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|authorisbn=Jo Callaghan1786482126|title=Leave No TraceThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=When a man is found crucified on Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the top bones of a hill in Nuneatonchild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, DCS Kat Frank Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lockworking with DCI Harry Nelson. It's their first live case togetherdifficult as Ruth knows, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days laterbut Nelson doesn't, Kat that she is suddenly struggling pregnant with his child as a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot result of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing projectthe one night they spent together some three months ago. Will they Her condition will be able obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out sudden bouts of a career?|isbn=139851120Xsickness.

|isbn=15290777450008551375|title=The Dark Wives When Shadows Fall (D I Vera StanhopeS Max Craigie)|author=Ann CleevesNeil Lancaster

|summary=A man walking his dog in Leanne Wilson's body was found at the early morning discovered bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the body result of a man in the park near Rosebanktragic accident. She'd looked so happy, too, a care home for troubled teenswhen she posted her intentions on Facebook. The dead man Her friends were relieved as she was Josh - one just out of the care workers who an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was due to work a shift the night before but who living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called died in similar circumstances in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-last year-old Chloe Spencer. Some All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people believe that Chloe was responsible for . None of the death but Vera thinks this 'what a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is unlikely as the girlcertain there's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josha killer on the loose.

|isbnauthor=1399613073Paul B Preciado|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie WatsonDysphoria Mundi

|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=Olivia''It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood''  Through this hybrid text, Laura and Anjali met on the first day consisting of medical school arias, letters, essays and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitiousautofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, which is and brings forth a bonus when you aim new sensorium as an offering to be the new generation, a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a perfectionist and a trauma doctorsign of political apathy. Anjali Rather, it is the free spirit of proportional, valid response to ''the group epistemological and she becomes a GP. When political crack we first meet them they're at a drug are living through, and alcohol-fuelled party the tension between emancipatory forces and itconservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''s going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered The whole text is framed against the tragedy or backdrop of the consequences. TwentyCovid-five years later there will be an eerily similar event 19 pandemic as that will impact the three friendswhich has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''. This timeRather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of weakness, itor mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''s their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1804271454

|isbnauthor=0241636604Samantha Harvey|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary StevensonOrbital

|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=If you were to bring up an image 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 city banker narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to see our planet in your mind, youa wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933}}{{Frontpage|isbn=295967572X|title=Pale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're unlikely to think going and what the purpose of someone like Gary Stevensonthis journey is, is uncertain. A hoodie Django found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere'' and jeans replaces has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the pin-stripe suit station by coach and his background the train is a steam locomotive.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injusticepolice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he had been 's prepared to tell the London School police where the body of Economicsa missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Stevenson This person, he promises, is bright - extremely bright - someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envywants. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people And what he wants is to be stupid. It was transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him sentence and to get an internship with Citibankearly parole date. EventuallyNot much to ask, this turned into permanent employment as a traderis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbnauthor=B0DB64PYV5Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The White Rose|author=Dave BainesVaim

|genre=Dystopian Literary Fiction|summary=In 2033''All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, two of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035043092|title=The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=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 superstorm known new life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the White Rose devastates the Northern Hemispheredaughter of his former partner. And it Willow's not also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a storm that gathers, wreaks havocshe can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.}}{{Frontpage|author=Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Tower|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, then dissipatesthe protagonist of this tale. InsteadJust as T's story is being told, it hovers across half the Earth with its octopus-like tentaclesstory of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to T. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, not giving up fable and never going awayfantasy. |isbn=1804271799

|author=Leanne EganClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Lover BirdsBig Kiss, Bye-Bye

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=When new girlEverything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, Isabelusually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, moves to Lou's hometown becomes evidence of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around herlove lost. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each otherWhen the narrator cries out internally, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her''come over here and kiss me, and that's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straightless an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, isn't she? Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well so farex-partner, and she's never had a good kiss with any of them? So ghost she just finds herself watching Isabel, and wanting conjures to hang out with test her because fighting with her is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?detachment.|isbn=000862657X1804271934

|isbn=10094730850008405026|title=The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)Jane Casey

