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'''Read [[:Category:Features|the latest features]].''' <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> '''Read [[Forthcoming Publications|reviews of books about to be published]].{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}

|isbn=15291243950008517061|title=When You See MeDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Lisa GardnerStig Abell

|summary=For Janet and ChuckFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, it was has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a hiking break in little uncertainty about the Appalachians future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in Georgia together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and pure chance that Chuck went off the beaten track relaxing life to find a stick. What he found was a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called move in, along with Sergeant D D Warren. Both women were experienced in Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on is the services of Keith Edgar, a computer analyst, future she wants for herself and Flora Dane who brought something unique to her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the table. Flora had been kidnapped present and held for 472 days by putting the notorious killer, Jacob Ness. If Ness had anything to do with future on the current discoveries then what Flora had to say could be invaluableback burner.

|isbn=15290096771786482126|title=A Window BreaksThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=C M EwanElly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It's not just Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the usual growing apart after more than a decade of marriage. Their son, Michael, site was killed in a car crash some months before: he was driving his fathergoing to hold seventy-five 's Audi and at sixteen wasnluxury't legally entitled to drive. Not only did he kill himself apartments - when they discovered the car rammed into bones of a tree, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connorchild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Tom can't think about Michael without Was this a sense of shame and guilt. ritual killing or murder? Rachel is brokenInevitably, but she wants to forgive MichaelDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. To give some space, TomIt's moved out of the family homedifficult as Ruth knows, but stresses to his thirteen-year-old daughter, HollyNelson doesn't, that it she is only pregnant with his child as a trial separationresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=02419851530008551324|title=The House on the LakeDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Nuala EllwoodNeil Lancaster|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We know that something It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has gone wrong - badly wrong - when any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the woman body of a missing person is buried and who was alone in responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the house police doing what he wants. And what he wants is taken away by to be transferred to an open prison to serve the policeremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, but is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's going even prepared to be a while before we learn exactly 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 has happened's happening.

|authorisbn=0008405026|title=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac A Stranger in the Family (illustratorMaeve Kerrigan 11)|titleauthor=Orphans of the TideJane Casey

|summary=The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the Irish coast, might have been enough investigation ground to put some guests off, but it was the wedding of the yeara halt. Will Slater (television personalityNow, if not yet a celebrity) was to marry Jules Keeganher mother, online magazine publisherHelena, and her father are dead in the ruined chapel on the islandtheir bed. The brideInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid and something about the positioning of the wedding planner and chef are Aoife bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her husband, Freddyboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. They gave What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a huge discount to get complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the couple to the islandexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, but surely it would be worth it for the publicity?Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=B07ZGL6B1B0571379877|title=In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)The Kellerby Code|author=Marion ToddJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=It was Edward Jevons is a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was stolenStanza. They were there for the fun run and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt the raceRobert's a theatre director. TheyHe're against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to be constructed on Priory Marsh and the firm is sponsoring the fun runerrands for him. It was Lisa MitchellEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's scream which stopped everythingdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Her daughter, six-month-old Abi, had been taken from her pram whilst no one was looking. ItMost men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a major incident when relationship had begun between them but he''any'' child s not like most men: Edward is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a heart problem: without it, she might have only forty-eight hours to livedark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1471180921Jo Callaghan|title=Firewatching|author=Russ ThomasLeave No Trace|rating=54

|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think that heAI detective Lock. It's lucky to be theretheir first live case together, given that he decked a superior officerhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. He's But when there because Tyler came off worse in the exchange - there's is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a scar on his face to prove it - potential serial killer and the superior officer was forced to take early retirement. There's a suggestion too that Tyler's godmother (she's on the force too) has looked after him and very high profile case that his current boss is keen to have draws a tame gay lot of unwanted attention to put on the town hall steps come Pridetheir AI Future Policing project. Either wayWill they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, he's therepotentially, but without anything really interesting to get his teeth into.out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn= A K Larkwood1399613073|title= The Unspoken NameMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyThrillers|summary= What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone 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 god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to her god on her fourteenth birthday, yet bonus when the opportunity arises, she chooses you aim to abandon everything she knows be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and flee with her lifea trauma doctor. Who can blame her? Her god's reach Anjali is limited the free spirit of the group and Csorwe intends to stay far beyond it, yet fate is she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a funny thing drug and when circumstances bring her back within alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the reach of her god Csorwe learns consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that her god remembers herwill impact the three friends. This time, and blames her very much indeedit's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1250238900

