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|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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B083NMCSZX0008517061|title=Little Doubt (D I Kelly Porter)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Rachel LynchStig Abell

|summary=Ella Watson was in the wrong place Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at the wrong timeLittle Sky. She was out running in There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the park when she was randomly attacked and stabbed to death. Her husband, Thomasfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and childrenher daughter Diana, Jordan and Millie were devastated and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond was outraged that as moving in together would mean a decent, middlelot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-class woman should be the victim of knife crime. Despite being a golfing partner of Thomas Jordan he declined grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to distance himself from Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the case future she wants for herself and told DI Kelly Porter that he would be taking a great deal of interest her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in how the case was handled. He wasn't anywhere near as interested when a second woman was stabbed to death a few hours later. Keira Bradley lived present and putting the future on the Beacon estate and Ormond's view seemed to be that anyone living there should expect this sort of thing to happen. He could hardly bring himself to mention Keira's nameback burner.

|isbn=05713423531786482126|title=Rules for Perfect MurdersThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Peter SwansonElly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=Malcolm Kershaw Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the co-owner and manager bones of the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill in Bostona child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. The store specialises in crime novelsWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, but Mal has given up reading crimeDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. His life's been pretty chaotic of late: It's five years since his wifedifficult as Ruth knows, Claire Mallorybut Nelson doesn't, died and he's never really got over itthat she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. She was driving whilst inebriatedHer condition will be obvious before long, having just been not least because Ruth is prone to see the man with whom Kershaw suspected she was having an affair. His interest in crime fiction comes back when he's approached by Special Agent Gwen Mulvey. She's interested in a blog post he wrote a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murders''sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=17868971480008551324|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever The Devil You Know (Harry McCoyD S Max Craigie)|author=Alan ParksNeil Lancaster

|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March was on his way It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to London with fellow band members Tom, Scott, Barry and Jamieapproach the police. HeNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'd had s prepared to get his father to sign tell the police where the contract body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for The Beatkickersher death. This person, he promises, as Bobby wasn't old enoughis someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his father had been reluctant - he'd have preferred Bobby sentence and to get an apprenticeship, for the regular moneyearly parole date. By July 1973 Bobby Not much to ask, is back in Glasgow. it? The Beatkickers didnnew Deputy Police Constable doesn't survive think so and March 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 on his own, but hardly thriving. Therekept well away from what's an obvious drug habit. Meanwhile, the police are consumed by the search for a missing girl, Alice Kellyhappening.

|authorisbn=0008405026|title=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane A Stranger in the Family (editorsMaeve Kerrigan 11)|titleauthor=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy TalesJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=CursesIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. They're there throughout tales of faery She was never found and other fantastical folk – people being cursed the investigation ground to do thisa halt. Now, or not to be able to do that. Children can be cursedher mother, as can princesses on the verge of marryingHelena, and older people tooher father are dead in their bed. It seems in Initially, it looks like a way straightforward murder/suicide but there's no escaping it. Which is why something about the theme positioning of this book of short stories the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is such now a standout – we may well think we know all there complex double murder. Kerrigan is to know about this accursed character, convinced that demonised placethe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and that other bewitched personUna Burt) are less convinced. We'd be very wrong.|isbn=1789091500

|authorisbn=Sara Holland0571379877|title=HavenfallThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Maddie Morrow Edward Jevons is supposed to spending the summer with her Grandma Ellen. But after a visit to her mother in prisonworking-class young man, Maddie wants nothing more than to go to Havenfall to see her uncleobsessed with his upper-class friends, MarcusRobert and Stanza. It Robert's the only place she feels truly at homea theatre director. Maddie He's fatheralso self-obsessed, understandablydemanding, is not keen on Maddie spending time handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with her motherStanza since their university days - and he's family - because the crime Maddiedrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's mum is languishing on death row for committing not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the murder two of Maddie's brother..them kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1547603798

|author=Baye HartshorneJo Callaghan|title=Ghosted: The Treason House TrilogyLeave No Trace

