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|isbn=02419890940008517061|title=The Perfect LifeDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Nuala EllwoodStig Abell

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three childrenFormer Metropolitan Police detective, LavenderJake Johnson, Freddie and Barclayhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The boys are There’s perhaps a bit little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a handful which 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 reservations about whether or not this is why the future she's making this trip on wants for herself and her own. daughter? The house would be perfect for them. It's For the same month but now we're moment they’re enjoying life in Wimbledon the present and we encounter putting the future on the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and living in her sister, Georgie's, spare room, where she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connorback burner.

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1786482126|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=So. Having done Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the impossible and unpicked the lock site was going to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has hold seventy-five 'luxury'grop'' to think aboutapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. But before that Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, soireesDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez It's amusementdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't even know what , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one of those night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is. But he manages prone to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume sudden bouts of this seriessickness. |isbn=B093J9TF73

|isbn=B07GZ81J7C0008551324|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and MendedThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Peter CottonNeil Lancaster

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Meet FredIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred Neither side likes or has any respect for reasons which will become all too obvious very quicklythe other. But IDavie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'm getting ahead s prepared to tell the police where the body of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred missing person is a snake buried and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to himwas responsible for her death. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that This person, he could breathe promises, is someone big and immediately became part of it will be worth the family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walkpolice doing what he wants. And that was where what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the problem startedremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Fred didnNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't have any road sense. Or brakesthink 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.

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova0008405026|title= Everybody Pees! A Stranger in the Family (Everybody Potties!Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn'ts sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, as any parent will tell youand her father are dead in their bed. But really Initially, why shouldnit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there't it be? We all have to learn s something about our bodily functions just the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as we have though it was going to learn about everything else when we are smallbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Why shouldn Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie't potty training be as much fun s disappearance: others (such asDerwent's boss, say, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHHUna Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=17876344930571379877|title=All Her FaultThe Kellerby Code|author=Andrea MaraJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happenEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on Robert's a play datetheatre director. She was concerned that he didnHe't have any friends at his new schools also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School Edward has been in an affluent Dublin suburb love with his classmate Jacob Stanza since their university days - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little laterhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet JacobMost men in Robert's mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny position would stay away from Stanza or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo tell Edward that a relationship had disappeared. And so had Jennybegun between them but he's nannynot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Claire NorthJo Callaghan|title=Notes from the Burning AgeLeave No Trace

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North When a man is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with found crucified on the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that top of a new and timely genrehill in Nuneaton, cli-fiDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, or climate change fictionthe AI detective Lock. North It's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and their first live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuelscase together, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming)having previously been very successful with several cold cases. There But when there is a growing unhappiness second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with this limiting worlda potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and one group, the Brotherhoodpotentially, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.out of a career?|isbn=0356514757139851120X

|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)1399613073|title=Girls Who LieMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5

|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the dark corners first day of Iceland have featured in medical school and their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowfriendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. You thinkOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author which is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed bonus when you aim to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen againbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. This left Laura is a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, perfectionist and a couple of delighted adopterstrauma doctor. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all Anjali is the free spirit of a sudden, in one place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, group and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in she becomes a third, even more remote placeGP. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from When we first meet them they're at a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, drug and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0925KS87N|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave alcohol- fuelled party and it took some finding - in an overgrown old cemetery. It was a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal going to do, but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted to doend in tragedy. Only, his family didnWe don't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found know who suffered the tragedy or the grave consequences. Twenty- five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and his three sons began to worryfriends. Tam JuniorThis time, Frankie and Dave wouldnit't normally go to the police but they weren't certain where s their father had been and they were worriedteenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Emily Critchley0241636604|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=3|genre=General FictionTrading Game: A Confession|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I was intrigued by the plot, liked the design of the book, and thought the author's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} {{Frontpage|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good NeighboursGary Stevenson

|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary= If you're were to bring up an image of a certain vintagecity banker in your mind, ityou's hard re unlikely to read think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a singpin-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street stripe suit and his background is no Ramsay Streetthe East End, thoughwhere he was familiar with violence, Arlo poverty and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbsinjustice. They're one of 18 households There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlierLondon School of Economics. They're not quite like all the other families ( Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he's an ex rocker, she's has a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and it's all going okfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Until it isn't He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. One hot, clammy, sticky It was his ability at what was, sweaty summeressentially, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the waycard game which got him an internship with Citibank. It's Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to cometrader.|isbn=1789098211

