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|author=Jamie LittlerDavid Chadwick|title=ArkspireHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader It's September 1973 in illicit magicHicks, including relics from prior major wars left out in the BadlandsCalifornia. Elodie Hicks is intent on getting closer to power in one a Mojave desert town of the religious districts a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in line to inherit the power of the Watcher, the closest to Hicks. A silver mine and a ruler defence contractor are the district hasmain local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and one of the five major victors in said earlier warJoshua trees. Life is quiet, until... Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143B0D321VJ76

|author=Thiago de MoraesTom Percival|title=Old Gods New TricksThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapesWill's life is difficult, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought in a young goddess multitude of nuisanceways. But just when sheHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, he has the world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of electric carsthings like food, hits not just the town the schooland his dad can's in but t work because he lost his job at the entire planet (apart from mobile phonescollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and all had an accident. Throw into that powers mix the Internetfact that his mum and dad are separated, just for our convenienceand Will's sake)life seems bleak in every direction. Trixie, luckilyAnd yet, realises what he still has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power a tiny amount of power from ushope. And so she begins her epic questHe is good at art, and clings to gather all the people moments of joy when he is drawing, that can steal it back – namely feel like a light at the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giantsend of a long, half-gods and so on known as the trickstersdark tunnel.|isbn=178845295X1398527122

|author=Alexia CasaleSylvie Cathrall|title=Sing if you Can't DanceA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate There are few greater joys than a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back book which lives up to a life that's as normal as she can possibly managecompelling premise. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day-to-day traumas And this is one of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigatethem. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=05713738010356522776

|authorisbn=Helen Peters0008517061|title=Friends and TraitorsDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=34|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=EnglandFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, WW2has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Two young girls are new at There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her future of his life it seemswith his vet girlfriend, like the female generations before Livia and her. The other is Sidneydaughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flightlot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-paths. The girls are chalk grid and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour relaxing life to move in with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is amiss, the future she wants for herself and first separately and then her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, present and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely putting the girls are wrong, and future on the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=1788004647back burner.

|isbn=02419961041786482126|title=Coming to Find YouThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Jane CorryElly Griffiths

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=NancyBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's mother and stepluxury' apartments -father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted when they discovered the bones of their murdera child beneath a doorway. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentenceThere was no skull. The barrister tells her that she's received Was this a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with what happened for the rest of her lifeDCI Harry Nelson. Of course, itIt's made worse because Nancydifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn's rich - t, that she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and is pregnant with his child as a result of the papers are making the most of itone night they spent together some three months ago. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might Her condition will be obvious before long, not be printed but least because Ruth is undoubtedly spokenprone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=15294136800008551324|title=A Chateau Under Siege The Devil You Know (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelD S Max Craigie)|author=Martin WalkerNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=One of It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the main events of police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the Sarlat tourist season other. But Davie Hardie is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English struggling in 1370 prison and Brunohe's there prepared to see tell the show with some friendspolice where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong whenThis person, Kerquelinhe promises, is someone big and it will be worth the man playing one of the main characters police doing what he wants. And what he wants is seriously injured when he departs from to be transferred to an open prison to serve the scriptremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. LuckilyNot much to ask, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a helicopter. it? A local doctor (The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as heshe's a senior government employee, even prepared to do the man who runs Frenchelon other thing that Hardie demanded - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby make certain that DS Max Craigie and another, anyone who lives in California, works with him is flying in with some of her fatherkept well away from what's friends for a pre-arranged holidayhappening.