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary='Julia Crawley has lost her job When a man is found crucified on ''Celebrity'' magazine and so she decides to cut her losses and return home to the village top of Monmouth Cove on the Jersey Shorea hill in Nuneaton, hoping to return DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her harder hitting journalistic roots via local newssidekick, the AI detective Lock. She It'll be staying s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with her grandmother - several cold cases. But when there is a woman always ready to help younger relatives in need of second body found crucified a hand. There's only one problem few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that: creepy Uncle Dex, who doesn't always keep his hands draws a lot of unwanted attention to himselftheir AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn= B0829CP5BM139851120X}}

|isbn=06486848061399613073|title=Clara Colby: The International SuffragistMoral Injuries|author=John HollidayChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyThrillers|summary=The path Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USAmedical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailmentOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, she wasn't allowed which is a bonus when you aim to sail with her parents and three brothersbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her Laura is a perfectionist and saw that she received a good education, both in and out of schooltrauma doctor. She was Anjali is the only child in free spirit of the household group and her childhood was gloriousshe becomes a GP. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the midWhen we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-west of the United States fuelled party and life was hard, as Clara was it's going to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the familyconsequences. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen Twenty-five years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrivedlater there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. As the eldest girlThis time, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakeningit's their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Kathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick0241636604|title=Nine Ways to Empower TweensThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you''9 Ways re unlikely to Empower Tweens'' think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is a selfthe East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV -help book for tweens, setting out but he had been to show them vital #lifeskillsthe London School of Economics. Don't groan! I know there Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a market glut facility with numbers which most of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults toous can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, but there is a needful space in card game which got him an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens toointernship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader. |isbn= 0228818826

|authorisbn= Katie Fforde1035021803|title= A Springtime AffairThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= Women's FictionCrime|summary= IIt've wanted s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to read author Katie Fforde the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for ages help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warmCarole's close friend, cosy read focused on romanceArthur Crockleford, family is dead and friendshipsthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. This provided two romances for Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the price of onevillage: Arthur, she feels, but it was actually the family element let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as opposed antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the romance that I really enjoyedprofession 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. |isbn=1780897561

|isbn=1838593187AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Guess What I Found in the Playground!All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Victoria ThompsonBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her faceshape of things to come. Dad's come to collect her and her brother and he ' I'hasve heard it said that 'technology' to try to guess is what she found in the playground todayhappens after you're eighteen. Well, although she concedes I must confess that he will never guessthere have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. Dad wants I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to know how school was, me but I''obviously'' m left with the feeling thatit's not importantall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (IsnOf course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I't that so much more sensible than a scrap m reading someone who knows what they''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuffre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. There are sequins, glittered paper I needed people I knew I could trust and all sorts of other things who could deliver information in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to guessa way I could understand.

|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha SaeedSunny Singh|title= Yes No Maybe So Hotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= TeensThrillers |summary= ''We might give it our all and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that maybe makes it still worth going for, don't you think?''Jaime has suddenly been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for violently taken over by a special electionterrorist group. When his mother encourages him to go canvassing Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, he can't think of anything worse. Howeverthere is Sam, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician wartime photographer and decides there is no time like Abhi, the present hotel manager. As Abhi continues to conquer his fear of speaking try to care remotely for the public. Maya is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl residents who is having are still alive in the worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through hotel, he forms a separationbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, she has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things and keeps on venturing out of her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy her, her parents offer room to try to buy capture what's happened through her a car if she agrees to go canvassingphotography. The pair could possibly be Although they only ever talk over the worst canvassing duo in historyphone, their friendship grows as neither of them really want Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be there, but as the campaign goes on rescued before they discover that they care, a lot, about are discovered by the election - and maybe even about each other?terrorists.|isbn=1471184668086154742X

