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|isbn=02419890270008517061|title=We All Have Our SecretsDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Jane CorryStig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for live-in help as he was failing to cope Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Willowmead House on his ownLittle Sky. His advert was fairly specific: he was There’s perhaps a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke little uncertainty about the future of the ability to cook a good steakhis life with his vet girlfriend, enjoy decent wine Livia and be free from any food fads. The first person who came to the house was Francoiseher daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a French woman 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 early twenties, who fit the bill perfectly. She got the job but Francoise didn't know reservations about whether or not this is the advert: future she was there wants for a completely different reason. herself and her daughter? Emily Gentle is Harold's daughter and she came to Willowmead House because she was running away from a problem For the moment they’re enjoying life in London. Emily's a midwife the present and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had been madeputting the future on the back burner.

|authorisbn=1786482126|title=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward The Janus Stone (translatorDr Ruth Galloway)|titleauthor=Tasting SunlightElly Griffiths

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Sally is Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a teenager who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinicdoorway. There was no skull. She just wants space, and for people to stop questioning her Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, tiptoeing around her, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding her. She Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself on some farmland working with a woman called Liss who is in her forties and seems to live aloneDCI Harry Nelson. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is, giving her pregnant with his child as a room to sleep in, and result of the space to just be. As one night they work spent together on the farmsome three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, a closeness develops between them, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendshipnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1914585143

|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason0008551324|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It''A s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling poetry zine, a mom-in prison and-pop mobile diner in he's prepared to tell the police where the Northern California redwoods, body of a 400-meter hurdler missing person is buried and who just missed the 2004 Olympicswas responsible for her death. This person, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhipshe promises, a billionaire with a state-of-is someone big and it will be worth the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia..police doing what he wants.'' This And what he wants is just a sample of to be transferred to an open prison to serve the cast remainder of characters his sentence and settings in Preposterousto get an early parole date. As you can see Not much to ask, some keeping up will be required! is it? The basic premise of this mystery story goes like thisnew Deputy Police Constable doesn't think 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...|isbn=B09STS96HS

|authorisbn=Will Brooker0008405026|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one of the most successful British authors I've never knowingly readsummer night. Now meet Will Brooker, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently She was never have read. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, found and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer togetherinvestigation ground to a halt. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seemsNow, of her anecdote about cup cakesmother, the words of her latest book she was recitingHelena, and her being father are dead in a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that is Jewell's diverse outputtheir bed. Brooker decides he'd Initially, it looks like nothing more than to follow her through a year in the published authorstraightforward murder/suicide but there's life, working to make a success something about the positioning of the latest title, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and struggling with the next in lineher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agreesWhat looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. And this Kerrigan is convinced that the resultexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1529136024

|isbn=18011092650571379877|title=The CompanionKellerby Code|author=Lesley ThomsonJonny Sweet|rating=3.5

|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''Edward Jevons is a punctual working-class young man who was inexplicably never on time, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He' and he was s also self- as usual - late to pick up his sonobsessed, Wilburdemanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for their 'boys' day out'him. These were always Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur - and, competing for the boyhe's attention, his mother, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when drunkenly confided how he returnedfeels to Robert. The dinner Most men in Robert's position would never be served, as James and Wilbur are the victims of stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a double stabbing on the beach. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. Sherelationship had begun between them but he's feeling not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughtwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=152941363XJo Callaghan|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerLeave No Trace|rating=4.5

|summary=''Nobody knows what the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges When a man is found crucified on the police chief for St Denis and much top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')case alongside her sidekick, the head of detectives for the départment of the DordogneAI detective Lock. TheyIt're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed to the well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of France. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeots their first live case together, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it not having previously been for the strange bullet, very successful with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the carseveral cold cases. OhBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and there was a golf ball too, which didn't belong to the owner very high profile case that draws a lot of the car. A golf bag would be a good place unwanted attention to hide a sniper's weapontheir AI Future Policing project. Was there going to Will they be an attempt able to kill someonesolve the case in time, or were will Kat find herself taken off the detectives being pushed in case and, potentially, out of a certain directioncareer?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=02415424051399613073|title=Meredith AloneMoral Injuries|author=Claire AlexanderChristie Watson