|authorisbn=Lisa Thompson1035021803|title=The Small ThingsAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Although Anna It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has friends at school, been back to the English country village where she feels like she never really fits ingrew up. Her family don She't have enough money to let s back now because of a request for help from her do after school activitiesbeloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and so she feels like her life at home Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is boring in comparison dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to theirssay the least. When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to partner her, but things are complicated because the new girlvillage: Arthur, Ellieshe feels, is unwell and so can't attend school let her down badly. Even though they were in personbusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Instead After the split, she joins worked in with a cafe, met and married James (on the class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome rebound from the challenge love of making friends with someone through a robother life, who was murdered) and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=0008350388AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=We Need to Talk About MoneyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Otegha UwagbaBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% Opening up new ways of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer thinking about the shape of colour while only 7% study a book by a womanthings to come.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021

Otegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when she was five years oldI've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Her sisters were seven and nineWell, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. It was her mother who came first, I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and determined the feeling that their children would have the best education possibleit's all getting away from me. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage Some of anything: it was simply carefully harvestedis - frankly - quite frightening. When Otegha was ten Of course, I could research the possibilities and the family acquired a carprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in London and then a place at New College, Oxfordway I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1787631869Sunny Singh|title=The Rising Tide|author=Sam LloydHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadn't The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been easy but she'd built violently taken over by a good and decent life in the aftermathterrorist group. She's now married to DanielHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine killing everyone on Penleith Beachsite, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billiethere is Sam, Lucy's daughter a wartime photographer and FinAbhi, the child she had with Danielhotel manager. They have financial difficultiesAs Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, some caused he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by Nick Poveyevents, Danieland keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's partner and so-called best friendhappened through her photography. Nick Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a children's home but it's difficult wait to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concernedsee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Hannah Peck1529153298|title=Kate on the CaseThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Kate, although I got the impression sheIt'd rather be a Catherine – s 1979 and one specific Catherine at thatMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) For Catherine Rodriguez is KateShe's not what's idol, and the author of our heroineworrying Miv's favourite possessionfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'The Special Correspondent Manualdisappeared'doesn't sound quite so frightening. Armed with a plucky father, Miv's upset because she's overheard that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride father wants to move the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonksfamily 'Down South'. HoweverWhen you're from Yorkshire, this Down South is a train ride with a differencefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and the move would mean leaving her catbest friend, a thief – and two glowing eyesSharon, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-youshe'll-miss-them styledo anything to prevent that. ItShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's definitely a case for a new young investigative journaliststopped talking - to anyone...|isbn=184812970X

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1398524085|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The second trilogy in ShanCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg''Merge'' saga opens with our heros father, ArchieDuncan Ackerley, back in London in the world of the Bornriver. It's not been was an easy, explaining assumption for the police to his foster parents where make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn's been, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in t stand the Merge, guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but Archie has done his best.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Benthere's clock tower little else they can do but get on with their lives and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awaywonder about what really happened.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ

|isbn=05713658841035906708|title=My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in AnxietyDiva|author=Georgia PritchettDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always been anxiousWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, even as a child. She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it but she was the sort of life where if she had nothing born to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and far between. On a visit only moved to a therapist, as an adult, Athens when she was completely unable to speak about what thirteen. Her original surname was wrong with Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it was suggested that she should write it down and to 'Callas'My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures to make it more manageable in Anxiety'' is the result States. When she was back in Athens - or supposedly so we are given to believethat she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Alex CotterChristopher Edge|title=The House on the EdgeBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Faith's family home is teetering on the edge of Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a cliffmovie marathon at their local cinema, literally. Is a place that crack in has the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little? And as the house seems to be falling apart, so is Faithnickname of 'The Black Hole's family. Her dad has disappeared All big movie fans, and her mum is struggling they're looking forward to copelots of exciting films, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in chargeand many, taking care of her little brother Noahmany snacks! However, taking care of her mumas the movie starts, feeding everyonethey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, getting Noah and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to schoolthe next, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with can they figure out what he claims on earth is a ghost in the cellargoing on? What should she do about the house? Can she find a way to raise enough money to fix it? What's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come Will they ever get back if she manages to get funding for the house? She carries the weight of all these worries on her constantlycinema, and she doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping on.to their real lives?|isbn=17880086261839942738

|isbnauthor=0008269041Rachel Greenlaw|title=Risk of Harm|author=Lucie WhitehouseCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from ''I can hear the song of the Metsea. She might have been reinstated but The call of the deep, the whole episode left a nasty taste answering beat in her mouthmy heart. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then '' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the man who had broken rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her heart nearly twenty years mother before. She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved , is one of the seven who swim out of her parentto survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's home into a rented house but thereleader and Mira's still father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a difficult situation bargain with her brother Luke a wreck survivor who has gone out of his way is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to make life difficult for Robin since guide her, she was sets off in search of a young childfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. HeWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's married territory, Mira must be determined to Natalie, now stop at nothing to save the future of her home and has a young child but he's still got it in for Robinthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1786332388James Sherwood Metts|title=The First Day of Spring|author=Nancy TuckerPlanet Storyland