|isbn=15291963880008405026|title=The TrialA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Rob RinderJane Casey|rating=4.5

|summary=Grant Cliveden It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good never found and honest and looked up the investigation ground to by just about everyonea halt. Now, her mother, Helena, so there was public uproar when he was murdered and her father are dead in plain sight at the Old Baileytheir bed. ThereInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's just one man in something about the positioning of the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylorgoing to be an open-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent himshut case is now a complex double murder. KnightKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Camerondisappearance: others (such as Derwent's recommendations to the contraryboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Essie Fox0571379877|title=The FascinationKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= The Victorian era Edward Jevons is incredibly overa working-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched onlyclass young man, perhapsobsessed with his upper-class friends, by the Second World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling itRobert and Stanza. There Robert's such a glut of media set in the era that the hallmarks wetheatre director. He've come s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to associate run errands for him. Edward has been in love with it are familiar Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to the point of being cliched, hackneyed evenRobert. All this is simply to illustrate that it Most men in Robert's position would be an easy thing to do poorly. But despite stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that, something about it still grabs me – and something about this booka relationship had begun between them but he's description did as wellnot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1914585526

|author=Andrew CartmelJo Callaghan|title=Death in Fine ConditionLeave No Trace|rating=34

|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular When a series called Sleuth Hound. She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell man is found crucified on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking' themthe top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to add valuethe case alongside her sidekick, in somewhat fraudulent waysthe AI detective Lock. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in the background of a photograph on her drug dealerIt's living room walltheir first live case together, and so she sets about discovering where this collection having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there isa second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and how she can steal it! a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. It's a next-level step Will they be able to solve the case in her petty crime career, but has she reached too fartime, and what or will happen when Kat find herself taken off the owner case and, potentially, out of the collection comes looking for their booksa career?|isbn=1789098947139851120X

|isbn=15295079871399613073|title=The Repair Shop Craft BookMoral Injuries|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Christie Watson

|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop''Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. It's my go-to programme Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when I want you aim to be cheered upa cardiothoracic surgeon. After Laura is a perfectionist and a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worthtrauma doctor. You see, Anjali is the value is in what these possessions are worth to free spirit of the people who own them group and the memories they holdshe becomes a GP. No expense appears to be spared When we first meet them they're at a drug and the experts spend as much time alcohol-fuelled party and effort as is required it's going to achieve end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the desired resultconsequences. Regular viewers know Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what three friends. This time, it is they're doings their teenage children who are involved. But how did they start?

|authorisbn=Nicole Jarvis0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Portrait in ShadowConfession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Historical FictionAutobiography|summary=''I want all of Florence If you were to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking bring up an oasis image of a city banker in which her art can find a home your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where her future can thrive rather than stagnatehe was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self There was no posh public school on his CV -proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power but he had been to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and cursesLondon School of Economics. The all Stevenson is bright -male Accademia extremely bright - and he has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all elsea facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. To them It was his ability at what was, essentially, Artemisia – a card game which got him an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their societyinternship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=1803362340

|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH1035021803|title=The Grave ListenersAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=William FrankC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=The It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village is isolated and poorwhere she grew up. It She's surrounded by back now because of a Witching Forestrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. And Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicinesleast. The black wood of Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the forest provides heat and warmthvillage: Arthur, roofs on homesshe feels, and even gallows, if neededlet her down badly. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the village and that is profession she loved. After the reason Volushkasplit, she worked in a drunkencafe, self-indulgentmet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, lazy lout of a man is toleratedwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbnauthor=024162343XSunny Singh|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam SangheraHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers |summary=I was the bad company other people got into at schoolThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed Hiding from the existence of terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a 'god'wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. Where was As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse residents who are still. Not too long after alive in the end of WWIIhotel, I didn't so much want he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to learn about the British army's successes (be cowed by events, and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell keeps on those) in venturing out of her room to try to capture what came to be called 's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the colonies' phone, their friendship grows as want Abhi tries to dispute what right the army had help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be there in rescued before they are discovered by the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Amanda Craig1529153298|title=Three GracesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5

|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novelIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... There) She's something 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 utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the atmosphere of the day and capture itfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this move would be embarrassingly inadequate: mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this pointll do anything to prevent that. She has such a gift for weaving 's not worried about the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of dangers or that her characters in a way that feels natural and livedMum's stopped talking -in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselvesto anyone.|isbn= 140871468X

|isbn=14483093791398524085|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=David MarkNicci French|rating=3.5

