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|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy0008517061|title=The Mermaid Death in the Millponda Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=There is no mermaid in the millpond. That Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at least is what Bess is telling herselfLittle Sky. Neither will there be There’s perhaps a friend for little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her in amongst all the other kidsdaughter Diana, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship as moving in together would mean a handlot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to-mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess move in with Livia or does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and Livia move to Little Sky despite everything that life has taught her reservations about betrayal whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in present and putting the existence of future on the mermaid?|isbn=180090049Xback burner.

|isbn=17856330741786482126|title=Staggering HubrisThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Josh BerryElly Griffiths

|genre=HumourCrime|summary=Members of Parliament like us Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister hold seventy- the five 'luxury'primus inter pares'' (thatapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) difficult as Ruth knows, but the reality is that the Nelson doesn''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubrist, the man who was behind the skilful control that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020one night they spent together some three months ago. You might not know the name now but he Her condition will certainly be the man obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to watchsudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=B09MYXSRV40008551324|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Cordellya SmithNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When It's unusual for anyone from the world was made, Hardie family to approach the animals were given giftspolice. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protectorNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he could see 's prepared to tell the present ''police where the body of a missing person is buried and'' the futurewho was responsible for her death. Rabbit developed intelligence - butThis person, unfortunatelyhe promises, not is someone big and it will be worth the ability to use it wellpolice doing what he wants. He liked And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to trick other animalsget an early parole date. He was also jealous which was how he came Not much to be in a race with Turtle. ask, is it? You might The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think thatso and she's not a fair contest but wait even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and see. Things are not always as they seem. Ianyone who works with him is kept well away from what'll tell you how it came abouts happening.

|authorisbn=Giovanna Fletcher0008405026|title=Walking on SunshineA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=MikeIt's wifesixteen 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, Piaher mother, who he was with for seventeen yearsHelena, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so and her father are dead in their best friendsbed. Initially, Vicky it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and Zazaher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. But Pia left them all some 'rules' What looked as though it was going to follow, knowing that she was dying be an open-and -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as clearing out her wardrobeDerwent's boss, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with himUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=140593560X

|isbn=15293939300571379877|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your BusinessThe Kellerby Code|author=Sophie RochesterJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=''Starting Edward Jevons is a creative business has never been easierworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert'' ''If not now, when?'' I know that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into s a businesstheatre director. ThereHe's a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and there are a lot of people who have been delighted uses Edward to accept what I make as giftsrun errands for him. Selling would offset the costs, which can be quite considerable Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and it could be fun to do, couldnhe't it? But where s drunkenly confided how he feels to start? Robert. What do I need to think about? Well, the first thing anyone who is considering turning Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a crafting hobby into a business should do relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to read ''Making stumble upon the two of them kissing in a Living''dark passageway.

|author=Freya MarskeJo Callaghan|title=A Marvellous LightLeave No Trace

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Robin Blyth When a man is nudged into found crucified on the top of a job hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Civil Servicecase alongside her sidekick, much to his chagrinthe AI detective Lock. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with magicseveral cold cases. Desperate to remove But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a curse very high profile case that threatens draws a lot of unwanted attention to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the countrysidecase in time, where or will Kat find herself taken off the hedgegrows bristle with incantations case and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover , potentially, out of a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles. career?|isbn=1529080886139851120X

|isbn=02414804421399613073|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition ScienceMoral Injuries|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienChristie Watson

|genre=CookeryThrillers|summary=EmotionallyOlivia, I am Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a vegancentury. MentallyOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, I am which is a bonus when you aim to be a vegancardiothoracic surgeon. I read [[How to Love Animals in Laura is a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] perfectionist and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) fooda trauma doctor. Practically, I am not Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a veganGP. It worked for When we first meet them they're at a while apart from the odd blip with regard drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often end in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based proteintragedy. It wasnWe don't know who suffered the tragedy or the taste - I know that I can get plantconsequences. Twenty-based food five years later there will be an eerily similar event that tastes just as good as anything plundered from will impact the animal kingdom - three friends. This time, it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=suppl_stafl0241636604|title=Supply Chain 20/20The Trading Game: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversConfession|author=Kim StaflundGary Stevenson

