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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=18388806580008517061|title=Murder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Helena DixonStig Abell

|summary=It's Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the summer future of 1933 his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and Kitty Underhay is on her way daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to visit move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the family which future she never knew she had, at Enderley Hall. Her grandmother, Mrs Treadwell, wants for herself and Great Aunt Livvy are back at her daughter? For the Dolphin Hotel moment they’re enjoying life in Dartmouth. Kitty gets easily bored working at the Dolphin - every day is much present and putting the same - but her real reason for going away is that she needs a break after her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack and an attempt future on her lifethe back burner.

|isbn=17886380261786482126|title=Where the Innocent Die The Janus Stone (D I RidpathDr Ruth Galloway)|author=M J LeeElly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=It Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was easy going to assume that hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the death bones of the young Chinese girl at the Immigrant Removal Centre a child beneath a doorway. There was suicideno skull. Her throat was cut, there was Was this a lot of blood and the knife was on the floor at the side of the bedritual killing or murder? Inevitably, She was due to be deported that dayDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. But... how did the knife get into the secure centre and why was the girlIt's room the only one which was unlocked? DI Thomas Ridpathdifficult as Ruth knows, the coronerbut Nelson doesn's officert, that she is sent to investigate and he quickly becomes suspicious, There's pregnant with his child as a snag though: the inquest is due to open in a couple result of days' time, the girl's parents are coming over from China and one night they want to take their daughter's body home with themspent together some three months ago. Ridpath has just five days to solve the case. The coroner Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is disinclined prone to delay the inquest: for her, it's about giving closure to the parentssudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=14711660230008551324|title=Burnt Island The Devil You Know (Ben KittoD S Max Craigie)|author=Kate RhodesNeil Lancaster

|summary=The 5th of November was D I Ben KittoIt's thirty-fifth birthday 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 prison and he's prepared to tell the occasion police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for the usual bonfire celebrationsher death. This person, he promises, but is someone big and it would will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be marred this year by transferred to an open prison to serve the discovery remainder of Professor Alex Roganhis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's body on a bonfiresixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. He'd obviously been alive when he She was put on never found and the fire and can only have died investigation ground to a terrible deathhalt. The body was first discovered by Jimmy CurwenNow, her mother, Helena, better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing and his only concern is her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the welfare positioning of the birds he looks afterbodies 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 now a complex double murder. His instinct Kerrigan is to cover Roganconvinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's body also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and he uses his sheepskin coat Edward to do this, run errands for him. Edward has been in love with the result Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly 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 not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the prime suspecttwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Elliot ReedJo Callaghan|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingLeave No Trace

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=This 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 AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the story case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a young boycareer?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, William TyceLaura 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, who which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is being raised by his uncle after the death free spirit of his mother the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and his fatherit's abandonmentgoing 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. HoweverThis time, it isn't told s their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|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 usual narrative wayEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Instead, There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the book London School of Economics. Stevenson is made up bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of glossary entriesus can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, written by Williamessentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a way trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide 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 describing certain eventsa request for help from her beloved aunt, situations and emotionsCarole. It runs alphabeticallyFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, starting with ABSENCEis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDERsay the least. As I began Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used 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 styleman 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 instead caught up in William's storymurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1911545418

|authorisbn=Will Dean AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Black River All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns - and this third book in ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal lifeshape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, returning her I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the isolated town feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of Gavrik and into a desperate search for her missing best friendit is - frankly - quite frightening. With Of course, I could research the Midsommar sun blocked out by possibilities and the dark pines of probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the forest, Tuva fights to save her friendlatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand. But who’ll be there to save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116