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=When we Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 day of medical school and she's not left her home their friendship would keep them inseparable for 1,214 daysa quarter of a century. She'd ''like'' to: in factOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes is a bonus when you aim to wear if she's going to catch her trainbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Then, she can'tLaura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. She simply can't force herself to leave Anjali is the safety free spirit of her homethe group and she becomes a GP. SheWhen we first meet them they's fortunate that she has re at a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James drug and alcohol-fuelled party and Matilda. Sadieit's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sensegoing to end in tragedy. In fact it was Sadie We don't know who gave Meredith her cat, Fredsuffered the tragedy or the consequences. Groceries are online deliveries and Twenty-five years later there's also will be an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare timeeerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding HandsThis time, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredithit'stheir teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=B09Y451X9K0241636604|title= Greetings, aliens!The Trading Game: (do pop in for tea)A Confession|author=Richard F WalkerGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary= ''Anything can happen at If you were to bring up an image of a birthday partycity banker in your mind, particularly when the birthday boy is the young Lord you're unlikely to think of the Manorsomeone like Gary Stevenson. But when an eerie signal is picked up in A hoodie and jeans replaces the early hours, George pin-stripe suit and his new girlfriendbackground is the East End, the vivacious Lady Antoniawhere he was familiar with violence, embark poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on a quest his CV - but he had been to uncover its incredible message. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets the cat out London School of the bag Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and the world goes into he has a state facility with numbers which most of panicus can only envy.'' Could it He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be? Could it? Have aliens reached out and contacted Earth? George and Antonia find themselves lifted out of their privileged lives of parties and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into the world of advanced sciencestupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, secret agentsa card game which got him an internship with Citibank.and politicians hungry for power Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1035021803|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole The Antique Hunter's Guide to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= So. WeIt're s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the Merge with the first chapter in the third volume of Darren ShanEnglish country village where she grew up. She's saga back now because of Archibald Lox, a young man who can pick the locks of portals request for help from our world to anotherher beloved aunt, called the ''MergeCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Since his last adventure Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, Archie she has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce on not felt able to be near the man or pursue the topic of his regular disappearancesprofession she loved. They don't ask too many questions and Archie has settled into After the split, she worked in a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winstoncafe, his lock-picking mentor in met and married James (on the ''Merge'' and showing Kojo, rebound from the young guardianlove of her life, around our world of the Bornwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD

|authorisbn=John Henry PhillipsAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The SearchAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=HistoryScience Fiction|summary=Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in Opening up new ways of thinking about the dirt looking shape of things to find come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you can find're eighteen. Well, often knowing I must confess that there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is have been more than a case few decades of the latter, as our author promises to locate the topic of the titular searchtechnology in my lifetime. And he really hasn I't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, and itve kept up reasonably well with what's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on advantageous to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old manme but I's visit back to France, our author has promised to find m left with the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, and feeling that he was lucky to survive when it sank 's all getting away from beneath himme. The secondary aim Some of it is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard- frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the vast majority of whom perishedlatest conspiracy theorist. Who else would make such promises to someone I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182a way I could understand.

|author=Fiona LongmuirSunny Singh|title=Looking Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for Emilythe residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet LilyIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) She and her mother 's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town called Edgebeen disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, and everyone from said mother but to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friendshave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. It turns out that Miv's upset because she doesn't have any say in s overheard that her father wants to move the matterfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she Down South is unaware her neighboura frightening, Sam, is just about to make herself knownforeign place, and in a big waybest avoided. But where does Emily come from? Well For Miv, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of the most mundane objectsmove would mean leaving her best friend, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming doorSharon, in a place calling itself 'The Museum of Emilyand she'll do anything to prevent that. Sam is completely unaware of this She'museum', too, leaving s not worried about the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding whatdangers or that her Mum's behind the intrigue..stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1839942754

|isbn=B09XZMCDVF1398524085|title=Stories: 13 tantalising talesHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Richard F WalkerNicci French|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''A news vendor 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 crying out not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the headlines body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the middle of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; a stickler river. It was an easy assumption for correct grammar goes back in time to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person police to have around in a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team is very useful with his feet, make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and awfully familiar…then committed suicide when he couldn'' This collection of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot to offer t stand the eclectic reader. Tying them together is the idea that remarkable and strange, even miraculous, things can happen to ordinary peopleguilt. And that ordinary doesn The Salter children are not convinced but there't mean boring or uninteresting. Form and tone varies so this s little treasury of short fiction is never boring else they can do but get on with their lives and you're never quite sure wonder about what's coming nextreally happened.

|isbn=18009012321035906708|title=Stitched UpDiva|author=Steve ColeDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyGeneral Fiction|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted We tend to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she lived with her family was happyborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, if not prosperousNew York, so when the smartly-dressed man in December 1923 and woman came only moved to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it Athens when she was an opportunity not to be missedthirteen. Some money Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus it to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going 'Callas' to work make it more manageable in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factorythe States. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfullyWhen she was back in Athens -placed rips and distressed seams that felt supposedly so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and she could get appropriate training for her covoice -workers she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made themno secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Daisy HildyardChristopher Edge|title=EmergencyBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=The summary Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the premise.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grievingBlack Hole'. Traumatised after the death of her sister All big movie fans, she awakes they're looking forward to find strangelots of exciting films, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GPmany, many snacks! However, diagnosing as the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her griefmovie starts, recommends she go to stay at Nedethey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an experimental new treatment centre in Walesadventure they couldn't even imagine. Yet something strange But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is happening going on? Will they ever get back to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm hercinema, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.to their real lives?|isbn= 086154112X 1839942738

