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|author=Lisa GrayDavid Chadwick|title=The Dark RoomHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=What if you knew someone was dead, because youIt'd watched them die several years agos September 1973 in Hicks, but then you come across California. Hicks is a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened in Mojave desert town of a different place few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and time? This is what Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens to Leonard in this storyHicks. He is an ex-crime reporter for A silver mine and a newspaperdefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, and since leaving journalism hethere's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds old, undeveloped rolls not much of film note other than dive bars and develops them in his own dark room at homeJoshua trees. One of these photographs turns out to show the murder scene of a young woman he met some years agoLife is quiet, and who he ''thought'' he had watched die in front of him one night in a hoteluntil.... He'd felt guilty ever since that night, and lost everything because of it - his fiancee and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died the night she was with him, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535XB0D321VJ76

|author=Natasha Hastings and Alex T SmithTom Percival|title=The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost FairWrong Shoes|rating=3.5

|summary=Will''The River Thames had frozen to death s life is difficult, in its sleepa multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes' And thus , he has the Frost Fair could happen – people trading on wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the completely iced-over rivermost basic of things like food, like our heroine Thomasinaand his dad can's father with t work because he lost his gingerbread job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and confectionery shophad an accident. Thomasina will be working Throw into that mix the Fair too – but her twin brother wonfact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will't, as he dies s life seems bleak in Chapter Oneevery direction. It was a tragedy she feels no small guilt forAnd yet, and which he still has made her father a sullen, closed shop – and her bed-bound mother has spoken not a word – not even opened her eyes, more or less – in the four years since, eithertiny amount of hope. But into the dark, frosted London comes Inigo, with supreme magical powersHe is good at art, and a willingness clings to help Thomasina. Not only can the moments of joy when he introduce her to the fantastical Other Frost Fairis drawing, using that feel like a light at the river surface at night for no end of mystical beasts and characters and their happenings, but he has a unique proposal for Thomasinalong, which will shake her world to its coredark tunnel.|isbn=00084960561398527122

|author=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Book of Hope A Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Politics and Society Science Fiction|summary= The done thing is to read There are few greater joys than a book all the way through before you sit down which lives up to review ita compelling premise. I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading And this amazing book, I want to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tearsone of them. |isbn=024147857X0356522776

|isbn=15295047670008517061|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyStig Abell|rating=54|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destinationFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She needn't have worried though as she went to There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the home future of Mr his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and Mrs Russellher daughter Diana, who couldn't have been kinder as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her. She even had her own room - all to reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life. She'd help Mrs Russell with in the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan present and Mr Russell put putting the decorations future on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morningback burner.

|authorisbn=1786482126|title=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates The Janus Stone (translatorDr Ruth Galloway)|titleauthor=Red as BloodElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missing, all Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the evidence seems site was going to point towards her having been kidnapped. The ransom note tells him not to have any contact with hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the police, so instead he enlists the help bones of Arora, a financial investigatorchild beneath a doorway. She manages to persuade Flosi that they will need the help of the police There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and she calls her detective friendDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, Danielbut Nelson doesn't, whom that she met when he was investigating her sister’s disappearanceis pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Together, they start to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearance Her condition will be obvious before long, trying not least because Ruth is prone to arouse the suspicion sudden bouts of anyone, since they have no idea who the kidnappers might be, yet the more they uncover, the more confusing things becomesickness.|isbn=1914585321

|isbn=08615419950008551324|title=Wolf PackThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Will DeanNeil Lancaster

|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the road north of Visbergpolice. She sees blood on the road and a creature on its Neither side near likes or has any respect for the pine treesother. It will turn out But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to be Bronco, tell the police where the body of a Swedish Elkhound, missing person is buried and who has been attacked by a wolfwas responsible for her death. Tuva takes Bronco and his ownerThis person, Bengt Nyberghe promises, to the vet. Bronco didn't make is someone big and it but on will be worth the way, Nyberg told Tuva that police doing what he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missingwants. She'd been working at Rose Farm and Moodyson's journalist's instincts are soon brought And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the fore. Rose Farm is now home to a group remainder of survivalists but back in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wife, sentence and his two eldest children and then killed himselfto get an early parole date. His newborn childNot much to ask, just four weeks old survived. is it? Does this have any connection The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?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.

