood. Josh was the one doing the hiding - but he returned tearfully to the women: Kieron never came to find him and now he can't find Kieronoften left tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675

|isbnauthor=B08CHJLNBSTom Percival|title=Capturing Emilia|author=Brooke AdamsThe Wrong Shoes|rating=35|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary=HeWill's Charles Devereauxlife is difficult, thirty-eight and in a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agentsmultitude of ways. SheHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and archivist in doesn't have enough money for even the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books most basic of things like thatfood, which leave you dependent on someone elseand his dad can's philosophiest work because he lost his job at the college, to something was working a cash-in-hand job on a little deeperbuilding site and had an accident. Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himselfThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, but, above all, heand Will's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''life seems bleak in every direction. They're obviously not at all compatibleAnd yet, so why can Charles not get this woman out he still has a tiny amount of his mind? hope. She's not his usual type He is good at all: it's obvious art, and clings to his friends. And given the moments of joy when he is drawing, that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously like a light at the end of a non-starterlong, isn't it?dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=1504321383Sylvie Cathrall|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa PatemanA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyScience Fiction|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You There are not complete until you find few greater joys than a man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought book which lives up to believe. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for hera compelling premise. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she's usually fairly young) And this is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''one of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=17873014351786482126|title=Dark WatersThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=G R HallidayElly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=TwentyBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -twothe site was going to hold seventy-yearfive 'luxury' apartments -old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down they discovered the private road in Glen Turritbones of a child beneath a doorway. It There was a long road through some breath-taking scenery and she could push the car to its limits without fear of being caught speedingno skull. When the blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit Was this a treeritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. When she came round after the accident she couldnIt't work out where she wass difficult as Ruth knows, but it obviously wasnNelson doesn't , that she is pregnant with his child as a conventional hospitalresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. She'd made her first mistake some time ago, although the realisation wouldn't Her condition will be obvious to her for a before long time. She'd made it when she chose , not least because Ruth is prone to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4sudden bouts of sickness.

|author=Suzanne CollinsGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesAccidentals

|genre=TeensShort Stories|summary= Coriolanus Snow is refined, charming, and one This collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the only surviving members of the affluent Snow family. But their world was destroyed by the war. Their riches goneword: spellbinding with its fantastical, his parents dead - magical elements and yet the facade must be maintained. As the 10th Hunger Games begins, Coriolanus and other students of the Academy become the first Mentors charming in its gentle portrayal of the tributes in the games. This is his chance to prove himself to the world nature and secure his place in the Capitol for goodhuman relationships. But when he is assigned a tribute with no hope - a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning (both for her Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and for him) are gone. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself to be a spark in his worldprecisely, in her stories structured by a way he could never have imagined. As wisdom that appears to want to teach us something about the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights for her life in the arena - but behind the scenes, in the sly, complex and strangely dangerous world of the Capitol, Coriolanus is fighting for his life too. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=07023001791804271470