|isbnauthor=1782407480Sunny Singh|title=Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike WebsterHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeThrillers |summary=I was The Hotel Arcadia is a little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for ''Bird Love'' on luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a couple of on-line booksellers: ''exploring the sex life of birds'' it saidterrorist group. I very nearly passed over Hiding from the bookterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, but a closer examination suggested that wartime photographer and Abhi, the book is about the ''family life'' of birds, which is rather differenthotel manager. If As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the book was confined to residents who are still alive in the sex life of birdshotel, you would he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be missing an opportunity cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to understand how birds live day-try to-day, bring up their families and cope in the wildcapture what's happened through her photography. Not Although they only thatever talk over the phone, you have missed the treat of so many beautiful illustrations about a wide variety of birds which run through this book from the first page their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the lastterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Camilla Bruce1529153298|title=You Let Me InThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary= EccentricIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been missing for a year and has disappearing. Well, they've been pronounced legally dead by murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her lawyersfather wants to move the family 'Down South'. Her will instructs When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her niece best friend, Sharon, and nephew she'll do anything to enter her home and find prevent that. She's not worried about the key to their inheritance in an old manuscript left in dangers or that her office: the last story sheMum'll ever tells stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1787633179

|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Judith EagleNicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband'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 body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=The Pear AffairDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Set We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in the 1960'sManhattan, this is a mystery adventure storyNew York, all about a little girl called Nell in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her quest father changed it to 'Callas' to find her nanny, Perrine (Pear) who left her very suddenly and then, after keeping make it more manageable in touch regularly by post, disappeared completely from her life, leaving Nell bereftthe States. There's everything When she was back in this story, with underground tunnels as Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the playground of gangs of children, to travel and detective work, Nazi occupation by a mystery mould infecting Parisian bakeries, mysterious figures following Nell around, mother who mercilessly exploited her and a set made no secret of truly dreadful parents!|isbn=0571346855her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=B083NMCSZXChristopher Edge|title=Little Doubt (D I Kelly Porter)|author=Rachel LynchBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Ella Watson was Lucas and his friends are all booked in the wrong for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place at that has the wrong timenickname of 'The Black Hole'. She was out running in the park when she was randomly attacked All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and stabbed to death. many, many snacks! Her husbandHowever, Thomas, and childrenas the movie starts, Jordan and Millie were devastated and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond was outraged they very quickly realise that a decentsomething about this new film format is very different, middle-class woman should be the victim of knife crime. Despite being a golfing partner of Thomas Jordan he declined to distance himself from the case and told DI Kelly Porter that he would be taking a great deal of interest in how the case was handledthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. He wasn't anywhere near But as interested when a second woman was stabbed they lurch from one film genre to death a few hours later. the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Keira Bradley lived on Will they ever get back to the Beacon estate cinema, 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 name.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=0571342353Rachel Greenlaw|title=Rules for Perfect Murders|author=Peter SwansonCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Malcolm Kershaw was ''I can hear the co-owner and manager song of the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill in Bostonsea. The store specialises call of the deep, the answering beat in crime novels, but Mal has given up reading crimemy heart. His life's been pretty chaotic of late: It's five years since his wife Rosevear, Claire Mallorya remote and partially forgotten island, died survives on luring ships into the rocks and he's never really got over itplundering the wrecks. She was driving whilst inebriatedMira, having just been like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to see survey the man with whom Kershaw suspected she was having an affairruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. His interest in crime fiction comes back But when hethe Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's approached by Special Agent Gwen Mulvey. Sheleader and Mira's interested in father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a blog post wreck survivor who is as charming as he wrote is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murders'family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's 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

|isbnauthor=1786897148James Sherwood Metts|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever (Harry McCoy)|author=Alan ParksPlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March was on his way Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to London with fellow band members Tom, Scott, Barry do and Jamieother tasks that took time to accomplish. He'd had Just as they were beginning to get his father used to sign the contract for The Beatkickersall this technological change and starting to think of other, as Bobby wasn't old enough. And his father had been reluctant - he'd have preferred Bobby new ways to get spend time, along came an apprenticeship, for the regular moneyawful pandemic. By July 1973 Bobby is back in Glasgow. The Beatkickers didn't survive Life was pretty much shut down and March is on his own, but hardly thriving. There's an obvious drug habit. Meanwhilealong with it, all the police are consumed by the search for a missing girl, Alice Kellymany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)Matthew Tree|title=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy TalesWe'll Never Know