|authorisbn=Gregg Hurwitz1529153298|title=Into The FireList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= Grant Merriweather It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a forensic accountantPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) Or ratherShe's not what's worrying Miv's family, wasthough. Women have been disappearing. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crashWell, they've been murdered, his friend pleading with the medics but to keep him alivehave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. He was needed alive just long enough Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to give up move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a namefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. His cousinFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, Maxand she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=0718185501

|isbn=15291243951398524085|title=When You See MeHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Lisa GardnerNicci French|rating=45

|summary=For Janet and Chuck, it Charlotte Salter was a hiking break in the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off the beaten track to find a stickexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. What he found was a human bone Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called inher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, along with Sergeant D D Warrenis not. Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the services body of Keith EdgarGreg's father, a computer analystDuncan Ackerley, and Flora Dane who brought something unique to in the tableriver. Flora It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had been kidnapped murdered Charlie and held for 472 days by then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the notorious killer, Jacob Nessguilt. If Ness had anything to The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with the current discoveries then their lives and wonder about what Flora had to say could be invaluablereally happened.

|isbn=15290096771035906708|title=A Window BreaksDiva|author=C M EwanDaisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It's not just the usual growing apart after more than a decade We tend to think of marriage. Their sonMaria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, MichaelNew York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was killed in a car crash some months before: he thirteen. Her original surname was driving his Kalogeropoulos but her fatherchanged it to 's Audi and at sixteen wasnCallas't legally entitled to drivemake it more manageable in the States. Not only did he kill himself when When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the car rammed into Nazi occupation by a treemother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, but he also killed Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and his girlfriendfriends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connora place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Tom canAll big movie fans, they't think about Michael without a sense re looking forward to lots of shame exciting films, and guilt. many, many snacks! Rachel However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is brokenvery different, but she wants to forgive Michaeland they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. To give some spaceBut as they lurch from one film genre to the next, Tom's moved can they figure out of what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the family homecinema, but stresses and to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separation.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=0241985153Rachel Greenlaw|title=The House on the Lake|author=Nuala EllwoodCompass and Blade

|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=We know that something has gone wrong - badly wrong - when ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the woman who was alone answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the house rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is taken away by one of the policeseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, but itthey capture the island's going leader and Mira's father. Desperate to be 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 sets off in search of a while before we learn exactly family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what has happenedmight save her father, as 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 save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)James Sherwood Metts|title=Orphans of the TidePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary= In Things have been a bit sticky for the last city on EarthEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has come often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to wreak havoc on the last of humanityaccomplish. When a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of a whaleother, the citizens immediately believe him new ways to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancasterspend time, a girl inventoralong came an awful pandemic. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the boyLife was pretty much shut down and, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if along with it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets..all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=02413844351736128426

|isbnauthor=0008297169Matthew Tree|title=The Guest List|author=Lucy FoleyWe'll Never Know

|summary=The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off the Irish coast, might have It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been enough to put some guests offbadly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, but it 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 wedding help of the yeara psychologist only worked for a while. Will Slater (television personalityFinally, if not yet a celebrity) it was to marry Jules KeeganRobin, online magazine publisherDelaware's partner, in who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the ruined chapel on involvement was something that the islandman she loved needed. The bridenext case did 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 it's sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid and not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the wedding planner Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and chef are Aoife and her husband, FreddyWildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. They gave His father was a huge discount GP and Rowlands didn't want to get follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the couple to 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 family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the islandjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, but surely it would he'd wanted to be worth it for the publicity?a professional footballer.