|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's something of a surprise to find that you're dead, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on a break with your wife and children, fiftieth birthday party but that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoynever turned up. Whilst he was relieved to find that he was stillHer children, officiallysons Niall, alivePaul and Ollie and her daughter, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish PharoahEtty. Her protegee are all worried but - McAvoy strangely - was still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in the early hours of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her carhusband, Alec, was is not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoyShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's doppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindlyfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on Aectorwith their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=09571811671035906708|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian LewisDiva|author=Alan MarshallDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=ArtGeneral Fiction|summary=There are few positive things which can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but this timeshe was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in trying December 1923 and only moved to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls - and Athens when she was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewisthirteen. I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the print I wanted was ‘not available’States. Oh, dear When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - then a few doors down from she was raised under the apartment, I found Nazi occupation by a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - mother who mercilessly exploited her and a framed print made no secret of the picture I wantedher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Simon FoxChristopher Edge|title=DeadlockBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5

|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from Lucas and his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archiefriends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on that has the runnickname of 'The Black Hole'. They get togetherAll big movie fans, but barely begin they're looking forward to smell the whiff lots of Southern trains when exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the father movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is arrestedvery different, leaving Archie on and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the late express to Brightonnext, toting a tin his father was determined can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to keep away from his colleaguesthe cinema, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.to their real lives?|isbn=18399444201839942738

|author=Shalini BolandRachel Greenlaw|title=The Silent BrideCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary= Alice and Seth are a match made ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in heavenmy heart. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome'' Rosevear, accomplisheda remote and partially forgotten island, clever, funny; total survives on luring ships into the rocks and utter husband-materialplundering the wrecks. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautifulMira, successfullike her mother before her, confident… and so is one of the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and seven who swim out to survey the wedding is planned ruins – rescuing any survivors and setany treasure that lies within. When But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the much-anticipated day arriveswrecking, Alice is walked down they capture the aisle by her island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, beaming Mira makes a bargain with pride a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and excitement as with only coordinates to guide her, she surveys sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the congregation – their friends assembled sea. With only nine days to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to face his approaching bride, Alicethe heart of the smuggler's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the altar is, who is waiting for future of her to become his wifehome and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=16625070890008664730

|author=Mark EdwardsJames Sherwood Metts|title=Keep Her SecretPlanet Storyland

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Matthew Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and Helena are in Icelandautomation have been proceeding apace, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after often replacing jobs they first met're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph Just as they were beginning to get used to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in all this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her technological change and a 500 foot drop starting to certain death below. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself think of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panickedother, cryptic declaration new ways to Matthewspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Just moments later their heroicLife was pretty much shut down and, and frankly very well preparedalong with it, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helenaall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=166250893X1736128426

|isbnauthor=B0BYF82CXTMatthew Tree|title=Semi-Detached|author=Deborah StoneWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached houseTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, stuck in a depressing rut drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of boredom his artistic passions all failed miserably and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next doorwho had endless crises of self confidence. Despite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and life appears So Tim applied himself to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seemshis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedyset himself high but achievable ambitions.''|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1787636003A G Slatter|title=The Girls Briar Book of Summer|author=Katie Bishopthe Dead

