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|isbnauthor=1471180921Sylvie Cathrall|title=Firewatching|author=Russ ThomasA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler It'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 in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police prison and there are those who think that he's lucky prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be there, given that worth the police doing what he decked a superior officerwants. He's there because Tyler came off worse in And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the exchange - there's a scar on remainder of his face to prove it - sentence and the superior officer was forced to take get an early retirementparole date. ThereNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's a suggestion too that Tyler's godmother (t think so and she's on even prepared to do the force too) has looked after other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him and that his current boss is keen to have a tame gay to put on the town hall steps come Pride. Either way, hekept well away from what's there, but without anything really interesting to get his teeth intohappening.

|authorisbn=0008405026|title= A K LarkwoodStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|titleauthor= The Unspoken NameJane Casey|rating= 45|genre= FantasyCrime|summary= What does it mean It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to betray someone? What if that someone is a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to her god on halt. Now, her fourteenth birthdaymother, yet when the opportunity arisesHelena, she chooses to abandon everything she knows and flee with her lifefather are dead in their bed. Who can blame her? Her god Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's reach is limited something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and Csorwe intends her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to stay far beyond it, yet fate be an open-and-shut case is now a funny thing and when circumstances bring her back within complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the reach of her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers herexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and blames her very much indeedUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1250238900

|authorisbn= M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman0571379877|title= The Highland Falcon ThiefKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Harrison BeckEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, or Hal as he prefers to be called, isn't exactly pleased when his parents send him off obsessed with his uncle Natupper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a travel writer, on a long train journeytheatre director. Although, this isn He't any old train; this is the Highland Falcons also self-obsessed, the royal traindemanding, handsome and this is its last ever journey before it gets sent entitled and uses Edward to a museumrun errands for him. A number of high Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -society figures, including film stars, millionaires and aristocrats, will be on this train, so it is quite the event on the social calendarhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. However, when an expensive brooch is stolen, Hal realises Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that maybe this trip wona relationship had begun between them but he't be as boring as he previously thought. As the passengers begin to turn on each other, Hal vows to get s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the bottom two of the mystery…before the train gets to the end of the linethem kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1529013062

|isbnauthor=0008275246Jo Callaghan|title=Perfect Kill (D I Callanach)|author=Helen FieldsLeave No Trace

|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised that a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sonsidekick, Bart, was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from a chemically-induced sleepthe AI detective Lock. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrong. Bart might be twenty but he was considerate of his mother and wouldnIt't have stayed out all night without letting her knows their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. BesidesBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, he didn't have his phone Kat is suddenly struggling with him a potential serial killer and he wouldn't have gone far without a very high profile case thatdraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. It's not long before Bart realises that he's aloneWill they be able to solve the case in time, trapped in a shipping container or will Kat find herself taken off the case and on his way to France, where his fate has already been decided.potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author= Alyssa SheinmelChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title= What Kind of GirlThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating= 4.5|genre= WomenAutobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's FictionGuide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary= It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya' Doing something when yous former mentor and Carole're scared s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is braver than doing something when youdead 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. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''re notOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''

When Mike ParkerI's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave ve heard it to hersaid that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, her whole world is tipped upside downI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. Her relationship has just ended and now she I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the talk feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the school. Mike was possibilities and the most popular boy in school probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that, so why did he do knows what he did? Some they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people believe her I knew I could trust and some don't, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soonwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=0349003297

|author= Holly RiversSunny Singh|title= Demelza and the Spectre DetectorsHotel Arcadia|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident ReadersThrillers |summary= Demelza Clock The Hotel Arcadia is a scientistluxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, often staying up late to work killing everyone on her various gadgetssite, much to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. Howeverthere is Sam, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detectingwartime photographer and Abhi, the ability hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to summon care remotely for the ghosts of residents who are still alive in the recently deceased. Under the guidance hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins room to try to master capture what's happened through her newfound skillsphotography. However, there is a mysterious individual on Although they only ever talk over the prowlphone, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's up their friendship grows as Abhi tries to Demelza help her keep safe and her best friend Percy to get they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the bottom of this..terrorists.|isbn=1912626039086154742X

|isbn=17874775331529153298|title=The Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)List of Suspicious Things|author=Elly GriffithsJennie Godfrey