|isbn=B07ZGL6B1B0861541774|title=In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Marion ToddSteve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, 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 facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was The Perfect Passion Company is a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and DI Clare Mackay were at operating as an alternative to all the beach when online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the baby was stolenbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. They were there for the fun run Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and their attention was taken by so jumps at the NEFEW protesters who tried chance to come home to disrupt the raceEdinburgh. They're against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to be constructed on Priory Marsh 44 Scotland Street and the firm is sponsoring the fun runIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. It was Lisa Mitchell's scream which stopped everything. Her daughterKatie has no experience in running a business, sixor in match-month-old Abimaking, had been taken from but Ness has full confidence in her pram whilst no one was looking. Itabilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a major incident when hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''anyInstaKnits for Baby'' child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of a heart problem: without itthe 'long, she might have only fortycosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete -eight less than five hours , five to liveten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1471180921Dean Koontz|title=Firewatching|author=Russ ThomasThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler Benny is in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think that having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he's lucky to be thereloses his fiancee, given that he decked a superior officerand his house gets trashed. HeOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's there because Tyler came off worse in possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the exchange - there's a scar on thing that has trashed his face to prove it - and house! The thing is, Benny is the superior officer was forced very last person to take early retirementdeserve all this bad luck. There's He is a suggestion too nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that Tyler's godmother (she's on the force too) delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has looked after been sent to help him and that his current boss since Benny is keen to have clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a tame gay to put on the town hall steps come Pridegood person. Either waySpike is going to take care of Benny, heand will certainly take care of Benny's thereenemies, if he, but without anything really interesting to get his teeth Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped intoBenny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author= A K LarkwoodAdam Stower|title= The Unspoken NameMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyConfident Readers |summary= What does it mean Murray is supposed to betray someone? What if that someone is be a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to her god on her fourteenth birthdayhumble, yet when the opportunity arisestidy and friendly cat, she chooses one who is able to abandon everything she knows sleep and flee with her lifeeat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. Who can blame her? Her god But he's a bad magician's reach is limited and Csorwe intends to stay far beyond itcat, yet fate is so his favourite bun has been turned into a funny thing hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and when circumstances bring her the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back within the reach garden, but into a world of her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers herfrightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and blames her very much indeed.he'll have to do…|isbn=12502389000008561249

|authorisbn= M G Leonard and Sam SedgmanB0C47LV1PC|title= The Highland Falcon ThiefFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= Harrison Beck, or Hal as he prefers to be called, isnCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''t exactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, a travel writerjoke? And if you could, on a long train journey. Although, this isn't any old train; this is the Highland Falcon, question should you make it? Or is the royal trainquestion if you did, and this is its last ever journey before it gets sent to a museum. A number of high-society figures, including film stars, millionaires and aristocrats, will be on this train, so would it land? The catch is quite that the event on the social calendaranswer for both could well be.... no. However, when an expensive brooch  ''Fragility'' is stolen, Hal realises that maybe this trip won't be set as boring as he previously thought. As the passengers begin to turn on each othercity of Portland, Oregon, Hal vows to get to the bottom of the mystery…before the train gets cautiously begins to emerge from the end of restrictions imposed during the line.|isbn=1529013062covid pandemic

|isbn=00082752461529431735|title=Perfect Kill (D I Callanach)The Winter Visitor|author=Helen FieldsJames Henry

|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised that her sonIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Bart, was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from a chemically-induced sleepwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrongHe'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Bart might be twenty but The return has come about because he was considerate of 's had a letter from his mother and wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her know. Besidesex-wife, he didnsaying that she't have his phone with him s ill and he wouldnhasn't have gone far without thatlong to live. It's not long before Bart realises that he's alonehard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, trapped stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a shipping container and on his way problem closer to France, where his fate has already been decided.home?

|author= Alyssa SheinmelAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= What Kind The Glorious Race of GirlMagical Beasts|rating= 4|genre= Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared Eli is braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a black eyegeneration missing in the family. A few short years ago, claiming he gave it Eli's parents were both lost to herthe titular race, her whole a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world is tipped upside downin the company of a magical beast. Her relationship This has just ended and now she's made the talk of race anathema to the school. Mike was pair – but when a bad incident at the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with hereatery leads to a confession from gran, everyone knew that, so why did he do Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he did? Some people believe her and some don'tmost hates, but one with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing is for sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soonpossibly save his gran.|isbn=03490032970571382231