|summary=Curses. They're there throughout tales ' There's a part of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed me that wants to do keep thisjust to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, or not all mine, at last. I just want to be able to do thatenjoy it for a while. Children can be cursed'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, as can princesses on lies Silverton; a town under the verge protection of marryingthe Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and older people toothe wider world from the Darklands. It seems in 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 way theresteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's no escaping itleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Which is why As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the theme heart of this book a maelstrom of short stories is such a standout – we may well think we know all there is chaos. Reeling from one family secret to know about this accursed character, that demonised placeanother, Ellie must decide who to trust and that other bewitched person. Wedetermine what to do as the Briar witches'd be very wronglegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=17890915001803364548

|authorisbn=Sara Holland1529900360|title=HavenfallThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Maddie Morrow is supposed to spending the summer with her Grandma Ellen. But It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after a visit to her mother in prisonAlex recovered, Maddie wants nothing more than Sturgis was reluctant to go to Havenfall to see her uncle, Marcusask for his help on difficult cases. It His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's t need the help of a psychologist only place she feels truly at homeworked for a while. Maddie's father Finally, understandablyit was Robin, is not keen on Maddie spending time with her motherDelaware's family - because partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the crime Maddie's mum is languishing on death row for committing is man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the murder swimming pool of Maddiea 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 brothernot the Italian...|isbn=1547603798 But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Baye Hartshorne1529395224|title=GhostedLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Treason House TrilogySecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn'Julia Crawley has lost her job t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father''Celebrity'' magazine and so she decides to cut her losses and return home to s life. When he was seventeen he took the village opportunity of Monmouth Cove on doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the Jersey Shorejob for him. Before long, hoping to return to her harder hitting journalistic roots via local newshe was at Liverpool University. She It hadn'll be staying t - as with her grandmother so many students - been his dream since he was a woman always ready to help younger relatives in need of a handchild. There's only one problem with that: creepy Uncle Dex If anything, who doesnhe't always keep his hands d wanted to himselfbe a professional footballer.|isbn= B0829CP5BM}}

|isbn=06486848060861541774|title=Clara Colby: The International SuffragistA Nye of Pheasants|author=John HollidaySteve Burrows

|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=The path of Clara Dorothy BewickDCI Domenic Jejeune's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents close friend and three brothers. Insteadformer colleague, she remained with her grandparentsDanny Maik, who doted on her and saw that she received has taken a good educationshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, both in and out of schoolGuy Trueman. She Maik was the only child involved in the household a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and her childhood was glorioushe killed a Ghurka. By contrastInitially, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west he faced a charge of the United States and life was hard, as Clara was manslaughter but evidence came to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went light that suggested that he might have planned to join murder the familyman. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrivedNow he could be facing the death penalty. As the eldest girl, Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a heavy burden would fall on Clara diplomatic incident and Wisconsin was a rude awakeningwouldn't help Danny at all.

|author=Kathleen Boucher and Sara ChadwickAlexander McCall Smith|title=Nine Ways to Empower TweensThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' The Perfect Passion Company is a self-help book for tweensdating agency in Edinburgh, setting out run by Ness and operating as an alternative to show them vital #lifeskillsall the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Don't groan! I know there Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a market glut trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of such books for a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we grown-ups already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and for young adults toothe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but there is with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a needful space business, or in an increasingly technological world accessible match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to younger and younger children for material for tweens too. lend a hand…|isbn= 02288188261846976596

|authorisbn= Katie Fforde0811771741|title= A Springtime AffairInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating= 4|genre= Women's FictionCrafts|summary= IMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby''ve wanted gives us a collection of knits from toys to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting blankets. Some will be quick knits - a warmothers are of the 'long, cosy read focused on romanceafternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, family ten to twenty hours and friendshipsmore than twenty hours. This provided two romances for All the price of oneprojects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but it was actually the family element as opposed to the romance that I really enjoyed's me being picky. |isbn=1780897561