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Everything has changed for Dr Ruth GallowayIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's no longer providing assistance not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to the police and isnhave 'disappeared' doesn't even working at the University of North Norfolksound quite so frightening. SheMiv's upset because she's lecturing at Cambridge and has moved from overheard that her beloved Saltmarsh cottage father wants to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridgemove the family 'Down South'. Her daughterWhen you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, Katieforeign place, has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped and life is looking goodbest avoided. Settled. She can't help thinking about Harry NelsonFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Katie's fatherSharon, because Katie sees him regularly and thereshe's a close relationship with his familyll do anything to prevent that. You might She''almost'' think s not worried about the dangers or that Ruthher Mum's life is settling downstopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=183895015X1398524085|title=A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a PrisonerHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Chris AtkinsNicci French

|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Documentary filmmakers donCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband't usually get 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 run body of establishments within the Mountbatten-Windsor Hotel GroupGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, but after getting involved in the river. It was an illegal tax scheme easy assumption for the police to fund his latest film, Chris Atkins was invited for a five-year staymake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, which is probably the oldest, largest Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and most dysfunctional prison in Europewonder about what really happened.

|isbn=12501685461035906708|authortitle=Sarah KozloffDiva|titleauthor=A Queen In HidingDaisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= World-building is the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die. And what a pleasureWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, thenNew York, in December 1923 and only moved to get a novel with world-building you actually want Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to delve into. Sarah Kozloff's debut novel presents a startlingly rich and layered world, with a complex history of connecting nations that seems certain Callas' to have make it more to tap, and manageable in the characters are interesting – if a little underdevelopedStates. But it's When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a world I could – mother who mercilessly exploited her and did – eagerly buy into, and the struggle made no secret of each Queen to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very aptpreference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=1543987877Christopher Edge|title=Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas JordanBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a book about love relationships rather than movie marathon at their local cinema, a book about love. The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is place that has the opposite nickname of grief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve'The Black Hole'. Your love relationships begin the moment youAll big movie fans, they're born looking forward to lots of exciting films, and end only when you die. many, many snacks! Whilst we all come into However, as the world hoping to give movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and receive love there they are many people for whom love is not quite so simpleswept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating But as they lurch from one film genre to the same mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? For people who are making Will they ever get back to the same mistakes repeatedlycinema, self-preservation, in the form of resignation is a necessity.and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Chris HautyRachel Greenlaw|title=Deep StateCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary= Hayley Chill is a fighter''I can hear the song of the sea. She is every kind The call of fighterthe deep, and well-trained the answering beat in most of themmy heart. She's army infantry ' Rosevear, a remote and she boxes for fun – partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and she winsplundering the wrecks. Always. She wins because she Mira, like her mother before her, is focussedone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. She works hardBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, mentally they capture the island's leader and physicallyMira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she knows how to deal with sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the painsea. She is not so much cold With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as controlled. This fight is against someone she is not expected her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to beat. And save the future of her home and the ones she is being watchedholds most dear.|isbn=14711856050008664730

|author=H G Parry James Sherwood Metts|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Brothers Rob and Charley Things have struggled to see eye to eye been a bit sticky for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in the "normal" world - Earthlings. AI and Charley a man who is blessed with an ability he canautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they't fully control - one which allows him re paid to do and other tasks that took time to bring literary characters into the real worldaccomplish. After years of protecting Charley, Rob wants Just as they were beginning to get used to discharge his duties all this technological change and leave Charley starting to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out think of both their hands. As literary characters begin other, new ways to appear everywherespend time, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's powers and intends to use them for nefarious gainsalong came an awful pandemic. Rob Life was pretty much shut down and Charley must team up to stop , along with it, all the madness - in a battle to win before many daily social interactions on which they, the characters and the world reach The End…depend so heavily.|isbn=03565137771736128426

|isbnauthor=1444776185Matthew Tree|title=HavenWe't they Grown|author=Sophie Hannahll Never Know