|authorisbn= M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman0241636604|title= The Highland Falcon ThiefTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary= Harrison Beck, or Hal as he prefers If you were to be calledbring up an image of a city banker in your mind, isnyou't exactly pleased when his parents send him off with re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his uncle Nat, a travel writer, on a long train journey. Although, this isn't any old train; this background is the Highland FalconEast End, the royal trainwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and this is its last ever journey before it gets sent injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to a museumthe London School of Economics. A number of high Stevenson is bright - extremely bright -society figures, including film stars, millionaires and aristocrats, will 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 on this trainstupid. It was his ability at what was, so it is quite the event on the social calendar. Howeveressentially, when a card game which got him an expensive brooch is stoleninternship with Citibank. Eventually, Hal realises that maybe this trip won't be turned into permanent employment as boring as he previously thoughta trader. As the passengers begin to turn on each other, Hal vows to get to the bottom of the mystery…before the train gets to the end of the line.|isbn=1529013062

|isbn=00082752461035021803|title=Perfect Kill (D I Callanach)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Helen FieldsC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised that 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 sonbeloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, BartArthur Crockleford, was missing he was already 200 miles away is dead and just waking from a chemically-induced sleepthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Maggie knew straight away that something Arthur was wrong. Bart might be twenty but he was considerate of his mother and wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her knowdown badly. BesidesEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, he didn't have his phone with him and he wouldn't have gone far without thatshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. It's not long before Bart realises that he's aloneAfter the split, trapped she worked in a shipping container cafe, met and married James (on his way to Francethe rebound from the love of her life, where his fate has already been decidedwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn= Alyssa SheinmelAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= What Kind of GirlAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 45|genre= Women's Science Fiction|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you'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=SoSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, Hitler had particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a secret? family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. TwoBefore long, if you include the reproductive detail mentioned in he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a certain sing-song aspersionchild. But this is If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a secret that is counter short holiday in Singapore to thatmeet up with an old ally, and Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in fact is a secret street brawl - he would later maintain that Hitler himself doesn't even know abouthe was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. His neice, Geli RaubalInitially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the attractive young woman man. Now he seemed to could be very close 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the early 1930sonline apps in providing a more personal, had had his daughter behind his backtailored service. Protected under Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a false identity ever since, the girl while. Katie is completely ignorant coming out of her pasta break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the truth is a very rare thingchance to come home to Edinburgh. Martin BormannAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, the 'gatekeeper' bringing us to Hitler and his right hand manan Edinburgh we already love, knows – thanks to 44 Scotland Street and is desperately intent on wiping the slate clean Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and removing all connected with there's always her existence very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the Reichfire' variety. So itThe projects are divided by the time they's down ll take to Tom Wildecomplete - less than five hours, an American history professor at Oxbridgefive to ten hours, ten to go in twenty hours and extract hermore than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, in this most shadowy race against timemodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1838770275

|isbnauthor=0241985110Dean Koontz|title=All the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=A very beautifulBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by a minicab driver on the outskirts of Oxfordand his house gets trashed. She didnOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it't want to go to the police station s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the hospital: she just wanted to be taken home. thing that has trashed his house! The driver wasn't so certain though - and after dropping the girl at home he went to the policething is, which Benny is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking the very last person to Faith Appleford and her motherdeserve all this bad luck. Both were adamant that this was nothing more than an April Fool's joke which had gone wrongHe is a nice person. No crime had been committed and Faith didn't want to take the matter any furtherA really nice person. Fawley and So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his team weren't prepared house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to leave it at that and they began investigatinghelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didn't seem Spike is going to have much take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a historywaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1529400279Adam Stower|title=Six Wicked Reasons|author=Jo SpainMurray and Bun

|summary=It was early summer 2018 's February 1991 and Adam Latimer returned home to Spanish Cove after an absence of ten yearsEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The family return has come about because he's had thought him dead a letter from his ex- in factwife, saying thatshe's what the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told themill and hasn't long to live. He was cagey about exactly where heIt'd been but he seemed content, if not happys hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to be homea watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. What brought Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him? Well, nine years ago his mother died and he'd seen the ''in memoriam'' in the paper: this was evening a helper at the first he'd heard about what had happeneddessert cafe his gran owns and runs. His three sisters and two brothers had mixed feelings about Eli lives with his returnlovely gran, but his father too – for there is delighteda generation missing in the family. In factA few short years ago, heEli's determined 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 partymagical beast. Only This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, with Frazer Latimer, what happens has Eli knows his only hope is to be about him. He has an announcement dare to make - it's nine years since Kathleen died and enter what he's been lonely. He's met Anamost hates, a Polish immigrant, and they're getting marriedwith the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231