|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Rachel Greenlaw|title=Little DrummerCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Part ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the Oslo Detectives seriesdeep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, this crime story is a mixture of police procedural remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and thrillerplundering the wrecks. Beginning with the death of a young woman in a carparkMira, that looks very much like an overdoseher mother before her, it unravels into is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a far-reaching investigation of murder, fraudtrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and international pharmaceutical dealingsMira's father. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and FrolichDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who end up working separately on the case is as charming as Gunnarstranda remains he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in Norway whilst Frolich is led search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to Africa unearth what might save her father, as they follow her journey takes her from the twists and turns watched streets of foreign islands to the investigation. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down heart of the truth in increasingly difficultsmuggler's territory, frustrating circumstances, trying hard Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to uncover save the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, future of her home and much more dangerous, is going onthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=19145851270008664730

|isbnauthor=0008541477James Sherwood Metts|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!|author=Lauren ChildPlanet Storyland

|summary=It was Things have been a hot summer day right at bit sticky for the beginning of the summer holidays Earthlings. AI and Clarice Bean was bored: automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they''Nothing ever happens except for sometimesre paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish.Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic.. And only Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on rare-sh occasions, which is hardly everthey depend so heavily.''|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew TreeThere are seven members of the Bean family living in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because he|title=We's wobbly), Mum and Dad, Clarice's older brother, Kurt and younger brother, Minal Cricketll Never Know|rating=4. There's also Marcie, who's main claim to fame seems 5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be that she steals the batteries different from Clarice's torchhis father, which means that she can't read in the airing cupboarda drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. Clarice would love to have someone who listened So Tim applied himself to herhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than wanting to talk, his daydreams and set himself high but the only one who does that is Granny and she lives in New York. The Bean family is ''different''achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=0711266204A G Slatter|title=The Secret Life Briar Book of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)the Dead

|genre=Children's Non-FictionFantasy|summary=I have recently discovered '' There's a great pleasure: part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I sit and watch the vast numbers can. This secret magic of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticingown, all mine, at last. Ijust want to enjoy it for a while.'ve established which species feed ' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the groundworld, which pop to lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the feeders for Briar's, a quick snatch family of some food witches who protect the town and who settles in the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for a good munch but I wish I generations and as such since she was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful ifyoung, her training as a childsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, IEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town'd had access s leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a book such as ''The Secret Life maelstrom of Birds''chaos. So – Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is it?under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=17370309421529900360|title=Bag O'GoodiesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jolly Walker BittickJonathan Kellerman

|genre= AnthologiesCrime|summary=SometimesIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, you deserve a treat and mine Sturgis was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. I first encountered his writing about a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], a rollicking tale His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of what happens when five young men find a base psychologist only worked for their partyinga while. Right nowFinally, it was Robin, I didnDelaware't want a full-length novels partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, so I turned to this anthology though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of verse and short storiesa remote property in Bel Air. BittickHe was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's writing has matured - and so have his charactersnot the Italian. Well... most But which of them!was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Caryl Lewis and George Ermos1529395224|title=SeedLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his life, and they both might be thought of as complete embarrassmentsSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His grandfather runs an allotment, father was a GP and manages Rowlands didn't want to stink the entire town out from it follow in his footsteps, particularly when he douses it in fish guts each spring to fertilise considered the strain that being on-call put on his vegetablesfather's life. His mother somehow combines When he was seventeen he took the dual roles opportunity of housebound failure doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and hoarder – while she seems to do nothing and hasn't left was convinced this was the building in years she has still managed to fill it to the brim with junkjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. What Marty's classmates don It hadn't know about this they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always looks, - as with so many students - been his one school uniform built from lost propertydream since he was a child. We see him as once again the council threaten her and him with eviction If anything, and as he celebrates his birthday with the gift from his grandfather of 'd wanted to be a solitary plant seedprofessional footballer.|isbn=1529077664

|authorisbn=Sophie Cameron0861541774|title=Our Sister, AgainA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=After IslaDCI Domenic Jejeune's older sister Flora diesclose friend and former colleague, her family struggle to find a way forward. In particularDanny Maik, Isla's mum who can’t seem to be able to let her daughter go. When Isla passes her mum's details onto has taken a support group she finds online, she thinks they might be able short holiday in Singapore to help. But actually, it turns out they are part of meet up with an experimental company who offer the family the chance to have Flora back againold ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in robot form. But this won't just be a lookstreet brawl -he would later maintain that he was facing aman armed with a knife -likeand he killed a Ghurka. They use all Initially, he faced a charge of Flora's online history, and interviews with family and friends, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possiblemanslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. But what will it really mean for Now he could be facing the family, death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to have Flora back? And is it really Flora help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all?|isbn=1788953916.