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her son, Ben, Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to a football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbots. Actuallybe different from his father, It's a little disingenuous to say 'found herself' as Beth had made a deliberate detour on the grounds that she didn't find herself in this neck drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of the woods very often his artistic passions all failed miserably and she was curious to see where a family who'd come into money had lived before they'd all lost contact twelve years agoendless crises of self confidence. And it might have gone no further So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than that had Beth not seen a car draw up and her friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas his daydreams and Emily. Beth remembered the names well - set himself high but these children were about three and five and Flora's children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and seventeenachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1529123763A G Slatter|title=Miss Austen|author=Gill HornbyThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary=It'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and 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 generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters which she and other members of administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the extensive Austen family had exchanged rare ability to communicate with or about the dead, putting her sister Janeat the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. What is not known 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 under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'whys fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. 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 loved needed. The next case did this look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and at this stage - more than two hundred years after Janeit's death - a definitive answer is unlikely to forthcomingnot the Italian. Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in a book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I But which of them was expecting.the primary target?

|authorisbn=Rory Clements1529395224|title=Hitler's Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The SecretLife of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands

|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=So, Hitler had a secret? Two, if you include the reproductive detail mentioned in a certain sing-song aspersionSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. But this is His father was a secret that is counter to that, GP and in fact is a secret that Hitler himself doesnRowlands didn't even know about. His neicewant to follow in his footsteps, Geli Raubal, the attractive young woman particularly when he seemed to be very close to in considered the early 1930s, had had strain that being on-call put on his daughter behind his backfather's life. Protected under a false identity ever since, When he was seventeen he took the girl is completely ignorant opportunity of her past, doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the truth is a very rare thingjob for him. Martin BormannBefore long, the he was at Liverpool University. It hadn'gatekeeper' to Hitler and t - as with so many students - been his right hand man, knows – and is desperately intent on wiping the slate clean and removing all connected with her existence from the Reichdream since he was a child. So itIf anything, he's down d wanted to Tom Wilde, an American history professor at Oxbridge, to go in and extract her, in this most shadowy race against timebe a professional footballer.|isbn=1838770275

|isbn=02419851100861541774|title=All the Rage (D I Fawley)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Cara HunterSteve Burrows|rating=4.5

|summary=A very beautifulDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, but extremely distressed teenage girl has taken a 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 picked up by facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a minicab driver on the outskirts of OxfordGhurka. She didn't want Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to go light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the police station or the hospital: she just wanted to be taken homeman. The driver wasn't so certain though - and after dropping the girl at home Now he went to could be facing the police, which is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford and her motherdeath penalty. Both were adamant that this was Domenic Jejeune can do nothing more than an April Fool's joke which had gone wrong. No crime had been committed and Faith didn't want to take the matter help as any further. Fawley interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and his team werenwouldn't prepared to leave it help Danny at that and they began investigating. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didn't seem to have much of a historyall.

|isbnauthor=1529400279Alexander McCall Smith|title=Six Wicked Reasons|author=Jo SpainThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was early summer 2018 The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and Adam Latimer returned home operating as an alternative to Spanish Cove after an absence of ten years. The family had thought him dead - all the online apps in factproviding a more personal, that's what the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told themtailored service. He was cagey about exactly where he'd been but he seemed content, Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if not happyshe could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to be homeCanada to get away for a while. What brought him? WellKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, nine years ago his mother died and he'd seen so jumps at the ''in memoriam'' in the paper: this was the first he'd heard about what had happenedchance to come home to Edinburgh. His three sisters And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and two brothers had mixed feelings about his returnthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but his father is delightedwith some new characters who quickly begin to charm. In fact, he's determined to have Katie has no experience in running a party. Onlybusiness, with Frazer Latimeror in match-making, what happens but Ness has to be about him. He has an announcement to make - itfull confidence in her abilities, and there's nine years since Kathleen died always her very helpful (and he's been lonely. He's met Anarather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a Polish immigrant, and they're getting married.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Penny Chrimes0811771741|title=Tiger HeartInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''Fly never meant InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to end up blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the cage with a mantime they'll take to complete -eating tiger. She just saw her chance less than five hours, five to skedaddleten hours, ten to twenty hours and she took itmore than twenty hours. And even when All the cloud of soot cleared and she saw the golden eyes of a killer staring into hersprojects are attractive, she still didn't turn round modern and climb back up the chimney straightawayuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'Cos there was worse waiting for her back on the roof.social-media-worthy projects''What an opener! And therebut that's plenty more to come!|isbn=1510107045me being picky.