|genre=ReferenceAutobiography|summary=So, If you've finished writing were to bring up an image of a city banker in your book and mind, you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need unlikely to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong againthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. You presumably wrote A hoodie and jeans replaces the book because you wanted to pin- stripe suit and you had a talent for delivering his background is the written wordEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. You knew your subject back There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to frontthe London School of Economics. Now you're going to have to get to grips Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with the book supply chain, numbers which even parts most of the publishing industry believe us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and no one wants to be the first to trystupid. ThenIt was his ability at what was, essentially, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book in your handscard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to youthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=13987069061035021803|title=The LostAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Simon BeckettC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyIt's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedtwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. HeShe'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and when he wokes back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Theo had goneCarole. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later heFreya's largely come through it former mentor and heCarole's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneyclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Gavin used Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to be his best friend but it's a long time since they've spokenthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. He's obviously Even though they were in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and he asks Jonah business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to meet him at Slaughter Quaybe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. ''There's no one else I can trust''After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, he sayswho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Amanda MasonAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Hiding Place|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But thereAll Tomorrow's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect Futures: Fictions that she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{FrontpageDisrupt|author=Paul Cleave|title=The Quiet PeopleBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary= I am not a fan ''Opening up new ways of "thinking about the Prologue"shape of things to come. Most books are the worse for them'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. In this case Well, I might make an exceptionmust confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. We start I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with Luca Pittman who the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is in a hurry- frankly - quite frightening. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have Of course, I could research the possibilities and when he hurries, when he bundles things into the back of his car probabilities and tries to run 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. I needed people I knew I could trust and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes who could deliver information in a riskway I could understand. It ends badly.|isbn=1913193942

|author=Will CarverSunny Singh|title=Psychopaths AnonymousHotel Arcadia

|genre=Thrillers|summary=Maeve The Hotel Arcadia is a high functioning alcoholicluxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, drinking continuously and alsokilling everyone on site, curiouslythere is Sam, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing wartime photographer and critiquing Abhi, the AA steps she is mainly using the groups hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to find targets...targets care remotely for sexual encountersthe residents who are still alive in the hotel, targets he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to feed be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her desire room to try to hear of peoplecapture what's misery, and targets for happened through her violent behaviourphotography. Yet she also seems Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to be searching for others who think as she does, help her keep safe and when she's unable they both wait to find like-minded people in any of see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornterrorists.|isbn=1913193756086154742X

|isbn=15294181001529153298|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Martin WalkerJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? Imean, honestly...) She'm s not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walkerwhat's [[Martin Walkerworrying Miv's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to read have 'disappeared'Brunodoesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's Challengeupset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family ' was hard to resist and IDown South'm rather glad that I didn. When you't even tryre from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For those new to Miv, the seriesmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, thereand she'll do anything to prevent that. She's an excellent introduction not worried about the dangers or that will tell you all you need to know about whoher Mum's who and the background stopped talking - to why Bruno is in St Denisanyone.

|isbn=B09GJW49GF1398524085|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jenny O'BrienNicci French|rating=45

|summary=Hannah Thomas Charlotte Salter was having expected at her first night away from her sonhusband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Hunter had diabetes Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and this was controlled by a pump attached to his stomach, so her over-protectiveness was understandabledaughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her fiancehusband, IanAlec, was pestering her to get married and she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likeis not. Her friendShortly afterwards, MillyEtty and Greg, had arranged to take her boyfriendfind the body of Greg's father, LiamDuncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for a night in a posh hotel but the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he dumped her and she couldn't get stand the money back, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go in his placeguilt. She would return home to find Ian dead The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and five-year-old Hunter missingwonder about what really happened.