|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Sometimes itIt's simpler sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to explain a book by describing what halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there''isn't'' 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 applies to 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 Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?Other Girl|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=''We were born from the same body. If youI're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story ve never really wanted to think about what this.''really Ernaux's work is always very candid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the most intimate accounts I' happened on certain occasionsve read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, then this isn't the book for youletter will never reach her. If thatWhy? Because Annie Ernaux's what you're looking forsister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, I don't think Anthony Seldonand 2 years before the author was even born. The large and instant void created by the jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's bookprocess of reckoning with this giant absence in her life, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845}}{{amazonurlFrontpage|isbnauthor=B0BH7SKG2SMaxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Johnson at 10}}Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=Biographies are often seen as the form of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be bettered for those tumultuous yearsseen as more objective and less personal. It's I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to politics. ''The Conservative Effecthis friend Gorky that: '' you write not of real life as it is an entirely different beast, but of what you yourself imagine it to be. ItWhom would it help to know how I see this tower, that sea, or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''s the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010subjective account, giving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, the changes that occurred Chekhov and the situation Andreyev in 2024such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=1804271977

|authorisbn=Max Boucherat1529077745|title=The Last Life of Lori MillsDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=We meet Lori on A man walking his dog in the first evening she's got early morning discovered the house to herself – no neighbour to pop body of a man inthe park near Rosebank, babysitter poorly, mother at a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesomea shift the night before but who had never turned up. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled D I Vera Stanhope is called in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, investigate the worldmurder -buildingbut her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, critterfourteen-collecting game year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is a hit in Loriunlikely as the girl's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling diary makes it clear that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spookyadored Josh. For the server She knows that she and her bestie and nobody else should be able has to find Chloe to discover what happened to enter shows signs of tamperingJosh. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482

|authorisbn=Jenny LecoatB0FK5LHKD9|title=Beyond SummerlandThe Colour of Memory|author=Christopher Bowden

|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, JeanIt's father was arrested for listening been three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, so we were very glad to see a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of himnew novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the NazisLike all Bowden's stories, and there's a mystery at the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became heart of ''The Colour of himMoney''. But will the truth come as We like this running theme in an author's work - take a relief, or will mystery but give it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537different flavour and atmosphere each time.

|isbnauthor=1529428289Olga Tokarczuk|title=A Grave House of Day, House of Night|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the constant in that image is the Woods (A Brunohouse, Chief of Police Novel)stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Martin WalkerDai Henley

|summary=Because of various property transactionsEx-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, people were searching for the grave but when they found itand he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, it came with three sets of boneshis daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. They dated back to World War II and it fell to BrunoHis wife, the Chief of Police for St DenisLaura, has been trying to persuade him to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether retire - ''maybe go travelling or not a crime had been committedgo on cruises. As if this isnThat's what 'ordinary people do't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. '' ItHe's not just been entirely up front about the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to release water and St Denis faces take his case, it's the possibility thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a devastating floodmiscarriage of justice that he really should put right.

|isbn=152919640X1836284683|title=The SuspectBig Happy|author=Rob RinderDavid Chadwick

|genre=CrimeDystopian Fiction|summary=The nationWell! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, it's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holbynothing like I expected it to be, was murdered live on television and it seems takes me on a wild ride. And that thereis just what happened with ''The Big Happy''s only one suspect. HeI don's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso t want to ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but I'll have to Jessica Holbyat least set the scene. SheOnce that's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busydone, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that I think you should simply experience this was no accidentwonderfully original story for yourself.

|isbnauthor=0008385068Sally Rooney|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy FoleyIntermezzo

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction |summary=It's midsummer on Sally Rooney has studied the Dorset coast chessboard of life and guests gather is something of a grandmaster at The Manorputting it into words. It's their opening weekend Her dialogue is gripping and splendid celebrations are promisedso brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it Among the many relationships woven into an impressive retreat this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the wealthy fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and famousPeter Koubek. Her husbandIvan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, Owencontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the sitea successful lawyer living in Dublin. The heat is oppressive and amongst Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it wonbrothers't be long before a body is foundalready strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469

|authorisbn=Ashley Hickson-Lovence1036916375|title=Wild EastJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Peter McArdle|rating=4.5|genre=TeensAutobiography|summary=Written in verse, this ''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy collection of memories and reflections from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich the years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and start at around Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the family history of a mostly white schoolsea-going family, with the docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the what-might-have-been. The move is initiated by RonnyIt's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying book to settle in a new town, a new school, into and keep himself out of trouble. He listens allow your mind to music constantlyroam across your childhood memories, and has always dreamed to think of being simpler times when life seemed less constrained, despite the blitz that was a rapperconstant factor in McArdle's early years. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part I'd never heard of a poetry writing workshop group parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and, slowly, Ronny begins to see could appear after the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your wordsall-clear was sounded.|isbn=0241645441

|isbn=16358668471836285493|title=The Lavender CompanionDouble Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin VesciRob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=It's strangeWill is a keen player of video games, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''a conscientious student, I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] a slightly annoying brother and there's a picture supportive friend. But most of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepageall, he is an aspiring writer. I don't eat cakes English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerallyone at which he excels. (ThereThis hasn's a recipe in the bookt gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told she has suggested to make Will and his mum that he spends a mess couple of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be a problem. I ''loved'' this book alreadybetter extended.