|isbnauthor=1838593187Dean Koontz|title=Guess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria ThompsonThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=For SharingParanormal|summary=Tilly Benny is excitedhaving a terrifically bad day. She's just come dashing out of the classroomHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her facehis house gets trashed. Dad's come Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to collect her and her brother his home, and he 'it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has'' trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to try to guess what she found in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never guessdeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. Dad wants to know how school was, but ''obviously'' that's not importantA really nice person. Could Tilly have found more collectable things So fortunately for her scrap box? (Isn't Benny it turns out that so much more sensible than the delivery to his house is a scrap ''book''?) Wellnew friend, actuallya bad weather friend called Spike, Tilly did find exciting stuffwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. There are sequinsSpike is going to take care of Benny, glittered paper and all sorts will certainly take care of other things in her pocketBenny's enemies, if he, but thatBenny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's not what she wants Dad to guesswild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha SaeedAdam Stower|title= Yes No Maybe So Murray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers |summary= ''We might give it our all Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and crash sleep and burn, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for, donhe't you think?s a bad magician''Jaime s cat, so his favourite bun has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for turned into a special election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassinghyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, he and the catflap they both use can't think of anything worse. Howeverchuck them out, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician and decides there is no time like not into the present to conquer his fear of speaking to the public. Maya is regular back garden, but into a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer world of her lifefrightening adventure and whiffs. Her parents are going through This time round it drops them into a separationViking land, she has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things and her only close friend where a troll hunter is permanently busy. To help occupy herexpected – well, her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassing. The pair could possibly be the worst canvassing duo in historyone much bigger than Murray was, as neither of them really want to be therehonest, but as the campaign goes on they discover that they care, a lot, about the election - he's turned up and maybe even about each other?he'll have to do…|isbn=14711846680008561249

|authorisbn=Gregg HurwitzB0C47LV1PC|title=Into The FireFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= Grant Merriweather Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is a forensic accountant. the question should you make it? Or ratheris the question if you did, waswould it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash, his friend pleading with the medics to keep him alive. He was needed alive just long enough to give up a name. His cousin, Maxno.|isbn=0718185501''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=15291243951529431735|title=When You See MeThe Winter Visitor|author=Lisa GardnerJames Henry

|summary=For Janet It's February 1991 and ChuckEssex is bitingly cold, it was a hiking break in which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off more surprising. He'd been exiled on the beaten track to find Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a stickdecade. What The return has come about because he found was 's had a human bone letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called in, along with Sergeant D D Warrenhasn't long to live. Both women were experienced It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on the services boot of Keith Edgar, a computer analyst, and Flora Dane who brought something unique to the tablestolen Ford Sierra. Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by the notorious killer, Jacob Ness. If Ness had anything to do with the current discoveries then what Flora had Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to say could be invaluable.home?

|isbnauthor=1529009677Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=A Window Breaks|author=C M EwanThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Tom Sullivan Eli is 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 wife Rachel are having problemsgran owns and runs. It's not just Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the usual growing apart after more than a decade of marriagefamily. Their sonA few short years ago, MichaelEli's parents were both lost to the titular race, was killed a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a car crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to drivemagical beast. Not only did he kill himself This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the car rammed into eatery leads to a treeconfession from gran, but he also killed Eli knows his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom can't think about Michael without a sense of shame and guilt. Rachel only hope is broken, but she wants to forgive Michael. To give some spacedare to enter what he most hates, Tom's moved out with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the family home, but stresses only thing to possibly save his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separationgran.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241985153|title=The House on the Lake|author=Nuala Ellwood|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=We know that something has gone wrong - badly wrong - when the woman who was alone in the house is taken away by the police, but it's going to be a while before we learn exactly what has happened.0571382231