|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q1035906708|title=Without a TraceDiva|author=Jane BettanyDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she'd just come through a divorce was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and right now it only moved to Athens when she was raining hardthirteen. All she wanted Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to get back 'Callas' to her new home and settle down for a quiet eveningmake it more manageable in the States. It wasn't going to be though: when When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she went into could get appropriate training for her bedroom voice - she found was raised under the Nazi occupation by a dead man on mother who mercilessly exploited her bed with a knife in his chest. She'd and made no idea who he wassecret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=1838774823Christopher Edge|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog Problem|author=S J BennettBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It's 2016 Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the Queennickname of 'The Black Hole's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistband. SwimmingAll big movie fans, he decidesthey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, is the way to go and he can use many, many snacks! However, as the Buckingham Palace pool which movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is how he came to be there early one morning very different, and discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at the side of the poolthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. There was broken glass - a crystal tumbler, by the look at it - probably But as they lurch from one of film genre to the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled next, can they figure out. what on earth is going on? StillWill they ever get back to the cinema, it was a shock for Sir Simon.and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=057136358XRachel Greenlaw|title=April in Spain|author=John BanvilleCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Teens|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think 'I can hear the song of himself the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in those termsmy heart. He saw what he did as '' Rosevear, a matter remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist the thought seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondolies within. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him But when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got Council Watch lays a trap to end the chance to kill a lot of wrecking, they capture the little yellow fellows island's leader and had a fine old time'Mira's father. He was spending Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a lot of time bargain with Percy Antrobus - a wreck survivor who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles family secret that lies buried deep in the ''morning''? It was after Percysea. With 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 death that he saw territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the benefits future of taking up a job in Spainher home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Dave Letterfly KnodererJames Sherwood Metts|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=How to summarise Things have been a bit sticky for the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you knowEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, I really donoften replacing jobs they't think I can.  Dave is an author re paid to do and an artistother tasks that took time to accomplish. An inspirational speaker Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholic. The son starting to think of a Lutheran ministerother, he's struggled with a controlling father, run away new ways to join the circus (not a metaphor)spend time, trained horsesalong came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, painted caravansalong with it, designed and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when all the bottle took overmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=B0965V3LLN1736128426

|author=Tade ThompsonMatthew Tree|title=Far From the Light of HeavenWe'll Never Know

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtimebe different from his father, bound for the world a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's AI captain. However, when she wakes up being exceptional at the end any of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut artistic passions all failed miserably and friend who had endless crises of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle self confidence. So Tim applied himself to Bloodroothis studies, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosset himself high but achievable ambitions. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Rob KeeleyA G Slatter|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!The Briar Book of the Dead|rating= 45|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables'' 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. She likes carrots'' Within a remote mountain pass, broccolifar away from the world, cabbage lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and auberginesthe wider world from the Darklands. When her friends at school turn up their nosesThough she has always wished for magic, Lily Ellie Briar is keen the first non-witch to explain how good they are be born into her family for you generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and how nice to eatadministration rather than spells and potions. One dayWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, poor Lily gets tricked by JordanEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, who tells the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her that carrots grow on trees. InfuriatedAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, Lily checks Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the teacherdead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who explains that fruits grow on trees to trust and vegetables, like carrots, grow in determine what to do as the ground. Jordan saysBriar witches' legacy, "I did try everything they have sacrificed to tell hersurvive, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lilyis under threat.|isbn= B09HHN541V1803364548

|isbn=178607981X1529900360|title=Bad ApplesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Will DeanJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=Tuva Moodyson It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the side help of the roada psychologist only worked for a while. Wondering if someone needed Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she got out loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the car - heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and heard it's not the screams from deep inside the forestItalian. Determining But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the direction Bag: The Secret Life of a sound isnVet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't easy want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where a woman he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was holding her coat over seventeen he took the body opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a manvet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. HeIt hadn'd t - as with so many students - been decapitatedhis dream since he was a child. He was Arne Gustav PerssonIf anything, he'd wanted to be a resident of Visbergprofessional footballer.

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir0861541774|title=Cold As HellA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary= In DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a red suitcase as the bottom of short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a fissure in knife - and he killed a lava fieldGhurka. Initially, there is he faced a body. And charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man who has put her there has just discovered that . Now he is capable of killingcould be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1913193888

|author=Lucy HopeAlexander McCall Smith|title=FledglingThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene The Perfect Passion Company is a most peculiar hilltop housedating agency in Edinburgh, built bit run by bit over the decades, Ness and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. It's operating as an eccentric house, alternative to host eccentrics, so all the library shelving system is not as we'd know itonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the roof is retractablebusiness, there as Ness is planning to take a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so ontrip to Canada to get away for a while. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier Katie is coming out of a break up with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudlybad boyfriend, and so jumps at the dying grandma chance to our heroinecome home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, Cassiebringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, a young lass who has thanks to do all 44 Scotland Street and the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh Isabel Dalhousie novels, but it's also going with some new characters who quickly begin to house someone charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or something elsein match-making, when crashing through Cassiebut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to be lend a completely great and wonderful thing, think again...hand…|isbn=183994188X1846976596

|isbn=18462767720811771741|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our MindsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Jessica NordellMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrafts|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: itMelissa Leapman's simply ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a part collection of everyday lifeknits from toys to blankets. White men Some will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries be quick knits - others are the preserve of the white man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heardlong, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end cosy afternoons in front of the bias but itfire's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedvariety.}}{{Frontpage|author=Teresa Driscoll|title=Her Perfect Family|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary= The novel begins projects are divided by introducing you the time they'll take to Gemmacomplete - less than five hours, who at first instance appears five to be your average studentten hours, faced with ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the familiar horrifying realisationprojects are attractive, at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrongmodern and useable. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'He is not who he says he is…but that'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a twist of events, and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you reads me being picky.|isbn=1542028752