|author=Tanya LandmanDean Koontz|title=Jane Eyre: a RetellingThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=A young womanBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about herand his house gets trashed. Oh, and years in someone has delivered a dreary schoolreally weird, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – disturbing coffin-sized object to have something like his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the life she wants – and with only one jobthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to tutor his house is a young half-French girlnew friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, whose father who has been sent to help him since Benny is almost always absentclearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. When he does turn up he seems Spike is going to be darktake care of Benny, brooding and troubled – but thatwill certainly take care of Benny's nothing compared to the darker, more broody and even more troubled secret in the house. Yesenemies, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don'the, for whatever reasonBenny, this is and Harper (a wonderful book to turn towaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=17811291261662500491

|author= T R HendrickAdam Stower|title= What if They KnewMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionConfident Readers |summary= ItMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's 2025. Underneath a lodge in the Blue Mountain resort in Pennsylvaniabad magician's cat, is so his favourite bun has been turned into a secret facility. Herehyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, Dr Benton and his team are making some critical scientific advances on behalf of the Benefactorcatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, their anonymous funderbut into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. Already This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, the team have succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place to another. Butmuch bigger than Murray was, unbeknownst to the Benefactorbe honest, Dr Benton has also coded for another type of teleportation altogether - travel through time. And but he's ready turned up and he'll have to test. If successful, Benton has a very specific use for his technology in minddo…|isbn=17342772110008561249

|authorisbn= Catherine SteadmanB0C47LV1PC|title= Mr NobodyFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= DonCan you make a 't 'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you just hate make it when people are multi-talented? Author Catherine Steadman Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both a successful actress and writer, with this her second novelcould well be.... no. I think in a way her acting background shows in her writing as to my mind the  'fight scene' at the end was somewhat unrealistic – you know the kind where the hero has been hurt so many times that itFragility's virtually impossible they'd still be alive let alone able to fight off an attacker. The story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until the ending which felt overstuffed in a frenetic bid to wrap everything up in the last few chapters. It was almost is set as if the author wanted city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to keep the suspense until emerge from the last possible moment (which I liked) but then was somewhat left with too much to do in restrictions imposed during the closing stages.|isbn=1984890646covid pandemic

|isbn=14736818471529431735|title=In Her EyesThe Winter Visitor|author=Sarah AldersonJames Henry|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Ava lives a charmed lifeIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, but those things sometimes rub other people up which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the wrong waymore surprising. One evening she returns from He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a night out with decade. The return has come about because he's had a friendletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and before she can finish her bedtime routine, her homehasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and her life, are under attack: masked men have broken sent to a watery grave in and are demanding money from her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside him. In the scuffle than ensues, Ava is hurt, badlyboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happened, but she knows Is it was life-changing. With her daughter still fighting for her life in a room down the corridor, Ava has warning from a Spanish gang or a lot problem closer to contend with as she tries to recover, wills her daughter to recover, and attempts to piece together what happened and why.home?

|author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson Alex Bell and Kit SeatonTim McDonagh|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic NovelGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=34|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=DianaEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, being unique on her island, is and in the victim of evening a lot of taunts, helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and claims of nepotismruns. It's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has her Eli lives with any standing at allhis lovely gran, her naysayers declare too – even though she has clearly fought to be for there is a strong young womangeneration missing in the family. Perhaps too strong for A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the islandtitular race, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the World of Men, and this Diana is world in the heroine company of yet another Wonder Woman origin storya magical beast. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running This has made the race, anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the survivor she drags eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the waters is only going thing to disturb a lot more..possibly save his gran.|isbn=14012825550571382231