|isbnauthor=1398507504Alexander McCall Smith|title=Cold Reckoning|author=Russ ThomasThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and for operating as an alternative to all the last sixteen years he's been searching for evidence to prove that he's rightonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, there was as Ness is planning to take a link back trip to Canada to get away for a cold case from 2002while. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection Katie is coming out of a break up with DI Richard Tyler's death but Adam Tyler senses a link bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the 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 case his father was investigating before he diedIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Above all 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 growing sense that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the open. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=07278505470811771741|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)InstaKnits for Baby|author=David MarkMelissa Leapman

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnMelissa Leapman't even had time s ''InstaKnits for breakfast when the call came throughBaby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. A body had been found Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the roots of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullfire' variety. When he gets The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to the sceneten hours, he will find what greets him is even worse ten to twenty hours and more than he could have imaginedtwenty hours. A young man's corpse is entangled with All the roots of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – projects are attractive, modern and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesuseable. It would seem I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that this was done whilst the man was still alive. McAvoy makes a promise to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at a cost and this time the cost might be to McAvoy's own familyme being picky.

|author=Natalia Garcia FreireDean Koontz|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionParanormal|summary= Early comments on Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, bad luck. He is a delightnice person. A really nice person. I will agree with So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the first – tremendous delivery to his house is no understatement – but 'a delight' new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is perhaps using the expression in clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a way I'm not familiar withgood person. I have Spike is going to confess my ignorance take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the little I have read Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (in translation, I dona waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny't read Spanishs wild adventure) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismcan figure out who exactly they are. |isbn=08615419011662500491

|author= Ann Sei LinAdam Stower|title= Rebel SkiesMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers |summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as Murray is supposed to be a servant on the Midorihumble, tidy and friendly cat, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come one who is able to drink sleep and eat and eat and sleep and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like himwell, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across takes his fancy next of the Empiretwo. He asks her to come with him But he's a bad magician's cat, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she so his favourite bun has known. Wellbeen turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, soon Kurara won't have any say in and the mattercatflap they both use can chuck them out, because not into the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigamiregular back garden, and she is forced to flee out but into the a worldof frightening adventure and whiffs. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a sky-ship whose express purpose troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to hunt down shikigamibe honest, but he's turned up and a whole world of adventure awaits her…he'll have to do…|isbn=14063995900008561249

|authorisbn=Patrice LawrenceB0C47LV1PC|title=NeedleFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=34|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Brave. Charlene, the Can you make a 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son BlakeYo birthing person's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, joke? And if you might perhaps thinkcould, and is the creation of one such item question should you make it? Or is part of the plot herequestion if you did, as Charlene would it land? The catch is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love that the answer for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no moreboth could well be. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then..no. well ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, what exactly happens is not for me to sayOregon, only cautiously begins to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=1800901011emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=14059409801529431735|title=The BirdcageWinter Visitor|author=Eve ChaseJames Henry

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's the 7th of January 2019 February 1991 and we know that a body has been pulled out of Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the sea at Zennor in Cornwallmore surprising. We donHe't know whose body it is. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at d been exiled on the request of their father, Charlie Finch, Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a famous artistdecade. The girls are actually return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she'halfs ill and hasn''-sisters and their dates of birth are embarrassingly close. Finch was known for his fecundity, if not for his fidelityt long to live. It's been hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a long time since watery grave in the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years ago, at the time boot of the total eclipse, something happeneda stolen Ford Sierra. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a victim and it's left her very wary of her sisters.problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1787634906Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBrideThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=We're Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in Oldcastle the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and Malcolm is in troublethe evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. He's Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young peoplethe family. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn that sheA few short years ago, Eli's Allegra Deanparents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-Edwards) and Hugotrotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a new coat bad incident at the eatery leads to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peoplea confession from gran, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that she and Hugo could find out where Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he was sleeping. It won't be long before most hates, with the sole aim the police realise that Malcolm was one prize of their own: not many other people are going magic at the end – the only thing to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backspossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|authorisbn=Jennifer Saint178763681X|title=ElektraKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn'Elektrat really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ' by Jennifer Saint tells 'somehow'' got the story of three women who live in impression that he'd be at the heavily male-dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandraschool to assist Paul, Clytemnestrawho had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and Elektra the problems - are all bit players in his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the story of person who discovered the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us body and everyone knows that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and police consider that person to be the most extreme furiesprime suspect.|isbn=1472273915