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they''The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasion. The writing is superb re paid to do and completely compellingother tasks that took time to accomplish. The characterisation is excellent Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and the plot grips you and won't let go. Sostarting to think of other, what's the problem? Wellnew ways to spend time, the problem is Chrissie, the main characteralong came an awful pandemic. When we first meet her she's just eight years oldLife was pretty much shut down and, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. She's completely cold about what she's done along with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized upit, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?|isbn=1736128426

|author=Catherine SteadmanMatthew Tree|title=The Disappearing ActWe'll Never Know

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on the cusp of success. Great success. If the rumours are true, award season is going Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to treat her wellbe different from his father, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed production. She's going places but so, unfortunately, is her partner. And the places he's going take him towards lies, deceit a drunk and a pretty young thing in the form chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his new co-starartistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. It's a good time for Mia So Tim applied himself to escapehis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and pilot season in LA provides just the excuseset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1471189783B0CVFXPGP8

|author= Christophe MedlerA G Slatter|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary= Set against the backdrop '' 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 English Civil Warworld, lies Silverton; a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in town under the summer protection of 1642. As the Briar's, a loyal servant family of witches who protect the King, town and Head of the Secret Servicewider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, it Ellie Briar is Robertthe first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's duty to uncover cousin Audra becomes the details of Briar Witch, the plan town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and follow centre, Ellie uncovers the clues rare ability to uncover one of communicate with the most guarded secrets in history—especially since dead, putting her at the plot could affect heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the KingBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ1803364548

|authorisbn=Tasha Suri1529900360|title=The Jasmine ThroneGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= On the night of her sacred burningIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses Sturgis was reluctant to step ask for his help on to difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the pyrehelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on knew that the Hirana: an ancient temple involvement was something that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless watersman she loved needed. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown The next case did look simple, decaying ruinthough. One day, Malini witnesses Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a girl kill someone with magicremote property in Bel Air. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that He was the girl saved her from heir to an attacker Italian shoe empire and begs for she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the girl to become her own personal maidservantItalian.|isbn=0356515648 But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=B088YWF5BC1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Lies We TellSecret Life of a Vet|author=Jane CorrySion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sistersSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. It seemed to have been His father was a loving, stable family. When we first meet her, she canGP and Rowlands didn't sleep because her sonwant to follow in his footsteps, Freddie, whoparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by life. When he was seventeen he took the time he sort opportunity of half-promised he'd be in bydoing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Her husbandBefore long, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but hewas at Liverpool University. It hadn's still going to be going to work and t - as with so many students - been his dream since he needs his sleepwas a child. He wakesIf anything, though, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someoned wanted to be a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Joseph Knox0861541774|title=True Crime StoryA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Joseph KnoxDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan WaitsDanny Maik, has created taken a new genre short holiday in Singapore to meet up with his latest novelan old ally, "True Crime Story"Guy Trueman. The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Split into four parts Initially, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance he faced a charge of Zoe through manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as man. Now he could be facing the policedeath penalty. The various accounts Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. However, the twists as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and turns wouldn't help Danny at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricatedall. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703

|author=Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaAlexander McCall Smith|title=No, No, No!The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=They say The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the best picture books are online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the simplest oneschance to come home to Edinburgh. And nothing could be truer of so begins this latest new story from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. ''NoAlexander McCall Smith, Nobringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, No!'' is based around thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the simplest text imaginableIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. ''No, Katie has noexperience in running a business, no! Okayor in match-making, okay. Yesbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, you may.'' Thatand there's it! Butalways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, like all the best picture booksWilliam, this tiny snippet of text is to lend a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.hand…|isbn=16388204571846976596