|authorisbn=Alison Hughes0008405026|title=FlyA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=This is 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 very impressive readhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, as it does looks like a lot straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of what mainstream teen the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and tween fiction still struggles withher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Its focus is courtesy of the firstWhat looked as though it was going to be an open-person narration from Fly, a secondary school lad with cerebral palsy, a downand-on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being a cleaner, shut case is now a carer while at school, and a bundle of assumptions people lay on himcomplex double murder. First they assume Kerrigan is convinced that with a broken body comes a broken mind, then they decide hethe explanation lies in Rosalie's a maths savant – they even believe they can get away with calling him Fly, which isndisappearance: others (such as Derwent't his real names boss, but everybody just uses itUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1525305832

|isbn=37913883980571379877|title=New European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and PastriesThe Kellerby Code|author=Laurel KratochvilaJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=CookeryCrime|summary=This Edward Jevons is probably one of the most unusual baking books Ia working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert've encountereds a theatre director. ItHe's built around 99 recipes for breadsalso self-obsessed, demanding, brioches and pastries but the recipes are interwoven with some thought-provoking writing on how bread - handsome and baking - have changed in the twentieth entitled and early twenty-first centuriesuses Edward to run errands for him. We start Edward has been in love with the basics Stanza since their university days - the equipment youand he'll need (theres drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's nothing extravagant position would stay away from Stanza or indulgent) and the ingredients, where the author tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is particular. You might not have realised that different salts can change left to stumble upon the flavour and sensation on the tongue two of the finished product but, apparently, they dothem kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Andrew GivlerJo Callaghan|title=Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)Leave No Trace

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=''Matt has When a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It man is so bad that Dan found crucified on the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years top of a blissful life hill in exchange for his soulNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It'' Poor Dan! I know, I knows their first live case together, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demonshaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But he really when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a terrible salesman. He never hits his targets potential serial killer and, when he fails a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to get even Matt their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to sign on solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the dotted linecase and, potentially, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signature.out of a career?|isbn=1958204021139851120X

|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith1399613073|title=Super GhostMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Paragon City has been lucky to have Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the great Doctor Extraordinary, first day of medical school and their very own superhero taking care friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of thema century. Whenever the evil Captain Chaos has come up with another cunning plan (usually involving Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a giant robot of some description) Doctor Extraordinary has been there bonus when you aim to thwart her mischief be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and save the daya trauma doctor. But one day Anjali is the free spirit of the Doctor group and the Captain are trapped together inside she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a giant robot that then explodes, drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the hero and tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the villain are no morethree friends. Or This time, it's their teenage children who are they…?|isbn=0241470536involved.

|isbn=B0B7289HKQ0241636604|title=Conversations Across AmericaThe Trading Game: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of AmericaConfession|author=Kari LoyaGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=TravelAutobiography|summary=Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, by you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the way) wanted to spend some time East End, where he was familiar with his father violence, poverty and the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do itinjustice. The decision There was made no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles London School of it - in 2015Economics. They had 73 days to do it Stevenson is bright - slightly less than the recommended time extremely bright - but there were factors and he has a facility with numbers which pointed this up as more most of a challenge us can only envy. He also realised that it would be for most rich people expect poor people who considered taking it onto be stupid. Merv Loya It was 75 years old and he his ability at what was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Christopher Bowden1035021803|title=Mr MagentaThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Christopher BowdenIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's latest novel is a patient untangling back now because of a seemingly ordinary womanrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's lifeclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, carried out by let her nephew after down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has diednot felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. The aunt who always provided After the split, she worked in a safe harbour cafe, met and a little bit married James (on the rebound from the love of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting her life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised , who was murdered) and Freya and it seems to him an obligation to find it all outJames have now divorced. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW

|isbn=1739593901AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=22 Ideas About The FutureAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt

|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead Opening up new ways of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets thinking about the shape of things to track grandmacome.''