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=It was '' There's a part of 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 while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she town and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the islandwider world from the Darklands. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but Though she washas always wished for magic, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-fourEllie Briar is the first non-year-old Alistair Wright started witch to take an interest in be born into her, family for generations and as such since she was flattered young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than waryspells and potions. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and by that time she was obsessed by himEllie takes her place beside her. Alistair worked for Henry TaylorAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, looking after his interests on Ellie uncovers the island rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and in particular in determine what to do as the bar where all the girls either worked or partiedBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=15291353891529900360|title=The FallGhost Orchid|author=Gilly MacmillanJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=Nicole Booth It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband been badly injured but opera he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was playing reluctant to ask for his help on the statedifficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-ofand-shut cases which didn't need the-art music system installed in The Glass Barnhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. TheyFinally, it was Robin, Delaware'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted uponhelp again. Some of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they shouldShe knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of moneyThe next case did look simple, toothough. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool with of a wound remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to his headan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Alan Parks1529395224|title=To Die in JuneLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then anotherSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own His father is was a down-GP and-out alcoholic, with no fixed abodeRowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, and particularly when he has been for yearsconsidered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. At When he was seventeen he took the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing opportunity of doing work experience with a move to family friend who was a different police station, vet and was convinced this was the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missingjob for him. Before long, only no record of the boy having existed can be foundhe was at Liverpool University. Something feels wrong It hadn't - not just as with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where so many students - been his dream since he has been stationedwas a child. If anything, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Laura Noakes0861541774|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Number One. Or ratherDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Cosima Unfortunate. Or ratherDanny Maik, just Cos to her friends. The practice has taken a short holiday in the home she lives in is for the girls Singapore to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, and they're all Unfortunates – young people meet up with disabilitiesan old ally, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly uponGuy Trueman. But Cosima bears the tag as Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, knife - and unique in having no known family in the outside worldhe killed a Ghurka. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoonInitially, she discovers he faced a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems charge of manslaughter but evidence came to want light that suggested that he might have planned to adopt all murder the girls for his Instituteman. But why, and what does that body entail? Now he could be facing the death penalty. And Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|author=Thomas D LeeAlexander McCall Smith|title=Perilous TimesThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= ''Hate The Perfect Passion Company is the path of least resistance'' Set a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the near-distant future, online apps in providing a world on more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the verge of climate collapsebusiness, Britain as Ness is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs planning to take a hero (or several) trip to Canada to save the day and rescue what little remainsget away for a while. What no one expected was that one Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the Knights of chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Round Table would answer the callIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. 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 rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=03565185231846976596

|authorisbn=Madelaine Lucas0811771741|title=Thirst InstaKnits for SaltBaby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrafts|summary= Melissa Leapman's 'Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed InstaKnits for gravityBaby'' Told gives us a collection of knits from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the year-'long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, cosy afternoons in front of the narrator relives fire' variety. The projects are divided by the affair with a man time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty years her senior from its inception – hours. All the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer afterprojects are attractive, modern and useable. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town I perhaps show my age when I wonder about ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24social-yearmedia-old narratorworthy projects' but that's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocablyme being picky.|isbn=0861546490

|isbnauthor=1529382823Dean Koontz|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will DeanBad Weather Friend

|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') Benny is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Petehaving a terrifically bad day. They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Caz's sisterOh, Gemmaand someone has delivered a really weird, reckons that Pete is going disturbing coffin-sized object to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket home, and she doesn't know whether sheit's relieved possible that whoever or disappointedwhatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. They've not been He is a couple nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity delivery to get his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to know help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a bit bettergood person. MeanwhileSpike is going to take care of Benny, Gemma is looking after Cazand will certainly take care of Benny's cafe as well as their mother enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who has dementia. Itfinds herself roped into Benny's going to be good, isn't it?wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Lex CroucherAdam Stower|title=Gwen Murray and Art Are Not in LoveBun|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers |summary=Who knew that what I really needed Murray is supposed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in be a most delightful way. In this storyhumble, Gwen tidy and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tinyfriendly cat, much one who is able to their mutual disgust! Gwensleep and eat and eat and sleep and, you seewell, is in love with Bridget (whatever takes his fancy next of the kingdomtwo. But he's a bad magician's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a boy hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they find themselves becoming reluctant alliesboth use can chuck them out, creating not into the subterfuge regular back garden, but into a world of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentsfrightening adventure and whiffs. But as their impending wedding draws ever closerThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, will they find where a way in which they can both truly troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be themselveshonest, or are they destined but he's turned up and he'll have to live a lie their whole lives?do…|isbn=15266517930008561249

|authorisbn=Emily CritchleyB0C47LV1PC|title=One Puzzling AfternoonFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing Can you make a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie the question should you make it? Or is tormented by the memory of her childhood friendquestion if you did, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and would it land? The catch is that the worry that there was a secret she was keeping answer for Lucy that somehow might both could well be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Thirty Days of Darkness|rating=3.5no.|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents ''Fragility'' is set as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles the city of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fairPortland, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fictionOregon, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark cautiously begins to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away emerge from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that restrictions imposed during the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615covid pandemic