Grave's EndAn unidentified body is found in a freezer. No one seems to know or care who it is or who placed it there. DS Alexandra Cupidi couldn't have realised that this bizarre discovery will be connected to the crisis in housing, the politics of environmentalism and specifically the protection given to badgers by the law. But there are dangerous links between these strange, reclusive, fiercely territorial creatures and the activism of Cupidi's teenage

selected by the Times2 Crossword Editor John Grimshaw

teenager Alexandra Tozer was murdered on her family farm

Anna Reid adds a new chapter to the complex biography of a country on the frontline of the conflict between democracy and dictatorship

I liked him - until I woke to find he had stolen my dog

is his definitive account of the city

terrible and miraculous ways

Both curious

the enigmatic Homo floresiensis

as well as a life partner

But that wasn't true

and computer screens

Told in three chapters with short sentences and vocabulary just right for emergent readers