|isbnauthor=8409290103Dean Koontz|title=If Only|author=Matthew TreeThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Literary FictionParanormal|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his fatherjob, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked loses his accountantfiancee, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowancehis house gets trashed. Patrick sent the money regularly Oh, and someone has delivered a correspondence - of sorts really weird, disturbing coffin- sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has sized object to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his sonhome, and it 's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to has trashed his wife and other children. house! The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed thing is, Benny is the very last person to get the young man on his waydeserve all this bad luck.}}{{Frontpage|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title=The Rabbit Factor|rating=3 He is a nice person.5|genre=Crime|summary=Meet Henri A really nice person. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is other human beingsa new friend, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-memberbad weather friend called Spike, that they'd prefer everyone who has been sent to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This help him since Benny is when he finds his brother has died, having clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everythinggood person. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' Spike is just an adventure parkgoing to take care of Benny, and nothing else. will certainly take care of Benny''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his minds enemies, but if he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideasBenny, but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately Harper (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – ita waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan...|isbn=191319387X1662500491

|isbnauthor=1471179311Adam Stower|title=The Unheard|author=Nicci FrenchMurray and Bun

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=TessMurray is supposed to be a humble, a teacher tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and Jason, a headmasterwell, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out whatever takes his fancy next of the family home and Jason is now married to Emilytwo. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has her bedroom in what was the family home been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and another in the flat she shares with her mother. It ''seemed'' to be working well until catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the day that Poppy came home with regular back garden, but into a menacing drawing world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a woman falling from Viking land, where a tall building and she started swearingtroll hunter is expected – well, using words she one much bigger than Murray was unlikely , to have heard in either home. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems at nursery school. Tess turns to a therapist for helpbe honest, then her doctor but he's turned up and finally the police but no one will take what she has he'll have to say seriously.do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1471196615B0C47LV1PC|title=IcedFragility|author=Felix FrancisMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Miles Pussett used to be Can you make a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the three-quarter-mile Cresta Runquestion if you did, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. He was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - would it land? The catch is that's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the saddling of the horsesanswer for both could well be.... no. It ''Fragility's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore that he'd never go back to it. But when he sees that something suspicious is going onset as the city of Portland, Miles can't help but look for answersOregon, even when it puts him in danger.cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=147228612X1529431735|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillWinter Visitor|author=Alan JohnsonJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We all know people like Gary NelsonIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, although we probably havenwhich made Bruce Hopkins't taken much notice of themreturn all the more surprising. They live quiet, uneventful lives and stay mostly under He'd been exiled on the radarCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. In The return has come about because he's had a city like Londonletter from his ex-wife, saying thatshe's quite easy - ill and even Garyhasn's three flatmates largely ignore himt long to live. The highlight of his day It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes abducted, stripped to work on the train each morning: he'd love his underwear and sent to ask her for a date but he doesn't have watery grave in the courage. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and asks for his helpboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Before long he finds himself on the run Is it a warning from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan police.a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Claire McGowanAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=I Know YouThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns from Eli is a walk busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the baby, Carson, dessert cafe his gran owns and comes across three bodiesruns. Eli lives with his lovely gran, almost too – for there is a whole generation missing in the family taken down.  A few short years ago, Eli''Now:'' Rachel is out for s parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a walk with her dogconfession from gran, BrandyEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, when she comes across a body in with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the woodsonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=15420199740571382231

|isbn=1529148251178763681X|title=Misfits: A Personal ManifestoKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Michaela CoelOrlando Murrin|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn''How am I able t really want to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? women to do what he wanted. It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.Paul '' Before you start reading somehow''Misfitsgot the impression that he'' you need d be at the school to be in assist Paul, who had a certain frame of mindbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. You're not going to read a book of essays or a selfThe teaching - and the problems -help bookare all his own. YouThe one thing he hadn're going to read writing which t expected was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture for someone to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festivalturn up dead. You might be ''reading'' Unfortunately, he was the book but you need to ''listen'' to person who discovered the words as though you're in body and everyone knows that the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll police consider that person to be carried on a cloud of exquisite writingthe prime suspect.