I've got a couple of confessions to makeheard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read must confess that there have been more than a few stories and then forget to return to the bookdecades of technology in my lifetime. ThereI've kept up reasonably well with what's got to be a very compelling hook advantageous to keep me engaged. Then therebut I's science fiction: far too often m left with the feeling that it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the worldall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly -buildingquite frightening. ItOf course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's human beings m reading someone who fascinate me: knows what they're talking about or the technology and the world scape are purely incidentallatest conspiracy theorist. So, what did I think of needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, way I loved itcould understand.

|isbnauthor=1405951184Sunny Singh|title=The Girls Who Disappeared|author=Claire DouglasHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Back The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a night outterrorist group. As she passed Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through the darkly-wooded Devil's Corridor, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a figure appeared in wartime photographer and Abhi, the roadhotel manager. Olivia swerved As Abhi continues to try to avoid him and care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the car smashed into hotel, he forms a treebond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, leaving and keeps on venturing out of her trapped. When she regained consciousness room to try to capture what's happened through her three friends had disappearedphotography. Ralph MiddletonAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, who lived in the woods helped their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her before the police keep safe and ambulance arrived. But what had happened they both wait to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would see if they will be yet another mysterious happening in rescued before they are discovered by the Stafferbury area of Wiltshire. It was thought of as Avebury's poor relationterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=39496660791529153298|title=NoemaThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Dael AkkermanJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5

|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'This is a story about some things s not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that happened her father wants to me about twelve thousand years agomove the family 'Down South'. When you'' Maya re from Yorkshire, Down South is a young girl living in a hunter-gatherer village during the Mesolithic erafrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Climate change is occurring For Miv, the Sea of Grass encroaches further move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and further into Mayashe'll do anything to prevent that. She's forest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce. What to do? Can not worried about the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to cope? Can the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions? anyone.

|isbn=194241028X1398524085|title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Michael PronkoNicci French

|summary=''You can't put 'good Charlotte Salter was expected at golf' on your tombstone, can you?'' When we meet Patrick Walsh he's outside his familyher husband's home in the Azabu district of Tokyo, hoping that his key will still work fiftieth birthday party but prepared to break in if it doesn'tnever turned up. He's there to remove his daughtersHer children, sons Niall, Jenna Paul and KiriOllie and her daughter, and take them back to HonoluluEtty. It's a quick day tripare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, with just one purpose in mindis not. Patrick's employed by Nine Dragons Wealth Management Shortly afterwards, Etty and for Greg, find the past year, hebody of Greg's been working father, Duncan Ackerley, in Wyoming because the privacy laws there are conducive to the business he's inriver. His wife, Miyuki, hasn't been in Wyoming with him and is in It was an easy assumption for the process of divorcing him after photographs sent police to her anonymously suggested make that Patrick Duncan had not been faithful to hermurdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. PatrickThe Salter children are not convinced but there's plan didn't work out and he finds himself little else they can do but get on the run in Tokyo with the two girlstheir lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81035906708|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)Diva|author=Neil LancasterDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for a run. The lawyer was on his honeymoon We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but his body she was found dashed born to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Head. Was it suicideGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall in December 1923 and fall only moved to his death? Or Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was he pushed? On balance, Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it looked like an accident but then his to 'accidentCallas' was linked to make it more manageable in the deaths of others associated with himStates. Scott Paterson When she was released after a 'notback in Athens -proven' verdict meant supposedly so that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was Grigor's last clientraised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=0989715337Christopher Edge|title=Papa on the Moon|author=Marco NorthBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they'Some frogs had gotten re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the wellanswering beat in my heart.''