|authorisbn=Monica Connell0811771741|title=Against a Peacock SkyInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=TravelCrafts|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I think it is important Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to know thatblankets. She went on a grant Some will be quick knits -supported tripothers are of the 'long, with a relatively specific objective. She wasncosy afternoons in front of the fire't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-la. She wasn't a mere tourist passing throughvariety. She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how The projects are divided by the time they lived. She also went, presumably, with the academic discipline of how 'll take to find these things outcomplete - less than five hours, how five to organise them in her mindten hours, how ten to "understand" them in twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the context of her own paradigmsprojects are attractive, modern and how to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of the experience after the eventuseable. Fortunately, she also went with a sense of open I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-ness and curiosity and a willingness to muckmedia-in, to break her own rules and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled upworthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1780600429

|isbnauthor=1409181669Dean Koontz|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them bothBenny is having a terrifically bad day. She needed to think carefully about what she knew He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and decide how she should proceedhis house gets trashed. Everything Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin- sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or so she thought - had begun with whatever was inside is the death of Tara Hampton on thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgevery last person to deserve all this bad luck. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distressHe is a nice person. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to copeA really nice person. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to go his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train help him since Benny is clearly under attack from King's Crossnefarious forces for being a good person. Mariana and Zoe were close Spike is going to take care of Benny, and had been made all the more so by the death will certainly take care of MarianaBenny's husbandenemies, if he, SebastianBenny, in and Harper (a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoewaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's mother and Mariana's sister, Elizawild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Maisie ChanAdam Stower|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsMurray and Bun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Danny Murray is eleven years oldsupposed to be a humble, tidy and what he reallyfriendly cat, really loves one who is able to do is draw. He creates fantastical comicssleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whilst whatever takes his best friend Ravi adds fancy next of the wordstwo. DannyBut he's a bad magician's dad, howevercat, wants Danny to concentrate on so his mathsfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody catflap they both use can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw in secret and in peace. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, and this surprise turns chuck them out to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with them, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on into the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no Englishregular back garden, and Danny finds himself forced but into being her babysitter, a world of frightening adventure and showing her around the townwhiffs. Poor DannyThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, stuck on where a maths projecttroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, frustrated with his bedroom situationto be honest, but he's turned up and then he even has a falling out with Ravi...how on earth will things ever get better?!'ll have to do…|isbn=180078001X0008561249

|authorisbn=Terry MilesB0C47LV1PC|title=RabbitsFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Welcome to Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the world of question if you did, would it land? The Game. Or should catch is that be the game, answer for while it ought to both could well be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possibleno. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it ''Fragility's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what is set as the game is doing, if it's even being playedcity of Portland, and how his loved ones might be kept safeOregon, he is only cautiously begins to find out that emerge from the line between observing and learning about restrictions imposed during the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932covid pandemic

|authorisbn=C J Carey1529431735|title=WidowlandThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It's April 1953February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, and Adolf Hitlerwhich made Bruce Hopkins's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to all the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallismore surprising. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to He'd been exiled on the World War Two that certainly didn't happen Costa del Sol as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''wanted drug smuggler for a decade. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, The return has put all of that gender into come about because he's had a caste system, ranging letter from highhis ex-brow office bigwigs to the drudgeswife, saying that she's ill and beyond those, right on down hasn't long to the childless, the husbandless and the widowslive. Female literacy It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransomabducted, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature stripped to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, his underwear and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get sent to a hefty tweak towards watery grave in the party line before they're stamped ready for reprintboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198Xhome?

|author=Louise BeechAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=This Is How We Are HumanThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Veronica Eli is a devoted single mother to her sonbusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wantstoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. Sebastian has decided that it A few short years ago, Eli's time for him parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have sexto navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. But as an autistic 20 year-old This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, that's easier said than done. And it's starting with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to cause them both problemspossibly save his gran. |isbn=19131937130571382231

|isbn=B093VPBL5L178763681X|title=Cape Henry HouseKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Jolly Walker BittickOrlando Murrin

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet Bosner, or, to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class BosnerChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. We never He didn't really find out if want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he has a first name: therewanted. Paul ''somehow''s merely a hint got the impression that he 'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had the nickname a broken arm, but it didn'Secretary' at one pointt turn out that way. He's simply Bosner to one The teaching - and the problems - are allhis own. When we first encounter him The one thing hehadn's exploring his memories of 2008 when he t expected was a greaser on helicopters (or helos, as they were called) at a naval establishmentfor someone to turn up dead. The hours could be long and Unfortunately, he was often working nights but at the age of twenty-one, there was always a way person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his daybe the prime suspect.