|authorisbn=Rob Keeley1009473085|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special editionThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|summary=Around hereSometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, wethen this isn't the book for you. If that's what you're big fans of childrenlooking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's author Rob Keeleybook, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. He It's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, compelling read and he writes should be compulsory for their pleasure and enjoyment, not anyone who thinks Johnson should return to lecture or hectorpolitics.  The ''Childish SpiritsThe Conservative Effect'' series is one of his greatest achievementsan entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a sequence government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of ghost stories centring on Ellieexperts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling changes that occurred and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617situation in 2024.

|authorisbn=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton1787333175|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero TrialYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his worldI was tempted to read ''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}}, it seems, he is an avid fan a glorious mixture of Dungeon Running – insight into the sport where a team workings of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exitNHS, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad humour and the points they grant you along the wayautobiography. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed'You Don't Have to be Mad... Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to '' promised the goading same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the token bully work of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a teampsychiatrist. What chance does I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184understanding.

|author=Saima MirMariana Enriquez|title=VengeanceA Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersShort Stories|summary= I was instantly intrigued Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by the premise basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of this novel – disused refrigerators due to an urban planning mishap, an organised overcrowded homeless shelter and a crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. The fact circumstances of her characters are so plausible that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lostsimilarly tangible texture.|isbn=08615415611803511230

|authorisbn=Stuart Douglas1529934753|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress RehearsalThe Protest|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5

|summary=During location filming for his 1970For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit'most famous living artist, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across was not going to show up for the dead body opening of a woman on his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in the edge nick of time, complete with his two wives and six children, one of a reservoirwhom filmed what happened. The police seem happy Being an influencer, you tend to assign it as an accidental deathdo things like that, but something about it was fortunate that there was a record of the whole thing bothers Loweprotest. Lexi Williams, and he enlists an intern at the help RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a fellow actor, John Le Breton chair and proceeded to help him investigate matters further. They travel across spray Bruce in the country during their days off filmingface, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during whilst shouting ''Stop the Second World War''. But is there really a link between the deaths? It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.

|isbnauthor=B0CYV674G2Ariel Saramandi|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David BlakePortrait of an Island on Fire|rating=34.5|genre=CrimePolitics and Society|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A manIn this powerful collection of essays, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knifeSaramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, comes tunneling deep into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the manwounds left by colonialism and slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. A body at Saramandi describes the bottom of a freshly dug grave country at Swanton Morley church - heone stage as ''rotting''s been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with a blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the birth malignant forces of his daughter Samantharacism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but Each essay in this collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, charting the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to various diseases afflicting the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at homeisland state.|isbn=1804271616

|isbnauthor=1787333175Pekka Harju-Autti|title=You DonLoveVortex and the Drakor't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouses Curse|rating=54|genre=Popular ScienceFantasy|summary=I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam KayIt's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}the eighteenth century, a glorious mixture time of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour discovery and autobiographyBritain is expanding its foreign trade. ''You Don't Have Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to be Madthe Andaman Islands in his endeavour...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness Along with his son, Peter, and the work of their cat, Michi, they set off on a psychiatristperilous voyage to these faraway lands. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour The islands are beautiful and stunning in this setting but their scenery and the laughter islanders' leader, Aarav, is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understandingkeen to establish good relations. |isbn=B0DS1VGHH3

|author=Onyi NwabineliHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Allow Me to Introduce MyselfLili is Crying

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step hearts of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down sentences from their proper position on the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online page and receiving money from positions them for doing so. Most importantlyelsewhere, she is desperately worried about her little sisterdisjointed, who is truncated. Like the new focus lives of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sistercharacters, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|author=David Chadwick|title=Headload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor they are the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until...often left tragically incomplete.|isbn= B0D321VJ761804271675

|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-grid Guadalupe Nettel 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone Rosalind Harvey (Dr Ruth GallowayTranslator)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterAccidentals

|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling This collection was truly enchanting in prison and he's prepared to tell all senses of the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This personword: spellbinding with its fantastical, he promises, is someone big magical elements and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder charming in its gentle portrayal of his sentence nature and to get an early parole datehuman relationships. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{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. Nowprecisely, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like stories structured by a straightforward murder/suicide but there's wisdom that appears to want to teach us 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 convincedworld.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. 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 them kissing in a dark passageway.1804271470