''Walter stood waist-deep in Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the fragrant waterwrecks. Mira, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around himlike her mother before her, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two is one of the dogs leaned over seven who swim out to survey the opening ruins – rescuing any survivors and barked down at any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the strange noise of wrecking, they capture the buckets island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he filled them.'' How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct secretive and laconic with only coordinates to wistful and musingguide her, turning on she sets off in search of a sixpencefamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. And author Marco NorthWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, who has as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the most wonderful turn heart of phrasethe smuggler's territory, starts as he means Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to go onsave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=140639131XJames Sherwood Metts|title=A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May SmithPlanet Storyland

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross Things have been a bit sticky for the Old Oak RoadEarthlings. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasnAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they't a bird re paid to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing do and decided other tasks that she would set up something similar herselftook time to accomplish. Her uniform and lollipop stick Just as they were both a little amateur beginning to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals get used the crossing to all this technological change and Hedgehog starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was even trained up to provide a safe path overnightpretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=000837936XMatthew Tree|title=The Last Girl to Die|author=Helen FieldsWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to Tobermorybe different from his father, on the Isle of Mull, in search of a new life. It was a bit drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of a change from Las Vegas, but the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs being exceptional at any of developing a social life - until she disappeared. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been because Adriana's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob his artistic passions all failed miserably and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagersendless crises of self confidence. BrandonSo Tim applied himself to his studies, Adriana's twin, was upset cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and surly. Four-year-old Luna just knew that she missed her big sister. It took four days, set himself high but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnon's Cave. She'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killingachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1509889612A G Slatter|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann CleevesBriar Book of the Dead

|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=It'' There's fifty years since a group part of teenagers went on me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a weekend retreat to Holy Islandwhile. Some '' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of them found the Only Connect course transformative and theyBriar've been coming back for s, a reunion every five years since thenfamily of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. There was a tragedy at Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close non-witch to high tide be born into her family for generations and her car as such since she was swept awayyoung, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with the group each year training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her husbandgrandmother suddenly dies, KenEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, was one of the original teenagers. Ken now has Alzheimertown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and he's centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a shadow maelstrom of the man he used chaos. Reeling from one family secret to be. Philip Robson now a priestanother, always gets there early as he likes Ellie must decide who to have some quiet time alone in the chapel. Annie Laidler lives locally trust and she provides much of determine what to do as the food: her deli Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is famous in the areaunder threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=14736808831529900360|title=The Skeleton KeyGhost Orchid|author=Erin KellyJonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'The Golden Bones is going s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to follow me around ask for the rest of my lifehis help on difficult cases. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to you!'' Nell His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't want to go to need the reunion to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary help of the publication of ''The Golden Bones''a psychologist only worked for a while. She'd had no benefit from Finally, it - in factwas Robin, it had made her life precarious and unbelievably challenging. IDelaware'd better explains partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. ''The Golden Bones'' She knew that the involvement was a treasure quest book painted and written by Frank and Cora Churchersomething that the man she loved needed. The story revolved around murdered next case did look simple, though. Elinore whose golden and bejewelled bones Two lovers were hidden around murdered in the countryswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. The clues - some of them quite tortuous - were disguised in He was the words heir to an Italian shoe empire and pictures of the book - she is married to an extremely rich man and all the parts were discovered except for it's not the pelvisItalian. As with such quests, some people were obsessive and But which of them was the theories became more and more outlandish.primary target?

|authorisbn=Holly Webb1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Story Secret Life of Greenrivera Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Silken and Sedge, for all their differences, have a lot in commonSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Silken is His father was a girl whose GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father is 's life. When he was seventeen he took the Master Builder opportunity of what might be the finest beaver lodge on the Greenriver. Unfortunately she is also doing work experience with a kind of runt figure, and as family friend who was a result is patronised, vet and given was convinced this was the most tokenistic tasks when it comes to fetching wood and shoring the dam up. She also stands out job for the unique artistic ability to singhim. Otters like Sedge singBefore long, but he too, was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as the son of the lady of the holt, has pressure on him to be with so many students - been his dream since he was a bit less feckless and more attentive to classchild. HeIf anything, after all, will eventually inherit the job of keeping the otters safe from the wolf that both animal species fear the most, and from dreaded events like he'd wanted to be a Dark Springprofessional footballer.|isbn=1510109625

|authorisbn=Anna Kemp and David Wyatt0861541774|title=Into Goblyn WoodA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Hazel. For the last nine of her eleven yearsDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, she has been stuck as taken a foundling short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a horrid, Victorian institution, generally peeling vegetables or acting as street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a servant. She'd arrived at the place at the same time as Pete, knife - and they're inseparably good friends now, until he killed a chance for them both to escape, and enter the outside world, does not go to planGhurka. There had always been the idea of a life idyllic in the nearby forests Initially, Goblyn Wood, and he faced a tribe charge of Wild Children, manslaughter but none of evidence came to light that suggested that comes he might have planned to pass, as Hazel finds herself in murder the care of a professor at the Natural History Museumman. But life with him is not anything like what she might have expected it to Now he could be – and Hazel is determined to return to facing the Woods, restore her friendship with Pete – and death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to work out just what is going on in the forest, both the light help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and the shade, and the deathly dark.wouldn't help Danny at all..|isbn=1398503835

|isbnauthor=0241990165Alexander McCall Smith|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting that The Perfect Passion Company is a shot had been fired dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an isolated house but alternative to all the call hadn't online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come from and look after the householder. A couple of PCs went business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to make certain that everything was alright and it took quite get away for a while for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come in. In the kitchen there was Katie is coming out of a body on the floor: the head had been blown off break up with a shotgun bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the corpse was holding a knife in its right handchance to come home to Edinburgh. Richard Swann told the police that he'd heard sounds of And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an intruder Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and had come downstairs the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to investigatecharm. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there' s always her very helpful (and come at him with rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defence.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn= Kit De Waal0811771741|title= Without Warning and Only SometimesInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating= 4|genre= AutobiographyCrafts|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, your mum and dad/ They may not mean Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to, but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of parenthood and the bonds that bind family. This book is a memoir focussing on the author’s formative years as a teenager living 'long, cosy afternoons in a lower class area front of Birminghamthe fire' variety. Her father is from St. Kitts in the Caribbean and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant The projects are divided by and marrying a black man. This intersectionality plays a large role in the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to her raceten hours, her class ten to twenty hours and her gendermore than twenty hours. Her parents loom large and All the projects are written with care, loveattractive, modern and the kind of anger only a child can express to their parentsuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1472284836

|author=David LagercrantzDean Koontz|title=Dark MusicThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart of what little investigating Benny is going on, but there is not having a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthterrifically bad day. For oneHe loses his job, the main focus of the narrativehe loses his fiancee, Micaela, is no John Watson MDand his house gets trashed. She's a Chilean in the Stockholm policeOh, put on and someone has delivered a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of oldreally weird, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned disturbing coffin-sized object to death shortly after the matchhis home, and just outside it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the stadium. thing that has trashed his house! BeppeThe thing is, Benny is the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses delivery to admit anythinghis house is a new friend, through days and weeks of interrogation. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up witha bad weather friend called Spike, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told has been sent to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a shamblesgood person. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve the crimeSpike is going to take care of Benny, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind will certainly take care of guyBenny's enemies, she can't get his full verdict on it all. Untilif he, that may beBenny, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt..and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=15294131921662500491

|isbnauthor=B0B2N7MVYMAdam Stower|title=The Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel GodfreyMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just Murray is supposed to put what happens in contextbe a humble, the Cuban missile crisis tidy and friendly cat, one who is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a chance able to breathe outsleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But for Joe Marr, ithe's not the missile crisis thata bad magician's at the front of cat, so his mind. He's favourite bun has been convicted of murder. With turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the current state of medical knowledgecatflap they both use can chuck them out, it's hard to think otherwise than that not into the prosecution would never have been brought regular back garden, but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, into a relatively new prisonworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. HeThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, turned up and learning he'll have to be wary of the McArthur brothers.do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1846976146B0C47LV1PC|title=The Bone RoadFragility|author=N E SolomonsMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Heather Bishop, the former Olympic cyclist, flew to Bosnia to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnon. She even took their bikes so they could have Can you make a few days' break in the region. It was a little worrying that he didn't seem exactly pleased to see her: she even wondered Yo birthing person'' joke? And if he had a woman in you could, is the hotel room. Heather had to give up competitive cycling after a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but her reactions and her memory were not up to question should you make it? Or is the standard she question if you did, would need to race againit land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. Sometimes she couldn 't be certain about what she had or hadn't done and she simply couldnFragility't cope in difficult situations. She didn't entirely trust herself.is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic